The iPhone Dev-Team recently released Redsn0w 0.9.6b6 (for Windows and Mac) to jailbreak iOS 4.2.1 on the iPhone 3G / 3GS and update their basebands to iPad baseband 06.15.00. As most of you already know, the previous version, RedSn0w 0.9.6b5 did that too but the new version of RedSn0w (0.9.6b6) brings activation by the process of hacktivating, or activating without using the original SIM card and it increases battery life substantially. Battery life was previously the most prevalent problem after unlocking the iPhone 3G / 3GS with UltraSn0w 1.2 as reported earlier but the new version of RedSn0w fixes it. Another feature this new version of the jailbreak utility has is a “Deactivate” option which allows you to remove previously installed patches on your unlocked iPhone.

Developer @sbingner (author of TetherMe) has made some excellent progress devising a new hactivation method that kills two birds with one stone for all you ultrasn0w unlockers.  His tool, “Subscriber Artificial Module (SAM)” tricks your iPhone and iTunes into creating legitimate activation tickets even though you’re unlocked with ultrasn0w.  This means you get the full benefit of push applications, and your battery life increases substantially.  If you’d like to try it out, check out https://www.bingner.com/SAM.html

To help make it easier to try out @sbingner’s tool, we’ve updated redsn0w to include a new “Deactivate” option for the 3G and 3GS.  Use this option *after* you’ve installed SAM…it will remove the normal patches made to lockdownd and let SAM take over.  (sbingner plans on making a button to do this within SAMPrefs too).  Great work, @sbingner!

Download RedSn0w 0.9.6b6

• Download Redsn0w 0.9.6b6 for Mac [Mirror 1] [Mirror 2]
• Download Redsn0w 0.9.6b6 for Windows [Mirror 1] [Mirror 2]

Thank you @sbingner for all of the hard work! Stay tuned for our full step by step guide which will show you how to use SAM and the newly released RedSn0w 0.9.6b6 by following us on Twitter and/or subscribing to our RSS feed.

[Source: Bingner]

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