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Evasi0n iOS 6.x jailbreak

216 points by DHowett 14y ago

asiekierka 14y ago
Can't connect for 30 minutes now, stuck on the "Just a moment..." screen. Can anyone provide mirrors?
- EchoVelocity 14y ago
  Here's a dropbox link for the windows version. It'll be up until there is too much activity: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/6469722/evasi0n-win-1.0-3c53ba10e2448d311b0f4157f2d7eb568f106c4f-release.zip https://dl.dropbox.com/u/6469722/evasi0n-win-1.0-3c53ba10e24...
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- wlesieutre 14y ago
  Here are the official mirrors: box.net Linux - https://evad3rs.box.com/shared/static/5dped2c9ejnk5r6ahfpg.lzma https://evad3rs.box.com/shared/static/5dped2c9ejnk5r6ahfpg.l... SHA1: c9e4b15a161b89f0e412721f471c5f8559b6054f Mac OS X - https://evad3rs.box.com/shared/static/du66n0g9wl1j4ta57hpx.dmg https://evad3rs.box.com/shared/static/du66n0g9wl1j4ta57hpx.d... SHA1: 23f99a0d65e71fd79ff072b227f0ecb176f0ffa8 Windows - https://evad3rs.box.com/shared/static/tg1t0cz7oakvq7hsv0bd.zip https://evad3rs.box.com/shared/static/tg1t0cz7oakvq7hsv0bd.z... SHA1: 2ff288e1798b4711020e9dd7f26480e57704d8b2 MEGA Linux - https://mega.co.nz/#!0kUkXBLC!Q8e53kQZpLbGL7PquHWgQFhMU9Ru3WJWxBuzEdkiMJo https://mega.co.nz/#!0kUkXBLC!Q8e53kQZpLbGL7PquHWgQFhMU9Ru3W... SHA1: c9e4b15a161b89f0e412721f471c5f8559b6054f Mac OS X - https://mega.co.nz/#!5h0BwQoa!KdRLFwNJ3OjMS-7Zs2YGQnsvPxAKEsaAjabY__8pNtY https://mega.co.nz/#!5h0BwQoa!KdRLFwNJ3OjMS-7Zs2YGQnsvPxAKEs... SHA1: 23f99a0d65e71fd79ff072b227f0ecb176f0ffa8 Windows - https://mega.co.nz/#!d9ciUApQ!AkwevVU1OtUrEUU7U4fE-V8qqM9aINTAGgjkukShihE https://mega.co.nz/#!d9ciUApQ!AkwevVU1OtUrEUU7U4fE-V8qqM9aIN... SHA1: 2ff288e1798b4711020e9dd7f26480e57704d8b2 RapidShare Linux - http://rapidshare.com/files/2561828874/evasi0n-linux-1.0-3c53ba10e2448d311b0f4157f2d7eb568f106c4f-release.tar.lzma http://rapidshare.com/files/2561828874/evasi0n-linux-1.0-3c5... SHA1: c9e4b15a161b89f0e412721f471c5f8559b6054f Mac OS X - http://rapidshare.com/files/3010870584/evasi0n-mac-1.0-3c53ba10e2448d311b0f4157f2d7eb568f106c4f-release.dmg http://rapidshare.com/files/3010870584/evasi0n-mac-1.0-3c53b... SHA1: 23f99a0d65e71fd79ff072b227f0ecb176f0ffa8 Windows - http://rapidshare.com/files/3503186483/evasi0n-win-1.0-3c53ba10e2448d311b0f4157f2d7eb568f106c4f-release.zip http://rapidshare.com/files/3503186483/evasi0n-win-1.0-3c53b... SHA1: 2ff288e1798b4711020e9dd7f26480e57704d8b2
abdophoto 14y ago
Already Jailbroken. Thank you Evasi0n!
lutusp 14y ago
Warning: jailbreaking your phone is now illegal: http://investorplace.com/2013/01/jailbreaking-your-phone-will-be-illegal-after-jan-26/ http://investorplace.com/2013/01/jailbreaking-your-phone-wil...
- Osmium 14y ago
  Not yet: https://www.eff.org/is-it-illegal-to-unlock-a-phone https://www.eff.org/is-it-illegal-to-unlock-a-phone Incidentally, can anyone comment on whether it's worth it to jailbreak your iPhone these days? Are there any must-have improvements, and do they come at a cost of stability? Is there any public review on security of the jailbreaks/apps, i.e. have they have had backdoors/steal your data? I would have no idea how to identify a "trustworthy" developer from someone random.
  - asiekierka 14y ago
    The only one I can think of is f.lux but that's more useful on an iPad anyway. Most of the other ones are really much more useful on an iPad than an iPhone. Unless you use emulators, that is.
  - SquareWheel 14y ago
    I use about half a dozen tweaks which I really wouldn't want to live without. LockInfo is my favorite though.
  - spellboots 14y ago
    Yes, absolutely. My must haves: http://intelliborn.com/intelliscreen.html http://intelliborn.com/intelliscreen.html http://stereopsis.com/flux/ios.html http://stereopsis.com/flux/ios.html http://www.ijailbreak.com/cydia/activator-1-5-8-cydia-tweak/ http://www.ijailbreak.com/cydia/activator-1-5-8-cydia-tweak/ http://igotya.com/ http://igotya.com/ http://www.idownloadblog.com/2011/01/17/fakeclockup-makes-your-iphone-seem-faster/ http://www.idownloadblog.com/2011/01/17/fakeclockup-makes-yo... http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/install-sbsettings-toggles-life-easier-cydia-tweak/ http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/install-sbsettings-toggles-life... You can also override pretty much anything, e.g. turn on tethering without paying extra for data you already paid for etc. With regard to data stealing / backdoors: It is the same as installing apps on a computer. You lose the walled garden of Apple but this is only the same as any other computer system has been since computers existed.
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aioprisan 14y ago
can someone provide a mac download link?
- asiekierka 14y ago
  http://asiekierka.pl/evasi0n-mac-1.0-3c53ba10e2448d311b0f4157f2d7eb568f106c4f-release.dmg http://asiekierka.pl/evasi0n-mac-1.0-3c53ba10e2448d311b0f415... https://mega.co.nz/#!5h0BwQoa!KdRLFwNJ3OjMS-7Zs2YGQnsvPxAKEsaAjabY__8pNtY https://mega.co.nz/#!5h0BwQoa!KdRLFwNJ3OjMS-7Zs2YGQnsvPxAKEs...
SquareWheel 14y ago
Mirrored the Windows version on MultiUpload. It's the only one I could snag before everything imploded. http://www.multiupload.nl/QZTXLPXVHB http://www.multiupload.nl/QZTXLPXVHB
0x0 14y ago
Some interesting strings from the binary. Hopefully there will be a write-up explaining the exploit in detail soon. /var/mobile/DemoApp.app Media/Recordings/.haxx/DemoApp.app/Info.plist Media/Recordings/.haxx/Library/Caches/com.apple.mobile.installation.plist Media/Recordings/.haxx/timezone Media/Recordings/.haxx/var/evasi0n/evasi0n Edit: I also spotted a few references to Racoon, the VPN client which I think was abused in an earlier jailbreak as well?
- jevinskie 14y ago
  /var/mobile/Media/Recordings is a folder that you can upload files to from a PC. I would bet that some stage of the jailbreak copies those files to their proper place in the filesystem (places that the PC uploading interface doesn't have permissions to write).
  - 0x0 14y ago
    There's a few more hints here: http://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/comments/17vp13/evasi0n_macho_dylib_exploit/ http://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/comments/17vp13/evasi0n_ma...
- jevinskie 14y ago
  Here is a more detailed analysis: http://blog.accuvantlabs.com/blog/bthomas/evasi0n-jailbreaks-userland-component http://blog.accuvantlabs.com/blog/bthomas/evasi0n-jailbreaks... The lazy binding is really interesting. There is lots of interesting stuff in the kernel, dyld, and libSystem. I would encourage you to have a look! You can do interesting things like run code before libSystem_init[1] [0]: https://github.com/Apple-FOSS-Mirror/dyld/tree/master/src https://github.com/Apple-FOSS-Mirror/dyld/tree/master/src https://github.com/Apple-FOSS-Mirror/Libsystem/blob/master/init.c https://github.com/Apple-FOSS-Mirror/Libsystem/blob/master/i... https://github.com/Apple-FOSS-Mirror/xnu/blob/master/bsd/kern/kern_exec.c https://github.com/Apple-FOSS-Mirror/xnu/blob/master/bsd/ker... [1]: https://gist.github.com/jevinskie/4615901 https://gist.github.com/jevinskie/4615901
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kape 14y ago
I haven't Jailbroke my iPhone for a few years. I did out of curiosity, but updating OS was just too much pain. Been thinking what are the real benefits of doing that? Why? Is it customizing UI, adding more effects? Or is it just downloading apps outside app store? I think it brought value when we didn't have notification center etc, but still people doing it?
