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Upcoming Semi-Restore tool to clean up your iOS install while retaining jailbreakability

JaeM1llz — Thu, 16 May 2013 21:03:31 +0000

A new tool has been announced Semi-Restore which should come as a huge relief to many jailbreakers. We've all been there, we jailbreak our devices, load them up with all the best jailbreak tweaks and apps only to be stuck with a sluggish iOS. The answer to this problem is to restore and only install the absolute necessities, but what do you do when the current iOS is not jailbreakable and your device cannot be restored without installing an unjailbreakable firmware?

Enter Semi-Restore, a tool which bills itself as a partial restore of your current firmware. This is a quick and easy way to wipe your phone clean without doing a full restore(which would require you to install the latest firmware). This would be great for those who are selling their devices and want to keep the resale value of having a jailbreakable firmware.

However, since this is only a semi-restore, it will not replace any of the core iOS system files, so if your firmware is corrupted, chances are this is not going to help. But if you want to get your device running at max speed and still be able to jailbreak, this might just be the tool for you.

Semi-Restore is currently in the beta testing phase, we will let you know more info as it comes!

iOS 6.1.3 released publicly and the death of the evasi0n jailbreak

JaeM1llz — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 04:24:49 +0000

Now that iOS 6.1.3 has been released to the public, the days of the evasi0n jailbreak are over. After 6 weeks and 2 successive incremental updates, Apple has finally patched the exploits used in the evasi0n jailbreak. For those with iPhone4 or lower with your SHSH blobs saved, you have nothing to worry about. However for users with an A5 or higher processor, there is no way to downgrade back to 6.1.2 now that 6.1.3 is out and the signing window has closed.

Because of this, it is extremely important that you are cautious if you wish to remain jailbroken. If anything corrupts your firmware, you will be forced to restore to 6.1.3 and be unable to jailbreak until a new exploit is found which likely would not be used until at least iOS 7. Avoid installing tweaks/themes/apps that you are not sure are compatible with your device/firmware.

Luckily, there is a pretty solid safeguard available to help protect against this. If you have MobileSubstrate installed, you will be able to reboot your device into safe-mode by holding the power up button while rebooting. This will allow you to remove the offending tweak from Cydia and reboot to your normal springboard. MobileSubstrate is free and comes with SBSettings. This method will not work for every problem though, you can still delete or alter the wrong file that will cause your device to not even be able to boot into safe-mode and you will then be stuck with restoring 6.1.3

Hope this helps!

Gridlock 2.0 released for iOS6 compatibility

JaeM1llz — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 23:25:08 +0000

Today, one of the last tweaks I have been waiting to use on my iPhone 5, Gridlock 2.0, was released to add compatibility for iOS 6. This tweak is essential for any devoted themer. The tweak allows you to position your app/folder icons anywhere on your Springboard without the rest of the icons shifting around. This tweak works out great for themes with widgets or custom icon layouts.

Unfortunately, the developer @chpwn has implemented an upgrade fee for those who had already purchased the original Gridlock. For new users, the tweak will cost $4.99, for those who are upgrading from version 1, the price will be $1.99. That said, this tweak is more than worth it and keep in mind, chpwn has also had a major hand in many of the previous jailbreak exploits we've seen, he has definitely worked hard for us.

Are you as excited about the Gridlock 2.0 update as we are!?

The Obama Administration agrees, cellphone unlocking should be legal

JaeM1llz — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 19:48:45 +0000

Back in October of 2012, the Librarian of Congress decided to remove cellphone unlocking from the exemptions of the DMCA. This sparked much outrage and discussion in the cellphone community prompting a petition to be started on the White House website. The stipulation of the petition was that it needed to reach over 100,000 signatures in a 30-day period which would prompt the White House to respond directly to the petition.

Amazingly, the petition garnered well over the necessary amount, 114,000+ and recently we got our response. The response is a good one for people who believe in consumer choice and competition. The White House has made a statement that they agree that cellphone unlocking should remain legal.

How they plan on going about this issue is yet to be determined, but the response ensures that action will be taken.

The Obama Administration would support a range of approaches to addressing this issue, including narrow legislative fixes in the telecommunications space that make it clear: neither criminal law nor technological locks should prevent consumers from switching carriers when they are no longer bound by a service agreement or other obligation.

If you would like to read the response in it's entirety, you can take a look at the petition here.

Jailbreak iOS 6.1.2 with Evasi0n 1.4

JaeM1llz — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 18:38:13 +0000

Yesterday, Apple released iOS 6.1.2 which patched an Exchange calendar bug which was causing battery drain and increased network activity. The good news is that the Evasi0n untether exploit remains unpatched. In order to jailbreak iOS 6.1.2, the Evad3rs have released Evasi0n 1.4 to jailbreak devices on the new 6.1.2 firmware.

