Sep 23, 2012

What Is Jailbreaking ? Why Is It For ? How It Can Be Done ?

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We all know how awesome the Cupertino fruit company and their products are, my favorite iDevice is the second generation iPad, it may vary according to your interests and likes. In this blog we had written a bunch of articles regarding iOS jailbreak and its how to tutorials. But some of my readers have no idea about what does the word ‘jailbreak‘ exactly mean, ‘why should i do this to my iphone ?’, i heard this question many times as comments. Might be a lot of beginners, i mean someone who bought iPhone or iPad or iPod Touch for the first time, doing the jailbreak thing only because a lot of others are doing the same. So i’m likely to explain you the process of jailbreaking and the benefits it does offer you.
Apple Jailbreak Pic What Is Jailbreaking ? Why Is It For ? How It Can Be Done ?

What is jailbreaking and what is its actual use ?.

Privilege Escalation, that is one which simply suited for the word ‘jailbreak’. It is the exploitation of bugs or errors in an operating system which happened at the time of its development. iOS, that is the first mobile operating system comes to our mind while thinking of jailbreak. But it’s not the only one which we can perform jailbreak operations, there are a lot many,the only reason for it is, Apple products are much more popular than others.
Let us go into the details of iOS jailbreaking, Apple had put certain limitations on their products which are running iOS. Because of that, users can download applications and other things only from Apple app store. Is it looks strange to you ?. The main reason behind the development of jailbreak tools is to remove those limitations and allow users to make use of applications, extensions, themes which are not available in Apple app store. Jailbreaking is actually a method to remove the limitations that Apple had imposed on iOS devices by editing its kernel files and thereby makes it a custom made firmare. It will also allow the users to access the root of iOS. Significant aspect is that a jailbroken iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Apple TV can still use the features of Apple like app store, iTunes etc.
When comes more into jailbreaking, it is mainly two types, tethered and untethered. If you have done tethered jailbreak on your iDevice, you need to have the help of a jailbreak utility and a computer every time you boot your device. Untethered jailbreak allows to power your device without any assistance.
It’s obvious that people should think about the legal problems that may occur if they have done jailbreaking. Actually there is nothing like that, jailbreaking is fully legal, but “it can void the warranty”, by Apple. iTunes provides an option to restore the iOS to an earlier version, that will clear the warranty issue. You can restore your jailbroken iOS version to a previous one if you want to make use of the warranty, there will not be any sign of jailbreak once you have restored it.

How to jailbreak iOS devices ?

Jailbreak task can be performed with the help of a jailbreak tool. Many iOS programmers, i can say a lot, have developed different tools which can jailbreak most of all the versions of iOS on Apple devices like iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Apple TV. Like our name says, we are writing more about one of the popular jailbreak tool named redsn0w from iPhone Dev Team. Jailbreak tools are able to perform the task only with the help of a computer, so most of all the jailbreak utilities have its versions for Windows and Mac, you can choose it according to the type of OS that is installed in your desktop computer or laptop.
Most of all users prefer untethered jailbreak, but in some cases developers couldn’t release the untethered method soon after the iOS update, in those cases tethered jailbreak will be helpful. Current latest iOS version the can be jailbroken untethered is iOS 5.0.1. You can do it with the help of latest version redsn0w. Another tool named pwnagetool(version 5.0.1) is also able to do the same task, you can get it from here.
Apple had made a lot of attempts to make the iOS versions without any patches that drive the success of jailbreak tools, but each time, jailbreakers put a step ahead of Apple. In my opinion, jailbreak can be considered as a factor that runs the big sale of Apple products like iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Apple TV. If there is no jailbreak, i don’t think users would buy an iPhone or iPad.
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