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GreenPois0n RC6.1 Brings an Untethered Jailbreak to all iDevices (Doesn’t require 4.2b3 SHSH!) released! GUIDE AND PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS INCLUDED!

admin — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 09:56:35 +0000

A new day, A new jailbreak has just arrived! The Chronic Dev Team has just been released GreenPois0n RC5 to the public to bring an untethered jailbreak for all iDevices. Unlike RedSn0w 0.9.7, this does not require 4.2b3 SHSH files to be saved on Cydia. If you just got your iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch for Christmas and want to jailbreak it now, then this is the jailbreak method for you Method below, and problems and solutions below:

**IMPORTANT** – THIS UPDATE WILL JAILBREAK THE VERIZON AND AT&T IPHONE 4/3GS, IPOD TOUCH 4G/3G/2G, IPAD, AND THE APPLE TV 2ND GEN!

**PLEASE READ** – IF YOUR IPHONE REQUIRES AN UNLOCK, STAY AWAY FROM THIS OR EVEN UPDATE YOUR IPHONE TO 4.2.1!

GUIDE:

STEP 1: DOWNLOAD GREENPOIS0N RC6.1 HERE MAC OSX!

DOWNLOAD GREENPOIS0N RC6.1 HERE WINDOWS!

STEP 2: CONNECT YOUR IDEVICE TO YOUR COMPUTER, AND LAUNCH GREENPOIS0N RC5

STEP 3: CLICK THE JAILBREAK BUTTON AS SEEN IN THE SCREENSHOT BELOW

STEP 4: FOLLOW THE ONSCREEN INSTRUCTIONS AND ENTER YOUR IDEVICE INTO DFU MODE

Press and hold the sleep button for 2 seconds
Continue holding sleep; press and hold home for 10 seconds.
Release sleep button; continue holding home for 15 seconds.

STEP 5: GREENPOIS0N WILL START JAILBREAKING YOUR IDEVICE

STEP 6: ONCE GREENPOIS0N SAYS “COMPLETE” , YOU CAN LET GO OF THE HOME BUTTON AND CLICK THE “COMPLETE” BUTTON AND QUIT GREENPOIS0N

STEP 7: YOUR IDEVICE SHOULD SHOW THE LOADER APP ON YOUR HOMEPAGE; TAP TO OPEN IT

STEP 8: USE THE LOADER APPLICATION TO INSTALL CYDIA. ONCE THE DOWNLOAD IS COMPLETE, YOUR IDEVICE WILL RESPRING, AND YOU WILL SEE THE CYDIA APPLICATION ON YOUR HOMEPAGE WHICH MEANS YOU HAVE SUCCESSFULLY JAILBROKEN AND UNTETHERED YOUR IDEVICE ON 4.2.1. **YOU MAY DELETE THE LOADER APP AFTER INSTALLING CYDIA**

ENJOY!

PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS WITH THE GREENPOIS0N RC5 UNTETHERED JAILBREAK:

Problem : I got stuck in “Greenpois0n initialized”, retried, re updated. It remains the same.
Solution : open “terminal”, type SUDO, open Greenpois0n as “Show package contents”, go MacOS folder & drag greenpois0n to terminal & hit enter. / Via iSurenix /
Problem : My iPhone / iPod is showing blank (black) screen after jailbreak, iPhone / iPod is still in DFU mode after applying jailbreak.
Solution : Leave your iDevice for two minutes, now press and hold both power and home button at the same time for 10-15 seconds until your iPhone / iPod boot as normal.
Problem : Greenpois0n loader is crashing when I install Cydia, I am unable to install cydia via greenpois0n loader.
Solution : For those having trouble getting Cydia via the GP Loader, just let redsn0w install it (don’t choose the Monte option) / Via MuscleNerd /

MORE PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS WILL BE ADDED HERE IF THERE WILL BE ANY MORE (HOPEFULLY NOT :\)

UPDATE 1: GREENPOIS0N RC5 2 JUST GOT RELEASED! LINK ADDED.

UPDATE 2: GREENPOIS0N RC5 3 JUST GOT RELEASED FOR MAC! LINK ADDED.

GREENPOISON RC5.2 FOR WINDOWS RELEASED! LINK ADDED.

UPRATE 3: GREENPOIS0N RC5 4 JUST GOT RELEASED FOR MAC AND WINDOWS! LINK ADDED.

UPDATE 4: GREENPOIS0N RC5 6 JUST GOT RELEASED TO JAILBREAK APPLE TV 2ND GEN FOR BOTH WINDOWS AND MAC. LINK ADDED.

UPDATE 5: GREENPOIS0N RC6.1 FOR WINDOWS AND MAC JUST GOT RELEASED. FIX FOR THE IBOOKS BUG INCLUDED! LINK ADDED.

A very simple and sleek iPad home screen setup

admin — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:29:20 +0000

What you’re looking at is a screenshot of my iPad with its new home screen setup. Of course, I’m jailbroken, so I get a lot of cool extra goodies. Full information after the break.First, the lock screen! There’s nothing special here, except for the slide-to-unlock bar has now been extended all the way across the screen. At the moment of writing this post, I don’t have this installed anymore because it’s quite annoying.

The wallpapers are called “Elemental Flow” by Nemed on deviantART. It’s a very simple wallpaper that’s available in both red and blue flavors. They also come in a number of resolutions, including copies for the iPad and iPhone 4. I’m using the “Fire” wallpaper on my home screen, and the “Water” wallpaper on my lock screen. I can swap these whenever I’d like.

The home screen has no icons in the actual page. Everything is kept in the dock, thanks to FolderEnhancer (available in Cydia for a couple of bucks), which really lets you use Folders the way they meant to be. That’s about it. Oh! For the carrier, I didn’t use MakeItMine or any special app. I simply edited the K48AP.plist file located in /System/Library/CoreServices/SpringBoard.app/.

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Jailbreak ALL iDevices (UNTETHERED) with redsn0w 0.9.7b1 for iOS 4.2.1 – READ FIRST!

admin — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 19:09:04 +0000

Earlier today, the iPhone Dev-Team released the first beta of redsn0w 0.9.7 (for Mac OS X). This new beta will allow users to run an untethered jailbreak on ALL iOS devices running iOS 4.2.1. If you don’t know what untethered means, please click here to understand the difference between tethered and untethered. How-to and downloads after the break.

BEGIN IMPORTANT NOTE

This jailbreak is nowhere near complete. Users who plan on trying this on devices that they use daily may want to hold off. Why? There are LOTS of problems with this jailbreak, all of which the Dev-Team should have sorted out within a week or two.

What are the problems, you ask?

Bringing up the multitasking dock results in a respring.
Playing ANY music at all results in a respring or app crash.
Bluetooth is completely disabled.
YouTube app crashing.
Videos aren’t playing.
Chances of having to restore from scratch.
AirPlay doesn’t work.

ALSO! Your SHSH blobs for 4.2b3 will need to be on file in Cydia. If you’re currently jailbroken (hopefully you are), open up Cydia, and make sure you see “4.2b3″ at the top of your screen. If you don’t, then wait for the official jailbreak.

The tethered jailbreak for iOS 4.2.1 has been out for quite some time, and works just fine. If you ABSOLUTELY MUST BOOT UNTETHERED, then go ahead.

So… If you’re a tinkerer and don’t mind missing out on some core functionality and don’t mind restoring and losing all of your data, then go for it.

