With iPhone 5 at the most a couple of months away, is there any reason to believe that the dev team is even working on an unlock anymore? 😡
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Is the dev team still working on an unlock?
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rick snagwell
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not trying to be rude, but you should probably post that on their website for a quicker/better answer.
Do they even have a website you can post on? They have a blog but you can't post on that.
And to answer the question, last I heard they were still working on the 40 bit NCK unlock.
Reading Musclenerd's twitter is like watching a dog chase his tail.
These kids really miss Geohot.
rick snagwell
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Carlanga
macrumors 604
True, but last time I looked at the comments its was thousands of 12 year olds asking "yo whers tha unlock/jailbrake noobz0rz" 🙄
And I never looked again.
thelatinist
macrumors 603
Of course they're working on an unlock. But the baseband is getting tighter and tighter, and exploitable crashes few and far between. The Dev-Team has always had a policy of conserving unlocks; rarely do they release more than one per major OS version. Certainly they don't unlock every point upgrade; that would be an incredible waste.
In this case they've released two, have provided a means for people to preserve their basebands, and have created a workaround using the iPad baseband. Even if they were to finish up a new unlock tomorrow, I imagine at this point they would hold it for the release of iOS 5 -- as they should.
In this case they've released two, have provided a means for people to preserve their basebands, and have created a workaround using the iPad baseband. Even if they were to finish up a new unlock tomorrow, I imagine at this point they would hold it for the release of iOS 5 -- as they should.
Few members on Dev team actually could figure out how to unlock.
I'm sure they're working on it, but I doubt they've made much progress. Look at it, ONE firmware of iPhone 4 is unlockable. 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 have all come and gone and yet there's still nothing. The supply of unlockable phones are now very low (I believe last software-unlockable iPhone was back in Sept of 2010?)
I get the releasing one per major OS, but the supply of software unlockable iphones is dwindling.
And I know I sound ungrateful, blah blah, etc. I appreciateD all the work they gave, but now they just don't have that same passion (for reasons I'm sure we all know). Love their work in the past! Just for now, Gevey is the clearer winner.
I'm sure they're working on it, but I doubt they've made much progress. Look at it, ONE firmware of iPhone 4 is unlockable. 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 have all come and gone and yet there's still nothing. The supply of unlockable phones are now very low (I believe last software-unlockable iPhone was back in Sept of 2010?)
I get the releasing one per major OS, but the supply of software unlockable iphones is dwindling.
And I know I sound ungrateful, blah blah, etc. I appreciateD all the work they gave, but now they just don't have that same passion (for reasons I'm sure we all know). Love their work in the past! Just for now, Gevey is the clearer winner.
It's a reasonable question. Since it seems all major US carriers would offer iPhone 5, is the demand as fierce as it was for an unlock? Since it has proven to be a taller task than imagined, is it worth it for them to spend the time without financial motivation?
Apple's clearly paid some very bright people to make their basebands uncrackable.... we're depending on a team without their fearless leader (Geohot), a team that makes tacky posts on Twitter and doesn't issue a public statement...
My money's on no unlock. I'll be buying a factory unlocked iPhone 5 most likely, and will forever remember the most expensive iPod (iphone 4) that i've ever purchased.