The iPhone Dev Team has found another exploit to unlock iPhone OS 3.1.3 baseband – MuscleNerd of the iPhone Dev Team has tweeted that just re-discovered a crashing command that yellowsn0w, the iPhone unlocking software was originally going to use.

What does that mean? It means he has found another working exploit for the baseband bundled in iPhone OS 3.1.3, which should help them figure out a way to jailbreak and unlock the latest iPhone OS.

The iPhone hacking community has already discovered two working exploits for the baseband 05.12.01 that is bundled in iPhone OS 3.1.3.

MuscleNerd announced on his Twitter page:

Ha just re-found crashing command yellowsn0w was originally going to use before +stkprof. Apple fixed it *accidentally* in 02.28.00.
some commands have come and gone. some command holes have come and gone. this command has come and gone but not the hole:)
it still seems accidental though :) there are no overt signs that they’ve closed the hole, but the byte alignment kills it

Apple has built in this bizzare intepreter into their baseband.

Why is it in production units? Fun!

It is still not clear whether hey’re talking about the same exploit or a different one.

In any case, the iPhone Dev Team and Geohot have at least one working exploit for the 05.12.01 baseband, unlocking iPhone OS 3.1.3 could soon become a reality rather than a dream!

Stay tuned!

- source: iclarified.com

We have good news for anyone who accidentally updated to iPhone OS 3.1.3, which in turn updated the baseband on the device. GeoHot, iPhone Hacking expert and creator of popular unlocking and jailbreaking tools, such as Blackra1n and Blacksn0w, has discovered a working exploit for baseband 05.12.01.

Geohot has tweeted the hash tag of the baseband crash “for safekeeping”:

d8b50dc95d7906e3ff6155331a534b55d0f6cac1=good.

In addition, iHackintosh has also published the conversation between Visnet (iHackintosh reader), Geohot and MuscleNerd:

<visnet_> What does geohot tweet mean?
<geohot> its my bb exploit for safekeeping
<Par4doX> geohot: did you turn that over to the dev team or are you doing something with it?
<geohot> my days of turning things over are done
<geohot> i hope its different from the one they have
<geohot> but they prob already have it
<geohot> its the one i orig wanted to release blacksn0w with
<Par4doX> it’s still there in the new bb
<geohot> yep, just checked
<geohot> but then opted to use xemn since it was public
<Evan> Oo, it carries over from 05.11 to 05.12?
<geohot> why wouldn’t it, apple doesn’t fix things proactivly
<MuscleNerd> geohot we prob should figure out a way to know if we have same exploit double blind, otherwise we may release 2 different ones at same time
<geohot> any suggestions?
<MuscleNerd> not sure how to do that without making it easy to brute force though
<geohot> yea, i salted the hash
<MuscleNerd> yeah
<MuscleNerd> hmm maybe if we both hash the stack dump
<Confucious> Can you two take this out of public sight?
<MuscleNerd> the stack itself, not the header before it or the registers after it
<Her> muscle: any notice about the exploits are the same ?
<geohot> we are working on it
<geohot> cryptography, perfect for people who don’t trust each other

The conversation indicates that both the iPhone Dev Team and Geohot have a working exploit for the latest baseband and could release tools to jailbreak and unlock iPhone OS 3.1.3.

Stay tuned!

- source: ihackintosh.com

Great news! Apple has increased the download cap on iPhone’s AppStore and iTunes Store. It used to be 10MB but has been increased the limit to 20MB – What does this mean? It means those applications you’ve tried to download on-the-go only to find out you cannot because of the 10MB download cap, now, you can as long as the application is under 20MB.

The download cap only affects users when using AT&T’s EDGE or 3G network, it does not affect users using Wi-Fi.

