Redsn0w – the most popular jailbreaking tool has been updated to version 0.9.9b1, this update brings some important features and fixes that makes it one of the most significant update of the tool. I’m sure that this news brings some excitement to the Apple fans especially to those guys who love to do some hacking stuff (jailbreaking) with their iOS devices.
Actually Redsn0w is a utility that runs on the iOS device that allows the users to unlock all the locked features of the devices that are not available by-default. The unlocking is done via installation of Cydia that allows the users to access tweaks, the root directory and the file system. Cydia is a third-party iOS program that let the users to install application on a jailbroken iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad.
Redsn0w’s new version eliminate the most time taking step of the procedure that is downloading of the .iPSW file. This file must be required to go through the procedure, it is device specific and its size is greater than 600MB, so it will take a lot of time to download if your network speed is not that good. However, the new version will automatically download all the essential information to save time of the users.
According to the official announcement following is the list of new features:
- uses DFU mode to try to automatically determine which device and FW you have.
- fetches pieces of public IPSWs from Apple (once). Non-public IPSWs must be provided manually (once). It then caches those pieces for future use.
- “Just boot” is a tethered boot. Uses whatever “Preferences” you’ve set for boot logo and kernel boot-args.
- “Pwned DFU” puts your device in a pwned DFU state for some of the iTunes stuff detailed below.
- “Recovery fix” gets past 1015 types of errors (when baseband portion of restore fails). Should work on iOS5 beta too.
- “Select IPSW” is for picking non-public IPSWs, or overriding auto-detection.
- “SHSH blobs” has a bunch of options.
- “Fetch” – fetch current PARTIAL blobs on device. Should complete in under 10 or 15 seconds. Puts the set of PARTIAL of blobs on your computer as a plist. Checks if Cydia already has a full set for this device and build. If not, it submits this PARTIAL set and returns Cydia’s acknowledgement or rejection.
- “Verify” – cryptographically verifies existing blob files from either redsn0w, TinyUmbrella, or Cydia server. You can select a whole bunch of blobs to verify at once if you want (like the TinyUmbrella directory).
- “Submit” – both verifies and submits one or more blob files to Cydia. This lets you copy your entire TinyUmbrella cache of blobs up to the Cydia server.
- “Query” – queries the Cydia server for all available FULL or PARTIAL blobs for a given set of ECIDs.
- “Stitch” – stitches either FULL or PARTIAL blobs to a STOCK or CUSTOM IPSW.
1. FULL blobs stitched to a STOCK IPSW gives you a completely self-contained signed IPSW that iTunes will accept without any tricks (no need to go into pwned DFU mode, no need to start TinyUmbrella TSS server, no need to redirect to Cydia server for blobs)
2. PARTIAL blobs stitched to any IPSW requires you to go into pwned DFU mode before running iTunes. No need to start TU or use Cydia though.
3. stitching either FULL or PARTIAL blobs to a CUSTOM IPSW also requires a pwned DFU start before iTunes restores. No need to start TU or use Cydia though.
4. stitching is NOT yet supported on iPhones (well, at least not tested). Need to work out the baseband part of the restore process.
5. will eventually support fetching the blobs directly from Cydia instead of a file on your computer.
Redsn0w’s new version eliminate the most time taking step of the procedure that is downloading of the .iPSW file. This file must be required to go through the procedure, it is device specific and its size is greater than 600MB, so it will take a lot of time to download if your network speed is not that good. However, the new version will automatically download all the essential information to save time of the users.
According to the official announcement following is the list of new features:
- uses DFU mode to try to automatically determine which device and FW you have.
- fetches pieces of public IPSWs from Apple (once). Non-public IPSWs must be provided manually (once). It then caches those pieces for future use.
- “Just boot” is a tethered boot. Uses whatever “Preferences” you’ve set for boot logo and kernel boot-args.
- “Pwned DFU” puts your device in a pwned DFU state for some of the iTunes stuff detailed below.
- “Recovery fix” gets past 1015 types of errors (when baseband portion of restore fails). Should work on iOS5 beta too.
- “Select IPSW” is for picking non-public IPSWs, or overriding auto-detection.
- “SHSH blobs” has a bunch of options.
- “Fetch” – fetch current PARTIAL blobs on device. Should complete in under 10 or 15 seconds. Puts the set of PARTIAL of blobs on your computer as a plist. Checks if Cydia already has a full set for this device and build. If not, it submits this PARTIAL set and returns Cydia’s acknowledgement or rejection.
- “Verify” – cryptographically verifies existing blob files from either redsn0w, TinyUmbrella, or Cydia server. You can select a whole bunch of blobs to verify at once if you want (like the TinyUmbrella directory).
- “Submit” – both verifies and submits one or more blob files to Cydia. This lets you copy your entire TinyUmbrella cache of blobs up to the Cydia server.
- “Query” – queries the Cydia server for all available FULL or PARTIAL blobs for a given set of ECIDs.
- “Stitch” – stitches either FULL or PARTIAL blobs to a STOCK or CUSTOM IPSW.
1. FULL blobs stitched to a STOCK IPSW gives you a completely self-contained signed IPSW that iTunes will accept without any tricks (no need to go into pwned DFU mode, no need to start TinyUmbrella TSS server, no need to redirect to Cydia server for blobs)
2. PARTIAL blobs stitched to any IPSW requires you to go into pwned DFU mode before running iTunes. No need to start TU or use Cydia though.
3. stitching either FULL or PARTIAL blobs to a CUSTOM IPSW also requires a pwned DFU start before iTunes restores. No need to start TU or use Cydia though.
4. stitching is NOT yet supported on iPhones (well, at least not tested). Need to work out the baseband part of the restore process.
5. will eventually support fetching the blobs directly from Cydia instead of a file on your computer.
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