iOS 7.1.2 Tutorial (with JailBreak instructions)

iOS 7.1.2 Tutorial is now out!

Check out the newest video if you're thinking about updating to 7.1.2 or thinking about JailBreaking 7.1.2.

Disclaimer: I do not work for Apple. I am not affiliated with Apple in any way. By following this guide, you are proceeding at your own risk. I am not liable for any damages done to your device.

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Thanks guys, happy JailBreaking!

~ Bloodless

New Video! Apple Developments!

As promised! Here's the new video!

Today, we go over what Apple's been up to lately. What's going to come out soon? What should we be looking forward to? Hopefully I answer a few of those questions in this video:

http://youtu.be/3tjU4CZiO0U

New Video Tomorrow

Hey guys,

Sorry for the few days off, things have been kinda crazy in the real world (work calls). However, there is a video going online in probably an hour that I will post a link to on here and on my twitter feed. Be sure to check it out! www.twitter.com/bloodless107

In the meantime, happy JailBreaking everyone!
~ Bloodless

URGENT: PanGu JailBreak Bootloops

I owe I0n1c a huge apology. I was one of those people who doubted and were looking down at him. As I read further into his posts, I found out that apparently, this is actually a thing. With that being said, his points are showing up more and more that they did take more of his code than most people believe. Yes, it's true that the JailBreak was dangled in front of us a bit, but with that being said, it was a little plagiarized from him. It would be one thing if they took his exploit and then modified their code around it, however, this isn't seeming like the case anymore. Again, this paragraph of post is entirely opinionated and shouldn't be taken as fact yet until more develops.

For everyone else! There is a pretty big error in PanGu's code! It deals with the device going into a bootloop causing it to error in booting up the phone's software. It turns out that this has to due with the phone being in the darkness. Some models are affected, others aren't.

With that being said, there's a simple fix for this. Get your phone into the light or use a flashlight!

Either way, it's something people should be aware of. Some might consider it something minor, others might not. From what I understand, it deals with a big within PanGu's programming in where they have some unused code dealing with the proximity and light censors. Best be careful of this.

To check which models are affected, check here: http://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/comments/294wob/jailbreak_with_pangu_and_bootloop_try_this_fix_oo/

You can follow me on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/Bloodless107 or @bloodless107

And as always guys, happy JailBreaking!
~ Bloodless

New YouTube Video! PPSync Removal.

PanGu has rather snuck a Chinese app into their JailBreak, known as PPSync. This app has been known to cause numerous issues in the past on iDevices in terms of causing crashes.

Here's how to get rid of it:

1. Go into Cydia.

2. Navigate to your sources at the bottom of the screen.

3. Click edit - add on the top of the screen.

4. Type in http://cydia.angelxwind.net and click add source.

5. In the All Packages menu of the source you just downloaded, scroll down to Complete PPSync Remover.

6. Click install.

7. Wait for your phone to get done and return to Cydia.

8. Navigate to your "installed" folder at the bottom of the screen.

9. Find PPstore and click on it

10. Click modify, then uninstall.

11. Optional: You may also want to check your settings - general - profiles to see if there is a 25pp certificate. If there is, delete it. On mine, there wasn't. 

Again, as always, happy JailBreaking!

~ Bloodless

Featured Apps for JailBroken Devices

So, you've JailBroken your phone. Now what?? Well, you need to do things with it! You JailBroke for a reason right?

I'll go ahead and give you the reasons I JailBroke, and the apps (that atleast I consider) to be a necessity.

Activator - GET THIS APP. Plain and simple. This app is amazing if you're even in the slightest bit worried about someone taking your phone. The whole basis behind this app is that you can reroute different commands to do different functions than they were meant to do. So what if you want your home button to be the volume down button. You can do that. What if you want your phone to activate location services, 3G, 4G, LTE, whatever so you can locate the phone, all of which by a simple text message. Sounds a lot better huh? This app has all sorts of neat little quirks you can use and is considered invaluable to the JailBreaking community, and even required for some other tweaks.

iCaught u - So what if someone gets off with your phone and gets to someplace before you can send that text message? Here's where iCaught u comes in. This tweak allows you to, after a set number of wrong password attempts on your phone from the lock screen, send an email, location, map, and even picture of whatever the front camera is pointing at. I don't know about you, but any time I'm on my phone, it's bent at just the right angle to where no matter what, it's in perfect selfy view. Guess what that means for our crooks? Smile for the police!

