iPhone Techie

Many of you asked me if there was / is a way to downgrade iPhones from 05.12.01 back to 05.11.07 or 04.26.08.

Well there is one way to downgrade your basebands but it only works for 3G iPhones, if you have a 3Gs iPhone and you have upgraded to the latest 3.1.3 Firmware through iTunes, then your basebands were upgraded as well and at this point there is nothing you can do to unlock your 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…

In an interview held today, A representative of O2 UK has revealed that O2 will allow its customers to unlock their iPhone’s once other carriers starts offering them. Since Orange will start offering iPhone 3GS from tomorrow, its pretty clear that starting on 10th November i.e. tomorrow, O2 will allow its users to unlock their iPhone’s so that they can use it with any carrier. However Read more…

The iPhone Dev-Team has issued an update to the UltraSn0w unlock which fixes the disappearing carrier name issue.

UltraSn0w .92 was posted by MuscleNerd and uses an extra 10 lines of code to fix the carrier name. It is available on the normal repo666.ultrasn0w.com Cydia repository. Remember to use UltraSn0w you must be on the 04.26.08 baseband. 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…

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…