JailbreakMe Won’t Jailbreak iPhone on iOS 4.0.2 and iPad on iOS 3.2.2

For those of you awaiting jailbreak solution for iPhone running iOS 4.0.2 or iPad running iOS 3.2.2, the iPhone Dev team has announced that they won’t release any jailbreak tool for these version of iOS.

In mid August, Apple released iOS 4.0.2 for iPhone and iOS 3.2.2 for iPad. There is no new feature come with the update. The primary purpose of the release is to fix a PDF vulnerability and prevent you from jailbreak iPhone/iPad using JailbreakMe.

As I mentioned earlier, please don’t upgrade to iOS 4.0.2 if you need jailbreaking. For certain reason, you have accidentally upgraded to the latest iOS version and are expecting an update of JailbreakMe. You will need to wait for a little bit longer.

The iPhone Dev team has mentioned in its blog that there won’t be a 4.0.2/3.2.2 jailbreak and here is the full explanation:

Now it’s a few weeks later, and Apple has closed the jailbreakme.com hole. They’re shipping devices with FW 4.0.2/3.2.2, impervious to this particular jailbreak. So now, people will begin to ask: will there be a jailbreak for devices that shipped with 4.0.2/3.2.2, out of the box?

No, there won’t be. FW 4.0.2/3.2.2 was *only* released to fix the jailbreakme hole. With FW 4.1 still in its beta stages, it makes no sense to escalate the “cat & mouse” with Apple for FW updates that only fix the jailbreak holes. To quote WOPR, “the only winning move is not to play”.

If the cat & mouse game escalates too quickly, especially during beta FW periods, nobody but Apple benefits. For this reason, there won’t be a 4.0.2/3.2.2 jailbreak specifically during the period where 4.0.2/3.2.2 is the latest public release. At best, some future 4.1x FW jailbreak *may* be compatible with 4.0.2/3.2.2 (but don’t count on that).

That really makes sense. The iOS 4.1 is now under beta testing. It is expected Apple will soon release iOS 4.1 publicly. So, why not focus the jailbreak effort on iOS 4.1?

Let me take this opportunity and highlight the point again. If you need jailbreaking, don’t upgrade to iOS 4.0.2 (for iPhone) and iOS 3.2.2 (for iPad). JailbreakMe can only work up to iOS 4.0.1.

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