Just when everyone was gearing up for a Cydia release, Coolstar’s jailbreak tool bricked nullpixel’s device. Here’s what happened behind the scenes.
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Coolstar’s jailbreak wipes out baseband firmware
As you know, Coolstar was all set to release a Cydia update on February 15. However, his plans have hit a roadblock and things seem to have taken a turn for the worse.
Just hours ago, the latest version of Electra bricked developer nullpixel’s iPhone X.
Apart from nullpixel, another developer’s device also came under the ambit.
Here’s what Coolstar posted on Twitter.
Surprisingly, it wasn’t Cydia that bricked their devices. The bootstrap with Cydia was running just fine on nullpixel’s iPhone X and he tweeted about it too.
The problem lies with the bash script that Coolstar implemented to uninstall LiberiOS jailbreak.
This script completely wiped out the baseband firmware from the test devices. This means those devices have no cellular connectivity now and are unable to use other cellular functions as well.
These test devices continue to function as extremely expensive iPods and, of course, as paperweights.
Can the iPhone X be unbricked?
TSS Saver saved bogus SHSH Blobs for iPhone X and iPhone 8/8+ models. This effectively rules out any restore to iOS 11-11.1.2 with FutureRestore.
However, this doesn’t mean these devices will stay bricked forever.
The best to combat this problem is to restore the device to the latest signed version with iTunes. This will restore the baseband firmware to its original state.
When will Cydia be released?
This whole fiasco will definitely delay a full-blown Cydia release by a few days.
Coolstar owns just one Apple device (an iPad), which also doubles up as his daily driver.
This is why he wasn’t able to test the “remove.sh” script because he owns a Wifi model that doesn’t have a baseband.
While it suffices for testing purposes, he certainly misses the opportunity to thoroughly test his tools on modern devices such as the iPhone X.
Thankfully, quite a few members of the jailbreak community have come forward and offered him test devices.
If you would like to donate or gift him a device for testing, kindly do so.
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I have a similar problem iPad mini2 WiFi only it won’t let me connect to the oscp.apple.com or iCloud in my settings app I have tried 2 full resets from settings I have 11.1.2 blobs but I don’t know if they are working I’m not in the Electra cydia beta but I don’t know if it’s tweaks that caused it or Apple doing something it works fine on my same appl I’d 5s iOS 11 beta 4
Are you blocking it via hosts? Check your hosts file and report back.
Ect/hosts it has
Donteditthisentry.torngat.1gamedev.rf.gd Oscp.apple.com Ocsp.apple.com
Donteditthisentry.torngat.1gamedev.rf.gd mesu.apple.com
Mesu.apple.com # added byQilin Tk to disable auto updates
I have never been on this file
Remove the lin with mesu.apple.com line.
Testing alpha jailbreak without blobs? Why? Just, why?
Blobs for iPhone X were broken so it didn’t really matter.
It did matter though. They should have waited until the baseband and everything else was confirmed to work 100% before they risked an iPhone X on the jailbreakable version. Even if you can afford to go buy a new X, it won’t come with 11.1.x anymore.
hello, thanks for the article. When you say that cydia will be delaying, will it be weeks of waiting or a few days? it depends on the problem after … thank you for answering.
For a few days only since everything else is already working.
Okay, but I also saw a coolstar tweet saying that Cydia would be coming out tomorrow only for the developers (it says in the article I know) but you think it’s going to take a lot of time for cool star to release. cydia for users? or that its going to just take a few days? thank you 🙂
ok thank you, but I just saw a tweet about coolstar that says the cydia update will come out tomorrow only for developers. do you think it will take a lot of time for us as cydia users, or will it be published soon for users in the coming days? after all depends on the developers here they take time or not, I would like to have your opinion thank you.
It will be released only after core packages are updated.
ok, you think it will soon be possible for users? (sorry for my questions :))
Yes, it will be.
ok thank you very much for your answers, goodbye.
Welcome, Maxime.
I just saw in your new article that coolstar abandoned the electra jailbreak? That is true ?
No.