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iPhone Hackers Finally Solved iOS 4.2.1 Jailbreak

- By - Source : Tom's Guide US

Live the untethered lifestyle.

If you like venturing outside of Apple's walled garden, then you must jailbreak your iOS device.

If you were running one of the newer iPods or iPhones, you were stuck without an untethered jailbreak – that is, you must connect your device back to the computer to re-enable the jailbreak. That would pose a serious problem if your phone ran out of power or reset and you didn't have a computer around.

Now, months later, the iPhone hackers have come up with a untethered jailbreak solution for the newer iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, and all the equivalent iPod touch devices.

Unlockers beware, however, as updating to this could make your phone permanently tied to the carrier. Those who wish to preserve their older basebands should wait.

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charlie_m 02/05/2011 12:13 PM
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I hope the carrier unlock comes for the newer basebands Feb10 like ultrasn0w guys are claiming.

joelmartinez 02/05/2011 12:14 PM
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I don't see why Apple news is even posted, we're so anti-apple we don't really care. At least this is my impression, I prefer android.

joelmartinez 02/05/2011 12:14 PM
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Jailbreaking is all cool though

applegetsmelaid 02/05/2011 12:32 PM
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Did a JB on my iphone. Nothing to get all excited about, its really just a pocket that I rarely use. iPhones to me are middle ground between a Leap-Pad and a Notebook.

valpanig 02/05/2011 12:41 PM
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joelmartinez :
Jailbreaking is all cool though



fill me up, why exactly we are so against Apple ?

valpanig 02/05/2011 12:42 PM
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valpanig :
fill me up, why exactly we are so against Apple ?


posted to the wrong user , sorry

inthere 02/05/2011 12:43 PM
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because it's cool

elcentral 02/05/2011 12:45 PM
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im starting to think apple fucking up there own product so the next one can fix it only to haw its own problem ihone 3 =bad battery iphone 4 comes in and saves the day only to realize it got cover problems.
dont 360 do the same whit ring of death im not kiddingt they die like flyes. dont mod or crack it or well not give you a new one when 4month from now when the red ring goes on. iwe newer had a friend get a xbox dead or a ps3 nor a wii but 7 x-box 360 in 2 years and only 5 ppl i knowe own em

illo 02/05/2011 12:50 PM
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elcentral :
im starting to think apple fucking up there own product so the next one can fix it only to haw its own problem ihone 3 =bad battery iphone 4 comes in and saves the day only to realize it got cover problems. dont 360 do the same whit ring of death im not kiddingt they die like flyes. dont mod or crack it or well not give you a new one when 4month from now when the red ring goes on. iwe newer had a friend get a xbox dead or a ps3 nor a wii but 7 x-box 360 in 2 years and only 5 ppl i knowe own em



english dude, english.

valpanig 02/05/2011 12:54 PM
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illo :
english dude, english.


this must have been southern accent :)

computerlame 02/05/2011 1:06 AM
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To take a line from Airplane..."I speak jive"

He said that he believes Apple is doing this intentionally so that people buy the next big thing, and keep feeding their cash cow so it grows up big and strong. Then he went on to make some analogy to Microsoft and their Xbox 360 being similar to the iPhone with it's ring of death problems when hacked, although he did state he used a small statistical sample size to back up said statement so there could be a considerable margin of error.

valpanig 02/05/2011 1:22 AM
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computerlame :
To take a line from Airplane..."I speak jive"He said that he believes Apple is doing this intentionally so that people buy the next big thing, and keep feeding their cash cow so it grows up big and strong. Then he went on to make some analogy to Microsoft and their Xbox 360 being similar to the iPhone with it's ring of death problems when hacked, although he did state he used a small statistical sample size to back up said statement so there could be a considerable margin of error.



.. so he is saying that 5 friends he knows had no problem with xbox. However, he managed to fry 7 of them in 2 years ?

valpanig 02/05/2011 1:33 AM
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I appreciate clarification on this subject matter. I agree that sample size might have been small but if we consider that same problem happened in the same place with same user that means that product was flawed from the beginning. Or user just couldn't resist and beat the life out of the unit while warranty was still active :)

turbolover22 02/05/2011 1:33 AM
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valpanig :
.. so he is saying that 5 friends he knows had no problem with xbox. However, he managed to fry 7 of them in 2 years ?




Could just be that he is misinterpreting the data. Some of those people that fried some of those 7 machines could have fried more than 1 machine. Which would indicate user error and not necessarily faulty machines.

speedemon 02/05/2011 2:33 AM
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turbolover22 :
Could just be that he is misinterpreting the data. Some of those people that fried some of those 7 machines could have fried more than 1 machine. Which would indicate user error and not necessarily faulty machines.



user error huh? what did he do tape the vents or plugged it into a 220 or something?

maestintaolius 02/05/2011 2:35 AM
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computerlame :
To take a line from Airplane..."I speak jive"He said that he believes Apple is doing this intentionally so that people buy the next big thing, and keep feeding their cash cow so it grows up big and strong. Then he went on to make some analogy to Microsoft and their Xbox 360 being similar to the iPhone with it's ring of death problems when hacked, although he did state he used a small statistical sample size to back up said statement so there could be a considerable margin of error.


LoL +1 good sir (not that you can tell ... fix the rankings toms!)

xantek24 02/05/2011 5:33 AM
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what is this? ESL now!?

thillntn 02/05/2011 5:46 AM
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good comments! I haven't seen anything this funny since the steve jobs bobble head. Back on topic, don't ever except a carrier unlock to be on time, they usually aren't.

joshua07 02/05/2011 2:00 PM
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Poster forgot to mention that this is a Mac only JB atm.

Anonymous 02/06/2011 1:04 AM
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hahahahahahahahahahaha.....so gp jb coming out today or what???

mayankleoboy1 02/06/2011 3:45 AM
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jailbreaking is a kick in the face of steve

eddieroolz 02/07/2011 10:25 AM
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Keep it going.