Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Recently at the MIDEM conference in Cannes, France – Sony Ericsson launched the updated PlayNow arena mobile content store. The old-new service now has more mobile content than ever before thanks to the deals signed with 10 major record labels — including Sony BMG, Warner Music Group, EMI, The Orchard, IODA, The PocketGroup, Hungama, X5 Music, Bonnier Amigo, and VidZone. In addition to more than 5 million new, mostly DRM-free tracks, Sony Ericsson also added 250 new mobile games from its existing partners. Finally, “a music promotional space for new and developing artists” M-BUZZ has been revamped and is now called PlayNow Uncut.
There you have it. Just like (almost) any other major handset maker, Sony Ericsson is serious when it comes to mobile music and the overall mobile content downloads business… Full release is available from here.
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
The final steps of this jailbreak guide have been appended with a simpler and less involved method. A new third-party application is available through Installer.app (AppSnapp). Namely, the new iJailbreakMobile application makes updating to v1.1.3 jailbreak a breeze.
With the release of iJailbreakMobile, this guide is better used as a “downgrade” guide for anyone that wishes to update their baseband or has already updated to v1.1.3. Jailbroken iPhone with v1.1.1 or v1.1.2 firmware can ignore most of these steps.
Ok, if you’re reading this, chances are that you’ve been scouring the web for some straight-up answers on how to upgrade your iPhone to the jailbroken v1.1.3 firmware. For the uninitiated, a “jailbroken/jailbreaked” firmware simply means that the particular firmware version is capable of installing and running unofficial third-party applications. The new iPhone v1.1.3 firmware is most likely the firmware that Apple will use to distribute their official iPhone SDK-based third-party application, and so jailbreaking the v1.1.3 firmware offers the best of both worlds – official and unofficial third-party native iPhone applications.
Let’s get down to the nitty gritty. This guide will walk you through the iPhone v1.1.3 jailbreak process, and should work regardless of your current firmware version. This tutorial uses the iPhone Dev Team’s v1.1.3 jailbreak method, not Nate True’s leaked solution:
- Make sure you backup your data. You will be “restoring” your iPhone several times.
- You need a WiFi connection which your iPhone and computer both share (they need to be on the same network).
- Your iPhone needs 300MB of free space.
- Even iPhones previously jailbroken using Nate True’s method can be re-jailbroken with this more stable method.
- AT&T, O2 UK, T-Mobile Germany, Orange France customers can update their baseband to take advantage of iPhone v1.1.3’s new features. To do this, simply update your iPhone to v1.1.3 via iTunes. Unlocked customers will want to avoid this step.
- Proceed slowly and carefully, some steps take time and you just need to be patient.
Here’s what you’ll need before we start (put everything on your desktop):
Mac users -
Windows users -
Starting with a factory/non-jailbroken iPhone v1.1.1
(in which we’ll discuss how to downgrade your v1.1.2 or v1.1.3 iPhone to the non-jailbroken v1.1.1 starting point). Jailbroken iPhones using v1.1.1 or v1.1.2 firmwares will want to skip this step:
- Download the Apple iPhone v1.1.1 firmware here. Place it on your desktop
- Connect your iPhone to iTunes
- Place your iPhone in DFU restore mode by holding down the “Home” and “Power” buttons simultaneously. You’ll see the “Slide to turn off” button, keep holding those buttons
- Wait until the screen goes black and release only the “Power” button – keep pressing the “Home” button. iTunes will recognize that the iPhone is in restore mode – the screen should be black. If you see the “Connect to iTunes” image, restart at Step 3 until you enter DFU restore mode. Again, if you do this correctly, you’ll have a completely blacked-out screen while iTunes recognizes your iPhone in restore mode
- Restore your iPhone to v1.1.1 firmware by holding down the “Option” key and clicking the “Restore” button (Mac OS X), or holding down the “Shift” key while clicking the “Restore” button (Windows)
- Navigate and choose the iPhone v1.1.1 firmware file on your desktop (iPhone1,1_1.1.1_3A109a_Restore.ipsw)
- If you immediately get an error “(1)” you need to make sure you enter DFU restore mode – go back to Step 3
- Let iTunes do its thing, you will get an error (1015) or (1013), that’s okay, it’s supposed to happen
- Apply the iPhone v1.1.1 firmware again to ensure that the firmware “took”
- At the error (1015) or (1013) prompt, you’ll notice that your iPhone is in restore mode and iTunes doesn’t want anything to do with it. Quit iTunes.
- At this point, fire up iNdependence (Mac) or iBrickr (Windows) and wait a tick for it to pull your iPhone out of restore mode (it takes 30 seconds to a minute)
- You should now be staring at a “Activate iPhone” screen. Quit iNdependence or iBrickr
Jailbreak your iPhone v1.1.1 firmware
Non-jailbroken (factory fresh iPhones) with v1.1.1 firmware start here:
- Slide the “Slide for Emergency” slider.