- daeken 14y ago
  If you work in mobile security, you essentially have to jailbreak the devices you use for testing. Things like being able to edit /etc/hosts are critical, as is being able to decrypt applications for analysis.
- wlesieutre 14y ago
  I do it for integration with Google Voice (with Phone GV and SMS GV) so that I can place calls from the built in dialer and send free texts through Messages. The other thing I use frequently is NCSettings, which is much like SBSettings, but well integrated into notification center. It has a couple of pages you can swipe through, and gives immediate access to toggles for wifi, data, volume, brightness, VPN, location services, and more. http://modmyi.com/info/ncsettings.php http://modmyi.com/info/ncsettings.php I also use Chrome on my phone, mostly because I use it on my desktop and laptop and like to have access to open tabs from my computers. It's doable without jailbreaking, but being able to set it as the default browser makes it a lot better.
- SifJar 14y ago
  I believe it is becoming less and less useful. To begin with, it was the only way to get any third party apps on iOS devices. Later it became the only way to have custom wallpapers, multitasking, better notifications etc. Obviously all these things have now been added officially, and in most cases the official implementation is more user friendly and more integrated. There is still increased ability for theming with jailbreaking, and some unapproved apps such as emulators etc. as well as a few general tweaks such as allowing extra apps in the dock or allowing the home screen to be rotated on iPhone, but the benefits are slowly decreasing as iOS gets improved. But there is still benefit to it for some. It's the same case with rooting Android devices; at a time it was almost essential to address the shortcomings of the OS. Now, it is barely even required for most users, due to the improvements of the OS. (stuff like taking screenshots, making backups of app data, tethering etc. used to require root on Android; now it's all baked right into the OS) I'd say it's noteworthy though that these features may never have made it to their respective official OSes had they not been so popular with jailbreak/root users, so it's an important part of the OS improvement process in my opinion.
asiekierka 14y ago
Here are my mirrors: Windows: http://asiekierka.pl/evasi0n-win-1.0-3c53ba10e2448d311b0f4157f2d7eb568f106c4f-release.zip http://asiekierka.pl/evasi0n-win-1.0-3c53ba10e2448d311b0f415... OSX: http://asiekierka.pl/evasi0n-mac-1.0-3c53ba10e2448d311b0f4157f2d7eb568f106c4f-release.dmg http://asiekierka.pl/evasi0n-mac-1.0-3c53ba10e2448d311b0f415... Linux: http://asiekierka.pl/evasi0n-linux-1.0-3c53ba10e2448d311b0f4157f2d7eb568f106c4f-release.tar.lzma http://asiekierka.pl/evasi0n-linux-1.0-3c53ba10e2448d311b0f4...
- LogicX 14y ago
  Your sha for OSX does not match those listed on the site. Also the size is different: 9.6M evasi0n-mac-1.0-3c53ba10e2448d311b0f4157f2d7eb568f106c4f-release (1).dmg 9.2M evasi0n-mac-1.0-3c53ba10e2448d311b0f4157f2d7eb568f106c4f-release.dmg I'm choosing not to open yours.
  - jychang 14y ago
    Choosing to check SHA is always a good idea for mirrors.
  - asiekierka 14y ago
    Odd.
    - technosmurf 14y ago
      I also checked the shasum by comparing 2 files. The Mega link (Mac client) from the official web page: bd9fe1e58343a5c03295a975697de3e64e65b42c asiekierka's Mac link: bd9fe1e58343a5c03295a975697de3e64e65b42c Both file sizes are the same (9,690,941 bytes, 9.7 MB on disk). Maybe the discrepancy has to do with -a flag for 224, 256, 384, or 512 or something. I think his mirror is safe. It's the one I used to successfully jailbreak my iPad 3. Now I can SSH into my iPad and change the hosts file for some ad-blocking and installed Flux for "easier on the eyes" nighttime reading. I don't look forward to Apple's next update which will wipe out my jailbreak, so I don't want to customize things too much. Last time I did a jailbreak for my iPod Touch, it messed up an in-app purchasing mechanism for a game I was testing. After this experience, I dread that jailbreaks will cause unforeseen problems and prefer not having to customize every single little tech option. Still, I performed this jailbreak mostly to get ad-blocking in MobileSafari. Actually, one snag I have: the iPad time was totally wrong, insisting that it was 8 hours ahead, and the General Settings wouldn't properly automatically update the time. Had to do a lot of fiddling with Location services and Date & Time to fix it. Jailbreakin' ain't all that it's cracked up to be!
JonnieCache 14y ago
Shame it doesn't happen in the browser this time around. That PDF exploit last year was slick.
- MichaelGG 14y ago
  If it was a browser exploit, wouldn't that put all users at a great risk, and also put more pressure on Apple to rapidly patch?
  - 0x0 14y ago
    Yes. Good thing it's not.
    - StavrosK 14y ago
      I do agree, though, that visiting a page, pressing a "jailbreak" button and finding Cydia installed and running, was, to use the scientific term, slick.
      - jiggy2011 14y ago
        In such a case what is to stop a malicious site having a "free porn" button which installs something much more nasty.
        StavrosK 14y ago
        Nothing, of course.
        jiggy2011 14y ago
        In which case I'm surprised there wasn't a widespread epidemic of malware infected iOS devices.
        xmodem 14y ago
dmauro 14y ago
Is this a tether jailbreak or is it permanent?
- rm999 14y ago
  Untethered (permanent).
- joe5150 14y ago
  The UI says "untethered". I'm waiting on a reboot, so I can't confirm.
- britta 14y ago
  It's an untethered jailbreak (allows the device to reboot on its own without using a desktop tool to help it boot), if that's what you mean by permanent. I probably wouldn't call it "permanent" since you can easily remove the jailbreak by restoring the device with iTunes.
tommys 14y ago
JB worked like a charm! Thx evasi0n! :-)
- tommys 14y ago
  On my iPhone 5.
garkrau 14y ago
Does it really work? ever for New iPad (3gen iPad)?
- rcchen 14y ago
  I just jailbroke my iPad 3 with it, works like a charm, on iOS 6.1
  - garkrau 14y ago
    omg. can't wait get to my ipad to do this. christmas once again.
Gurrewe 14y ago
The last time I had a jailbroken phone was at the time of iOS 2, back then I didn't think it was worth it. What has changed in the last four years?
- mofrodo 14y ago
  Mods such as SwipeSelection and Auxo did it for me. Features that I think Apple should have thought of to begin with.
- seanc722 14y ago
  I do like having OpenVPN and better wireless scanning/details.
  - stock_toaster 14y ago
    there is a official openvpn support in the appstore now, fyi.
  - marchdown 14y ago
    What do you use for wireless scanning?
    - seanc722 14y ago
      Sorry late response... One is WiFi Analyzer. Shows Channel, strength, encryption, ssid. Has a nice little great with signal strength along with min/max/avg. Not sure if you can get it from appstore now as someone else pointed out can get OpenVPN officially there now :) Also... I'm curious as to why Apple hasn't added a SBSettings / NCSettings type feature as most other smartphones have toggle buttons in the "notification area" which make life a lot easier.
- OWaz 14y ago
  Being able to have f.lux on my iPhone. http://stereopsis.com/flux/ http://stereopsis.com/flux/
- haxxorfreak 14y ago
tibbon 14y ago