END IMPORTANT NOTE

You’re going to need to download a couple of things:

Just download the first 2 to your computer. For usbmuxd, you’ll have to do some setting up. Once you get the software installed and running, run ./tcprelay.py -t 22:2222. Run this command before following the actual steps below. You might also need to chmod +x tcprelay.py first (to make it executable).

Once you’ve got everything ready to go, simply:

Open redsn0w 0.9.7b1
Browse for your iOS 4.2.1 IPSW
Check the “Jailbreak Monte (untether)” box, and nothing else (assuming you’re already jailbroken… If you’re not, just check the first box, and when that’s all done, check just the second box).
Follow the on-screen prompts.

That’s about it! You should be in iOS 4.2.1 (untethered). Tired of the bugs? We told you so. Just wait for the final jailbreak to come out, hopefully within the next couple of weeks.

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Enable the Usage menu on iPad and iPod Touch

admin — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 21:28:35 +0000

Apple, for whatever reason, decided that the iPod Touch and iPad shouldn’t get the Usage menu in Settings>General. This is something that’s only available to iPhone users (of course, a jailbreak says otherwise). The Usage menu is useful because it gives you some nifty battery life information. This post will tell you how to easily enable this feature on a jailbroken iPad or iPod Touch.

The Usage menu on an iPad (4.2.1).

First, you’ll need iFile. We’ll be using it to open up a few .plist files so that we can access the usage menu.

BUT, if you’re on an iPad, I went ahead and uploaded the 2 modified .plist files for ease-of-use. Just extract the two .plist files over to /Applications/Preferences.app. DOWNLOAD HERE

General.plist in iFile.

Using iFile, navigate to /Applications/Preferences.app/. Open up General.plist. Look for “USAGE”. Remove the “requiredCompatibilities” for the USAGE area (see the screenshot above).

Usage Statistics.plist in iFile.

Next, open up “Usage Statistics.plist”, also located in Preferences.app (see the screenshot above). Do the same thing for “USAGE_HEADER”, “USAGE_ELAPSED”, and “STANDBY_ELAPSED”.

Finally, open up Settings, go into General, and you should now see the Usage menu. Leave any questions or comments down below if you need help.

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Fix the gsc.wildcat error with FullForce for iPad in Cydia

admin — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 20:40:45 +0000

Many iPad users are having problems with installing FullForce onto their devices in Cydia, where they’ll get some sort of “gsc.wildcat” dependency error. Luckily, I was able to figure out how to get around this (my iPad’s running iOS 4.2.1, jailbroken of course), as I haven’t been able to find any sort of fix online. This fix is VERY easy and VERY quick.

So, open up Cydia on your jailbroken iPad, and install iFile (if you don’t already have it). Next, open iFile, and navigate to /System/Library/CoreServices/SpringBoard.app, and open “K48AP.plist” using iFile’s property list viewer/editor. Look at the screenshot below, and add a new key called “wildcat”, and make it true. Save the file, reboot your device, and try the install again.

There you have it! A quick and simple fix to a problem that oh-so many people seem to be having.

ALSO! Double check to make sure you have the same exact formatting. Failing to do so will make the .plist file useless and your device probably won’t boot (but you should be able to fix it without a restore thanks to afc2 filesystem access). You may also want to try using a property list editor on your computer to make the appropriate changes.

If you’re having problems, post below in the comments area and I’ll try to answer them.

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How to Add Images and Metadata to Windows 7 Media Center Movies

admin — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 14:00:06 +0000

So, you just got a spiffy new Windows 7 PC, and you’re setting up your media libraries. After organizing everything you open Windows 7 Media Center to watch a movie, only to find all your ripped backed up DVDs are missing images and metadata.

The fix is fairly simple, requiring only a few steps and a little time.

Step 1: Each movie file needs to be in it’s own individual folder. This in itself could be very time consuming, thankfully File2Folder Script 1.0 is a simple automated script to do it for you. Download and run the script.

Step 2: Once the folders are set up, you just need the metadata in xml format for each movie. The easiest way would be to go to DVDxml.com and download the file for each title, placing it the corresponding folder. DVDxml.com has a program for their Gold Members that will automate the process for you ($5 to become a Gold Member).

Step 3: Relaunch your Media Center, and enjoy the organization .

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Transfer contacts from Address Book for Mac to Windows Phone 7

admin — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 19:16:20 +0000

If you’ve been disappointed by the lack of synchronization options for Windows Phone 7, you’re in luck, at least in terms of contacts. If you’re on a Mac and use Address Book to store all of your contacts, exporting them and importing them (via the Windows Phone website) is somewhat of a pain, as you can’t export them to a .CSV file. Well, you’re in luck!There’s an application called “Contactizer” (free 30-day unrestricted trial) that lets you export all of your contacts (with all of their information) into a single .CSV file that can be used with windowsphone.live.com.

This is more work than it should be in the first place, but this method works perfectly fine.

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[How-To] Enable AirPrint on 10.6.5 in 1-click

admin — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 14:08:29 +0000

Apple, oddly enough, removed AirPrint from 10.6.5 at the last minute. Nobody knows why, but if you want it back, you can easily “hacktivate” AirPrint with this simple and free tool.

Homepage | Download

Just click on “hacktivate”, and the proper files for AirPrint will be transferred over.

Enjoy!

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Make Your Own Custom Short URL

admin — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 14:00:59 +0000

You may have seen people using a custom short URL before. It’s typically their company or screen name, and usually ends in a two-letter domain (such as .me, .co, .us). For example, the New York Times has nyti.ms and Gizmodo has gizmo.do. I was really interested in having my own, so I did some research.

I think the easiest way to do this is to use bit.ly Pro. Turns out, bit.ly (everyone’s favorite URL shortener) has a service that lets you make your own URL shortener (or more properly, your own short URL.) Your short URL will be a custom prefix, followed by some letters and numbers. To get into bit.ly Pro, you’ll have to apply. This isn’t as bad as it sounds, and you don’t have to be a buisness or have a big website. I mean, if I managed to get in, so can you. You just need to include some information about yourself, what you’re using this for, and a website that you have. Soon enough they’ll send you an email saying you’ve been accepted (hopefully)

I got really excited when I recieved this email, because I wasn’t counting on getting accepted. The next thing to do is set up your custom domain and your tracking domain(s). The custom domain is what your URL shortener will be prefixed with. For example, mine is aeT3.com, because my username is aelandT3. There are a lot of different suffixes you can have. You can even have the suffix be part of your username/website, like Gizmodo does (gizmo.do). I chose .com because it was cheap and it looks nice. Deciding my custom prefix took a long time though, and I reccomend using domai.nr to help you find what you want. Just go there and you’ll see why it’s cool.Once you’ve registered your domain, you’ll have to set it up with bit.ly. This means going to whoever you registered your domain with, and setting up a DNS A record. This will let your domain point to an IP address. In this case bit.ly tells us it wants 168.143.174.97. All companies are different, but you can generally go to your domain settings and click on something that says DNS.

Once you’ve done all that, your custom short domain is set up. The last thing you need to do is set up your ‘Tracking Domain’ as bit.ly calls it. This is probably the website you own that your urls may be pointing to. For me, it’s aelandT3.com. You’ll have to verify that you own the website by completing a short task (described very well by bit.ly on their settings page.) This part didn’t take me too long to figure out.

