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iOS 5 beta 5 gets a jailbreak

by Steven Sande (Aug 9th, 2011)

iOS 5 isn't set to actually ship until Fall, but that's not keeping the Redsn0w team from keeping up with Apple and releasing a jailbreak of iOS 5 beta 5. Redsn0w 0.9.8b9 is a tethered jailbreak that works on just about any iOS device except for the iPad 2. It's not likely that an untethered ...

Untethered jailbreak for iOS 4.3.3 now available from iPhone dev team

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 6th, 2011)

Jailbreakers hesitant to update to iOS 4.3.3 can now do so without losing their ability to jailbreak. The iPhone dev team confirmed iOS 4.3.3 is still vulnerable to the untethered jailbreak exploit that @i0n1c created for 4.3.1. Released earlier this week, this version of iOS fixes the location ...

Redsn0w Jailbreak for iOS 4.1 now available

by Matt Tinsley (Nov 3rd, 2010)

If you're a fan of jailbreaking your iOS device, here's some good news for you. The iphone Dev-Team has released the latest version of redsn0w (0.9.6b2), allowing you to jailbreak your iOS 4.1 device (iPhone 4 / 3GS, iPad, 3rd and 4th generation iPod touch and 2nd generation Apple TV) into the land ...

iPad jailbreak released, works on iPhone and iPod touch

by Aron Trimble (May 3rd, 2010)

Within a few hours of its release the iPad had already been jailbroken and video proof released. The Dev-Team with @comex have released the first "userland" jailbreak for iPhone OS devices since the initial year of the iPhone's release. The current jailbreak, dubbed "Spirit," allows you to ...

The iPad has been jailbroken

by Aron Trimble (Apr 5th, 2010)

Just in case you missed it on Sunday, members of the infamous iPhone Dev-Team have been hard at work on a jailbreak for the recently released iPad. As of a few hours ago Within the past day, root access has been achieved on Apple's latest device. The hack is not yet ready for public distribution ...

PwnageTool 3.1.4 for iPhone OS 3.1.2 now available

by TJ Luoma (Oct 14th, 2009)

The ever-determined band at iPhone Dev have updated their "PwnageTool" to include the 3.1.2 release of the iPhone software for iPhone 2G/3G/3GS and iPod Touch 1G/2G (note that the iPod touch 3G is NOT supported). Jailbreaking, which is different than "unlocking", allows different applications to ...

Mouse steals cheese, iPhone 3.1 jailbreak released

by Kevin Harter (Sep 15th, 2009)

The legendary Dev-Team has done it again. It just released the new version of the Pwnage Tool, a desktop application that's used to create custom firmware packages to jailbreak iPhones and iPod touches. Jailbreaking is the act of modifying the official firmware in order to run applications not ...

iPhone 3G unlock (finally) crashes everyone's party

by Aron Trimble (Jan 1st, 2009)

While everyone was assuredly watching the ball drop in in NYC and finishing off glasses of bubbly, the iPhone Dev-Team was hard at work pushing out the iPhone 3G unlock. They previously stated that an iPhone 3G unlock would occur in the final hours of 2008, and though the unlock was made available a ...

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