Originally posted by VDub
And If you flip it upside down, you have your own little kryo system...
If you wanna throw a party in your bedroom or something...
Lol
:tongue2
Abercrombie
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Originally posted by E2EK1EL
To start, get a Fido Sim
If the unit forces you to restore w/ 3.1.3 ... your out of luck for a while. And of course, you find out the unit is already @ 3.1.3 to begin with.
How come you didn't check it before you plug it into your computer?
My gf who works in the cell dep't at futile shop, got it from a contact who used it a couple of months
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Originally posted by E2EK1EL
Honestly, I've never seen any person have so much problems with the iPhones before. This happens and that happens ... he should just go legit.
LOL, it's not a problem just yet, I just got it over the weekend and starting to look into it...
But hey... I sure as hell get what I paid for :D
I'll post a trade offer on Cragslist/Kajiji in the meantime for a straight swap for a Rogers one.
Abercrombie
OK, it looks like I have an easy way out!
There's about 4 people on Craigslist who have a new identical one locked to Rogers that want my Fido, so the ball is back in my court. They want to make an even trade so I replied to them. http://toronto.en.craigslist.ca/sea...bbreviation=sss
I exchanged emails with one, and talked to another. They both want to trade theirs because they can't unlock their Rogers phones to Fido because of 3.1.3.
*** So, now that I can get a Rogers phone, does it matter if it's at baseband 05.12.01 if all I will need is to jailbreak it moving forward?
RobSt*r
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Originally posted by Abercrombie
*** So, now that I can get a Rogers phone, does it matter if it's at baseband 05.12.01 if all I will need is to jailbreak it moving forward?
I think your ok. AFAIK, you can still jailbreak 3.13
The iPhone Dev-Team has just released redsn0w 0.9.4 to jailbreak and unlock iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G (No unlock for 3G), iPod touch 1G and iPod touch 2G (older Non-MC models only). Do not update to iPhone 3.1.3 firmware yet if you want to preserve your unlock for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 3G, iPod touch 2G (new models) and iPod touch 3G. This is because the new iPhone 3.1.3 firmware updates baseband to 05.12.01 on iPhone 3GS and iPhone 3G which makes it impossible to jailbreak and unlock iPhone 3GS and 3G.
This is what I'm worried about. Or since the page was written on Feb 3rd, is there newer info?
I'm still googling myself.
RobSt*r
Try,
If the previous owner jailbroke it and had the sshs files backed up with cydia, its possible.
Abercrombie
OK, otherwise I'll have to wait until the end of the month from what I've been reading.
Nerologic
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Originally posted by E2EK1EL iPhone 4th Gen Review
Why we think it's definitely real
We're as skeptical—if not more—than all of you. We get false tips all the time. But after playing with it for about a week—the overall quality feels exactly like a finished final Apple phone—and disassembling this unit, there is so much evidence stacked in its favor, that there's very little possibility that it's a fake. In fact, the possibility is almost none. Imagine someone having to use Apple components to design a functioning phone, from scratch, and then disseminating it to people around the world. Pretty much impossible. Here are the reasons, one by one.
It has been reported lost
Apple-connected John Gruber—from Daring Fireball—says that Apple has indeed lost a prototype iPhone and they want it back:
So I called around, and I now believe this is an actual unit from Apple — a unit Apple is very interested in getting back.
Seems like this was a next iPhone, Gizmodo got a review on it. God damn it's not as sexy and nice as the 3G and 3GS. NO MORE FROM ME of the 4th gen iPhone until WWDC!!!! :p
OMG it wasn't fake after all!!
But micro sim = i cant have my 30dlr unlimited mms and data plan anymore. :( It also means Verizon is SOL haha
Either way, i cant wait! I will in line in the morining waiting for it on the release day. :)
E2EK1EL
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Originally posted by Nerologic
OMG it wasn't fake after all!!
But micro sim = i cant have my 30dlr unlimited mms and data plan anymore. :( It also means Verizon is SOL haha
Either way, i cant wait! I will in line in the morining waiting for it on the release day. :)
Reports claimed Verizon's ver will have a CDMA ver, in November. That's "if" talks go smoothly
Anton
They just posted the guys name, who lost the phone at the bar on Gizmodo. So weird that Engadget claims it was lost at one bar, and Gizmodo claims it was lost at another. This whole thing is so fishy..
MikeyN
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Originally posted by RobSt*r
Thats why i suggested compressed air. No moisture. Good cans of the stuff aren't that expensive and a must for cleaning electronic units. Be SURE to not tilt the can, because once tilted too much, it sprays the liquid rather than the air, but still it evaporates almost instantly.
Your breath has sooooo much moisture in it. Not a great method
Also using high percentage alcohol in small amounts on micro fiber cloth avoids water damage because it evaporates. Just damp enough to clean the mess is good.
Truth!
I've seen soooo many ppl lose motherboards from tilting a can of compressed air...
And I've read claims of the moisture in breath turning the litmus paper indicating water damage pink...
But anyways, I popped into this thread to see the new iPhone, and man, I can't wait! I hope that's the new model. I don't think it's ugly at all...
It reminds me of a monolith! :D :D :D
E2EK1EL
How Apple Lost the Next iPhone
The Gourmet Haus Staudt. A nice place to enjoy good German ales. And if you are an Apple Software Engineer named Gray Powell and you get one too many beers, it's also a nice place to lose the next-generation iPhone.
The 27-year-old Powell—a North Carolina State University 2006 graduate and talented amateur photographer—is an Apple Software Engineer working on the iPhone Baseband Software, the little program that enables the iPhone to make calls.
