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Facebook Home hitting Jailbroken iPhones: Chat Heads first

, Apr 18th 2013 Discuss [0]

Today it's been announced that those working with a Jailbroken iPhone out there in the wild may soon be able to work with the still limited-to-Android Facebook Home feature Chat Heads. While the newest version of Facebook for iOS does include an in-app iteration of the Chat Heads feature for messaging, the build announced today (by unofficial sources, of course), will allow Chat Heads to appear universally, just as it is with Android. Read The Full Story

iOS 7 jailbreak supposedly already in the works

, Mar 29th 2013 Discuss [0]

With an iOS 6 jailbreak now out and about, developers are starting to think ahead to iOS 7. We've already heard from Evad3rs team member David Wang (a.k.a. Planetbeing) about the chances of jailbreaking iOS 7, and according to him, it'll most likely be a slow battle to find the exploits in iOS 7. However, another well-known jailbreaker has stepped up and pointed out that he has a solution. Read The Full Story

iPhone 5 jailbreak tweak allows AT&T users to hop over to T-Mobile

, Mar 28th 2013 Discuss [0]

T-Mobile announced earlier this week that the iPhone 5 would be coming to the carrier, which marks the first time that T-Mobile has officially carried Apple's phone. However, while AT&T models of the iPhone 5 can be updated to support T-Mobile's AWS bands, jailbroken iPhones can't be tampered with in such a way, or else the jailbreak would be lost. However, a new jailbreak tweak fixes this. Read The Full Story

iOS 6.1.3 patches up Evasi0n jailbreak: hold your updates

, Mar 21st 2013 Discuss [0]

Yesterday, Apple released iOS 6.1.3 unto the public, and it came with a couple of big updates as well as some general bugfixes and performance improvements. However, it also patched up some of the exploits used by the Evad3rs dev team in order to jailbreak iOS 6.1, which means that if you update to iOS 6.1.3, you’ll lose your jailbreak.

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iOS 6.1.3 tethered jailbreak hits for older iOS devices

, Mar 19th 2013 Discuss [0]

Apple officially released iOS 6.1.3 unto the public today, and we knew it would patch up the infamous Evasi0n jailbreak, meaning that if you update your iPhone 5 or other newer iOS device to iOS 6.1.3, you'll lose your jailbreak and won't be able to go back. However, another jailbreak method has been released, and it works on iOS 6.1.3 on older iOS devices. Read The Full Story

PSA: Chrome for iOS update crashes on jailbroken devices

, Mar 5th 2013 Discuss [0]

Yesterday, Google released an update to its Chrome web browser for most of the major platforms, including Windows, Linux, iOS, and Android. However, it appears that a lot of users have been experiencing crashing issues with the new update on iOS, including many of our readers, as well as myself. It turns out that the update doesn't quite work well on jailbroken iDevices. Read The Full Story

Evasi0n jailbreak now running on over 14m devices

, Mar 4th 2013 Discuss [0]

Four days after the highly-anticipated iOS 6 jailbreak, 7 million iOS devices were running the hacked firmware. Now, exactly one month after the jailbreak's release, over 14 million iOS devices are running Evasi0n, with 23 million iDevices running all versions of a jailbreak, both past and present. Read The Full Story

iOS 6.1.3 comes with Evasi0n jailbreak fix

, Feb 25th 2013 Discuss [0]

The latest version of iOS 6.1 is currently being beta tested as we speak, and the update will end up fixing that pesky lock screen vulnerability that's probably not as huge of a deal as people are making it, but nonetheless, it's there. However, iOS 6.1.3 also comes with a fix that finally blocks the infamous Evasi0n jailbreak. Read The Full Story

Evasi0n jailbreak updated for iOS 6.1.2. untethered

, Feb 20th 2013 Discuss [0]

On February 4, the folks behind Evasi0n released the untethered jailbreak for iOS 6.1. Not long after, Apple rolled out the iOS 6.1.2 update to deal with some issues with the mobile operating system, and Evad3rs - the team responsible for the jailbreak - got to work. As of today, the evasi0n application has been updated to version 1.4, allowing users to jailbreak iOS 6.1.2 devices untethered Read The Full Story

Evad3rs member Planetbeing talks iOS 7 jailbreaking

, Feb 14th 2013 Discuss [0]

The iOS 6 jailbreak is officially out and it's had plenty of time to get into the hands of eager jailbreakers, specially 7 million of them. Now that the Evad3rs dev team has had some time to relax, one of the members was available to answer questions on Reddit today. Planetbeing, the hacker also behind the first jailbreak ever, discussed his thoughts on jailbreaking iOS 7. Read The Full Story

Pebble watch jailbreak tweak shows all notifications from iPhone

, Feb 14th 2013 Discuss [0]

The Pebble smartwatch is finally shipping to customers after a number of delays, and we even got our hands on the thing during CES 2013 last month. Jailbreakers and app developers are also getting in on the fun, and now we're seeing what looks to be the first jailbreak tweak for iPhone built for the Pebble smartwatch. Read The Full Story

Apple TV 5.2 jailbroken, aTV Flash updated

, Feb 13th 2013 Discuss [0]

Apple recently updated its Apple TV to version 5.2, bringing support for Bluetooth keyboards and the "Up Next" playlist feature. Now, a couple of weeks after release, the latest version has been jailbroken for those who wish to open the settings a bit to tinker around. aTV Flash also updated to support 5.2, which allows users to do a slew of neat stuff, including setting specific favorites and surfing the web. Read The Full Story
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