Good practice for any jailbreaker is to save your handset’s SHSH blobs regularly. Doing so opens you up to the possibility of firmware downgrades and other fruitful benefits concerningjailbreaking.
A whole host of SHSH blob-saving tools exist today, including blobsaver. The latter is a cross-platform GUI app that promises ease of use across common operating systems likemacOS,Windows, and evenLinux.
Blobsaver is particularly useful because it can automatically save SHSH blobs in the background. It also lets you save SHSH blobs for up to ten devices for both public and betaiOSreleases and read connected device information automatically without having to input it manually.
With the click of a button, bloblsaver grabs your device’s SHSH blobs:
And the resulting files are saved to your computer:
As of this weekend, however, blobsaver was updated to version 2.2 with various improvements.Citing the tool’s official GitHub page, the update brings the following changes:
If you’re interested in downloading and trying the latest version of blobsaver to save your handset’s SHSH blobs, then you shouldvisit the app’s GitHub pageand click on the download link that corresponds with your operating system.
As the developer notes, you may need to disable some firewall features on your machine for blobsaver to work correctly. This will vary from person to person, depending on the strictness of your firewallsecuritysettings. In our case, no firewall setting changes were needed.
Blobsaver requiresJavaRuntime Environment (JRE), whichcan be downloaded separately from Oracle’s website.
Have you tried blobsaver yet? Let us know in the comments section below.
