The Dev Team released the iPhone 2.2.1 jailbreak. You can download the files pwnage or quickpwn (Mac) / quickpwn (Windows). At this point, only MAC OSX Quickpwn and pwnage are released. You should read the dev team blog for details and warnings on the upgrade relating to the 3g unlock. The 2g baseband has not been upgraded so you will not lose your unlock if you are unlocking a 2g iPhone. The 3g yellowsn0w 0.97 has been released also.

Additionally, the procedure is the same so if you need help head on over to the guides section and read the pwnage or quickpwn guides.

Confused about which one to use?

Pwnage – use this if you are going to unlock your 3g. It will prevent a baseband update. Use this to build a custom firmware and program it on. This will do the upgrade for you so you do not need to update in itunes.

Quickpwn – use this if you want to just upgrade in itunes then jailbreak. Do not use this if you are unlocking a 3g. Use this if you have already updated to 2.2.1.

Finally, a personal comment. Should you upgrade at all? If you are running 2.1 or 2.2, I say no. 2.2.1 is pretty much worthless. If you are running anything under 2.1 yes you should upgrade. 2.0-2.0.2 are horribly buggy and slow. 2.1 and newer solve this. If you are below 2.0, you dont even have appstore and you are obsolete. Upgrade!

There’s a hacked up version of quickpwn 2.2.1 going around. This is basically just quickpwn 2.2 with a hacked up bundle added to it by a 3rd party. This is not the official quickpwn 2.2.1. The official version is actually still being tested. The dev teams prefer to release tested software rather than untested software. Still, if you are interested in trying it out early and are totally fine with having unstable, unknown, untested software, you can try it out from here. This only has 2g bundles so if you have an iPod or iPhone 3g, you need to wait.

Apple released iPhone firmware v2.2.1. As always, hold off on your upgrade. This one sounds pretty worthless anyway. In this upgrade, it claims to fix safari stability (which was already stable on 2.2, and they always claim to fix this anyway) and solved some issue in emailing photos. The 2g baseband did not get updated. The 3g baseband is at 2.30.03. If you were using yellowsn0w, this will shut you down. I’m sure jailbreak will be available soon. So just hold off.

Major news (even if it’s a day or so old), but the iPhone has 2 copy and paste apps now: Clippy and Clipboard. I have updated the reasons to jailbreak link adding this information. Check out a brief example of how it works using screenshots of me pasting from notes to safari using Clippy:

Here is the text, then mark the text.

Copy the marked text, then paste the text, in this case, I pasted into safari.

You can install Clippy from Cydia.

Clipboard shoudl be in Cydia in a day or two. See more information about it here.

One of my friends and favorite developers, Lance Fetters (ashikase) has created a mobile substrate plug-in that enables TVOut on any app. [more ...]

I released a toggle pack update today for SBSettings. This toggle pack should fix some issues with SSH toggle. [more ...]

iRealSMS 2.0.7 was released with many bug fixes, some great new features and the 10 days trial option. Read on to view the new features and list of bug fixes.

Edit by BigBoss: I love this app and can’t live without it. Quickreply makes this one published of the reasons to jailbreak your iPhone.

There you guys go, a brand new screenshot. Let us know how you like it! Tweet with us! https://twitter.com/jailbird_dev FAQ Q: Can I jailbreak my iPod Touch 2G with Jailbird? A: If the ability is there to do it, it will be built into Jailbird, but as of right now…this second…no you can not Q: [...]

iPod Touch2G Jailbreak coming!

They have kept it quiet long enough. The iphone-dev team have some great news posted on their blog relating to what redsn0w actually is. Previous speculation was the ultimate iPhone 3G unlock (bootloader exploit). Others thought it was a prank, but we confirmed that in fact, redsn0w.com belonged to the fabulous devs.

Jailbird is a new application that will allow Windows users to jailbreak & unlock their iDevices!

Jailbird is meant to be a replacement for WinPwn, this means unlike Quickpwn, you will be able to generate a Custom IPSW and change your partition size!

EasyWakeup wake you up at the most opportune time using special sensor (aka accelerometer) EasyWakeup has been updated to version 1.7. The application has lots of changes since 1.5b. We successfully work in full sleep mode support (aka working on locked device). Also we fixed some bugs and updated the user interface – now the [...]

Hello fellow Jail Breakers! After staying up countless nights writing code (and drinking way too much Red Bull,) I would like to introduce my latest application. I have called it… drum roll… iSpoof! This is the app the phone companies don’t want you to have. iSpoof gives you COMPLETE control over your phone calls, empowering [...]

Thanks to the hard work and dedication from the Dev-Team, the iPhone 3G’s software unlock solution is near completion and quite stable. I have been following forum posts from hackintosh, modmyi, and howardforums and the consensus is pretty clear it works for 95% of the people around the world using different types of sims and carriers.

Before yellowsn0w, I used the “Virgin-Sim” sim proxy, and it worked quite well with T-mobile USA. When yellowsn0w was released on New Years Eve, I disregarded reading any forums and continued to restore my iphone to 2.2 (I was at 2.1) and install yellowsn0w. To my disappointment, it was a pain to get working (multiple reboots, airplane mode toggling, and sim removal and reinsertion).

I have made some site format changes to help accomodate a couple requests I have had from you users. The first request was to try to make the page a bit faster to load. So I am now only showing a few excerpts from the article with a “continue reading” link so that you don’t have to load every image from every post on the main page.

The second request was that with the app authors being able to write their own posts, it was no longer easy to find my posts, and that is what many users said they came here to read. So I have created a link at the top of the posts that will allow you to view only my posts. I have also put the author’s name in RED so that it stands out on each post.

I really want to allow developers hosting in the BigBoss Repository to be able to annouce their own apps to everybody here. That way developers can get some feedback from the users. I know that it has helped me a lot in my own apps to have comments.

HWPlanner has been updated to version 1.2-2 with lots of new changes. I updated the interface so now it has much nicer transitions, and I fixed a couple bugs. Unfortunately the ability to edit assignments after you make them is not out this version, but it will be out in the next version. Also in [...]

You love your iPod touch as much as we do? Wish you could send SMS messages from it? Now you can: nibbleSMS lets you send SMS messages directly from your iPod touch! Although you can only send SMS messages, not receive them, it’s still convenient and cheap. Although the nibbleSMS application is free, to send [...]