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Last night I was looking around for a nice app to download. There are so many iPhone apps out there, and its getting really annoying to sort out whats great and what’s just what us iPhone nerds call ‘crapps’.

So, how should Apple enable people to find the apps they are looking for more efficiently, and why should they do it now?

Apple has the Genius system out for music and they have just recently pulled it out for our iPhone Apps. Great! Now we can get some apps that are similar to the apps we already have.

Why should Apple do it now? Well, the answer is quite simple actually: To boost sales of apps. Not only will this increase Apples revenue but everyone will be happy, developers and us – the consumers.

So, I think I may have convinced you, but now the question is how do we do this?

1. Integrate Genius with search. If I type physics, and I’ve got a heap of education apps, I should get apps that come up with Physics study stuff not games like ‘Touch Physics’.

2. Search within categories. I want to be able to search within categories, such as Games, Education… I don’t even think iTunes has this feature.

3. Search Tags. Applications should have search tags. For instance, an iPhone App may be a Twitter app, and the iPhone developer will have tags that’ll only be visible to the search mechanism-thingy.

Here and here you can find the most complex info,guide,tutorial and tools how to manage, handle and free up your iPhone from Apple’s “prison” …

(For Mac users…)

Jailbreak iPhone 3G / 3GS v3.1.2 for Windows and Mac – WalletPros

When I first enabled the tethering hack on my iPhone running 3.0 via BenM’s help page, Visual Voicemail stopped working. I did not notice this, partly because I don’t get many phonecalls, but mostly because I just wasn’t paying attention. After a while I started getting annoyed that people were calling me and not leaving messages.

During my update to iPhone OS 3.1, after I restored from a modified version of the fresh Apple IPSW image, my phone declared that I had some 20 voicemails or so. Turns out people actually had been leaving me messages, and I just hadn’t been seeing them, since my VVM wasn’t working. Apparently there’s something incompatible in BenM’s carrier settings profile that breaks VVM when tethering is on.

A few days ago, I updated to 3.1.2 and reenabled tethering via a new, more intrusive and in depth hack. Today it occurred to me to test the Visual Voicemail, see if it’s still broken with the new tethering hack on the 3.1.2 jailbreak. Of course it is.

A quick turn on the internet reveals this gem. The instructions on that page led me to check my profile in Settings -> General -> Profile, where I saw that my original BenM profile was still loaded. I loaded the new profile from that page, and all works. Tethering is there, and VVM is there. I’m very pleased. Much thanks to redmondpie and w1kedZ of PeacefulInsanity.com. I note that BenM’s help page does say he’s working on a hack for 3.1.2, but for now, I’m all set.

In Apple’s Texas Holdem app, there are several venues where you can play, with different buy-in amounts. I’m not very good, so it takes me a long time to build up enough money to play the later venues. Since my iPhone is jailbroken, I can just manually adjust the amount of money in my Texas Holdem pot. Here’s how I do this.

User installed apps on the iPhone live at /User/Applications/sandbox_dir/appname.app, where appname is the name of the app in question, and sandbox_dir is a random string of 37 hex digits and hyphens. This string is an example of salt, and it is how Apple implements a per-app sandbox. For one app to interact with another’s data, it would have to guess the name of its sandbox directory, which is a statistical impossibility.

To discover which sandbox directory Holdem lives in, I run ls -d /User/Applications/*/* | grep -i holdem, which on my device yields /User/Applications/6FFC1F30-3ECB-45F2-9A26-6473B554A360/HoldEm.app/. The file /User/Applications/6FFC1F30-3ECB-45F2-9A26-6473B554A360/Documents/data is where all your game data are stored. How many games played, how many games won, how much money, etc. I had hoped for an Apple .plist, but it seems to be a straight-up binary file. With a little trial and error, one finds that the amount of winnings is stored in bytes 51 through 53 of this file. Note that they’re in reverse order. So if you want 0×123456 dollars, byte 51 should be 56, byte 52 should be 34, and byte 53 should be 12.

In summary, with a jailbroken iPhone named iphone_name, with OpenSSH installed:

1. From a computer on the same LAN as the iPhone, copy the data file to the local computer: scp root@iphone_name.local:/User/Applications/'`ls -d /User/Applications/*/* | grep -i holdem | cut -f 4 -d \/`'/Documents/data .
2. Edit the data file on your computer with a hex edit program, adding your desire money to bytes 51 through 53. FF FF FF to max out your money.
3. Copy the file back to your iPhone with: scp data root@iphone_name.local:/User/Applications/'`ls -d /User/Applications/*/* | grep -i holdem | cut -f 4 -d \/`'/Documents/data

And that’s it. That’s my killer app justification for all the hassle of jailbreaking; cheating at poker. You get $16,777,215 dollars. Plenty of money to lose at Dubai 160 times.

