The iPhone 5 has reportedly been jailbroken

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/09/22/the-iphone-5-already-jailbroken/

by superchink • 14 years ago

44 41 14 years ago

guelo• 14 years ago

I tend to think that Apple, and Android manufacturers for that matter, aren't really interested in full lockdown. Jailbreaking is a selling point for a good sized fraction of the market.

Empro• 14 years ago

When it comes to Apple, I seriously doubt it.

hbz• 14 years ago

Apple can't really keep vulnerabilities in iOS even if people demand jailbreaks. It's their obligation to patch them whenever possible to avoid third parties using the same hole to do something malicious.

mikeash2• 14 years ago

If that were the case, why wouldn't they make it easier?

joshryandavis• 14 years ago

They don't trust Cydia, which is understandable.

r00fus• 14 years ago

2 major reasons:

The content industry

Segmenting markets geopraphically

ktizo• 14 years ago

Marketing via nerdsniping. http://xkcd.com/356/

It has to be a challenge to make it interesting.

mason55• 14 years ago

Except Apple hired Comex, a well known iPhone hacker, to improve security

daeken• 14 years ago

I'm surprised that anyone doubts what chpwn posts, even if it is remarkably quick. After all, he's been doing this stuff for years and is quite well known for his jailbreak work; I'm sure he's spent the better part of 2 or 3 months working on a nice iOS6 hack to make this happen.

(Disclaimer: He's been a friend of mine for years, so I can't say I'm not a bit biased)

bmeckel• 14 years ago

No I think most people trust him, he's done a lot of great work in the past. I'm just wondering if he held on to an A5 exploit and it turned out to be identical on the A6 set. If that's the case then it could make for a quicker turnaround for 4s and 5 jailbreaks.

DigitalSea• 14 years ago

This isn't that hard to believer, chpwn is incredibly talented and to be fair iOS 6 has been available in beta form for quite some time now (enough to work out how to potentially jailbreak it).

josso• 14 years ago

It's interesting to see whether it is an A5(X)-exploit that works on the A6 too, or if it's a iOS6 (perhaps iOS5) userland exploit.

bobbles2• 14 years ago

Since I decided not to upgrade to iOS6.0 until the maps thing is sorted out, I've been playing around with Cydia today.

For people that might be interested in what you can do (maybe haven't jailbroken before...) here's what I did.

1) Download Absinthe 2.0.4 for windows.

2) Run the the .exe

3) Click jailbreak

They recommend clearing your phone to increase the speed but it only took me 5 minutes (without removing anything). Once completed, it will add the 'Cydia' app to your screen, which you can use to download other apps & utilities.

Now onto the interesting part.. the apps I've installed today, and what they can do for the phone (all are free):

1) f.lux: Just like flux for the desktop, this will modify the temperature settings of the screen to adjust according to your timezone, being much easier on the eyes at night.

2) IconRenamer: Rename any icons. I like this because I can take something like 'Samsung TV Remote' which looks like 'Sams...ote' on my phone and change it to "TV Remote"

3) BrowserChanger: This allows me to install Google Chrome as my browser, and open all URLs by default in Chrome instead of safari (So I get all my synced bookmarks, etc. Opening a link from another app like Alien Blue, will use chrome instead of safari, as well as 'home screen' shortcuts)

4) ColoredKnob: Allows you to change the 'scroll to unlock' icon colour and size.

5) MissionBoard: Triple-Home-Click will open a MissionControl style background-app selector which shows screenshots of the apps in their current state on a nice background.

6) Torch: Adds a nice little icon next to the clock on the lock screen to enable flashlight torch.

7) Weather Icon: Causes the 'Weather' app to display the actual weather with icon and temperature. Runs based on the first weather screen, which can be set to 'local weather'.

8) Zeppelin: Customise the carrier logo. You can choose from things like the apple icon and countless others, which I like instead of having a giant "YES OPTUS" on my screen.

9) Adblock: Blocks ads.

10) SBSettings: Allows me to swipe my status bar to quickly toggle options like 3G / Wifi / Brightness. etc. You can also download themes to make this look more like a iOS native application.

11) NoNewsIsGoodNews: Disables the Newsstand icon which I have NEVER used in iOS.

12) Springflash: Enables me to double-tap the power button for a torch.. Not really necessary but I like it.

13) YTOpener: Automatically opens any youtube links in the new Google YouTube app. Works awesomely well.

