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Apple iOS 4 PwnageTool Jailbreak Now Available

By on June 22, 2010

On the heels of the release of iOS4 yesterday for the iPhone 3G/3GS and second/third generation iPod Touch, the first fully working jailbreak for the new operating system has been made available.

The new jailbreak is only compatible with the official release of iOS 4 and is not compatible with either the Spirit jailbreak or iPhone 3G at software version 3.1.2 with newer bootroms, as the new revisions of the 3GS feature a new bootrom that is not currently able to be jailbroken.

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4 responses to “Apple iOS 4 PwnageTool Jailbreak Now Available”

  1. Sergio
    Sergio June 22, 2010 at 4:15 pm |

    “as the new revisions of the 3GS feature a new bootrom that is not currently able to be jailbroken.”

    False. There is a spirit jailbreak for the 3Gs on the new bootrom. i have a new bootrom 3Gs and i have it thoroughly jailbroken. The catch is that the new jailbreak from dev-team is not compatible with phones jailbroken with spirit on the new bootrom 3Gs.

  2. Christopher Price
    Christopher Price June 22, 2010 at 6:19 pm |

    Sergio, we’re referring to what Apple is shipping now. The new 8GB 3GS has an updated bootrom, and Apple is patching older bootroms upon updating to iOS 4, unless, of course you jailbreak. Same with iPod touch 3G.

    Further, 3.1.2 does update the bootrom, which Spirit didn’t patch the exploit that PwnageTool used. There will have to be a newer patch for those that used only Spirit to jailbreak their iPod touch 3G or iPhone 3GS… probably from the folks that released Spirit originally.

    Bottom line, the article is right, but there are now several situations that have developed. For those with a iPhone 3GS or iPod touch 3G you either have:

    Old bootrom, used PwnageTool to get to 3.1.2 – You’re fine and can use PwnageTool to upgrade to iOS 4.
    You used Spirit to jailbreak – Cannot upgrade to iOS 4 with jailbreak at this time, stay with 3.1.2/3.1.3 on Spirit.
    Already upgraded to iOS 4, or it came with iOS 4 – No exploits to jailbreak with currently.

  3. kelvin
    kelvin June 22, 2010 at 9:15 pm |

    i used this, and when i was holding down the home button for 30 seconds my computer blue-screened. it has now recovered. i have a second gen 8 gig itouch (non mc). my computer is a windows XP

  4. Beeso
    Beeso June 25, 2010 at 6:35 am |

    thank you cristopher for your briefing…
    it was confusing for me, I jailbroke on spirit but kept the 3.1.2 without upgrading till now.

    nothing to do but waiting