Filed under: Hacks, Found Footage, iPhone
Found Footage: iPhone 1.1.3 jailbroken already?
Seems like it was only yesterday that the iPhone was first hacked. But now, it looks like the 1.1.3 firmware jailbreak is a reality! Many have gotten emotional about the 1.1.2 jailbreak getting "broken" after the 1.1.3 upgrade; fear not, you may well have a jailbreak for 1.1.3 soon enough! See the video -- there you have it, Installer.app working with a 1.1.3 iPhone.
Will this new jailbreak process be released in the immediate future? Who knows, but we can tell you that iPhone Atlas is reporting that the jailbreak requires a hardware modification of some sort -- leading me to believe that this hack isn't for the faint-of-heart. However, it might be worth it to wait until next month, where we should be seeing the official SDK from Apple.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
5cents said 11:05PM on 1-19-2008
Brilliant!
On another note, is it possible to make a webclip with custom icon look like installer.app on springboard?
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Jim said 11:37PM on 1-19-2008
Yep - as long as you have a website with the right meta tag reference to the Installer.app icon in a 57x57px PNG image, all you need to do is browse to it and add the webclip.
TJ said 4:28AM on 1-20-2008
True but webclips icon has an (x) on the top left, right? This one doesn't.
Andrew said 11:05PM on 1-19-2008
Looks like an iPod touch to me.
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Steven said 8:16AM on 1-20-2008
Yep, that's no iPhone.
crazypenguin said 8:35AM on 1-20-2008
100% sure thats an ipod touch, seeing as the music icon, and the video icon are not one.
iPhone Jailbreaker said 9:04AM on 1-20-2008
Yeap, if you look carefully the video, you'll see it's an iPod. Anyway, the firmware is the same and as my iPhone Week 48 is nothing more than an iPod, it would work for me.
Big John said 11:28PM on 1-19-2008
Please don't liveblog this if it ends up being real.
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DistortedLoop said 11:43AM on 1-20-2008
Why not let her live blog it for those of us who are interested?
If you're not, don't read it.
No one is holding a gun to your head to read iPhone hacking related posts, are they?
Big John said 11:58AM on 1-20-2008
No but even scrolling through them in my reader is getting annoying. Let's be honest -- do we really need a live blog of a hack?
Les Filip said 10:50PM on 1-20-2008
This Public Service Announcement is dedicated to Big John:
The posts at TUAW and elsewhere on the internet do not exist just for you. Just because you don't want something does not mean there aren't thousands of other people who do.
To paraphrase, even scrolling through your posts in my reader is getting annoying. Have a nice day.
rawhead said 11:37PM on 1-19-2008
I don't understand what the point of a jailbreak would be after the SDK comes out, except, of course, for those iPod touch owners who feel they are entitled to steal the newly introduced software rather than pay $20 for them.
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DistortedLoop said 11:53AM on 1-20-2008
The point would be for those who want to use the fantastic FREE apps that are already out there instead of paying Apple the inevitable commission that they will charge for the privilege of installing via iTunes.
rawhead said 12:06PM on 1-20-2008
First of all, do you know that Apple will charge commission for any and every 3rd party app? I sure didn't. Also, would people creating the "wonderful, FREE" apps today continue to release a separate version that can be installed via Installer.app even after the SDK release?
And the most important question is this (and this is the question to which I'll most likely answer a definite NO); will you continue to jailbreak your phone, risking potential bricks (although unlikely) and DEFINITE delays in your firmware upgrade cycle every single time, just so that you can use those "wonderful, FREE" 3rd party apps that bypasses Apple?
I'm not saying nobody will want it; I'm sure there are a few people who would (e.g., I don't see OpenSSH ever making it onto the iPhone via an SDK/Apple, unless Apple completely opens up the iPhone; hence any iPhone hacker would want to jailbreak). I'm just saying for the most of us, once the SDK is in place, a jailbreak will be both unnecessary, and undesirable.
starkruzr said 12:40PM on 1-20-2008
And the most important question is this (and this is the question to which I'll most likely answer a definite NO); will you continue to jailbreak your phone,
Yes.
risking potential bricks (although unlikely)
I don't believe there has ever been a single recorded case of this happening.
and DEFINITE delays in your firmware upgrade cycle every single time, just so that you can use those "wonderful, FREE" 3rd party apps that bypasses Apple?"
Absolutely, positively, unequivocally yes.
My phone is not worth $400 to me if I lose the abilities I have on it now. Period, end of story. I got it knowing I could jailbreak it.
rawhead said 11:51AM on 1-21-2008
@starkruzr
"I don't believe there has ever been a single recorded case of this happening."
I know that, and that's why I said "unlikely." But it doesn't mean that it can't happen. You are fucking around with the iPhone innards whenever you jailbreak it.
"My phone is not worth $400 to me if I lose the abilities I have on it now"
Well good for you. The jailbreak at the end of Feb. will be specially for people like you. And I say that without a smidgen of sarcasm. But for the rest of us, and I'm guessing that's an overwhelming majority of even the people that currently have the iPhone jailbroken, that's not the case. As long as there's a way to get quality 3rd party apps on the iPhone that we like, there's no reason to jailbreak.
And, personally, my $499 iPhone (after the $100 rebate ;-) loses a lot of its worth, if every single time Apple releases a firmware update with added functionality, I can't immediately upgrade to it because my iPhone is jailbroken and/or I rely on 3rd party apps that I've got on it through the jailbreak.
KeynoteKen said 11:42PM on 1-19-2008
"Will this new jailbreak process be released in the immediate future? Who knows"
I read:
yes, thats's real, done together by iphone dev team and elite team.
nobody plans to release it untill Apple releases SDK.
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Ryan said 12:38AM on 1-20-2008
Uh couldnt this simply be a bookmarked page coded to look like installer.app?
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SireB said 2:15AM on 1-20-2008
Just out of curiosity, why does everyone thing that the SDK will be the endgame for jailbreak? If Apple insists that new apps be installed through iTunes, the 'jailed' state will probably be standard on all iPhones
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starkruzr said 12:41PM on 1-20-2008
The thought is that the framework for installing applications will probably easily allow jailbreak. It's kind of unavoidable.