All you Need to Know About Evasi0n Jailbreak and Device Compatibility

Apple’s iOS 6 combined with the better A5 devices has been the biggest challenge so far in the jailbreak community. This time around it took jailbreakers much longer than ever before to break into Apple’s OS, however as much as users have been waiting for the iPhone 5, 4S, iPad mini and 4 jailbreak, consumers are weary about using this team’s tool.

It’s not that users might think the evasi0n jailbreak is risky, but they didn’t have the time to become familiar with its developers. The Evad3rs team has just surfaced in the world of jailbreaking iOS and although its members are reputable in the world of hackers, many users still don’t feel comfortable enough using a jailbreak that wasn’t released by iPhone Dev-Team.So here’s what you need to know about the evasi0n jailbreak and its developers.

The numbers do look impressive enough to speak for the jailbreak’s reputation. Recent statistics say that in the last seven days more than 7 million iOS devices have installed evasi0n. So evad3rs’ jailbreak is basically the most popular tool of its kind ever. The long wait and appeal built around the jailbreak tool have boosted popularity to the extent that Cydia has received “insanely more new traffic” says administrator Jay Freeman.

The new Dev-team that developed evasi0n is made of four popular hackers, including two of the most experienced: Pod2g, MuscleNerd, Planetbeing and Pimskeks. Pod2g is the French hacker that gave the world the first untethered jailbreak for iOS 5.0.1, whereas MuscleNerd has been developing jailbreaks since 2001 and is the founder of iPhone Dev-Team, as well as part of the original team of developers behind Redsn0w, Ultrasn0w and the PwnageTool.

In terms of user-friendliness, evasi0n is just as hassle-free as previous jailbreaks. However it might feel like it takes longer, but it does require a minimum effort from your part. As for how evasi0n works, that’s for most users like magic. Developers aren’t revealing the actual exploit just yet, saying that “Apple can figure that one out for themselves”.

The good news is that evasi0n does perform an untethered jailbreak on Apple’s most recent iDevices. Here is the compatibility list for evasi0n on iOS 6 devices, updated last February 11, 2013:
Compatible devices

iPhone 5 (iOS 6.1), iPhone 4S (iOS 6.1), iPhone 4 (iOS 6.1), iPhone 3GS (iOS 6.1)

iPad Mini (iOS 6.1), iPad 4 (iOS 6.1), iPad 3 (iOS 6.1), iPad 2 (iOS 6.1)

iPod Touch 5G (iOS 6.1), iPod touch 4G (iOS 6.1)

Devices not supported:

iPhone 3G
iPad 1
iPod Touch 3G
iPod Touch 2G

Evasi0n Jailbreak for Apple iOS 6 Installed On 1.7 Million Devices Since Monday

Evasi0n Jailbreak for Apple iOS 6-based devices has been released on Monday and more than 1.7 million users have hurried to install the program on their iGadgets. The administrator of the Cydia appstore, Jay Freeman revealed that the website was accessed more than 14,000 times per minute during peak download times.

iPhone and iPad users have been waiting for the new Evasi0n jailbreak to be released for a long time. Luckily, the program was available on Cydia website on Monday and users hurried to install it on their devices.
 More than 1.7 million users installed Cydia on their gadgets and the traffic was frequently visited during peak download times. Based on Jay Freeman’s report, the administrator of the Cydia appstore, the servers encountered various problems due to the large traffic and they even went offline at a certain point.

Besides Redsn0w iOS 5.1.1, Evasi0n is the most popular untethered jailbreak that may be found on the Internet at present. Its release has taken a long time because hacking Apple devices is usually very difficult. Developers at evad3rs managed to create the program even though it has been a very detailed process. Thanks to them, Evasi0n has five distinct bugs in the new iOS code as opposed to Stuxnet, the malware built by the NSA to destroy centrifuges in Iran's nuclear enrichment facilities, which had only four.

iPhone 5 smartphones and other devices running on iOS 6 will be able to function with Evasi0n. The jailbreak is the first untethered program that is compatible with the previously mentioned devices. The fact that the jailbreak is untethered gives users the possibility to boot their devices without connecting the phone to a computer or a different gadget. This is the most preferred version of jailbreak as the smartphone will preserve the functions that were set during the installation process.

Evasi0n is also available for other operating systems, so users also have the possibility to download the version for Windows and Linux. There is, however, one more issue that needs to be solved in order for the jailbreak to function properly, namely, the software must no longer crash the weather app on iPhone 5. On the other hand, however, the jailbreak revealed that there was a weather app available for iPad all this time, but it was not available without the jailbreak.