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This is geohot's [[jailbreak]] utility. It uses his undisclosed exploit, along with comex's userland exploit, to achieve an [[untethered jailbreak]] on newer devices.
On the 9th of October 2010 limera1n was released, delaying the release of [[greenpois0n]]. limera1n is now in Beta 3. It only supports Windows at the moment and a large number of devices have issues.
 
 
== Background Information ==
 
Limera1n is a jailbreak by [[User:Geohot|geohot]]. It is untethered on all supported devices, which include the following:
 
 
* [[N88ap|iPhone 3GS]] (New [[bootrom]] is now working with Beta 3)
 
* [[N88ap|iPhone 3GS]] (New [[bootrom]] is now working with Beta 3)
 
* [[N90ap|iPhone 4]]
 
* [[N90ap|iPhone 4]]
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* [[K48ap|iPad 1G]]
 
* [[K48ap|iPad 1G]]
   
It has been demonstrated multiple times by geohot, using blog posts on his now private blog. Geohot showed off a high-res picture of Cydia on an iPhone 4. [http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NJ4JFBfr1tY/TDgkAsTQEmI/AAAAAAAAAcw/ZNHDxMNNL4Y/s1600/iphone4.png Image] He displayed an [[untethered jailbreak]] that met MuscleNerd's requirements for a good video on the iPod touch 3G: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__TR86PLiHw YouTube Video] In addition, he demonstrated Cydia, blackra1n, and a verbose boot on an iPad (before Spirit was released): [http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NJ4JFBfr1tY/S7_OvGMqJMI/AAAAAAAAAcE/R5WLrCizGw0/s1600/ipad_jb.jpg Image]
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It has been demonstrated multiple times by geohot, using blog posts on his now private blog. Geohot [http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NJ4JFBfr1tY/TDgkAsTQEmI/AAAAAAAAAcw/ZNHDxMNNL4Y/s1600/iphone4.png showed off a high-res picture of Cydia on an iPhone 4]. He [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__TR86PLiHw displayed an iPod touch 3G with an untethered jailbreak] that met MuscleNerd's requirements for a good video. In addition, he took a [http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NJ4JFBfr1tY/S7_OvGMqJMI/AAAAAAAAAcE/R5WLrCizGw0/s1600/ipad_jb.jpg picture of Cydia and blackra1n icons on his iPad's SpringBoard].
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limera1n was released on October 9, 2010, delaying the release of [[greenpois0n]]. It only supports Windows at the moment and a large number of devices have issues.
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== Credit ==
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[[User:geohot|geohot]]
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==Changelog==
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===RC1 beta 1===
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First release.
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===RC1 beta 2===
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Fixed kernel patching magic. Rerun BETA2+ over BETA1.
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===RC1 beta 3===
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Fixed an issue with [[N88ap|iPhone 3GS]] ([[iBoot-359.3.2|new bootrom]])
   
 
== Technical Information ==
 
== Technical Information ==
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== Controversy ==
 
== Controversy ==
The release of this jailbreak is specifically designed to pressure the Chronic Dev team into implementing the exploits in limera1n into greenpois0n. Now that geohot has released limera1n, [[SHAtter]] can't be released without major negative backlash from other hackers, as this would burn a bootrom exploit.
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The release of this jailbreak is specifically designed to pressure [[Chronic Dev]] into implementing the exploits in limera1n into [[greenpois0n]]. Now that geohot has released limera1n, [[SHAtter]] can't be released without major negative backlash from other hackers, as this would burn a bootrom exploit.
   
 
== External Links ==
 
== External Links ==
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* [http://www.twitlonger.com/show/6d31jr Info from cdevwill]
 
* [http://www.twitlonger.com/show/6d31jr Info from cdevwill]
 
* [http://www.mediafire.com/?5sovoo41rbcdspw Limera1n RC Beta2 Dump]
 
* [http://www.mediafire.com/?5sovoo41rbcdspw Limera1n RC Beta2 Dump]
 
http://theiphonewiki.com/limera1n <nowiki>is possibly the real site and geohot used &lt;!--#include FILE="http://www.theiphonewiki.com/limera1n.com"--&gt;</nowiki> If this is true, then switch the actual site and mirror site text...
 

Revision as of 05:03, 10 October 2010

This is geohot's jailbreak utility. It uses his undisclosed exploit, along with comex's userland exploit, to achieve an untethered jailbreak on newer devices.

It has been demonstrated multiple times by geohot, using blog posts on his now private blog. Geohot showed off a high-res picture of Cydia on an iPhone 4. He displayed an iPod touch 3G with an untethered jailbreak that met MuscleNerd's requirements for a good video. In addition, he took a picture of Cydia and blackra1n icons on his iPad's SpringBoard.

limera1n was released on October 9, 2010, delaying the release of greenpois0n. It only supports Windows at the moment and a large number of devices have issues.

Credit

geohot

Changelog

RC1 beta 1

First release.

RC1 beta 2

Fixed kernel patching magic. Rerun BETA2+ over BETA1.

RC1 beta 3

Fixed an issue with iPhone 3GS (new bootrom)

Technical Information

Basics

  • This does not use SHAtter.
  • This uses a bootrom exploit (different than the greenpois0n one) to achieve the tethered jailbreak and unsigned code execution
  • This uses a userland exploit to make the jailbreak untethered, which geohot obtained under questionable circumstances from comex.
  • Chronic Dev knows about this exploit and has confirmed its legitimacy

Exploits

limera1n uses an undisclosed bootrom exploit.

Process

The jailbreak appears to execute something like the following (in no particular order):

  • In recovery1,
"setenv debug-uarts 1
setenv auto-boot false
saveenv"
  • In DFU, it uploads a payload.
  • In recovery2, it uploads another payload and its ramdisk.

Controversy

The release of this jailbreak is specifically designed to pressure Chronic Dev into implementing the exploits in limera1n into greenpois0n. Now that geohot has released limera1n, SHAtter can't be released without major negative backlash from other hackers, as this would burn a bootrom exploit.

External Links