^^^
It's the most stable beta ver Apple has made, thats what everyone is stating ... It's my first time running a beta.
They're are some minor bugs, but not many.
Told you tethering burns the most data & the carriers will know if you're doing it.
Re: iOS 5, read and make sure you can somehow update to the final ver without losing your unlock this fall.
Nerologic
Thanks for the advice!
I'm going to look into more now that you mention that.
I am just really paranoid and worried that the piggy back apps I use to make my mms and data work might not work with 5 because they are not compatible.
I will let you know if I make the leap of faith lol
E2EK1EL
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Originally posted by Nerologic
Thanks for the advice!
I'm going to look into more now that you mention that.
I am just really paranoid and worried that the piggy back apps I use to make my mms and data work might not work with 5 because they are not compatible.
I will let you know if I make the leap of faith lol
What app is this? A cydia app I assume? You don't need those apps, you can change your IP4 APN settings with Apple's tool or a web tool made by some hacker and you don't need to be jailbroken.
Since your upgrading to the "4S", you'll be fine now and it's gonna be factory unlock at retail pricing in the US.
Here's how you change it, if you read the first page ... i've posted this last AUG.
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Fido IP4 Data Connection Fix
Here's a fix for that horrific data lost Fido IP4's are having. Download the iPhone Configuration Utility 3.0 (Windows & Mac vers) from Apple and place these settings for the APN changes.
iPhone Configuration Utility 3.0 (Windows & Mac vers)
iPhone Configuration Utility (IPCU) lets you easily create, maintain, encrypt, and install configuration profiles, track and install provisioning profiles and authorized applications, and capture device information including console logs. Recommended for those managing devices running iOS 4.0 or later.
Configuration profiles are XML files that contain device security policies, VPN configuration information, Wi-Fi settings, APN settings, Exchange account settings, mail settings, and certificates that permit iPhone and iPod touch to work with your enterprise systems.
IPCU version 3.0 adds support for new Mobile Device Management (MDM) features introduced in iOS4 and enables wireless delivery of configuration profiles. It also includes support for Cisco AnyConnect and Juniper Networks SSL VPN clients, CardDAV, multiple Exchange accounts and SAN support using Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol (SCEP).
1. Update to latest iOS and carrier settings. Plugging into iTunes and clicking Update will do.
2. From your phone, go to http://www.unlockit.co.nz
3. Create a new APN setting profile
4. For Fido, see above
5. Save
6. Click Install in the confirmation
7. Reboot the phone
Visual voicemail and MMS also work fine. If it fails, try getting a new SIM card, and call a CSR to get a credit for the SIM card ($11.30). This fix also saves your battery life.
E2EK1EL
Geohot is Now Working For Facebook
Facebook has hired Geohot, the popular hacker behind the iPhone and Sony Playstation jailbreaks, reports TechUnwrapped.
Joshua Hill (P0sixninja) recently mentioned in an interview that Geohot is trying to avoid the limelight after his legal battle with Sony and is concentrating on his day job at Facebook.
Gabe Rivera of Techmeme reports that Geohot started at Facebook in May and announced it on his Facebook account on June 17th. His last wall post says, "Facebook is really an amazing place to work...first hackathon over."
We wish Geohot the best of luck at Facebook but also hope he has some time left to contribute to the iPhone community.
Read More [via Electronista]
Nerologic
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Originally posted by E2EK1EL
What app is this? A cydia app I assume? You don't need those apps, you can change your IP4 APN settings with Apple's tool or a web tool made by some hacker and you don't need to be jailbroken.
Since your upgrading to the "4S", you'll be fine now and it's gonna be factory unlock at retail pricing in the US.
Here's how you change it, if you read the first page ... i've posted this last AUG.
Will the settings hold though?
I tried doing the manual plist edit for the MMS and Data settings and it didn't hold.
The only app that worked after the restarting the phone was tetherme. All the other hacks I tried got erased once I reset the phone?
:conf:
E2EK1EL
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Originally posted by Nerologic
Will the settings hold though?
I tried doing the manual plist edit for the MMS and Data settings and it didn't hold.
The only app that worked after the restarting the phone was tetherme. All the other hacks I tried got erased once I reset the phone?
:conf:
Of course it does, its solution for Fido's or any other APN reset during a powerdown. It's official from Apple dude.