Once you’re done that, you should be done! Now you can take your API key from bit.ly and start using it in 3rd party services, like TweetDeck or Twitterfeed. Basically, what this whole thing gives you is your own custom prefix to the bit.ly service. For example, aet3.com/bZ86or and bit.ly/bZ86or will take you to the same place. I think this is really cool, especially when I paste a long URL into TweetDeck and, using bit.ly and my API key, it automatically shortens it using my custom domain! Woot!

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Best iPhone lockscreen – Weather Elements v4

admin — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 03:56:38 +0000

What you’re looking at is a very beautiful lockscreen mod called “Weather Elements v4″. It has retina display graphics as well as some really nice animations. It requires WinterBoard and uses HTML.

You can install this by adding the following repo to Cydia: brandon28139.exofire.net/repo/

The weather information comes from the stock Weather application.

Enjoy!

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redsn0w 0.9.6b2 released for Windows & Mac OS X – Jailbreaks all devices, untethered

admin — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 15:11:25 +0000

The iPhone-Dev Team has released redsn0w 0.9.6b2 for both Windows and Mac OS X. It jailbreaks all devices, and is untethered. Information, how-to, and pictures, are all after the break.

DOWNLOAD – WINDOWS | MAC OS X

From the Dev Team’s blog (read it carefully!):

It looks like geohot’s recent limera1n exploit for iPhone3GS/iPhone4/iPad/ipt3g/ipt4g/atv2g will be very beneficial to jailbreakers and unlockers for the next few months (at least). geohot’s limera1n program and the alternative greenpois1on program both use his same exploit (although greenpois0n refuses to tell you that, FWIW), and hopefully SHAtter can be saved for some later device.

In the meantime, we’ve also incorporated the limera1n exploit into redsn0w. But we’ve added a few extras:

custom bootlogos for iPhone3G/iPhone3GS/iPod2G users (with qualifying bootroms)

an option that implements the “DFU” button in PwnageTool. This button (which you can use from Windows) lets you prepare your device for a custom DFU. Even if you’re purely a Windows user, you can get a trusted friend to run PwnageTool over your IPSW to create a custom IPSW. You can now install that custom IPSW on your own Windows box, after you run this redsn0w version.

For Windows users who have run redsn0w and chosen “Just enter pwned DFU mode right now”, your device is now completely vulnerable. Running iTunes and selecting a custom IPSW from PwnageTool (choose it by pressing Shift+Restore)….you’ve now convinced your device and iTunes to restore to a custom firmware. Congratulations!

If you are timid about software and running these programs…please just wait! Don’t jeopardize your carrier unlock for a firmware upgrade. Wait for even easier methods than this latest redsn0w release.

A quick how-to.

The initial redsn0w screen.

Choose your IPSW, and redsn0w will process it.

You can customize your jailbreak a little bit from this screen. A4 devices don't get the option for boot logos, and neither does the 3GS (new bootrom).

You're ready to put your device into DFU mode (the screen after this) to jailbreak.

There are several different jailbreaking tools available (redsn0w, sn0wbreeze, PwnageTool, limera1n, greenpois0n). They all will jailbreak your device just fine, but which should you use? We’ve had great success with limera1n. PwnageTool and sn0wbreeze are great alternatives if you really want to get down and dirty with your jailbreak.

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Enable HD video recording for iPhone 3GS

admin — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 00:36:56 +0000

If you own a jailbroken iPhone 3GS, then you can now enable HD video recording! Follow the simple instructions below to do it.

Instructions

Download this file.
Transfer N88AP.plist from the ZIP over to /System/Library/CoreServices/SpringBoard.app/.
Copy the 3 remaining .plist files from the ZIP over to /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Celestial.framework/N88/.
Reboot.

Watch the video above to see what it looks like. The results are quite good! It just went from 640×480 (3Mbps) to 1280×800 (30Mbps).

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PwnageTool 4.1.2 released – Jailbreak iOS 4.1 (and 3.2.2) for all devices (including Apple TV)

admin — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:24:43 +0000

The main PwnageTool screen.

The iPhone-Dev Team has finally released PwnageTool 4.1.1, and Mac OS X application which lets users create their own customized IPSW file for jailbreaking and unlocking purposes. What’s cool about this latest version is that it jailbreaks a number of different devices that are running iOS 4.1. It also jailbreaks the iPad running iOS 3.2.2, and even the latest Apple TV. Download links and a how-to are after the break!

The credits screen.

As quoted on their official release post:

Through a combination of the recently released geohot limera1n exploit , @comex’s recently released pf kernel exploit, and our original pwnage2 exploit, PwnageTool 4.1 works untethered on these devices at firmware 4.1:

AppleTV 2G

iPad (firmware 3.2.2)

iPod touch 4G

iPod touch 3G

iPhone4

iPhone 3GS

iPhone 3G

PwnageTool allows you to restore to a custom IPSW file. For instance, you can restore to a pre-jailbroken firmware while simultaneously maintaining your current baseband (and thus your ultrasn0w carrier unlock). You can also add whatever packages you want in the “Expert” mode of PwnageTool, if you wish to pre-install Cydia packages. iPhone 3G users get the additional benefit of selecting their own boot and recovery logos, and features like multitasking and battery charge percentage.

PwnageTool’s main advantage to ramdisk-based methods (limera1n, greenpois0n, redsn0w) is for unlockers — those that need to keep their current baseband and preserve their ultrasn0w unlock. But in this new age of both bootrom- and userland-based exploits, it’s an excellent platform for continuing the jailbreak through all future firmwares. More on this later!

AppleTV 2G users: Welcome to the JB family! Right now, about all you can do is command-line stuff via ssh. You also have afc2 available, so you can use tools like ifunbox to move files around. These are the *very* early days of AppleTV 2G jailbreaking, so it’ll take some time for JB app developers to come up with methods to use your AppleTV 2G from the remote, versus the command line. PS: Your ssh password is “alpine”…please change it when you can

Expert mode: By popular demand, the IPSW file selection in Expert mode is now completely manual (doesn’t use Spotlight). Just pick your IPSW file directly instead of waiting for the Spotlight search to complete. In Expert mode, the default is to hacktivate (“Activate the iPhone”), so if you have a legit SIM card be sure to deselect that option in Expert mode.

DFU button: That “DFU” button in PwnageTool is more than it looks like. It guides you through the DFU process, but then also runs the appropriate exploit to convince your device and iTunes that all is legit. The DFU button in PwnageTool is not just your average DFU.

Hopefully what they’ve already given us is enough to give you a feel of what PwnageTool does (please read through it a few times!). So now, onto the how-to, but keep in mind that this jailbreak requires a RESTORE of the device, so everything that’s currently on it will be erased. And after the restore is done, it’s best to setup your device as a new device, instead of restoring from a backup. You may want to look into using limera1n and/or greenpois0n, as they both are able to jailbreak on-the-fly. PwnageTool is for experienced jailbreakers who knows what they’re doing.

DOWNLOAD PwnageTool_4.1.2.dmg NOW

Please refer to the image gallery below for step-by-step instructions. We find this to be more effective, rather than just listing all of the steps.

Step 15 would be to alt/option+click on the Restore button, find the custom IPSW file, and to let iTunes restore to it.

The entire IPSW creation process took 3.5 minutes on our 2009 MacBook Pro with a 2.66GHz Core 2 Duo, 8GB RAM, and a 64GB SSD.

