May 2, 2013Apple released 6.1.4 firmware today. It is only for the iPhone 5. Do not update if you value your jailbreak!. This update is an audio profile for the speakerphone. |
April 12, 2013T-Mobile started selling the iPhone today. For those of you who already have an iPhone on T-Mobile there are a couple things you can do to update your iPhone to better work with T-Mobile.If you go to Settings > General > About, you may be prompted to perform a carrier update. It's completely safe to do this. This is not the same as a software update. Only a new carrier profile will be installed. As you can see I'm on T-Mobile 14.1 now. 
Last week T-Mobile posted a link: http://www.tmobile.com/isetup that if opened on your iPhone will allow you to install a configuration profile along with a couple webclips (to access your account and a T-Mobile portal) and an APN settings file. You'll see that after installation I have two T-Mobile icons added to my home page. You'll also notice you have Visual Voicemail (even if you don't have a data plan - like me I'm on pre-paid). 
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March 26, 2013It's about time!Oh I like the no contract thing too. Maybe I won't have to purchase factory unlocked phones at a premium now. I can just stick my pre-paid SIM in the next model that comes out.You can read more here. 
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March 24, 2013I posted another Apple TV tutorial. This time I'll show you how to replace, upgrade or just backup your internal hard drive. Maybe you are worried about it failing and want a backup drive. Maybe you'd just like to upgrade the unit to a larger capacity or maybe it already failed and you want to get it up and running again. I'll also show you how to disassemble the Apple TV.Anyone can read this tutorial. You don't need to be a member. You can only get to it from my link (it's not in the menus anywhere). Click here. |
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March 19, 2013Apple released 6.1.3 firmware today. Do not update if you value your jailbreak. I'll post any information on an updated jailbreak when one is available. We may not see the next jailbreak until 7.0 reveals some exploits. Be prepared for a long wait.Apple credited the evad3rs team with finding four exploits that Apple patched in 6.1.3 firmware. You can read the full document here: http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Mar/msg00004.html
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March 16, 2013I posted a tutorial that has nothing to do with iPhones. I have an original Apple TV and I've wanted to add more storage to it. I have a stock 160 GB drive and it's just way too small. After tearing it apart I wound up not having a drive to replace the internal drive so I decided to just add an external drive. I Googled around quite a bit and found a plethora of tutorials (none of them were complete) to help me out. I decided to take pieces of several of them and put them all together in you know, coherent fashion.I hope someone finds it useful. I had a lot of fun doing this. I'm warped I know. The cool thing about this is you can use any hard drive you want as long as you can attach a USB cord to it. iTunes will also sync with this drive and you can put all your purchased content on it and all your ripped content too. The best part is this cost nothing. I already had a 1 TB drive just lying around... Anyone can read this tutorial. You don't need to be a member. You can only get to it from my link (it's not in the menus anywhere). Click here. |
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February 22, 2013As I've posted on my Member's sign in page I'm looking for readers' ideas for tutorials that they would like to see me do.Please acquaint yourself with what I already have in my navigation bar or in the site updates page for 6.x firmware first. I already have a jailbreaking guide. I'm looking for ideas for other tutorials you'd like to see. At this point I consider the site complete, but I could be wrong... Thanks! |
February 19, 2013iOS 6.1.2 was released today and evasi0n was updated today to work on this firmware! Enjoy these quick jailbreak turnarounds while they last. This is not the norm. The original jailbreaking tutorial has been updated for this new firmware. |
February 4, 2013I don't normally post news updates for tutorials, but since we've been waiting so long for the 6.x jailbreak I'm posting that evasi0n has been released. If you are a member you will finally see a Step 1 tutorial in the navigation bar. More tutorials to follow! You can download evasi0n here.
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If you'd like to read an interview with @planetbeing done by Forbes about evasi0n, then click here.
