I jailbroke my iPhone 3GS on firmware 3.1.2 last month using the Blackra1n software by Geohot. Everything was smooth sailing for me, but I do understand many people went through a lot of problems with their iPhones. Mainly because of the different versions there are (i.e. 2G, 3G, 3GS with different firmwares as well). Well, Geohot has released version 2 of the Blackra1n jailbreak method which hopefully solves many of your problems.
Here is the update list:
Fixed 3G issues
Tethered jailbreak for 3.1 OOTB ipt 8GB and new 3GSes
Fixed Icy issues
Both Windows and Mac
If you used RC1 with success, no need to rerun
Note the last one. IF YOU HAVE SUCCESSFULLY JAILBROKEN YOUR IPHONE USING THE FIRST VERSION, YOU DO NOT NEED TO JAILBREAK AGAIN WITH THIS VERSION!
Sorry I had to SHOUT that.... some people just don't understand it :)
If you're looking for a step-by-step guide (I'm not gonna write one since so many are already available on the net), go here for a pretty good guide: iPhone Download Blog and you can download the blackra1n executable here: BLACKRA1N.
Please note though that this jailbreak method (blackra1n) DOES NOT UNLOCKYOUR PHONE. So if you need to unlock your iPhone, do not use this method.
Microsoft has a new service called My Phone (maybe it isn't new, but I just discovered it). Its a very apparent respond to Apple's MobileMe service. Well, I do not use MobileMe service for my iPhone and neither do I own a Windows Mobile cellphone, so I can't make any comparison about these two services. One thing I know though is that Microsoft's My Phone service is free (although service provider data charges may incur).
I was recently given a spanking brand new Google Wave beta account :D With all the hype about it a few months back, I think I remember signing up for the beta account. If you do not know about Google Wave, check out the loooonnngg video below:
Of course I was like a kid receiving a new toy and dived right into it. I'm a little perturbed to explain what Google Wave does. I will quote from Google's website:
"Google Wave is an online communication and collaboration tool that makes real-time interactions more seamless -- in one place, you can communicate and collaborate using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.
A wave is a conversation with multiple participants -- participants are people added to a wave to discuss and collaborate on its content. Participants can reply any time and anywhere within a wave, and they can edit content and add more participants as a wave develops. It's also possible to rewind waves with the playback functionality, to see what happened, and when."
Obviously being only the first few who get this account, I do not have many things I can do in it. Fortunately I have another friend who also received an invitation to test the account. Its a great tool for collaborations or online meetings to take place and certainly at this moment in time looks promising. You can't do much yet beside the messaging part, embedding Google Maps and some other extensions.
Whats amazing is that you can see what is being typed in real time. So whatever you need to type, think about it first before you type. Because if you make a mistake, the person on the other side will see it even if you have backspaced to delete it. Of course you can always disable the real time typing, but you might as well use Windows Live Messenger then =)
You can even edit previous messages or your collaborators' messages. All in real time. Watch the video above and you will see what I mean. But would this replace the messengers out there? Well, we'll just have to wait and see.
My favorite torrent site Demonoid is still down. According to their message, they are having some technical problems (dB problems) and are still trying to recover their data. If you visit their website (http://www.demonoid.com) you will see these messages:
The site will return as soon as possible, but there was a problem that caused data loss and the person who can help us get the data back is not able to help at this moment. The site will return when we can get his help
A loss of a some months worth of activity including registered users and torrent submissions is to be expected because the backup we are hoping to get back is not up to date, so please be prepared for it
If you have a torrent tracked by Demonoid, you can add the following tracker URLs to it to help speed up the transfer.
Please refer to your bittorrent client documentation for help how to do this
http://bittrk.appspot.com/announce
http://trackhub.appspot.com/announce
http://ultraluxx.appspot.com/announce
http://tracker.openbittorrent.com/announce
http://tracker.publicbt.com/announce
http://tracko.appspot.com/announce
http://tk.comicat.com/announce
http://torrent.ipnm.ru/announce
http://denis.stalker.h3q.com/announce
http://tracker4.finalgear.com/announce
http://betadoctor.appspot.com/announce
http://theninjahideout.appspot.com/announce
http://tracker.prq.to/announce
http://tracker.bittorrent.am/announce
http://nemesis.1337x.org/announce
Oh well... Anyway, there are still tonnes of other websites out there which I rely on my sources for torrents. Can still live without demonoid. I'm still getting my constant flow of American series :D
It seems that Apple is going all out to stop all jailbreaks on their iPhones and iPod Touches. This excerpt from iClarified says it all :-
Apple is now shipping the iPhone 3GS with a new Bootrom that is not vulnerable to the 24kpwn exploit.
The iBoot-359.3.2 started to ship last week. A screenshot posted by Mathieulh shows the new version number.
MuscleNerd from the iPhone Dev-Team has confirmed that the loss of the 24kpwn exploit would mean a normal jailbreak would be impossible for the time being.
oh oh, from what @cpich3g + @Mathieulh have found so far, a normal untethered JB may be in jeopardy in brand new 3GS units
For the time being we would suggest locating old stock or refurbished units. Hopefully, the dev teams will be able to find another exploit for the new bootrom.
Well... fortunately i've got my iPhone already. But for those looking forward to get their iPhones and jailbreaking them, better hope you're not getting one of these new ones. But I'm sure the genius hackers out there would probably find a way around it again.... you'll just have to wait a little longer if Apple does what is said above.