- Dial “*#307#” without quotes, obviously.
- Hit “Call”
- Delete the numbers and dial “0?
- Hit “Call”
- Hit “Answer”
- Hit “Hold”
- Hit “Decline”
- Choose the “Contacts” tab and add a new contact by hitting the “+” button in the upper right corner
- Hit “Add new URL”
- Add “prefs:” and save
- Hit “Add new URL” again
- Add “http://jailbreakme.com” and save
- Save the contact as “Z” or whatever you feel like naming it
- Hit the “prefs:” URL
- Navigate to “General” > “Auto-lock” and choose “Never“
- Connect to your WiFi network, enter password if required
- Press the “Home” button and you’ll be back at the “Activate iPhone” screen
- Slide that “Slide for Emergency” slider again
- Dial “0?
- Hit “Answer”
- Hit “Hold”
- Hit “Decline”
- Choose your newly added contact
- Hit the “http://jailbreakme.com” URL. This will open up Safari
- Scroll down to “Install AppSnapp” and hit it
- Safari will close, you’ll be taken back to the “Activate iPhone” screen, wait until your iPhone reboots. If you are still staring at the “Activate iPhone” screen after 5 minutes, go back to Step 19
- iPhone will reboot to a freshly jailbroken v1.1.1 firmware with Installer.app/AppSnapp installed. You did good.
[Update] Here are the revised instructions. iJailbreakMobile makes upgrading your jailbroken v1.1.1 iPhone a simple, one-click process.
You can ignore the rest of the instructions after this section. iJailbreakMobile only requires that you have a jailbroken iPhone v1.1.1. If you followed the instructions in the previous section, you should have a jailbroken iPhone v1.1.1.
If you wish to upgrade to jailbroken iPhone v1.1.2 firmware before running iJailbreakMobile, skip this section and follow the instruction in the next section.
- Fire up Installer.app (AppSnapp).
- Add http://ijailbreak.com/repo.plist to your “Source” list. If you don’t know how, check out our tutorial
- Refresh your “Source”
- You should now see a new application category called “iJailbreak”
- Within the “iJailbreak” category, choose the iJailbreakMobile v1.1.1 installer
- Hit the “Home” button to return to your homescreen
- Find the new icon “iJailbreak” and run it
- Wait for at least 45 minutes before you do anything. The iJailbreakMobile application has to download the entire 160MB iPhone v1.1.3 firmware from Apple, decompress it, patch your iPhone, and do other jailbreaking magic, so this process can take a while.
- Your device will reboot once iJailbreak is done doing its thing. You should have a jailbroken iPhone v1.1.3 at this point. If not, just go back and try uninstalling/reinstalling iJailbreak and running it again.
- That’s it! The instructions below pertain to the older jailbreak method that required a good amount of terminal-command work, and can be a little intimidating. If you like a challenge, use the below instructions in place of iJailbreak.
Preparing your jailbroken iPhone v1.1.1 for upgrade/update to jailbroken iPhone v1.1.2
If you’d rather update your iPhone to a jailbroken v1.1.2 firmware before running iJailbreakMobile, then follow the instructions in this step.
Jailbroken iPhones with v1.1.1 firmware start here:
- Fire up “Installer.app” (aka AppSnapp)
- Update the “Installer.app” application
- Navigate to “Tweaks 1.1.1?
- Download and install the “Oktoprep” package
- Navigate to “General” > “Auto-lock” and choose “Never“
- Open up iTunes
- Update (DO NOT Restore)your iPhone by holding down “Option” while clicking “UPDATE” (Mac), or hold down “Shift” while clicking “UPDATE” (Windows) – DO NOT RESTORE
- Navigate to and choose the iPhone v1.1.2 firmware (iPhone1,1_1.1.2_3B48b_Restore.ipsw)
- When iTunes is done updating to v1.1.2, you will be stuck in restore mode (if not, then continue). If you are stuck in restore mode, fire up iNdependence (Mac) or iBrickr (Windows) to pull your iPhone out of restore mode (as we did previously)
- You will be returned to the “Emergency Call” screen – the logo is different, don’t worry
- Quit iNdependence or iBrickr
- Quit iTunes
- Remember that “1.1.2-jailbreak” package you downloaded to your desktop? Yea, open that up and double-click “jailbreak.jar” (Mac) or “windows.bat” (Windows)
- After a couple minutes, the java application will finish up and hopefully reboot your iPhone. If you get to the completion dialog box and your iPhone is not rebooting (wait a bit before you take action, this stuff takes time), fire up iNdependence (Mac) or iBrickr (Windows) to return to the homescreen
- Your iPhone will probably reboot again, let it
- Once rebooted, you will have a jailbroken iPhone v1.1.2
[Update] Here are the revised instructions. iJailbreakMobile makes upgrading your jailbroken v1.1.2 iPhone a simple, one-click process.
