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This method has been tested and works with iPhone OS 1.14 thru 3.1.3  and on all iPhone models (2G, 3G, 3GS) not tested on iPod Touch, but should work.

HAS NOT BEEN TESTED ON ITUNES 9.2 OR  Apple IOS4 (CURRENT VERSIONS)

**WARNING– Unlockers WILL LOSE carrier unlock with this method if they update to 3.1.3 or 4.0 in iTunes!**

*Try the following procedure at your own risk, you WILL lose all your data (music, photos, high scores, etc.. ) with this method but will have a working phone again. You just need to re-sync with iTunes to get your apps, songs, movies, etc.. back after your phone is fixed*

**Unlockers WILL LOSE carrier unlock with this method if they update to 3.1.3 or 4.0 in iTunes!**

I’ve found from much trial and error that having too many iPhone “official” 3rd Apple App store apps installed when you try to jailbreak the phone may sometimes cause the phone to hang up in a state of constant reboot.

Although I can’t and don’t guarantee this will work 100% of the time, if you’ve tried to jailbreak your iPhone and your phone gets stuck at the Apple Logo and reboots every 5-10 minutes, you need to follow these steps:

Setting the iPhone to recovery mode allows you to perform firmware restore using iTunes.

1) Power off the iPhone by depressing both the sleep/wake button on the top of the iPhone and the home button. Wait for the iPhone screen to turn black aka screen-off.

2) Depress the home button and connect the iPhone/iPod sync cable into the docking port on the bottom of the iPhone at the sametime without removing pressure on the home button.

3) You should be able to see the Apple logo coming up on the iPhone and then the recovery screen with be shown after the Apple logo:

4) iTunes will start and inform you that it has detected an iPhone in recovery mode and you should restore your iPhone to start using it.

5) Perform your firmware restore.

6) Exit iTunes and Re-jailbreak. I highly recommend using Spirit jailbreak but you can use, Pwnage Tool or BlackRa1n (or whatever jailbreak tool that will work on your model iPhone). Run the jailbreak app again and everything should go fine. Spirit takes about 3 minutes to jailbreak a 3GS and about 5 minutes to complete an older model.

7) Don’t restore from a backup, just set up your phone as a new phone, then re-sync to add back all your data and apps.

DONE!

ONCE AGAIN, **Unlockers WILL LOSE carrier unlock with this method if they update to 3.1.3 or 4.0 in iTunes and I can’t guarantee this will work 100% of the time, also I am not responsible for any lost data or a bricked phone or anything other problems encountered from trying this method.  Try at your own risk, leave a comment and I’ll try to help out with any issues.

Computer security firm Intego has identified the first known truly malicious code which targets jailbroken iPhones with default root passwords.

The malware scans for phones on a given network with an open SSH port, then attempts to log in using the default root password that is the same on all iPhones.

Non-jailbroken iPhones are completely unaffected by this malware.  Jailbroken iPhones without OpenSSH installed are not vunerable.

Learn how to change your default passwords here.

Read More at ArsTechnica..

Now you can pretend to be Steve Jobs during a keynote. Show live iPhone demos on your Mac

ScreenSplitr is an Jailbreak iPhone app that lets you see your iPhone screen on a TV or a Computer while still being able to see and interact with the iPhone.

DemoGod is an application for your Macintosh (based on iPhoney) that allows you to display a live screen of your iPhone directly on your Mac. It’s ideal to demo iPhone apps to large audiences live thus the name.

Read More..

Live Clock and Weather Icon in action–zoom view.

I just found a couple of neat iPhone UI add ons in Cydia that animate the Weather Icon and Clock Icons on the Springboard this brings the stock Weather and Clock apps up to speed with the Apple Calendar.app that automatically changes to display the correct date on the icon.

David Ashman, an iPhone developer, has developed a tweak called “WeatherIcon” that puts live weather information on the weather icon itself. With this hack, as you can see in my homepage screenshot above, the weather icon is no longer static but shows you the current weather and temperature (cloudy icon and 43 deg.)

Ryan Petrich, developed LiveClock to bring an animated clock icon to iPhone. By installing LiveClock, the Clock icon will always show the current time (as you can see on my screenie above, the Clock Icon time matches the time in the top menu bar ) AND the second hand moves!

These are two simple hacks that makes me wonder why they’re not included from Apple.

Get them on Cydia.