Does anyone know. When will we find out. Where should I look? I really want to jailbreak it. There's a lot of great stuff like tethering and mms that jailbroken phones can do the the 3GS still can't!
The 3GS is hardware not an operating system. The operating system is OS3.0, and the beta 5 has been jailbroken so I am sure the full release is next. It doesn't matter what phone it is on: 2G, 3G, or 3Gs.
Uhhh... no. Each firmware is different with each device. That's why the dev team hasn't been really able to release an unlock for the iPhone 3G 2.2.1, and that's also why there isn't a really easy way to jailbreak iPod Touch 2Gs with Macs.
its is actually really easy now and you dont even have to restore with redsn0w beta 0.3 its really easy it downloads the files for you then injects them for you all you have to do is put it in dfu and then run redsn0w well since the dev team use macs it would be easy for them to run it on mac because of bugs and the whole libusb thing
You are all idiots. The exploits have nothing to do with firmware version, its a flaw in the bootloader of the device itself. So, most likely (I'm crossing my fingers), it won't be able to be jailbroken. Sorry. Sucks for you idiots who misuse your iPhones. Apple reworked the bootloader to be smaller, more compact, and having no exploits. With any luck at all, the Dev Team won't be able to crack it, and finally put a permanent end to piracy within 2 years. If jailbreak didn't allow piracy to occur, I'd have no issue with it, but it does, and that hurts everybody, and helps no one. So, the software has NOTHING to do with jailbreak since 1.1.3, and never will again. It's all permanent, and hardware based. Here is how all the modern jailbreaks work now. Push power button to boot device. This kicks the bootloader in, and it runs the booting sequence, running as many as 4 sig checks as it goes. This is where the jailbreak comes in. The "Pwnage" exploit on iPhone 2G and 3G and the original iPod touch, cuts in, and uses a live patch to patch the bootloader (it cannot be written to at all), to allow the custom firmware to load. Without this, it would not be possible to boot. It'd go to Recovery Mode, and no way to boot. The "24kpwn/redsn0w" exploit on iPod touch 2G injects a patch into the LLB (part of the bootloader. There are 4 parts in the 2G), and this allows unsigned code to run. This is all part of why it takes as much as 2x longer to boot with a jailbreak vs. no jailbreak. 1.0.x - 1.1.4 used software exploits, especially the famous jailbreakme.com, which allowed jailbreaking live from the device, on 1.1.1, through a TIFF exploit. ----- I hope this helped clear some of the misconceptions here.