I can't believe you guys miss so many of my tips, that's been posted ages ago.
E2EK1EL
A spotlight on the world’s first iOS jailbreak convention
Craig Fox had worked as a carpenter his entire life until the economy took a turn for the worst and he found himself without work. Craig combined his newly acquired free time and his love for jailbreaking iDevices to conceive MyGreatFest (MGF), the world’s first iDevice Jailbreak convention. Craig’s motivation behind this convention is to alter the world’s perception of iDevice jailbreaking.
Individuals unfamiliar with jailbreaking see it as a medium for piracy, but Craig hopes that MGF will show the world “jailbreaking is not about piracy, it is about having the freedom to customize your [iDevice] in anyway you see fit.” In fact, Craig feels so strongly about the jailbreak community’s anti-jailbreak efforts that he would support future jailbreaks that block popular piracy sources.
More importantly, Craig hopes that this event will help stabilize the jailbreak community, which he believes began strong but has recently become more divided. He thinks MyGreatFest can have an uplifting effect on the community because it will show jailbreak users that “developers are real people, spending dozens of hours to produce free jailbreak tools and tweaks.”
The event will take place in London on September 17th and feature presentations from top jailbreak developers, such as: @p0sixninja, @pod2g and @limneos. An interesting note is that @p0sixninja, Joshua Hill, could not initially attend MGF due to the high cost of travel, but Craig began taking donations for Josh and quickly raised enough money to bring him to London. Craig believes this is another example of the jailbreak community banding together. Jay Freeman (@saurik), the founder of Cydia, will headline the event with a 1 hour talk and 10 minute question / answer session.
Craig is hopeful that MGF will continue to grow over the next 5 years. His goal is to have an United States and Great Britain event next year. In fact, he already has @Musclenerd, a well-known iPhone hacker, confirmed as a speaker for the Spring 2012 US event. Craig’s goal is to have the event in 3 different countries by 2016.
Tickets for MGF are on sale now. Adult tickets start at just £27 and can be purchased from the mygreatfest.net e-Store. If you can’t make it to London this fall, you can support MyGreatFest by purchasing branded bracelets and iPhone cases from the e-Store. Furthermore, anyone who purchases a MGF rubber bracelet will be entered in an iPad 2 giveaway.
E2EK1EL
Apple is Aggressively Combating the Ability to Downgrade With SHSH Blobs
The iPhone Dev-Team reports that Apple is about to aggressively combat the ability to restore to previous firmware versions using saved SHSH blobs.
Currently, iOS devices owners can save their SHSH blobs using a tool like TinyUmbrella. This allows you to restore to a firmware version that is lower than the firmware currently running on your device. According to the iPhone Dev-Team, Apple is now making this process much more difficult with iOS 5.
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Starting with the iOS5 beta, the role of the "APTicket" is changing - it's being used much like the "BBTicket" has always been used. The LLB and iBoot stages of the boot sequence are being refined to depend on the authenticity of the APTicket, which is uniquely generated at each and every restore (in other words, it doesn't depend merely on your ECID and firmware version…it changes every time you restore, based partly on a random number). This APTicket authentication will happen at every boot, not just at restore time. Because only Apple has the crypto keys to properly sign the per-restore APTicket, replayed APTickets are useless.
This will only affect restores starting at iOS5 and onward, and Apple will be able to flip that switch off and on at will (by opening or closing the APTicket signing window for that firmware, like they do for the BBTicket). geohot's limera1n exploit occurs before any of this new checking is done, so tethered jailbreaks will still always be possible. Also, restoring to pre-5.0 firmwares with saved blobs will still be possible (but you'll soon start to need to use older iTunes versions for that). Note that iTunes ultimately is *not* the component that matters here..it's the boot sequence on the device starting with the LLB.
Although it's always been just "a matter of time" before Apple started doing this (they've always done this with the BBTicket), it's still a significant move on Apple's part (and it also dovetails with certain technical requirements of their upcoming OTA "delta" updates).
Note: although there may still be ways to combat this, a beta period is really not the time or place to discuss them. We're just letting you know what Apple has already done in their exisiting beta releases - they've stepped up their game!
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We'll keep you up to date with more information on the situation as it developers...
E2EK1EL
Why is data being transmitted?