Seems to be crashing on me instantly on 10.8 with my 3rd Gen iPad: Application Specific Information: * error for object 0x10fea00: pointer being freed was not allocated
FPSDavid 14y ago
Definitely waiting until tonight to jailbreak. Last few times my phone got slightly screwed up when I jailbroke right after it came out, followed by a couple updates/fixes to the jailbreak program the same day.
justinwr 14y ago
The last time I jailbroke my devices they slowed to a crawl and crashed frequently. Felt like I had installed Windows on my iOS device. I'd much rather have my walled garden of reliable bliss. I'll still donate to the cause however. Keep up the fine work gents! :)
- baddox 14y ago
  That's odd. Which device and which jailbreak was it, if you can remember? From my experience, it was almost certainly a piece of software (e.g. from Cydia) that caused the instability, not the jailbreak itself.
- nvarsj 14y ago
  Actually, that's just standard iOS behavior. Disclaimer: ex-iPhone user now on Android
- bobbles 14y ago
  It would have been the apps that you installed, not the jailbreak itself.
  - justinwr 14y ago
    Oh it definitely was.
Watabou 14y ago
Awesome! Does anyone know if SMS GV/Phone GV extension is working or not? I tried the tethered jailbreak on the 3GS and it wasn't working then. Only the Phone GV was working but it was slow. I have an iPhone 5 now and hopefully the day ends early today so I can go home and jailbreak. Can't wait to get NCsettings and Google voice integration!
- britta 14y ago
  They aren't updated for iOS 6 yet, but I believe the developer is planning on updating them. You can email him for more information if you like - his email address is listed at the bottom of his website (http://gvexts.appspot.com/ http://gvexts.appspot.com/).
- steed 14y ago
  I installed Sms GV extension, then the iPhone 5 keep rebooting... I recovery it try again, them keep rebooting again.... ><
mikecane 14y ago
Curious, does it work with the iPad Mini? [EDIT: Yes. https://twitter.com/tomle12/status/298496235894095873 https://twitter.com/tomle12/status/298496235894095873] Also, how soon could Apple push out an update to kill this one?
gcb0 14y ago
So you guys use a closed source program from 'hackers' to be able to fully use your phone? So you have all the disavantages of paying for something and all the disadvantages of using some keygen binary to use as it was pirated. and i'm worried about what lies in the binary blob of my phone's boot1 and radio driver....
- United857 14y ago
  Closed source probably for practical reasons, to make it harder for Apple to quickly release a "fix".
  - nacs 14y ago
    By the time a patch is publicly released like this, I'm sure Apple will have it decompiled and know what the exploit is within weeks if not days since the actual exploit code won't be much code to analyze (as opposed to digging through all of iOS like the jailbreakers have to do find an exploitable location). Plus, Apple I'm sure has plenty of software/hardware debuggers they can attach to their own hardware that'd let them know what is happening even if they didn't have the closed/open binary.
    - saurik 14y ago
      (Days matter.) Another issue is that open-sourcing the exploit makes it easier to use for nefarious purposes in the mean time, and it isn't like knowing exactly how the exploit works actually helps end users protect themselves, due to Apple's platform policies. In essence, this is all a really dangerous ethical tightrope to be walked.
      - nacs 14y ago
        It's an honor to get a response from the great saurik himself, especially on a day when I'm sure you're very busy trying to keep Cydia up. Thanks for the info.
  - voltagex_ 14y ago
evoxed 14y ago
Am I the only one getting a stream of NetDB errors (with the occasional HTTP 500 or 502)? I guess I'll just have to wait until... whatever server it's trying to connect to is up and running. I haven't had a chance to install a single package yet. Edit: Popping over to r/jailbreak confirms it, I guess it'll be a while before things calm down. I just hope I can get f.lux before I have to go to work.
- slushieman 14y ago
  Confirming this as well... If you see this error, NetDB, Failed to fetch, etc., it is not any problem with your iDevice, Cydia, the jailbreak, or really anything at all. In fact, if you are seeing this right now on 2/4/2013, it most likely means everything is working properly! The servers that provide the apps, the 'sources', are overloaded with people trying to download. Waiting until the servers are less loaded is the only solution, right now.
  - slajax 14y ago
    Me too.
- Jarred 14y ago
  I'm also getting this error.
gorekee 14y ago
"If the device is stuck displaying "patching kernel", you can press Power+Home for a long time to force a reboot." [1] [1] https://twitter.com/pod2g/status/298493685765648384 https://twitter.com/pod2g/status/298493685765648384
xguru 14y ago
Almost all the Cydia sources become slow because the heavy load.
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xguru 14y ago
Almost all the Cydia sources become slow because the heavy load.
cududa 14y ago
Has Cydia keeled over for anyone else?
- slajax 14y ago
  Yup.
NotAnEngineer 14y ago
There's a Cydia app called BrowserChanger that lets you change the default browser (so clicking a link in Mail will open Chrome instead of Safari, for example). Is there a similar app that lets you change the default maps application?
- britta 14y ago
  MapsOpener makes Google Maps the default maps app - see http://www.idownloadblog.com/2012/12/14/mapsopener/ http://www.idownloadblog.com/2012/12/14/mapsopener/ for some information and a video.
  - NotAnEngineer 14y ago
    Thanks!
stevedc3 14y ago
The jailbreak community, who overall do very good things for users, are shooting themselves in the foot by not having the Cydia store work properly once you jailbreak --- the store is totally down, servers slammed. They had 6 months to prepare for this? why don't they correct it? people's first impressions (who have never jailbroken before) are that the process is terrible. I am referring to the Cydia store by @saurik.
- egypturnash 14y ago
  They actually took some steps to try and mitigate this - the version of Cydia that this jailbreak installs is pre-loaded with the catalogs of the main repositories. The repos are still, of course, slammed. Keep in mind that there's no money in hosting one AFIK. Who's gonna pay for ramping up more servers? Can you even easily do that with Cydia or would it require a lot of hacking on code that mostly works well enough? I think anyone aware enough to be jailbreaking the first day the jailbreak is out is also aware enough to know that a royal fuckton of other people are also jailbreaking, and that if they can chill out for just a couple more days then they'll be able to load up all their favorite tweaks.
- saurik 14y ago
