HTC finally gets it. The Taiwanese company will no longer lock the bootloaders on its Android devices. Rooting and flashing will be available to all. This news comes straight from CEO Peter Chou who made the following statement, More »
Ultrasn0w, the iPhone Dev Team’s iOS unlocking tool, was broken recently by Apple’s “aggressive compiler optimization.” Whatever. It works again, sort of, but only for iPhone 3G and 3GS. The iPhone 4 uses a different baseband so that version will have to wait. [iPhone Dev Team via BGR] More »
According to developer Till Schadde, random people may be receiving your AIM messages if you have a jailbroken or unlocked iPhone. In fact, anyone with a jailbroken iPhone may be getting it, according to his testing: More »
We don’t have confirmation on this beyond the word of a Czech-based developer who has tested it, but apparently Apple is blocking push notification services in unofficially unlocked iPhones. However, we have tested it and it works. More »
Not that anyone ever had any doubts that the Dev Team would be able to work their magic on the 3GS, but this is quick: within a week of the phone’s launch, the hackers say they’ve figured it out. More »
The iPhone Dev Team has got us excited (and Apple worried) by announcing they have a fully-working software carrier unlock ready for the 3.0 firmware ahead of its official release. More »
The iPhone 3G unlock is now available. The unlocking software is called yellowsn0w, runs as an invisible application in your iPhone, and it’s very easy to install. Here’s how. [Updating as we try it]
The iPhone Dev Team has a video up showing exactly what their PwnageTool 2.0 looks like. You know, the tool that unlocks iPhone 2.0. Check back in a couple minutes to see the video. This works in both the original iPhone and the iPhone 3G on both 1.1.4 and 2.0 firmware. Woohoo, unlocked iPhones! UPDATE: Video up after the jump.
