Category: Jailbreak

  • BootROM Level Exploit and Decryption Keys for A5/A5X/A6/A6X in Works

    BootROM Level Exploit and Decryption Keys for A5/A5X/A6/A6X in Works

    It has been ages since you or we heard about the Untethered Jailbreak for the iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPad 2, iPad 3, iPad 4, and the iPad Mini along with old A4 Chip quipped Devices. When did you heard about the word “Jailbreak” last? Let us guess. Few weeks back when iOS 6.0.1 debuted for iDevices, Redsn0w was updated to Jailbreak it tethered on iPhone 4, and previous A4 equipped iDevices. After that, we forgot the word called Jailbreak because most of the people owning an iPhone 4S are on preceding iOS 5.0.1 Jailbreaked on their iDevices or some people might have updated to iPhone 5 and are on iOS 6.x.x waiting for the Jailbreak to arrive. Another reason is that no one from the Jailbreaking community is talking about the Jailbreak. It seems like they are not working or they might be working under the hood secretly.

    When the iPhone 5 was launched, we notified you about the first iPhone 5 that was Jailbreaked by @CHPWN. That was the time when people started to buy the iPhone 5 and it was the first ever Jailbreak that was done on the day 0 of the iPhone launch. However, no words were said by @CHPWN regarding the release of the Jailbreak for the iPhone 5 or other devices as well. Before the iPhone 5 was released, we told you about strange news that happened in the Jailbreaking community. The key member of the Chronic Dev-Team, @P0sixninja left the team to work on its own and he was no longer associated with the Chronic Dev-Team. This sudden departure of @P0sixninja was not clear and still it is not clear. It seemed that he wanted to make his own name in the Jailbreaking community.

    So later today, @p0sixninja from no where Tweeted about the progress of the iPhone 5 Jailbreak and stated the status of the Jailbreak is Grim, but he is working on something bigger and greater that will blow off Jailbreak lovers.

     

    Now what is the bigger thing on which @P0sixninja is working?

    This Bigger thing got unveiled soon after @P0sixninja Tweeted about the bigger thing.

    The bigger thing is the BootROM Level Exploit for the A5, A5x, A6, and A6X Equipped iDevices.  This information was unveiled in talks with @L33tDawg, the owner of HITBS.

     

     

     

    In the above convo with @L33tdawg, @p0sixninja have told about the BootROM Level Exploit and Decryption keys for A5, A5X, A6, and A6X on which he is working solely. In one of the above Tweets, @P0sixninja also mentions that no much is left; only few more things are to be sorted out. This could mean the Untethered Jailbreak for the above-mentioned chips is almost around the corner or it might come in few months depending on the workload and beta testing.

  • iPhone 5 Jailbroken on iOS 6 With Cydia Teased by CHPWN

    iPhone 5 Jailbroken on iOS 6 With Cydia Teased by CHPWN

    The date of September 21 must be recorded in the Guinness Book of World Record. On this date and day, many amazing things were done. The same day iPhone 5 went on sale, iPhone 5 kicked the arse of Galaxy S III and the iPhone 5 was PWNED by Grant Paul (CHPWN), the iOS hacker. Today after the iPhone 5 went on sale, every one got their hands on the iPhone 5 including some of the Dev-Team Members for sure and out of them Grant Paul has got one for sure because he PWNED the iPhone 5 running iOS 6 the same day it got released. This new news of iPhone 5 Jailbroken is spreading like a fire in the jailbreak community.

    While people were getting the iPhone 5, no one even imagined about the Jailbreak would be done this fast. Every one including us thought the Jailbreak would come some time after 3-4 months of time span. However, today, our expectation went wrong. The iPhone 5 got Jailbreaked the same day it went on sale. CHPWN teased an image of the iPhone 5 showing Cydia on the taller screen of a 4-inch display.

    Few minutes back, @CHPWN Tweeted from official Twitter account showing an image of Cydia on the taller display.

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    Now doubt the taller screen likes Cydia too, but the icon of Cydia is small. The icon of Cydia needs to made a big tall to fit on the larger display.

    A part from the picture of Cydia on iPhone 5, the Jailbreak for the iPhone 5 is not coming until few weeks. The Jailbreak needs to work on and to make Cydia compatible iOS 6. When the work is done, the Jailbreak would be released. So far, the Jailbreak for A4 Devices is also not present now on iOS 6 because of the broken status of Cydia on iOS 6.

    Once Cydia ahs been worked on, the Jailbreak would be out for iOS 6 on limited devices. The limitation will be up to A4 devices. People owning an iPhone 4S, iPad 2, iPad 3, and the iPhone 5 would need to wait until a perfect solution hasn’t been found. After seeing Cydia on iPhone 5, we don’t think that it will take iOS 6 Jailbreak long to arrive. We expect the Jailbreak in few weeks because iOS 6 got some bugs by which the Jailbreak can be done/found easily.

