PyBoot
Tool for tether booting Checkm8 vulnerable iOS devices (by MatthewPierson)
PongoOS
pongoOS (by checkra1n)
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| PyBoot | PongoOS | |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | 293 | |
| 280 | 2,377 | |
| - | 1.1% | |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| 12 months ago | about 2 months ago | |
| Python | C | |
| GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
PyBoot
Posts with mentions or reviews of PyBoot.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-29.
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[question] How do I boot my tethered iPhone 6?
There are a few tools that do this, such as Ramiel and Pyboot although I've not had much success with them myself when tether downgrading my iPhone X. Kept getting errors
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[Update] Inferius - Create & Restore custom IPSWs to checkm8-vulnerable 64-bit devices
PyBoot
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[Discussion] I want to downgrade iphone 6 from IOS12 to IOS9.3.3 but I am lost, where do I start from?
Source: https://github.com/MatthewPierson/PyBoot/issues/61
You'll need a Mac to boot it with PyBoot before the developer has released Ramiel (an application for macOS which will do this stuff, but not out yet)
PongoOS
Posts with mentions or reviews of PongoOS.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-22.
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[Update] palera1n-c has been updated (2.0.0b5]
If you’re on iOS 12.5.7 you can use checkra1n. Palera1n is for iOS 15.x and 16.x
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[Question] So I want to trade my Iphone SE 2020 for Iphone X on IOS 14. Is it worth it? It will be ok on IOS 14?
iOS 12.0 up to 14.8.1 checkra1n
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[Question] Set Generator for iOS 16?
i mean, PongoOS exists
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[Discussion] Which iOS version should I have on my iPhone 7 for a jailbreak?
on 14.3 you have complete access to rootfs, plus 3 jailbreaks (checkra1n, unc0ver, and Taurine) and TrollStore
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[Question] Is there anything I can do with this?
Use checkra1n
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[Discussion] What’s the current status of the available iOS jailbreaks?
with A10(X), you can use the blackbird exploit to gain control of the Secure Enclave and disable said mitigation. checkra1n and checkp4le can take advantage of blackbird.
- [Question] How the fuck do people jailbreak now days? I don't get it.
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[Question] Is Freya safe?
Maybe checkra1n?
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[Help] Full screen UNIX console App (tty like) on iOS ?
What you see in the post, is an iPhone which is booting with verbose mode enabled. PongoOS can do this, and it can even give you a shell over USB without userland (no kernel, no OS thingys).
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[Discussion] iPhone SE running postmarketOS + with working desktop environment
The instructions here and here both say to use checkra1n.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing PyBoot and PongoOS you can also consider the following projects:
odysseyn1x - Linux-based distro that lets you install checkra1n, odysseyra1n and Project Sandcastle.
FutureRestore-GUI - A modern GUI for FutureRestore, with added features to make the process easier.
futurerestore - A hacked up idevicerestore wrapper, which allows specifying SEP and Baseband for restoring
checkn1x - Light (~50MB) images for jailbreaking iOS devices
Divise - arm64 iOS Dualboots/Tethered downgrades on device!
ra1nsn0w - A tethered booter for 64bit iOS devices vulnerable to checkm8
checkn1x_a8a9_14.5_pongoOS
Inferius - Create & Restore 64-bit custom IPSWs
smserver - An app to allow Jailbroken iPhones to send texts & attachments from their browser
PongoDoom - A Linux Framebuffer port of the original Doom