As you all know, iPhone OS 4.0 beta 1 is released to developers. I will not cover all the new features of iPhone OS 4. Those posts are all over the internet.
But I will give you the standard warnings:
1) This is beta. If you are not a developer using it to develop apps, do not install it.
2) Like all previous major betas, this will probably expire every few weeks requiring you to restore or update.
3) This beta does put a new baseband on your device. If you ever want to unlock, dont touch it.
4) This beta will be slow and buggy. Release is still 4 months off!
5) You may have problems downgrading if you want to do so if you don’t have an SHSH stored etc.
In the meantime, remember you got all the new features already in your jailbreak:
1) 4.0 Multitasking = Install Circuitous / Backgrounder from Cydia.
2) Folders = Install categories / categoriessb out of Cydia
3) Music controls on home screen to control pandora or other = install music controls from cydia. Install backgrounder to background pandora.
4) Background wallpaper changing = Install winterboard or bosspaper and change your wallpaper is many more configurable ways.
5) Spellchecking = Inspell in cydia.
April 9th, 2010 at 5:09 am
Exactly right. Os4 gives me nothing new.
April 9th, 2010 at 5:34 am
Don’t forget Infiniboard.. I’ve read a lot of conflicting “facts” from different “users” in the iPhone community. Thanks for clearing things up.
Will OS 4 mean the Jailbreak is dead…?
April 9th, 2010 at 5:37 am
I meant to say Infinidock…My bad.
April 9th, 2010 at 5:44 am
are you serious?
Circuitous != 4.0 multitasking
categories/sb != folders
I mean come on!!
April 9th, 2010 at 6:35 am
new features on os 4? not realy new to JB phones actualy, rigth?
April 9th, 2010 at 6:48 am
Jobs get ppl to jailbreak their phones and tell him what’s good and popular and then he releases them as his ground breaking revolution of software he should go die
April 9th, 2010 at 7:28 am
Add themes and Lockinfo and I would have no need to jailbreak.
April 9th, 2010 at 7:54 am
Its amazing, isn’t it? We tell Apple/Jobs how to stop people from jailbreaking and they still refuse to listen.
April 9th, 2010 at 7:57 am
It would be nice to not have to pay for the extra features like music controls and stuff tho. also I can’t get music controls(trial) to work with the skip buttons on my bluetooth headset, I wonder if OS 4.0 will work.
April 9th, 2010 at 8:31 am
I was able to put 4.0 on my iTouch 2G 8GB, and check it out, then was able to downgrade to 3.1.2, and re-jailbreak it, no problems :)
April 9th, 2010 at 8:45 am
I love all my JB apps and features, I paid to get most of them and would to continue doing so to support the community, but at the same time I’d love to be able to create a folder, add apps to and reorder them without having to open categories and respring, every.single time!
Same goes to multitaksing; I wanna stop worrying about managing the memory, worrying about the leaks, dealing the sluggishness that builds up with every time I use backgrounder.
April 9th, 2010 at 9:13 am
What about the new baseband?Still at 05.12.07?
April 9th, 2010 at 9:26 am
Baseband is updated to 05.13.03 on my device when i tried the beta earlier on using my 3GS.Went back to 3.1.3 and waiting for the jb to be release for it.
April 9th, 2010 at 10:24 am
What’s the status of OS 3.2? I thought it was coming out with the iPad. Is it going to be released for the iPhone or will they hold off until 4.0?
April 9th, 2010 at 10:42 am
Yeah… Apple did a great job with 4.0 folders, but their multitasking will not be quite as useful as backgrounder… They won’t fully background AppStore apps unless the dev supports it. I am very glad they added springboard wallpaper etc… Might not upgrade to 4.0 until full releasez
April 9th, 2010 at 12:20 pm
Can you say tether, themes, sbsetteings, inifnidock, elert, lockinfo, etc.. A Jailbreaked iphone 3.1.2 is better than a non-jailbrekaed 4.0
April 9th, 2010 at 1:59 pm
Give it a week (max!!) and someone will be begging “how to go back to 3.1.2″ (hahaha)
April 9th, 2010 at 5:28 pm
I totally agree with the Boss we have it all on our JB phones plus those a holes in apple won’t give us 3g users multitasking so untill a full release of official 4 and it’s JB (plus working tweaks) I’m sticking to my 3.1.2 mascaraded as 3.1.3 using the app and thnx Boss
April 9th, 2010 at 5:33 pm
I totally agree my jailbroken 3.1.2 is way better.
April 9th, 2010 at 8:33 pm
Yes but has your baseband changed ?
Are you using any of the unlock methods, ie: Ultrasn0w, Blacksn0w, Redsnow etc ?