That’s it! PwnageTool is more “hard-core” than limera1n/greenpois0n/blackra1n/redsn0w/QuickPWN.

Leave any questions down below!

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How to replace the Droid Eris’ broken screen/digitizer

admin — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:00:32 +0000

Things you will need:

A spudger or 2
A teeny tiny phillips screwdriver
A teeny tiny torx screw driver
The broken phone
Krazy glue
A new screen/digitizer
Patience .

Shut phone off, remove battery cover and take out battery. Remove the 4 T5 screws in each of the corners then separate the back cover. Remove the 4 philips screws from the board.

There are 3 ribbon cables, one on the right side on top of the main board, the second is in between the main board and the copper covering and the third connects the LCD to the main board. GENTLY detach the ribbons (I removed the copper plate to get to one, it’s easier that way).

Once all screws and ribbons removed, take your spudger and slowly peel back the LCD (its stuck with double sided tape.)

Remove all the broken glass from the frame. I covered mine in packing tape so the shards don’t go everywhere, a screen protector would be best for this.

After all the glass has been removed, clean off the double sided tape from the frame. You can carefully use goo gone, I just scraped it off.

Almost there! Now take the krazy glue, and apply it neatly to the frame (in small amounts) where the double sided tape was. Using too much will get it all over the frame and new glass, and that stuff is permanent. Gently and carefully lay your new screen on the frame, be sure to feed the ribbon through the hole (you may want to do that before using the glue). Let dry 3-5 minutes. Follow all the dis-assembly steps in reverse order, and Voila! good as new

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How to jailbreak iPhone 3GS/4, iPod Touch 3G/4G, iPad (4.0/4.0.1/4.0.2/4.1) – limera1n by geohot

admin — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 22:26:44 +0000

So earlier today, geohot released his limera1n jailbreak. It’s like a mix of blackra1n and redsn0w. It’s an on-the-fly jailbreak, which means you don’t have to restore your device to a custom IPSW file. It does require you to manually put your device into DFU mode, which is easy and is straightforward. It takes about 5 minutes (from start to finish) to complete, primarily because of the reboots. This jailbreak is made by geohot, and is sort of a mix between blackra1n and redsn0w (it’s 1-click to get it started, but you need to go into DFU mode which is explained in limera1n). Full instructions and links after the break!

I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE THAT MAY BE DONE TO YOUR DEVICE. DON’T CLOSE THIS TAB JUST YET – THIS JAILBREAK IS SAFE AND I CAN CONFIRM THAT IT WORKS JUST FINE!

limera1n itself next to limera1n's icon

DOWNLOAD LIMERA1N HERE (CURRENTLY WINDOWS ONLY) | MORE INFORMATION HERE

*Check out the instructional video at the bottom of the post if you’d like to see how this is actually done.

Limera1n is compatible for the following devices:

iPhone 3GS (4.0/4.0.1/4.0.2/4.1) – OLD & NEW BOOTROM
iPhone 4 (4.0/4.0.1/4.0.2/4.1)
iPod Touch 3G (4.0/4.1)
iPod Touch 4G (4.1)
iPad (3.2/3.2.1/3.2.2)

It does NOT work for these devices:

iPhone 2G (use jailbreakme.com if on 3.1.2/3.1.3)
iPhone 3G (use redsn0w 0.9.6b1)
iPod Touch 2G (non-MC, use redsn0w)

This is also an untethered jailbreak thanks to comex. Now, onto the instructions!

How-to

After downloading and opening limera1n, click on “make it ra1n”.
Follow the prompts to put your device into DFU mode. If you messup, simply close limera1n, restart your device, and try again.
After the jailbreak process is complete, you’ll have to manually turn your device on.
After a few reboots, you should see a new “limera1n” app on your homescreen. Open this.
Install Cydia.

That’s it! It takes maybe 4 minutes (because of the abnormally long reboots) to complete. I’ve done this on my iPhone 4 running a brand new install of iOS 4.1, and it all works just fine!

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limera1n + cydia =

CineXPlayer – Playing .avi on iOS

admin — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 19:59:28 +0000

While watching videos on the go is great with an iOS device, compatibility is pretty limited. To watch a video with nice quality you have to go through iTunes and download a video or convert a video. Recently Apple eased up on the restrictions which has led into a lot of apps being submitted that would’ve been kicked out before.

Today CineXPlayer was released for the iPhone and iPod Touch (already out for the iPad) which opens up .avi to the iOS world. If you have any .avi files laying around I suggest getting the app. It’s a real easy set up and goes for $1.99 on the app store. If you don’t want to pay for this you might be able to wait out until the VLC player comes out for the iPhone. VLC is currently free for iPad users.

You simply scroll down to the bottom of your apps tab from your device menu then choose the file to be added. You’re now squared off and just have to head over to the CineXPlayer on your device and play away. Enjoy your movies.

I’m new to the site so forgive me on my first few entries.

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How to overclock your MacBook Pro’s video card (ie. 9600M GT)

admin — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 01:03:06 +0000

Being the geek that I am, I like to push my hardware to the limit. One way of doing that (when it comes to computers) is to overclock. You can overclock 3 different pieces of hardware: CPU, RAM, GPU. Overclocking a video card (GPU) is the easiest of the bunch, and that’s what I’ll explain how to do using 3 pieces of free software (actually, just 1 piece of software, but the other 2 provide some useful information and benchmarking tools).

Please be advised that I am not responsible for any damages that may occur to your computer. Although the risk of something going wrong is very low, you never know, so do this at your own risk!

For this post, I’ll be overclocking my MacBook Pro’s 9600M GT (256MB of dedicated RAM). The stock speeds are:

Core: 500MHz
Memory: 792MHz
Shader: 1250MHz

I’ll be overclocking the 9600M GT to the following speeds:

Core: 625MHz (additional 125MHz)
Memory: 825MHz (additional 33MHz)
Shader: 1573MHz (additional 323MHz)

I don’t know a whole lot about the different types of clock speeds, but the higher the numbers, the better something will perform, until it bursts into flames for being too hot, which brings me to one thing you’ll need to be concerned about: TEMPERATURES!

The MacBook Pro is really thin, and because of that, there isn’t enough room for a bigger heatsink and/or fan. So, you’ll really need to pay attention to your temperatures. More will be explained later. But basically, my 9600M GT runs at around 93C when doing something, such as playing a game. When overclocked to the above speeds, I reached about 102C.

So what do you need?

MSI Afterburner
MSI Kombustor (comes included with the Afterburner download)
GPU-Z

Oh yeah! You’ll need Windows to do this. So if you’re one of those anti-Windows Apple fanboys, you should go away.

After you download these three things, go ahead and install Afterburner, and then Kombustor. Finally, you can extract GPU-Z from its archive and place it on your desktop.

Go ahead and run MSI Afterburner. The interface is simple and straightforward. On the right side, you’ll get some graphs so that you can monitor all of your clock speeds and temperatures. The middle section is where you’ll be doing all of the tweaking. Adjust the numbers to whatever you’d like. I used the above speeds as a basis on where to start, and I think that it is a good place to end because of the temperature issue.

An overview of all 3 programs.

If you aren’t sure that you actual overclock worked, you can simply look at the graphs for the clock speeds to see that they’ve changed. You can also look at GPU-Z to see if your clock speeds have changed. It may take GPU-Z around 3 seconds to register the overclock.

