Geohot Announces an Untethered Jailbreak for the iPhone 3GS, iPod touch, iPad

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Posted March 25, 2010 at 11:36pm by Shalom Levytam

Geohot has announced an untethered jailbreak for the iPhone 3GS, iPod touch 2G, 3G, and possibly the iPad!

The jailbreak is all software based, and is as simple to use as blackra1n. It is completely untethered, works on all current tethered models(ipt2, 3gs, ipt3), and will probably work on iPad too.

Don't ask about a release date. You won't make it happen any sooner.

We will post more information as it becomes available. Take a look at the video below for a demonstration!

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wezz69 - March 27, 2010 at 12:48pm

The reason they dont release now is: Apple released a minor update (3.1.3) the hackers warn people not to update (people do) and then stuck, but apple only release minor update before major 1s to see if the hackers find any exploits that apple can later fix before releasing the major update, SO: the hackers keep hold of the exploits for the minor updates, hope that apple dont find these exploits then when apple release the major update (4.0 in our case) then the hackers work on the jailbreak using the exploit previously found for the earlier version. Voila new firmware jailbroken along with the new iphone 4g (possibly ipad. Cannot explain any better than im afraid

julie birdsong - March 30, 2010 at 9:43pm

Thank you so much for your explanation. :)

SomniusX - March 27, 2010 at 8:45am

The video is a fake, he tries to make people donate $ to his "cause" but the thing is, there is pixel displacement.. you can see it yourselves!

Joe Cole - March 28, 2010 at 1:28am

Dude, you don't have to donate if you don't want to.

cadiunlock - March 27, 2010 at 4:04am

Whatever you do, we are with you.

GeoHot - March 26, 2010 at 2:31pm

This is the Untethered Jailbreak for iPhone OS 3.2, take a look closer, no release day, sorry

t_01 - March 26, 2010 at 9:21am

That man is a genius. I hope he don't release it until 4.0 is released (if it is) or after a new iPhone is announced so they can't block it.

Sandro - March 26, 2010 at 7:52am

Hi, I don't know if I'm wrong, but what model of iPhone is that in the video? Did you pay attention to the headphone jack? It's upside down?

MuscleNerd - March 26, 2010 at 7:58am

It's not an iphone, it's an ipod Touch 3G. geohot was just following the "video guidelines" we put forth in http://wikee.iphwn.org/howto:video

nannoid - March 26, 2010 at 8:16am

dude, that's an iPod touch not an iPhone

Jayscott - March 26, 2010 at 9:10am

Yeah, if you look, that was an iPod Touch. The headphone jack is on the bottom and also the sleep button is on the right side. The video has no proof what OS is running.

Matjaz - March 26, 2010 at 12:08pm

@Sandro: This is an iPod Touch 3Gen

debora1969 - March 27, 2010 at 10:59am

Thats not an iphone is an ipt3 (ipod touch 3 generation) and I know because it used voice control. I think he is doing a great job for all of us. Im thankful!!!!

maja - March 27, 2010 at 2:23pm

yes,it is upside down,i think that is not iphone.

Tara - March 26, 2010 at 7:39am

Does this mean untethered jailbreak for all firmware (including 3.1.3 on baseband 5.12.01). If yes then this is the best news in months. How soon it is expected? Any word on unlocking 3.1.3 on 5.12.01 baseband. Please reply. Thanks.

vasconand - March 26, 2010 at 7:01am

Really, I don't see anything in this video!!

lacayo - March 27, 2010 at 4:48am

he shows that he has a untheder iPod because we can ser it is jailbroken and also he rebot it and nothing happen

wezz69 - March 27, 2010 at 12:38pm

that means nothing, have you thought it may be an earlier version firmware which is jailbroken and earlier versions werent tethered jailbreaks. you dont see the firmware version beforehand

MuscleNerd - March 26, 2010 at 6:31am

gustavo Leon Madrigal: LOL the simple matter is, if geohot thought we copied him, he'd be the first to call us out on that. As much as you'd like there to be polarization between developers (you know, all of us that are giving you all of this for free), there is not. Nothing will be released for 3.1.3, per agreement between all of those developers you think are fighting each other.

famleon - March 26, 2010 at 9:04am

This is a reply, sorry for the double posting that was an incredible, appropriate and respectful answer, my apologies for the comment, to be honest I did not expected and answer like that coming from you, if you are the real musclenerd from the dev team, my sincere apologies. but based in the way that the other people and the administrators threat people in the dev team site, I must say that I never expect an answer like that. I was thinking you were the same type of people that threat bad others in the dev team.and is funny you mention that there is not a fight among developers, if you post something in the dev team site about geohot or any other, the administrators confused and angry angie delete it... but again the main idea of the response are my apologies to you, directly. at the end, you are the main part of the dev team.

