News for the jailbreak community

Feb 2, 2010 09:10 GMT  ·  By

It’s been a while since we saw an update posted over at the iPhone Dev Team blog. The infamous team of hackers claims to be “reviving” its simple jailbreak tool, redsn0w, to be compatible with FW 3.1.2, and include a few new features. Also concerning the jailbreak community is that iTunes 9.0.3 is safe to use with hacked devices, a Modmyi forum poster claims.

“It’s actually been in ‘open beta’ for a while now, and those of you who already follow @MuscleNerd on twitter may already have tried the new redsn0w,” the latest Dev Team update reads. “Compared to our last release, we’ve given you the ability to quickly change your boot or recovery logos and enable ‘verbose’ booting. And for those of you who want to experiment with your Internet tethering options over cellular, try version 0.9.3 in the extra links at the bottom of that wikee page,” the Dev Team adds.

Those who are in need of a change can try the new boot logos using this updated version of redsn0w and, of course, employ it for fresh jailbreaks. “If you use it on an already jailbroken phone, be sure to checkmark ‘Already pwned’ and don’t reinstall Cydia again (doing so will probably make Cydia lose track of what it has installed),” the iPhone Dev Team warns.

The hackers urge users to note that this version of redsn0w doesn’t provide an untethered jailbreak for people with brand-new iPhone 3GS, or second- and third-generation iPod touches. “redsn0w will jailbreak those but it will still be a tethered jailbreak until some new exploit is found and released,” the post reveals. “As always, redsn0w does not update your firmware version. You use it with whatever firmware is already running on your device (and you point redsn0w to the IPSW corresponding to that firmware already running on your device),” the team concludes.

Elsewhere on the Internet where jailbreak fans like to gather it is revealed that iTunes 9.0.3, the latest version of the popular media player and content purchase platform from Apple, is “jailbreak-safe.” After breaking the word on the new update to fellow forum posters, a Modmyi staff writer reveals that, “iTunes 9.0.3 is safe for all you Jailbreakers out there.” He adds, “No need to worry on this update. Go ahead and update as you wish.”

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