You can now run Kombustor (or any other benchmarking application, or a game) to test out your new speeds to see how much of an impact that they have made. It’s best to do a before and after comparison.

In my little benchmarking, I ran the benchmark at 1280×1024 in DX10 benchmarking mode with a time of 10000ms (10 seconds). I was able to get 31-32FPS with the stock speeds, and 37-39FPS using my overclocked speeds. The performance increase is obvious and somewhat of a big one, but, once again, those temperatures are keeping me from running at these speeds for long periods of time.

So that’s it! You’ve now overclocked your MacBook Pro’s video card. Again, the high temperatures may become an issue should you decide to live with the higher clock speeds for quite some time. I personally have reverted back to the original clock speeds, as the performance advantage is just minimal, but this is overall a nice experiment to try.

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Awesome Browser Extensions for Facebook

admin — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 14:00:48 +0000

If you enjoy ‘liking’ things on Facebook, then this is for you. There are of course websites that let you like certain things, and like buttons that let you like articles pages or articles, but if you want to like any website, you can get this extension.For Chrome, there is and extension called Facebook Likes. In Firefox, it’s just Facebook Like. I couldn’t find one for Safari, but I’m sure there is one coming. Safari has only been open to extensions for a couple of months. If you are less optimistic, and want more options to express your mood, you can get extensions that add a dislike button to Facebook. There is most likely one of these for any browser you use.

It’s a very popular idea. Also available is an I don’t care button, but I prefer the dislike. If you’re feeling silly, check out the Lick Facebook extension for Chrome (I couldn’t find this one on Firefox or Safari.) This extension does what you think it does (yes, it turns the like button into a lick button) It doesn’t work everywhere, but it’s funny where you see it.

Another useful one to have is an ad-blocker. If you like having things neat and clean, this is great because it de-clutters your Facebook page. It should work on any page, including news feeds, profiles, etc. I found one of these for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. There is a Chrome extension I have that does one better though. It’s called Facebook Cleaner, and it removes the suggestions of pages to like box, ads, and the connect with friends box. It’s good for super neat freaks, like me. Another popular one that works in most browsers is Facebook photo zoom, which enlarges an image when you mouse over it. This is a really handy thing to have when you’re looking at a photo album and you don’t want to click on every single photo.

Finally, all three browsers that I mentioned have an extension called Better Facebook. This improves Facebook in many ways, allowing you to customize the site to your liking.

I hope you found these little extensions useful. I sure do. Of course, all of these are free, and you can find them in their respective browser’s extension gallery:

Just typing in ‘Facebook’ in one of these galleries brings up a bunch of good extensions that you can try. Obviously not all the extensions have a version for each browser. You probably already have a couple different browsers, and if you don’t, you should. They all have their strengths. Remember, having a lot of add-ons can slow your browser down (especially if they are big or badly written.) So enjoy, and only take what you need.

[sn0wbreeze 2.0] Jailbreak iOS 3.1.x/4.0.x/4.1 for iPhone 2G/3G/3GS (old bootrom), iPT1G/2G (non-MC)

admin — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 03:39:47 +0000

Earlier tonight, ih8sn0w has updated his line of jailbreaking application, including sn0wbreeze, which has been updated to version 2.0 which supports various iOS 4.0 firmwares. All information and a quick how-to guide are all after the break.

DOWNLOAD: CLICK ME (sn0wbreeze is Windows only – You’ll want PwnageTool if you’re on Mac OS X)

SN0WBREEZE 2.0 IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH THE IPHONE 4!

If you’ve ever heard of PwnageTool, this is basically the Windows equivalent of that app (although they are made by 2 different developers).

sn0wbreeze 2.0 is compatible with the following firmwares:

3.1.2
3.1.3
4.0.0
4.0.1
4.0.2
4.1

sn0wbreeze 2.0 is compatible with the following devices:

iPhone 2G (3.1.2 or 3.1.3 only, for obvious reasons)
iPhone 3G
iPhone 3GS (old bootrom)
iPod Touch 1G
iPod Touch 2G (non-MC)

Basically, sn0wbreeze takes in a stock compatible IPSW file, and mingles with it to create a customized IPSW that is jailbroken for a specific devices and firmware. You can then restore to this custom IPSW file in iTunes. This is considered an “advanced” jailbreak method, but works fine.

Enjoy! Post your success (or your failures, should you have any) down below in the comments.

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[How-To] Fix iTunes error 3194

admin — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 02:57:51 +0000

iTunes error 3194 seems to be quite common nowadays, since Apple has closed the whole signing thing for firmwares. Earlier tonight, ih8sn0w released a new version of iREB which gets past this error for the iPhone 3G and iPod Touch 2G (non-MC). Basically, 3194 means that your SHSH blobs were not backed up (it turns out that even the 3G and iPod Touch 2G needs these for iOS 4.x). Instructions after the jump.

Download: CLICK ME (currently Windows only)

This is a very simple and straightforward process. Simply click on the big “Online Mode” button (with your iPhone 3G or non-MC iPod Touch 2G plugged in), and follow the instructions.

Enjoy! Post your success (or failure, should that happen) down below.

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[HOW TO] Add a panoramic view to your iPhone’s Homescreen

admin — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:00:41 +0000

Panorama is a nice little paid tweak from Cydia, so you need a jailbroken device for this.

What Panorama does is give you the ability to have panoramic Homescreen wallpaper, ie: the wallpaper will scroll along as you move through pages (kind of like the Zune HD).

The scroll sensitivity can be set as desired, so you can have the wallpaper move significantly or just a bit when you flick through your homescreen icons. Panorama has other nice features like changing the transparency of the dock, icons and icon labels, etc…
This tweak has no icon. You can find it in the Settings.app.

To make it work, you need a wallpaper image of size 2MB or greater (so that it spreads over a few Homescreen pages). I use google images and click option ‘Larger than..2MB’ on the left. Save the image you like to photo library on your device.

Now go to Settings.app, scroll down to Panorama and tap Photo library to choose your wallpaper (again, larger than 2MP). Also make sure Enabled is ON.

There you have it. A wallaper that moves as you move through pages!

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Change cache directory for Chrome (Windows, Linux, Mac)

admin — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 17:27:22 +0000

Ever since I’ve been using my SSD in my MacBook Pro (the hard drive that was in it is still there, I just had to take the optical drive out and replace it with a caddy so that I can use my SSD and the HDD in the same laptop), I’ve been looking for ways to keep the overall life expectancy as high as possible. Once simple way of doing this is by moving the cache directory for your browser off of the SSD and somewhere else. This post will teach you how to do this for Chrome in Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.

One major reason in doing this (for SSD users) is to keep from having thousands and thousands of reads/writes being done while you browse the Internet. If you’ve been browsing the web for an hour or two, or haven’t cleared out your cache in a long time, maybe you should check out all of the files that have been written to your cache directories.

Mac & Linux

First, I’ll start with Mac & Linux. There are a few ways of changing your cache directory for Chrome:

Running Chrome through the command line with “–user-data-dir=”NEW_LOCATION”” – This is just a temporary solution, and Chrome will have to be run like this every time you want Chrome to use this new directory.
Make a symbolic link – Think of these are shortcuts that are targeted towards another directory.

We’ll be talking about number 2. It’s very easy and straightforward.

