For more than two months already, iPhone 4S jailbreak and unlock program was not yet released. However, the good news is that soon we’ll have both of these as soon as it will be ready for public release. This is because “LOTS of work left” and there are “huge missing pieces” which prevented its release.

Last week, a member of the Chronic-Dev Team had released a video showing an untethered jailbreak for an iPod touch running with iOS 5. @pod2g is known widely because of his discoveries in exploits that leads to jailbreaking an Apple device. In the video, he showed his iPod touch with iOS 5 jailbroken (with Cydia installed. He then rebooted the iDevice and still showed that the jailbreak is still intact. This means that he got an untethered jailbreak for his iPod touch.

His jailbreak were tested for some of the iDevices which includes iPod touch 3G, iPhone 4, iPad 1 and iPhone 3GS that runs with iOS 5.0.1. This means that his jailbreak is fully working on devices that bare A4 chips. He is now currently working for the jailbreak of iPhone 4S and the iPad 2 which both used A5 chips. We hope for the soon release of an untethered jailbreak for the iPhone 4S.

As for the unlocking of an iPhone 4S, probably it will soon follow after the jailbreak will be officially released. This is backed up by @MuscleNerd of the Chronic-Dev team two weeks ago on his tweet that a “very promising “ unlock for the iPhone 4S is in the works.

To wrap things up, an untethered jailbreak and unlock programs will soon be released after the Dev team will finalize all the codes. Follow us for more details.

If you are a Mac user and wanted to upgrade your iPhone (4 or 3GS) to iOS 5 while you can preserve the unlock, this is the best procedure to follow. This is for the preparation of unlocking your iPhone again using UltraSn0w in the future.

RedSn0w 0.9.9b5 is the tool you need in upgrading to iOS 5 using your Mac computer. This is because the developers in the Dev Team have added the baseband preservation tool to RedSn0w which was previously available in the Pwnage Tool. Please take note that this is not a jailbreaking procedure. Instead, this will only preserve the baseband of your iPhone so you can unlock using UltraSn0w in the future.

Steps in preserving the baseband for iOS 5:

1. Download RedSn0w 0.9.9b5.
2. Launch RedSn0w and select ‘Extras’ and ‘Custom IPSW’.
3. In your Mac, select the iOS 5 Firmware (~/Library/iTunes/iPhone Software Updates/)
4. Select ‘Pwned DFU’ from RedSn0w after building the new firmware.
5. Start your iPhone to DFU mode: Hold ‘Home+Power’ buttons simultaneously for 10 seconds, release Power button while continue holding the Home button for another 10 seconds. RedSn0w will then put your iPhone in Pwned DFU mode.
6. Close RedSn0w completely and launch iTunes. It will recognize an iPhone in Recovery mode.
7. Hold down ‘Option’ key on your Mac keyboard and click ‘Restore’ while selecting for NO_BB firmware which you had recently created. NOTE: Make sure to select the NO_BB firmware or else you will update your baseband.
8. After restoring, you will now have iOS 5 in your iPhone while preserving the baseband. You can either jailbreak your iPhone now or wait for UltraSn0w update for iOS 5.

Everyone is excited with the new iPhone 4S. In addition to that, Apple had a hard time meeting the demand of consumers since more and more people wanted to buy one. While these normal situations are present, the first few batches of iPhone 4S distributed around the world were also seen with some undesirable performances.

First and foremost is the worst performance by the iOS 5 which drains an iDevice’s battery faster than what the normal one. The software upgrade of an iPhone 4 into an iOS 5 from iOS 4.X.X proves that this situation is true. This problem is not merely affecting the iPhone 4S but also the other iDevices that are upgraded to iOS 5.

Another report states that some iPhone users upgraded to iOS 5 are having a hard time connecting for WiFi and 3G networks. And even others can connect to WiFi networks, the signal is not doing well and constantly disconnects from time to time.

Hardware issues being reported include audio abnormalities during phone calls and some users’ experiences “No SIM card Installed” errors. Although the later is not confirmed whether software or hardware related, it still disturb iPhone users who reportedly experiences this kind of problems.

Have you experienced any problems lately in your iDevices? Please let us know if you have any by writing a comment below. Thanks and enjoy!

First of all, if you don’t have any idea about what Tiny Umbrella is all about, you can visit this previous article for more information. How important is an SHSH blob? For jailbreakers and anyone who cannot live with a non-jailbroken iPhone, this is very important.

Tiny Umbrella is the easiest and most convenient tool to use in saving an SHSH blob. This helps anyone to downgrade from a previous iOS version to an older one. Now, the latest version of Tiny Umbrella is updated to support the latest iOS 5.0.1, excluding the iPhone 4S. This is because during the restore process, Apple now signs firmware differently.

