Comprehensive iPhone Apps/Jailbreak Thread

[Tyche]

Folks, this is big, big news. In fact, we’d call it the biggest news of the week: jailbreak hacker p0sixninja of Chronic Dev Team has announced that five userland exploits have been discovered for the iPad 2 and is strongly expected to be used in the next generation iPhone.



The news comes from P0sixninja talk at jailbreaking convention MyGreatFest. P0sixninja looked ecstatic when he gave the announcement a few minutes ago, in which it was stated that iPad 2 and the iPhone 5 can be jailbroken using five userland exploits which have been discovered over time.

Yes, you read that right. Not one, not two, but five exploits have been discovered for the iPad 2 and iPhone 5. What is even more fantastic about this news is how all of these exploits are userland ones. And as quoted by P0sixninja himself “it’s the record breaking number of exploits found”.

These userland exploits are, as suggested by the name, related to software. Unlike hardware-based exploits, these can be patched. A hardware revision wouldn’t matter that much in this case.

Apple has only revised hardware once and that was with the iPhone 3GS which received a new model back in late 2009 having an updated bootrom that patched pod2g’s 24kpwn exploit. But since it’s a software exploit then the hardware revision won’t mean much for the jailbreak itself.



What does this mean for you? Well it basically means that iPhone 5 (and iOS 5) should get an (untethered) jailbreak sooner than what was previously expected.

The exploits were discovered by the Chronic Dev Team. A key member of the team itself namely: P0d2g, found exploits like 24kpwn, steaks4uce and also discovered an exploit in the Apple A4 chip, used in iPhone 4, original iPad and iPod touch 4G. p0d2g and p0sixninja are members of the Chronic Dev Team, who were the key developers/hackers behind the famous jailbreak tool Greenpois0n, which back then was the only method available to jailbreak iOS 4.2.1 completely untethered.

Since the jailbreak will be userland, it will work on all iOS devices on all exploit-ready iOS versions, and as mentioned earlier, get an untethered jailbreak for iOS 5 at launch. P0sixninja also quoted that the it will be the most amazing jailbreak yet! So we have high hopes for this one, we’re sure the Chronic Dev Team is bound to please the jailbreaking community with said jailbreak. So yes, the iPhone 5 will highly likely be jailbreakable soon after launch, though the Chronic Dev Team said that they would need the new iPhone 5 itself to see whether the exploits work or not, but, fingers crossed!



Stay tuned as we will keep you updated as soon as we get more info about this!

Fuck yeah jailbreak for iOS5 asap

[Ohemgee]

Hurray custom themes and minor tweaks?

Anyone buying iCloud services?

[DAKPluto]

Apple retail stores are now blacking out vacation days for the 2nd week of Oct. Sounds like release time! Blackouts start on the 9th, so it's looking like the rumor of the 10/10 release date may be true.

I'll be jumping on the icloud / match wagon. While part of me agrees with the comment "oh boy, $25 to rent something I already own" the convenience of the system is worth it for me.

[Ohemgee]

TOMORROW IS THE ANNOUNCEMENT

[jmc]

Excited to see the changes, and new form factor.

I'm not purchasing right away though. Done it twice in the past, not dealing with the stores/servers again this year,

[Nitsuki]

Cannot wait for the announcement, i'm gonna wait on the purchase myself, I cannot afford the first day purchase this time around. =\

[jmc]

Cannot wait for the announcement, i'm gonna wait on the purchase myself, I cannot afford the first day purchase this time around. =\

The iphone 4 launch was bad (when trying to purchase a phone)...... and that was only for at&t model. Now throw in Sprint, and verizon all possibly released on the same day? Yea, i'll wait lol

[Natallon]

Does anyone think there will be a redesigned iPhone 5 announced or mainly just the iPhone4S?

[Tyche]

I think both will be announced. I'm pretty pissed that the assistant software will be 4s/5 exclusive. Kinda shitty for something that seems to be just a software update. I'll probably hold onto my 4 until the 6 is released.

[Nitsuki]

Regardless it'll be worth it for me, i'm still using a 16GB 3GS, i skipped the 4. There's no way Apple will dish out another 3G phone, this new one will have to be 4G considering it is also going to sprint and verizon, the biggest reason i'm going for this upcoming phone is for the HSPA+/4GLTE speeds.

[Heavencloud]

Does anyone think there will be a redesigned iPhone 5 announced or mainly just the iPhone4S?

I'd think they'll do a 4S first, mainly because they're also releasing the 8gb iPhone 4, but we'll see tomorrow I guess, lol.

[Natallon]

Regardless it'll be worth it for me, i'm still using a 16GB 3GS, i skipped the 4. There's no way Apple will dish out another 3G phone, this new one will have to be 4G considering it is also going to sprint and verizon, the biggest reason i'm going for this upcoming phone is for the HSPA+/4GLTE speeds.

I also still have a 3GS so I'll be pleased with whatever they announce !

[Tyche]

We'll merge this thread with the megathread a little later today, but here's a look at the new iphone stuff to be announced shortly today.

You can catch live blogs at engadget and gizmodo, among others I'm sure. One of the biggest rumors thus far: Sprint will have iphone 5 exclusivity deal throughout the year, with the 5 dropping to other carriers in early '12.

[tyven]

wow if that sprint rumor is true, wow.

[Tyche]

Sprint (a company not without financial issues) has committed more than $20 billion to Apple. Word is the 5 will be LTE ready, although the 4s is rumored to be HSPA+ (21mbps), so not exactly a bad deal there either.

[The Stig]

All I want is a 64/128gb storage, then I'll buy it no matter what!!! :<

EDIT: I don't like carrying multiple devices on me, so the idea of a video device, camera, mp3 player, phone, internet browser, is good for me! My iPhone 3GS can do all this yes, but with only 32gb it's quite limiting

[Bethany]

Tyche, in the Engadget pre show video one of the rumors this morning is that the exclusive iPhone Sprint is getting is a pre-paid $199 off contract iPhone 4 with plastic back and 8 GB. All these rumors are getting crazy.

[Bethany]

One hour to go. :D

[Bethany]

http://www.apple.com/jp/retail/ginza...gettingstarted Apple made a slip up. Outed the 4S on one of their JP sites. Translated it says that the 4S will be available at 8AM on the 14th.

[Tyche]

4S was pretty much outed in itunes, so no real news there.