  Look, I mostly do this because I find it meaningful. It pays miserably, and yet people always act like I'm making tons of money off of it, so a ton of people hate me and I don't even get to self-medicate by staring at a massive pile of cash. I've built a lot of really cool assets, but they (even the Cydia Store) are totally reliant on security flaws in something that is becoming more secure every day, so the work is even futile. That doesn't mean, however, that I should be expected to perform miracles. I already work nearly every waking hour on things related to jailbreaking: "I'm giving er' all she's got, captain". For the record, by the way, here is what I'm up against today: http://cache.saurik.com/tinyimg/cydia6hits.png http://cache.saurik.com/tinyimg/cydia6hits.png The game is also really difficult to predict. In this case, this is unlike any previous jailbreak, because they announced a specific time. I was not expecting them to announce a time: they have never announced a time before. I was not prepared for them to announce a specific time. What normally happens is there is a massive wave over the first few days while people find out about the jailbreak. Today, there were people watching a progress bar for hours until it hit 100%. Meanwhile, you make it sound like it is really simple to take a payment transaction and licensing system, and just go "oh wow, we are doing over 10x the load? flip the switch boys!"... payment systems just don't work like that: this isn't some stupid web forum where you can play fast and loose with consistency (or even durability) to get more performance. Also, six months to prepare? Seriously: you think I should spend six months while Cydia is losing money and there are no jailbreaks available--and there may never be a jailbreak available again--sitting around figuring out how to make a payment system scale infinitely so that during a small multi-hour long window it can shine? Even in jailbreak-land, that is not the most important thing to be doing; one of my big time sinks this last half year was figuring out how to better deal with credit card fraud, for example. Leaving the world of payments, vendors are happier with more backend features, developers are happier with more Substrate improvements, and end users would prefer I make more tweaks or add things to WinterBoard.
ROFISH 14y ago
As a sidenote, I'm interested in hearing piracy numbers after this jailbreak. Is piracy still popular, or are people just jailbreaking solely for the mods?
- ThePinion 14y ago
  didn't hackulous develop Appsync? That's the only simple method I knew of for transferring pirated apps from iTunes to the iDevice. Which is the main way the non technical users did it. Now that they've called it quits piracy will probably be drastically slowed down until there are new well known alternatives. I could be totally wrong though, I don't own any iDevices, just basing my knowledge off helping people jailbreak their phones and pods over the past many years (except this last year of course..)
  - emersonrsantos 14y ago
    Try AppCake or vShare. Installous is dead.
    - ROFISH 14y ago
      I'm not interesting in pirating apps, I'm interested in either prevention and/or not selecting iOS as a games platform. Nothing has shaken me more than buying an iPad 3 off Craigslist because the dude couldn't jailbreak it to get free apps. (And he definitely did not come across as a technical person.)
      - emersonrsantos 14y ago
        It will always happen. The only known way to prevent this is to get your users to authenticate in your DRM service.
so898 14y ago
I am very afraid of this moment. I know after this jailbreak released, there will be more and more people use illegal applications, and I have to worry about the meals next month. For god sake, hoping they will not release something that could break the IAP.....
- thethimble 14y ago
  Your concern is silly. People pirating applications are likely not going to be willing to pay for those applications in the first place. There is no opportunity cost associated with piracy. If anything, in my opinion, app piracy just increases the visibility of your app and could potentially win new, legitimate users through word of mouth.
  - gfodor 14y ago
    Citation needed. Do you really think that software pirates with jailbroken iPhones that have their phones loaded up with the latest popular apps would not spring the 20 bucks or so in the app store to buy them if it were hard to pirate them? The "no opportunity cost associated with piracy" canard held water in the days where lots of commercial software was reasonably outside the reach of your average individual who wanted to play with it. But saying that little Johnny that's playing Angry Birds for free would not have bought the game for a dollar anyway is, to be frank, complete bullshit.
    - nitrogen 14y ago
      Not the OP, but the only people I've heard of pirating apps are those for whom $20 is the difference between eating and starving (e.g. students whose phone is paid for by family, but their food and apps are not).
      - britta 14y ago
        A number of people pirating apps are people who don't have the App Store available in their countries, and some others are children and young teenagers who don't have their own money to buy things online (with parents who aren't interested in helping them buy games).
5vforest 14y ago
Jailbreak was smooth as can be on my iPhone 4S Sprint.
antirez 14y ago
Not worth it because the parallel jailbroken world instead of being something full of free and interesting things is poor and full of things that you need to pay for, but, 5 times the average app price on iTunes. I'm not going to get instabilities and hard to upgrade devices just for SBSettings or alike. Unfortunately too many people only jailbreak so that they can install software for free. That said it completely sucks that Apple does not allow me to be in control of what I want to install, including apps downloaded from a web site. Also, a lot of people install SBSettings just because how freaking lame is the iOS algorithm to understand how bright the screen should be a given light level. Lame.
- imissmyjuno 14y ago
  Please don't lump everyone wanting to JB into the same (laughable, to me) SBSettings or the even more presumptuous pirating use cases. For example, I'm in Canada, and my favourite music service is Grooveshark (Spotify is not available). The only way to get the Grooveshark iOS app is through jailbreaking.
  - achompas 14y ago
    Agreed--I'm in for f.lux
  - antirez 14y ago
    Sure, too many people but definitely not everybody, and I just talk for what I see, that is, the population here in Italy that I can monitor directly (however in Italy there is a strong inclination for software piracy).
- pseut 14y ago
  I jail broke for "protect my privacy" and shell access. Way better than sbsettings
  - krichman 14y ago
    Seconded. Also for vim.
uwnav 14y ago
Does anybody know what the state of unlocking A4+ chips is after this release? Stuck with a friggin Bell Canada iPhone 4S I can do shit all with
supercoder 14y ago
As a developer the jailbreak is conflicting. On one hand it's good to get all the cheap skates off ios 5.1 but then alternatively were going to see a bigger piracy spike now.
- yareally 14y ago
  That's an awfully big assumption that only pirates don't update to the latest and greatest device. Especially when many can't afford to and a smaller community does actually jailbreak to mod their devices. Some I know that went back to iOS from Android were waiting for a jailbreak so they could mod stuff.
  - supercoder 14y ago
    It's not an assumption, it's a fact. Our stats show that 84% of the pirated copies of our apps in the last 30 days users have been on 5.x.
seles 14y ago
It worked for me, but now I am getting error "HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error" in cydia It looks like this also happened to people alot when the jailbreak for iOS 5 first appeared, so I am pretty sure cydia is just getting flooded with traffic from hoards of newly jailbroken users.
steed 14y ago
I installed Sms GV extension, then the iPhone 5 keep rebooting... I recovery it try again, them keep rebooting again.... ><

