iPhone jailbreak utility updated: AppSnapp
updated 04:00 pm EST, Wed November 7, 2007
AppSnap updated
AppSnapp, an iPhone jailbreaking app, has been updated to add some new features and bug fixes. The jailbreak utility will no longer run unless the iPhone's firmware is version 1.1.1, and the developer has improved the reliability by using HTTP instead of raw sockets to deliver the payload files, which the developer says will increase the probability that the jailbreak will only need to be run once. A progress indicator has been added, and the process is now a push-button concept. The developer has added log files so users can see exactly what happened during the update through the use of SSH or IPHUC – the latter of which now has AFC2 service. AppSnapp is a free download through the iPhone, although the developer is taking donations.
Apple's forthcoming iPhone 1.1.2 update may once again 'brick' – or to render useless - iPhones that use recently-developed 'jailbreak' or 'unlocking' methods. Jailbreaking allows users to modify the software set present in the iPhone, as well as potentially unlocking the phone to use with a different cell carrier. Although jailbreaking an iPhone will grant users more flexibility in the software set, the process has been known to brick phones, even when an update has not been performed.
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I'm skeptical that jailbreaking bricks iPhones. The only source of software that has indisputably been demonstrated to brick iPhones is Apple.
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