Mark Dalby

According to Apple the next version of the iPhone 3G and 3GS to be shipped out will have a modified boot rom which is reported to have been hardend against the 24kpwn exploit that so many cracking groups are using to jailbreak your phone (Blackr41n, Purpler4in, Devteam).

I actually find this pretty annoying, I’ve just shelled out for a brand new iPhone (which aint cheap) and I’ll damn well use it how I please!! But not to worry I have faith in “The Scene” to have this broken pretty quickly.

For those of us that already enjoy an unrestricted iPhone it is important that you DO NOT upgrade to the latest firmware.

Hopefully apple will learn that its better to work with these people than against them, Take android for instance, You can run multiple apps at once,  It had copy and paste out of the box and the only complaint I’ve heard is that of bad battery life.  But the next-gen batteries are out soon so that will clear itself up.

Anyway, I’ll make sure to update you guys as soon as the new boot-rom is cracked.

Cheers,

Mark

Lets face it unless you want the Italian operator logo’s there isn’t really much of value to the average joe on Cydia or ICY, The games are about as appealing as susan boyle and a jar of nutella and about as plentyfull as common sense at Microsoft!

Enter Installous, The App store for Cracked IPA’s (iPhone Apps).

Installous takes all the effort out of sourcing, downloading and syncing apps and you can even download apps over EDGE or 3G (Yeah.. even ones over 10mb!!).

Anyway, If you want to install it (strictly for research purposes) follow the following instructions…

1. Open Cydia.
2. Go to Manage.
3. Click Sources.
4. Click “Edit” in the top right hand corner.
5. Click “Add” in the top left hand corner.
6. Enter the following URL  http://cydia.hackulo.us
7. Click “Add Source”.
8. Come out of Cydia and go back in (to refresh source list)
9. Click “Search”
10. Type in installous
11. Click install

IMPORTANT: You must uninstall Safari DL Plugin first, otherwise you will get a source error while trying to install this application!

Happy App’ing,

Mark

Even though OS 3.1.2 Was a pretty pityfull upgrade, A lot of people either accidentily upgraded or felt the need to be “up to date” and as a result were unable to jailbreak their iPhone.

Well there is a now a big shining flood lamp at the end of the tunnel in the form of “blackra1n”  The new iPhone Jail Breaking tool from Geohot (Thanks man!).

The bad new is that it is currently only available on winblows Windows.

The tool can be downloaded from here but please read the following warning first…

3G and 3G S unlockers, do not upgrade to 3.1.2 using iTunes

if you want to keep your unlock. Baseband cannot be downgraded. Check out the dev team’s offerings. Also blackra1n doesn’t hacktivate.

The iPhone Dev Team have confirmed that they are working on an unlock for 3.1.2 and this should hit the interweb very soon.

Happy Hacking,

Mark