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asiekierka 14y ago

Can't connect for 30 minutes now, stuck on the "Just a moment..." screen. Can anyone provide mirrors?

EchoVelocity 14y ago
Here's a dropbox link for the windows version. It'll be up until there is too much activity: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/6469722/evasi0n-win-1.0-3c53ba10e2448d311b0f4157f2d7eb568f106c4f-release.zip https://dl.dropbox.com/u/6469722/evasi0n-win-1.0-3c53ba10e24...
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wlesieutre 14y ago
Here are the official mirrors: box.net Linux - https://evad3rs.box.com/shared/static/5dped2c9ejnk5r6ahfpg.lzma https://evad3rs.box.com/shared/static/5dped2c9ejnk5r6ahfpg.l... SHA1: c9e4b15a161b89f0e412721f471c5f8559b6054f Mac OS X - https://evad3rs.box.com/shared/static/du66n0g9wl1j4ta57hpx.dmg https://evad3rs.box.com/shared/static/du66n0g9wl1j4ta57hpx.d... SHA1: 23f99a0d65e71fd79ff072b227f0ecb176f0ffa8 Windows - https://evad3rs.box.com/shared/static/tg1t0cz7oakvq7hsv0bd.zip https://evad3rs.box.com/shared/static/tg1t0cz7oakvq7hsv0bd.z... SHA1: 2ff288e1798b4711020e9dd7f26480e57704d8b2 MEGA Linux - https://mega.co.nz/#!0kUkXBLC!Q8e53kQZpLbGL7PquHWgQFhMU9Ru3WJWxBuzEdkiMJo https://mega.co.nz/#!0kUkXBLC!Q8e53kQZpLbGL7PquHWgQFhMU9Ru3W... SHA1: c9e4b15a161b89f0e412721f471c5f8559b6054f Mac OS X - https://mega.co.nz/#!5h0BwQoa!KdRLFwNJ3OjMS-7Zs2YGQnsvPxAKEsaAjabY__8pNtY https://mega.co.nz/#!5h0BwQoa!KdRLFwNJ3OjMS-7Zs2YGQnsvPxAKEs... SHA1: 23f99a0d65e71fd79ff072b227f0ecb176f0ffa8 Windows - https://mega.co.nz/#!d9ciUApQ!AkwevVU1OtUrEUU7U4fE-V8qqM9aINTAGgjkukShihE https://mega.co.nz/#!d9ciUApQ!AkwevVU1OtUrEUU7U4fE-V8qqM9aIN... SHA1: 2ff288e1798b4711020e9dd7f26480e57704d8b2 RapidShare Linux - http://rapidshare.com/files/2561828874/evasi0n-linux-1.0-3c53ba10e2448d311b0f4157f2d7eb568f106c4f-release.tar.lzma http://rapidshare.com/files/2561828874/evasi0n-linux-1.0-3c5... SHA1: c9e4b15a161b89f0e412721f471c5f8559b6054f Mac OS X - http://rapidshare.com/files/3010870584/evasi0n-mac-1.0-3c53ba10e2448d311b0f4157f2d7eb568f106c4f-release.dmg http://rapidshare.com/files/3010870584/evasi0n-mac-1.0-3c53b... SHA1: 23f99a0d65e71fd79ff072b227f0ecb176f0ffa8 Windows - http://rapidshare.com/files/3503186483/evasi0n-win-1.0-3c53ba10e2448d311b0f4157f2d7eb568f106c4f-release.zip http://rapidshare.com/files/3503186483/evasi0n-win-1.0-3c53b... SHA1: 2ff288e1798b4711020e9dd7f26480e57704d8b2

abdophoto 14y ago

Already Jailbroken. Thank you Evasi0n!

lutusp 14y ago

Warning: jailbreaking your phone is now illegal: http://investorplace.com/2013/01/jailbreaking-your-phone-will-be-illegal-after-jan-26/ http://investorplace.com/2013/01/jailbreaking-your-phone-wil...

Osmium 14y ago
Not yet: https://www.eff.org/is-it-illegal-to-unlock-a-phone https://www.eff.org/is-it-illegal-to-unlock-a-phone Incidentally, can anyone comment on whether it's worth it to jailbreak your iPhone these days? Are there any must-have improvements, and do they come at a cost of stability? Is there any public review on security of the jailbreaks/apps, i.e. have they have had backdoors/steal your data? I would have no idea how to identify a "trustworthy" developer from someone random.
- asiekierka 14y ago
  The only one I can think of is f.lux but that's more useful on an iPad anyway. Most of the other ones are really much more useful on an iPad than an iPhone. Unless you use emulators, that is.
- SquareWheel 14y ago
  I use about half a dozen tweaks which I really wouldn't want to live without. LockInfo is my favorite though.
- spellboots 14y ago
  Yes, absolutely. My must haves: http://intelliborn.com/intelliscreen.html http://intelliborn.com/intelliscreen.html http://stereopsis.com/flux/ios.html http://stereopsis.com/flux/ios.html http://www.ijailbreak.com/cydia/activator-1-5-8-cydia-tweak/ http://www.ijailbreak.com/cydia/activator-1-5-8-cydia-tweak/ http://igotya.com/ http://igotya.com/ http://www.idownloadblog.com/2011/01/17/fakeclockup-makes-your-iphone-seem-faster/ http://www.idownloadblog.com/2011/01/17/fakeclockup-makes-yo... http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/install-sbsettings-toggles-life-easier-cydia-tweak/ http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/install-sbsettings-toggles-life... You can also override pretty much anything, e.g. turn on tethering without paying extra for data you already paid for etc. With regard to data stealing / backdoors: It is the same as installing apps on a computer. You lose the walled garden of Apple but this is only the same as any other computer system has been since computers existed.

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aioprisan 14y ago

can someone provide a mac download link?

asiekierka 14y ago
http://asiekierka.pl/evasi0n-mac-1.0-3c53ba10e2448d311b0f4157f2d7eb568f106c4f-release.dmg http://asiekierka.pl/evasi0n-mac-1.0-3c53ba10e2448d311b0f415... https://mega.co.nz/#!5h0BwQoa!KdRLFwNJ3OjMS-7Zs2YGQnsvPxAKEsaAjabY__8pNtY https://mega.co.nz/#!5h0BwQoa!KdRLFwNJ3OjMS-7Zs2YGQnsvPxAKEs...