Open Terminal.
Run “ln -s TARGET_DIRECTORY NAMEOFSYMLINK” – Replace TARGET_DIRECTORY with where you’d like your new cache to be stored. Replace NAMEOFSYMLINK with the name of the symlink file, which should be Cache.
There should be a symlink in your home directory. Move this file to where Chrome’s current cache directory is located. For Mac OS X, it’ll be in “~/Library/Caches/Google/Chrome/Default“. I’m not sure where it’s located in Linux, but you can find it if you browse around a little bit. You’ll also need to delete the “Cache” directory that’s already there.

So there you have it. You’ve successfully changed the location of Chrome’s cache in Mac OS X and/or Linux.

Windows

Doing this in Windows is basically the same thing. We’ll be using a freeware command-line based application called “Junction” to create symlinks for Windows to use. Since Windows 2000, Windows has supported symlinks but there weren’t any tools used to create them, so that’s where “Junction” comes into play.

Download “Junction” here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896768.aspx
Extract “junction.exe” to your desktop.
Open Command Prompt.
Run cd Desktop.
Run junction OLD_DIRECTORY NEW_DIRECTORY. Refer to the below image on what directories you should put.

Junction in Command Prompt

Chrome's cache being populated in my new target directory

So there you [also] have it. You’ve just used a simple program called “Junction” to create a symlink in Windows.

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How to sync your Android with iTunes

admin — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 14:00:14 +0000

If you’re like me and have switched (or are considering switching) from an iDevice to an Android, you may be wondering what happen to your precious iTunes music. Do you just give up on it? How do you get it on the sparkly new Android toy? Do you have to drag and drop each individual file?

No, easily, and no!

Lucky you, I dove head first into my Android powered Captivate and found the easiest solutions! The 2 easiest are using DoubleTwist or The Missing Sync.

How much are they, you may be asking? DoubleTwist is free, and The Missing Sync is $39.95. We will start with DoubleTwist.

DoubleTwist looks like iTunes (at least on my Mac, I haven’t tried the PC version), and functions just about the same. Your device will show up in the sidebar, and when you select it you are presented with syncing options. You can even sync your iTunes play-lists! There is the ability to sync photos, but I couldn’t get it to work for mine a few versions ago and have since given up. Another plus to DouleTwist? You can sync “any” device. iDevices, Blackberries, WinMo, Palm, and of course Android Another thing that makes it work great is that they have a free android app to play your music and play-lists from. And finally, similar to iTunes, you can browse the Android market from your computer. You can’t purchase them on the computer, but you can scan the QR code that comes up with each app. I think it’s quite nice. For free software, I give it 4 stars.

Now on the The Missing Sync.

That’s a shot of both the Mac OSX and the PC version. Again, I’m not sure if the steps vary for the PC side, I am covering the Mac version. The Missing Sync is pretty straight forward. Double click an item to open the options, and select what you want to sync.

Example: Double click “Photos” and you can sync your iPhoto Library. Just put a check mark for the Albums or Events (or both) that you want to sync, do the same for any other items you wish to sync (music, ringtones, etc), hit the “Sync Media” button, and TA-DA! Just like that your phone is all set to go. The only thing I can’t get to work is syncing my SMS messages via USB. I give it 4.5 stars.

Personally, I use The Missing Sync. If I had a chance to do it over, I would have saved the $40 and used DoubleTwist.

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Access Your iTunes Music From Anywhere

admin — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:00:55 +0000

If you’re like me, you know that migrating your iTunes library from computer to computer is a pain. I’ve had to do this twice, and trust me it is not fun.

Recently I found an easier way than transferring files with a flash drive or hard drive. This comes courtesy of Dropbox, an online file syncing service. If you haven’t heard of Dropbox, I reccomend checking it out. You can get 2 GB online storage for free, or pay to have more. Anyway, Dropbox is useful for more things than it says it is. There are numerous uses for the service that people have figured out, including downloading files remotely, syncing passwords between computers, and publishing websites for free (a trick which I use for my own website.) But I am here to tell you that you can easily sync your iTunes music (or any music, for that matter) to Dropbox and have it accessable from many computers.

Once you have made an account and downloaded the program for your computer, you can start putting files into you Dropbox folder and they will appear online. You can just drag in your music folders, and it will start syncing to the cloud. If you’re syncing from iTunes, close the application before starting. When it’s syncing you should notice the little Dropbox icon in the system tray or menu bar indicate that it’s uploading files. You can click on it for stats and estimated time remaining. If you have a lot of files, it will obviously take a while.

Once you’re done, you can enjoy the benefits of having music wherever you go. Although you have to download Dropbox add files to it, you do not have to download anything to access them. Just go to Dropbox.com on any computer, sign in, and there’s your stuff. Personally, I don’t have my entire library uploaded, because that would take a long time and there are of course storage constraints for a free user. I just keep 1 or 2 ablums there that I like to listen to. Having music on Dropbox is really useful to me because in my computer science class, we can’t listen to music on iPods. So, I just log in to Dropbox on that computer and listen to music that way. When you click on a track, it brings up a web interface for playing it, so you don’t have to download it either.

As mentioned earlier, this can also be used to migrate your music library from one computer to another. I have not had a chance to try this yet, but the next time I need to migrate my music I definitely will. This is also useful for sharing music, say, in your house, or between colleagues. Plus there are Dropbox apps for Android, Blackberry, iPhone, and iPad. In short, this service is a no-brainer for accessing music from different places.

How to Root Your Captivate in 4 Easy Steps

admin — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:00:39 +0000

DISCLAIMER: Neither I, the guys behind the method, nor anyone else are responsible or liable for any broken/bricked/messed-up-in-any-other-way phones. If you choose to follow this method, you do so at your own risk.

I personally just used this method to root my Captivate, and it is perfect. This is the easiest method I have found, with the most features packed in. How To instrustions after the break.

Includes:
Root SuperUser 2.3.6.1
Busybox 1.17.1
MobileAP
Tethering
SideLoading Apps
Ad Blocking w/hosts file
Market Access (removes AT&T market restrictions and branding)
Shows Battery With %1-100
Extra Live Wallpapers
And some other stuff

So, I’m just gonna post the basics and only posing the download I use. If you have issues or want more detail and download options then hit the source link HERE

1.) Download the needed file HERE, when the download is finished rename it to “update.zip”. Without the quotation marks of course.

2.) Copy the file to the root of your built in sd card.

3.) Reboot into recovery mode. To do this, you hold down the volume up and down rocker while powering on (release the volume keys when the recovery screen comes up).

You should get something like this

4.) Select reinstall packages and let it do it’s thing. (Mine was at the Galaxy S screen for about 2 minutes while rebooting, so don’t freak out and don’t touch it while it reboots)

That’s it, you should now have root!

And in case you missed it, issues, questions, and more info HERE at the developers post.

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How to turn off / remove iTunes Ping

admin — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 06:52:19 +0000

Personally, I find iTunes Ping to be an utterly useless “social network”. So, if you’ve found yourself scratching your head as to how to close your iTunes Ping account, then this post is for you.

DEACTIVATING iTUNES PING

If you’re ready to close your iTunes Ping account for good, simply follow the below steps.

1) First, click on “iTunes Store” in the left sidebar, and click on “Account” in the right sidebar.

2) Next, click on the “Turn Off” button under the iTunes Ping section.

3) You’ll then get a confirmation popup. Click on “Turn Off”.

That’s it! iTunes Ping is now officially off, and all of your Ping remnants will be permanently deleted in about 7 days.

