Status of Jailbreak for New Apple TV [Apple TV 3]
About two weeks ago, Apple held a media event in which they announced the New iPad (AKA, in the jailbreaking community, iPad 3) and the New Apple TV. Within 24 hours of the iPad being released for sale to the general public, i0n1c was able to create an untethered jailbreak for the New iPad. That’s great news for iPad owners.
In line with the positive step’s forward for the iPad, there was some great news regarding the New Apple TV. In a teardown performed by a user in the XBMC forums, it was found that the New Apple TV sports an upgraded 512MB ram along with the single core A5 processor. For Apple TV users, this is great! Many users have been talking about the extra performance boost this will provide.
For many users, including myself, this is great news but means nothing without a jailbreak. Personally, 95% of the time I just use my Apple TV to run XBMC – and this obviously cannot be installed without a jailbreak.
With the speed multiple exploits were found for the iPad 3, you would think the same would be done for the Apple TV – this is not the case.
Over multiple tweets made yesterday, MuscleNerd explains that it looks like none of the exploits found for the New iPad will be able to used on the Apple TV. Also, because the Apple TV’s software is far smaller than that of the iPad or iPhone, there is less code for exploits to be found in.
So at this stage, there is no progress with a possible jailbreak for Apple’s shinny new device. Hopefully someone within the jailbreak community will find a possible exploit to help unlesh the power of, what has the potential to be, an incredible device.
Be sure to follow the website to keep up-to-date with any updates for the Apple TV.
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I hope its not too long till they can jailbreak it. This will be my first AppleTV! can’t wait to get all the features. (Awaiting for it to arrive from apple)
Keep up the good work. i check this site most days for updates.
Thanks for the support! We will be sure to post about a jailbreak for the New AppleTV as soon as it becomes available!
My first Apple TV and i pray its Jailbreakable… either that or return it and get a Gen 2!
Keep up the good work Jailbreaker teams!
Damn this sucks. Hope they can jb it fast. Thanks for keeping us posted brothas.
I updated without saving my old FW Hope they can JB soon,
I just found a site where you can download a JB for the new ATV 3
http://seas0npass.blogspot.com/
This is spyware, don’t download! No jaibreak for ATV3 available yet! This is correct site http://blog.firecore.com/
Thanks for the heads up, Floydie. Definitely looked suspicious and, as we all know, the skies will resound when they JB the ATV3!
Well, time goes by, and nothing much is going on here. On FireCores blog I read about some progress with the jailbreak of ATV 3, but since then silence. I can’t wait to get my ATV 3 jailbroken, but I guess I’m not the only one
Has anyone here been able to find some news on the subject?