Please let me know what tips and tricks you have for iPhone 4s.

Here’s my first.

Update Facebook status with Siri. I was kind of bummed when I got my new iPhone4s and I couldn’t use Siri to update my Facebook status. So after playing with it for a day I figured out I can update it with Siri using text messages.

Go to http://www.facebook.com/mobile/ and add Facebook text messages. After you sign up add the number they send you to contacts and put the first name as “Facebook” and the last name as “Status” then you can use Siri t0 update Facebook status.

This should work for other apps like twitter also.

I was trying to jailbreak an iPhone 4 that had 4.3.3 firmware but it’s been a little while since my last jailbreak. After finding a lot of different info I went ahead and did it again. After finishing the jailbreak Cydia and Safari didn’t work.

When pressing the cydia and safari icon it would just crash. I found the problem was that I was actually using firmware 4.3.2 because I used Redsn0w 9.6 rc 14. After updating to 9.6 rc16 and using firmware 4.3.3 everything worked.

So to make a long story short. If you want to use firmware 4.3.3 you have to use Redsn0w 9.6 rc16 and firmware 4.3.3.

Do you have an iPhone 3G with Grey no wifi?

Here’s what I’ve tried so far…

1) Reset network settings

2) Placed iPhone in Freezer

3) Placed iPhone on bag filled with ice water

4) heated the wifi chip with a heat gun to melt solder

5) restored to 3.1.2, 3.1.3, and 4.1

6) installed custom firmware 3.1.2

7) installed Ultrasn0w

8) installed Pushfix

9) installed swifi

10) Held home button and power button to reset

11) Did carrier update for ATT

Here’s what caused it…

1) Installed jailbreak unlock blacksn0w

For those of you that think this has to be a hardware problem you might want to think again. I’m sure it wasn’t a coincidence that after trying Blacksnow my iPhone was messed up.

My iPhone wifi was greyed out then after doing all of the above steps it was working fine for a while then after trying Blackra1n my iPhone immediately started the grey no wifi problem.

notes:

after trying to take the iphone apart to heat the wifi chip the grey no wifi went away but after resetting it came back.

after installing ultrasnow I lost all signals i.e. phone, 3g, and edge

I’m going to try to measure the temperature after making changes and update the post  with the information.

I appreciate the work that the jailbreak community and hackers have been doing and I’ve used the hacks on my iPhone 2g, 3g, 3gs, 4, and my iPad but the blackra1n application should come with a stronger warning about how many people have been stuck with no wifi.

I’m using Windows 7

Here’s a great video if you want to see the baseband hardware manually flashed

I’m going to get this thing working. :)

Owners of iPhones and other smartphones are one step closer towards taking complete control of their gadgets, thanks to a new government ruling Monday on the practice of “jailbreaking.”   This weekend has seen a flurry of activity about digital rights, but the biggest news dropped Monday morning, when the FCC announced that it had made the controversial practice of “jailbreaking” your iPhone — or any other cell phone — legal.Jailbreaking — the practice of unlocking a phone (and particularly an iPhone) so it can be used on another network and/or run other applications than those approved by Apple — has technically been illegal for years. Most jailbroken phones are used on the U.S. T-Mobile network or on overseas carriers, or are used to run applications that Apple refuses to sell, such as Safari ad-blocking apps, alternate keyboard layouts, or programs that change the interface to the iPhone’s SMS system and the way its icons are laid out.While technically illegal, no one has been sued or prosecuted for the practice. (Apple does seriously frown on the practice, and jailbreaking your phone will still void your warranty.) It’s estimated that more than a million iPhone owners have jailbroken their handsets.
Apple fought hard against the legalization, arguing that jailbreaking was a form of copyright violation. The FCC disagreed, saying that jailbreaking merely enhanced the inter-operability of the phone, and was thus legitimate under fair-use rules.
The upshot is that now anyone can jailbreak or otherwise unlock any cell phone without fear of legal penalties, whether you want to install unsupported applications or switch to another cellular carrier. Cell phone companies are of course still free to make it difficult for you to do this — and your warranty will probably still be voided if you do — but at least you won’t be fined or imprisoned if you jailbreak a handset.
In addition to the jailbreaking exemption, the FCC announced a few other rules that have less sweeping applicability but are still significant:
• Professors, students and documentary filmmakers are now allowed, for “noncommercial” purposes, to break the copy protection measures on DVDs to be used in classroom or other not-for-profit environments. This doesn’t quite go so far as to grant you and me the right to copy a DVD so we can watch it in two rooms of the house, but it’s now only one step away.
• As was the topic in the GE ruling I wrote about, the FCC allows computer owners to bypass dongles (hardware devices used in conjunction with software to guarantee the correct owner is behind the keyboard) if they are no longer in operation and can’t be replaced. Dongles are rarities in consumer technology products now, but industrial users are probably thrilled about this, as many go missing and are now impossible to obtain.
• Finally, people are now free to circumvent protection measures on video games — but, strangely, only to investigate and correct security flaws in those games. (Another oddity: Other computer software is not part of this ruling, just video games.)
—Article by Christopher Null technology writer for Yahoo! News.

Downgrade iPad 3.21 to 3.2 is coming very soon. This will allow you to Jailbreak the iPad with the latest firmware.