If you’ve decided to upgrade to jailbroken iPhone v1.1.2 firmware, then the instructions in this section are all you need to update your iPhone to a jailbroken v1.1.3 firmware. If you’d rather do things manually (through terminal commands) then skip this step.
- Fire up Installer.app (AppSnapp).
- Add http://ijailbreak.com/repo.plist to your “Source” list. If you don’t know how, check out our tutorial
- Refresh your “Source”
- You should now see a new application category called “iJailbreak”
- Within the “iJailbreak” category, choose the iJailbreakMobile v1.1.2 installer
- Hit the “Home” button to return to your homescreen
- Find the new icon “iJailbreak” and run it
- Wait for at least 45 minutes before you do anything. The iJailbreakMobile application has to download the entire 160MB iPhone v1.1.3 firmware from Apple, decompress it, patch your iPhone, and do other jailbreaking magic, so this process can take a while.
- Your device will reboot once iJailbreak is done doing its thing. You should have a jailbroken iPhone v1.1.3 at this point. If not, just go back and try uninstalling/reinstalling iJailbreak and running it again.
- That’s it! The instructions below pertain to the older jailbreak method that required a good amount of terminal-command work, and can be a little intimidating. If you like a challenge, use the below instructions in place of iJailbreak.
Upgrade your jailbroken iPhone v1.1.2 to jailbroken iPhone v1.1.3 (this step is no longer necessary, iJailbreak does all this for you)
iPhones with jailbroken v1.1.2 firmware start here:
- Connect to your WiFi network, if it isn’t already connected
- Navigate to “Settings”>”WiFi” and click the little blue arrow next to your WiFi connection
- Write down (or memorize, it ain’t hard) your iPhone’s IP adress
- Fire up “Installer.app” and download/install “BSD Subsystem files” and “OpenSSH”
- Make sure your “Installer.app” application is updated to the latest version (v3.0b10)
- Navigate to “General” > “Auto-lock” and choose “Never“
- Update to v1.1.3 firmware
- Mac
- Get to a Mac computer connected to the same network as your iPhone
- Start “Terminal” (Applications>Utilities>Terminal)
- Type the command:
“scp -r ~/Desktop/Jailbreak-1.1.3/* root@<iPhone IP ADDRESS>:/” where <iPhone IP ADDRESS> is the IP Address of your iPhone. “Jailbreak-1.1.3? is the folder that contains the 1.1.3-jailbreak package (the one you downloaded to your desktop).
- Hit Enter
- Type “yes” and hit enter
- At the password prompt, type in “alpine” (your keystrokes will seem to go unregistered – that’s okay, just type the password)
- Hit Enter and wait at least a minute before fiddling with anything
If you hit an error that looks like “@ WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! @”, run the command “rm ~/.ssh/known_hosts” and go back to the “scp” command
- Type the command: “ssh root@<iPhone IP ADDRESS>”
- Hit Enter
- Type “cd /”
- Hit Enter
- Type “sh install.sh”
- Windows
- Get to a Windows computer connected to the same network as your iPhone
- Start the command window by hitting the
Start Menu then Run and typing in “cmd”
- Type “cd desktop”
- Type the command:
“scp -r ~/Jailbreak-1.1.3/* root@<iPhone IP ADDRESS>:/” where <iPhone IP ADDRESS> is the IP Address of your iPhone. “Jailbreak-1.1.3? is the folder that contains the 1.1.3-jailbreak package (the one you downloaded to your desktop).
- Hit Enter
- Type “yes” and hit enter
- At the password prompt, type in “alpine” (your keystrokes will seem to go unregistered – that’s okay, just type the password)
- Hit Enter and wait at least a minute before fiddling with anything
If you hit an error that looks like “@ WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! @”, run the command “rm ~/.ssh/known_hosts” and go back to the “scp” command
- Type the command: “ssh root@<iPhone IP ADDRESS>”
- Hit Enter
- Type “cd /”
- Hit Enter
- Type “sh install.sh”
- Wait at least 15-20 minutes before you start getting antsy, this step takes some time – go watch some TV or something
- Or, watch the command window it downloads the v1.1.3 firmware from Apple, decompress it, upload it, patch it
- Once done, the command window will terminate your SSH connection and reboot the iPhone
- Close the terminal window
- Restart the command window and SSH to your iPhone
- Type:
“ssh root@<IPADDRESS>” (Mac)
“putty -ssh root@<IPADDRESS>” (Windows)
- Hit Enter
- Type “cd /Applications”
- Hit Enter
- Type “chmod +s Installer.app/Installer”
- Hit Enter
- Type “chown -R root:wheel Installer.app”
- Hit Enter
- Close the command window
- That’s it!
