Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Monday, 14 July 2008 00:18
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The iPhone Dev Team’s “Rush Rush Rush” post continues:
”Using some of our techniques and tools (and some of his) and using his own brain power (and that of an unnamed Russian) he was able to release his hardware hack and demonstrate the first unlocked iPhone to the world, he has also demonstrated other things during the last year and some of those releases have helped us with our work.
“We thought that Geohot would have matured somewhat in the last year, but this clearly isn’t the case, as sadly one of the team members has leaked a copy of our exploit to Geohot and he is now using this to provoke us into making an early release :-(
“So finally, just in case some of you were wondering, we’re not sitting on this tool because we’re full of ourselves or stuck up our own asses. We’re not sitting on it cause we like to see you writhe.
“We are testing it to make sure it’s as glitch-free as we can make it. We want to avoid releasing something that turns expensive phones into pretty looking paperweights. Don’t you agree it’s worth the wait?
“If others want to feel like they’re in control by posting all-knowing entries on their blogs, we can’t stop that, but the new PwnageTool will be released when it’s ready, and not a moment later.”
So... that ends the iPhone Dev Team’s explanation of why there’s no software yet, but we’ve learned a few things.
It seems that Zibri won’t be updating ZiPhone until he figures out how to unlock the iPhone 3G baseband himself, or someone shares those details with him, as the hack he (and others) were relying on has been fixed up, as Geohot has explained - although Zibri is welcome to surprise us all!
The iPhone Dev Team seems to be confident they’ll figure it out, but in the meantime have an unlock and jailbreak for iPhone 2G models, and seemingly a jailbreak (but not unlock yet) for iPhone 3G models, because their 'BootNeuter' video specifically states it is for original iPhone 2G models in the description on the right hand side of the video.
The iPhone Dev Team hasn’t released its tool yet but Geohot is goading them into releasing it early, or he will release his own, but the iPhone Dev Team say that’s because one of their number shared their findings with Geohot.
Ah, iPhone hacker politics. Of course the users out here just want the software, and want it to work reliably so it doesn’t brick their iPhones.
I really wanted to just try and load iPhone OS 2.0 on my 2G 1.1.4 firmware iPhone anyway, but after reading so many horror stories of phones now re-locked and unlockable without new software, and difficulties in getting an OS 2.0 device back to 1.1.4, I’m still waiting as I’ve personally advised is the best course of action anyway.
Instead, I’ve updated my iPod Touch to OS 2.0 firmware instead, but that’s a whole other article which I’ll be writing soon!
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