iPhone 4 jailbreak vs iOS 4.1 update – Who’s got the upper hand?
Finally the waiting game is over as Apple released its iOS 4.1 update, and subsequently we have the iPhone 4 (iOS 4.1) jailbreak as expected. iOS 4.1 seeded for the developers yesterday and according to the last updates, it has been rendered useless in fixing the iPhone 4 antenna reception issue! According to Apple the update was slated to fix the death grip issue that resulted in considerable signal loss when held in certain manner. But so far not much positive can be assimilated from the fact that all it does is have larger signal bars as compared to the standard iOS 4.0 iPhone 4.
# Video transcript of the iPhone iOS 4.1 update failure in solving the antenna reception issue
* Last minute news: iOS 4.1 beta update seems to have certain kind of bug that blackens the MMS icon when you tap on it, therefore the enlarged image is all black!
# The jailbreaking game
As far as jailbreaking goes, iOS 4.1 is already jaibroken using Redsn0w o.9.5b5 tool on both Windows and Mac. The method to jailbreak iOS 4.1 is similar to that used to jailbreak iOS 4, which can be followed by clicking here. After jailbreaking you iOS 4.1 on iPhone 3G or iPod touch 2G you can unlock it using ultrasn0w 0.93. Check out the essential downloads for this jailbreak given below:
Apple’s iOS 4.1 update
Redsn0w o.9.5b5 jailbreak tool for Mac
Redsn0w o.9.5b5 jailbreak for Windows
iTUnes 9.2 (both Windows and Mac)
