iPhone Techie

Many of you asked me through emails and comments about my iPhone, what Apps, Games, Utilities, etc. I have on my device and what are the most “MUST HAVE” items you need to have / install after you Jailbreak your iPhone or iTouch.

Well, here is a list of my personal MUST HAVE’s and short explanation / overview of each item.

NOTE: Some of these items are strictly for iPhones but there are  lot of MUST HAVEs for iPod iTouches as well so don’t stop reading if you are a proud owner of an Apple iPod iTouch Device. Read more…

Have you Jailbroken and Unlocked your Device? iPhone or iTouch and now don’t know what to do with the Cydia Application, How to Install IPA Files, DEB Files and Activate Features such as Tethering? This book will show you all the things you need to know step by step with very detailed illustrated tutorials. Read more…

Have you recently updated or downgraded your iPhone firmware, or jailbroke/unlocked your iPhone to use it with a different carrier and got the following error:

Could Not Activate Cellular Data Network: You Are Not Subscribed to a Cellular Data Service?

This error often appears after jailbreaking and/or unlocking and it is mostly happens because your iPhone Read more…

These are instructions on how to jailbreak your iPhone and iPod touch using BlackRa1n for Windows. (Source is iClarified)

The BlackRa1n jailbreak will work with the latest 3.1.2 firmware; however, it will not hacktivate your iPhone. This means that if you are not on an official Apple approved carrier BlackRa1n cannot activate it. Read more…

George Hotz (aka geohot), the kid who was the first to unlock the original iPhone back in 2007 and then iPhone 3GS in July of this year is back! This time he is the first one to release jailbreaking solution for the new iPhone 3.1.2 Firmware for all devices with his new program/tool called blackra1n. blackra1n is a software tool which can jailbreak all iPhone’s (iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS) and iPod Touch 2G and 3G running on the latest firmware / OS 3.1.2. NOTE: Blackra1n is only supported on Windows Operating Systems.

Read the entire article and please understand there are some “cons” that you will encounter if you use this tool and upgrade to the latest 3.1.2 Firmware.

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The latest iPhone firmware update: iPhone OS 3.1 comes with video editing ability for iPhone 3G and iPod Touch.

Note that you don’t need to jailbreak your iPhone 3G in order to get video editing capability in iPhone 3G. Before the new 3.1 OS, iPhone 3GS was the only iPhone having video editing capabilities and a lot of Jailbreakers have installed the “VIDEO EDIT” package through Cydia in order to Read more…

As many of you know on September 9th, 2009 Apple has came out with a new version of iTunes (iTunes 9)… Well along with that Apple also came out with the 3.1 OS Update for the iPhone and a lot of us / you had questions whether the RedSn0w 0.8 would be able to Jailbreak and Unlock the 3.1… The answer was / is “NO”, Dev Team is working on the 3.1 support for Jailbreak and Unlock for the iPhones and iTouches.

Here was another question that came up, this one is more relevant to this post… “If I have a Jailbroken / Unlocked iPhone or iTouch, can I upgrade to iTunes 9?” It was confirmed that YES you can upgrade to iTunes 9 if you’re iPhone is already Jailbroken and Unlocked. I have multiple Jailbroken devices and all of them worked just fine with the new iTunes 9. Read more…

Apple has released iPhone OS 3.1 which includes a number of new features; however, its important to remember NOT to update your firmware. If you update now you will likely lose your unlock and maybe even your jailbreak (iPhone 3GS). We will provide instructions once a safe upgrade path is available.

REMEMBER do not use the normal iTunes update process to update your iPhone and do not update to 3.1 OS at this time if you want to keep your iPhone Unlocked… Read more…