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On January 30, the iOS 6.0 – 6.1 jailbreak’s name – evasi0n – was announced, with a tentative release date for the first week of February. A few days later on February 4, the jailbreak was rolled out, and 24 hours later it resulted in a massive traffic spike, causing Cydia to hiccup. Now one of the individuals behind the app known as @planetbeing has announced that version 1.1 is available.

Version 1.1 contains the latest round of fixes for issues users have been reporting, including issues with rebooting and the weather app. According to @planetbeing, users may have to clear their Web browser’s cache in order to see the update. Those who have already jailbroken their devices won’t need this release, and can instead find patches for the problem via Cydia.

In addition, in response to requests, traffic data on users downloading the jailbreak have been provided, which you can see in the image above. China comes in at the top with just under 3 million visitors (2,991,211), while the United States comes in second at 2,508,269. The numbers drop off quite significantly from there, with France coming in third at only 860,355.

The jailbreak can be downloaded from its official website evasi0n.com, where it is avaiable for Windows (XP and higher), OS X (10.6 and higher), and Linux. The entire process takes only a few minutes, and requires only a USB data cable. The jailbreak works on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch running iOS 6.0 to 6.1.

[via pod2g]

iOS jailbreak evasi0n 1.1 rolls out, offers bug fixes is written by Brittany Hillen & originally posted on SlashGear.
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As you guys probably know by now, the untethered jailbreak solution for the iPhone 5 and iOS 6.1 was released a few days and we’re sure that many iOS users out there have happily jailbroken their device. However is jailbreaking your device enough? Are you the sort of person who wants to know what exactly goes on behind the scene while their device is being jailbroken? After all to the layman, the jailbreak is a relatively straight forward process and is done with a couple of clicks of the mouse, making it seemingly easy.

Well if you’d like to know a bit more on how the evad3rs development team managed to jailbreak the iPhone 5 and iOS 6.1, evad3rs member David Wang (planetbeing) has revealed some of the tricks they used. It gets pretty technical so we won’t paste the entire interview here, but if you’re interested in learning a bit more on some of the techniques and processes used, you can read the interview in its entirety on Forbes’ website. For the less technically inclined, you can check out the jailbreak on evad3rs’ website.

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Samsung And Amazon Beat Apple In Consumer Loyalty Index, Apple Loses iPhone Trademark In Brazil,

Yesterday, the iOS 6.1 jailbreak officially released to the public, and it essentially was a scramble for millions of iOS 6 users, similar to how someone announces there’s free food in the break room, and everyone dashes in to get their share. It turns out that the release saw a huge wave of users join in on the jailbreaking fun, and even Cydia became overloaded, resulting in errors that left users without tweaks for now.

Developer pod2g posted up some traffic statistics of evasi0n.com, the website hosting the iOS 6 jailbreak, and the numbers are staggering. As of earlier today, the website has seen almost three million unique visitors, with page views exceeding 17.3 million. These figures don’t even include yesterday’s or today’s statistics, which we guarantee are even more staggering.

Of course, after jailbreaking, users pretty much had no where to go since Cydia was slowing down due to the surge of users downloading various tweaks. Many users would get errors in the app and weren’t able to browse or download tweaks. Jay Freeman, the man behind Cydia, says that he saw a peak of 14,000 hits per second, which is definitely unfathomable.

However, it’ll only be a matter of time before order comes to chaos, so if you’re still trying to get into the Cydia store, you’ll have to be patient. Of course, no one knows exactly when things will start to settle down, but we’re guessing that within the next few days when the initial rush dies down, you’ll be able to dive in finally.

iOS 6.1 jailbreak sees massive numbers, Cydia usage spikes is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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If you read our story this morning reporting on the upcoming availability of the iPhone 5′s first untethered jailbreak and have been sitting at your computer for the past nine hours waiting for the jailbreak to be released, that sitting around has paid off as planetbeing has just announced its availability.

Linux, Mac and Windows users will all be able to benefit from the glory of the evaders’ evasi0n iOS 6.x Jailbreak as box.net, MEGA and RapidShare are being used to mirror the jailbreak software.

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It was only a matter of time before the iPhone 5 was freed from its rigid, stock iOS constraints, and months after first seeing the handset be liberated, any and all users can now do the same. That’s right, folks, the evasi0n untethered jailbreak for iOS 6.0 and 6.1 is now just a download away at the source link below. To accomplish the task, you need only have a computer running Windows XP and up, Mac OS X 10.5 and up, or your favorite flavor of Linux x86 / x86_64. Of course, before you go hacking your hardware, it’s advisable to back up your data — and to check out evasi0n’s FAQ first, so you know what you’re getting into. After that, you’re mere clicks away from total iPhone freedom. Enjoy.

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