ITC: Apple did not violate five Nokia patents mentioned in lawsuit
Nokia sued Apple in May 2010, claiming the company infringed five of Nokia’s patents. The patents cover wireless data, speech coding, security and encryption and are infringed by all Apple iPhone models shipped since the iPhone was introduced in 2007, Nokia alleged. Nokia’s statment in May 2010 about the lawsuit:
Nokia has been the leading developer of many key technologies in mobile devices” said Paul Melin, General Manager, Patent Licensing at Nokia. “We have taken this step to protect the results of our pioneering development and to put an end to continued unlawful use of Nokia’s innovation.
Now, Reuters reports that the International Trade Commision has ruled that Apple in fact did not violate any of Nokia’s patents. Take that, Nokia!
A judge at the International Trade Commission, which hears many patent cases, said that Apple did not violate the Nokia patents.
Who’s next?
E2EK1EL
iOS 4.3.1 Jailbroken Using PwnageTool
iOS 4.3.1 released yesterday has already been jailbroken using PwnageTool 4.2 for Mac that iPhone dev team had released to jailbreak iOS 4.2.1.
This has been possible thanks to the iOS 4.3.1 custom bundles for iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPod touch 4G, iPod Touch 3G, iPad and Universal Ramdisk fixer released by DjayD6.
The iOS 4.3.1 custom bundles need to be used along with PwnageTool 4.2, Universal Ramdisk Fixes and tetheredboot utility to jailbeak iOS 4.3.1.
Currently, the jailbreak is tethered for iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS (new bootrom), iPod Touch 4G, iPod Touch 3G and iPad, while the jailbreak is untethered for iPhone 3GS (old bootrom). Cydia also seems to be working fine on iOS 4.3.1. It also support hacktivation.
Please note that jailbreaking and unlocking your iOS device may void its warranty so proceed with caution and at your own risk. Please don’t forget to backup your iOS device before you proceed. You can refer to this post for instructions on how to backup your iOS device.
It remains to be seen when iPhone Dev team or Chronic Dev team will release a untethered jailbreak for iOS 4.3.1. We’ll let you know if there are any further updates so stay tuned here at iPhone Hacks or join our Facebook Fan page or follow us on Twitter or subscribe to our RSS feed.
Cydia 1.1: faster, slimmer, and more stable (with better search)
A few minutes ago, Cydia lead developer Jay Freeman tweeted that Cydia 1.1 had hit the repos. For more of what is in Cydia 1.1, Saurik gave the following details to iPhoneDownloadBlog:
Features of Cydia 1.1 will include:
the ability to run and operate Activator, libstatusbar, and SimulatedKeyEvents while Cydia is running
an overall speed improvement, including the “Loading Changes” dialog
“much less” memory usage
a more advanced search mechanism with a new relevancy algorithm
better management of broken repositories
Here’s everything saurik had to tell us about Cydia:
Multitasking
“This is simply not possible at this time. I realize everyone wants it, and hell: I want it, too; but everyone saying it is important doesn’t make it possible. The reason Cydia doesn’t have iOS 4 compliant multi-tasking is that, to make the modifications it makes to the system, it runs as “root”, a user that has more permissions on the system than anything else, which means that SpringBoard, a lowly process running as “mobile”, cannot suspend/resume it.
Now, this is something that /can/ be remedied, and is something that I’ve been thinking of how to do for a long time, but all the obvious ways people like to bring up for making Cydia’s GUI run as mobile with only small parts running as root would make Cydia run slower, and speed is something that is primary on everyone’s minds when they are using Cydia. Luckily, there are things I’ve figured out that may make this more reasonably possible, but certainly not for this release.”
Leaving Mobile Substrate On When Cydia is Open
“If you did this you would find your system would suddenly become unusable. I realize that it sounds all nice and fuzzy that Mobile Substrate should modify all applications on the system, including Cydia, but again: Cydia runs as root. Almost all extensions in the ecosystem are NOT designed with this in mind, and when suddenly given root access start destroying the permissions of your configuration files and Media folders, making all normal applications unable to use them.
Therefore, with this release of Cydia, I’ve gone through the “big ticket items”–which seem to come down to Activator (what starts SBSettings), libstatusbar (adds notification items to the status bar), and SimulatedKeyEvents (injection of key events from Veency)–to verify with their developers that they will work correctly in an environment running as root. These extensions (plus WinterBoard, which doesn’t work on root on 4.x but is harmless, and will be fixed in a future release) are what are available from inside of Cydia until Cydia is modified to run as mobile.”
