After a seemingly long delay, the wait is finally over. PwnTunes has been ported over to work with all 4.3 firmwares. Apple had changed just about every aspect of the iPod framework, so after much effort PwnTunes had to be completely rewritten from scratch.

Thanks to all our users for their patience, and most especially thanks to those persons that were working on the Amazon outages. Cydia Store’s capabilities have been entirely restored about an hour ago. A tweet by saurik breaks it down: 86 hours of offline time, days and nights of screwed-up sleeping patterns to be available at a moment’s notice. A hectic weekend closes with much rejoicing and jubilation. Now, go forth and download. :)

As some of you may find purchases fail or simply time out the last day or two in Cydia. This is caused by the amazon ec2 outage. When the amazon issues are sorted out, so should be cydia issues. Further, this may make repository updates slow because server side queries to cydiastore may be taking up excess connections. In short, everything may be flaky for a bit. My suggestion is simply to try again later.

There is nothing down on the side of BigBoss or Saurik so there’s nothing we can do at this time but wait.

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Thanks to developer Ryan Petrich, you can now neuter your iPhone location tracking.

Not sure what this is about? CNN and other news sites have been going on the last day about the fact that location services stores your location history in a database on your device called consolidated.db. The news sites makes a big fuss about this and has gotten everyone all up in arms over privacy issues. (My opinion is that this is all silly since the info is stored only on your personal device and computer and not sent to apple or anyone else, therefore, it’s no more a violation of your privacy as storing your contacts info on your device and computer. No information is being sent to Apple or anyone else. This is no violation of your privacy. Silly.) Nonetheless, people are upset over it since the news made a fuss, so the jailbreak community provides you a fix for it.

Now, understand what this is. In its current state, this is a process daemon that runs every 30 seconds every 5 minutes if the device is not asleep and clears the location data off your device. Search for untracker in cydia and install it.

It turns out Apple did not patch the exploit used to jailbreak 4.3.1 in 4.3.2. So i0nic updated his kernel patches and we now have an untethered 4.3.2 jailbreak via redsn0w v0.9.6rc14 or newer.

If you have 4.3.1 you don’t need to update to 4.3.2 (what a waste no features warranting an update). If you’re stuck on 4.3.2 for whatever reason (yea I know, your brother accidentally updated), however, you can now jailbreak.

iphone 4 users: there’s an issue with this jailbreak and you should wait for an upcoming fix before updating. The problem is that the untethering exploit isn’t working and has to be debugged so iPhone 4 users may be tethered in the meantime. Please wait a few hours and for a redsn0w update for this to be solved.
iPhone 4 supported as of 0.9.6rc14.

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Urgent action required for anyone that likes jailbreaking 4.3.1, 4.3.2, or 4.3.3 and wants to do so in the near future.

For those of you unaware of the Apple firmware update policy, you can only restore firmware version that Apple approves. When you restore in iTunes, it goes to Apple’s web site and verifies if you are eligible for this specific version. This was solved by Cydia storing your SHSH (the is it ok to restore this version request response from Apple). This has been ok for the last year.

For current 4.3.2 SHSH, use the latest tiny umbrella version (same instructions) (Windows) and (OSX).

Watch the firmwareumbrella website for a 4.3.3 capable version and use it when you can!

To do this, go to advanced, uncheck “request shsh from cydia” and uncheck “set hosts to cydia on exit”. Then restart umbrella, go to show all shsh’s and save them all. In the logs you should see 4.3.1 come down. This will allow you to restore 4.3.1 or 4.3.2 through umbrella’s tss server if you need to.

Cydia’s SHSH system will hopefully be back up soon. When it is, I will post about it on this site. (Note: your older shsh’s are still safely stored in Cydia and are not lost).

Alternative to this is to install iSHSHit from Cydia, back up your SHSH and then email it to yourself. From there you can copy it to tinu umbrella’s SHSH folder.

Changes:

v3.3.1
• Fix: statusbar date on 4.2.1 or newer devices.

v3.3
• Fix: Updated fix blanks button to hopefully not crash when more than one blank exists
• Fix: Hopefully fixed the more app crashing when one of the ads cannot load.
• Fix: When moving toggles order, added back the “save” button so user knows to press “save” to save changes.
• Fix: Lock screen buttons when you hit the power button on the lock screen. Removed lock and the title so it fits.
• Fix: Internal window ordering in main drop down window to help compatibility issue with folder enhancer.
• New: Added option to more app, system options, to delete the carrier name to give more space to statusbar for things like date and free memory.
• New: Included Max’s Serious SBSettings HD theme that adds a retina icons display theme to default sbsettings. Thanks to Max at maxthemes.com for this great theme!
• New: Added retina icons for the more app for retina displays. Thanks to 42395_skyline for these icons!
• New: Added support for springboard key that was used by makeitmine app. This means that installing SBSettings should actually fix makeitmine. (I did this because it’s needed for the delete carrier name option).
• Toggles: Removed phone toggle from default. It doesn’t work on 4.2.1 and newer devices. Use airplane instead. (Phone toggle is now installable via separate package in cydia for older devices).