On the night of March 18, he was enjoying the fine imported ales at Gourmet Haus Staudt, a nice German beer garden in Redwood City, California. He was happy. The place was great. The beer was excellent. "I underestimated how good German beer is," he typed into the next-generation iPhone he was testing on the field, cleverly disguised as an iPhone 3GS. It was his last Facebook update from the secret iPhone. It was the last time he ever saw the iPhone, right before he abandoned it on bar stool, leaving to go home.
Knowing how ferocious and ruthless Apple is about product leaks, those beers may have turned out to be the bitterest of his life.
(Almost) Impenetrable Security
Until now, Apple's legendary security has always worked perfectly. Perhaps there was a blurry factory photo here, or some last-minute information strategically whispered to some friendly media there. But when it comes to the big stuff, everything is airtight. At their Cupertino campus, any gadget or computer that is worth protecting is behind armored doors, with security locks with codes that change every few minutes. Prototypes are bolted to desks. Hidden in these labs, hardware, software and industrial-design elves toil separately on the same devices, without really having the complete picture of the final product.
And hidden in every corner, the Apple secret police, a team of people with a single mission: To make sure nobody speaks. And if there's a leak, hunt down the traitor, and escort him out of the building. Using lockdowns and other fear tactics, these men in black are the last line of defense against any sneaky eyes. The Gran Jefe Steve trusts them to avoid Apple's worst nightmare: The leak of a strategic product that could cost them millions of dollars in free marketing promotion. One that would make them lose control of the product news cycle.
But the fact is that there's no perfect security. Not when humans are involved. Humans that can lose things. You know, like the next generation iPhone.
Lost and Found
Apple security's mighty walls fell on the midnight of Thursday, March 18. At that time, Powell was at Gourmet Haus Staudt, just 20 miles from the company's Infinite Loop headquarters, having his fun. Around him, other groups of people were sharing the jolly atmosphere, and plenty of the golden liquid.
The person who eventually ended up with the lost iPhone was sitting next to Powell. He was drinking with a friend too. He noticed Powell on the stool next to him but didn't think twice about him at the time. Not until Powell had already left the bar, and a random really drunk guy—who'd been sitting on the other side of Powell—returned from the bathroom to his own stool.
The Random Really Drunk Guy pointed at the iPhone sitting on the stool, the precious prototype left by the young Apple engineer.
"Hey man, is that your iPhone?" asked Random Really Drunk Guy.
"Hmmm, what?" replied the person who ended up with the iPhone. "No, no, it isn't mine."
"Ooooh, I guess it's your friend's then," referring to a friend who at the time was in the bathroom. "Here, take it," said the Random Really Drunk Guy, handing it to him. "You don't want to lose it." After that, the Random Really Drunk Guy also left the bar.
The person who ended up with the iPhone asked around, but nobody claimed it. He thought about that young guy sitting next to him, so he and his friend stayed there for some time, waiting. Powell never came back.
During that time, he played with it. It seemed like a normal iPhone. "I thought it was just an iPhone 3GS," he told me in a telephone interview. "It just looked like one. I tried the camera, but it crashed three times." The iPhone didn't seem to have any special features, just two bar codes stuck on its back: 8800601pex1 and N90_DVT_GE4X_0493. Next to the volume keys there was another sticker: iPhone SWE-L200221. Apart from that, just six pages of applications. One of them was Facebook. And there, on the Facebook screen, was the Apple engineer, Gray Powell.
Thinking about returning the phone the next day, he left. When he woke up after the hazy night, the phone was dead. Bricked remotely, through MobileMe, the service Apple provides to track and wipe out lost iPhones. It was only then that he realized that there was something strange that iPhone. The exterior didn't feel right and there was a camera on the front. After tinkering with it, he managed to open the fake 3GS.
There it was, a shiny thing, completely different from everything that came before.
He reached for a phone and called a lot of Apple numbers and tried to find someone who was at least willing to transfer his call to the right person, but no luck. No one took him seriously and all he got for his troubles was a ticket number.
He thought that eventually the ticket would move up high enough and that he would receive a call back, but his phone never rang. What should he be expected to do then? Walk into an Apple store and give the shiny, new device to a 20-year-old who might just end up selling it on eBay?
The Aftermath
Weeks later, Gizmodo got it. It was the real thing. Once we saw it inside and out, there was no doubt about it. We learnt about this story, but we didn't know for sure it was Powell's phone until today, when we contacted him via his phone.
Gray Powell: Hello?
John Herrman: Is this Gray?
G: Yeah.
J: Hi, this is John Herrman from Gizmodo.com.
G: Hey!
J: You work at Apple, right?
G: Um, I mean I can't really talk too much right now.
J: I understand. We have a device, and we think that maybe you misplaced it at a bar, and we would like to give it back.
G: Yeah, I forwarded your email [asking him if it was his iPhone], someone should be contacting you.
J: OK.
G: Can I send this phone number along?
J: [Contact information]
He sounded tired and broken. But at least, he's alive. And apparently, he may still be working at Apple. As it should be, because it's just a ing iPhone. It can happen to everyone, Gray Powell, Phil Schiller, you, me, and even Steve Jobs
Unlike Apple's legendary impenetrable security, breached by the power of German beer and one single human mistake.
Additional reporting by John Herrman; extra thanks to Kyle VanHemert, Matt Buchanan, and Arianna Reiche
Send an email to Jesus Diaz, the author of this post, at [email protected].