    If you have bought an phone 5 today or will be buying one in near future, don’t just wait for the Jailbreak to arrive and then buy one, instead go an buy one for yourself before Apple releases another iOS 6 update to fix the previous bugs.

    UpdateX1:

    Cydia homepage teased on the iPhone 5.

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  • JailbreakCon Event Schedule is Live with Timing and Name of Developers

    JailbreakCon Event Schedule is Live with Timing and Name of Developers

    The second Jailbreak Convention is to be held in September 2012 with or after the release of The New iPhone (iPhone 5). The name of the convention is very well known by the people of Jailbreak community until now. If you don’t know the name of the upcoming Jailbreak Convention, so we will tell you about the name of the upcoming Jailbreak Convention. The name is World Wide Jailbreak Convention (WWJC). The name might sound new to you but the team behind this convention is the same old one that conducted MyGreatFest. After hearing the name of MyGreatFest, some of you might remember the name of the first ever Jailbreak convention that was held back in Fall and many of the famous iOS Developers/Hackers came out to present speech on their work.

    If we recall the MyGreatFest, we can recall the name of the famous iOS Developers/hackers that came on the stage for the speech were,

    1. Saurik (Owner of Cydia)
    2. The Chronic Dev-Team (P0sixninja and iOPK)
    3. Android Developers
    4. iFile Creator

    In addition, many more developers joined up the stage to enlighten your day at MyGreatFest.

    The same is going to happen in JailbreakCon. The team and people are old and only the name of the convention has been changed from MyGreatFest to JailbreakCon because to make the word Jailbreak more specific.

    Therefore, this years JailbreakCon is happening on September 29, 2012 from 9:00am to 7:00pm (PDT), San Francisco (CA). They have scheduled the conference at a perfect time because it is after the iPhone 5 is released for sale.

    The event would be taking place at the South San Francisco Conference Centre at 9:00AM until 7:00PM. Before the event takes place, you should know about who is coming to JailbreakCon and who will be speaking when. To over come this issue, JailbreakCon Team has made a stunning timetable for speakers at JailbreakCon with their timings.

    The Time Table is as follow:

    Timetable For JailbreakCon

    9:00-9:45 Aaron Ash (Developer of multiple Cydia based tweaks).                         

    9:45-10:15 Josh M. Tucker (iOS Concept artist and former writer for ModMyi).

    10:20-11:50 Carsten Heinelt (Developer of the popular file management package, iFile).

    11:55-12:40 Chronic Development Team (Creator of Greenpoi0sn and Absinthe jailbreak tools).

    12:45-13:45 Lunch & workshops

    13:50-14:35 pod2g (French iOS security researcher).

    14:40-15:10 ih8sn0w + Notcom (iOS developers and researchers responsible for Sn0wbreeze and Tiny Umbrella respectively).

    15:15-15:45 NitoTV (Apple TV Jailbreak legend).

    15:50-16:20 Ryan Petrich (Hardest working man in the jailbreak community. Creator of multiple essential Cydia offerings).

    16:25-16:55 Jaywalker (iOS security specialist).

    17:00-18:00 Jay Freeman (Creator of Cydia and owner of SaurikIT LLC).

    18:05-18:40 Dustin Howett (Creator of theos and involved in CyDelete and Safari Download Manager packages).

    18:45-19:15 pimskeks (iOS developer and hacker, member of the Chronic Dev Team).

    19:15-19:45 Panel (On stage question and answer session with multiple developers).

    According to the timetable, the first speaker to enlighten the audience would be @Aaron Ash, following him the next speaker would be Tucker, and so on. We would be seeing our favorite iOS Hackers at this year JailbreakCon. More over we will also be seeing the person behind the most famous Jailbreaking tool Sn0wbreeze, ih8sn0w.

    It would a great opportunity to meet with all of the iOS hackers/developers at one place. No one wants to miss out this opportunity. So don’t just waste your time thinking/planning, just go and buy a ticket for your self before the stock runs out from here. The tickets are selling out like a flood.

    Don’t forget to Follow the Team of JailbreakCon on Twitter. Follow:

    1. @JailbreakCon

    2. @Craig Fox

    [box type=”info”]Note: The timetable posted above is tentative and can be changed before the event depending on the other factors.[/box]

  • Breaking: @P0sixninja Departs from The Chronic-Dev Team

    Breaking: @P0sixninja Departs from The Chronic-Dev Team

    Where the iPhone 5 is confirmed for the launch of September, we are now hearing that the most famous member of the Chronic-Dev Team, Joshua Hill (@P0sixninja) has left the Team with no solid reason stated. Today Joshua Hill announced on his Twitter account stating that he is no more in the team that he created few years with some other iOS Hackers. P0sixninja was the key member of The Chronic Dev-Team until now.

    On the other hand, he also tweeted something related to money stating that it was never about money for me.

