iPhone 4s 4g vs 3g comparison

08 Mar

iPhone 4s ATT

4g vs 3g comparison

Apple released iOS 5.1 yesterday and besides the normal bug fixes it allows the iPhone 4s to showthe 4G HSPA+ network indicator. Below are the pics of the comparisons.

 

Before the update with the AT&T 3G service I was getting 3.29 Mbps and 3.09 Mbps with the speedtest.net app from the itunes store.

 

 

After the update to 4G I started getting 5.85 Mbps and 5.06 Mbps.

Notice the 4G in the upper left hand corner.

 

I’m not sure if these numbers will keep up but the data seems to be significantly faster now. The tests were done about an hour apart in the same location, but I drove around a few Southern California cities with my iPhone and it showed consistently faster speeds then it has had in the past. Apple may have actually gotten this update right! Too bad I lost my jailbreak.

AT&T’s official statement is:

“Apple has updated its iOS software to show a 4G network indicator when customers are on AT&T’s 4G network. Only AT&T’s network lets iPhone 4S download 3 times faster and only AT&T customers have access to the nation’s largest 4G network covering nearly 250 million people.”

Some people are claiming its not any faster than it already was but clearly mine was faster… ymmv. It’s still not as fast as it should be but it seems to be a step in the right direction. I hope it isn’t just a coincidence the data speeds were faster today after the update.

How to jailbreak 5.0.1 untethered with redsn0w 0.9.10b3

30 Dec

How to jailbreak 5.0.1 untethered with redsn0w 0.9.10b3
It’s finally here. Check out the video!!!

iPad, iPhone 4, 3g, and 3Gs

Please let me know what you think and if you have any problems… I only have a 4s now so I didn’t get a chance to try it out. I’d really like the jailbreak for the iphone 4s. :(

iPhone 4S Tips and Tricks

15 Oct

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.

Funny things to ask Siri on your iPhone 4s

15 Oct

So I’ve had the new iPhone4s for about a day now and I’ve been talking to it like its my secretary. I asked it to tell me a joke and it starts with “two iPhones walk into a bar” so I started cracking up. Do you have any other funny things to say to your iPhone?

Cydia and Safari crash on iPhone 4 firmware 4.3.3

09 Aug

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.

Tethered Jailbreak for iPhone 3Gs

14 Jan

Tethered Jailbreak for iPhone 3Gs on firmware 4.2.1

Here’s the tutorial for jailbreaking and resetting an iPhone that has been turned off or reset.

1) Download firmware 4.2.1 here

2) Download redsn0w here

3) Run redsn0w and follow on screen instructions

Done

It’s really that easy.
Here is a pic tutorial for running Redsn0w if you were unable to follow the on screen instructions.

1)

Browse for firmware iPhone 2.1_4.2.1 (pic is wrong its actually redsn0w 0.9.6b5)…

Click open

Click yes for newer iPhones

Click next (pic is wrong its actually redsn0w 0.9.6b5)

If this is the first time Jailbreaking the iPhone check Install Cydia then click next (pic is wrong its actually redsn0w 0.9.6b5)

If you’re just trying to turn the iPhone back on check Just boot tethered and click next. (pic is wrong its actually redsn0w 0.9.6b5)

Make sure the iPhone is off then click next (pic is wrong its actually redsn0w 0.9.6b5)

Hold the power button down on the top for 3 seconds. (pic is wrong its actually redsn0w 0.9.6b5)

Without releasing the power button press and hold the home button for 10 seconds. (pic is wrong its actually redsn0w 0.9.6b5)

Without releasing the home button, release the power button and wait til it beeps and enters DFU mode. (pic is wrong its actually redsn0w 0.9.6b5)

Once that happens let the iPhone sit while it either Jailbreaks or restores and your done.

If you have any problems just ask below.

iPhone 3G Grey no wifi

23 Oct

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. :)

iPhone iOS4 sucks downgrade to 3.1.3 to make it work

10 Sep

I’m a huge iPhone fan but I’m very disappointed with iOS4. We currently have an 3G and a 3Gs and we were really happy with them when they were first released but with the new update for the 3G makes it a useless piece of crap.

Apple should allow the customers to downgrade the firmware to the original because the new firmware makes the iPhones unusable. After “upgrading” the 3G there will be a lag while trying to use email, text, maps, and any apps.

I finally got fed up and put iPhone firmware 3.1.3 back in the iPhone. Here’s the steps to getting the 3G back to working mode with Windows 7. It will probably work with other Windows and Mac OSX.

1) download Recboot 1.3

2) download Firmware 3.1.3 for 3G

3) start iTunes

4) start right click Recboot and “run as administrator” (very important) or you will receive errors…

“Unhandled exception has occurred in your application. If you click Continue, the application will ignore this error and attempt to continue. If you click Quit, the application will close immediately.”

5) In Recboot click “Enter Recovery Mode”

6) Shift click “restore” and restore to the older firmware

7) In Recboot click “Exit Recovery Mode”

After is boots it should be back to running 3.1.3. The only downside is that your will loose all the messages you’ve had since the update and any apps that only work with iOS 4

Jailbreaking is now legal

26 Jul
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.)
— Christopher Null is a technology writer for Yahoo! News.

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

22 Jul

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

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