Not too long after iPhone OS 3.1 came out, a minor update to 3.1.2. I didn’t bother with the update, since it had been such a hassle to upgrade to 3.1 and maintain my jailbreak. And I had lost my tethering hack.

geohot is the 17 year old kid from NJ who developed the very first iPhone jailbreak, which apparently involved soldering.
I had read how much easier to use purplera1n had been than the iPhone Dev Team’s PwnageTool and redsn0w. With the current generation of devices and OSes, geohot has just released blackra1n. For a while it looked like it was going to be Windows only, but he eventually did release it for the Mac too. It boasts the ability to jailbreak all iPhone OS devices released to date, running any firmware, thus simplifying greatly the menagerie of iPhone jailbreaking and unlocking tools. And since geohot had found a vulnerability in the new baseband firmware (05.11.07), I don’t need to hold on to old firmware, as I did with PwnageTool in jailbreaking 3.1. Although I understand the newest PwnageTool 3.1.4 now allows current baseband firmware too.

And holy shit, was it easy. Just launch the app, press a button, and you’re done. Much much easier and simpler and fun than PwnageTool. No building custom IPSWs, no hour long restores of your iphone, no giving it your admin password for reasons unknown. All in all, a very pleasant experience. It makes me not want to go back to PwnageTool.

The other news is about iPhone tethering hacks. I’ve been periodically checking the iPhone Dev Team’s blog and iClarified.com for news about this, with no results. Also just generally googling around the web turned up nothing. But today I decided to see if anyone was saying anything on twitter and I hit pay dirt. Here and, via this hit, here. I used the last one.

So you do a mysterious binary patch to /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreTelephony.framework/Support/CommCenter, reboot, and voilà! Tethering should work. Well, pretty much. When I opened Settings -> General -> Network and clicked on “Internet Tethering”, I got a popup that said something like “To enable tethering, please contact AT&T”. For a moment I thought it wasn’t going to work. But on a second try, I got the Internet Tethering control panel open, turned it on, and all worked beautifully. And apparently this hack will even be included in the next version of PwnageTool. That’s one thing that might tempt me to go back.

I’m very happy to have my tethering back. Kudos to the iPhone Dev Team!

So that’s it…

There are two different ways to jailbreak your iPhone.

At 1st, you could try a jailbreak with a custom firmware. Therefore, you need iReb if you have never been jailbroken your iPhone. With an already jailbroken iPhone you can install the custom fw directly over the iTunes – Software!

Otherwise, you can use the 2nd method for a jailbreak. It consists to download Blackra1n on Blackra1n.com and to let it rain on your iPhone.

Note : all this instructions works with the original iPhone (v1) , iPhone3g and iPhone3gS

IF SOMEONE NEED ASSISTANCE, I PROPOSE A TUTORIAL OR GIVE YOU LINKS TO DIFFERENT TUTORIALS ON THE WEB!

It’s only been a couple of days, but iPhone OS 3.1.2 now has a jailbreak! A blog author at On The iPhone has been able to release a jailbreak for all devices running the iPhone OS (iPhone 2G, 3G, 3GS, iPod touch, iPod touch 2G, iPod touch 3G). For those who had no unlock and upgraded to 3.1.2, this will be easy. For those who already have an unlock, the author advises not to upgrade. In fact, here are his warnings, taken directly from Gizmodo and On the iPhone:

WARNING: Even though the GeoHot jailbreak supports 3.1.2 do not update if you are on iPhone OS 3.0.1 or 3.0. You will lose your unlock. Use PwnageTool to safely update to 3.1 without performing a baseband update. If you really must have 3.1.2 then wait for the next version of PwnageTool. If you have already updated to 3.1 or 3.1.2 without using PwnageTool then you’ve lost the ability to unlock for the time being. You can now use BlackRa1n to at least regain your jailbreak

Via Gizmodo, On the iPhone


Update: Blackra1n is now available to download, but first read the warning! After you have decided to risk your device, go ahead and click “On the iPhone” credit link to go to the blog to download. Windows only.