SquareWheel 14y ago

Mirrored the Windows version on MultiUpload. It's the only one I could snag before everything imploded. http://www.multiupload.nl/QZTXLPXVHB http://www.multiupload.nl/QZTXLPXVHB

0x0 14y ago

Some interesting strings from the binary. Hopefully there will be a write-up explaining the exploit in detail soon. /var/mobile/DemoApp.app Media/Recordings/.haxx/DemoApp.app/Info.plist Media/Recordings/.haxx/Library/Caches/com.apple.mobile.installation.plist Media/Recordings/.haxx/timezone Media/Recordings/.haxx/var/evasi0n/evasi0n Edit: I also spotted a few references to Racoon, the VPN client which I think was abused in an earlier jailbreak as well?

jevinskie 14y ago
/var/mobile/Media/Recordings is a folder that you can upload files to from a PC. I would bet that some stage of the jailbreak copies those files to their proper place in the filesystem (places that the PC uploading interface doesn't have permissions to write).
- 0x0 14y ago
  There's a few more hints here: http://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/comments/17vp13/evasi0n_macho_dylib_exploit/ http://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/comments/17vp13/evasi0n_ma...
jevinskie 14y ago
Here is a more detailed analysis: http://blog.accuvantlabs.com/blog/bthomas/evasi0n-jailbreaks-userland-component http://blog.accuvantlabs.com/blog/bthomas/evasi0n-jailbreaks... The lazy binding is really interesting. There is lots of interesting stuff in the kernel, dyld, and libSystem. I would encourage you to have a look! You can do interesting things like run code before libSystem_init[1] [0]: https://github.com/Apple-FOSS-Mirror/dyld/tree/master/src https://github.com/Apple-FOSS-Mirror/dyld/tree/master/src https://github.com/Apple-FOSS-Mirror/Libsystem/blob/master/init.c https://github.com/Apple-FOSS-Mirror/Libsystem/blob/master/i... https://github.com/Apple-FOSS-Mirror/xnu/blob/master/bsd/kern/kern_exec.c https://github.com/Apple-FOSS-Mirror/xnu/blob/master/bsd/ker... [1]: https://gist.github.com/jevinskie/4615901 https://gist.github.com/jevinskie/4615901
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kape 14y ago

I haven't Jailbroke my iPhone for a few years. I did out of curiosity, but updating OS was just too much pain. Been thinking what are the real benefits of doing that? Why? Is it customizing UI, adding more effects? Or is it just downloading apps outside app store? I think it brought value when we didn't have notification center etc, but still people doing it?

daeken 14y ago
If you work in mobile security, you essentially have to jailbreak the devices you use for testing. Things like being able to edit /etc/hosts are critical, as is being able to decrypt applications for analysis.
wlesieutre 14y ago
I do it for integration with Google Voice (with Phone GV and SMS GV) so that I can place calls from the built in dialer and send free texts through Messages. The other thing I use frequently is NCSettings, which is much like SBSettings, but well integrated into notification center. It has a couple of pages you can swipe through, and gives immediate access to toggles for wifi, data, volume, brightness, VPN, location services, and more. http://modmyi.com/info/ncsettings.php http://modmyi.com/info/ncsettings.php I also use Chrome on my phone, mostly because I use it on my desktop and laptop and like to have access to open tabs from my computers. It's doable without jailbreaking, but being able to set it as the default browser makes it a lot better.
SifJar 14y ago
I believe it is becoming less and less useful. To begin with, it was the only way to get any third party apps on iOS devices. Later it became the only way to have custom wallpapers, multitasking, better notifications etc. Obviously all these things have now been added officially, and in most cases the official implementation is more user friendly and more integrated. There is still increased ability for theming with jailbreaking, and some unapproved apps such as emulators etc. as well as a few general tweaks such as allowing extra apps in the dock or allowing the home screen to be rotated on iPhone, but the benefits are slowly decreasing as iOS gets improved. But there is still benefit to it for some. It's the same case with rooting Android devices; at a time it was almost essential to address the shortcomings of the OS. Now, it is barely even required for most users, due to the improvements of the OS. (stuff like taking screenshots, making backups of app data, tethering etc. used to require root on Android; now it's all baked right into the OS) I'd say it's noteworthy though that these features may never have made it to their respective official OSes had they not been so popular with jailbreak/root users, so it's an important part of the OS improvement process in my opinion.

asiekierka 14y ago

Here are my mirrors: Windows: http://asiekierka.pl/evasi0n-win-1.0-3c53ba10e2448d311b0f4157f2d7eb568f106c4f-release.zip http://asiekierka.pl/evasi0n-win-1.0-3c53ba10e2448d311b0f415... OSX: http://asiekierka.pl/evasi0n-mac-1.0-3c53ba10e2448d311b0f4157f2d7eb568f106c4f-release.dmg http://asiekierka.pl/evasi0n-mac-1.0-3c53ba10e2448d311b0f415... Linux: http://asiekierka.pl/evasi0n-linux-1.0-3c53ba10e2448d311b0f4157f2d7eb568f106c4f-release.tar.lzma http://asiekierka.pl/evasi0n-linux-1.0-3c53ba10e2448d311b0f4...

LogicX 14y ago
Your sha for OSX does not match those listed on the site. Also the size is different: 9.6M evasi0n-mac-1.0-3c53ba10e2448d311b0f4157f2d7eb568f106c4f-release (1).dmg 9.2M evasi0n-mac-1.0-3c53ba10e2448d311b0f4157f2d7eb568f106c4f-release.dmg I'm choosing not to open yours.
- jychang 14y ago
  Choosing to check SHA is always a good idea for mirrors.
- asiekierka 14y ago
  Odd.
  - technosmurf 14y ago
    I also checked the shasum by comparing 2 files. The Mega link (Mac client) from the official web page: bd9fe1e58343a5c03295a975697de3e64e65b42c asiekierka's Mac link: bd9fe1e58343a5c03295a975697de3e64e65b42c Both file sizes are the same (9,690,941 bytes, 9.7 MB on disk). Maybe the discrepancy has to do with -a flag for 224, 256, 384, or 512 or something. I think his mirror is safe. It's the one I used to successfully jailbreak my iPad 3. Now I can SSH into my iPad and change the hosts file for some ad-blocking and installed Flux for "easier on the eyes" nighttime reading. I don't look forward to Apple's next update which will wipe out my jailbreak, so I don't want to customize things too much. Last time I did a jailbreak for my iPod Touch, it messed up an in-app purchasing mechanism for a game I was testing. After this experience, I dread that jailbreaks will cause unforeseen problems and prefer not having to customize every single little tech option. Still, I performed this jailbreak mostly to get ad-blocking in MobileSafari. Actually, one snag I have: the iPad time was totally wrong, insisting that it was 8 hours ahead, and the General Settings wouldn't properly automatically update the time. Had to do a lot of fiddling with Location services and Date & Time to fix it. Jailbreakin' ain't all that it's cracked up to be!

JonnieCache 14y ago

Shame it doesn't happen in the browser this time around. That PDF exploit last year was slick.

MichaelGG 14y ago
If it was a browser exploit, wouldn't that put all users at a great risk, and also put more pressure on Apple to rapidly patch?
- 0x0 14y ago
  Yes. Good thing it's not.
  - StavrosK 14y ago
    I do agree, though, that visiting a page, pressing a "jailbreak" button and finding Cydia installed and running, was, to use the scientific term, slick.
    - jiggy2011 14y ago
      In such a case what is to stop a malicious site having a "free porn" button which installs something much more nasty.
      - StavrosK 14y ago
        Nothing, of course.
        jiggy2011 14y ago
        In which case I'm surprised there wasn't a widespread epidemic of malware infected iOS devices.
        xmodem 14y ago

dmauro 14y ago

Is this a tether jailbreak or is it permanent?

rm999 14y ago
Untethered (permanent).
joe5150 14y ago
The UI says "untethered". I'm waiting on a reboot, so I can't confirm.
britta 14y ago
It's an untethered jailbreak (allows the device to reboot on its own without using a desktop tool to help it boot), if that's what you mean by permanent. I probably wouldn't call it "permanent" since you can easily remove the jailbreak by restoring the device with iTunes.

tommys 14y ago

JB worked like a charm! Thx evasi0n! :-)

tommys 14y ago
On my iPhone 5.

garkrau 14y ago

Does it really work? ever for New iPad (3gen iPad)?

rcchen 14y ago
I just jailbroke my iPad 3 with it, works like a charm, on iOS 6.1
- garkrau 14y ago
  omg. can't wait get to my ipad to do this. christmas once again.