The legendary iPhone Dev Team have updated their nice PwnageTool application to version 3.1.5 to support Apple’s recently released iPhone OS 3.1.3 – PwnageTool 3.1.5 for Mac OS X will let you do so safely, preserving your jailbreak and ultrasn0w unlock. (If you use the blacksn0w unlock (at baseband 05.11.07), you need to stay at 3.1.2.)

iPhone 3G and 3GS unlockers should always be very wary to update their firmware. This is no exception. If you make a mistake along the way you may find yourself updating to official 3.1.3 in which case you will lose your unlock, possibly forever.

iPhone 3GS users (regardless of unlock) should stay away from this and all 3.1.3 jailbreak tools unless you know you have your “SHSH hashes” backed up via Cydia. That’s because if you make a mistake you may find yourself stuck at official 3.1.3 with no way to jailbreak or come back down to 3.1.2 to jailbreak.

If you really truly feel that you need to update, this version creates a custom 3.1.3 IPSW for you to restore to on your iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS with early bootrom, iPod touch 1G, and iPod touch 2G with early bootrom. If you don’t know if you have an early bootrom or not, please avoid updating until you learn more.

You don’t need to be pre-jailbroken on anything but the iPod touch 2G early bootrom. And really for that device, it’s faster and easier to use redsn0w 0.9.4 as mentioned in our last post. For that matter, if you have an ipt1g, iphone2g, or iphone3g(and don’t need an unlock), you should use redsn0w too (but version 0.9.3). It’s faster and you won’t have to go through a full restore process (just do an update then run redsn0w, pointing it at 3.1.2 FW instead of 3.1.3).

If you have an iPhone 3GS, PwnageTool works if you’re currently at version 3.1.2 or below (down to 3.0). You don’t need to be already jailbroken — PwnageTool will ask you if you’re jailbroken after you’ve created the IPSW. Don’t use PwnageTool on the iPhone 3GS if you’re at 3.1.3, it just won’t work. Downgrade to 3.1.2 using the methods described here. If you can’t downgrade because you don’t have your 3GS 3.1.2 hashes on file with Cydia, you’ll need to sit out the 3.1.3 jailbreak.

PwnageTool Download:
PwnageTool 3.1.5 Download for Mac OS X

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Wow, a day after the iPhone Dev Team released their updated Redsn0w software, Apple releases an update to iPhone OS. This isn’t a significant update to the iPhone OS. It doesn’t introduce new and exciting features to the current hardware but it does fix a number of issues and bugs.

This update fixes and improves the following:

• Improves accuracy of reported battery level on iPhone 3GS
• Resolves issue where third-party apps would not launch in some instances
• Fixes bug that may cause an app to crash when using the Japanese Kana keyboard

This update is for all current hardware, iPhone 1G (EDGE), iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS and all iPod Touch devices. You can easily get the update via iTunes by connecting your device and clicking “Check for Update”

*Note* It’s been confirmed by the iPhone Dev Team that Redsn0w 0.9.2 works with this new iPhone OS update only with iPhone 1G (EDGE) and iPhone 3G and *ONLY* if you don’t care about unlocking. Just point Redsn0w 0.9.2 to the iPhone OS 3.1.2 firmware IPSW — The iPhone Dev Team urges iPhone 3GS and iPod Touch users who wish to jailbreak to stay away from this update until further notice!

Downloads:
iPhone OS 3.1.3 Downloads will be up shortly!
iPhone 2G EDGE 3.1.3 IPSW Download
iPhone 3G 3.1.3 IPSW Download
iPhone 3GS 3.1.3 IPSW Download

The folks over at Kwai.cc have written a simple application for the iPhone that’s pretty powerful. With Kwai.cc’s Instant Share application, you can choose specific photos from your iPhone’s photo album and share them (without uploading) to anyone with a web browser that has Adobe Flash Player installed. It’s simple, choose the photos and the Instant Share app will process the photos to sharing and once it’s done, it will give you a code that you give out to your family or buddies and they enter it at www.kwai.cc. They enter that code and the photos you chose will appear on their screen. If you chose multiple photos, you can scroll through the photos and as you’re scrolling though them on your iPhone, they’re scrolling on your buddys’ or families’ computer screen(s).