Nerologic
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Originally posted by E2EK1EL
Of course it does, its solution for Fido's or any other APN reset during a powerdown. It's official from Apple dude.
I can't believe you guys miss so many of my tips, that's been posted ages ago.
Thanks again, gonna try this out once I have a day to mess around with the phone.
I should check this thread more often haha
E2EK1EL
Why RIM devs are defecting to Apple
For a variety of reasons, chief among them not being the news that some investors are giving up on the iconic smartphone maker, RIM has been losing share in the smartphone market and unable to fight off the immense competition from Apple and Google. And now we’re hearing that RIM developers are jumping ship over the same concerns we’ve heard before from the Android camp: Fragmentation. Only with RIM, it’s the mother of all fragmentations. Here’s an interesting quote from a Bloomberg story this morning by developer Purple Forge’s CEO Brian Hurley:
As soon as RIM brought in a touchscreen and mixed it with a thumbwheel, a keyboard and shortcut keys, it made it really difficult and expensive to develop across devices. What Apple scored big on is having a touch screen and a button and that’s it. In deploying Apple applications, there are very few surprises. In Android, there are increasingly more surprises. But in BlackBerry, there are immediately lots of gotchas across the board. When we put an application in the field, there was a 20- to-1 difference between Apple and BlackBerry downloads.
Samsung May Be About to Lose Apple's Business
Apple is likely moving production of its A6 ARM processor away from Samsung and instead will have its chips produced by TSMC, reports ArsTechnica.
Samsung was recently sued by Apple for copying the iPhone and iPad design. The feud has grown increasingly ugly with both companies suing each other in multiple markets.
Apple very likely sees moving production to a non-competitor as a strategic business move. Dan Heyler, a semiconductor analyst with Merrill Lynch in Taipei, told the China-based Commercial Times newspaper on Friday that TSMC will most likely be producing "A6" processors for Apple, a next-generation ARM-based design, in 2012. That jibes with what Ars has heard from a plugged-in source - that the chatter on the foundry grapevine about an impending Apple/TSMC deal is growing deafening.
Samsung is currently producing A5 processors on a 45nm process. It's rumored that Apple is looking to move to a 28nm process with TSMC. Intel has also made it clear that they would like to have Apple's business.
Ars suggests that chips may be first step; however, Apple may be looking to cut all of Samsung's components out of its supply chain.
E2EK1EL
The Pope sends his first tweet… with an iPad
Apple iPad secures 87 percent market share
Tablets are gaining popularity worldwide, and Apple's iPad continues to capitalize, a new report from market research firm IDC has found.
During the third quarter of 2010, the worldwide tablet market grew by 45.1 percent, IDC reported. All told, vendors shipped 4.8 million units during the quarter, up from the 3.3 million they shipped in the second quarter of 2010. IDC said that Apple's iPad enjoyed 87.4 percent market share during the period, tallying 4.2 million units shipped worldwide.
Apple's iPad continues to dominate the tablet space.
(Credit: Apple)
IDC estimates that 17 million tablets were shipped worldwide in 2010. That figure is expected to grow exponentially in 2011 with an estimated 44.6 million tablets shipped. In 2012, IDC said that it expects 70.8 million tablets to hit store shelves.
IDC's tablet findings follow a recent report from research firm Forrester, which claims about 10.3 million tablets were sold in the U.S. during 2010. Like IDC, Forrester sees significant growth in the tablet space going forward, with an expected 24.1 million tablet purchases in the U.S. in 2011. Forrester said it believes U.S. tablet sales will reach 35.1 million next year.
IDC also examined the e-reader market. The research firm said that 2.7 million e-readers shipped in the third quarter, representing 40 percent growth compared to the previous period. The research firm said that Amazon's Kindle led the e-reader market during the third quarter with 41.5 percent market share and a total of 1.1 million units shipped. Pandigital took the second spot in the e-reader space with 440,000 units shipped. It was followed by Barnes & Noble and Sony with 420,000 units and 230,000 units sent out, respectively.
Amazon's control over the e-reader market isn't much of a surprise. The retailer announced last month that its third-generation Kindle is its best-selling product of all time.
Going forward, IDC sees significant growth in the e-reader market. The company said that it estimates 10.8 million e-readers shipped worldwide in 2010, and that figure should grow to 14.7 million in 2011. Next year, it expects e-reader shipments to hit 16.6 million.