Better Looking Interface and Backup Option
“A backup function actually does not require pushing a new build of Cydia, but it requires time to figure out how to scale the users to support the kind of load Cydia has. Cydia is running with many orders of magnitudes more users than any of its competitors have, which means that a lot of things that people like to think “should be simple, X did it” are actually much harder to implement. I also keep privacy at the forefront of my mind while building features like this, and want to be 100% certain that no one can get access to your installed products list other than you.
As for a “better looking interface”, I try hard to maintain something that competes with Apple’s products. A few things rotted on 4.x (the positions and sizes of some buttons), and the various “black” interfaces (the black bar and the black screen) get mixed reports, but otherwise the main problem users have with Cydia is not Cydia: it is with repositories. Every time I’ve gotten actual feedback “this specific thing is bad”, where that thing isn’t something that Apple themselves do in their iTunes or App Store applications (which should be taken as the “intuitive model”), it is in areas of the interface I simply do not have any control over: the content shown for a package by the repository.”
Confusion With the Term “Changes”
“Maybe I’m crazy, but I always thought of the word “Changes” to be a very non-geeky end-user term for “stuff that changed”. It certainly isn’t a technical term: it was not chosen because of some geeky desire to have the codebase match the UI, nor was it chosen because it had some esoteric meaning in Latin or Greek. It was instead chosen as it was a single word that immediately meant to the largest number of people I talked to exactly what that page did: showed you what changed. Regardless, “New Releases/Updates” certainly won’t fit on a tab label.”
Speed
“As with /every/ release of Cydia, Cydia 1.1 is faster than previous releases. In specific, it is faster than 1.0.3366 by a good margin, which itself was faster than 1.0.3222 by an even larger chasm. On this note, however, it is important to note that Cydia is tackling a hard problem: no other application I have seen on the iPhone, from Apple or any third party, is attempting to search index and manage tens of thousands of data items, on the client, in real time, aggregated from user-selected sources.
In contrast, Cydia has some of the fastest technology in existence with regards to handling this data, whether it be custom algorithms (Cydia includes a locale-aware string comparison radix sort, which AFAIK is the fastest sorting algorithm in any iOS application) or special on-disk data structures (new in 1.1 is “Cytore”, a new way to store local metadata on packages that can be loaded nearly instantaneously from flash; for those out there who are technically minded, it is an on-disk memory mapped hashtable, which drastically beats out alternatives people like to try to bring up such as SQLite).”
Loading Times
“Despite myths to the contrary, the amount of data displayed in the Changes list does not drastically affect how quickly it loads. There /was/ a bug in many versions of Cydia 1.0 that caused there to be at least a little delay related to the number of items on the list, but this bug was already fixed as of 1.0.3366. The cost of the calculation is deciding what entries should be on the list at all (and specifically which ones are actually updates vs. new releases), not displaying them all at once. That said, Cydia 1.0.3366 moves the loading of changes until after you click the tab, which makes it more evidence how much time is being spent on this feature (which itself is, again, faster on 1.1).”
Memory Usage
“Despite Cydia 1.1 continuing to attempt to juggle tens of thousands of items in memory, thanks to Cytore, it uses much less memory than ever before. Other optimizations have been made, as with every version of Cydia, in order to decrease the memory usage of the app as a whole. Additionally, and in particular, Cydia 1.1 is much more conscientious of memory warnings, and attempts to throw out as much state as possible during these events.
That said, the amount of memory on even reasonably modern devices (anything past the iPhone 3G) available for running applications (not in total, but available after Apple’s system applications get their share), is an order of magnitude greater: whereas on an iPhone 3G you were working with maybe 20MB of available memory, on an iPhone 3G[S] you have 150MB, and an on iPhone 4 you have 400MB available. So, despite Cydia 1.1 actually needing less memory to operate than Cydia 1.0, the pressure on memory is pretty much gone, and will not affect future users thanks to hardware upgrades.”
Advanced Search
“Unfortunately, this device is simply too slow to provide “advanced search capabilities”, and certainly not suggestions, given the constraints of “from user-selected repositories” “in something resembling real time”. That said, Cydia 1.1 has a much better search mechanism, including an integer-arithmetic radix-sorted relevancy algorithm I managed to implement.
What would really be needed to have a truly amazing search experience is to not do searching on the client: to instead handle it on my servers. This is how products like the App Store, Kindle, or Netflix work: it is not at all common for services users are used to to attempt to manage the entire database /on the device/, doing local searching, rather than having the data and computation for that existing in offline-indexed search structures on a massive server in the cloud.
