So if we can assume its going to be the same A5 chips as we see in the iPhone4s and Ipad2, then the current jailbreaks should work as a good starting point. Two separate tools were released for jailbreaking A5 based devices, one was Absinthe for Mac by the Chronic Dev Team, and the other one, which was a command line-based tool for both Windows and Mac users by the iPhone Dev Team.  Read more here.

I do expect there will be a few odd things with the firmware on the iPad HD, so do not expect any of these jailbreaks to work out of the box, but barring a significant iOS update or new chip, it should not take more then a few weeks at most.

So for now, here are my top 7


Quake. Yup ID’s Quake from the old days. Now this was put together to work on the iphone, so you know it will only 2x in size.  But still, it could be cool.

If you happen to be in Germany this Christmas holiday, you may want to check out the CCC camp ( Chaos Computer Club’s 25C3 Congress.).  They are going to give a talk called “Hacking the iPhone”.

BTW, they are taking donations AND selling a pretty cool shirt. :0

{update 2} First… What is CupCake Camp?  From the site..

CupcakeCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and eat cupcakes in an open environment. This was put together by:

Ariel Waldman, Lynn, Marianne Masculino and Cindy Li created the CupcakeCamp phenomenon.

From me..

CupCakeCamp is an excuse to make all kinda of odd cupcakes and get together with friends to eat said cupcakes…  Well, that’s how it started… I guess 4 years ago?  Now its a public event.  I would not be surprised to see it listed on a tour guide for San Francisco one day.

Cupcake this year ’09 was MUCH more organized as far as dealing with crowds.  They now have a ticket system, (its not cost anything, but you should still donate) where you get front line access for 2 cupcakes, after that, you have to stand in the longer line.  And there were lines!  But that’s ok.  There were good designs as always, but here two one I really liked.

I did not get the shot glass one, but those who did kept that glass. Nice.

Original Post…

Every now and again, its nice to be able to video and broadcast even when you were not planning on it. I was at cupcake camp and it was a madhouse. Lord of the flies in full effect when the cupcakes came out. So I took a few shots, then thought, this is a video moment. Now Cycorder will do a better job of recording, but in this case, broadcasting in real time is more fun vs recording, going home and hoping I get around to moving the files off the iphone and then post them somewhere.

So when you ask why did I jailbreak? Here you go..

http://qik.com/videos/public_search?query=cupcakecamp

{update} Well, what do you know.. This video, and another I randomly shot interviewing one of the cupcake creators won best decorated!!  Congrats to  Alexa Andrzejewski for Spaghetti & Meatballs!!

BTW, If you missed CupCake Camp, yea you missed out.

Flickr images tagged CupCake Camp.

This last pic was from my iphone.  Not bad.

I saw this as a comment to another post.. I have not tried it but when I read it the steps seems fine.  Try at your own risk, but if your phone is already messed up, then the risk is low isn’t it?

Here is a direct link to the comment (no.7).

I spend a full day trying to recovery my iPhone after upgrading it to 2.2 and finally I was able to go back to 2.1.

So I decided to share it with all impatient morons “like me” in the world; who upgraded their iPhone 3G to 2.2 and lost their unlocked capability; here is the resolution:

1- Download the iPhone 2.1 firmware from: http://www.spaziocellulare.com/ispazio/download-firmwares-iphone-3g/
2- Download QuickPwn21-1 from: http://thepiratebay.org/user/iphonedev/
3- Connect your iphone to your computer and turn it OFF
4- Restart your iphone in recovery by following these steps:
• Connect your iPhone to your computer
• Turn iPhone off
• Hold power and home together for 10 seconds (exactly)
• Release power but keep holding home until the computers beeps (observed on a PC) as a USB device is recognized.
• At no point will the display come on. Now your restore should work.

5- From iTunes; Restore to iPhone firmware 2.1. Hold down “Shift” button and press the Restore button at the same time.
6- Choose the iphone 2.1 firmware you just downloaded in Step 1.
7- Wait till it finish. You will get one of the following errors: 1011, 1013, 1015, you can ignore them.
8- Your iPhone is restored back to Firmware 2.1. Now close iTunes
9- Unlock your iPhone using QuickPwn for iPhone ver 2.1.

..from iPhoneOverdose

The problem is that the Mac does not recognize the iPhone when it restarts on how DOMs, the amendment needed to install the operating system’s iPhone.

Unable to recognize pwnage tool can not send the amendment, so the only thing you have left is to restart the iPhone and restore a backup.

Now I have read a comment from somewhere saying its a new subversion of iTunes on not the OS itself. Bloody annoying, but such is war. To get iTunes to read the amendment will mean fooling the iphone into thinkings its an upgrade or restoring a backup. Should be interesting. 

So just to be safe till we understand this more, I would not update iTunes anytime soon.

Now the odds of this getting approved are pretty low without the blessing from id Software who own the copyright.

http://iphonegeekclub.blogspot.com/search/label/Pwnage

Supports 2.1 firmware with the unlocking and jailbreaking of iPhone 1st generation (2G) device. Supports the jailbreaking of iPod Touch 1st generation device and iPhone 3G. Your device will need to be upgraded to 2.1 ( using iTunes 8 )  before running this application.

• It does NOT support the unlocking of iPhone 3G
• It does NOT support the jailbreaking of second generation iPod Touch introduced last week

• Windows QuickPwn 2.1 – Torrent here
• (SHA1) QuickPwn21-1.zip = f8124d0e8f31f64ef3272de8fbc679e1dd1f93a7

You will need to know how to use bittorrent to download this file.