Untethered iOS 4.2.1 Jailbreak Coming After Verizon iPhone 4 Launch via Geohot? [Rumors Say Geohot Will Launch iOS 4.2.1 Untethered Jailbreak After February 10; Redsn0w 0.9.7 Release Date Still Not Available]

Posted on TFTS by Chris Smith on Monday, 31. January 2011 under: Mobile/Cell Phones

We keep talking about the iPhone Dev Team launching Redsn0w 0.9.7 (Monte), the untethered jailbreak solution you’ve been waiting for your iPhone, iPod touch and iPad but it looks like Geohot, the famous hacker, might also have something to say about that.

Geohot has been involved lately with the jailbreaking of the PS3, something Sony has grown to hate, but that doesn’t mean he can’t switch back to iOS, also a field he’s more than familiar with.

There’s no confirmed news yet regarding Geohot’s involvement in the iOS 4.2.1 untethered jailbreak business but it seems that MuscleNerd of the iPhone Dev Team thinks an untethered jailbreak solution could come from Geohot.

The deed is supposed to be consumed after 2.10.11 for certain devices which means Geohot could be waiting, like everyone else, for Apple to launch the Verizon iPhone 4 before any new jailbreak and/or unlock tools get released.

As you already know the CDMA iPhone 4 will come with iOS 4.2.5 on board, if not iOS 4.3, and new iOS versions means the need of yet another jailbreak solution.

The iPhone Dev Team is still keeping quiet on its own final version of Redsn0w 0.9.7, also known as Monte, which is supposed to bring that untethered jailbreak to current iOS devices.

Getting back to the tweet above, we can’t help but notice that Geohot’s jailbreak solution would apply only to certain devices, so does this mean we’re looking at an iOS 4.3 or iOS 4.2.5 jailbreak for the Verizon iPhone 4?

In case you’re not familiar with the recent iOS 4.x jailbreak history all current iOS devices running up to iOS 4.2.1 are jailbreakable for life thanks to a bootrom exploit revealed by Geohot this summer which prevents Apple from blocking jailbreaking with a simple software update. But the iPhone 4 coming to Verizon has some different insides, and such a hardware revision would also offer Apple an ideal occasion to also stop current jailbreak exploits.

In other words, come February 10, those CDMA machines might not be jailbreakable using current tools, so we’ll need to see different exploits at work. We’ll be back with more jailbreak and unlock news in the following days, so subscribe to our feed and follow us on Twitter to get them in a timely manner.

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Calvin
Ok, I honestly think Geohot and the rest of the teams that design the jailbreak tools should really stop with the nonsense of waiting for verizon to come out with their iphone.. Really for all of us who have been on the iphone since the beggining should’nt have to wait for this…. We have been faithful iphone users and we have to wait just for Verizon’s release date.. really guys have some respect for us original carrier iphone users…
Dan Bradley
Its all a bunch of shit, and I am a bit sick of hearing people post what the dudes supposedly say. The DO NOT have a solution for the jailbreak or it would be released by now. They are buying time by playing these games hinting they have a solution when clearly they do not. It is a bit frustrating since i got stuck updating to 4.2.1 by default and have been waiting for jailbreak since….months and months ago.
THEMMSMONKEY
Both of you can calm down and wait, do you want apple to patch the 4.3 os before we can use the new jailbreak on it? that means we will have to wait even longer for the 4.3 JB, seriously, 4.3 = Personal Hotspotting DYNAMICALY enabled by the JB that all the hackers work tirelesly for. In the meantime all you are concerned with is an IMMEDIATE jb so you can pirate software! Be patient its in EVERYONES best interest not VZW!!!!!