Free Iphone Unlock

Some users claimed that they cannot jailbreak the Apple devices that they bought recently with Redsn0w. There have been a lot of speculations and one is that Apple might have patched the limera1n exploit that has been used in Redsn0w to jailbreak the iOS 4.2.1 in newer iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches.

Limera1n was first introduced way back in October by Geohot as a jailbreaking tool for iOS 4.1 using a bootrom exploit. Since it was bootrom exploit or in the hardware level, it means that Apple could not stop the exploit from being used in existing iDevices and to prevent users from jailbreaking their gadgets. However, Apple can now prevent their newer iDevices from jailbroken by patching the bootrom exploit.

One user told in a forum that he believed that Apple already patched the exploit to newer iDevices. He said, “I made a trip to the Apple Store today to get an iPad for my old lady (Christmas present). She told me she’d love it jailbroken, so I sat down in front of my computer to redsn0w this 4.2.1 iPad. One problem–redsn0w 0.9.6b6 could not upload a pwned iBSS (hanged at the white screen on OS X, upload timed out and rebooted into jailed state with Windows). Furthermore, the device constantly stalls when attempting to dump its bootrom. This leads me to believe the injection vector used via USB has been patched in DFU mode. Case in point: Any iOS device with a serial number xx050 (this week) or higher might be unable to be jailbroken via the limera1n exploit. Slightly older devices may be invulnerable as well.”

You can find out if you can still jailbreak your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch with limera1n by looking at the serial number to find out which week your iDevice was manufactured. The serial number can be found on the iTunes summary page or Settings App –> General –> About –> Serial Number. The first two digits of the serial number gives you the factory ID of where it was manufactured and the next three digits (Digits 3-4-5) tells you when it was manufactured.

Based on speculations, new iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad manufactured from the 50^th week of 2010 may have the updated bootrom. This is not the first time that Apple did this to stay ahead in the cat and mouse chase with the jailbreaking community. October last year, Apple started shipping iPhone 3GS with newer bootrom to prevent jailbreaking.

If you own a device from Apple such as iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, you probably know that Flash content does not work on any of the aforementioned device and it will not happen anytime soon as Steve Jobs explained in his open letter describing why they did not allow Adobe Flash in their platform.

However, it has not stopped the people from figuring out a way to run Flash videos in their devices. We have seen few bookmarklets and hacks over the past few years that allowed iDevice users watch Flash videos on their Mobile Safari browser.

Now, a new bookmarklet called iOSFlashVideo was recently released that allows users to watch Flash Videos from different sites such as Vimeo, Dailymotion, Flickr Video and others. The good news is, you no longer have to jailbreak or hack your iDevices.

Simply follow these instructions to setup the iFlashVideo on your iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch:

1. Open your iDevice’s Mobile Safari browser and point it to http://iosflashvideo.fw.hu/

2. Add the page as a bookmark (Tap on “+” button, then “Add Bookmark” button and then “Save” button).

3. After the bookmark has been added, you need to go back to Safari Bookmarks to edit the iOSFlashVideo bookmark. (Tap on the Bookmark icon, then tap on the “Edit” button and then tap on iOSFlashVideo bookmark).

4. You need to remove everything before javascript from the URL field of the bookmark. That’s it you are all set to use the iOSFlashVideo bookmarklet.

5. Now, if you navigate to any webpage with Flash video content (except YouTube), you will notice that the embedded Flash videos will show up as a blank whitespace.

6. To watch the Flash video, simply tap on the bookmark icon again and tap on the iOSFlashVideo bookmark. The Flash video should now load on your iDevice’s Mobile Safari.