News tagged ‘Apple iPad’
Untethered jailbreak for iOS 4.3.2 will be available soon
I0n1c has confirmed that his untethered jailbreak exploit is still working for iOS 4.3.2. This is good news for all jailbreakers.
Here are his recent tweets:
Apple has been nice. I just verified that the untether vulnerability is not fixed in iOS 4.3.2 - my Ipad 1 is running untethered jailbroken
Of course the public untether binaries will not work with iOS 4.3.2 - I have to generate new untether binaries with new dyld/kernel offsets
I won't be able to create all the untether binaries before sunday, because I will be on planes, ...
The dev-team cannot produce the untether binaries on their own, because they don't have the source code to the untether exploit.
Well from what I hear lots of the problems people had with 4.3.1 (like wifi, 3g, ...) are gone in 4.3.2
The new version of iOS 4.3.2 jailbreak tools RedSn0w and PwnageTool will be released by the iPhone Dev-Team quite soon.
Apple released new firmware iOS 4.3.2
Apple has released iOS 4.3.2 for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
This update contains improvements and other bug fixes including:
- Fixes an issue that occasionally caused blank or frozen video during a FaceTime call
- Fixes an issue that prvented some international users from connecting to 3G networks on iPad W-Fi + 3G
- Contains the latest security updates
Products compatible with this software update:
- iPhone 4 (GSM model)
- iPhone 3GS
- iPad 2
- iPad
- iPod touch (4th generation)
- iPod touch (3rd generation)
For information on the security content of this update, please visit
Apple has also updated the firmware for the Verizon iPhone to 4.2.7 although this wasn't listed in the release notes.
Current jailbreak tools work with iOS 4.3.2 in tethered mode only. Please save your SHSH keys for iOS 4.3.1 asap.
Here are direct download links for the latest firmwares:
Foxconn To Invest $12 Billion In Brazil, Begin iPad Production In November
According to Reuters, Foxconn is considering investing up to $12 billion in manufacturing facilities to start producing monitors and displays for mobile devices, such as iPhone and iPad, in Brazil. At that moment, the Brazilian government is studying Foxconn's investment plan. Brazilian minister of Science and Technology Mercadante has been negotiating with Foxconn for more than three months to convince the company to invest $12 billion throughout the next 5 years. Не also reported that Foxconn is preparing to begin manufacturing the iPad in Brazil by the end of November. The project would involve the recruitment of 100,000 new employees (including 20,000 engineers) as Foxconn already has three factories in Brazil to assemble products for Sony, Dell, and HP.
Using front camera iPad 2 can show 3D
Developers built apps that actually track the direction the iPad 2 viewer is looking at the screen. When the viewer moves, so does the perspective. This allows to show 3D objects. Watch the video:
iOS 4.3.2 will fix Facetime and Verizon iPad 2 issues
As usual BGR Source has the most recent unreleased iOS. They have recently took a look at 4.3.2 update and it looks like the 3G connections freezing issues on Verizon iPad 2 are fixed:
will fix the issues we’ve been hearing about with some Verizon iPad 2 models. Additionally, the new update is said to contain a fix for FaceTime in addition to security fixes for things like WebKit vulnerabilities and other minor changes.
Step-by-step Tutorial: How to Untether Jailbreak iPod Touch 4G Using RedSn0w 0.9.6rc9 (Windows) [iOS 4.3.1]
This is step-by-step instructions on how to perform untethered jailbreak of your iPod Touch 4G on iOS 4.3.1 firmware using RedSn0w 0.9.6rc9 for Windows.
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Apple Exploring Smart Bezel with Illuminated Buttons
Apple has continued exploring the idea of smart bezel having filed a new patent related to use of a bezel as a secondary display built around a printed segmented electroluminescence technology (e-link technology). An electronic device could include a primary display (for example, LCD screen) and a secondary display (printed segmented electroluminescence display). The primary display could be used to convey visual content to a user, and the secondary display could be used to guide a user providing inputs to the device.
Apple intends to use the secondary display to introduce a set of new illuminated indicators that are able morph into various controls for work and play. Illuminated gaming and productivity controls could be built into the face-side of the bezel and/or selected back-side areas of iOS devices like the iPad.
Apple no longer allows Best Buy to sell the iPad 2
CrunchGear reports that Apple may freeze sales of the iPad 2 through Best Buy.
A reader who works at Best Buy just told us that there's been a bit of a misunderstanding between the electronics retailer and Apple. Apparently, Best Buy was holding off on selling the iPad 2s it had in stock, telling customers there weren't any when in fact they had just reached their quota of sales for the day.
It's rumored that Apple's Tim Cook took a hand to this chicanery, and Apple isn't happy about it at all.
Microsoft Releases Bing for iPad
Microsoft released its first application for tablets, Bing for iPad that is now available on the US App Store. It looks really beautiful on the iPad large screen. The first thing you’ll notice in the application is the daily image. The application gives you information about Weather, News, Movies and more. Like the iPhone app it features a Voice Search alongside with the search by text and Bing Maps that let you search for address or business. The iPad app is curiously only available in the US iTunes App Store which is certainly odd considering the web version does have international editions, that even have a different daily picture.
Sn0wBreeze 2.5.1 released: supports Apple TV 2G and 06.15 baseband
iH8sn0w updated their iOS 4.3.1 untethered jailbreak utility - released Sn0wBreeze 2.5.1.
They have added
- Apple TV 2G support,
- Cydia 1.1.1,
- ability to use 06.15 baseband for iPhone 3GS,
- afc2 (to use ifunbox and iphone explorer)
- fixed some bugs
Sn0wBreeze is used to create custom firmwares with jailbreak and preserve iPhone baseband. It is available for Windows only.
You can download Sn0wBreeze 2.5.1 here.
Here' official changelog.
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RedSn0w 0.9.6 rc11 released
DevTeam released a new version of RedSn0w 0.9.6 rc10. Short after that they released a fix for that - RedSn0w 0.9.6 rc11.
DevTeam have added boot animation logo, removed some unnecessary settings, and fixed some bugs.
Everything else is the same - untethered jailbreak for iOS 4.3.1 for all devices and both Windows and Mac OS X users.
You can download the latest RedSn0w here.
Suppliers delivered 2.4M-2.6M iPad 2 units to Apple in March
The new numbers saying how many iPad 2 units Apple received from its suppliers in March were recently revealed. A report claims that Apple received between 2.4 million and 2.6 million of the iPad 2 units in March. Given regular stock-outs of the iPad 2 in March, Apple presumably sold through the entirety of shipments it received. That would mean Apple sold at least 2.4 million units in March. Moreover suppliers noted that sales of the iPad 2 are running faster than the first-generation device. For comparison, the first-generation iPad took 28 days to reach its first million sales. Apple has been silent about sales of the iPad 2 since the device launched in the United States early last month.
Apple releases iPad 2 ad: "we believe"
Stephen Colbert shows his iPad 2, looks forward to iPad 3
Step-by-step Tutorial: How to Untether Jailbreak iPad Using RedSn0w 0.9.6rc9 (Windows) [iOS 4.3.1]
This is step-by-step instructions on how to perform untethered jailbreak of your iPad on iOS 4.3.1 firmware using RedSn0w 0.9.6rc9 for Windows.
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