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Great news for the iPhone jailbreak community, especially for iPhone users who anxiously waiting for the Ultrasn0w unlock. The iPhone Dev Team is all set to release the fixed and new version of Ultrasn0w carrier unlocking tool to allow iPhone users who have unlockable baseband to free their device form Apple’s contracted mobile phone carrier. Earlier, the iPhone Dev Team’s spokesperson MuscleNerd has uploaded a screen shot of the new ultrasn0w 1.2.1 which brings support for iOS 4.3.1 on jailbroken iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS with old basebands. This new Ultrasn0w is expected to have the bug fix for the one signal bar issue after jailbreaking using PwnageTool and Redsn0w for iOS 4.3.1.
Earlier this week, the iPhone Dev Team in collaboration with the German iPhone hacker / iPhone security specialist Stefan Esser releases the much wanted untethered jailbreak for iOS 4.3.1 for iPhone 4 (GSM model), iPhone 3GS, iPod Touch 4G, iPod Touch 3G, iPad 1, and AppleTV 2G in the form of Redsn0w 0.9.6 RC9 / RC11 and PwnageTool 4.3. Additionally, iH8sn0w also followed the Dev Team release with its own Sn0wbreeze 2.5 which is based on Esser’s untethered jailbreak exploit. If you are unaware, both PwnageTool 4.3 for Mac Os X and Sn0wbreeze 2.5 for Windows have capability to untethered jailbreak iPhone and other iOS device while preserving its baseband version.
So if you are an iPhone users who jailbreak there iPhone using either PwnageTool 4.3 or with Sn0wbreeze 2.5 then you will be able to unlock your iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS with basebands 04.26.08, 05.11.07, 05.12.01, 05.13.04, 06.15.00, and 01.59.00 using Ultrasn0w 1.2.1.
Back in January, we reported that the iPhone Dev Team had announced that the official and highly anticipated unlock solution for the iPhone will be released at least a week or two after Apple releases the final version of iOS 4.3 for iPhone iPad, an iPod Touch.
So if you are one of the million iPhone 4 users who are anxiously waiting for the iPhone Dev Team to release the latest version of Ultrasn0w carrier unlocking tool (Ultrasn0w 1.3) to unlock iPhone 4 on iOS 4.2.1 or on iOS 4.3, which was released recently then we have some bad news for you.
MuscleNerd of the iPhone Dev Team has just announced via tweet that iPhone 4 unlock solution is not yet ready, and they still need more time to work things around.
Here’s what MuscleNerd tweets:
“Sorry, there's no news on the i4 unlock for those who lost 01.59 (or never had it). It's taking longer than we wanted :("
Meaning, there’s still no unlock solution for iPhone 4 with baseband 03.10.01 and 02.10.04 (for iOS 4.2.1 and iOS 4.1 respectively). If you’re wondering regarding the iPhone 4 unlock method that Dev Team talked about backed in January then looks like it was SIM dependent:
“there's no way for us to know. We were making great headway with one version til we realized it was SIM dependent (!)”
“I mean dependent on particular SIM :) I have two T-Mobile SIMs, and it behaved different on each (we understand why too)”
The best thing you can do is to buy a factory unlocked iPhone on eBay or other grey market because Apple will keep making it difficult to unlock their iPhone.
Recently, Apple launches the latest version of iTunes media management and digital store in order to support the forthcoming iOS 4.3 and iPad 2, which is geared wit h numerous features and improvements. However, because of some of the anti-jailbreak and the fact that Apple has a capability to block all jailbroken iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch in to their system, some jailbreakers and unlocker are hesitant to upgrade their iTunes.
We all know that the iPhone jailbreak community has their own alternative App Store in form of Cydia, however jailbreakers and unlockers still use Apple’s iTunes to organize their apps, music, photos, contacts, and even when jailbreaking their beloved gadget. But the good news is that the iPhone Dev team is working on a new special iTunes that was specially designed for jailbreakers and unlockers.
Joshua Hill, or most commonly known as p0sixninja, an integral member of the iPhone Dev Team and one of the iPhone hacker that contributed in the iPhone Jailbreak community has reveal that the Dev Team is working on their own iTunes alternative.
Here’s Joshu Hill tweet conversation with an iPhone jailbreaker:
Nhoggan : @p0sixninja Can we please have an alternative to the insufferable piece of shit that is iTunes?!
@p0sixninja:@Nhoggan yes, soon
Nhoggan :@p0sixninja WOW, seriously?!?! That’d be frickin awesome!!! Definitely look forward to that! We’re talking 6 months or more though, right?
@p0sixninja :@Nhoggan yes, still under heavy development
Well, as quoted above, the new Dev Team project is in early development stage. And if they’re planning to mimic iTunes, it is expected that they need much time to accomplish it. The iTunes alternative should have the basic features of the legit iTunes, such as ability to manage (Cydia) apps, sync iOS devices, and play media, and a lot more. Including managing upgrades and downgrades of custom ipsw / firmware just like PwnageTool and it will navigate through SSH.
Hopefully, iPhone Dev team release this awesome tool before the year ends. Stay tuned.
