Archive : Hints & Tips

Yesterday we were warned by the dev team not to update to iOS 4.1 as it prevents users from jailbreaking their devices. But alas, we don’t have to worry about that minor inconvenience any more. iPhone hacker pod2g of Chronic Dev Team has found yet another exploit in the iPhones boot rom which allows you to jailbreak your device yet again. And since it’s in the bootrom, it also means that [...]

As you know, iOS 4.1 will be coming out at some stage today, so when your iTunes prompts you to update just hold back for a second. According to the dev team, iOS 4.1 has a new baseband which breaks the current jailbreak and unlock, there’s no known way to get around it as yet This means you many not be able to jailbreak/unlock your device ever again! Now the chances are the dev team and other [...]

Now we knew China Unicom were the carriers for the iPhone 4 which goes on sale there on September 16th, but they seem to keep surprising us with a few things. First off they look set to sell the iPhone 4 with a free case to combat the antennagate issues but now rumors are reporting that they will also jailbreak the device for you as well! This is definitely the first time I’ve heard such a [...]

Now one of the things Apple seems to have definitely improved in the iPhone 4 is the battery life, I’ve heard of hardly any complaints from people about their iPhone 4 running out of battery, but I’ve heard of several iPhone 3GS users who aren’t so lucky. But then again the battery is said to last up to 300 hours and is a lot bigger than the battery on previous iPhone models. Also [...]

It seems like only the other day, the first official jailbreak method was released by the dev team, all you had to do was navigate to jailbreakme.com and it would jailbreak your device right from the browser. And of course Apple weren’t too happy with this, but it also showed up a big security flaw in the iOS software, which Apple have promptly fixed. iOS 4.0.2 has just been released and this [...]

I don’t think I need to tell any of you about the whole ordeal surrounding flash on the iPhone and Steve Jobs reaction to it, so I’m going to dive straight in here and let you all know, that you can now get flash on the iPhone 4! So how do you do it? Well it’s quite simple, 1.First you are going to have to jailbreak your iPhone 4. 2.Then you need to go to Cydia and search for and [...]

Not too long ago a iPhone 4 jailbreak was released, all you had to do was visit jailbreakme.com and it would jailbreak your iOS device by taking advantage of a PDF exploit in the iPhone firmware. Since this exploit can easily be adapted for more malicious exploits, you want to be careful with it, and now it looks like when you jailbreak your device using this exploit, you can protect yourself against [...]

On Monday we finally got out hands on the first official jailbreaking solution for the iPhone 4. Ultrasn0w has been released by the dev team and is easy to use to unlock the iPhone 4, 3G and 3GS. All you have to do is jailbreak your iPhone and then open up Cydia. Make sure you have the repo666.ultrasn0w.com repository added and then look for the “Ultrasn0w” app and install it. This will [...]

Now that you can jailbreak the iPhone 4 , it means that you can install a little app from cydia that will allow you to use Facetime over 3G. Now of course we’ve shown you that little trick that will allow you to use Facetime over 3G, but how much data will you chew through in that time? Well according to a brief test by 9to5Mac, about three megabytes a minute. 9to5Mac conducted a 5 minute FaceTime [...]

Yes it’s finally here! iPhone 4 users can rejoice! Jailbreaking was only made legal a couple of weeks ago, and now we can do it! Thanks to the dev team themselves, they’ve released an official jailbreak, that works and you can install it directly from your browser, it’s that simple! We’ve been teased a couple of times but now we finally have an official release from the Dev [...]