    According to the tail, Tweets send by @P0sixninja on his Twitter account seems to be the matter of money. The reason that we can assume is related to money for the time being. However, @P0sixninja has contributed a lot for the community of Jailbreak. The Chronic Dev-Team worked together to accomplish the Untethered Jailbreak for iOS 4.x.x and iOS 5.x.x with the help of Absinthe and Greenpois0n. Recently the team joined up with the Dev-Team making a Dream Team to achieve the iOS 5.x.x Untethered Jailbreak for iPad 2, iPhone 4S, and iPad 3.

    This sudden departure from the Jailbreaking scene arises many questions against @P0sixninja. We hope that the matter gets resolved soon and he comes back to the Team. We don’t want the key member of the Jailbreaking community to fly away from the Jailbreaking scene. We have already lost one Famous iOS Hacker, GeoHot (Georgehotz) from the Jailbreak world due to negative comments of people and criticisms. He ended up in making a PS3 Jailbreak that was later on followed by a Lawsuit from Sony EU.

    After GeoHot, we lost another iOS Hacker called Comex, the developer behind Jailbreakme.com. He went on an internship at Apple and later on, Apple hired him because of his low level exploits making Apple go on shame.

    Now we got another iOS Hacker, @P0sixninja in the pipeline who announced his departure today from the Chronic Dev-Team. All we have to do is wait and see for his new activities. We hope that he hasn’t left the Jailbreaking scene because the iPhone 5 with Jailbreakcon is around the corner. We want to see iPhone 5 exploited at this year Jailbreakcon.

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  • Absinthe Jailbreak Tool Blocked in OS X Mountain Lion by Gatekeeper

    Absinthe Jailbreak Tool Blocked in OS X Mountain Lion by Gatekeeper

    The day before yesterday, Apple unleashed OS X Mountain Lion for public. The OS X Mountain Lion came out roaring with an increment sales in just few hours and becoming the most popular download in the MAC App Store. The future of OS X was priced for $19.99, the cheapest release of OS X ever. This cheapest release of OS X Mountain Lion might have won the heart of Millions, but on the other hand, it created problems for the Jailbreak Community. Keeping security in mind Apple made OS X Mountain Lion more secure than the previous builds. Making the security more tightened, they released a security tool called Gatekeeper in OS X Mountain Lion.

    This security tool stops the Apps that are not released or are not from the MAC App Store to run on your MAC. To avoid this security, you need to run the App downloaded from MAC App Store or by identified Developer. So, in case of Absinthe, the OS X prompts up an error when you try to Jailbreak your iDevice stating that the App cannot be opened because it is released by an unidentified developer and the app closes.

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    How ever, the Redsnow 0.9.14b2 version for iOS 5.1.1 Jailbreak is fully compatible with OS X Mountain Lion. All you need to do is just press Ctrl-Click-Open. To by pass the security for the first time as stated on Dev-Team Blog.

    So far, we cannot say anything regarding a new release of Absinthe Tool or something related to a fix or anything. We expect to see this issue resolved in your OS X Mountain Lion, rather than a new release of Absinthe Tool for this issue.

    We will update you as soon as we hear anything regarding this issue or find a fix for this.

    UpdateX1:

    We have posted method here to make the third party Apps work on OS X Mountain Lion. Unfortunately, Absinthe doesn’t works by that Method. After our method, Absinthe only shows a popup to open the App and then it is closed.

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    So, expect a new update to Absinthe Tool for OS X Mountain Lion only.

  • How To Jailbreak iOS 6 Beta 2 With Redsn0w 0.9.13dev2

    How To Jailbreak iOS 6 Beta 2 With Redsn0w 0.9.13dev2

    Few hours back the iPhone Dev-team released Redsn0w 0.9.13dev2 after the Apple released iOS 6 Beta 2 to developers for the application development. In this article we will tell you how to jailbreak with Redsn0w 0.9.13dev2 the iOS 6 Beta 2. Before the tutorial goes, we would like to tell you that by jail-breaking this time you won’t get Cydia only you wil get is the access in to the iOS 6 SSH files and pass over the beginning if you have a locked device.

    This will be a tethered jailbreak, jail-breaking the A4 and below devices. In order to jailbreak iOS 6 Beta 2 you will need the iOS 6 Beta 1 firmware. So let’s start

    • Install the freshly released beta by Apple i.e iOS 6 Beta 2
    • Connect the iDevice to your PC/OS X Device
    • Goto Extras
    • Select the .ipsw file of iOS 6 Beta 1
    • Go back to the main screen of Redsn0w 0.9.13dev2
    • Click Jailbreak
    • Do not forget to check ‘Install SSH’
    • When the jailbreaking process finishes, enter into DFU mode
    • Goto Extras and point again to iOS 6 Beta 1 firmware
    • Go back to the Extra screen
    • Click ‘Just Boot Tether’

    This jailbreak will be tethered and will not get Cydia on screen, to get Cydia follow this tutorial.