Note: Everytime I release an update to SBSettings, my inbox is literally flooded with a whole bunch of “SBSettings bugs” that are not even remotely related to SBSettings. Sometimes it takes a long time to debug these issues and point out which app had the issues. If you are having problems, and it’s some wacky thing that is not in the change log above, you should consider removing mobile substrate and all the apps it wants to remove, rebooting, installing sbsettings in this state, and seeing if you can reproduce the issue. Then reinstall your apps one-by-one. I know it’s a pain, but this is basically what I’ll recommend you do when I sense that the issue cannot be SBSettings related.

As the subject says. Apple is pushing iOS 4.3.2 via iTunes. You cannot jailbreak it so do not update. You will gain nothing and lose everything you have installed on your jailbreak.  The official changes in the 4.3.2 update is “fixes some facetime issue and 3g connectivity issues on ipad”. Sigh.

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SpiritOfLogic’s latest PhotoAlbums+ update now adds support for the newly jailbroken 4.3.1 firmware. For those of you that dont know what PhotoAlbums+ is, its a simple CameraRoll Management Tool.  It allows you easily create custom photo albums so you can sort out all the images/videos from your CameraRoll directly on your device without having to [...]

Dev team has released an untethered 4.3.1 jailbreak in the form of redsn0w 0.9.6rc9 or newer or pwnagetool 4.3.1.  Credit goes to Stefan Esser (I0n1c) for finding this one.  (Let’s hope he’s a new player here to stay, if you can find out where to donate to him, go do so).

You can download redsn0w MAC or Windows and use our guide here if you have questions.  Read more about it at the dev team blog.

Warning for unlockers: WARNING WARNING — ultrasn0w users don’t update yet! We need to first release an update to ultrasn0w that fixes some incompatibilities when FW 4.3.1 is used on the older basebands supported by ultrasn0w.

Note: this does not work on 4.3 currently. Only 4.3.1. Also does not support iPad 2.

If you have problems with redsn0w hanging uploading payload on Windows 7, try setting XP Compatibility Mode.

29 March 2011 TextFreek integration (text for FREE!!!) – See biteSMS, Settings, TextFreek. iOS 4.3 compatibility. New feature for the default send method to be ‘Remember per Contact’. Especially useful when you’d like to switch to using the biteSMS network for specific friends (say international or not included in your carriers unlimited plan). Added ringtone [...]

So today, Modmyi put up a post about 4.3.1 tethered jailbreak being out.  But there is a reason I did not post about this. In fact, it should all be avoided.

Tethered jailbreak means that when your device reboots, you will have a connect to itunes logo on your screen and have to rerun the jailbreak software to get out of this mode. There is a “real” 4.3 jailbreak on its way out soon. You should all wait for that.

Further, the 4.3.1 tethered jailbreak bundles are incomplete and do not provide updated kernel patches.  The pwnage bundle going around is not a one created by the dev team. The ih8snow products are put together with no new code. Instead, they only assemble new bundles using existing older jailbreak exploits. (This is also why I never recommend using these products). No testing has been done, developers have not updated any tweaks / extensions for 4.3.1, etc. The update is not critical by any means, simply avoid it for now.

As for “this must be better than nothing right?” No, it really isn’t. I believe since the sandboxing issue isn’t worked out that Safari will be broken after Cydia runs the first time. To test this, I decided to jailbreak with it but unfortunately for me, after the jailbreak completes, Cydia won’t even load.

Updated 3/9/2011.

iOS v4.3 is out. This is mainly to support ipad2.  It adds a couple small features such as SMS reminder on incoming SMS messages, personal hotspot, and iTunes home sharing. Nothing big.

As always, I give my standard warning not to update and wait for the jailbreak release. This time, I am giving some extra caution, however.

At time of this writing, there is no jailbreak out yet. In addition, none of the new features are worth trading away your jailbreak. The first jailbreaks are likely to be tethered. So make sure you wait for an official update of greenpoison or redsn0w before you update. I’ll definitely announce when these are ready.

In addition, with 4.3 comes apple’s implementation of address space layout randomization (ASLR). In short, this will mess up the way mobile substrate works. You will need a new mobile substrate in order to use your favorite tweaks such as winterboard, sbsettings, bitesms, folder enhancer, etc. So you should definitely avoid 4.3 until an “official” jailbreak is released for it.