Sometimes when jailbreaking an iPhone or after installing a jailbreak app, your iPhone will get stuck on reboot, or will hang on the Apple logo. This problem happened to me before and it was kind of a nightmare. In order to get your iPhone back on track, you will have to put it in DFU mode (Device Firmware Update mode). This will help you restore your iPhone without loading the OS first.
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Tweetie’s “Secure Connection Failed” Is Driving Me Nuts
I am a big Twitter user and I do most of my tweeting using Tweetie, which is my favorite Twitter app for iPhone. Recently I've been getting the same error more and more often and it's getting very annoying: Secure Connection Failed.
I dug a bit into the problem and found out that I am not the only one having this Secure Connection Failed issue. Tweetie's account on Twitter says that "it's a problem on Twitter's end, they're tracking it down now" and they suggest that anyone who gets this error sends their IP address to contact@atebits.com.
First, I don't believe the problem is on Twitter's end. If it was, other iPhone Twitter app would have the same issue. Second, how am I supposed to email them my IP address when the problem mostly appears over 3G, which means I have a different IP address every time I make a data connection?
This problem has been going on for the past few weeks and it seems it's getting worse. It's really disappointing that Ate Bits, the developers of Tweetie, are not taking a more proactive role in this matter. I don't expect much from a free app, but when I pay $3 for an application, I expect it to work flawlessly.
Have you guys encountered this issue as well? If you don't use Tweetie, what Twitter application do you use? Is your iPhone jailbroken?
Update: Looking a the reactions on Twitter, it is clear that this problem also appears on other Twitter apps. My apologies to Ate Bits for thinking they were not doing their best. The problems does seem to come from Twitter itself after all.
Could Not Activate Cellular Data Network: You Are Not Subscribed to a Cellular Data Service
If you recently updated your iPhone firmware, or jailbroke/unlocked your iPhone to use it with a different carrier, you may have encountered the following error: Could Not Activate Cellular Data Network: You Are Not Subscribed to a Cellular Data Service
This error often appears after jailbreaking and/or unlocking and it is mostly characterized by the fact that your iPhone can't connect to the internet using the cellular data network, and you can't send text messages anymore.
The first thing to do in that case is to reset the network settings and reboot your iPhone. If it still doesn't work, then there is a more radical fix that will put everything back on track.
First, get on wifi and visit this website http://www.unlockit.co.nz/#_Custom from your iPhone. You should see this page, which will allow you to create a custom APN.
Under "Carrier", tap the drop down menu and choose your carrier. Note that there are many carriers listed there and that it might take you a bit of scrolling down to get you where you want. So choose the right carrier and tap "Done". This should populate the custom APN info.
Once the custom APN fields are populated, tap "Create Profile" and wait a bit. It will exit Safari, and take you to the settings application. Finally, just tap “Install” and this will set up your custom APN on your iPhone. Reboot your iPhone and you should now have Edge and 3G connectivity.
iPhone Safe Mode – Have You Seen This Before?
Yesterday night, I was quietly watching some bad reality TV when a push notification showed up on my iPhone. I grabbed the phone, looked at the notification and I slid to unlock the phone in order to launch the mail.app.
To my surprise, the following screen appeared.
What's strange is that I wasn't doing anything with the phone. That day, I did nothing but installing a new app (TomTom), and I am 100% positive I didn't mess with any of the settings.
I had heard about the iPhone safe mode before but I had never experienced it until today. I know the iPhone can only get into safe mode on jailbroken iPhones and that it has something to do with the fast respring. That's about all I know about this issue.
I simply tapped "OK" and turned off the phone. For a minute, I was scared that the problem would persist after rebooting the iPhone but it didn't.
Has your iPhone been into safe mode before? If so, why do you think that happened?
iPhone fix to “Unable to Download Application” error
Have you ever had this error message on your iPhone while trying to download an application or a game: Unable to download application.
There is a pretty easy fix for this and here is how it works:
Simply double tap the icon of the application that gives you trouble and wait for a few seconds. It should then be available.
If it does not work, the problem may also be that the app didn't get downloaded completely. So, remove it and try downloading it again. I found it much better to download app over wifi, rather than 3G.