redsn0w or sn0wbreeze

[westikle]

i've been waiting for redsn0w to be available for PC users and now that it is, i see that i could have already jailbroken iOS 5 with sn0wbreeze. which one am i supposed to go with, advantages, disadvantages?

many thanks
wes

[R.Mortera]

It all depends on what iPhone you have?
Are you trying to make a cfw?
Both can jailbreak
SB can cook you a cfw and all you gotta do is restore it with that.
Redsn0w fixes location services (not sn0wbreeze)

[iYeow]

Redsn0w for windows cannot cook custom firmware.

[R.Mortera]

Yeah that's the only thing what redsn0w can't do pretty much

I didn't mention redsn0w being able to cook cfw right ? :/ jw

[westikle]

well then redsn0w it is. last time i cooked something it didn't come out so well. are you talking about using a firmware that is different than iOS? i'm not real clear on that.

[i.Annie]

In a general sense, sn0wbreeze/pwnagetool are tools that create custom firmwares so that users who need to unlock can preserve the baseband.

Redsn0w can only be used if you restored to a stock firmware. Using a stock fw over a cFW means the baseband gets upgraded too so unlockers tend to stay away from that.

[westikle]

i see nowhere how to thank people around here

[iYeow]

Bottom left corner, only redsnow for mac can create custom firmware, dev team try to rush out a version of redsnow for windows ,so no feature incorporated into it.