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[How-To] Host Hacked MW2 Servers (PC) – 1.0.195 Compatible

admin — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 01:36:00 +0000

There are more and more people who are hosting hacked servers. There are tons of positives as to playing on one. The more people who host one, the more people who can enjoy Modern Warfare 2 more. This has all been tested with the latest version of Modern Warfare 2 (1.0.195).

Hosting your own hacked servers is quite easy. Just follow the rest of the instructions and you’ll be set.

Worried about getting banned? I wouldn’t. Fewer people are being banned. It seems that IW doesn’t exactly care about hackers, as more and more people are doing it everyday.

Downloads

Instructions

Extract the downloaded files.
Run LoaderX.exe.
Click on Auto Inject.
Run VAC_Chaos.exe.
Click on Load Game.
Wait for Modern Warfare 2 to load.
Make your game windowed (ALT+Enter).
Press F2 to bring up the console.
Play around with the commands in the Console Commands.txt file in the Shortcuts + Commands folder.
Enjoy.

You can also use littleservertool.exe to do some other cool things while playing and hosting, such as changing a user’s name, teleporting players, flying, and so on.

A command that I forgot to list in the commands text file is “kick”. You can kick everyone at once with “kick all”, or kick a single player with “kick PLAYERNAME REASON”.

Enjoy!

Modern Warfare 2 (PC) Aimbot + ESP + Wallhack (1.0.195/LATEST)

admin — Fri, 07 May 2010 17:00:32 +0000

Last updated: 5/7/2010

Hacking in a multiplayer first person shooter is a very controversial subject. Hell, hacking in any game is pretty debatable. But, to me, who really cares? They’re just video games, and more and more people are hacking in video games, more specifically, Modern Warfare 2 for PC.

This post will quickly tell you how to use a free and safe aimbot + ESP + wallhack hack that works on the latest version of the game (1.0.195). Thousands upon thousands of players use this, and so far, it is safe (nobody has been banned from this). IF YOU GET BANNED, DO NOT BLAME ME. Just for the curious, the only known way of getting banned from this game is to use the rank hack to change your level, prestige, and stats. Full post after the jump.

Below is basically a “how-to” video on how to use the hack. It’s totally safe, and contains no virus/spyware/trojan/etc. Although your antivirus may pick it up as something bad (people seriously use antivirus?), it’s just because it has to inject unverified code into a program.

** INSTRUCTIONS **
1) Go here: http://bit.ly/4B0Iu7
2) Choose a mirror.
3) Download to your desktop.
4) Open the file.
5) Extract the .exe & .dll wherever you want.
6) Delete the .zip (optional).
7) Run ‘RenameMe.exe’.
Run the game (multiplayer).

** ONCE IN-GAME **
1) Press the right-arrow (or Insert) key to bring up the settings for the hack.
2) Only change ‘Activation’ and ‘Bone’.
3) Just highlight what you want and it’s activated.
4) Use the left-arrow key to go back a menu.

It’s that simple. Refer to that video’s description if you need more help.

Comments for this post have been disabled. Again, refer to the video’s description above for more assistance.

Downgrade iPhone OS 4.0 to 3.1.3 or 3.1.2

admin — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 00:59:44 +0000

If you’d like to downgrade to iPhone OS 3.1.3 (or 3.1.2) from 4.0 (for whatever reason), then you’re in the right spot. If you’ve tried it yourself, you’ll probably get an error at the end of the downgrade/restore process.

It’s very easy to conquer. Download iRecovery (Windows | Mac). If you’re on Windows, you’ll need to install libusb.

*** IF YOU’RE ON WINDOWS VISTA/7 ***

You MUST run the libusb installer with Windows XP (Service Pack 2) compatibility mode (as well as running it as Administrator), or, upon restart, everything will just stop working on you.

*** IF YOU’RE ON WINDOWS VISTA/7 ***

After you’ve tried restoring and have gotten an error at the end of the restore process in iTunes, open up Terminal/Command Prompt and run iRecovery with -s (if you’re on Windows, you can also run iRecovery from the run box (Winkey+R), drag the file into the box, and add -s to the end). Next, run the following commands:

setenv auto-boot true

saveenv

/exit

Do a hard reboot of your device (power+home for ~10 seconds), and it should boot into 3.1.2 or 3.1.3.

Decrypt & Browse the iPhone OS 4.0 File System [Win + Mac + Lin]

admin — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:38:12 +0000

Decrypting and browsing the file system for iPhone OS 4.0 is very easy, and can be done on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

First, you’ll need a copy of VFDECRYPT: Windows | Mac OS X | Linux

Next, you’ll need the decryption keys.

iPhone 3G

0da2d3316d5ee7cd1858e4035e451387cd8156e97535fb09028859e68e5b7b39a6649552

iPhone 3GS

62ea9bf9971e6c410231646f916f80330f9cbc1d1c585f0c03dab6b6f7158dc0a9c5efaf

iPod Touch 2G

d88fa434f6a8c50fd49cd0923879da5c3079c59c0e534cff521a9cecbcad48d84b4daef0

iPod Touch 3G


382dee11b9d80387b16ac2030ee1e903b78d9743a31a18bcafc922b7921eca85ab0aebf7

Next, you’ll need to run the following command if you’re on Mac OS X or Linux:

./vfdecrypt -i  -o decrypted_fs.dmg -k

If you’re on Windows, run this:

vfdecrypt.exe -i  -o decrypted_fs.dmg -k

Replace with the big extracted DMG from the IPSW. Replace with the appropriate decryption key.

Running that command will spit out the decrypted DMG, which you can then mount and browse.

A lot of people have been wondering how to re-encrypt/re-compile the DMG file to put it back inside of the IPSW file. Well, you can’t easily do it. There are a lot of checks that iTunes have to conduct beforehand. The only tools that are able to modify and recompile the DMG/IPSW is PwnageTool and sn0wbreeze. Unless you know how those 2 tools work, you won’t be able to manually do this yourself. Also, those tools don’t support 4.0 beta, so don’t even bother.

Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 for iPhone – Real Soundtrack Transformation

admin — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 20:55:17 +0000

Today, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 for the iPhone and iPod Touch was released. It’s a near perfect port of the original game that was released back in 2000 (that’s 10 years ago). There’s only one real (and obvious) problem with the iPhone version: Not the original soundtrack. We sought out to fix this by implementing the original soundtrack. Full information and soundtrack download after the jump.

Before you continue reading, you must be jailbroken. If you aren’t, then you might as well go somewhere else. Why do you need to be jailbroken? You need to be able to access the already installed game directly on your device, or you need to be able to install modified IPA files (AppSync/installd patch).

So the below download includes all 15 songs from the soundtrack, but only the first 9 will be able to be played in the game (Song00.mp3 – Song08.mp3 will work, Song09.mp3-Song14.mp3 do not – it’s just the way the game was programmed – this isn’t something that can be changed without having the source files).

The music from the intro video has also been swapped out with real Rage Against the Machine song (was edited and re-rendered).

DOWNLOAD

Just transfer all the files from the ZIP archive to the location of the game on your device (/var/mobile/Applications/{weird_string}/THPS2.app/).

So enjoy. If you like these songs, buy them.

[How-To] Windows Phone 7 Series Emulator

admin — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 00:45:51 +0000

Want to check out Windows Phone 7 Series before it hits the stores? Instructions on how to run the emulator (with all of the applications unlocked) are after the jump.

