Just a quick post to remind every unlocker and jailbreaker out there that if you can't live without your jailbroken and/or unlocked iPhone, you should not update to 3.0.
Updating to 3.0 will simply prevent you from jailbreaking or unlocking your iPhone, no matter if it is a 1st gen or iPhone 3G.
My advice to you: wait a few days for the Dev Team to release a new jailbreak for 3.0 and for UltraSn0w (the new app that will unlock your iPhone) to be released.
The new iPhone 3.0 firmware update is available for download through iTunes. To get it, simply plug in your iPhone into iTunes and click "check for updates".
I will also update our iPhone Downloads page with direct links to the 3.0 firmware when I can put my hands on it.
Dev Team member MuscleNerd sent a tweet a few minutes ago about an upcoming live demo of the YellowSn0w unlock for iPhone 3.0. The live demo will happen Tuesday night, most likely on Qik and should answer a lot of questions.
This demo should show how YellowSn0w can unlock firmware 3.0. I assume this unlock will only work for iPhones that currently support YellowSn0w.
The long awaited MMS feature for the iPhone is finally coming with the release of 3.0. It is legitimate to wonder how much AT&T will charge iPhone users for this feature. Well, a good news uncovered by TiPB reveals that AT&T will not charge extra for sending MMS from your iPhone.
Later this summer, as part of the 3.0 software, AT&T will make multimedia messaging (MMS) available at no extra cost to customers with a text messaging bundle.
It makes sense but it's always good to be reassured, especially knowing how AT&T likes to overcharge its customers. Now the question is: when? AT&T only says "later this summer", which could be anytime from June 19th (which would make sense) to sometimes in September...
Click here for more answers from AT&T to your questions about the iPhone 3G S.
The 3.0 firmware for the iPhone 3G S is now available for download on Apple's website: iPhone2, 1_3.0_7A341_Restore.ipsw
Installing it on your iPhone 3G won't give you video recording or copy/paste. No, unfortunately it's pretty useless for the time being as it can only be uploaded on an iPhone 3G S. So don't waste your time downloading it and trying to install it on your iPhone.
So you thought you knew everything about the iPhone? Think again! With all these new features unveiled in iPhone 3.0, chances are there are a few you don't know how to operate yet. That's why Apple created how to guides on its website. Interestingly, copy/paste, one of the most anticipated features is not explained.
xGPS kinda pioneered the turn by turn navigation for the iPhone but you have to admit it was a little buggy.
TomTom's co-founder demonstrated TomTom’s navigation software in combination with a specially designed car kit on the iPhone earlier today at the WWDC, and it looks good!
There is no cost information or release date announced yet but according to TomTom's website, we should learn more about it in the next couple weeks:
The TomTom navigation application for iPhone will be available via the Apple iTunes App Store, following the release of Apple’s OS 3.0 operating system. Details regarding pricing and availability for both the application and the TomTom car kit for iPhone will be made available in advance of the products’ launch later this summer.
As Engadget puts it:
We can't imagine this being cheap. You think TomTom wants a $19 app undercutting its $300 navigation systems? Doubtful.
Apparently, you'll be able to get a special car kit with it.
You gotta love the Dev Team! It hasn't been 24 hours since Apple released the fifth beta of their OS 3.0 that our favorite team of iPhone hackers has already shown proofs that it has been jailbroken. And better than that, the Dev Team says that unless Apple changes the hardware of the iPhone, all future version of the OS will be jailbreakable as well.
As should be expected, the modern devteam jailbreak process is still valid. The picture below is 3.0beta5 jailbroken on an iPhone 3G. As we’ve said in previous posts, nothing other than a hardware respin can prevent our jailbreak from working on all exisiting iPhone and iPod Touches. They’ve chased our jailbreak so far down in the chain of trust, the only way they can fix it is in hardware.
One thing worries me a bit here though. Why is the Dev Team so open about it? I mean, they said several times now that Apple would have to spin the iPhone hardware to prevent all future jailbreak. If I was the Dev Team, that's something I would keep for myself. I assume by now Apple has figured out what little piece of electronics it needs to add to the future iPhone to prevent any jailbreak.
