Filed under: iPod Family, Cool tools, Hacks, iPhone
Instant Jailbreak for iPhone and iPod touch
A crew of hackers (including hdm/metasploit, rezn, dinopio, drudge, kroo, pumpkin, davidc, dunham, and NerveGas) have introduced a one-touch instant jailbreak for both iPhone and iPod touch. The jailbreak opens your iPhone for full disk access and installs Installer.app so you can add pretty much any third party application you like.
To use it, open Safari and point your browser to jailbreakme.com (which we aren't linking to so folks won't install this by accident, but you are prompted to confirm). Once there, read the directions, scroll to the bottom, and tap Install AppSnapp. If Safari disappears and you return to the main Home screen, you're good. Just wait a minute more for your unit to restart--don't touch anything until you see the slide to unlock screen. If Safari hangs, just quit out (press and hold Home for 4-8 seconds) and try again.
Once you get to slide-to-unlock, go ahead and unlock your iPhone or iPod touch. You'll return to your home screen which will contain a new Installer.app icon. If you'll want to ssh into your unit, install the BSD subsystem, Community Sources, and then install Open SSH--you may need to upgrade Installer.app (thanks Ste). With Open SSH and sshfs (part of Mac Fuse), you can open Finder windows that offer direct drag and drop access to your phone or touch.
The jailbreak really is as easy as it sounds. I restored my iPod touch and jailbroke it just a few minutes ago and it worked great.
UPDATE: Please try to do this using WiFi rather than EDGE. Success rates are much higher!
Reader Comments (Page 5 of 16)
Ted Trujillo said 9:23AM on 10-29-2007
Thank you dc, grammar nazis drive me insane. I don't stay within the lines either, but I'm havin fun.
Cart
oh and thanks Erica, as always
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Pete Zich said 9:23AM on 10-29-2007
That's so awesome, jailbreaking is even easier than usual.
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Scott said 9:23AM on 10-29-2007
btw...why hasn't anyone written a third party app to enable calendar editing? seems like this still requires entering code to get it to work...which I won't do at this point. anyway if someone would write one and add it to community sources I would love to use it. thanks in advance!
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Nicolas said 9:29AM on 10-29-2007
This is great stuff! Worked absolutly well!
German readers may be interested in my Review..
http://einfachsmart.de/kitchen/instant-jailbreak-fuer-iphone-firmware-111
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Bhill said 9:55AM on 10-29-2007
Jailbroke my phone last night and it works GREAT! Thanks to the team. This is the first time I've done this and don't know what apps I need (or how to find them) to make this worthwhile. I got Navizon, but it's been off anywhere from 1 mile to 7 miles. Anyone care to point me in the right direction for apps?
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BinaVison said 9:57AM on 10-29-2007
Where do I go to get 3rd party apps for my Touch?
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kp said 9:59AM on 10-29-2007
Apple is planning another software update soon so watch out for bricking.
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eboychik said 10:06AM on 10-29-2007
Not working for me. I click on the install link, on a freshly restored 1.1.1 iphone, and it just quits safari without installing anything.
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Joseph said 10:31AM on 10-29-2007
@82
Same here. Tried a restore then install, but safari just dies.
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Travis Richardson said 10:32AM on 10-29-2007
Worked great on my Touch! Thanks. Now where do i get some useful apps. like an editable Cal?
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kamal said 10:34AM on 10-29-2007
why hasn't someone created a auto virginizer for unlocked 1.02 phones yet this is whats stoppin gme from updating to 1.1.1 is the manual process
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Michael said 10:43AM on 10-29-2007
I'll bet the phones at Apple and AT&T are burning right now. Or then again maybe not. Any bets on how fast Apple responds with a patch, fix.?
Wasn't apple suppose to fix the TIFF situation before?
This iphone is HOT, and people want it hacked/cracked or what ever you want to label it as. If its fixed this week you can bet that immediately it will be worked on again. And broken into again, and again.
AT&T & Apple should take a lesson, seems t-mobile people want the iPhone also. Why do you think people unlock there BB's and jump from one to another? DUH cost, and CS.
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Robert said 10:58AM on 10-29-2007
Do you have to be connected to wifi for this to work?
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Leo said 11:00AM on 10-29-2007
Could Erica, or someone at TUAW confirm what was said earlier in the comments (#49) about the same website actually patching the Safari to disable further exploits (after the jailbreak process)? Apple ought to correct this rather critical error ASAP - this is one experiment gone astray... This is a sad consequence of naive engineers not having considered how their work could serve in the hands of those that have malign intentions.
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imack said 11:05AM on 10-29-2007
Can someone confirm or unconfirm that this works with non-AT&T iPhones? Reading all 80+ comments shows only one comment on this, I'd like too hear if anyone else has managed.
Question 2: Can I use this to only install AppSnap on a allready jailbroken, unlocked 1.1.1 iPhone?
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tmk said 11:15AM on 10-29-2007
I'm stuned.
How can TUAW recommend doing this, basically handing over one's iPhone or iPod touch to some unknown, untrusted third party over the Internet?!?
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Antonio said 11:17AM on 10-29-2007
Yea, it didn't work for me. Sad little iPhone :(
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Joseph said 11:18AM on 10-29-2007
@90
Obviously you are not used to an open source community?
If there were any malicious intentions I am sure this would not be posted, but this situation is different. This is about freedom and the right to do what you want with your personal property. +1 to TUAW for the link.
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Ron Sell said 11:25AM on 10-29-2007
I have a 1.1.1 iPhone, AT&T.
It worked for me :)
Only problem I thought I had was that I did not see the Installer App icon on the home screen, so I kept going back to the web site to re-install and it kept closing out of my Safari.
I restarted several times, and then it worked perfectly. All the applications work nicely.
This really rocks!
Ron
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three60guy said 11:36AM on 10-29-2007
Comment #6 is an important question. If you already have applications installed on 1.02 do you need to restore before applying this version of jailbreak or can you apply it on top of the one you already have implemented? Do your currently installed applications disappear and need to be re-installed? After reviewing the answer to this question I am sure many will be more secure in how to proceed. Thanks.
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