Mozilla backs EFF in iPhone Jailbreak Support

Mozilla has expressed its support to the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s push to have the U.S. Copyright Office allow iPhone jailbreaking.

Mozilla CEO John Lilly said that “choice is good for users, and choice shouldn’t be criminalized,” in light of the dispute between the EFF and Apple over whether or not iPhone jailbreaking–the practice of modifying an iPhone to accept software from sources other than Apple–is a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

Apple recently declared that jailbreaking an iPhone is a violation of copyright and can cause problems with the iPhone.

Mozilla have a version of the Firefox mobile browser, Fennec, which would obviously be a great addition to the iPhone for Firefox fans but Lilly admitted that Mozilla would probably not develop an iPhone version of Fennec even if Apple was forced to open up the iPhone.

“Given the choice, would we work on a platform where the sole company controlling it makes us unwelcome, or would we work on a platform, like Linux, where we are welcome? The answer is going to be easy for us,” said Lilly.

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yellowsn0w 0.9.6 beta released

To all of you who either still haven’t unlocked your 3G iPhone, or have experienced a few problems with previous versions, 0.9.6 has now been released.

Check out the yellowsn0w page for info and download instructions etc.

yellowsn0w 0.9.5 released

Just a quick post to let you know 0.9.5 has now been released which will solve a whole bunch of small issues including STK issues and outgoing calls. Refresh your Cydia/Installer sources and you should see it. Please post back your results after trying it.

Go to the yellowsn0w download page for the Cydia/Installer repos.

Remember though – this is still in beta.  If you are concerned about ‘bricking’ your iPhone you should wait until version 1.0 is released.

yellowsn0w 0.9.4 beta released

For those of you that had ‘reinsertion’ issues – this update should solve your problems. Go over to www.yellowsn0w.net to download now, or grab it here.

The beta version of yellowsn0w 0.9.4 is out and it should fix reinsertion issues for many users. If you haven’t tried it yet I suggest you give it a try now! REMEMBER, it’s still in beta so you may have problems. The yellowsn0w download is in the Cydia repo mentioned on the yellowsn0w page. Post any comments or problems you have over there.

Now everyone can unlock their 3G iPhone for free!

Yellowsn0w released – unlock your 3G iPhone for all networks

Download yellowsn0w – click here

Yellowsn0w has been released! This is yellowsn0w version 0.9 and it’s still in beta so use it at your own risk.

Note: You must upgrade to the latest 02.28 baseband (firmware 2.2) in order to use this unlock and also jailbreak with QuickPWN/PwnageTool and add Cydia/Installer.

Here is the iPhone 3G firmware 2.2 download link:
http://appldnld.apple.com.edgesuite.net/content.info.apple.com/iPhone/061-5778.20081120.Aqw4R/iPhone1,2_2.2_5G77_Restore.ipsw

You can install yellowsn0w 3G unlock by using either Cydia or Installer, whichever you prefer. Below is a list of the repos/sources.

Note: The DevTeam also says that once you are done installing yellowsn0w through Cydia go back to the main menu on Cydia and restart your iPhone with the 3rd party SIM installed. Wait for the slide to unlock screen, and then wait 10-15 seconds. If you don’t see your carrier name pop up you must remove your SIM, insert it again, and wait 10 seconds. (The DevTeam plans on eliminating this step in future releases).

Cydia Repos: http://apt9.yellowsn0w.com/

Installer sources: http://i.yellowsn0w.com/

Dev-Team Blog – iPhone 3G unlock tool: yellowsn0w

Dev-Team Blog – ‘Tis the Season to be Jolly! – yellowsn0w.

The Dev-Team have announced they will be releasing the iPhone 3G unlock tool ‘yellowsn0w’ on new years eve 2008. As soon as it is released I’ll be adding all the information you will need to unlock your iPhone 3G.

Here’s some of the info released so far:

3G Unlock

We have been working hard on a few other things. The main one being the 3G unlock codenamed “yellowsn0w”. This is now completed and is currently being packaged into a user-friendly application with the simplicity that you see in QuickPwn or BootNeuter.

• The target release date for the unlock is New Year’s Eve 2008.
• This unlock method is available to iPhone 3Gs that have 2.11.07 baseband or earlier, we did warn you.
• You can tell what version baseband you have by going to Settings->General->About->Modem Firmware
• The unlock requires a jailbroken 3G iPhone.  It’ll be installable via Cydia and so it doesn’t matter if you have a Mac or PC.
• Please refrain from updating your baseband, regardless of what version you’re at.  We’ll have complete directions on New Year’s Eve.
• We’ll stream a live demo of the unlock before Christmas (see the update at the end of this post)

DFU Issues in OS X 10.5.6

Lots of users have been experiencing problems with the use of DFU mode after applying yesterday’s 10.5.6 system update.

We believe this behavior is due to a kernel bug not a specific countermeasure by Apple. Possible fixes are (try at your own risk!) -

1. Replace the following plugin kexts from within IOUSBFamily.kext with the ones from 10.5.5 and then rebuild kextcache (if you don’t understand this, then you shouldn’t attempt it!)

/System/Library/Extensions/IOUSBFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleUSBHub.kext

/System/Library/Extensions/IOUSBFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/IOUSBCompositeDriver.kext

2. Use a USB hub in-between the DFU device and the Mac and insert/reinsert the iPhone’s USB cable.

3. Use a PwnageTool created .ipsw on Windows! Oh the irony!

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