Jailbreak Verizon iPhone 4.2.6 & 4.2.8 for Only $4.95

Jailbreak Verizon iPhone is the process by which the iPhone’s firmware is modified to allow unsigned code to be run to gain access to files that Apple wouldn’t normally let you have access too. Jailbreaking the iPhone adds unofficial application installers to your iPhone such as Cydia or Icy, which let you download many 3rd-party applications previously unavailable through the App Store.

The risks of jailbreaking your Verizon iPhone is very minor. Worst case scenario, you can always restore your iPhone to factory settings using iTunes.

Here are a few recommended links for more information about jailbreak:

• What is jailbreaking?
• Why jailbreak your Verizon iPhone?
• The difference between jailbreaking and unlocking
• Jailbreaking IS legal

This page is a reference guide to the latest Verizon iPhone jailbreak methods available. Simply look for the firmware version you want to jailbreak and the type of iPhone or iPod Touch you have, then click on the link to see a detailed tutorial on how to jailbreak your verizon iPhone or iPod Touch.

One of the first questions that might have come to your mind after the announcement of the Verizon iPhone this morning probably was: can you jailbreak Verizon iPhone? Can you unlock it? That’s something we obviously can’t know for sure until our favorite Team of iPhone hackers get their hands on one of those babies.

However, I would assume that the jailbreaking process for the Verizon iPhone might not be different from AT&T’s. I assume the iOS loaded will have the very same backbones, even though iOS for Verizon will include extra features such as the ability to use your iPhone as a hotspot…

Something tells me if there is an exploit to be found, the exploit will be present in both versions of iOS.

Now regarding the Verizon iPhone unlock, I think it’s a completely different story. The basebands will be completely different and seeing how CDMA is not nearly as popular as GSM, I think the Dev Team will focus on the latter.

But again, we won’t know for sure until the Verizon iPhone comes out.

Why jailbreak Verizon iPhone? To me, every application available in Cydia is a good reason to jailbreak your iPhone. Simply said, jailbreaking your iPhone will allow you to use many applications that are not available (and will probably never be) in the App Store.

Here are 30 excellent reasons to jailbreak your Verizon iPhone:

1. It’s risk-free. Worst case scenario, you can restore your iPhone to factory settings
2. Install third-party applications with Cydia
3. Get MMS with SwirlyMMS
4. Add custom notification sounds and ringtones for free
5. Use a free turn by turn GPS with xGPS
6. Get video recording for your iPhone 2G or 3G with Cycorder
7. Stream live videos with Qik
8. Use Voice Over IP apps over 3G and Edge with VoIPover3G
9. Enable Flash with iMobileCinema
10. Download and save YouTube videos on your iPhone with MxTube
11. Tether your iPhone with PDAnet
12. View your iPhone on your TV with TVOut
13. Play Game Boy, Game Boy Advance, NES and PlayStation games with emulators
14. Watch every single episode of South Park, American Dad, Family Guy, the Simpsons, the Office, and Futurama for free
15. Filter incoming calls with iBlackList
16. Email your voicemails with Voicemail Forwarder
17. Customize the look and feel of your iPhone with WinterBoard
18. Quickly manage your settings preferences with BossPrefs
19. Sort your apps into folders with Categories
20. Run apps in the background with Backgrounder
21. Quickly reply to SMS with iRealSMS
22. Track your lost/stolen iPhone with iLocalis
23. Display information such as emails, SMS, calendar and more directly on your lock screen with IntelliScreen
24. Spoof your caller ID with 123Spoof
25. Change your iPhone fonts with FontSwap
26. Get haptic feedback for your keyboard with HapticPro
27. Show a picture of your contacts in your contact list with Cyntact
28. Transfer files via Bluetooh with iBluetooth
29. Enable battery percentage on the 2G and 3G with Battery Percentage
30. Unlock your iPhone

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News that iOS 4.3 will bring the WiFi Personal Hotspot feature to AT&T iPhone 4′s is welcome, but I’m going to reiterate my opinion from the past regarding the Personal Hotspot usage fee. If you missed it, it goes like this: what you’re really paying for is convenience and ease of use.
Jailbreaking & MyWi vs AT&T’s Personal Hotspot

Here’s how this breaks down:

Jailbreaking & MyWi: Slightly more technical to enable, requires jailbreaking the iPhone, one time $20 MyWi purchase, works on iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 with any version of iOS.
AT&T Personal Hotspot: Convenient & easily enabled, costs $20 every month in addition to your standard data plan charges, works only on iPhone 4 with iOS 4.3.

