iPhone Dev Team jailbreak tool still due “soon”...

Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Friday, 18 July 2008 21:38

Your IT - Mobility

Although the iPhone 2.0 OS was declared “unlocked” long before it was released, and then on the day before its official release, the PwnageTool from the iPhone Dev Team still hasn’t been released as yet.

That’s because they’ve been busy working on fixing bugs and ensuring that when the tool goes live, it will reliably work for users instead of turning iPhones into iBricks and causing more hassles for users and the Dev Team itself.

It’s funny to see people so damned impatient, because the original iPhone took around 3 months to be unlocked, although it was “activated” very quickly by DVDJon, allowing people to use their iPhones as Wi-Fi iPods until the magic unlock tools became available.

What follows is a post from the Dev Team, followed by another post, in Hungarian (with an English translation) promising a download “soon”.

In a post called “Safe Code...”, the Dev Team says:

“So we’ve been working hard on getting the release ready and during this process we’ve been fixing some final bugs, the actual base of PwnageTool application is working fine and working with all devices that we support.

“We’ve been restoring our devices to various firmware revisions so that we can try to reproduce the conditions that most users will have. We are able to fully install any applications on any part of the current devices running 2.0 (and b103) and these versions are the iPhone 114, iPhone 2.0, iPhone 3G.

“Apple released an update (b103) just before we were about to release and that support had to be added to the current version, it is pointless to release something that doesn’t work on devices out of the box (we’ve been told new 3Gs will have this firmware), we don’t want drama, and we want to do as little support as possible, so we want to make it right the first time.

“It was lucky that we delayed slightly as we discovered a bug that causes unexpected behavior when using AppStore and third party applications on the same device. We are working on fixing that bug now, we don’t anticipate it is a big one, it has some really odd side effects, causing WiFi dropouts and the loss of stored passwords for WiFi networks. Of course this is only a minor software issue, nothing like the horrible static MAC address that another “elite byte adjuster” forced upon their users.

Please read on to page 2.