by Simon Ng on August 28, 2010
For those of you awaiting jailbreak solution for iPhone running iOS 4.0.2 or iPad running iOS 3.2.2, the iPhone Dev team has announced that they won’t release any jailbreak tool for these version of iOS.
In mid August, Apple released iOS 4.0.2 for iPhone and iOS 3.2.2 for iPad. There is no new feature come with [...]
by Simon Ng on August 21, 2010
Recently, Apple awarded patent for the iPhone’s “slide to unlock”. However, not all the iPhone users love this invention to unlock the screen. Developers have already built hacks like “Tap to Unlock” for jailbroken iPhone. Here comes another hack called “VUnlock” that lets you use volume buttons to unlock the iPhone screen.
VUnlock is a hack [...]
by Simon Ng on August 18, 2010
I have received a number of queries about JailbreakMe.com. Some claimed that the site showed “Oops File Received Was Invalid” error after sliding the “Slide to jailbreak” slider.
As explained by @comex on Twitter, the JailbreakMe.com was broken today. That’s the reason why some of you experienced the invalid file error.
Jailbreakme was broken today because [...]
by Simon Ng on August 17, 2010
Internet tethering allows you to use the iPhone as a modem and share the Internet connection with laptop. It’s a great feature come with iPhone. However, for certain reasons, not every carrier supports the tethering feature. If your carrier does not support tethering for iPhone, that’s another good reason for jailbreaking.
Recently, cirdan and sbingner have [...]
by Simon Ng on August 16, 2010
FaceTime, one-tap video calling, is one of the notable features comes with the iPhone 4. After I got my iPhone 4, I have tested out the FaceTime feature with my friend. It’s really cool and fun. I have tried video calling on other mobile phones but there is no phone in the market that [...]
by Simon Ng on August 14, 2010
On Wednesday, Apple released iOS 4.0.2 that comes with a security fix for PDF exploit. For those who need jailbreaking, as mentioned in previous post, it is advised not to upgrade to this version of iOS. Otherwise, you will lose jailbreaking once upgraded. However, that means your jailbroken iPhone is vulnerable to PDF attack.
Thanks to [...]
by Simon Ng on August 13, 2010
Just a week after the PDF exploit was uncovered, Apple releases iOS 4.0.2 to patch the vulnerability.
The PDF security flaw was found on iOS 4.0 and 4.0.1, as well as, all versions of iPhone OS 3.1.x. The vulnerability allows hackers to complete control of iPhone by using a malicious PDF file. This iOS update [...]
by Simon Ng on August 12, 2010
For T-Mobile users in United States, you may fail to send MMS after you jailbreak and unlock your iPhone running on iOS 4.0 or 4.0.1.
This is a known issue. Developer from pushfix has developed a solution to fix the MMS problem and the patch is freely available on cydia.
To fix the MMS problem on [...]
by Simon Ng on August 11, 2010
Earlier, I showed you a way to fix the “Different SIM Detected” error after hacktivation with the phonebook sim. That method does resolve the error but it involves quite a lot of manual procedures. Probably, iPhone beginners will find it difficult to follow.
Thanks for PushFix to bring us an easier way to fix the issue. [...]