Two nights ago, the iPhone dev team announced that the jailbreak for iPhoneOS  3.1 on the 3GS is now available albeit only to users with an already jailbroken iPhoneOS 3.0.  I am such a user, and I’d been champing at the bit waiting to the upgrade but not wanting to lose my jailbreak, so I was eager to get started.  I basically followed the excellent instructions on iClarified.com.

I’ve understood that one of the challenges is that the new iPhone 3G S has some hardware change (so these remarks do not apply to the iPhone 3G or original model) whereby iTunes requires to authenticate with Apple’s server any firmware image before it will install it.  One consequence is that it’s no longer possible to downgrade.  So if you upgrade to 3.1, you cannot downgrade back to 3.0, as Apple is no longer authenticating the 3.0 ipsw image.  And of course you cannot load non-Apple ipsw.  I’m not sure how they got around this for the new jailbreak.

1. Update all applications in iTunes
2. Update all applications on iPhone
3. Transfer purchases from iPhone to iTunes
4. Sync
5. Backup iPhone
6. Restore from backup.  This forces iTunes to tag the backup with a timestamp, and it will be kept even after subsequent backups, rather than overwritten as is normally done.
7. Download PwnageTool 3.1.3
8. Have iTunes download only, not install, the iPhoneOS update.  Copy update file.  $ cp ~/Library/iTunes/iPhone\ Software\ Updates/iPhone2,1_3.1_7C144_Restore.ipsw ~/pwn
9. Copy PwnageTool to disk and run in expert mode, opening Apple’s vanilla ipsw, and saving the new custom ipsw.
10. Put iPhone into recovery mode.
    • Note 1: Recovery mode (instructions here) is different from DFU mode (instructions here).  I tried this several times in DFU mode (with a black screen) thinking I was in recovery mode.  Every time iTunes failed to update with the custom ipsw.  Luckily I did finally guess that there was a difference between the two, and that I was in the wrong one.  But then I couldn’t figure out how to exit DFU mode, so I thought I had no choice but to restore to Apple vanilla 3.1 ipsw since the 3.0 ipsw are no longer authenticated by Apple’s server.  I almost panicked and did the vanilla 3.1 restore, which would have killed my chances at a jailbreak for now, and possibly forever.  Finally I did get out of DFU mode through some combination of home and power button.
    • Note 2:  iClarified’s instructions for getting into recovery mode (hold home and sleep/wake until screen goes black, continue holding home and release sleep/wake) did not work for me.  I used these instructions (turn off, hold home button while plugging in to iTunes) at ihackintosh instead.
11. Once the iPhone is in recovery mode, plug in to iTunes, it will prompt you that your are in recovery mode.  Do not hit the restore button!  I did this the first time I jailbroke, resulting in a complete wipe of my iPhone (not too big a problem if you backed up).  My buddy did this last night.  Instead you must option-click, to open a file browser dialogue.  Navigate to your custom ipsw.
12. As all photos, apps, and music are gone, we must now sync.
13. Backup again.  If you skipped step 6, this backup will overwrite your pre-upgrade backup.

It was a lot of steps, and it took a long time.  I was at it pretty much all night.  But it’s done.  I now have a jailbroken iPhone 3G S running iPhone OS 3.1.  I do note that my baseband firmware (Settings -> General -> About: Modem Firmware) is still stuck at 04.26.08, whereas new iPhone 3GSes and legitimate 3.1 upgraders have 05.11.07.  So the cost of keeping the jailbreak is that I can no longer run up-to-date iPhone baseband firmware.  Could that affect call quality or reception?  Don’t know.

I’m not sure how much longer I’ll be willing to go through all that pain in order to have a jailbroken phone.  I like having OpenSSH on my iPhone, so I can copy files to and from its filesystem, including preference files for applications I use on my phone.  But it’s not something I rely heavily on.  I’ve installed QuickReply, a modification to the stock SMS program which allows you to reply to an SMS without leaving the application you’re in.  It’s a handy feature, but the UI is so terrible (it simply overlays SMS on top of whatever application you’re in) that it leaves me with a gross feeling.

I had enabled tethering on my iPhone 3G S using the carrier settings download at BenM’s iPhone Help Center.  Tethering was a must-have feature for me, one that had kept me from getting an iPhone before, though I did finally take the iPhone plunge.  With iPhone 3.0, tethering was supported by the OS, but not switched on by AT&T.  BenM made it possible to toggle that setting on.  Better yet, you didn’t have to pay service charges for it.

