New iPhone 4, already Jailbroken!
My iPhone 4 may already be unlocked, but that doesn’t mean I don’t want it jailbroken! Thanks to some excellent work by @Comex and the dev team, a new userland jailbreak over at jailbreakme.com is out. Just visit the site on your device, and voila, instant jailbreak! Apple will certainly patch it with the next release, but until then I’ll enjoy it. I’ve got Cydia, a beta version of MobileTerminal, OpenSSH, and SBSettings installed for now. With all the new features in iOS 4, and my current carrier (Telstra) supporting Tethering out of the box, I don’t have a ton of reasons to want to jailbreak… but a working shell is a big one for me, and when I return to the US, hopefully my jailbreak will allow me to retain tethering on AT&T without paying them extra to do it (I’m paying for the data after all.. why do they get to dictate what machine I use it on?)
On a related note, does anyone know of ports for the *nix/OS X tools of netstat and route are available on the iPhone?
*UPDATE 1*: Found them, as part of the network-cmds package! Installed sudo and top, as well as a VPN, a UserAgent, and a Tethering toggle for SBSettings while I was at it too! …I really hope MobileTerminal gets updated soon; it’s just barely usable in its current state!
Instead of using MobileTerminal, I’m using the free version of TouchTerm from the AppStore; it is an ssh client for iOS. Just set up a connection to log in to the mobile or root account on localhost, and you connect to OpenSSH on your iPhone. I’m using this because I can’t even get MobileTerminal to load currently (3G with iOS 4.02 jailbroken with 4.0 firmware). I’ve used TouchTerm as an ssh client to access external boxes for years, it works as well as any client will given the user interface limitations; give it a try.
Obligatory reminder: If you’ve loaded OpenSSH, make sure you’ve changed the passwords for the root and mobile accounts. (Hopefully that reminder isn’t needed!)