Unfortunately, the reason people use Cydia are varied, and many people are using Cydia with repositories that frankly they shouldn’t be: whether the repository contains software that is dangerous (a niche community with tweaks receiving minimal testing, or using bad practices like on-disk file patching) or downright illegal (there are things you are allowed to do in your country that I cannot in mine), I am certainly not going to be acting as the centralized storage and indexing gateway for people to find and manage this content.
Instead, what keeps people coming back to Cydia is the fact that it acts as the fundamental alternative: that rather going to Apple, with their carefully curated set of centralized experiences, you go to Cydia, “the wild west of software”, where software modifies other software in a kind of reckless abandon that is going to lead to pain even in the best possible scenarios, and in the worst possible worlds is going to lead to things that you will not be able to list on a default repository, and which Cydia may even warn you about installing, but which you should still be able to access and even search for using Cydia’s search mechanisms.”
Error Messages
“Errors from Cydia do not come from Cydia. If you type a URL into Cydia for a broken repository, that repository is going to be low-quality and is going to cause you problems. If it is offline, Cydia is going to tell you it is offline, and if it is malformed Cydia is going to get angry about that. Cydia is simply going to sit there idly while there are a ton of broken and offline repositories in your list: it will tell you all of the errors involved in the hope that you will remove the broken repositories and get on with your life (which is a very apt metaphor, as most third party repositories are very slow, and cause your refresh experience to take a very very very long time).”
“Rate” and “Review” Sections
“We actually tried this, and it was a miserable failure: more time had to be spent moderating the reviews, most of which were misleading, inflammatory, or downright inappropriate, than anyone got value out of this mechanism: it was even worse than on the App Store, which is notorious for bad reviews (people often rate down a package for inane reasons, making the data horribly invalid).
Given these issues, I attempted to put together a vision of how comments and ratings could work in Cydia, and even made a trial implementation (screenshots were even handed out at some points, and I did demos at a few conferences), but when word came up that I was even considering releasing it, I received strong pushback from some of the best developers in the ecosystem–the people you are most likely to want to give mega-good reviews to–that if I continued with that they would give up on the ecosystem, due to the issues from before.
And, to be honest, I am not certain that I would have solved those problems, and given subsequent experiences from alternative products, and looking at how people used the ratings, what people said in the comments, and how things finally got rated, I no longer believe that I would have: I believe the concept of the off-the-shelf “comments and ratings” to be a fundamentally flawed system that inherently leads to abuse.
Now, not all rating systems need to be “off-the-shelf”, so something truly innovating and “actually solving the problem” is what I hope to one day provide for Cydia. In the meantime, however, I always do my best to avoid injecting seriously suboptimal tradeoffs into our ecosystem.”
Improved Compatibility Listings
“Cydia has, for a while, contained numerous features that would allow repositories to help with this problem.
1.a mechanism to specify firmware compatibility on packages (packages can Depends: specific firmware revisions).
2.the Cydia Store lets vendors block purchases for specific firmwares (any paid product can register its compatibility with its repository, and then I will filter it to users who can use it).
3.the firmware version is sent as part of the user-agent to the web pages for each product, allowing developers to display their own warnings.
4.compatibility is even more specially able to be done by feature detection, allowing packages to say “I need voiceover support on a device with a camera running an armv7 CPU and a retina screen”.
In essence, there is very little excuse for packages, repositories, products, or anything else in the Cydia ecosystem to be poorly specified in terms of firmware compatibility. That said, almost no packages in the ecosystem, and even very few products (where one would imagine this to be the most important), have this information included at any of these levels, which is rather disappointing.
So, Cydia 1.1 is not going to attempt to improve on any of these mechanisms, as Cydia 1.0 already has more than enough of them: the real onus is now on the developers and artists of specific items.”
Removal of Dead Content
“I do not have any control over what content is available in Cydia. I mean, I can refuse to personally accept money for it, but I have almost no introspection over things that are either free or sold on the developer’s website. For years I have attempted to get repositories to pull obsolete packages: they refuse. Instead of lobbying me, who agrees with you and is powerless, you need to be sending these complaints to the default repositories: BigBoss, ModMyi, and ZodTTD.”
Clarified Install Requirements
(Tags saying if installation of apps/tweaks, etc. need a springboard refresh or if the device needs to reboot)
“While this is often stated, this is simply not how this mechanism works: packages compute whether they need a reboot or reload as they install, allowing packages to make optimizations like “I only need to reboot if the user is using this firmware version and has this other package installed with this setting specified”. In fact, all of my packages that need features like this attempt these optimizations, and often you will not need as many reboots or reloads because of it.
