Announcing a preliminary iPhone 1.1.1 Jailbreak
The iPhone/iTouch Dev guys have been hard at work for weeks and have finally managed to jailbreak 1.1.1. Right now, they're nowhere near releasing a general-use tool but the first steps have been made. Congratulations to dinopio, asap18, netkas, Martyn, mjc, Niacin, BloomFilter, pytey, tE_gU, pumpkin, roxfan, sam, SmileyDude, NerveGas, Nate True, Arminius, DirectriX, Edgan, ixtli, kroo, xorl, and the rest of the team.
So what does this jailbreak mean?
- Third Party apps run. Kind of. We probably have to recompile many of them for the new frameworks because many of them crash.
- Springboard no longer recognizes DisplayOrder.plist. And the list of "whitelisted" apps (that is, the official Applications including Safari, Photos, Calendar, etc) seems to be hard-coded into Springboard.app
- The iPhone has been activated via third-party workarounds.
- The 1.1.1 binaries barely work with 1.0.2 -- at least not well enough to run the music store without major hacking.
- The Mobile Terminal App works on 1.1.1.
- The entire bsd suite still works -- as do standard command-line utilities compiled for ARM.
- 1.1.1 references both com.apple.mobile.radio and com.apple.mobile.nike.
- The jailbreak method is nowhere near ready for prime time. So please be patient.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 5)
Scott F said 12:10PM on 10-08-2007
:D !
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Bwana said 12:12PM on 10-08-2007
Uh. Huzzah? You guys continue to amaze me. 3 short days after getting to the filesystem, we have a preliminary jailbreak?
See, this is why I told people to hold off on updating. Patience is definitely a virtue.
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alan said 12:11PM on 10-08-2007
Yay!!!! Excellent work!!!!
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cody said 12:13PM on 10-08-2007
praise the Lord!
now we wait for iBrickr and iFuntastic to work their magic.
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jon said 12:15PM on 10-08-2007
is it safe to update to 1.1.1? Ive wanted to for awhile and am willing to go a few weeks without apps.
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Jon said 12:13PM on 10-08-2007
Good news... but as I said back waaay back in the day, my money is that apple is waiting for leopard to license the dev kit.
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evenSong said 12:18PM on 10-08-2007
If Apple ever released a dev kit, it would be sandboxed so tight, you probably would not even get network access without express written consent from Steve Jobs himself.
This method is better. We have unlimited access to the network and the phone hardware. Harder to program for, yes. But I think the advantages speak for themselves (pseudo-GPS, anyone?)
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Mitch said 12:19PM on 10-08-2007
This is great news! Congrats on the hard work!
Any update on a fix for bricked phones that were reverted back to 1.0.2 but don't have calling functions?
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aptmunich said 12:20PM on 10-08-2007
Woohoo - now I'll be getting an iPhone after all!
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hugo_r21 said 12:34PM on 10-08-2007
let's jailbreak the IPOD TOUCH
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Ralph Zeuss said 12:29PM on 10-08-2007
Is there anything standing in the way of this, or a similar jailbreak working on the Touch?
Rob
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ZinkDifferent said 12:28PM on 10-08-2007
..and with the pending release of Leopard, Apple will follow-suit with another firmware upgrade, which will most likely wipe out whatever is being achieved here.
Sure, that won't invalidate the work being done here, but it certainly will provide a far more mobile target for most people to want to keep toying with, shrinking the pool of those taking advantage of these hacks even further. With the release of further localized iPhones in Europe towards the end of the year, that pool will shrink further, as I posit that the vast (very vast) majority of those using the prior hacks did so for the purposes of using the phone unlocked in their country, and that only a very, very small minority of users actually cares about many of the third party applications that resulted from this.
As Apple expands their marketshare across Europe and towards Asia, while rolling out updates that significantly increase the functionality of iPhone, and closing further exploits, the pool of motivated users of such hacks will further shrink - and lastly, the moment Apple provides some kind of opening for 3rd party apps (as they will), most of the incredibly insignificant amount of ill-will that was perceived from 1.1.1 will evaporate in a 'poof' of renewed fanboi enthusiasm....
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Jack said 12:31PM on 10-08-2007
Yea, will this work on the touch?
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Hamacoi said 12:32PM on 10-08-2007
Best news from recent dark weeks. Congratulations to Dev Team!
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ZK said 12:38PM on 10-08-2007
@ 10:
It seems that in spite of your sureness about what "will" happen, this must really be killing you...ya know, since you wrote 3 paragraphs about it.
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fabio1 said 12:40PM on 10-08-2007
-sh 3.2# lol
-sh: lol: command not found
LOL, and congrats!
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ishcabittle said 12:43PM on 10-08-2007
If Apple ends up updating (and thus breaking the hacks) for the Leopard rollout, sure, it will be a stab against the hacking community, and certainly a setback.
But, on the very positive upside, all of the modem updates, stability, and security features of 1.1.1 will then become the baseline for any dev fork that evolves from here, instead of 1.0.2 which is much, much less secure.
When I updated to 1.1.1, I missed Terminal something fierce. Missed it enough that I regretted updating, and kinda swore to not update again if/when a jail break occurred, or if/when Apple offered a version of MobileTerminal for sale via iTunes. Har, like that's going to happen.
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Shan said 12:48PM on 10-08-2007
@10 Geez.. who died? As the iPhone moves into new markets (Europe for example) more people will come on board to help with 3rd party development. Not everyone is just after an unlock to use the phone in their respective country. There is much more the iPhone is capable of, if the 100's of apps out in the last 2 months didnt already tell you, so development will not decrease.
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bazemore said 12:57PM on 10-08-2007
Any luck on the modem baseband reflash?
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bugmat said 12:58PM on 10-08-2007
Music to my ears *puts iPhone back on Christmas list*
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