First off the Dev Team released this video (iPod and iPhone friendly!). It is a video of the jailbreaking tool Pwnage (It also shows off firmware 2.0). Pwnage is a custom firmware builder. First you need to “pwn” you iPod though… before you can use your custom firmware. Which allows a custom loading screen, custom apple logo, and all sorts of goodies. The best part of it though, is that the Dev Team believes that “any subsequent firmware releases will also be vulnerable to “Pwnage” … like 1.2(2.0) beta.”

When might you ask? 30.03.2008. TOMORROW!

Update: Due to some beta testers complaints it is being released later this week.

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From ZiPhone.org-

“As promised, here you go !
For the jailbreak to work you have to
restore to 1.1.4 before running ziphone.
45 seconds of ZiPhone and you are done !
I tested it on my 32gb iPod.
I told you I would not let you down

Enjoy!”

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The iPhone Dev Team does it again.  This time they are out for justice.   

Using the new SDK from Apple, the Dev Team have already managed to decrypt the disk image and jailbreak the new 1.2 unreleased firmware.  

This is just something that shows the determination and spirit of a few good people that want to make  their dream a reality for all others. 

[via] iPhone Dev Team

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Wow. Where did that come from? I go rest my old eyes for a few minutes and when I wake up. . . WTF? Where did that come from and how did that get there?
With Apple putting out the new MacBooks and then the 2GB iPod shuffle yesterday, I thought they were finished for the day. Well folks, it’s really here. 1.1.4 firmware is here. It seems that Apple is actually stepping up to the plate and getting ready for the SDK.
TUAW alerts us with a live report on the download and Engadget reports that it consists of mainly “Bug Fixes”. Engadget further reports that it works on a jailbroken 1.1.3 and a non jailbroken 1.1.3 also that ZiPhone works as well.

I will be trying this out myself in a couple of hours and I will report back. Enjoy.

iPhone firmware 1.1.4  (direct download)
iPod touch firmware 1.1.4 (direct download)

[Source] TUAW 
[Source] Engadget 

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Zibri’s Blog announces a full jailbreak for the iPhone.  No soft upgrade here.  This is the real deal.  

 Currently it only for the iPhone and I believe that it is only doable with a PC.  However, this is just what everyone has been hoping for.  Let’s hope an iPod touch version will follow soon. 

It seems that the “Dev teams” had nothing to do with this particular version of jailbrake.

 No ‘dev-team’ was directly involved with this work.
This program is based on the work of everyone who
believed in free software. (Thanks for the toolchain!)

Well, if you are interested you can go see for yourself.

[Source] Zibri’s Blog

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That’s right.  The official version has now been released to the public.  Just what everyone has been waiting for.

I posted a couple days back where Nate True released an unofficial version.  This indeed was a sloppy job compared to the dev team’s release.  According to a mod over at the ipodtouchfans forum the real problem with Nate’s version is that,
and I quote from SkylarEC,

Nate True’s method breaks DRM, and that’s where the whole app issue came from to being with. By using the Dev Team method, DRM is not broken. That of course means that besides apps working and synching, you can also listen to music you bought off of the iTunes store.

This is the problem that I was discussing previously in my other thread.

If you want a cleaner more refined version of the jailbreak you can go over to Hackintosh forums, where all of the dev’s hang out and download your copy and start running a fresh jailbroken 1.1.3 firmware for your iPod Touch/iPhone

If you are not savvy enough to do all of this on your own. It has been implemented into the installer app.
Let’s all thank SkylarEC for making that possible.

To do this you will need to:

1.  Make sure you have a JailBroken 1.1.2 Device.
2.  More than 160MB free on your root partition. Move Applications to /private/var/Applications if necessary. 
3.  Make Sure you have BSD SubSystem 1.5 or later installed on your iPod.
4.  Make Sure you set AutoLock in Preferences to NEVER.
5. Make Sure you are plugged Into a computer.
   
6. Make sure you have SEVERAL minutes to wait.
7. Make sure you are ready to update.
   
8. Make Sure you have http://www.touchrepo.com/repo.xml installed in your sources in Installer.
   
9. Download “1.1.3 JailBreak (DEV TEAM)“
   
10. Wait several minutes.
    

The iPod will now boot into 1.1.3. [Source: http://www.ipodtouchfans.com/forums/showthread.php?t=30617]

Please note that this process may take up to 40min or so. Some have completed it in shorter times however it is based on your internet connection as this is being done over WiFi. Mine took exactly 31 minutes from start to finish w/reeboot.

If you have any questions you can ask them here and I will try and help or you can visit the links to the sources that I have provided.

A big warm thank you for the Dev Team for releasing this valuable update and to Skylar for making this available on the installer.

Sources:
Hackintosh forum: http://www.hackint0sh.org/forum/

ipodtouchfans forum: http://www.ipodtouchfans.com

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