Just like with Verizon, paying for AT&T’s Hotspot use over the course of the year will rack up $240 in additional charges. If you jailbreak and use MyWi, you pay $20 once for the app and then you just use your existing data plan.

Who should pay the AT&T Personal Hotspot fee? And who should jailbreak?
As I’ve said before, paying AT&T (or Verizon) the personal hotspot usage fee is for those who want ease and convenience. There’s practically no setup involved, it’s just signing up for the hotspot plan and then selecting the option on the iPhone 4 to enable the feature, it’s as easy as it gets. For anyone that is less technical or who doesn’t mind paying for simplicity, forking over the cash to AT&T or Verizon is the way to go.

And then there’s people like me. If you’re technically inclined and familiar with jailbreaking, just buy MyWi and create your own iPhone wireless hotspot (it works on older iPhones too, while Personal Hotspot is limited to iPhone 4 only). The other nice thing about MyWi is that it offers a free 3 day trial, so you can jailbreak your phone and then test out the wireless hotspot functionality without any obligation to buy anything. If you hate it or it doesn’t work for you, reverse the jailbreak and just go with the monthly plan option.

PS: Jailbreaking is legal
Finally, a reminder that jailbreaking is not illegal. No Apple doesn’t like jailbreaks, and you’ll want to undo the jailbreak by restoring your iPhone before you take it in for Apple service, but it’s perfectly legal.

If you’ve been sitting on the sidelines wondering why you should jailbreak your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad, you’re probably not alone. There’s plenty of reasons, but the video above lets us hear a few directly from Jay Freeman, aka Saurik, of Cydia fame. His main pitch is that jailbreaking gives you the freedom to do things outside of the normal scope of applications, including:

• 5 icons on your dock

• Cool animation customizations

• Quick access panels to settings

• Twitter client from a status bar

• Forward voicemail messages to other people as emails

• Custom lock screens

• Black keyboard vs white default

• iOS appearance themes

In other words, jailbreaking creates a tinkerers wonderland, allowing for thorough customization of the iOS interface and experience. If you watch the video, you’ll see a couple examples of these customizations in action, some are just pure eyecandy and others are genuinely useful enough that Apple should consider adopting them (forwarding voicemails, custom lockscreens, etc).

What app should you use to jailbreak? In the video, Saurik currently recommends using redsn0w (you can read a tutorial to jailbreak 4.3.2 with redsn0w here, it’s easy just follow the instructions).

The downsides to jailbreaking? You have to keep on top of iOS updates to make sure you don’t lose your jailbreak. Saurik recommends just waiting a few days until after an iOS update is released so that a jailbreak is available for the new version, which has been the standard jailbreaker approach for a while now. And no, jailbreaking is not illegal so there is nothing to worry about there.

For whatever reason, Saurik doesn’t mention carrier unlocking, but that’s also a common reason people jailbreak their iPhones in regions where hardware is sold locked by default. Unlocking is getting more and more challenging though, and current methods only apply to older firmware. The good news is that the GSM iPad 2 is unlocked regardless of where you buy it, and this may hint at a more liberalized approach to carrier locking in future versions of iPhone, or so we can hope.

Why You Should Jailbreak Your iPhone

Verizon has issued a written response to Massachusetts Congressman Ed Markey’s call for answers on the recent revelations that phones may provide your location data without your knowledge. The letter written by Peter B. Davidson, who is the Senior Vice President of Federal Government Relations at Verizon, goes into detail on how Verizon goes to great lengths to inform and protect its customers from revealing their location data to third parties.

Verizon now plan on taking a further step to include a sticker on every phone that it sells; warning users that it could track location data. The removable sticker will be placed on the screen of the device. Verizon say that the labels will start to appear very soon. We assume that this will include all models of the iPhone too.

Apple has already released a Q&A to address its customer concerns; Apple and Google are still due to appear at a hearing in May to explain their roles in the situation in more detail.