Archives for Jailbreak Stuff category
13 May
Welcome back!
Unofficial Jailbreak for the latest version of iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 5 is out. The bundle contains Cydia which is a good news.
But i will strongly suggest that you avoid this build if you are not a developer or not pretty deep into iPhone technicalities.
[Via:QuickPWN]
6 Apr
DemoGod is a utility which lets you share your iPhone screen live on MAC display over Wifi. So, if you want to do some iPhone app demonstration or just want to see your iPhone display on a big screen this is a app for you. And please note that no cables are needed as the data is transferred over Wifi.
To use this software, you need to have installed ScreenSplitr on your jailbroken iPhone Next, just grab a copy of DemoGod and launch it on your Mac. DemoGod automatically searches for pairable devices, and ScreenSplitr must be running for this to work. Just select your device from DemoGod, accept the connection on your iPhone, and your data starts broadcasting to your Mac.
Here is the video of the app in action :
You will need a jailbreaked iPhone to get all this done. Demogod is available for free to download on the developer website.
[via: ArsTechnica]
iPhone Dev Team is back with a another treat for all, they have jailbreaked the newly released iPhone OS 3.0. But they will not be releasing the Jailbreak until the iPhone 3.0 is officially released in June, Reasons being:
1. We don’t want to have to release a new version of PwnageTool and QuickPwn for every beta release. Last time around during the 2.0 beta period, there were nine (9!) Apple releases, spaced within a few weeks of each other.
2. There are unresolved problems that we’re still working on. It’s currently impossible to get the 3.0 firmware to talk to baseband 02.28 where yellowsn0w lives, for instance.
3. We don’t want to have to support everyone who wants to back down from the betas…because the betas are, well, buggy.
4. It’s silly to play cat&mouse with Apple during a beta period, when relatively few people are willing to actually use the beta software in their everyday lives. There are ways Apple can tighten the screws, and we’d rather not burn methods just for a beta release.
So iPhone users can be rest assured that QuickPwn will be available as soon as the iPhone 3.0 releases and yes they are also working on unlock as well. So, we don’t have to worry at all 
.
[via:iPhone Dev Team Blog]
2 Apr
Apple is leaving no stoned unturned to curb the jailbreaking app world, they are also trying to make it illegal and working hard towards it. And to add more content to their battle, Apple is added new terms in the iPhone SDK agreement which forbids developers to jailbreak their iPhone and making jailbreaked apps as well.
Take a look at the terms they added to the agreement :
e)You will not, through use of the Apple Software, services or otherwise, create any Application or other program that would disable, hack or otherwise interfere with the Security Solution, or any security, digital signing, digital rights management, verification or authentication mechanisms implemented in or by the iPhone operating system software, iPod touch operating system software, this Apple Software, any services or other Apple software or technology, or enable others to do so; and
(f) Applications developed using the Apple Software may only be distributed if selected by Apple (in its sole discretion) for distribution via the App Store or for limited distribution on Registered Devices (ad hoc distribution) as contemplated in this Agreement.
As we have mentioned earlier also, we are in full support of jailbreaking and always will be. Jailbreaked apps gave us the features which should have been released 2 years back and which Apple realized now in the iPhone 3.0 OS. We just hope this new stunt by Apple doesn’t trouble the Jailbreaking community.
[via:ArsTechnica]
30 Mar
RipDev launched a lightweight alternative to Cydia called ICY, which will let you install applications from Cydia without using the original Cydia installer.
Icy is our take on the freeware package manager that uses APT repositories to install and remove packages available in another free iPhone installer application, Cydia
Icy in action video :
From Cydia: Add a new source http://apt.ripdev.com and then install Icy from the Packaging category.
From Installer: Icy is available in the System category of Installer.
For more info check out the official website of Icy.
Wolfenstein is now available for free for the iPhone and its officially ported to the iPhone by device by gaming company Id’s developer John Carmack. This was done as a pet project by Carmack who is also looking to port doom to iPhone platform.
