iPhone Unlockers & Jailbreakers: Avoid iTunes 8.2 Update

Published on June 7, 2009 in uncategorized. Closed Tags: , , , , , , .

Last week Apple pushed out an update to iTunes.  The update brings it up to version 8.2.  If you are an unlocker or a jailbreaker you probably want to avoid this update until the dev team figures out the hitches.  

It’s already clear that it breaks the unlocking and jailbreaking apps like QuickPwn and PwnageTool.  The “iPhone Dev Team” behind most of the jailbreaking and unlocking work doesn’t think this was a deliberate move on Apple’s part, so they expect to be able to address the issue and get things working again soon.  You can read more on their blog.

iPhone 3.0 Beta Unlocked

Published on April 4, 2009 in apple, iphone and jailbreak. Closed Tags: , , , .

Someone has released a jailbreak for one of the betas of the iPhone 3.0 firmware.  The iPhone dev team, who are responsible for the 3G unlock released a few months ago, hurried to get a post up explaining why they weren’t the ones to release  this latest exploit.  

They offer proof that they had a jailbreak a few weeks ago, but they kept it to themselves because they’d rather work towards a carrier unlock of 3.0, than try to keep up with a stream of beta releases from Apple.

Before you decide you want to be all cutting edge, a few things to keep in mind before trying to install one of the 3.0 betas, much less jailbreak it.

  • The new firmware doesn’t work with the baseband 02.28 firmware unlocked by yellowsn0w.
  • Apple is just going to release a new version.
  • You may render it impossible to ever unlock your iPhone 3G
  • You may not be able to roll back to the released firmware
  • Its a knock off of the hard work of the iPhone dev team.

If you still want to go ahead and do it, you can find it here.

iPhone 3.0 Awesomeness

Published on March 17, 2009 in apple and iphone. Closed Tags: .

I was a little disappointed there wasn’t new iPhone hardware announced today.  I’m sure that more flash memory is coming this summer, but I was hoping for, at the very least, more RAM for running apps, fantasizing that it would make for fewer hangs up and performance issues.  A better camera would be nice too.

On the other hand, what they have announced sounds awesome:

  • Cut and paste in all apps.  The phone is useful without it, but it would be even better with it.
  • P2P bluetooth support for iPhone/iPhone communication, and Bluetooth stereo audio on 3G iPhones.  Bluetooth support to be enabled in the 2nd gen iPod touch too.  It looks like support for specialized bluetooth peripherals, like Bluetooth glucose monitors, is also included.  No announcements regarding bluetooth mouse or keyboard.
  • Support for peripherals via the dock connector.  I’m hoping for something that allows transfer of photos photos from a digital camera.  It would be great to be able to upload high-quality photos directly from an iPhone.
  • Push is coming, finally.  I’d still like to see some limited support for background processing for, if nothing else, audio playback and VoIP.
  • Live streaming audio & video over HTTP in the media player app
  • Richer APIs for location, including embedded maps & reverse geocoding.
  • Multiple photos per e-mail message
  • Landscape keyboard in all applications.
  • Search across applications
  • Better calendar sync support
  • Built in Voice Notes
  • MMS support.  They say that hardware issues limit this to the 3G iPhone.  Sounds bogus to me.

What’s In Store for iPhone OS 3.0

Published on March 17, 2009 in uncategorized. Closed Tags: , , .

Apple’s iPhone press event is just a few hours away.  ArsTechnica has posted their best guess as to what’s in store for iPhone take 3:

There are some obvious features that seem a like a no-brainer: support for tethering, which AT&T has already said is coming; full Bluetooth support, including stereo headsets, external keyboards, and file transfer; compatibility with Apple’s new advanced inline controls on new headphones, push notifications; the previously rumored copy and paste; and MMS support. Any or all of these would be good candidates for feature additions, most of which have been clamored for since the iPhone was launched almost two years ago.

It’s a beautiful dream, but I have my doubts on a lot of them.  My top hopes:

  • Better bluetooth support
  • Ability to pull photos off of digital cameras over USB, a la the iPod photo.
  • Push notifications
  • Background tasks
  • A Pretty Pony

How about you?  What are you betting on?  What are you hoping for?

Incoming! iPhone 3.0 Preview on March 17th

Published on March 14, 2009 in apple and iphone. Closed Tags: , , .

Just in case the iPhone Dev Team was thinking about taking a vacation this summer, Apple just sent out press invitations for a preview of the iPhone, v3.0, this Tuesday, March 17th.

iphone3event

No doubt this will bring improvements to the OS, but it also seems likely that new hardware will be coming sometime this summer.  Either one will probably create a new set of challenges for jailbreaking and unlocking.