4.6 Bootloader Progress, Exploit Found But... @ tk here on Tuesday, November 27, 2007 5:35 PM
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007

4.6 Bootloader Progress, Exploit Found But...

Ever since , much progress has been made in cracking the 4.6 bootloader that comes with new 1.1.2 iPhones.

But first, let's take a look at . The options available are



As you may have noticed, each of the hardware unlocks mentioned above come with several major drawbacks. With this in mind, we'll now look at the devious plans of iPhone hackers.

Hackint0sh member pspsully has . The first two deal with hardware based unlocks which wouldn't be very useful to many people. The last item, which focuses on a software exploit for the 4.6 bootloader, .

However, that a new firmware needs to be released by Apple in order for this to be of any use, due to a logic change in the new bootloader. In the , he explains this issue of requiring a new firmware release in further detail.

Unfortunately, all this means that

When we get the next firmware update, once the secpack is retrieved, we should have no problem unlocking 1.1.2 with bootloader 4.6, however, after the next firmware comes out, we WILL NOT be able to update to it as we will then need the secpack from the one AFTER THAT to unlock it.


In short, if no workaround is found, software unlockers will always be one version behind Apple's latest firmware.

 
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