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Absinthe jailbreak for iOS downloaded 1.1 million times

by Dave Caolo (May 28th, 2012)

The hard-working Chronic-Dev Team has announced that just over one million users have jailbroken their iOS devices with Greenpois0n Absinthe 2.0. That's impressive, considering the jailbreak was released just three days ago. Greenpois0n Absinthe 2.0 is for firmware 5.1.1 only and available ...

Untethered iOS 5.1.1 jailbreak for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch now available

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (May 25th, 2012)

This is super good news for the jailbreak crowd. GreenPois0n Absinthe 2.0 is out for iOS 5.1.1 untethered jailbreaking enjoyment. Absinthe is an easy solution for jailbreaking, and going untethered is pretty awesome. Excellent work by Chronic Dev Team and pod2g. Absinthe works on A4-powered ...

Untethered jailbreak for iPhone 4S, iPad 2 available

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jan 20th, 2012)

After months of work, Pod2g, the iPhone Dev Team and the Chronic Dev Team released the untethered jailbreak for the iPad 2 and the iPhone 4S. The jailbreak tool, Absinthe, is compatible with the iPhone 4S running iOS 5.0 or 5.0.1 (9A405 and 9A406) and the iPad 2 Wifi/GSM/CDMA running iOS 5.0.1. ...

Chronic Dev team releases C-Dev Reporter tool

by Michael Grothaus (Nov 28th, 2011)

As noted by RedmondPie the Chronic Dev Team, the people behind the GreenPois0n jailbreaking tool, have released a beta of a new tool which aims to circumvent iOS crash reports being sent to Apple and instead funnels them to the Chronic Dev Team. The tool, called C-Dev Reporter, aims to notify ...

GreenPois0n jailbreak goes untethered for Apple TV

by Michael Rose (Feb 12th, 2011)

The Chronic Dev team of eager iOS hackers at GreenPois0n has announced an untethered jailbreak for the current Apple TV in the form of RC6 of the eponymous utility. This new build features contributions from the NitoTV team to enable the tetherless feature. Up until RC6, most iOS 4.2 jailbreak ...

greenpois0n Verizon iPhone jailbreak adds Windows support

by Michael Gray (Feb 8th, 2011)

We announced the greenpois0n jailbreak for iOS 4.2.1 over the weekend. At the time, the jailbreak tool only worked on Mac. It didn't take long for the Chronic Dev Team to update the tool to now support Windows. This means you can jailbreak your Verizon iPhone using either a Mac or Windows. As ...

Greenpois0n jailbreak tool updated (update: site is back up)

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Feb 4th, 2011)

Last night the Chronic Dev Team released a version of greenpois0n which allows you to jailbreak iOS devices running 4.2.1. The update also allows you to reboot without having to re-jailbreak. The update is only available for the Mac, and be sure you read the documentation before jailbreaking! Be ...

Apple TV jailbreak yields first third-party app

by Matt Tinsley (Oct 21st, 2010)

Only a few days ago , Greenpois0n revealed that it had jailbroken the Apple TV. Yesterday, PwnageTool 4.1 joined the ranks, too. Now we have sights of what appears to be the first third-party app running on a jailbroken Apple TV. nitoTV, a small software development firm, has managed to get a ...

Greenpois0n jailbreaks the Apple TV

by Michael Rose (Oct 20th, 2010)

A tweet from developer p0sixninja would seem to show a neatly jailbroken Apple TV, which is good news for those looking forward to hacking and tweaking Apple's $99 hobby. No word yet on when the jailbreak will be publicly available. Among our speculations looking forward to Wednesday's Apple event, ...

Apple TV Hacks: Ports and wikis

by Erica Sadun (Oct 13th, 2010)

The Apple TV jailbreak community remains in a holding pattern. As yet, the greenp0ison and limera1n jailbreak tools do not install command-line/full file access to the box, a precondition for most kinds of application development. That doesn't mean there aren't interesting events going on, however. ...

Chronic Dev Team releases greenpois0n jailbreak tool

by Richard Gaywood (Oct 12th, 2010)

Via Twitter, MuscleNerd announced the release of the Chronic Dev Team's iOS4 jailbreaking tool, greenpois0n. This follows some controversy in the jailbreaking community, after George "geohot" Hotz released his limera1in jailbreak tool one day before greenpois0n was due to be released, using a ...

limera1n jailbreak released, greenpois0n jailbreak delayed

by Erica Sadun (Oct 9th, 2010)

Jailbreak limera1n was released today for 4.1 iDevice users in what appears to be a contentious situation in the hacking community. Windows-only, the new jailbreak is not expected to work with Apple TV or debut on Linux and OS X for a bit. The previously announced dev-team jailbreak, which was ...