January 28, 2013Apple released 6.1 firmware today. Normally I'd post a do not update graphic but it has been stated by PlanetBeing that it's ok if you are already on 6.1. It is recommended that you do not update Over The Air, but via iTunes. If you already OTA updated, then just download 6.1 firmware from Apple and restore that way when the jailbreak is released.It has been confirmed 6.1 is jailbreakable and that a new version of redsn0w will support all iPhones capable of running 6.1 for a jailbreak. TinyUmbrella has also been updated to download 6.1 SHSHs. You could also do this with redsn0w if you don't like how long it takes for TinyUmbrella to get updated. You would have missed getting 6.0.2 SHSHs if you waited for it. It looks like a jailbreak could be here in a week or so. MuscleNerd has hinted at a Sunday release. The new team's name is evad3rs (yawn, leet speak - hasn't this f4d w0rn 0ff y3t?). The official site where the program will be released is here. |
December 18, 2012Apple released 6.0.2 firmware today. It is only for the iPhone 5 and the iPad Mini. You may want to consider not updating your firmware just in case a jailbreak requires an earlier version.At the very least, I'd save your 6.0.1 SHSH today while it is still being signed. You should also save it for 6.0.2 You can do this using redsn0w 0.9.15b3 which you can get from the iPhone Dev Team here. With your iPhone 5 connected to your Mac launch redsn0w. Click Extras, then SHSH blobs, click New. Browse to the 6.0.2. firmware file and click Open. A pop up window will appear and ask if you want to submit this SHSH to Cydia. Click Yes. Another pop up window will appear letting you know how many SHSHs were submitted and if the APTicket was valid. While your 6.0.2 SHSH is saved within the redsn0w program, you may want to save a copy of the SHSH somewhere else, just in case... Just go to /Users/your user name/Library/Application Support/redns0w/shsh. |
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November 30, 2012I picked up an unlocked iPhone 5 from the Apple store tonight. Thank you!I then got out the Noosy SIM cutting tool that's been sitting in my desk drawer for the last couple months and converted my micro SIM into a nano SIM in seconds. That thing works great! I'm running T-Mobile and dying for a jailbreak just like the rest of you. At this point I'd even be willing to cover a tethered jailbreak if one was available... I love that this iPhone doesn't suffer from the grip of death like my 4 and 4S did. |
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November 1, 2012Apple released 6.0.1 firmware today. Do not install it if you value your jailbreak or unlock. Apple does not force you to install updates so there is no excuse for this accidentally happening. The iPhone does allow you to apply an update on the go. Just say no! Note: if you are jailbroken the over the air (OTA) update will fail anyway as Apple performs a check of the /Applications folder looking for jailbreak activity.Update: The latest version of redsn0w will jailbreak (tethered only) the iPhone 3G S and iPhone 4. You can download the latest version of redsn0w at the iPhone Dev Team blog. |
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October 26, 2012Our friends at the Library of Congress have issued their latest triennial update to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (thanks Bill C!) with the biggest changes being you can jailbreak an iPhone but NOT an iPad because the definition of a tablet is not clear. You also won't be able to unlock any phone purchased after January 26, 2013 without the carrier's permission. Keep in mind this ruling doesn't make these acts illegal, it just does not provide an exemption for them under the law.Ars Technica has a nice article on this. If you'd like to see the official ruling, you can download the document from the Library of Congress here. Page four is where you'll want to start reading (just search for the word jailbreak). The discussion starts here:
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October 18, 2012I've reached the goal to purchase a new iPhone 5 unlocked model. I do want to thank "Nikko" for stepping up and donating the remaining $150 needed to fund the phone! Without awesome readers like him and those of you who also helped, this site would not have gone forward. We're going through some tough times at home and I was not able to afford this phone on my own. That's all I will say about that.Let's just all hope for an untethered jailbreak (PlanetBeing hinted at some progress tonight in a Tweet) soon. I'll be lowering the amount to join back to the regular $5 donation. I'm now just waiting for Apple to offer the iPhone 5 in a factory unlocked edition. Thank you again to all who pitched in! Here's a list of those who helped me during this fund drive: Robert B. (donated twice!), Nicholas R., Sérgio O., Kenneth S., Juan M., William P., Taneya T., Tim C. (major donater), Penny K. (major donater), Thomas G., Leslie M., Sergio R., Miles A., Henrique P., Mina A., Shane D., Ralph S., Robert B., Craig C. and Clive H. Half the cost of the phone was donated by 4 people! I hope all the readers of the site appreciate their help too. |
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October 14, 2012You may want to read the iPhone Dev Team's post today on the latest version of redsn0w (which will now install Cydia on the tethered jailbreak for iPhone 4 owners . In short there is nothing new here for iPhone 4S and iPhone 5 owners regarding iOS 6 and a jailbreak. Some nice new features have been added to redsn0w. You'll have to read the post, it's quite lengthy. I'm not a fan of making tutorials for firmware that is out of date (5.x), so I currently have no plans to make any tutorials for this version of redsn0w. Wake me when iOS 6 is jailbroken (ideally untethered) for all devices. |
September 21, 2012iOS hacker and developer Grant Paul (known as chpwn) has jailbroken an iPhone 5. He tweeted a couple pictures to show Cydia running. Nobody knows when a jailbreak will be released. You can follow chpwn on Twitter. |
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September 19, 2012Apple released 6.0 firmware today. Do not install it if you value your jailbreak or unlock. Apple does not force you to install updates so there is no excuse for this accidentally happening. The iPhone does allow you to apply an update on the go. Just say no! Note: if you are jailbroken the over the air (OTA) update will fail anyway as Apple performs a check of the /Applications folder looking for jailbreak activity.The only jailbreak currently available is tethered and is only for iPhone 3G S and 4. Cydia isn't even installed automatically because it is not ready for prime time. |
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July 4, 2012
We've dreamed of the day when AT&T would unlock iPhones for a long time. AT&T decided to start unlocking iPhones back on April 8th of this year. My wife's iPhone 4 just came off contract yesterday and we unlocked it through AT&T. It only took a few minutes! Thank you AT&T for finally coming around on this.While they advise you to restore your iPhone for the unlock to take effect we didn't want to do that. If you are jailbroken you could use redsn0w or SAM to get around restoring. We didn't want to jailbreak the iPhone either. I've posted a tutorial where I demonstrate how to deactivate the iPhone instead. This is the simplest, least intrusive method to unlock. Read about it here.
How appropriate that this is the Independence Day holiday as well.