DOWNLOAD:
Evasi0n 1.4 - Win
Evasi0n 1.4 - OSX
Evasion 1.4 - Linux

Step 1: Download the Evasi0n jailbreak tool above for your corresponding OS. Prepare your device by restoring a fresh 6.1 firmware if you haven't already and run a backup of your device. If you have a passcode lock, please disable it now as it may interfere with the process.

Step 2: Open Evasi0n and it should detect your device and firmware version. All you need to do is hit the "jailbreak" button to initiate the process.

Step 3: Once you have hit jailbreak, do not turn your device off, do not even touch it. Let the Evasi0n tool do it's job. It will go through a series of stages.

Step 4: Once Evasi0n has done it's thing, you will get this screen which tells you to tap an icon that should now be on your iPhone homescreen called "jailbreak." Tap the icon once, and then let Evasi0n do it's thing again, do not tap the icon more than once.

Step 5: Evasi0n is now complete, the rest of the process should happen on the device. Your device will reboot and you will see an Evasi0n boot screen that says "cleaning up" and once your phone reboots, you will have Cydia on your homescreen! Easy huh?

Let us know how it goes for you!

Winterboard 0.9.3910 released to fix notification overlap UISound and Theme Optimization

JaeM1llz — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 00:46:05 +0000

Over the past few days, @saurik has released two updates to the popular iPhone theming application, Winterboard. Winterboard 0.9.3909 fixes an issue that I know many of our users were asking about which is notification overlap when using HTML lockscreens. Before this update, if you had a lockscreen which uses HTML, notifications would be hidden beneath the lockscreen preventing you from seeing them pop up when your phone is locked. This inclueds BiteSMS quick reply notifications. The 0.9.3909 update also fixes an issue with UISound themes to customize your devices sounds.

Today, Winterboard 0.9.3910 was released to address issues with theme optimization.

Evasi0n 1.3 released to jailbreak iOS 6.1.1

JaeM1llz — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:27:20 +0000

A few minutes ago, we informed you that iOS 6.1.1 has been released for the iPhone4S only. This update was released to solve issues certain users were having with 3G connectivity. The Evad3rs have now released Evasi0n 1.3 which has been updated to support the iOS 6.1.1 firmware. This update will also work for those who are running iOS 6.1.1 tethered jailbreaks on devices other than the 4S. If you are on a tethered jailbreak of a beta 6.1.1 firmware, simply install the updated Evasi0n 6.0-6.1 untether package in Cydia to untether the jailbreak.

Remember that if you plan on updating your 4S to 6.1.1, you should do a fresh restore, do not do the OTA update.

DOWNLOAD:
Evasi0n 1.3 - Windows
Evasi0n 1.3 - OSX
Evasi0n 1.3 - Linux

iOS 6.1.1 released for iPhone4S still contains Evasi0n exploit!

JaeM1llz — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 23:15:51 +0000

Today, Apple pushed out the iOS 6.1.1 update for the iPhone4S only. This update is supposed to fix issues with 3G for certain users. It has been confirmed that the Evasi0n untether exploit still exists in the 6.1.1 firmware for the 4S, but it is unclear whether the final release of 6.1.1 for other devices will be the same case.

PlanetBeing announced that a new version of Evasi0n will be released shortly that can detect 6.1.1 devices so that 4S users can update and jailbreak. Stay tuned to find out if the rest of the devices will be susceptible!

Unlock iPhone 3Gs and iPhone 4 on iOS 6.1 using Ultrasn0w 1.2.8

JaeM1llz — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 03:37:19 +0000

Ultrasn0w 1.2.8 has just been released for compatibility with iPhone 3Gs and iPhone 4 running iOS 6.1. Once again, this update only adds 6.1 compatibility, it does not add compatibility for any of the newer baseband revisions. If you have an iPhone 4, this will only work if you have the 01.59.00 baseband. If you have an iPhone 3Gs, it will work on any of these basebands: 04.26.08, 05.11.07, 05.12.01, 05.13.04 and 06.15.00. If you have a 3Gs that has a newer baseband, you can install the 06.15.00 iPad baseband and then downgrade from 06.15.00 to 05.13.04 using Redsn0w.

iPhone 5 ScreenExtender tweak forces all apps to use full screen

JaeM1llz — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 20:28:55 +0000

With the iPhone 5 having a larger screen size than it's predecessors, there are still plenty of apps out there which have not been updated to accomodate the larger size of the screen. A new iPhone 5 ScreenExtender tweak has been released to solve just that issue. All you have to do is download the free app from Cydia and it will force any of your older apps to fill the screen, even if they were not natively designed to do so. Once your device has rebooted, simply go into the Settings app and scroll down to ScreenExtender. Enable it and then put a checkmark next to any apps that are not using your full screen. There is another similar app called FullForce that was developed by Ryan Petrich which will automatically detect which apps are not taking advantage of the full screen, but it costs $0.99, so if you want to use this free version, you will have to go through your apps to figure out which ones have not been updated for iPhone 5 yet.