When 2.0.2 came out, I wrote a nice post about how iPhone firmware 2.0.2 sucks. Now 2.1 is out and let me tell you, it is fantastic. Let’s get started. 1) 3g reception is so much better.  The new baseband, v2. 11.07 comes with 2.1. The baseband is so much better. For the first time [...]

So you have jailbroken your 2.1 and it worked well. You went and restored your backup and all the sudden it won’t boot. Just apple logo! So, grumbling in anger, you start all over and go to restore your backup, and same thing. Now you have to type in all your contacts from scratch, right? [...]

T-Mobile changed their T-Zones IP address causing everyone’s T-Zones to stop working. Thanks to help from DR03, I have fixed this and posted a new T-Zones hack for iPhone OS 2.0. All you T-Mobile users still on 1.1.x, It’s time to upgrade. I don’t plan to release a fix for iPhone 1.1.x at this time. [...]

Planetbeing wrote an outstanding post on the simularities and differences on pwnage, quickpwn, and ziphone. It is a very interesting read. The original post was here but you can read it here as well (posted with permission). Similarities Jailbreak Both utilities jailbreak. Payload medium Primary jailbreak payload is placed into iPhone memory for both jailbreaks [...]

Right. So everyone is plenty excited to update to 2.0.2 to fix all those nasty bugs in 2.0 and 2.0.1 right? Well don’t bother. As far as I can tell it fixes nothing… unless you are on a 3g. Before I say any more, I will say that the 3g baseband update to 2.08 provided [...]

So does your camera/photos app just crash on 2.0? I had one of my iPhones doing this and twiddled around with some things and now it’s fixed.  However, before I call this a “real fix” I would like to get some feedback for others that have the same issue. So, if your camera or photos [...]

So I set went on a trip and thought I would try some tethering with my 3g iPhone. First, I must say the tethering works great. I was able to download and install iTunes on my pc at about 120KB/sec! I was thrilled. However, most places had WiFi so I did not really need to [...]

Is your mail app crashing on 2.0? This is generally caused after syncing your backup. This has nothing to do with jailbreaking or not. However, the fix for it is simple and is part of a jailbreak. The issue is that after syncing your backup, your mail folder is owned by root and your mail [...]

Yep, 2.0 is out and jailbroken but there are not a lot of apps. Why not? I wrote a post a while back here about what to expect with 2.0. But one highlight is that all apps need to be ported. This means the developer has to get a compiler working and rewrite code to [...]

Pumpkin from the iPhone Dev Team posted his thoughts. I found it interesting and posted it here for you all to read. It does a nice job explaining the situation with Zibri as well as how pwnage and iPhone 2.0 hacks work. Enjoy. The following opinions are mine, and not those of the DevTeam as [...]

So I was catching up on the recent events of the morning and came across Zibri’s latest post. Hoping it would provide me some entertainment, I read it. I noticed something in his post that I believe is untrue and nothing anyone has to worry about so I decided to post it here and explain: [...]

Ziphone Warning “But Ziphone works fine for me? Why should I avoid it?” I hear this all the time. It’s simple. Ziphone does permanent changes to your phone. Zibri is a terrible coder that stole most the exploits for ZiPhone and did not create them. Zibri admits that he cannot code. Ziphone does work most [...]

So in continuation of my rant on the SDK and firmware v2.0, I decided to compile a list of existing iPhone applications that I believe would be impossible or not allowed on the SDK. This is to give you an idea based on existing applications what types of things could not be done on the [...]

Big warning to any ZiPhone users. Zibri’s WiFi fix is extremely dangerous. It hard codes your WiFi adapter’s MAC address to “00:5a:49:42:52:49″.  This is ASCII for “Zibri”. This will cause major networking issues. All network cards sold are guaranteed to have a unique MAC address. It’s the lowest layer of how packets are routed. Now [...]

Here is some general terminology you may hear in reference to iPhone hacking. People often confuse these terms so I will attempt to help clarify them: Unlocking vs Jailbreaking – Jailbreaking is the process of opening the phone up for installation of 3rd party apps. Unlocking is the process of allowing non-approved SIM cards to [...]