Kwai Instant Share doesn’t require Wi-Fi unlike other applications, you can do this over AT&T’s 3G network, which is awesome. Another awesome feature that Kwai Instant Share takes advantage of is, since when you make a call on your iPhone, it doesn’t turn off 3G or WiFi. So you can call your buddy or family member and then press the home screen to start up the Instant Share application and share the code with them along with the photos.

However, there are some things I wish to see improved and there are some features I would like to see added. Like when you share a photo, the photo is not displayed at the full resolution. I would also love to see the ability to add and remove images on-the-fly without having to close the current remote session and starting a new one — that’s just a pain.

In addition: being able to zoom into a specific area in the image would be great. If you zoom the image on the iPhone (you cannot currently), it would be cool to see the image zoom on the remote end. That would change the way many people use the application.

Overall, this application is a great way to share images to your friends and family without having to upload the images. It’s simple, it’s easy, and it’s cheap. The application costs $0.99 for the full application; there’s also a free version that limits the images you can select to 12, and it’s ad supported. You can get the paid version here [iTunes link] or you can get the free ad-supported version here [iTunes link]

- source: kwai.cc

Infinidock is a nice project by a fellow by the name of chpwn, and allows you to have a horizontal scrolling dock on your iPhone or iPod Touch.

Full dock customization: scrolling, adjustable icon amounts, and more! Add as many icons as you want, and the dock will grow to accommodate them, and set how many you want on every page. The ultimate dock customization tool, by one of the developers of ProSwitcher. Please report all bugs and submit all feature requests via email so we can take a look!

This is perfect for people who want more than 5 icons on the Dock without making the Dock look wack. Simply drag and drop the icons into the Dock. You will then be able to swipe to scroll through the icons as they remain in your dock on each page.

This app is available on Cydia for a low price of $0.99

Note: This app requires you to have your iPhone jailbroken with Cydia installed

AppleInsider reports some info from a source claiming that Apple is looking to acquire large quantities of LED camera flash components, initiating speculation that the company is planning to add flash capabilities to its camera on the iPhone, and possibly the iPod touch if it ever gains a camera.

People familiar with Apple’s initiative claim the electronics maker is seeking allotments of LED camera flash components in the tens of millions for delivery during the 2010 calendar year, meaning future iPhones — and possibly the iPod touch — are the most likely recipients of those parts, due to their sales volume. Those same people say that Philips’ Lumileds Lighting sector is believed to be the front-runner for Apple’s business and may have already secured the design win.

Despite the generally-decent image quality of Apple’s existing 3.2-megapixel camera in the iPhone 3GS, increasing numbers of smartphones, including the Motorola Droid and Google Nexus One, have been moving to 5-megapixel camera sensors with LED flash to assist in low-light situations.

Apple has reportedly secured orders with current camera sensor supplier OmniVision Technologies for large quantities of 5-megapixel camera sensors, likely destined for the next-generation iPhone.

- source: appleinsider.com

Today, Apple announced that users have now downloaded over three billion iPhone and iPod touch applications from AppStore since its July 2008 launch.

“Three billion applications downloaded in less than 18 months — this is like nothing we’ve ever seen before,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “The revolutionary App Store offers iPhone and iPod touch users an experience unlike anything else available on other mobile devices, and we see no signs of the competition catching up anytime soon.”

The AppStore reached 2 billion downloads just over 3 months ago. The new milestone represents continued acceleration of growth for the store as Apple’s handheld devices continue to attract significant numbers of customers. The App Store continues to be available to customers in 77 countries, offering applications in 20 categories.

- source: apple.com

All Things D claims that Apple’s rumored media event will actually take place on Wednesday, January 27th rather than the 26th as originally rumored.

Sources in a position to know tell me Apple (AAPL) is indeed planning a media event later this month at which it will announce a major new product. The gathering is to be held at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, a space Apple often uses for media events like these. According to other sources, it will occur on Wednesday Jan. 27, not Tuesday Jan. 26, as had been rumored.

Apple is rumored to be launching the highly expected Apple Tablet rumored to be called “iSlate” – Other rumors suggest that Apple will be announcing details about the next generation iPhone

- source: digitaldaily.allthingsd.com