Therefore, specifying this as static tags on a package would increase the number of reboots a user has to perform needlessly. That said, for packages where it is not obvious (extensions are going to require a reload, and MobileSubstrate is going to require a reboot), such as cases of MMS clients that require a reboot, it should certainly be best practice for the developer to put this information on their package information screen. This is even easier for the developer/vendor than modifying the package, and even then is very uncommonly specified: adding the tag therefore won’t even change how often it is reported.”
Repo Management
“With regards to repositories that did not add correctly, as stated by Ryan Petrich, Cydia 1.1 should no longer end up in situations where broken repositories are so unusable that they are also undeletable. That said, many users complain about repositories installed via a package: to delete these repositories you will need to remove the package that represents them.
(Due to some of these complexities, it is Cydia policy going forward that no repositories will be installable from default repositories via packages, and the existing ones under More Sources will be transitioned to a new mechanism for handling these that has been added that will allow more direct, simpler, and safer manipulation of repositories using a soon-to-be-revamped More Sources page.)”
Saurik’s closing comment,
“Thank you all, by the way, for your interest in Cydia: the fact that you care at all about what features are or are not in Cydia 1.1 means a lot to everyone working on the project.”
Jer
Oooh! New Cydia! All kinds of new stuff to look forward to, I'm pumped!
E2EK1EL
Thousands Lined Up For Apple's iPad 2 in London [Video]
(Some fool sets up low res pic as the wallpaper)
Playa24_7
quote:
Originally posted by Playa24_7
That would be me.
It will no longer turn on and gets no power at all. Most likely the LCD is facked and the main board is bent, as well as the antenna frame as you can see.
I'm going to bring it to the Apple store this weekend to see if they can do anything with it and fix it. If they can't, then that's that I guess, bye bye iPhone, and hello box phone.
Went to the Apple store in Mississauga's Square One this morning. I left with a FREE brand new iPhone 4. Thank you Apple.
VDub
quote:
Originally posted by Playa24_7
Went to the Apple store in Mississauga's Square One this morning. I left with a FREE brand new iPhone 4. Thank you Apple.
That's impressive...
Good for you...
Jeff Button
Friday at 4:45 I decided to try Future Shop (Heartland) - was greeted by the store manager as I approached the lineup. Asked me what model I was interested in, I told him Black 64GB WiFi, he then hands me a ticket and says they were officially SoldOut. Waited until 5:05, then selected my smart cover (Navy leather) - paid, and out the door by 5:10.
Why do people camp out for these events?
VDub
I've always picked up my iPhones on release day...
Never waited in any line up...
E2EK1EL
LOL @ All the IP4 noobs that jumped shipped from the BB
1)Oh no push emails
2)Oh no BBM or IM
3)Oh no physical keyboard
They just don't get it at all.
Nick Cenik
quote:
Originally posted by E2EK1EL
Am I right to state that the newest software update for the iPhone, i.e., 4.3.1., is currently jailbreak-safe (3GS)? Supposedly Windows users are still waiting for a certain program but people on Mac are good to go...?
E2EK1EL
quote:
Originally posted by Nick Cenik
Am I right to state that the newest software update for the iPhone, i.e., 4.3.1., is currently jailbreak-safe (3GS)? Supposedly Windows users are still waiting for a certain program but people on Mac are good to go...?
For now, iOS 4.3.1 is tethered jailbreak and no unlock.
3GS users barely got an update for 4.3.1, Safari Nitro Java Script and Air Play enabled for all apps. That's the only thing I can think of ....
