Just like Chronic Dev Team’s GreenPois0n, the Windows counterpart of PwnageTool 4.1 known as Sn0wbreeze 2.1 has been fully open sourced and it’s source code is available to public for free. What’s the point of making it open source? You can modify the tool according to your own liking or even improve it for the betterment of the jailbreaking community under the terms and conditions laid down by General Public License (GNU).
New version of iREB for all iOS 4.1 devices is now available for download. You can use it to bypass 1604, 1603, 1602, 1601, 1600 error in iTunes during custom iOS 4.1 firmware restore which has been created using either Sn0wbreeze or PwnageTool.
Chronic Dev Team have lived up to their promise! The source code for Limera1n-based GreenPois0n iOS 4.1 jailbreak tool is now available publicly for download. You can use the source code under the terms and conditions laid down by General Public License (GNU) to modify the tool to your own liking, or even improve it for the betterment of the jailbreaking community.
Apple has already seeded the final Gold Master version of iOS 4.2 to developers. Public release is looming near. Once the new firmware is out, Apple will stop signing the old firmware, which will make it impossible for you to get SHSH blobs for iOS 4.1.
AnyRing is a new app available on Cydia which enables you to set just about any song as your phone ringtone, or SMS alert on a jailbroken iPhone. You can even record your own sound and set it as your default ringtone alert. All you have to do is to simply drag and drop any song in iTunes, sync it with your iPhone, and then fire up AnyRing app to set it as your default Ringtone.
We have already covered a detailed guide on how to activate FaceTime on iPhone 4 in unsupported countries like the one in the Middle East region with FaceTime Hacktivator. If that tweak didn’t work for you, you can give “MiddleWhat” a try which is now available for free for jailbroken iPhones. The official description of the app is as follows.
There is now a new tweak available in Cydia which allows you to add volume slider control to the now playing bar found in App Switcher / Multitasking Tray on iOS 4.x iPhone and iPod touch devices.
Both the iPhone and Chronic Dev Teams have confirmed that their respective jailbreaking tools, Redsn0w and GreenPois0n are going open source, which means that the entire source code of the mentioned tools will be available to public for free. You can then use the source code to modify the tool to your own liking, or even improve it for the betterment of the jailbreaking community.
The iPhone Dev Team has just released PwnageTool 4.1.1. This is more of a bug fix release which fixes issues for Mac OS X 10.5.x Leopard users.
Firmware Changer Can Change Your Firmware Version to iOS 4.1 Without Updating on iPhone / iPod touch
If, for whatever purpose, you want to make your iOS device look like it’s on iOS 4.1 (or another version) when, in fact, it’s on an older version, then you can use Firmware Changer to do just that without digging into complicated .plist files.