April 9th, 2010 at 8:39 pm
To be a little fair, I like more the interfase Apple has made I mean, folders from 4.0 looks a lot better than categories, and also the multitasking is more computer-like, so… I think I will just wait for the final relase and subsequent jailbreak
April 10th, 2010 at 6:23 am
«4.0 Multitasking = Install Circuitous / Backgrounder from Cydia.»
I don’t agree. Apple’s Multitask is a way better solution for multitasking applications. While Backgrounder puts Apps in the background, making it slower and wasting more battery, Apple’s Multitask freezes the app, making it if it were like in Suspension Mode but still opened.
But I will still jailbreak for 4.0: I want to see Apple’s Multitask Service on my iPhone 3G (and not 3G[S], those damn bastards…)
April 10th, 2010 at 7:02 am
help!.. ive upgraded by mistake… and i need my fon jb to save the world!…. sorry cudnt help myself
April 11th, 2010 at 12:12 am
The ipod touch does not have a baseband as it does not have the hardware that requires a baseband firmware “aka phone components”
April 11th, 2010 at 12:17 am
at least you are getting 4.0, my poor 1st gen ipod touch will be stuck in perpetual 3.1.3… Despite the fact that the 2g ipod only has a new wifi chip and a tiny bit more memory.
April 11th, 2010 at 11:01 am
JB will be everlasting so long as apple doesnt go completely Open source, but then i would think cydia would stay, and as long as they dont find away to stop the exploits. but anyway 4.0 doesnt completely work on earlier generations so JB will still be around for that.
April 12th, 2010 at 6:30 pm
This is truly a wonderful “Warning Post”
Who needs APPLE when we got CYDIA and all the DEVELOPERS for the JB community always looking out! This only proves that the purpose of having an iPhone is to jailbreak it to make it work how it should have been from the beginning. Now of course APPLE wanna take credit for someone else hard work! Yeah APPLE we already got your so called NEW features.lol I Love you guys, keep up the marvelous work!!!!
April 15th, 2010 at 8:47 pm
BigBoss: If you see this, I’d like to talk about SBSettings and 4.0, because it doesn’t seem to work (my iPhone 3G running 4.0b1 just goes into safe mode). If you’re having a private beta, please let me know! SBSettings is a necessity.
April 17th, 2010 at 6:39 am
Hi all.
OS4 beta 1 is bad for newbies like me. Installed it in VMWare since it gave me error 13 under Win 7. How Apple is that? Not only I had to learn how to install Mac OS Leopard from Windows but also learned that Apple don’t want us to have MS products. Why error 13 then? It’s not like Billy forced Steve to release beta before time? Who knows :D So somehow managed to upgrade mine ipt2g on virtual mac ;D five minutes later I realized that I’m having problems trying to connect to WiFi. Password was right. Ain’t that silly. Last night looking at iH8tSnOw (sorry for probably wrong name :) ) Twitter I realized I wasn’t wrong it was that error. Unable connect to WiFI. Guess what? I’ve downgraded to OS3.1.2. No Irestore shite. No. Thanks to win version of if I’ve ended up reinstalling Win OS again. Anyhow after clean install of Win 7 and Virtual MacOS I thought. I’ll have a go on Pwnage tool. God only knows how but I’ve managed to create custom 3.1.3 for ipt2g on Virtual MacOS. So here I am writing this stuff from mine ipt2g with custom OS 3.1.3 warning people not to upgrade to OS 4 beta just yet. Head ache 100%. From learning point of view it’s ok since we live and learn so I’ve learn that OS4 beta ain’t good yet Virtual MacOS is good so is custom iPhone fw created by urself not only downloaded from the net. I hope u do find this interesting. At least it my ecpierence I had last week.
April 19th, 2010 at 3:22 pm
iPhone Dev Team has released a jailbreak for 4.0b1 for jailbreak app developers. Check it out!
http://modmyi.com/forums/iphone-news/706912-iphone-os-4-0-jailbreak-released.html
April 21st, 2010 at 11:40 am
hahaha poor poor americans… don’t blame apple for a lack of tethering
April 29th, 2010 at 12:00 pm
Agreed
April 29th, 2010 at 3:37 pm
Hi, any way to install cydia on my new 3GS do not need any unlock its original i buy it with no unlock needed but cant install cydia on it using the black rain :(
May 17th, 2010 at 3:28 am
you cant use blackra1n with new 3G[s] (firmware 3.1.3) you will have to use spirit. you can find it here http://spiritjb.com/
hope this helped
June 1st, 2010 at 6:31 am
I am waiting for os 4 final release as well as jailbreak. I just love lockinfo, mxtube, themes.
I want try out apples multitasking. I think they have copied the concept of android multitasking
November 28th, 2010 at 2:08 pm
Well, the new features in iOS4 aren’t new for jailbroken iPhones, but they are new for non-jailbroken iPhones. Apple doesn’t care If it’s new for us or not… Live with it