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jailbreak ios 6 a4

20th
Jan

IOS 6.1 (iPhone 5) Jailbreak? Hopefully soon

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Looks like the two foremost IOS  jailbreaking icons are working furiously on new “vulnerabilities” that could possibly be exploited to jailbreak IOS 6.

Tweets from both @planetbeing (iPhone Dev Team ) and @pod2g  indicates a”fruitful” IOS 6 (iPhone 5) hackathon.

the tweet by @planetbeing, one of the two JB icons

the tweet by @planetbeing

@pod2g also made the same hint on this tweet:

tweet by @pod2g hinting an IOS6 jailbreak in progress..

tweet by @pod2g hinting an IOS6 jailbreak in progress..

Both @pod2g and @planetbeing has been largely responsible for releasing IOS device exploits for the jailbreaking community to take advantage of. It is known that Apple has made jailbreaking of IOS devices increasingly difficult and that IOS 6 (iPhone 5) is so far, is the hardest. IOS 6.1 is yet to be released by Apple but @planetbeing hinted a working untethered JB of IOS 6.0.2 (iPhone5 )by @pod2g.

Yeah, I’m not really sure what all the doom and gloom is about. The fact is, I have an untethered iOS 6.0.2 JB running on my iPhone 5 right now. The reasons it’s not released are because 1. releasing it would burn an exploit we want to save for ourselves so we can always get in to look at new firmware and help JB in the future, 2. iOS 6.1 is coming very soon and will likely break a small part of it anyway, there’s no point in sacrificing the many bugs it won’t break.

Anyway, where there are 4+ bugs (that it took to get this to work), there’s gotta be one or two more so while jailbreaking is getting harder, reports of its death are highly exaggerated.

This is not stuff I want to say over Twitter with 140 characters because I’m afraid of starting some sort of riot, but I like the smaller /r/jailbreak community more. ;)

Well, I hope a “stable”, untethered IOS 6 jailbreak will be publicly released soon! Then I might just get an iPhone 5!

hacalous

2nd
Jan

Hackulo.us no more!

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I finally found the reason why I get this screen message,

API unavailable notification every time you access Installous...

API unavailable notification every time you access Installous…

every time I access Installous, a popular “guerilla” IOS app repository on jailbroken IOS devices. Installous is/was created by Hackulous. If you go to their website, as of January 3, 2013, you get this message:

hacalous

It was very abrupt, and no one sees it coming given the popularity of the group in the IOS jail breaking community. The big question is “what now?” What will happen to users of this app repository? No one knows.

Will the IOS jail breaking community fade because of this? Certainly not. To which direction, that is what is uncertain.

icloud-login

17th
Feb

iCloud, App Store, iTunes and Facetime fix Hackintosh Lion 10.7.2

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I’m upgrading to Lion OS specifically because of this feature- the iCloud. So I was quite frustrated when iCloud “told” me this when I tried to login after upgrading to 10.7.2 :

Your Apple ID is valid but is not an iCloud account

The same thing happens when I tried to log in to my itunes or app store accounts. Denied. Or it was not recognized by Apple or some other error messages.

I did cross check my itunes and app store id on my IOS 5 devices’s iCloud and they are all working. So I figured out this must be something related to hackintosh upgrades.

I did find quite a number of “fix” but they all didn’t work for my hackintosh build. The first two “fix” I tried crashed my hackintosh. I must warn you though that this may not necessarily work for you, or crash your hackintosh (slim chance) or if you have a hackintosh with a raid volume, it may also crash or would not boot at all. But personally, I find this the simpliest and less drastic way of fixing that icloud bug. And it worked!

  1. Download EFI Studio and open it up.
  2. In the dropdown menu for devices, create a device string for your on board LAN.
  3. Paste that string to your org.chamelon.com.plist
  4. I deleted the “ethernetbuiltin” string.
  5. Reboot.
Here is part of an example of your org.chamelon.com.plist
<key>ethernetbuiltin</key>
<string>no</string>
<key>device-properties</key>
<string>paste the string here</string>
Now you have a working Icloud, itunes, facetime account!. Enjoy!
(Note: Please comment below if this didn’t work for your hackintosh build)