Gurrewe 14y ago

The last time I had a jailbroken phone was at the time of iOS 2, back then I didn't think it was worth it. What has changed in the last four years?

mofrodo 14y ago
Mods such as SwipeSelection and Auxo did it for me. Features that I think Apple should have thought of to begin with.
seanc722 14y ago
I do like having OpenVPN and better wireless scanning/details.
- stock_toaster 14y ago
  there is a official openvpn support in the appstore now, fyi.
- marchdown 14y ago
  What do you use for wireless scanning?
  - seanc722 14y ago
    Sorry late response... One is WiFi Analyzer. Shows Channel, strength, encryption, ssid. Has a nice little great with signal strength along with min/max/avg. Not sure if you can get it from appstore now as someone else pointed out can get OpenVPN officially there now :) Also... I'm curious as to why Apple hasn't added a SBSettings / NCSettings type feature as most other smartphones have toggle buttons in the "notification area" which make life a lot easier.
OWaz 14y ago
Being able to have f.lux on my iPhone. http://stereopsis.com/flux/ http://stereopsis.com/flux/
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tibbon 14y ago

Seems to be crashing on me instantly on 10.8 with my 3rd Gen iPad: Application Specific Information: * error for object 0x10fea00: pointer being freed was not allocated

FPSDavid 14y ago

Definitely waiting until tonight to jailbreak. Last few times my phone got slightly screwed up when I jailbroke right after it came out, followed by a couple updates/fixes to the jailbreak program the same day.

justinwr 14y ago

The last time I jailbroke my devices they slowed to a crawl and crashed frequently. Felt like I had installed Windows on my iOS device. I'd much rather have my walled garden of reliable bliss. I'll still donate to the cause however. Keep up the fine work gents! :)

baddox 14y ago
That's odd. Which device and which jailbreak was it, if you can remember? From my experience, it was almost certainly a piece of software (e.g. from Cydia) that caused the instability, not the jailbreak itself.
nvarsj 14y ago
Actually, that's just standard iOS behavior. Disclaimer: ex-iPhone user now on Android
bobbles 14y ago
It would have been the apps that you installed, not the jailbreak itself.
- justinwr 14y ago
  Oh it definitely was.

Watabou 14y ago

Awesome! Does anyone know if SMS GV/Phone GV extension is working or not? I tried the tethered jailbreak on the 3GS and it wasn't working then. Only the Phone GV was working but it was slow. I have an iPhone 5 now and hopefully the day ends early today so I can go home and jailbreak. Can't wait to get NCsettings and Google voice integration!

britta 14y ago
They aren't updated for iOS 6 yet, but I believe the developer is planning on updating them. You can email him for more information if you like - his email address is listed at the bottom of his website (http://gvexts.appspot.com/ http://gvexts.appspot.com/).
steed 14y ago
I installed Sms GV extension, then the iPhone 5 keep rebooting... I recovery it try again, them keep rebooting again.... ><

mikecane 14y ago

Curious, does it work with the iPad Mini? [EDIT: Yes. https://twitter.com/tomle12/status/298496235894095873 https://twitter.com/tomle12/status/298496235894095873] Also, how soon could Apple push out an update to kill this one?

gcb0 14y ago

So you guys use a closed source program from 'hackers' to be able to fully use your phone? So you have all the disavantages of paying for something and all the disadvantages of using some keygen binary to use as it was pirated. and i'm worried about what lies in the binary blob of my phone's boot1 and radio driver....

United857 14y ago
Closed source probably for practical reasons, to make it harder for Apple to quickly release a "fix".
- nacs 14y ago
  By the time a patch is publicly released like this, I'm sure Apple will have it decompiled and know what the exploit is within weeks if not days since the actual exploit code won't be much code to analyze (as opposed to digging through all of iOS like the jailbreakers have to do find an exploitable location). Plus, Apple I'm sure has plenty of software/hardware debuggers they can attach to their own hardware that'd let them know what is happening even if they didn't have the closed/open binary.
  - saurik 14y ago
    (Days matter.) Another issue is that open-sourcing the exploit makes it easier to use for nefarious purposes in the mean time, and it isn't like knowing exactly how the exploit works actually helps end users protect themselves, due to Apple's platform policies. In essence, this is all a really dangerous ethical tightrope to be walked.
    - nacs 14y ago
      It's an honor to get a response from the great saurik himself, especially on a day when I'm sure you're very busy trying to keep Cydia up. Thanks for the info.
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evoxed 14y ago

Am I the only one getting a stream of NetDB errors (with the occasional HTTP 500 or 502)? I guess I'll just have to wait until... whatever server it's trying to connect to is up and running. I haven't had a chance to install a single package yet. Edit: Popping over to r/jailbreak confirms it, I guess it'll be a while before things calm down. I just hope I can get f.lux before I have to go to work.

slushieman 14y ago
Confirming this as well... If you see this error, NetDB, Failed to fetch, etc., it is not any problem with your iDevice, Cydia, the jailbreak, or really anything at all. In fact, if you are seeing this right now on 2/4/2013, it most likely means everything is working properly! The servers that provide the apps, the 'sources', are overloaded with people trying to download. Waiting until the servers are less loaded is the only solution, right now.
- slajax 14y ago
  Me too.
Jarred 14y ago
I'm also getting this error.

gorekee 14y ago

"If the device is stuck displaying "patching kernel", you can press Power+Home for a long time to force a reboot." [1] [1] https://twitter.com/pod2g/status/298493685765648384 https://twitter.com/pod2g/status/298493685765648384

xguru 14y ago

Almost all the Cydia sources become slow because the heavy load.

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xguru 14y ago

Almost all the Cydia sources become slow because the heavy load.

cududa 14y ago

Has Cydia keeled over for anyone else?

slajax 14y ago
Yup.

