We recently posted that the iPhone Dev-Team had started testing the SHAtter exploit, and today the iPhone Dev Team has announced that they have managed to successfully jailbreak iOS 4.1 on the new iPod Touch 4G using the SHAtter exploit.

SHAtter is the new bootrom exploit discovered by pod2g of the Chronic Dev Team that allows the use of unsigned code execution. It is being used by the iPhone hacking community to create tools to jailbreak existing iDevices for life. The dev-team managed to port SHAtter exploit into a beta version of PwnageTool and later restored iPod touch 4G to custom IPSW.

For those who don’t know, PwnageTool creates custom firmware to jailbreak iPod Touch and iPhone. PwnageTool is the best option for iPhone 4, 3GS, 3G users who want to update firmware while preserving the baseband so that user may unlock iPhone using UltraSn0w unlock. SHAtter, unlike userland exploit JailbreakMe is a low level-bootrom exploit, that can’t be fixed by Apple without a new hardware release of iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPad and the iPod touches with new bootroms. Just firmware update will not going to patch the bootrom exploit.

As per the dev-team blog post:

[…] we’ve put @pod2g’s exploit into a beta version of PwnageTool to test the waters. The SHAtter exploit was enough to convince the iPod touch 4G to restore to our custom IPSW. The successful result is shown below!  It’s all working: customized Preferences to show battery percentage, Cydia, root shell…the works!

Checkout the video of a jailbroken iPod Touch 4G using SHAtter:

Members of the iPhone Dev Team also clarified that we should expect a new tool (possibly from the Chronic Dev Team), which uses SHAtter to jailbreak iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch as it might be a lot easier. As for PwnageTool, it will be useful only for iPhone users who want to preserve their baseband from getting upgraded so that they can unlock their iPhone using Ultrasn0w.

Although PwnageTool was a useful first test of a full iPod 4G jailbreak via SHAtter, it’s really overkill compared to the faster tools being developed. Its main use in PwnageTool will be for those with iPhone4’s, to allow updates while preserving the baseband and ultrasn0w carrier unlock. In any event, this is another exciting time for iPhone and iPod touch users…the cat and mouse game continues!

There is no ETA on when the tools to jailbreak iOS 4.1 will be released but they’re working hard to release the tools as soon as possible so please be patient.

Stay tuned as we will be posting any updates and info on the topic here at MyGadgetNews. You can follow us on Twitter and/or subscribe to our RSS feed. It’s a pretty good time for the jailbreaking community!

[via Dev Team’s blog]

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