It is well known, that there are commercial thieves who use freely available programs and ideas by the iPhone Dev Team, GeoHot, Chronic Dev Team and others. We highly recommend not to buy any unlocking or jailbreaking solution. They are available for free. We prepped a list of current scammers making a business modell out [...]
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[iPhone] Virus Worm Spreading on Jailbroken iPhones
November 13th, 2009 
B. Kreisky Apple must be pleased about this news. They haven’t become tired in telling the people that jailbreaking the iPhone seriously compromises user security. And now a worm developed by Ashley Towns from down under is nothing else but attacking jailbroken iPhones whose Secure Shell has not been disabled or where the default root password (“alpine”) [...]
[iPhone] O2 Unlocking UK Customers’ iPhones
November 12th, 2009 B. Kreisky The competition in the UK seems to be getting hard around the jesus phone. Orange just released the iPhone 3GS for their network. O2 seems to be feeling they needed to come up with something that mostly only the iPhone Dev Team or GeoHot could provide: an unlock. The unlock is offered under the following [...]
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Tags: carrier lock, Great Britain, iPhone, iPhone Dev Team, Jailbreak, Legal, Lock, O2, SIM Lock, UK, un lock, Unlock 
No Comments »[iPhone] BlackSn0w Unlock for Latest Baseband Released
November 4th, 2009 B. Kreisky Some hours ago GeoHot released his unlock answer to the latest baseband of Apple’s iPhones. Now with BlackRa1n jailbreaking of firmware 3.12 and with BlackSn0w unlocking of baseband 05.11.07 is a hitch for almost everyone. Kudos fly out to notorious GeoHot. » GeoHot: BlackSnow is live…
Posted in News Tags: 05.11.07, 3.1.2, 3.12, 3G, 3GS, carrier lock, Carrierlock, Chronic Dev Team, firmware, GeoHot, iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3Gs, iPhone Dev Team, Jailbreak, SIM Lock, SIMLock, Unlock No Comments »[iPhone] GeoHot Announces Latest Baseband Unlock
November 1st, 2009 H. Frahm George Hotz – by now almost any iPhone user should know that guy – hacked the latest baseband firmware 05.11.07. The unlock will be named BlackSn0w, well … That means all carrier or SIM locked iPhones around the globe running this latest firmware can be used with different SIM cards from different carriers. Thus making [...]
Posted in News Tags: Apple, baseband, carrier lock, crack, Firmware 3.1.2, Geo Hot, GeoHot, George Hotz, GeorgeHotz, Hack, Hacktivation, Hactivation, iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3Gs, iPhone Dev Team, iPhoneDevTeam, Jailbreak, Locked to Carrier, Sim, un lock, Unlock No Comments »[iPhone] GeoHot Releases BlackRa1n RC2
October 27th, 2009 J. Epstein GeoHot fixed some minor things with his BlackRa1n Jailbreak application. Download BlackRa1nh here. ** Update — RC2 is out ** Fixed 3G issues Tethered jailbreak for 3.1 OOTB ipt 8GB and new 3GSes Fixed Icy issues Both Windows and Mac If you used RC1 with success, no need to rerun
Posted in News Tags: firmware 3.0, Firmware 3.1, Firmware 3.12, GeoHot, Hack, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3Gs, iPhone Dev Team, Jailbreak, Unlock No Comments »[iPhone] Latest iPhone 3GS Contain New Bootloader
October 20th, 2009 J. Epstein The latest manufactured iPhone 3GS devices seem to contain new bootloaders, which can not be compromised using the 24k bug. Although Musclenerd of the iPhone Dev Team paints a dark future, Mathieu Hervais expects that there are still ways thru the chain of trust in order to jailbreak. Picture is courtesy of Mathieu Hervais… P.S. [...]
Posted in News Tags: iPhone 3Gs, iPhone Dev Team, Jailbreak, Mathieu Hervais, MucleNerd, New Bootloader, Pwnage, Pwnage Tool No Comments »[iPhone] GeoHot Releases Jailbreak for 3.x Called BlackRa1n
October 11th, 2009 J. Epstein Today notorious GeoHot released a standing new jailbreak tool called BlackRa1n. BlackRa1n is currently only available for Microsoft Windows. It is supposed to jailbreak any 3.x based iPhone or iPod touch. No matter if you’ve jailbroken before or not. BlackRa1n is fairly self explaining and straight forward designed. It’ll bring your iPhone or iPod Touch [...]
