Apple Seeds iOS 5 Build to Carriers Along with a Few Surprises

by Oliver Haslam on Sep 7, 2011

The countdown to iOS 5′s release has begun, with Apple now bringing its most valued and prominent carrier partners into the testing phase for the first time.

Carriers have now begun testing the latest build of iOS 5 internally, with reports suggesting that this build is a newer one than the beta 7 version being currently tested by developers… Read More

 

New aTV Flash Beta Brings Music Player And Cloud Backups to Jailbroken Apple TV

by Jeff Benjamin on Sep 6, 2011

As you may have already noticed, jailbreaking an Apple TV 2 brings a massive wealth of new features to an otherwise mundane little black box.

Not only can you view live sports, stream movies from you Mac or PC, and access weather forecasts, but now you can perform cloud backups, and stream music without using iTunes.

This is made possible with the latest beta release of aTV Flash (black), which is a major upgrade to the previously released beta. More details on how you can snag these new features, plus the full change log, right after the break… Read More

 

Dev Team Releases RedSn0w Jailbreak for iOS 5 Beta 7

by Sebastien on Sep 2, 2011

Hot on the heels of the release of iOS 5 beta 7, MuscleNerd announced on Twitter that he has updated RedSn0w to bring support for the latest beta firmware.

Up until now, if you wanted to jailbreak iOS 5 beta 7, you had to point RedSn0w to beta 6. It worked, but it wasn’t ideal. By pushing RedSn0w 0.9.8b7b, the Dev Team makes things square, allowing you to jailbreak beta 7 by pointing the tool directly to beta 7… Read More

 

TinyUmbrella Updated for iOS 5 Beta 6

by Sebastien on Sep 2, 2011

Heads up for those of you who are currently running one of the beta versions of iOS 5. Notcom recently updated TinyUmbrella, which now brings support for iOS 5 Beta 4, 5 and 6.

Unfortunately, it seems that this latest version was released right before Apple dropped iOS 5 Beta 7, so TinyUmbrella won’t support the latest beta… Read More

 

Sn0wBreeze Updated for iOS 5 Beta 7 Support

by Zech TesfaYohannes on Sep 2, 2011

Today, jailbreak hacker iH8sn0w released Sn0wbreeze v2.8b7. This update now includes support for iOS 5 Beta 7. Sn0wbreeze is a jailbreak tool for Windows. Also, if you are new to jailbreaking, you can check our general guide here, and our Sn0wbreeze guide here.

The last couple releases of Sn0wbreeze let you use iOS 5 betas without having a developer account and an activated UDID. Along with that, it removes the expiration of betas, making sure the beta will not expire on your device as it is supposed to do at a preset date and time… Read More

 

iOS 5 Beta 7 Proves iTunes Match Really Isn’t a Streaming Service

by Oliver Haslam on Sep 1, 2011

Soon after the iTunes Match beta went live earlier this week, reports started flooding in that the service did indeed support the streaming of music, a feature that wasn’t advertised by Apple during the iCloud announcement. Many were originally disappointed that streaming was not included in iTunes Match, so the news that it was actually there was met with glee and happiness all around.

What people had discovered was that if you tapped on a song stored in iCloud, it started playing. If you started a new one and then went back after turning on Airplane Mode, the original song hadn’t cached, which led people to believe it was streaming. But after Apple denied that streaming was included in iCloud, more questions starting being asked… Read More

 

iOS 5 Beta 7 Expires October 20

by Alex Heath on Sep 1, 2011

iOS 5 Beta 7 will expire on October 20, 2011. As usual, jailbreak hacker iH8Sn0w has dug deep into Apple’s latest beta build to determine when it will expire. iOS 5 Beta 6 is set to expire on September 29.

In case you didn’t know, Apple released iOS 5 Beta 7 to developers yesterday.  Read More

 

Jailbreak iOS 5 Beta 7 With Latest Version of RedSn0w

by Alex Heath on Aug 31, 2011

Apple released iOS 5 Beta 7 to developers this afternoon, and the good news is that the latest beta can already be jailbroken with RedSn0w. Actually, the RedSn0w beta that was released for iOS 5 Beta 6 will also jailbreak Beta 7. Read More

 

Apple Releases iOS 5 Beta 7

by Sebastien on Aug 31, 2011

Not even two weeks after releasing iOS 5 Beta 6 to developers, Apple just released iOS 5 Beta 7. If you’re already on Beta 6, simply go to Settings > General > Software Update in order to update your iDevice. That is, unless you are jailbroken, in which case, you will not be able to update over-the-air. But you can always update via iTunes.

Seven beta versions for an iOS firmware is unheard of so far. Apple sure is polishing this new software, which should be released to the public in the next few weeks.

We have the full change log below… Read More

 

Icon in Photo Stream Beta Indicates Completely Redesigned iPhone 5

by Cody on Aug 31, 2011

If you’ve been around the Apple community for a while, you’re likely aware of the company’s habit of seeding beta version of upcoming software to developers. They do this so app makers can test their software, and it’s also a nice way to help iron out the kinks.

But lucky for us, it’s also a way for us to get an inside look at Apple’s future plans. We’ve been able to spot unannounced Nuance and Siri features from within the betas, and now we may have just gotten a glimpse of what the iPhone 5 will look like… Read More