Archive for the 'Hacks' Category

Author : Rob Goodchild
Tag : Hacks
Date : Jun 29th, 2009
Comment : 3

The Dev Team has cracked the iPhone 3GS (as if there was any doubt). Trouble is, if they released it now it would do far more harm than good.

You see, a firmware update, version 3.0.1, is inevitable, and will probably arrive from Apple sooner rather than later because Cupertino probably feels that it needs to [...]

Author : Rob Goodchild
Tag : Hacks
Date : Jun 27th, 2009
Comment : 0

Not that anyone ever had any doubts that the Dev Team would be able to work their magic on the 3GS, but this is quick: within a week of the phone’s launch, the hackers say they’ve figured it out.

The Dev Team says that the 3GS is vulnerable to the same “24Kpwn” bootrom exploit that plagues [...]

Author : Philip King
Tag : Hacks
Date : Jun 21st, 2009
Comment : 0

One of the more frustrating things about iPhone 3.0 is that a couple of its best new features—namely MMS and tethering—aren’t available to AT&T users. As it turns out, you can trick your phone into turning on both features.

Gizmodo points out a secret method for enabling tethering and another for switching on MMS. Before you [...]

Author : Rob Goodchild
Date : Jun 16th, 2009
Comment : 1

The iPhone Dev Team has got us excited (and Apple worried) by announcing they have a fully-working software carrier unlock ready for the 3.0 firmware ahead of its official release.

On Tuesday evening they will do a live demo of the new yellowsn0w carrier unlock working on official 3.0 firmware, just before the big Apple release. [...]

Author : Rob Goodchild
Tag : Hacks
Date : Apr 3rd, 2009
Comment : 0

The iPhone OS 3.0 beta has already been jailbroken. Quickpwn for Beta 3.0 is out for all devices except the iPod Touch 2G.

The Dev Team has some words of warning about this jailbreak – in terms of future ability to unlock, mainly because of a big caveat:
“That’s because QuickPwn, by [...]

Author : Maggie Mills
Tag : Hacks
Date : Mar 25th, 2009
Comment : 1

Ripdev’s InstallerApp makes installing third-party jailbreak applications on your iPhone slightly easier, by eliminating the need to jailbreak your iPhone at all. You just need to pay $7 for the privilege, which isn’t free (jailbreaking is free).

The process works by installing an app onto your iPhone that’s not quite jailbreaking, but is enough to allow [...]

Author : Maggie Mills
Tag : Hacks
Date : Mar 20th, 2009
Comment : 0

Gizmodo has an interesting article about many of the iPhone features that are introduced in the 3.0 update, and how you can get many of them right now via jailbreaking and Cydia. Many of the features mentioned in the update have been available there for awhile now, albeit not in easy to use form.

This article: [...]

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