Lock Safety - In leu of all of this, what's keeping bozo crook number one from just simply shutting down our phone? Well, this app will do just that. The downside of this app is that you no longer can turn off your phone from the lock screen, which is exactly what this app does. The crooks now have to go ahead and get past your lock screen pass code to get into your phone. With apple's new "do you trust this computer" feature, they have to get into your phone before they can do anything with it.

Q: sure these tweaks may leave my phone a brick for thieves, but these are no fun!! I want to be the Tony Stark of my phone. What do I do CenterBrick?

Winterboard - Most all iphone themes are processed through this app. You activate the themes through this app, and the app does the rest for you. Of course the themes are sepparate and you have to download them from Cydia, but atleast here is a start. There's some that are free, but a lot of the more elaborate, well updated themes cost money. 

biteSMS - Others like different messaging apps for their phones. This one is my favorite. You no longer have to open the messaging app for your texts, and combined with a neat UI, this is what makes the tweak worth a "must have" sort of list. I haven't completely explored this app/tweak yet, but from what I've seen so far, it's very impressive.

If you have any issues with any of these apps (ie, I've had some issues with iCaught u in setting up the email a few tries), feel free to drop me a comment below. This is a working list that might get updated as I go.

Thanks guys!

~ Bloodless 

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~ Bloodless

iP4pwn Says JailBreak 8 is a Go!

Recently, JailBreak developer iP4pwn took to his blog posting his findings on the IOS 8.0, set to release in September. In his blog, the reverse engineer posted that:

"iOS 8 is still in Beta and there WILL NOT be a public jailbreak for quite some time. At least until it drops this fall... and maybe we will even wait for iOS 8.0.1"

However the case, the hacker remains confident that the IOS 8.0 JailBreak is a for sure thing. He has announced that a select few people will get to demo the JailBreak, mainly for other software developers, but making a few exceptions. 

You can read iP4pwn's blog posting here: http://ip4pwn.blogspot.com/2014/06/ios-8-jailbreak.html

We look forward to hearing more from the developer as time progresses. In the meantime, IOS 7.1.1 has been JailBroken with IOS 7.1.2 being released at the end of this week/early next week. The JailBreak status still remains unclear, but one can be almost certain that it will be JailBreakable.

Stay tuned for further updates on the new software once it gets released. IOS 8.0 beta 2 should be reaching it's end of it's trial run here soon.

~ Bloodless

New IOS 7.1.1 JailBreak Tutorial!

Be sure to check out our tutorial below for the brand new IOS 7.1.1 JailBreak tutorial!

Happy JailBreaking!

~ Bloodless

I0n1c's rants

Well known JailBreaker, exploiter, and reverse engineer I0n1c has taken to twitter again over yesterday's JailBreak, lashing out at PanGu's JailBreak, calling them criminals for "stealing" his exploits. I0n1c took to many rants on twitter today, posting:

stating that the people who took his exploits (referring to PanGu in third person) and are "selling" them, are idiots. I0n1c goes to further lash out at PanGu by stating:

implying that anyone who has installed PanGu on their computers and used it's methods of JailBreaking are now infected with a virus.

I0n1c has been said by the JailBreaking community in the past to "start drama" referring back to being the first to post pictures of his 7.1.1 JailBreak and say he wasn't going to release it for some time. Others post that he has been known to start further drama in the past by posting radical posts on twitter to get a rise out of people.

