Monthly Archives: September 2010

Apple TV 2G SHAttered and jailbroken! [updated]

MuscleNerd has just posted both a tweet and picture confirming that the new SHAtter exploit has also jailbroken the Apple TV 2G!

As this has only just be announced we still do not have a lot of information. There are also a few other members within the community working on jailbreaking the Apple TV. Chromic Dev Team member willstraf tweeted earlier today about the structure of the Apple TV OS.

As the Apply TV has only been released a few …


Greenpois0n iOS 4.1 Jailbreak Only Days Away!

UPDATE 1: Just in case there were any doubts as to the validity of pod2g’s earlier announcement, it has now been confirmed by p0sixninja as well. Apparently pod2g is still working along side the Chronic Dev team despite his recent departure from the team.

Hi guys, well unless you’ve been living under some kind of rock, you will have heard about the SHAtter exploit discovered by the Chronic Dev team and also being worked on by the iPhone Dev


SHAtter decrypts AppleTV iOS keys the gift that keeps on giving!

Earlier this evening we learned that the AppleTV firmware is indeed iOS based as we were hoping. Despite the product not even being publicly released yet, the AppleTV firmware is already uploaded to the Apple servers and available for download, soon after this information was discovered the iPhone Dev team announced that SHAtter had successfully decrypted the AppleTV iOS keys seen below:

The main filesystem (“Mojave8M89.K66OS”) key for 018-8609-066.dmg is:
31c700a852f1877c88efc05bc5c63e8c7f081c4cb28d024ed7 f9b0dbc98c7e1406e499c6


How to install a .deb file via SSH and terminal

Hey guys, this tutorial was a request from one of our readers, Mason, who was having trouble finding Ultrasn0w in Cydia. This is a great method to quickly install any .deb file on your iDevice from your computer. This is useful if Cydia won’t install an app for whatever reason or you just can’t find the app in the database. In this tutorial I will be installing the ultrasn0w deb since that is the specific tweak that Mason was having …


iPod Touch SHAttered by The Dev Team – Jailbreak on it’s way!

Below is the latest post from the iPhone Dev Team’s blog updated tonight! This is of HUGE significance to the jailbreaking world! This post (and video below) proves that the SHAtter jailbreak there has been so much talk about is true and working! Progress is going well and the final tools will be available soon!


Those of you with Apple’s new iPod touch 4G, or those of you who bought another recent device after the jailbreakme.com exploit was closed, have …


LockInfo – Change your iPhone/iPod Touch Lockscreen

Ever since the day the original iPhone was released way back in Jan 2007, the of the only things that has not changed is the Lockscreen. At the moment, the iPhone lockscreen in essence only shows the date and time. Using a Cydia package called LockInfo (which has been around for awhile), you can add upcoming calander events, to do notifications, twitter feeds and much more.

This is the Lockscreen that comes default with all iPhones/iPod Touchs:

This is an …


How to install a theme on your iDevice

All the time you see screenshots of people who have customized the icons on their iPhone or iPod Touch and you ask yourself, how do they do that? Where did they get that theme from? What theme program can I use/trust? Well we’re going to answer all of those questions today.

The main program that people use to install themes onto their device is called ‘Winterboard’. This Cydia package is a program create by Jay Freeman, (widely known in …


HDR/GameCenter enabler installs Game Center and HDR on iPhone 3G and 3Gs 4.1

Please disregard the following tutorial. Since it’s release, the developer, a 15 year old from Austria @Macusercom has removed the tweak from the repo. It appears as though he never tested the tweak before its release and it doesn’t work. Below is a screenshot from his twitter account:

Hey guys, so if you were one of the lucky few that somehow got sn0wbreeze 2.0.2 to work, you are now on a jailbroken version of the 4.1 firmware! Congrats! Lucky …


jbme2pwn released, adds support for devices jailbroken with jailbreakme.com

A new Cydia package has been released by the name of Jbme2pwn. Jbme2pwn is similar to spirit2pwn in that it allows you to jailbreak your device using Sn0wbreeze even if it has been jailbroken using Jailbreakme.com.

From my understanding, Jbme2pwn cleans up some form of traces that Jailbreakme.com leaves that can interfere when using Sn0wbreeze. Installing this package before jailbreaking with Sn0wbreeze will allow the process to work.

If you have previously jailbroken using Spirit then you will need to …


Sn0wbreeze 2.0.2 – Fixes Error 17, 40 and Hacktivation problems

UPDATE: Sn0wbreeze 2.1 has now been released, click here for a full tutorial on how to jailbreak using the updated version.

Sn0wbreeze 2.0.2 has been released by iH8sn0w to fix errors encountered by some users. This update fixes the following issues:

    Error 17 when restoring with custom firmware
    Error 40 when restoring with custom firmware
    Also fixes hacktivation problems some users faced

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Sn0wbreeze 2.0.2

The updated version of Sn0wbreeze can be downloaded below, a link will also …


Update from ih8sn0w about sn0wbreeze 2.0.1 errors

UPDATE: Sn0wbreeze 2.1 has now been released, click here for a full tutorial on how to jailbreak using the updated version.

I just spoke with iH8sn0w on Skype about the problems you guys have been having with sn0wbreeze 2.0.1 he confirmed that you should use iREB linked in the sn0wbreeze 2.0.1 tutorial to bypass 1600 errors (1600, 1601, 1602, 1603 and also for error 29). He also wanted me to convey the importance of reading the notice that …