Even though there is still no working solution for restoring 5.x on iPhone 4S I have released a 5.01.00 so you can at least save 5.0.1 SHSH. I have added tentative support for at least saving 5.0.1 SHSHs for iPhone 4S but as of now we are unable to use them fully.

Thanks to the developer of Tiny Umbrella. For some point, this helps everybody to save their SHSH blobs even if there’s still no jailbreak available. You’ll never know the future.

On the October 4^th iPhone event entitled “Let’s Talk iPhone” held by Apple in their Cupertino Headquarters, newly appointed CEO Tim Cook announced that the iOS 5 will be available after 1 week and the iPhone 4S will start shipping in the 14^th of October. Now, the iOS 5 is ready for public downloads to everyone who wish to update their iDevices through iTunes.

A day before the official iOS 5 was launched; Apple’s www.iCloud.com was live ahead of time to give way for the latest operating system. The iOS 5 is necessary in order to use the wireless syncing of your iDevice and backup service at the same time enjoying the iCloud service that will soon replace MobileME for added security of your iDevices.

As of this time, only tethered jailbreak is available for the iOS 5. This means that you need to re-jailbreak every time you’ll reboot your iPhone, which is not the ideal type we are looking of. But it is great to immediately upgrade to the iOS 5 when you are not so very dependent on the jailbreak apps so you can now experience the latest improvements brought by the new iOS 5. New features include the new Notifications Center which is totally different from the iOS 4. This comes with a slick pull-down list of pending notifications and the other lockscreen notification which is very similar with the popular jailbreak tweak called “LockInfo.”

Here is a video that will take you to the great features of the iOS 5.

Setting up your Hotmail email accounts is not so easy like the Gmail or Yahoo in your iPhone, just like I keen fully observed since I used Hotmail more often. The most possible reason with it is because Hotmail is from Microsoft (one of Apple’s competitors). But now, after Steve Jobs has announced the incoming iOS 5, one of the 200+ new features that iOS 5 has brought: Hotmail settings can be done easily, just like setting up your Gmail, AOL and Yahoo.

To setup Hotmail accounts in iOS 5, navigate through Settings app>Mail, Contacts, Calendars >Add Account > Windows Live Hotmail. Type your Hotmail email address and password and select the options you need to sync.

That’s it! Setting your Hotmail email is now easy.

iMessage: The future messaging service for iDevices.

How would you like to send free messages to your friends or anyone with iPhone? This new feature for iOS 5 will soon enable iDevice’s users to send unlimited text, photos, videos, locations and contacts via WiFi or 3G. It may be a threat to network carriers but still may boost their sells for iDevices (probably overpowering Blackberry services in the future).

Have you ever experience some situations when you want to take a picture for a great moment but wasn’t able to do it because your iPhone just can’t direct to the camera app immediately? One of the reasons I wanted an iPhone because of its great camera resolution compared to other brands. But the only problem I usually encounter is I always have a hard time navigating to the camera app when I needed the most.

Thanks to the upcoming iOS 5. With its cool new feature having a camera app icon in the lockscreen could definitely ease my mind. With just a single tap of your finger in the lockscreen, you can now open the iPhone camera and take a picture using the volume-up button. You can trim and edit picture immediately after you have taken it. That’s another great enhancement added to your iPhone.

Remember to stay away from updating your iOS until new jailbreak will come up if you want to preserve your jailbroken apps. Always follow us for more added features that iOS 5 has brought.

During the Apple’s Wordwide Developers Conference (WWDC) held last June 6, 2011, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced the iOS 5. Later in that day Apple had posted a 5-minute video in their website regarding the much awaited iOS 5.

So what’s new with iOS 5? What are the benefits it has brought for iDevices’ users? Well, for everyone out there who are fan on jailbreak, stay away from updating the latest iOS. For those who do not know about jailbreaking, perhaps they are very excited to update their iDevices. So, let’s take a look about the new features that iOS 5 has for everyone.

Great features are being added to iOS 5 like Notifications Center, NewsStand, Twitter and Reminder. Although some of the added features seems to be gotten from jailbreak community concepts, like the Notifications by Peter Hajas (who’s now probably working with Apple as he quoted on his tweet). A new challenge has now come for the jailbreak developers since new iOS means new method of jailbreaking will soon be needed to cope up with the latest iOS.
No matter what new things will come for Apple iDevices, the jailbreak community is there to developed new apps or tweaks. More thanks to them and to people who are dedicated in creating the best open source software.
Stay tuned to www.iphoneshine.com for the latest news in iPhone and the jailbreak community.