Posted in News Tags: 3.0, 3.01, 3.1, 3.11, 3.12, Alpine, Black Ra1n, Black Rain, BlackRa1n, BlackRain, Chronic Dev Team, Cydia, firmware, GeoHot, George Hotz, GreenPo1son, GreenPoison, Icy, install, iPhone, iPhone Dev Team, iPod Touch, Jailbreak, PurpleRa1n, PurpleRain, Pwnage Tool, PwnageTool, Rock, sim unlock, SSH, Unlock, Vista, Windows, Windows 7, XP No Comments »[iPod] GeoHot Jailbreaks iPod Touch Firmware 3.1
October 8th, 2009 J. Epstein GeoHot today posted a photo of a jailbroken iPod Touch running iPhone OS 3.1. He eventually made it. As of now there is no more information available, but it is likely that this is the approach he and the Chronic Dev Team were talking about.
Posted in News Tags: 3.1, Apple, apps, Chronic Dev Team, custom app, Cydia, Cydia Store, CydiaStore, firmware, Geo Hot, GeoHot, George Hotz, Hack, iPhone Dev Team, iPhone OS, iPod Touch, iPodTouch, iPT, jail break, Jailbreak, Unlock No Comments »[iPhone] GreenPois0n to Jailbreak all iPhones and iPod Touchs
October 6th, 2009 J. Epstein What has happened so far Some irritation is going on in the Apple hacking community. On the one hand GeoHot today announced that there will be a tool that will allow jailbreaking all iPhones and iPod Touchs, but as he wished to perform further tests he didn’t tell anything about the procedure. The Chronic Dev [...]
Posted in News Tags: Chronic Dev Team, Geo Hot, GeoHot, George Hotz, GeorgeHotz, Green Pois0n, Green Poison, GreenPois0n, GreenPoison, iPhone Dev Team, jail break, Jailbreak, Lock, PirateBay, PirateBay.org, Pwnage Tool, PwnageTool, SIM Lock, sim unlock, SIMLock, Unlock 2 Comments »[Pre] Palm Pre Release Date for Germany
September 29th, 2009 J. Epstein October 13th will be the day many people have been waiting for. The official iPhone competitor by Palm will be released in Germany. The Pre will be exclusively available from O2 Germany. According to their latest information the Palm Pre will also be available without subscription for about 480€ (=700US$). There is currently no information [...]
[iPhone] HowTo Make MMS Work on iPhone 2G
July 5th, 2009 J. Epstein NOTE: This walkthrough is for iPhone OS 3.0 only! For MMS on iPhone 2G with firmware 3.1, buy SwirlyMMS on Cydia Store I. Abstract Many iPhone 2G users are not very amused about Apple’s update policy. As of iPhone OS 3.0, owners can eventually use MMS on their iPhones. All owners? No, not the ones [...]
Posted in iOS, Labs, News Tags: Activate, Activate MMS, ActivateMMS2G, AT&T, bug, camera, Cellular Data Network, Cydia, EDGE Settings, firmware 3.0, France, Great Britain, guide, Help, How To, Howto, incomplete-news.com, iPhone 2G, iPhone OS 3.0, issue, Italy, Jailbreak, MMS, MMS Settings, O2, Orange, Profile, Profiles, Rogers, settings not saved, Step by Step, Steps, T-Mobile, tutorial, UK, Unlock, USA, Verizon, Vodafone, Voicestream, Walkthrough, worldwide 44 Comments »[iPhone] GeoHot releases iPhone 3Gs Jailbreak (Upd.)
July 3rd, 2009 J. Epstein Update July 5th, 2009: GeoHot now also provides a Mac OS X version of the jailbreak tool. Windows and Mac versions ready for download at purplera1n.com… That’s it with the 3.0 firmware and the iPhone jailbreaks. Apple has been beaten again. This time by GeoHot. Although the iPhone Dev Team seems to have their programs [...]
Posted in iOS, Labs, News Tags: Activate, exe, firmware 3.0, GeoHot, George Hotz, GeorgeHotz, How To, Howto, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3Gsm Unlock, iPhone Dev Team, iPhone DevTeam, iPhone OS 3.0, iPhoneDev Team, iPhoneDevTeam, Jailbreak, Jailbroken, MucleNerd, Muscle Nerd, PlanetBeing, PurpleRa1n, PurpleRain, pwn, Pwnage, Pwnage Tool, PwnageTool, tutorial, ultrasn0w, ultrasnow, Unlock, Unlocked, Win, Win 7, Windows No Comments »[iPhone] Activate MMS on iPhone 2G? (Update)
June 30th, 2009 J. Epstein Update July 04, 2009: MMS now works, MMS server settings are getting saved with the help of some (more or less complicated) tricks. We’re currently prepping a fool proof step-by-step tutorial for all of you. We recommend to not play around with those settings at the moment to not screw up settings worse. Tutorial will [...]
