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From: Martin S Taylor on 24 Feb 2010 06:26 Woody wrote >> Just to muddy the waters a wee bit, there's also the prospect of iPhone OS >> 4.0, which (a) will probably need a whole new set of Jailbreaking code, and >> (b) may in some cases get rid of the -need- to Jailbreak. If OS4.0 allows >> users to replace the system sounds then I'm personally not going to need to >> Jailbreak, as that's all I ever use it for. > > I must admit I wouldn't like to go back to not having SBSettings. I like > proSwitcher, but I could do without it, but SBSettings is not something > I would want to lose. I feel the same about iBlacklist. It's the only thing I need jailbreaking for, but it's such a goodie... MST
From: Martin S Taylor on 24 Feb 2010 06:30 Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote >> (I have one niggle; I'm still using a 2G iPhone, so life is easy. But it's >> wearing out, and I will need a new iPhone soon. Do I wait until the >> expected >> new release in June and get the fantastic new iPhone which is rumoured to >> be >> coming out then? Or do I get a 3GS now, when I *know* I can jailbreak it? >> Decisions, decisions...) > > I would wait until the next version. You'll always be able to get a > 3GS from the vast stock that gets released by upgraders, plus > legitimate carrier unlock is now available from at O2 for free for > contract owners (though you pay out your contract of course) or �15 > for PAYG. Yep, I'm holding on. Though I'm not really interested in carrier unlock - it's jailbreaking which is far more useful to me, so I hope that, come June, those second-hand 3GS-es haven't been upgraded to a system which has defeated the jailbreakers. MST -- You're still not answering my question about your sig database
From: Martin S Taylor on 24 Feb 2010 06:32 Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote >> I don't suppose 'rain' jailbreaks and 'snow' unlocks? That would be too >> easy, wouldn't it? > > Yes, that's entirely correct. That was just an inspired guess! Is it documented *anywhere*? And are all the -rain and -snow programs produced by (or sanctioned by) the iphone-dev team? MST
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 24 Feb 2010 07:00 On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:32:30 GMT, Martin S Taylor <mst(a)hRyEpMnOoVtEiTsHm.cIo.uSk> wrote: >Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote >>> I don't suppose 'rain' jailbreaks and 'snow' unlocks? That would be too >>> easy, wouldn't it? >> >> Yes, that's entirely correct. > >That was just an inspired guess! Is it documented *anywhere*? It's just a mildly habitual naming convention. Purplerain and yellowsnow were the first ones, I think, and they went on from there. I'd not even noticed the connection. >And are all the -rain and -snow programs produced by (or sanctioned by) the >iphone-dev team? No again - although it's a pretty incestuous business, so everyone seems to know each other. The dev team are the authors of the two Pwn programs - Pwnagetool and Quickpwn - which incorporate either their own or other folk's cracks/unlock tools. Cheers - Jaimie -- "Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. By Order of the Author." -- Mark Twain
From: zoara on 24 Feb 2010 07:12
Martin S Taylor <mst(a)hRyEpMnOoVtEiTsHm.cIo.uSk> wrote: > Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote > >> Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote > >>> I read > >>> the "Pre-game show" post about 3.1.3 and thought "Actually, that's > >>> fine, and covers all cases clearly". > >> > >> What's that, then? > > > > Second post on the iphone-dev.org front page. > > Hmm... It's sentences like: > > Superbowl Sunday¹s PwnageTool 3.1.5 for Mac OS X will let you do so > safely, > preserving your jailbreak and ultrasn0w unlock. (If you use the > blacksn0w > unlock (at baseband 05.11.07), you need to stay at 3.1.2.) > > which worry me. What's an ultrasn0w unlock? How is it different from a > > blacksn0w unlock, or indeed any other kind? How do I know which I'm > using? In > fact, since I'm with O2, how can I tell if my phone is unlocked at > all? Which > version of baseband am I using, and how do I find out? > > There's a big need for a site which answers these questions in terms > an > intelligent but uninformed person can grasp. .....and trust. I agree with this completely. Even after Googling extensively for How-Tos and opinions and so on, I had to read the then-current iPhone-Dev instructions seven or eight times before I was happy which category I belonged in and what I needed to do. Now I can skim-read what they post to decide what I need to do, but before I was familiar with the process, the instructions felt daunting. Perhaps, because of their (and other jailbreakers') familiarity with the process, they don't realise there is a problem. -z- -- email: nettid1 at fastmail dot fm |