Posts tagged with "iPhone"

iPhone OS 4.0, Coming to the iPad This Fall

You won’t be able to install the iPhone OS 4.0 on your iPad this summer. No, you’ll have to wait some more months, because Apple has announced it will be available this fall.

While I can understand that the iPad has just been released and they’re badly working on the iPhone version right now, before the keynote started I was hoping there would be a contemporary release for both the devices. Turns out we’ll have to wait instead, and keep our iPads without multitasking. (Well, until jailbreak will come).

All in all, like I said in the live chat today, I expect Apple to change the name of iPhone OS to, at least, iPad OS for the new device.

No, You Won’t Be Able to Multitask On Your iPhone 3G

If you have an iPhone 3G, or a second gen iPod Touch, I’m really sorry for you guys. You won’t be able to use the new multitasking feature of iPhone OS 4.0 with them. Actually Steve Jobs mentioned that these devices will be able to do “many things”, but multitasking won’t be one of them. Clearly we know that they can indeed run backgrounding apps with jailbreak extensions, but Apple doesn’t seem to care about it. Also, no mentioned about first gen iPhones and iPods.

Anyway, I bet the jailbreak community will come up with new solutions and enable multitasking (which is there in the firmware) even for these devices. Until that time, you might want to upgrade to a 3GS. Or perhaps the new models that will come out this summer.

iPhone OS 4.0: Predictions and Assorted Thoughts

So, Apple will hold a media event on April 8th to give us a sneak peek into the future of iPhone OS 4.0. As you can guess, the 4.0 update will be one of the most important updates the iPhone will go through this year, as it will mark the path Apple is following regarding its mobile phone, most of all when compared to the recently releases iPad.

Will it be nothing more than a performance update issued for a new device to be released in June? Or will it bring brand new features to make the iPhone a complete different device from the iPad?

I say both, with some exceptions.

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George Hotz Strikes Back: Announces New iPhone Jailbreak, iPad Plans

George Hotz, the genius behind the popular jailbreak tool blackra1n, is back.

With a brief post on his personal blog he’s announced (and documented with video) that he’s working on a new version of the jailbreak, which will be untethered (means the device doesn’t need assistance from a computer to boot) and will work on all the current tethered-only models (iPhone 3GS, iPod Touch 2G & 3G). And with a final note he says “it will probably work on iPad too”.

Seems like we won’t be waiting that long for multitasking on the iPad after all.

Optimizing a Jailbroken iPhone

If you have a jailbroken iPhone, it’s very likely that you installed a lot of apps, tweaks and extensions that are now slowing down your device. Perhaps you noticed that it’s not as fast as it used to be, applications like Mail take a little longer to start up, you have to respring every 30 minutes to see an increment in speed. You know why? Because the stuff you install from Cydia eats up memory, a lot of memory sometimes. Winterboard, for example, can take a lot of unoccupied RAM if you start enabling dozens of themes and graphical modifications; same applies for other apps like Action Menu, Pro Switcher - all these things constantly run in the background (they are based on MobileSubstrate) and they are the reason why your iPhone is slowing down.

Fortunately, there are some tricks and tips you can follow to optimize your iPhone, free up a lot of memory without the need of respringing / rebooting and get a fast and stable device once again. Here’s how.

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Hackers Find New Exploit for iPhone 3GS with new Bootrom: Gull1hack

We knew this was gonna happen, maybe not this soon. Seems like a group of hackers have found an exploit to achieve the untethered jailbreak on the iPhone 3GS with the new bootrom that should have been very hard to hack.

“This Exploit works on ALL iPhone and iPod Touches.

While booting, we overun the buffer memory, letting the iPhone think there is something wrong; But in the moment it tries to enter safe mode, we send a boot signal like Blackra1n or Redsn0w.”

Now you guys just have to wait. Still no words from the Dev Team though, we’ll see.

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Quickly Switch to the Previous Application with Last App

Last App is a new and cool application available in Cydia (yes, I’m back into the jailbreaking world) which allows you to switch back and forth between the app that’s running on your iPhone and the one that was previously running.

Just assign an activation method in the Activator settings (mine is “double tap on status bar”) and Last app will immediately switch to the “last application” that was running before you opened another one. You can also choose to background the running app before switching.

I find myself using it a lot. It’s fast, useful and free.

Giveaway: Win a Copy of Doux, Beautiful Winterboard Theme

This is quite new for MacStories. I know that many of you guys have an iPhone, and I know that many of you have a jailbroken iPhone. There are many reasons to consider jailbreaking an iPhone, like multitasking, Cydia Store apps and graphical customizations.

For this reason, I thought it would have been nice to start giving away stuff for jailbroken devices. Today we start with a “premium” Winterboard theme you can find in Cydia at $0.99 and it’s called Doux.

Entering is simple. First, be sure that you have a jailbroken device and you know how to manually put a theme via SSH (using Cyberduck, perhaps)

Then:

Leave a comment here, telling us the theme you’re currently using. Winners will be announced on Wednesday, Feb. 10th.

Good luck!