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Timeline
Revision as of 06:30, 20 August 2008 by Planetbeing (talk | contribs) (As far as I remember, it was bgm who found the restored vulnerability that let us do the fun stuff that was eventually documented by NerveGas and myself (if that's what this is talking about).)
Contents
2008
August
- August 18 -- The dev team releases QuickPwn, a 2.x pwnage/ramdisk combination exploit that allows jailbreaking without needing to create custom IPSWs.
July
- July 22 -- TA_Mobile harware dumps the 3G baseband (bootloader 5.8 & FW 1.45.00) by desoldering the NOR.
- July 19 -- The dev team releases PwnageTool 2.0, jailbreaking and unlocking the 2.0 software on the iPhone 2G and jailbreaking the 2.0 software on the iPhone 3G.
- July 11 -- iPhone 3G is released.
June
April
- April 3 -- Dev team releases PwnageTool 1.0, making use of the ramdisk exploit, to write to the kernel, to write to the NOR.
March
- March 12 -- Dev team releases dual-boot jailbreak method, only to be silently fixed in 2.0.
- March 4 -- George Zhu (n000b) releases iLiberty.
February
- February 11 -- Zibri releases ZiPhone, the first all-in-one unlock, activate, jailbreak solution.
- February 8 -- geohot releases software unlock for 4.6, Apple states 25% of phones were never activated with AT&T.
January
- January 28 -- Dev team releases soft upgrade jailbreak for 1.1.3.
- January 18 -- Dev team posts YouTube video of a jailbroken 1.1.3, which was made possible by the dual boot jailbreak from bgm.
2007
November
- November 15 -- New baseband bootloader (4.6) comes out, new iPhones can't be unlocked.
- November 2 -- Jailbreakme is released, bringing jailbreaking to the mainstream iPhone user.
October
- October 23 -- iPhone-Elite Team releases the Virginizer.
September
- September 11 -- The dev team releases iUnlock, first free software unlock.
- September 10 -- IPSF releases first paid software unlock.
August
- August 23 -- geohot and team release hardware unlock method.
- August 21 -- Installer.app is released, first GUI apps are distributed.
July
- July 23 -- First phones are used with other carriers by means of SIM hacks.
- July 20 -- nightwatch adapts a toolchain to the iPhone. The first apps are compiled.
- July 9 -- The dev team releases a jailbreak method. The first use of this is ringtones.
- July 3 -- DVD Jon first cracks activation. People can use the apps on the phone without a subscription.
June
- June 29 -- iPhone is released. World's most hyped consumer product.