My previous phone before the iPhone, and my first smartphone, had been an AT&T Tilt (the AT&T branding for the HTC Kaiser) running Windows Mobile 6.  The same thing had been possible with that phone; there’s some hidden application in the Windows System directory which turns on tethering.  BenM made that possible with iPhone 3.0.

Unfortunately, it seems that iPhone 3.1 has removed the tethering preference.  I’m hoping that my jailbreak status will restore it for me.  I suppose it won’t be much longer before AT&T rolls out official support.  I don’t much fancy paying another $15 or $30 per month for something that I only use once in a while.

The biggest thing I’ve found jailbreaking useful for is customizing your iphone/ipod and getting Nintendo games. That being said, here are some apps I’d recommend trying:

• Winterboard – Needed to manage most feature changing apps
• SB Settings (replaced BossPrefs) – Needed to manage services and settings. Great for having toggles for wi fi, 3G, hides icons, and more. Seriously, this is amazing, doesn;t even come as an app, you just swipe your finger across the top of the screen.
• Five-Column Springboard – 5th column, fits more apps per page
• Five-Column Dock – Same thing but for dock
• NES 3, Gameboy4iphone, SNES, and genesis4iphone – Video game emulators
• GV Mobile – The Google Voice app banned from the app store (not from google)
• Podcaster – paid app, great for downloading podcasts over the air, listening over the air
• Android Three – Changes apps and backgrounds for Android theme
• Beer Battery – Changes your battery
• dTunes – If you want to torrent, this is it
• Firefox Safari – Make Safari look like Firefox. There is also myfox, which is a completely different web browser, but i was not impressed with it over safari mobile.
• Google Chrome Lockscreen – Yeah, its badass
• ANtique Brass Keyboard – Coolest keyboard mod i have found. Hasn’t worked on my 3.0 though :/
• Ubuntu Theme – Make the iphone look like ubuntu

Ok, this time I did actually jailbreak it. Thanks to Jon Duenas for hooking me up with the right firmware.

This is realllllly easy. No coding necessary, all you need is the Red_Sn0w program and the correct 3.0 firmware for your iPod/iPhone.Complete list of steps and iphone firmware here. This may or may not work for iPhone 3GS, I have heard mixed reviews and I don’t exactly ahve the money to buy one myself (plus Android phones > iPhones).

My equipment: iPod Touch 1st Gen, Mac OS 10.6, Redsnow 0.8. Yes it works with snow leopard, yes it works with PCs, Linux, whatever.

IF YOU EVER RUN INTO A PROBLEM, WHEN IN DOUBT JUST RESTORE YOUR DEVICE WITH ITUNES. DON’T PANIC.

1. Download and locate your firmware. iPhone is at the link listed above. If you need iPod touch, check the torrent sites, what you need is listed on the site, just match it up. Post with any problems.

2. Download Red_Sn0w here.

3. Change iTunes settings so it does not automatically update your device when you plug it in.

4. Plug in said device. iTunes will still pop up, close it out. Turn the device off (hold power button and swipe “off”). Wipe your brow of any sweat.

5. Run Red_sn0w, browse and select the correct firmware, it walks you through the damn steps. Checkmark Cydia, I don’t know what Icey is, i didn’t checkmark it.

6. Basically, the device needs to be turned off, when it tells you to be prepared to immediately hold down the power key for 3 secs, then continue holding power while pressing the home key for 10 secs. Then release power key while holding the home key until it goes into recovery mode.

7. This is actually important!!!! So far a lot of the devices have not rebooted automatically. All you have to do is UNPLUG THE USB FROM THE COMPUTER THEN REPLUG IT IN. It basically makes the iPod jump awake. and then it is registered and Red_sn0w jailbreaks it.

You’ll know if it works.If it doesn’t work restore ipod with iTunes and try again.

For unlocking your iPhone to put on a carrier, last I checked yellow snow on the Cydia is the way to go correction yellowsn0w does not unlock 3GS, ultrasn0w does. This chap seems to have the info on that (and yes i borrowed his picture graph, it was way too good). Follow his steps in the video on his site.

Remember, jailbreaking is basically granting you admin access on the iPhone, unlocking is allowing your iPhone to go on any GSM carrier. They are two different steps, and you must jailbreak before unlocking. Even if you purchase an iPhone outright in the USA, it is still locked on AT&T.

Keep checking, I’ll post reasons why to jailbreak, and what cydia apps to check out in a bit.