14) LSMusicGestures: Adds swipe gestures for music controls to my lock screen. I love this as I dont have ipod controls on my car stereo. It allows me to do things like swipe to skip song, or double-tap to pause/resume a song. This is awesome as it means I no longer have to look at the phone, or try hitting the tiny buttons on the screen while driving.

Doing all of this took about 30 minutes, doesn't do anything to make my phone look 'tacky', and had no issues at all.

Can't believe I havn't been doing this since the day I got my 4S. I had previously tried using some of these apps on my 3G but it was pretty slow. Everything is nice and slick on the 4S though.

noblethrasher2• 14 years ago

How's the battery life? The FUD (?) around that is pretty much the only thing keeping me from jailbreaking.

bobbles2• 14 years ago

Haven't really had it installed long enough here to notice, but my percentage hasn't gone down any more than it would normally in 3 hours or so.

When using it previously on my 3G it had little to no effect on battery life, the phone itself was just slow. (I didn't jailbreak my 3G until after the iOS 4.0 update turned it to treacle)

saurik2• 14 years ago

Looking at the list of things he installed, I see absolutely no reason why any of it should affect battery performance.

The problem is that once you give someone the power to do anything they want, some of the things the want to do are things that have consequences they don't want, and many people aren't good at correlating the benefits to the costs, even when it "seems obvious".

As an example: if you install something that lets you have an animated HTML5 wallpaper, you are going to have some changes to your battery life. You may also see changes to general performance if the wallpaper doesn't deactivate while you are using apps.

However: that's very specific to that extension. If you install something that changes what happens when a text message comes in, then (barring bugs in the implementation) it is only going to happen when a text message comes in, which is likely negligible.

To the extent to which it is not negligible, then it should be a direct cost of the feature: if you want incoming text messages to be converted to a 3D ray-traced animation of Tom Hanks reading them aloud and uploaded to your Twitter account, that's going to take more power than, say, playing a different sound if the message contains the word "epic".

drivebyacct22• 14 years ago

Huh? No offense but just jailbreaking your phone and then using it the same as always is going to have ZERO effect on your phone. If you use it with weird apps or have an animated homescreen background, yeah, you're going to see a battery hit. Just like if you install an app that streams music over 3g all day (regardless of whether or not you've jailbroken).

Legion• 14 years ago

One you missed: Nitrous. Give non-Safari apps (like Chrome) access to the Nitro JS engine. Not just for browsers, but apps like Alien Blue that open pages in a UIWebView.

Timothee• 14 years ago

Thanks! This is a very good selection for me. (I particularly like f.lux)

I only recently jailbroke my iPhone because I wanted to change some APN settings after switching to an MVNO (StraightTalk), but hadn't really installed anything besides Zeppelin, to remove the carrier name. I had the same "tackiness" sticker in my mind about Cydia. A lot of stuff seems to be tacky though, and the store itself feels very cheap as well.

cageface4• 14 years ago

Kind of amusing that a lot of what people want from jailbreaking is available now in stock Android.

Apple's hardware is top notch but the fact that people have to hack their OS to get these features says a lot about the inertia in Cupertino.

alayne2• 14 years ago

It's a race to the bottom if everyone in the mobile space just tries to maximize feature checklists. I think it's great that Apple tries to be an arbiter of good taste and user experience, even if they fall down sometimes.

wmeredith• 14 years ago

Yeah. I hate to say it, but when it comes to the iPhone, I'm in it for the hardware at this point. iOS is fast, but lame.

gurkendoktor• 14 years ago

I've found "Springtomize" to be a good investment on Cydia. It can hide the Newsstand just like 11) and change the carrier text (no icon AFAIK), but it can also hide everything else- bye bye Stocks, Weather, Compass, Voice Memos, ...

callil• 14 years ago

Another great tweak I have going is 5 column springboard and five icon dock. This gives me a grid of 25 apps per screen, pair this with Shrink to change the icon sizes to 90% of original size, you can hardly tell the difference and your phone is that much more useful.

The best thing is that it allows you to have the ESSENTIAL apps: phone, mail, browser, music and messages all in the bottom tray.

pooriaazimi• 14 years ago

14) Try "Now Player" and "Audium" (both from the app store). They do what you described, and are extremely pretty and nice.

FootballMuse• 14 years ago

I'm not upgrading my i4S to the i5 until the jailbreak is available. Hope to see it soon.

malkia• 14 years ago

One thing that jailbroken device allows is jitting - for example luajit can run at full speed there, and possibly v8 and others.

The iPhone 5 has reportedly been jailbroken

Related Stories