Comments on: Jailbreak That ‘Will Jailbreak Them All’ Coming Soon from GeoHot?

By: patrickj

patrickj — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:24:37 +0000

In reply to Oscar Salas. I think you may have a while to wait for a Dev Team solution for 3.1 and 3GS (if you did not save your files to Saurik's server) - looks like GeoHot and Chronic team will have something first.

By: Oscar Salas

Oscar Salas — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 17:43:51 +0000

its funny because as soon as 3.1 was out, my jailbroken 3g on 3.0.1 got bricked. -_- and when i tried and tried, the only option was to upgrade. i think it was apples idea, to lock the baseband. come on dev team!!!

By: Looks Like blackra1n, New Jailbreak for iPhone 3.1 and 3GS, Is Coming Very Soon | Just Another iPhone Blog

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:18:22 +0000

[…] the sound of the latest tweets from GeoHot this afternoon / evening, it seems like we may see his new ‘jailbreak that will jailbreak them all’ may be coming tomorrow – in line with his ‘2 days’ comments […]

By: patrickj

patrickj — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:16:49 +0000

In reply to psylichon. You lucky, lucky barsteward! Damn :)

By: psylichon

psylichon — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:40:26 +0000

I had an incredible stroke of luck today. I got my iPhone exchanged for poor battery performance and got one on 3.0! Reprieve!! I'm jailbreaking now and getting my ECID on file just in case. 🙂

By: patrickj

patrickj — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:59:00 +0000

In reply to Erik.

Hi Erik – always great to hear someone is checking in daily 🙂 We'll do our best to cover how this goes this week.

By: patrickj

patrickj — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:02:09 +0000

I didn't go 'blindly' into the 3.1 update at all. I had previously saved the iBEC and iBSS files that were said at the time to help 'safeguard' future jailbreaks under 3.1 (though that seems not to have panned out so far). I did not save files to Saurik's server because I'd not even heard of that method when 3.1 came out. I knew exactly what I was doing when I updated to 3.1 and at the time I wanted to see the new iTunes based home screen / apps arranging badly enough to sacrifice jailbreak at least for a time. I said at the time that I had faith that a jailbreak would come along fairly soon for 3.1. Less than a month has passed, and there are two possible jailbreaks for 3.1 on the (near) horizon.

I've been switching my iPhone back and forth between stock and jailbroken since back in 1.x days – so I'm pretty happy about not feeling blind when making a switch.

By: Activ8

Activ8 — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:51:52 +0000

I don't understand how when you HAVE a jailbroken system 3.0/3.01, you blindly go and update to 3.1 As a seasoned vet, I knew better than to fly leap into 3.1 when it came out and my patience was rewarded last Friday.

I am very pleased with 3.1 specially since I know I can run the latest apps requiring it. Plus having all of what Cydia offiers Hmmm life is good.

By: patrickj

patrickj — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:37:54 +0000

I'm on 3.1 (boo, hiss) and I've not had any battery performance issues – but I know others have, so not sure what to tell you. I guess whenever you feel comfortable that there are JB options for 3.1 looking good, maybe chuck 3.1 on it then. That way if you have battery issues, you deal with those with Apple before re-jailbreaking.

By: Jaime Cordoba

Jaime Cordoba — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:26:40 +0000

Patrick,
Your correct, some new/update apps require 3.1, but im still holding out on upgrading (w/ pwnage tool) my jailbreaked 3GS, because of the low battery perfomance issue of 3.1. However my wife has 3gs (OTB) with 3.1 and she has not complained about it at all. I can't make up my mind. Any advice?

By: Erik

Erik — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:02:08 +0000

I personally have still been waiting for a new solution. I have not been to excited about restoring to a custom firmware. There are already 2 apps that I cant update and would like to because they require 3.1. I may go with geohot's solution or I may wait to see if dev team releases Redsnow for windows. Still up in the air about it. Thanks for keeping us up to date on everything. Im checking back everyday 🙂

By: patrickj

patrickj — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:40:57 +0000

Laurent & Jeremy – I think in the end there are usually a couple reasons to stay current on firmware version. One is that some apps may require latest version, as we're already seeing with 3.1. Another is that it often cuts down the number of steps, and complexity, of a future jailbreak and restore process – although that has not proved so true in the case of the 3GS and 3.1 so far of course 🙂

By: patrickj

patrickj — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:38:37 +0000

In reply to Edwin R. Herrera. Sounds like it will be quite soon. He has mentioned 2 days on Twitter. Even if he doesn't quite make that, sounds like it won't be long.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:03:28 +0000

In reply to Laurent Keoula. I haven't found a reason to upgrade and I'm still jailbroken on 3.0. I figure upgrading results in unnecessary work, the possible loss of some cydia apps, and the possibility of horrible battery performance. Until an update actually changes something important why bother?

By: Laurent Keoula

Laurent Keoula — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:48:03 +0000

you know my 3.0.1 jailbreak has been pretty stable.
and since i patched it to work with mms already, is there even a point to upgrade to 3.1?

By: Edwin R. Herrera

Edwin R. Herrera — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:42:47 +0000

I can't wait for the jailbreak stuck on 3.1 on my 3GS. Never used purplera1n but have a lot of respect for GeoHot and what he does. I know that whatever he releases will be amazing. Just hope that it comes soon.

By: patrickj

patrickj — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:31:24 +0000

Yeah – I saw the 2 days tweet as well. Very exciting indeed. 🙂

By: psylichon

psylichon — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:17:56 +0000

Being in the same boat as you, Patrick, I've been patiently waiting for George to do his thing. I had no doubt he would come through. Very exciting stuff! 2 days away, according to his Tweets…