Posts tagged with "iPhone"

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!

iPhone OS 3.1.3 Is Available

Yeah, it’s out. It’s a bug fixes release, and includes:

  • fix for some 3rd party apps not launching in some instances;

  • improves accuracy of reported battery level of iPhone 3GS.

Available, as usual, through iTunes. Jailbreakers, don’t update.