10.5.6 kills jailbreaking capability

Chauncey Dupree
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December 15, 2008
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According to iPhone Alley, Apple pushed the OS updates today that disabled the ability to jailbrekeak the iPhone/iPod touch just like it had previously done in unibody MacBooks.  No word yet from the iPhone Dev team except..um.. DON'T UPDATE!.

Comments (9)

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | December 15, 2008 - 6:30pm

One of the great benefits of not jailbreaking your phone: you don't have to worry about this sort of crap. An update comes along, you can just install it.

Chandler B. (not verified) | December 15, 2008 - 7:16pm

Very true. I gave up on jailbreaking because it was to much work and you had to worry about stuff like this. Plus the only reason I wanted to jailbreak was because I wanted Customize.... which doesn't even work anymore!

Awesome mac guy (not verified) | December 15, 2008 - 7:33pm

i was able to jailbreak my iphone 3g today right after i updated, i dont understand this post.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | December 15, 2008 - 8:52pm

That not JailBreaking is pretty sweet. I also like DRM in my music. I think my mind would hurt if I had options.

I hate the JailBreaking because it involves clicking the mouse 2 or 3 times. That is really hard.

Ya'll make me sick. Benefits indeed. I am shocked you even ran your updates.

hansolo1979 (not verified) | December 16, 2008 - 12:25am

i guess, what u will loose is the ability to pawn the phone.its the same with the unibody mac. if u already have pawned your phone , than producing hacked firmware and put it on the phone via itunes shouldn't be a problem.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | December 16, 2008 - 10:57pm

I will be pawning my iPhone if I can't jailbreak it anymore. ;-p

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | December 16, 2008 - 2:42am

And that's why 2008 is becoming like 1984.

hansolo1979 (not verified) | December 16, 2008 - 4:35am

ON the german site
http://www.macnews.de/news/113350.html
is was written that indeed the jailbreaking is not working.
but one can circumvent this by connecting the iphone via a USB hub.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | December 16, 2008 - 4:19pm

the dev team had three solutions:
1. usb hub
2. do the pwning on a pc
3. reverse the kernelextension changes in 10.5.6

I tried the first two, without any success. The usb hub thing just doesn't work for me, I have a belkin hub, maybe it's a specific thing, the iTunes on windows gave me a 1601 error and it took a lot of time for the machine to recognize the phone in DFU mode.