14 DAY TRIAL // The infamous iPhone Dev Team has updated its blog to advise the jailbreak community against installing iOS 4.1, in case Apple decides to finally release the software update today.
iOS 4.1 is the first major update to iOS 4, adding new iTunes features, Game Center, HDR photography, and more, for iPhone and iPod touch users.
Restoring to the new software should also cancel any current jailbreak or unlock hacks users may have enabled on their devices, hence the Dev Team’s latest blog post.
“Today you’ll likely start seeing iTunes innocently offer you a new version of iOS…version 4.1. Don’t accept it…it’s a trap!”, the hackers warn.
“This time of year there are lots of new iPhone owners, and not everybody knows that accepting new iOS updates is the surest way to lose your jailbreak and/or unlock,” the Team explains.
“While those of you who have Cydia or TinyUmbrella backups of your FW hashes will always be able to get back to 4.0.1 if you make this mistake, this doesn’t hold for unlockers,” the Team further elaborates.
“There’s currently no known way to revert your baseband — if you update your baseband you’ll lose the ultrasn0w unlock, possible forever,” another warning goes.
The Dev Team concludes by saying, “Please stay away from this 4.1 release until a safe jailbreak procedure (which also preserves ultrasn0w) is developed and released.”
According to the hackers, due to a flaw in very early bootloaders, “a tiny number of iPhone 3G owners” should be able to revert their basebands.
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