So we know that jailbreaking 1.1.3 is possible (but a bit of a pain), but now we’re also hearing that the pain doesn’t necessarily stop once you’ve finished the jailbreak. Gizmodo is reporting on various issues including the breakage of Google Location and of various native apps. The latter isn’t too surprising, as there are lots of internal changes in 1.1.3 that seem to be getting the iPhone ready for official apps. How’s that? Well most applications don’t run as root and there’s even a hidden application key that programs will need to run. (That last means that hackers might someday be able to provide native apps without resorting it iTunes)
If all that doesn’t scare you and you haven’t updated to 1.1.3 yet, a couple of 13-year-olds have released an over-the-air solution for you over at http://ijailbreak.com/. 1.1.3 folks will need to downgrade to take advantage of it, though.
Sadly,the issues don’t appear to be limited to just people who are hacking away at their iPhones. Folks are noticing that 1.1.3 seems to be dropping calls and handing Bluetooth poorly (though there are some ugly fixes for that).
You? How’s 1.1.3 been treating ya?
Looks like our set of Native iPhone Apps articles are relevant again for a whole swath of people, as it looks like version 1.1.3 has not only been Jailbroken, but that Jailbreak is now live for both Windows and Mac. This comes after some drama yesterday regarding whether or not the impending Jailbreak release was some sort of prank. The Unofficial Apple Weblog, as is often does, had the last word and said they knew it was coming, and come it did.
So, 1.1.3′ers, will you be (re)Jailbreaking your iPhone?
Here’s some good 1.1.3 news, two pieces of it. Piece one is that 1.1.3 looks to be pretty comprehensive in how much of the firmware is re-written. Which is to say that it seems to overwrite some of the nasty bits that could have been corrupted with a bad AnySIM unlock. If you have an iPhone that’s inoperative, it’s worth a shot to apply the 1.1.3 patch. Sure, you’ll be stuck back on AT&T again, but at least the thing will be functional:
To upgrade, we put the phone in recovery mode, then connected to iTunes and restored/ upgraded. After the phone had finished upgrading, it would not work with our already valid ATT sim, so we had to activate the phone using iTunes. This is where we ran into some trouble, because after activating the iPhone under our existing account, the phone still did not show any signal and would not activate to our account. We restarted the phone and just like magic, were taken directly to the home screen. – Confirmed: Bricked iPhones Rise From the Grave With Firmware 1.1.3
The other news is that 1.1.3 has already been jailbroken (well, it was a hardware jailbreak first, then this software-jailbreak). Either way, people looking to get native apps back on their 1.1.3 iPhones will need to wait a bit longer for public consumption — or just wait for the SDK to finally be official in very short order.
Oh – one last piece of 1.1.3 news, you’re no longer stuck with it if you prefer the older version, but the downgrade isn’t the easiest thing on earth.