I located all the firmware versions that Apple released for the iPhone.

I”ll put them all here so when you ever need to restore to a previous version, you can download the firmware here.

iPhone 2G

iPhone Firmware version 1.0.0

iPhone Firmware version 1.0.1

iPhone Firmware version 1.0.2

iPhone Firmware version 1.1.1

iPhone Firmware version 1.1.2

iPhone Firmware version 1.1.3

iPhone Firmware version 1.1.4

iPhone 2G Firmware Version 2.0

iPhone 2G Firmware Version 2.0.1

iPhone 2G Firmware Version 2.0.2

iPhone 2G Firmware Version 2.1

iPhone 2G Firmware Version 2.2

iPhone 2G Firmware Version 2.2.1

iPhone 2G Firmware Version 3.0.0

iPhone 3G

iPhone 3G Firmware Version 2.0

iPhone 3G Firmware Version 2.0.1

iPhone 3G Firmware Version 2.0.2

iPhone 3G Firmware Version 2.1

iPhone 3G Firmware Version 2.2

iPhone 3G Firmware Version 2.2.1

iPhone 3G Firmware Version 3.0.0

For completeness here are the Ipod Touch firmwares:

Ipod Touch Firmware version 1.1.1

Ipod Touch Firmware version 1.1.2

Ipod Touch Firmware version 1.1.3

Ipod Touch Firmware version 1.1.4

iPod Touch 2G

iPod Touch 2G Firmware version 2.2

iPod Touch 2G Firmware version 2.2.1

Boot loaders

Bootloader version 4.6

Bootloader version 3.9

enjoy

Pwnage Tools

Mac PwnageTool

• http://iphone-dev.fgv6.net/PwnageTool_2.2.5.dmg
• http://iphone.schwarzmetall.cn/PwnageTool_2.2.5.dmg
• http://rabstalk.bplaced.net/mirrors/PwnageTool_2.2.5.dmg
• http://jmcoon.net/PwnageTool_2.2.5.dmg
• http://downloads2.ipod.backshot.eu/PwnageTool_2.2.5.dmg
• http://www.iphone-storage.de/PwnageTool_2.2.5.dmg
• http://miphone.ca/iphone-dev/PwnageTool_2.2.5.dmg

Mac QuickPwn

• http://iphone-dev.fgv6.net/QuickPwn_2.2.5.dmg
• http://iphone.schwarzmetall.cn/QuickPwn_2.2.5.dmg
• http://rabstalk.bplaced.net/mirrors/QuickPwn_2.2.5.dmg
• http://jmcoon.net/QuickPwn_2.2.5.dmg
• http://www.iphone-storage.de/QuickPwn_2.2.5.dmg
• http://downloads2.ipod.backshot.eu/QuickPwn_2.2.5.dmg
• http://miphone.ca/iphone-dev/QuickPwn_2.2.5.dmg

Windows QuickPwn

• http://miphone.ca/iphone-dev/QuickPwn225-2.zip
• http://foskarulla.com/QuickPwn-225-2.zip
• http://downloads2.touch-mania.com/QuickPwn-225-2.zip
• http://www.applei.ph/devteam/QuickPwn-225-2.zip
• http://phonenews.com/phones/gsm/apple/QuickPwn225-2.zip
• http://rabstalk.bplaced.net/mirrors/QuickPwn-225-2.zip
• http://www.evil-crew.de/QuickPwn-225-2.zip
• http://daniel14.com/QuickPwn-225-2.zip

Yesterday the iPhone Dev Team released their lastest iPhone and iPod Touch jailbreaking tool Redsn0w 0.8. Im sure most of you are wondering whats new, since the 0.7 version of redsn0w was released not to long ago… Whats new? This release is now able to jailbreak the new iPhone 3GS. I haven’t been able to confirm it but i’ve been hear the dev team also updated ultrasn0w, the iPhone OS 3.0 unlocking to work with the 3GS.

While this isn’t the first jailbreak for the 3GS, it is said to be more stable and safer than the other method. Windows, Mac, and Linux versions are below.

Here’s a lowdown on the Jailbreakable iPhones… practically all of them

iPod Touch 2gn 16G iPhoneOS 3.0 well done

Originally uploaded by Megaf

Parece que tudo ocorreu como o esperado.

Bootou normalmente.

Esse firmware 3.0 ta realmente bom.

Agora o iPod Touch tem ateh bluetooth! soh falta descobrir pra que que ser bluetooth no ipod xP