iOS 4.3
iPhone -> 05.16.01 (for 3Gs), 04.10.01 (for 4)
Updated carrier settings (U.S. is AT&T 10.0)
Enabled Traffic Volume Indicator IE in CELL UPDATE
Fixed issue with integrity protection failing after SRNS relocation
Fixed issue of iPhone units deactivating and not activating after baseband logging is enabled
iPad -> 07.11.00
Fixed issue of Physical channel reconfiguration failure during a reselection procedure
Fixed issue of the UE missing a page because it is decoding and responding to RRC Setup messages meant for other UEs
Fixed incorrect auto routing with LG HBM-210 on FaceTime calls
CalDAV
Fixed canceled recurring calendar events still shows on the event list
Calendar
Fixed deleting a recurring events make the alarm go away
Fixed all-day alarm fired an hour early
Exchange
Fixed exchange calendar event duplicating when passing Israeli daylight savings time
Fonts
Letter ł is now visible in notes (zYx- letter ł IS visible in notes in 4.2.1, WAS visible in 4.1, 4.0.1 and 4.0! [1])
Keyboard
Fixed missing accented letters in European keyboard popups
Increase font size for China and Pinyin inputs
Fixed auto-correction issue when switch back from Emoji to English keyboard
Added inline space with Pinyin inputs
Corrected “Undo” translation in Simplified Chinese to “撤销”
Localization
Updated inconsistent translation in Chinese, Finnish, Norwegian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese
Fixed missing Chinese characters in Pinyin
Improved common phrases used in Chinese
Improved common phrases used in Japanese
劲歌金曲 is no longer missing
Fixed issue that produced unexpected output when trying to type 从前门进入果
一点儿 now ranked higher than 一点二
Word completion candidates capability now available for Chinese language
Added additional common phrases for character 耍
Fixed issue that caused the wrong candidates to be displayed (J: “間スコット”) when “ますこっと” is input
“軽さ(かるさ)” now in the candidate
Mail
Fixed orientation of mail application not following device orientation under specific conditions
Fixed popover when drilling into a thread while the empty search field is focused
Fixed mail message view and orientation when quickly selecting a message and hitting edit mode
Messaging
Fixed MMS messages with vCards scrolling up
Phone
Fixed screen not drawing properly when Nike+ is in the background
Security
Added [Address Space Layout Randomization] (ASLR) [2]
Status bar
Added new icon for Wi-Fi Tethering for personal hotspot on status bar
Web
Fixed issue that caused Safari and other apps to crash after loading certain heavy Websites
Fixed Personal Hotspot password failure with 22+ characters
VoiceOver
Added support for “find” in Safari
Fixed wallpaper titles for VoiceOver
iOS 4.3.1
Bug Fix Release
Fixed graphics glitches on 4th Gen iPod Touch
Baseband updates for the 3GS and iPad (original)
Fixed memory hang that results in memory corruption when reading large files from USIM filesystem
Fixed problem with NTLM authentication in apps and on websites
Fixed issue with the Springboard and 3rd party apps not recognizing the gyroscope on the iPad 2
Resolves bugs related to activating and connecting to some cellular networks
Fixes image flicker when using Apple Digital AV Adapter with some TVs
Resolves an issue authenticating with some enterprise web services
E2EK1EL
WWDC is SOLD OUT!
iPhone 5: launches early 2012?
The iPhone 5 puzzle has received a few new pieces and they both point to the product launch not taking place at this year’s WWDC. Jim Dalrymple – usually accurate – from The Loop claims that no hardware will be unveiled at the World Wide Developers Conference: no iPhones, no iPads, no Macs. But how could Apple kill their annual summer iPhone launch pattern?
Apple’s apparent focus on software in its WWDC announcement backs up what my own sources are saying about the annual conference. That is, expect a software show in 2011, not a hardware event.
Apple typically sticks to patterns such as new iPods every September, new iPhones in June, now new iPads in March, and major Mac upgrades around October. This year is already different. Based on Apple’s WWDC press release and rumors from last week, Apple won’t be holding their annual March-April iOS preview event. The WWDC invite clearly says Apple will preview the next version of iOS.
At this year’s conference we are going to unveil the future of iOS and Mac OS,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “If you are an iOS or Mac OS X software developer, this is the event that you do not want to miss.
Apple even introduced a new Verizon iPhone 4 in January of this year and it only launched last month (February). Apple is also expected to release a white version of the iPhone 4 next month. These two iPhone 4 upgrades seem to allow Apple to push back the launch of their next-generation handset. Afterall, how could they release updated iPhone 4s in February and April then a whole new device in June? Apple on releasing a new iPhone in June after releasing the Verizon iPhone: “we’re not stupid.”
If it’s not coming at WWDC when will it? The usually well-sourced Macotakara.jp claims that the iPhone 5 is yet to hit the full production stage and says that the iPhone 5 will go into mass production late in 2011 for an early 2012 launch.
According to Chinese sources, had been rumored to be announced for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2011 iPhone 5, it does not begin to manufacture the parts, the launch seems to be lost in fiscal 2012.
This would be around a year after the Verizon iPhone 4 launch, creating a new pattern for iPhone launches. The site reiterates earlier claims of a new, aluminum enclosure which is possibly taking longer to produce. A chinese site recently claimed the new iPhone would go into production in Q3 of this year – backing up an iPhone-less WWDC.
(Thanks to the Verizon IP4, it seems like they're shifting the product cycle and unified the iPhone launches together. Since it's a gonna be a dual GSM & CDMA. Maybe in Sept 2011 (Music Conference) or Feb 2012
Those Verizon ppl would cry if new CDMA iPhone comes out in June.)
