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Talk about a damn tease. A group of jailbreakers, known as the Evad3rs, has just shown off the world’s first iPhone 5 and iOS 6.1 jailbreak, that’ll unshackle everything but the new Apple TV. Here it is, but you’ll have to wait till sodding Sunday to actually use it.
The Americans have the NFL Super Bowl on Sunday, which is apparently a big deal, big enough to delay the release of the Evasi0n anyway. Irritating for the rest of us for sure. And when the Americans say Sunday, it might end up being in the early hours of Monday for us poor Britons. Just make sure you take a complete backup of your phone or tablet before heading to work on Monday, eh?
Anyway, judging by the way the hackers are going about things, it looks like it’ll be a pretty easy GUI-based jailbreak, maybe even as simple as the old JailBreakMe. Apparently all you’ll need is “5 minutes of your time” and a PC, Mac or Linux box. That’d be nice. [Evasi0n via 9to5Mac]
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Excellent – although aside from SBS settings and the google maps default I’m not sure what else I need these days – anyone else?
Chrome default, and in fact, full-speed Chrome would be nice.
Nitrous is the app to enable the full speed javascript engine for any app (Cydia only)
I haven’t used iOS in a while but iFile and Safari Download Manager were reason enough for me to jailbreak. Plus emulators you can’t get on the app store.
Forgot the app name but the reason I’m jailbreaking is to password protect the shutdown sequence of my phone, and lock the ability to restore it. That way, if my phone gets stolen I’ll be able to track it on Find-my-iPhone till the battery runs out and the thieves won’t be able to do a single thing about it.
Is there a particular app for this or do all jailbroken iPhones do this by default?
oh god, i have been looking for something like this for SO LONG, please try to remember!
I’ll tell you on Sunday if I can remember
did you manage to remember the tweak yet?
DFU mode -> Restore.
You can’t block DFU mode as far as i’m aware.
Teather apps. They are a godsend for giffgaff users
Linux support?! I like these new guys already.
“Here is the iPhone 5 Jailbreak We’ve All Been Waiting For”
Should read “Here is the iPhone 5 Jailbreak Some People Who Brought The Wrong Phone Have Been Waiting For”
Consider the vast majority don’t have an iPhone, and of the few that have an iPhone only a very small percentage would break it – ‘we’ve all’, is a major overkill, for what must account for 10 people in the UK
Bought the wrong phone? Perfectly happy with my 2-year old iPhone, but always like to a have a bit of fun seeing what the JB can do.
“maybe even as simple as the old JailBreakMe”
JailbreakMe was a website you just visited.
“68%: Applications for Windows and OS X are finished. Remains linux and some testing. Come back soon!”
So clearly they are building applications, so it wont be website based.
Therefore it wont be as easy as ‘the old jailbreakme’.
It will be as easy as every non-restore-with-a-custom-ipsw-jailbreak which we have had before.
Oh the days of JailBreakMe were awesome.
I’ve still got my 4S on 5.0.1, is there an update for me too?
Edit: To answer my own question, it will be compatible with everything except Apple TV 3.
Excellent. This is a godsend for those of us that would like some of the Android features, but want the industrial design and ecosystem of the smaller iPhone.