Dev Team Holds Off Releasing 3G S Jailbreak Code
6:40 am, June 29th, 2009, Lonnie Lazar
iPhone 3G S jailbroken just weeks after release
The iPhone Dev Team, the tireless hackers who provide software to jailbreak iPhones, know how to unlock the iPhone 3G S, but have decided to hold off releasing the software publicly pending Apple’s next move in the two year-old cat and mouse game between the company and the rogue user community.
“We can jailbreak the 3GS right now,” said a statement at the Dev-Team Blog, “but making our jailbreak public at this point … would in fact be detrimental to many more people than it would help. So we feel it’s best to keep our version of the jailbreak out of Apple’s sights for the time being.”
The crux of the problem seems to be a Dev Team concern that Apple will soon release an update to 3.0 software that will close the ultrasn0w exploit released last week that jailbreaks iPhone 3G running 3.0 software, and that many people who want to get an iPhone 3G S don’t have one yet.
“Once the [3G S] jailbreak is out, Apple will fix the iBoot-family bug we use to accomplish it,” the blog post explains. “[Apple] will simply stop signing the old iBoots and only sign the fixed ones. If you bought your phone after Apple has done this, there’s nothing you can do…the jailbreak isn’t going to work for you.”
For now the team has decided to work on 3.0 software issues such as push notification and will wait and see what Apple does next.
Posted by Lonnie Lazar in Apple, Hardware Hacks, News, Software, iPhone | Comment on this article
Good news that was too quick these guys really mean business!
jazzyl, on June 29th, 2009 at 7:14 am
Give it up with the jailbreaking already… it’s like chasing a girl you’ll NEVER have… and for the God sake, move out of your parent’s basement.
bassplayer2408, on June 29th, 2009 at 7:15 am
All hail the brave freedom fighters.
MacRat, on June 29th, 2009 at 7:25 am
Interesting that the Darwin kernel for the 3GS is 10.0.0d3 when the kernel for OS X 10.5.7 is 9.7.0!
Rich, on June 29th, 2009 at 3:28 pm
let them do what they need to do…there are many of us that want to get more out of our iphones…even if it is just being able to assign custom text message tones
that what I want to do at this moment…but can’t unless I jailbreak
oh well…we will have to wait for the gods at Dev Team to deem it good to go
will wait with baited breath
scott, on June 29th, 2009 at 5:33 pm
Ultrasn0w is NOT a jailbreak, its a carrier unlock
Your phone needs to be jailbroken to run Ultrasn0w
tyler Fog, on July 4th, 2009 at 7:07 am