NotAnEngineer 14y ago

There's a Cydia app called BrowserChanger that lets you change the default browser (so clicking a link in Mail will open Chrome instead of Safari, for example). Is there a similar app that lets you change the default maps application?

britta 14y ago
MapsOpener makes Google Maps the default maps app - see http://www.idownloadblog.com/2012/12/14/mapsopener/ http://www.idownloadblog.com/2012/12/14/mapsopener/ for some information and a video.
- NotAnEngineer 14y ago
  Thanks!

stevedc3 14y ago

The jailbreak community, who overall do very good things for users, are shooting themselves in the foot by not having the Cydia store work properly once you jailbreak --- the store is totally down, servers slammed. They had 6 months to prepare for this? why don't they correct it? people's first impressions (who have never jailbroken before) are that the process is terrible. I am referring to the Cydia store by @saurik.

egypturnash 14y ago
They actually took some steps to try and mitigate this - the version of Cydia that this jailbreak installs is pre-loaded with the catalogs of the main repositories. The repos are still, of course, slammed. Keep in mind that there's no money in hosting one AFIK. Who's gonna pay for ramping up more servers? Can you even easily do that with Cydia or would it require a lot of hacking on code that mostly works well enough? I think anyone aware enough to be jailbreaking the first day the jailbreak is out is also aware enough to know that a royal fuckton of other people are also jailbreaking, and that if they can chill out for just a couple more days then they'll be able to load up all their favorite tweaks.
saurik 14y ago
Look, I mostly do this because I find it meaningful. It pays miserably, and yet people always act like I'm making tons of money off of it, so a ton of people hate me and I don't even get to self-medicate by staring at a massive pile of cash. I've built a lot of really cool assets, but they (even the Cydia Store) are totally reliant on security flaws in something that is becoming more secure every day, so the work is even futile. That doesn't mean, however, that I should be expected to perform miracles. I already work nearly every waking hour on things related to jailbreaking: "I'm giving er' all she's got, captain". For the record, by the way, here is what I'm up against today: http://cache.saurik.com/tinyimg/cydia6hits.png http://cache.saurik.com/tinyimg/cydia6hits.png The game is also really difficult to predict. In this case, this is unlike any previous jailbreak, because they announced a specific time. I was not expecting them to announce a time: they have never announced a time before. I was not prepared for them to announce a specific time. What normally happens is there is a massive wave over the first few days while people find out about the jailbreak. Today, there were people watching a progress bar for hours until it hit 100%. Meanwhile, you make it sound like it is really simple to take a payment transaction and licensing system, and just go "oh wow, we are doing over 10x the load? flip the switch boys!"... payment systems just don't work like that: this isn't some stupid web forum where you can play fast and loose with consistency (or even durability) to get more performance. Also, six months to prepare? Seriously: you think I should spend six months while Cydia is losing money and there are no jailbreaks available--and there may never be a jailbreak available again--sitting around figuring out how to make a payment system scale infinitely so that during a small multi-hour long window it can shine? Even in jailbreak-land, that is not the most important thing to be doing; one of my big time sinks this last half year was figuring out how to better deal with credit card fraud, for example. Leaving the world of payments, vendors are happier with more backend features, developers are happier with more Substrate improvements, and end users would prefer I make more tweaks or add things to WinterBoard.

ROFISH 14y ago

As a sidenote, I'm interested in hearing piracy numbers after this jailbreak. Is piracy still popular, or are people just jailbreaking solely for the mods?

ThePinion 14y ago
didn't hackulous develop Appsync? That's the only simple method I knew of for transferring pirated apps from iTunes to the iDevice. Which is the main way the non technical users did it. Now that they've called it quits piracy will probably be drastically slowed down until there are new well known alternatives. I could be totally wrong though, I don't own any iDevices, just basing my knowledge off helping people jailbreak their phones and pods over the past many years (except this last year of course..)
- emersonrsantos 14y ago
  Try AppCake or vShare. Installous is dead.
  - ROFISH 14y ago
    I'm not interesting in pirating apps, I'm interested in either prevention and/or not selecting iOS as a games platform. Nothing has shaken me more than buying an iPad 3 off Craigslist because the dude couldn't jailbreak it to get free apps. (And he definitely did not come across as a technical person.)
    - emersonrsantos 14y ago
      It will always happen. The only known way to prevent this is to get your users to authenticate in your DRM service.

so898 14y ago

I am very afraid of this moment. I know after this jailbreak released, there will be more and more people use illegal applications, and I have to worry about the meals next month. For god sake, hoping they will not release something that could break the IAP.....

thethimble 14y ago
Your concern is silly. People pirating applications are likely not going to be willing to pay for those applications in the first place. There is no opportunity cost associated with piracy. If anything, in my opinion, app piracy just increases the visibility of your app and could potentially win new, legitimate users through word of mouth.
- gfodor 14y ago
  Citation needed. Do you really think that software pirates with jailbroken iPhones that have their phones loaded up with the latest popular apps would not spring the 20 bucks or so in the app store to buy them if it were hard to pirate them? The "no opportunity cost associated with piracy" canard held water in the days where lots of commercial software was reasonably outside the reach of your average individual who wanted to play with it. But saying that little Johnny that's playing Angry Birds for free would not have bought the game for a dollar anyway is, to be frank, complete bullshit.
  - nitrogen 14y ago
    Not the OP, but the only people I've heard of pirating apps are those for whom $20 is the difference between eating and starving (e.g. students whose phone is paid for by family, but their food and apps are not).
    - britta 14y ago
      A number of people pirating apps are people who don't have the App Store available in their countries, and some others are children and young teenagers who don't have their own money to buy things online (with parents who aren't interested in helping them buy games).

5vforest 14y ago

Jailbreak was smooth as can be on my iPhone 4S Sprint.

antirez 14y ago

Not worth it because the parallel jailbroken world instead of being something full of free and interesting things is poor and full of things that you need to pay for, but, 5 times the average app price on iTunes. I'm not going to get instabilities and hard to upgrade devices just for SBSettings or alike. Unfortunately too many people only jailbreak so that they can install software for free. That said it completely sucks that Apple does not allow me to be in control of what I want to install, including apps downloaded from a web site. Also, a lot of people install SBSettings just because how freaking lame is the iOS algorithm to understand how bright the screen should be a given light level. Lame.

imissmyjuno 14y ago
Please don't lump everyone wanting to JB into the same (laughable, to me) SBSettings or the even more presumptuous pirating use cases. For example, I'm in Canada, and my favourite music service is Grooveshark (Spotify is not available). The only way to get the Grooveshark iOS app is through jailbreaking.
- achompas 14y ago
  Agreed--I'm in for f.lux
- antirez 14y ago
  Sure, too many people but definitely not everybody, and I just talk for what I see, that is, the population here in Italy that I can monitor directly (however in Italy there is a strong inclination for software piracy).
pseut 14y ago
I jail broke for "protect my privacy" and shell access. Way better than sbsettings
- krichman 14y ago
  Seconded. Also for vim.

uwnav 14y ago

Does anybody know what the state of unlocking A4+ chips is after this release? Stuck with a friggin Bell Canada iPhone 4S I can do shit all with

supercoder 14y ago

As a developer the jailbreak is conflicting. On one hand it's good to get all the cheap skates off ios 5.1 but then alternatively were going to see a bigger piracy spike now.

yareally 14y ago
That's an awfully big assumption that only pirates don't update to the latest and greatest device. Especially when many can't afford to and a smaller community does actually jailbreak to mod their devices. Some I know that went back to iOS from Android were waiting for a jailbreak so they could mod stuff.
- supercoder 14y ago
  It's not an assumption, it's a fact. Our stats show that 84% of the pirated copies of our apps in the last 30 days users have been on 5.x.

seles 14y ago

It worked for me, but now I am getting error "HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error" in cydia It looks like this also happened to people alot when the jailbreak for iOS 5 first appeared, so I am pretty sure cydia is just getting flooded with traffic from hoards of newly jailbroken users.

steed 14y ago

I installed Sms GV extension, then the iPhone 5 keep rebooting... I recovery it try again, them keep rebooting again.... ><