MuscleNerd - March 26, 2010 at 9:18am

Hi...thanks. I think the response you see on the blog is more due to the fact that we can't possibly support all tools there...just those tools we write. Over time (when more and more people ask for support for tools we don't write), you sometimes see the frustration in those replies.

J T Sullivan - March 26, 2010 at 12:29pm

Hi MuscleNerd, thanks for stopping by. I respect you & everyone that embodies the Dev Team, George Hotz, Jay Freeman et al, but out of the two mods at your blog, one (Confucious) is simply arrogant to the point of being annoying. To a certain extent, he reminds me of Steve Jobs and his arrogant one-word-one-line responses to emails. The same goes for this person known as Confucious. Angie on the other hand is much more sober and dynamic, she could never upset anyone. I wish I could say so about your other mod. Now, it's not my place to tell you to rein in this mod, but if only he could treat people with a little bit of dignity instead of upsetting them! I thank you, once more, for all that you do for us. Take care. Best, Jim

chico - March 26, 2010 at 5:16am

I agree, peace.

MuscleNerd - March 26, 2010 at 6:28am

wezz69 - March 26, 2010 at 6:59am

what does that video prove? you do not see what f/w its running, nor the modem version. you cant really see anything apart from apples logo. How do you even know thats Geo? you dont see his face, unless some of you recognise his hands lol. . im a believer but only upon seeing! and on viewing this video, i actually saw nothing. to prove it, ill post a video of exact quality and youll see exactly the same, NOWT! i have the greatest respect for geo, and in fact ow his software and his knowledge saved numerous iphones of mine. i cannot wait for his JB release as my brand new iphone 3gs is sat pretty in its box til the day its released. theres no1 who wants this to be true more than me, and i will bend at geos feet if this is genuine

DNA64 - March 26, 2010 at 7:50am

It was very clear to me lol, if you can't tell the difference then maybe you should watch it a few times and pay closer attention to detail.

carlos vasquez - March 26, 2010 at 8:07am

i didn´t see any jailbreak. :S in fact at the beggining of the video u can see that ipod is using winterboard ....

Steve Anderson - March 26, 2010 at 8:17am

stavros released this jailbreak last week see it's been copied and stolen eh

famleon - March 26, 2010 at 9:02am

that was an incredible, appropriate and respectful answer, my apologies for the comment, to be honest I did not expected and answer like that coming from you, if you are the real musclenerd from the dev team, my sincere apologies. but based in the way that the other people and the administrators threat people in the dev team site, I must say that I never expect an answer like that. I was thinking you were the same type of people that threat bad others in the dev team.and is funny you mention that there is not a fight among developers, if you post something in the dev team site about geohot or any other, the administrators confused and angry angie delete it... but again the main idea of the response are my apologies to you, directly. at the end, you are the main part of the dev team.

Shirwan Khan - March 26, 2010 at 10:41am

If your MuscleNerd, then i'm tupac!

unknown - March 26, 2010 at 8:28pm

well i dont understand why they can't release it as now y waiting for the iphone 4g if they can break 3g ... 3gs they can damn sure break 4g as well, the 4g phone might be can be something totally different than other iphones .. so may be we are waiting for nothing ? but other than that what ever way you fond to jail break or unlock it keep it a secret and .. mean while why dont you find other way to jail break or unlock Specially 3gs.. that would be a challenge but its tight ? Still Thanks to all the ppl who help unlocking it

wezz69 - March 27, 2010 at 12:47pm

Zeljko - March 26, 2010 at 4:40am

UPS he did it again!

TAz - March 26, 2010 at 1:29am

Geo is the man. I am willing to pay him if he hacks the PSP Go and releases a custom firmware for it, because I know he is the only one who can do it unlike Team Typhoon. Go Geo, go!

cadiunlock - March 26, 2010 at 12:52am

Thank you Genius "GeoHot" you are really Hacker B.R from Kosovo