The game is tweaked a little bit but its charm is restored as it was in 1992. The game is released for free and well the source code is also can be downloaded. You can download the game from Link and please note that you will need a jailbreak iPhone to install the game.
Check out the full post on IGN about the game.
As iPhone 3.0 is out, people around the world are tempted to install it on their iPhone’s but if you are using a jailbreaked iPhone then please wait for Pwnage tool from iPhone Dev-Team.
Here is quote from them:
With all of the great stuff lined up for us with the 3.0 OS that Apple described today, many 3G owners may find themselves with itchy update fingers. If you find yourself with access to the 3G IPSW for 3.0 via the iPhone Dev Center program, and you are using yellowsn0w, do not update or restore to that official IPSW. You will lose yellowsn0w and find yourself unable to revert the baseband to get it back.
And for those wondering, yes the 3.0 OS is jailbreakable on all devices. It’s just those using 3G yellowsn0w that have to show some restraint and wait for PwnageTool to create a custom IPSW that avoids the baseband update.
So people patience is a virtue as dev team says .
[via:blog iPhone Dev]
24 Mar
We covered it earlier when news of iTunes like software was being made by RipDev and now its been out and released. Installer app will let users to install applications from Cydia or Installer with a desktop software which until then was only possible by connecting iPhone to a wifi/3g/edge connection.
After installing the apps in Installer users will be able to sync the apps to their iPhone via USB connection like its being done with iTunes. So, in simple terms Installer App is a iTunes like desktop client for jailbreaked applications.
Support for Both Installing Solutions
Now you don’t have to make a choice between alternative installers, you can get the best of both worlds, Installer and Cydia — InstallerApp supports both! Just add a your favorite repository in the Preferences window and application will automatically recognize its type and will show the packages from that repository, so you’ll be able to download packages to your computer and install them to a USB-connnected iPhone.
Fast Packages Restore
If you ever had to wait on a new iPhone firmware update because you didn’t want to re-install all those “not from the App Store” apps, InstallerApp is exactly what you need. Synchronize all applications between your iPhone and computer, install the new firmware and synchronize all the apps again back to the phone — no more painful downloads and installation directly on the iPhone.
Save the Traffic!
If for some reason you don’t have an access to the WiFi network to “let iPhone out” onto the Internet, you won’t have to download applications over EDGE or 3G networks wasting often expensive traffic. Download all the required packages straight onto your computer that is connected to the Internet (whether it’s an Ethernet cable or even a dial-up connection), and then simply synchronize all the downloaded packages to your iPhone over the standard USB cable.
Built-in Pusher
InstallerApp comes with free built-in Pusher — software that can install Installer.app on your iPhone without “jailbreaking” it, so you can use App Store and Installer simultaneously without putting your private data at risk. By default Pusher will not install a set of command-line utilities and unlock the system partition as it’s usually is done by some popular jailbreak solutions and may lead to additional instability of the iPhone software, but it will do so if that is what you want
Safer Cydia Applications
Some applications may require dpkg for functioning — package management system utilized by Cydia, and Pusher can install it too, but only much more effectively and without making a mess of your iPhone file system. We’ve completely rebuilt dpkg by optimizing it and throwing away superfluous libraries and other stuff that is not required, so it won’t cause any instability in iPhone OS. And it for sure won’t replace any system libraries as Cydia does.
“Light” Daemon
To install applications and to let InstallerApp know which packages are installed on the iPhone, a special background application is installed on the device. Not only it takes very little of precious disk space but it also is only being launched on demand instead of always running in the background (and it exits as soon as the task it was invoked for is done). This saves on your phone battery, CPU cycles and memory.
Currently the App is only being released for Mac’s while a windows version will soon follow. And we will wait for its release as this app is surely a big help in managing those cydia and installer applications.
For info and download details please visit its official website.
I am just another iPhone maniac who is trying to share his madness with like minded people:)
