Redsn0w 0.9.6rc7 Available for Download

The infamous iPhone Dev Team has updated redsn0w to include “one-click” support for those running the tethered 4.2.1 jailbreak. Users can now invoke command-line arguments to bypass the screens they’d normally see as they use redsn0w to “Just boot tethered for now,” the Team says.

In a recent blog update, the hackers post both Mac and Windows downloads for redsn0w 0.9.6rc7, as well as the available command line arguments. Those are:

-j to ask redsn0w to “Just boot now tethered for now”
-i <filename> to specify your reference IPSW
-o for old-bootrom iPod touch 2G and iPhone 3GS
-b <filename> to specify your own boot logo png

To make things crystal clear for everyone, the Team provides an example:

“…to get redsn0w for Mac to do a tethered boot of an iPod touch 4G jailbroken at 4.2.1:

open ~/Desktop/redsn0w.app —args -j -i ~/Desktop/iPod4,1_4.2.1_8C148_Restore.ipsw”

For this to work, both redsn0w and the IPSW file must be on the user’s OS X desktop. If not, jailbreakers must modify the file path as necessary.

The download for redsn0w 0.9.6rc7 includes an example script file that users can double click to launch redsn0w in this manner.

For Windows users, the example assumes everything is in C:\, the Team explains. As always, Windows 7 users are advised to run redsn0w in XP Compatibility Mode.

Mac users need to remember to change the permissions of their custom command files to allow execution.

In both cases, iTunes 10.1 is recommended.

“This should help ease the pain of the tethered jailbreak until @comex comes up with a 4.2.1 untether (or for those of you with legit access to the 4.2b3 IPSW, until the ‘Jailbreak Monte’ untether is out of beta)!”, the iPhone Dev Team concludes.


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