What I think about that is that the Dev Team likes challenges. It likes to be fair play too! It's as if the Dev Team said to Apple "hey, look what you need to do to prevent me from hacking your phone. I'm telling you all that because I'm smarter than you and whatever you do, I'll still me able to hack your phone".
In its blog post today, the Dev Team also warns us about the non-official version of QuickPwn:
Because there are so many beta releases, we couldn’t possible refine, test, and release both PwnageTool and QuickPwn for each of them. That’s why we’re waiting until the final release. You may have seen other “hijacked” versions of QuickPwn out there, but all of them are buggy, none of them work on OSX, and almost everyone who uses them reverts back to 2.2.1 (because none of the useful jailbroken apps (Qik, Cycorder, and others) work on 3.0 yet).
As usual, it is safe to remind everyone that if you care about the YellowSn0w unlock, you should NOT play with the 3.0 betas as they may prevent you from ever being able to unlock your iPhone.
Earlier this week, we talked about the new iPhone 3.0 Beta 3. It didn't take long to iPhone hackers to update an unofficial version of QuickPwn to jailbreak the new beta firmware.
As usual, this QuickPwn is not the official release by the Dev Team and using it might prevent you from ever being able to unlock your iPhone using YellowSn0w.
So far, this jailbreak only works with iPhone 2G, 3G and 1st gen iPod Touch. It's also worth noting that this version of QuickPwn will not install Cydia on your iPhone. Instead, it will install Icy, a Cydia "competitor".
I do not recommend using this jailbreak. As a matter of fact, I don't even recommend installing the 3.0 Beta as it is still a little unstable and will most likely prevent you from unlocking in the near future. That's just my opinion anyways and you are obviously free to do whatever you want.
You can download QuickPwn for 3.0 Beta 3 and read the QuickPwn tutorial for instructions.
Finally!! Some good news on the iPhone 3.0 beta. The latest beta (build 7A280F) is actually good. Not only that, but it is also good for the older devices!!! Hang on, let us explain.
As you may have heard, Apple has released another iPhone 3.0 beta. There's not much to write about. The update is mainly to improve performance. How do we feel about it?
We have mixed feelings here... and we are a bit confused honestly. Although sometimes and in some places we thought "They fixed it", it then went rogue. The OS is sucking up a lot of RAM. Of course remember we tested this on a 1G iPod Touch. As you may remember after we posted about 3.0 here we had the chance to play with 3.0 on an iPhone 3G for a few minutes. The user said it was better than any other OS had run on his iPhone. And for the minutes we played with it, it seemed so.
Nothing new so far. There's now a mysterious "Store" option / button in the Settings page. But when you tap it, it's blank. Hmmm....
Other than that the other new thing we found is that the recovery mode thing is now purple?! Oh and picture MMS is working and other sites are reporting video MMS is also working. That's about it guys.
Oh, how could I forget?! You now have 11 pages. Go crazy with apps!!
For now that's it. Let us know in the comments if you want to know anything and we'll try to make you happy :P .
P.S: Maybe the purple recovery mode logo was an April Fool's joke from Apple. After all they did release a blank album on iTunes (seriously!! Three blank tracks): iTunes Link
So it's been a few days. We've been blogging and testing like mad, but we have not really found much else. We've just found a few small tweaks in stuff (we'll be posting underneath now). Remember this is still a beta, so any juicy undocumented features is likely to be hidden until the release. So here we go:
New Safari features in Settings such as AutoFill (remembers passwords and usernames), and Fraud Warning (warns when you are in a fraudulent site). Shake to Shuffle added. Not working great in this beta but it's there. The Stocks icon has been slightly tweaked. Nothing much really. Maps features that iPhone users got in 2.2.1 have been added for the iPod Touch (such as street view, etc.) Locate Me for the iPod Touch seems improved and more accurate. Push Notification (at least for Mobile Me) is working pretty well. Most 2.x apps appear to work AppStore now installs app from the second page on. You can move the apps to the first page manually though. MobileMe now has a "Locate my Device" option. Still not available on me.com Mail now has "Load Remote Image" option to prevent spam (shout-out to the readers in the comments for clearing that up). Restrictions have been updated and now block "Current Location" and allows setting what content is appropriate. SpotLight is working quite well. A bit laggy once in a while but works pretty well. The AppStore screenshot browsing method has changed a bit. Emoji can still be enabled. The 9 page limit is still there.