Posted in iOS, Labs, News Tags: ActivateMMS2G, Cydia, guide, Hack, How To, Howto, iPhone, iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3Gs, Jailbreak, MMS, sim unlock, Swirly MMS, SwirlyMMS, tutorial 4 Comments »[iPhone] HowTo Jailbreak and Unlock using RedSn0w
June 28th, 2009 J. Epstein I. Abstract The following article will show you how to install firmware 3.0 on your iPhone 2G by also allowing to jailbreak, activate and eventually to unlock (JAU process). At the moment of writing this article is for Mac OS X users with iPhone 2G’s only. II. Who needs this article? We suppose 50% of [...]
Posted in iOS, Labs Tags: 1_3.0_7a341 _restore.ipsw, Activate, Factory Unlocked, How To, Howto, iPhone, iPhone 3Gs, iPhone Dev Team, iphone factory unlocked, iphone1, iPhoneDevTeam, Jailbreak, Jailbreak Activate Unlock, JAU, Pwnage for Windows, Pwnage Tool, pwnage tool for windows, pwnage windows, PwnageTool, Quick Pwn, QuickPwn, Redsn0w, redsnow, tutorial, Unlock, unlocked 3gs 3 Comments »[iPhone] HowTo Jailbreak and Unlock using PwnageTool
June 28th, 2009 J. Epstein I. Abstract The following article will show you how to install firmware 3.0 on your iPhone 2G by also allowing to jailbreak, activate, and eventually to unlock (JAU process). At the moment of writing this article is for Mac OS X users with iPhone 2G’s only. II. Who needs this article? We suppose 50% of [...]
Posted in iOS, Labs, News Tags: 1_3.0_7a341 _restore.ipsw, Activate, Factory Unlocked, iPhone 3Gs, iPhone Dev Team, iphone factory unlocked, iphone1, iPhoneDevTeam, Jailbreak, Jailbreak Activate Unlock, JAU, Pwnage for Windows, Pwnage Tool, pwnage tool for windows, pwnage windows, PwnageTool, PwnageTool 3.0, Quick Pwn, QuickPwn, Redsn0w, redsnow, Unlock, unlocked 3gs 4 Comments »[iPhone] Jailbreak for iPhone 3Gs on the Way?
June 25th, 2009 J. Epstein GeoHot posted a picture showing that he managed to run custom commands on iBoot. This seems to be the first major step for a jailbreak. Moreover GeoHot also managed to find the key for the Ramdisk while MuscleNerd of the iPhoneDevTeam obviously has already found the vfdecrypt key. All this is good news. Anyway aswell [...]
Posted in News Tags: Exploit, GeoHot, George Hotz, iPhone 3Gs, iPhone Dev Team, iPhoneDevTeam, Jailbreak, Security, security system, Unlock No Comments »[iPhone] Firmware 3.0 Sim-Unlocked
June 16th, 2009 J. Epstein The iPhone Dev Team has admitted they got iPhone OS 3.0 hacked with jailbreak and unlock via yellowsn0w. They will perform a live demo on tuesday evening (US time – means in the middle of the night in europe). They are currently testing updated versions of PwnageTool and QuickPwn to fully work with iTunes 8.2. [...]
Posted in News Tags: Firmware 3, firmware 3.0, Hack, iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3G S, iPhone 3Gs, iPhone OS 3.0, Jailbreak, Jailbroken, sim unlock, Simunlock, Unlock No Comments »[iPhone] Jailbreak for iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 5
May 12th, 2009 J. Epstein The QuickPwn.com team has released a jailbreak for iPhone OS 3.0 beta 5 build 7a312G. It is based on the work by santtiaga from iPhoneApps.ru. Also Cydia is now working on iPhone OS 3.0. If you are no developer we strongly recommend not to update to any beta of iPhone OS 3.0, because: downloading and [...]
Posted in News Tags: 1G, 2G, 3G, Beta 5, iPhone, iPhone OS 3.0, iPod Touch, Jailbreak, Unlock No Comments »[iPhone] iPhone OS 3.0 beta 4 seeded to Devs
April 29th, 2009 J. Epstein Together with iTunes 8.2 beta a new iPhone OS 3.0 beta 4 has been made available to developers. There are no information about changes, but the Spotlight.app is reported to be faster and issues with a crashing Phone.app seem to have been solved. As always: if you are no developer don’t install this beta, as [...]
Posted in News Tags: crash, iPhone OS 3.0 beta 4, Jailbreak, Phone.app, Spotlight.app, Unlock No Comments »