The iPhone OS 3.0 and 3.1.2 firmwares have been jailbroken through various methods for some metre now, but you whitethorn wealthy person noticed that you tin can no yearner tether your iPhone. That’s because the latest fixes that Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) put option into the iPhone OS 3.1.2 pretty much killed the information tethering (IPCC tethering) hack that allowed jailbroken iPhone users to use their earpiece as a radio 3G modem. Today, the always impressive iPhone Dev Team has resurrected IPCC data tethering on the iPhone. How, you ask? Through the new redsn0w 0.9.2 iPhone jailbreak utility!
If you’ve used ultrasn0w or PwnageTool, you’ve already acquainted yourself with the Dev Team’s work. This latest release of redsn0w differs from PwnageTool in that it doesn’t touching the baseband firmware (the computer code that controls how your cellular modem connects to radio networks) and doesn’t even need iTunes to do its thing.
Rather than creating a custom .ipsw restore filing cabinet that is used to restore and break your iPhone, redsn0w breaks into your iPhone like a ninja and hacks out all of Apple’s microcode tribute technologies. iTunes never comes into play. All you motive to do is connect the iPhone to your computer, fire up the redsn0w usefulness, and you’ll be goodness to go in a substance of proceedings.
redsn0w blasts blackra1n out of the water by oblation features like automatic Cydia installation, usance logos, afc2 and the IPCC tethering hack. The new redsn0w utility’s IPCC tethering hack is itself enough intellect to tally redsn0w, even if you’re already jailbroken.
To hammer home just how easy it is to use redsn0w, we’re not even going away to place a redsn0w “How to” templet/tutorial. Download and read up on redsn0w here. Done.
redsn0w 0.9.2