- Well, actually, if you want phone-functionality, you’ll want to keep reading
Restore phone functionality to your iPhone (this step is no longer necessary, iJailbreak does all this for you)
- Fire up “Installer.app” and ensure that “BSD Subsystem” and “OpenSSH” are installed
- Connect to your WiFi network, if it isn’t already connected
- Navigate to “Settings”>”WiFi” and click the little blue arrow next to your WiFi connection
- Write down (or memorize, it ain’t hard) your iPhone’s IP adress
- On Mac
- Get to a Mac computer connected to the same network as your iPhone
- Start “Terminal” (Applications>Utilities>Terminal)
- Type the command “chmod +x ~/Desktop/lockdownd”
- Hit Enter
- Type “scp ~/Desktop/lockdownd root@<IPADDRESS>:/usr/libexec” where <iPhone IP ADDRESS> is the IP Address of your iPhone
- Hit Enter and wait at least a minute before fiddling with anything
If you hit an error that looks like “@ WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! @”, run the command “rm ~/.ssh/known_hosts” and go back to the “scp” step
- On Windows
- Get to a Windows computer connected to the same network as your iPhone
- Start the command window by hitting the
Start Menu then Run and typing in “cmd”
- Type the command “chmod +x ~/Desktop/lockdownd”
- Hit Enter
- Type “scp ~/Desktop/lockdownd root@<IPADDRESS>:/usr/libexec” where <iPhone IP ADDRESS> is the IP Address of your iPhone
- Hit Enter and wait at least a minute before fiddling with anything
If you hit an error that looks like “@ WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! @”, run the command “rm ~/.ssh/known_hosts” and go back to Step 8
- Hold down the “Power” button and slide the red slider to turn off the iPhone.
- Turn it back on
- Enjoy your jailbroken iPhone v1.1.3 in all its wiggly-homescreen-icon-Google Maps-My-Location-Installer.app glory!
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Don’t know you have heard about MindMeister, but it’s a great web-based mind mapping tool which allows creation of mind maps by multiple users in real time — and which I personally use. And guess what, they’ve decided to get some media attention by adding support for Apple’s handset.
To be fair, it’s not the complete service you’ll be able to access from your iPhone. Rather the Germany-based company decided to “iPhone-ize” their Geistesblitz Tools, allowing users to quickly submit their ideas (or Geistesblitzes) to a default map in MindMeister. The ideas are inserted in a special branch top left of the root and remain there for you to copy to other maps, or move around within the default map.
Finally in case you’re wondering what the hack “Geistesblitz” means, it’s literally translated as mind flash – a sudden insight or idea, often brilliant and unexpected…
Thanks to Intoiphone for this source
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Well folks its’ finally happening – Garmin is out with their own phone. Having their software running on the popular smartphone platform — Windows Mobile and BlackBerry — obviously isn’t enough.
The way we see it, the nuviphone is primarily a portable navigation device (PND) with mobile phone functionality built on top of it. We don’t actually have all the information at this stage — like which platform/OS Garmin’s using — but we’re sure we’ll know more about it following the Mobile World Congress where Garmin is exhibiting.
Anyway, here’s what we know:
- the device sports 3.5? touchscreen
- HSDPA-enabled
- built-in camera can take both photos and videos. Megapixel count is not known at this stage
- Integrated with Google’s local search and Panoramio picture sharing site
- the homescreen has three large icons – “Call”, “Search” and “View Map” alongside 4 smaller ones – “Browser”, “SMS”, “Email” and “Tools”
- media player can handle MP3, MPEG4 and AAC files
- set for launch in Q3 2008. No price was disclosed.
Other cool features include “Where am I?” functionality which helps users orient in space, as well as the so called “”dude, where’s my car?” feature that tells drivers where they’ve parked their cars by automatically marking the position in which it was last removed from the vehicle mount…
We’ll certainly check Garmin’s booth at Mobile World Congress and in the meantime you may want to: a) visit Garmin’s website; b) check out the full release from here.
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Google has added some code to it’s “Mobile” search [engine], that allows it to recognise where you are (to some extent) – so you’ll get the right search page, and then relevant results. Oh, and also there is this teeny point about Google being able to deliver the right advertising (targeted is the word in the ‘trade’ ) – hmmm, is any advertising ‘right’? 
You can read a full story here:
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
The handphone Toshiba W61T was designed with the sporty people in mind. The model is included in the 2008 line of phones by KDDI Japan. The Toshiba W61T has the AU Smart Sports function which could monitor your workout or serve as a pacemaker.
The 50 x 98 x 18.9 mm handset features 2.8-inch QVGA OLED screen, 3.24 megapixel CMOS camera, microSD slot capacity of up to 2GB, high-quality VGA movie recording capacity, FM radion, and USB functionality among others. Not bad for a phone which is lacking in the aesthetics department.
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