July 2008
30 posts
Installer 4
The other day our friends over at RiPDev posted some awesome looking screenshots of their upcoming Installer 4. We don’t know exactly when they’ll be releasing this but it certainly looks very polished and along with Cydia this is another slick alternative to Apple’s AppStore. Hopefully it should be with us quite soon. Nice work chaps!
Something old, something new.....
This image is the “About” screen from a 3G iPhone that was bought in a store last week. As you can see the modem firmware version has been successfully downgraded to an older “beta” firmware. This is not an unlock (yet), but it is our illustration of the first progress made with regard to hacking the 3G baseband. We have accomplished this by being able to execute our own...
SugarBowl Sweetness
Two weeks ago, the 3G iPhone and 2.0 firmware were released by Apple. Last week around this time we released our jailbreak for all devices, and unlock for the 1G iPhone. Since that time, it’s been a busy week!
Dev Team’s planetbeing released xpwn, cmw released winpwn, and Apple pushed out 2.1 firmware to beta testers. And meanwhile the pursuit of the 3G unlock goes on. Whew...
winpwn release
For those of you on Windoze who haven’t yet followed the guides on how to restore to an OSX-created IPSW, or for those of you who don’t trust IPSW’s created by others, good news!
cmw has released winpwn, the Windoze version of pwnagetool! The rapidshare download is at rapidshare, or visit http://winpwn.com for updates.
We don’t directly support winpwn, but if done right...
xpwn 0.3 sources are now up
Hey guys, The development sources for xpwn 0.3, the firmware 2.0 version of our cross-platform jailbreaking library/command-line utility have been pushed onto github. We’ve tested it on Linux, Windows XP, and Windows Vista for both the iPhone 2G and iPhone 3G thus far, but since it uses the same FirmwareBundles files as PwnageTool, and we know those work for the iPod touch, there ought not...
One member's rant
pumpkin has been a little frustrated of late, and decided to write up what was bothering him over on his site. You may find it interesting.
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PwnageTool 2.0.1
Well, the response was overwhelming. :) The downloads brought down several of our servers, and some of them have yet to recover!
It seems that some people have been having problems with our initial release, so we have PwnageTool 2.0.1 for you. It addresses the following issues:
It auto-finds the bl39 and bl46 files better, if they’re on your computer
It creates the ~/Library/iTunes/Device...
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Thanks for waiting :)
Here you go. [appears to be down for now, we took link down until we can revive the poor wounded server] We’ll be releasing a more official announcement soon, but we wanted to get the tool out there. We sincerely hope you enjoy using it as much as we enjoyed making it :)
Update 1: Just to clear up some confusion over what this actually does: yes, it jailbreaks and unlocks older iPhones, and...
Sundays
We love Sundays. We think you will too.
Boldog Születésnapot!
Boldog Születésnapot pytey! Most nem tudunk neked egy letölthető születésnapi ajandékot adni, de nagyon hamar az is megérkezik!
Safe code....
So we’ve been working hard on getting the release ready and during this process we’ve been fixing some final bugs, the actual base of PwnageTool application is working fine and working with all devices that we support. We’ve been restoring our devices to various firmware revisions so that we can try to reproduce the conditions that most users will have. We are able to fully...
Some additional information....
We’ve read some points in the comments that we would like to formally reply to, and of course we like to keep you updated with our progress and keep you “in the loop”.
The iPhone 3G came out on Friday the 11th of July (a little over 5 days ago).
We had hacks and exploits in our toolbox that we were pretty sure would work on the retail 3G device and not only pre-release devices...
Not sat on our hands...
So some might think we’ve been twiddling our thumbs or sat on our hands, but this couldn’t be further from the truth.
That truth is that we’ve have added a little feature that a few people might like. Here is a screenshot of the new and improved device selection screen.
Here is another video to illustrate this.
Untitled from iphonedev on Vimeo.
What you are seeing is...
The Last Supper...
http://www.ihazsupper.com/
iBoot unlaced....
For the 800 of you who wanted a video, here it is.
This is the command line to talk to your iPhone’s “BIOS” of sorts. It decides what gets run (if it’s signed correctly) or not. Normally it’s very restrictive. Unless it’s been pwned.
Pwnage breaks the chain of trust from the very earliest boot stage, and as the video shows, this chain has now been broken...
Still cranking away...
So we are still cranking away finalizing PwnageTool for release, and as we said it’ll be soon. We’ve read some comments in our previous posts suggesting that the videos are a tease, so we’ve taken that on board and we are asking you guys the users and supporters.
Would like to see another video, it is a fairly technical video, with some stuff blurred out to protect some stuff we...
Rush, rush, rush....
Over the last year we’ve discovered some interesting things about the software used in the iPhone. These “hacks” , “exploits” and “techniques”, or whatever you want to call them, are valuable - not only from a financial perspective (so scummy people can sell unlocking software) but also from a strategic point of view. Think of it like a game of poker,...
WatchFlash! A demonstration of BootNeuter 2.0 running on 1st generation iPhones with iPhone 2.0 OS.
WatchTo all the haters…..
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The money shot
So guys, below is a link to the video of the upcoming PwnageTool 2.0
Many many hours have gone into this and now it should be as easy enough for your grandmother to use.
We’ve added lots of new features, including 2.0 support, spotlight file indexing of .ipsws, canned websearches, installer custom configuration, custom root partitions and various other things that you’ll see on the...
Back at the dev ranch
So, some of the guys are still waiting in line, but the important test that we needed to do has been completed, so to recap on what we wrote in our last post :-
“UPDATE: So guys, the out of the box tests on retail hardware are great. Everything works as we anticipated. This is great news, seriously. No riddles or jokes or cryptic messages now, watch this space.”
We’ll be doing...
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The quest for the holy GGG
Right, so three of our members are waiting to buy the lovely shiny Apple 3G iPhones. We need a couple of new out-of-the-box iPhones, for erm, some tests. Our guys are on the ground in various parts of the world, and we’ll be bringing you updates on their progress (in this post) hopefully with photos. Keep an eye out for them, but be warned, they’ll be in disguise as Apple geeks to...
Donations to /dev/null
We’ve seen some comments about you lovely people wanting to donate money to us. We’d just like to say that we DO NOT accept donations. There is no paypal account associated to us, there is no way to donate to us, we do this as a hobby and don’t want to be paid and we fund all of this ourselves and it works out just fine.
Anyone who says “donate to DevTeam” in our...
Living in sweet harmony!
Appstore is live! And iTunes is working in Russia!
Oh, see if you can spot the difference between our screenshots and others you’ll see later today….
Not an imposed web-link widget in sight, all optional and selectable, you make the choice.
And now for something completely different....
Position freely!
We shall be free!
Our sources are hidden...
Violins at the ready!
West we go!
Honk-Honk!
Is it a bird?
Oh My!
What do we have here then?
Our compilers are working overtime…