The IOS 7.1.1 JailBreak is currently available to download free from the PanGu website. Be sure to visit our tutorial page above to follow how to install the JailBreak on your IOS device. A youtube video will be coming soon in order to give a visual of the JailBreaking process. Look forward to IOS 7.1.2 possibly this Friday. As of right now, it looks as if the exploits will not be patched by that time, but if you are planning on JailBreaking then, it might be best to wait and see.

Happy JailBreaking!

~ Bloodless

IOS 7.1.1 JailBreak Released!!

Unfortunately (or fortunately if you've been waiting for the JailBreak like I have), despite all the efforts to keep the vulnerabilities hidden from the public, IOS 7.1.1 JailBreak has been released! The JailBreaking team is a Chinese team only known as PenGu. Not much more is known about this team, but one thing is for sure, the Jailbreak is public.

I0n1c expressed his concerns this morning over the JailBreak saying:

It is unclear yet what will come of consequences due to the JailBreak being released, in many's eyes as, early. As many know, I0n1c provides his knowledge in classes around the world as hacking conferences and has made the claim that the team here has disclosed his own vulnerabilities.

You can download the JailBreak by clicking here!

Be sure to visit our tutorials to view how the Jailbreak works and how to install it.

Happy JailBreaking!

~ Bloodless

JailBreaking - What, Why, and When?

Jailbreaking is a topic that maintains a sore thumb for a lot of people who are unfamiliar with the current concepts. Well, before we delve into the "what's going on right now" sort of questions, let's go ahead a clear up a bit of things about Jailbreaking. 

Jailbreaking, in its purest form, is a currently legal operation in the United States that involves turning OFF some of the security features in your phone or tablet (tablet Jailbreaking is still currently illegal, at least in the mean time.) 

So why would you want to do this? The nice guys at Apple are limiting us for our best interests, right? I mean they are security features. Well, yes, but jailbreakers have other things in mind. 

More specifically, could you program your phone to start playing a siren ringtone when it receives a certain text message (IE message being "IMSTOLEN")? The answer is, no, it can't do this on normal terms. The phone would have to be jailbroken in order to do this.

In addition to thousands of other tweaks available for jailbroken phones, why then would Apple want us to not jailbreak?? Why would they fight us tooth and nail in the courtrooms at DMCA meetings in order to try and keep us from doing these things? The answer to this question is that jailbreaking also opens up worlds to all kinds of piracy that isn't normally accessible. Apple is just trying to protect their developers, programmers, and investments from losing money. In addition to this, the phone is also opened up a slight amount to malicious users and viruses.

So, let's say the average user says "ok, I'm convinced my world with this phone is too confined, and I want to open up to a whole new world of high tech stuff. It's my phone isn't it? I want to do what I want with it. But how do I do that?" Currently, phones updated UP TO 7.0.6 are eligible to be jailbroken. Phones updated past this (7.1 and on) currently can not be jailbroken. There is one exception. The iPhone 4 is currently eligible for the jailbreak on 7.1.1, but no other phone model has this available.

The current status on the 7.1.1 jailbreak is pretty cut and dry. iPhone jailbreak developers have pretty much all released a statement saying that unless an exploit (or a bug that let's software developers able to hack the IOS' software in order to be able to jailbreak) gets patched by IOS 8.0, then the jailbreak won't be coming until IOS 8.0 comes out. If in the present betas of 8.0, the exploits they have DO get patched, then the IOS 7.1.1 jailbreak will be released. Anyone who claims to have a jailbreak available to download contrary to this more than likely has you downloading a virus. 

If you have any questions, be sure to drop me a comment below, and I'll be sure to try and answer it!

Thanks!

~ Bloodless

Hello World!

Well, here it is!

For a long time, there have been plans and notions to finally make a blog about something I enjoy, and well, I've finally gotten around to it. I hope to one day bring quality posts for a long time on the basis of tech, not just specifically IOS related content.

Ultimately, or at least for right now, the goal of CenterBrick is to provide content on the basis of IOS news, jailbreaking, and technological developments. Only time will tell, but time will be the power for this project. Thank you to anyone involved and anyone who takes the time to view the content of CenterBrick.

~ Bloodless