There are 4 things that you need to download. It’s quite a bit of downloading, but you need all of it for any of this to even work.

Once all 4 things are downloaded, install the first 3, and extract the hacked ROM to your desktop. Rename this ROM to “WM70C1.bin”. Head over to C:\Program Files (or x86)\Microsoft SDKs\WindowsPhone\v7.0\Emulation\Images, and rename the “WM70C1.bin” to “WM70C1.bak.bin”. Take the one on your desktop and move it to the Images folder.

Next, start “Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone”, make a new project, then start the simulator.

- Enjoy!

Twitterrific Easter Eggs

admin — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 23:02:39 +0000

Most of Icon Factory’s apps have some sort of easter eggs in them. Twitterrific is definitely one of them.

CHOCKLOCK

The first one involves you making a new tweet in ALL CAPS, and ending the tweet with CHOCKLOCK (no punctuation at the end). When you post the Tweet, you should hear a spoken voice that had said “CHOCKLOCK” in the background. You’ll also have a new toggle under Settings>Advanced. When enabled, all tweets you make and/or view will be in caps.

TWOOSH!

The second one is a little neater. When you make your tweet, someone will say “TWOOSH” in the background and a nice image will pop up. To do this one, make your tweet EXACTLY 140 characters. ALSO: make sure you include the word Twitterrific somewhere in your tweet with a capital T.

Enjoy these .

[How-To] Run Windows 3.1 or Windows 95 on iPhone/iTouch

admin — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:36:30 +0000

Not only will you be able to run Windows 95, but also Windows 3.1. The whole emulator uses the Bochs cross platform IA-32 emulator. It was ported over to the iPhone by the guys over at GooDiPhone.com. Be advised that the emulator is quite slow. While Windows 3.1 will boot up considerably faster than Windows 95 (and is faster than Windows 95), it is also rather slow. Wanna try it out? Let’s get started!

You’ll need a few things before hand:

A jailbroken iPhone/iPod Touch.
MobileTerminal installed on the device.
A copy of “bochs.deb”, which you can download from the following mirrors:

MultiUpload (Direct)

Once you have those things, follow these instructions:

Transfer “bochs.deb” to /private/var/mobile.
Run MobileTerminal on your iPhone.
Type in the following:
su
alpine
dpkg -i bochs.deb
It will then install everything for you. Do this command to exit out of Terminal:
killall Terminal
Do a respring and you should notice “Bochs” on your homescreen. Start it up.

Enjoy Windows 3.1 & Windows 95 on your iPhone or iPod Touch, despite how slow it may be!

Downgrade & Jailbreak a 3.1.3 iPod Touch 2G “MC-Model” to 3.1.2 [UPDATED 5-2-2010-]

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:59:28 +0000

HUGE UPDATE [5-2-2010]!

THE SPIRIT JAILBREAK HAS BEEN RELEASED – IT’S JUST LIKE BLACKRA1N, BUT IT’S AN UNTETHERED JAILBREAK FOR ALL DEVICES – CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION!

UPDATED ON 3-20-2010 — GO TO THE BOTTOM.

A lot of people seem to believe that a iPod Touch 2G with a MC-model seems to be impossible to jailbreak. Well, I just did, and it’s very simple. Steps after the jump.

Follow me on Twitter (if you’d like): http://twitter.com/gumballtech

It basically works like this: Downgrade from 3.1.3 to 3.1.2, and run redsn0w 0.9.2 twice to jailbreak it.

To downgrade, download the iPod Touch 2G 3.1.2 firmware from here (the file name is iPod2,1_3.1.2_7D11_Restore.ipsw). Next, shift-click (Windows) or alt+click (Mac OS X) on the “Restore” button in iTunes, and point to that IPSW file you just downloaded. The restore process should begin. If you run into any problems or errors, leave it in the comments. You’ll need this IPSW all the time, so don’t delete it.

Once you’ve successfully restored and downgraded, download redsn0w 0.9.2 (Windows | Mac). Once downloaded, run redsn0w from the ZIP. Click on the “Browse” button, and choose the IPSW file that you downloaded earlier. A popup will come up, asking you whether or not your iPod Touch 2G is a “MC-Model” device. Click on “Yes”, then the “Next” button. It will begin to do some fancy stuff. The next screen should have 2 checkboxes: Install Cydia, and “Just boot tethered right now”. Just check “Install Cydia”, and click on “Next”. Next, hold the Power and Home buttons until the screen on the redsn0w disappears (not on your iPod Touch). It will then jailbreak your device.

Now, since it will be a tethered jailbreak, you’ll have to run redsn0w once more to get it to your homescreen. Go through the same procedures as above (NOT the downgrading part, just the redsn0w part), but once you get to the screen with the 2 checkboxes, this time check the “Just boot tethered right now”, and click on “Next”, then follow the rest of the instructions.

Congratulations! Your iPod Touch 2G that was previously running 3.1.3, should now be downgraded to 3.1.2 and jailbroken (tethered).

Update, 3/20/2010: A lot of people have been having problems when restoring to the downloaded firmware (firmware is not compatible). Double check to make sure you’ve downloaded the proper firmware file. Also, this guide does not work for the 32GB/64GB iPod Touch 3G. If it came with 3.1.3 or has been updated to 3.1.3 from 3.1.2 without previously being jailbroken, then you’re out of luck. There’s no way to jailbreak those devices in those circumstances.

[Re]Enable Still-Camera & Data Roaming on iPad Simulator

admin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:02:58 +0000

In beta 2 and beta 3 of the iPhone SDK 3.2.2, Apple removed the still-camera feature. It’s really simple to get back. But what does this mean? Well, there may eventually be a built-in camera to the iPad.

The iPad has 3G capabilities. I enabled the Data Roaming setting, so this post will tell you how to do that.

For the still-camera, open up the iPadSimulator.plist file located in /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator3.2.sdk/System/Library/CoreServices/SpringBoard.app/. Add a new boolean value called “still-camera”, and set it to true. You’ll probably need to save-as this file to your desktop, then drag it into the SpringBoard.app window. You’ll need to enter your password to do so. Leave this file open if you want to enable the Data Roaming setting.

To enable the Data Roaming setting, you’ll first need to follow this guide here that tells you how to access some hidden settings in the Settings app.

Next, go back to the iPadSimulator.plist file. Add a new boolean value called “cellular-data”, and set it to true. You’ll probably need to save-as this file to your desktop, then drag it into the SpringBoard.app window. You’ll need to enter your password to do so.

Open up the iPad Simulator, and check out the Contacts app (for the still-camera), or open the Settings app to see the Data Roaming option.

Change iPad & iPhone Simulator Wallpaper

admin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:37:03 +0000

A lot of people were wondering how I went about changing the wallpaper on my iPhone/iPod Simulator. Well, it’s quite easy. You just need to have a wallpaper handy (1024×1024 for iPad, 320×480 for iPhone). You can find a bunch of beautiful wallpapers over at InterfaceLift.

So once you have your wallpaper, you need to rename it. It has to be “LockBackground.jpg” for the lockscreen (primarily the iPhone, but the iPad as well), and/or “HomeBackground.jpg” if you want to change the home screen wallpaper on the iPad.

Next, make sure Finder is active, and go to Go>Go to Folder, and type in: ~/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator.

For the iPad, go into the 3.2 folder. Paste your two image (or just one) into Library, and Library.previousinstall.

For the iPhone, go into 3.1.2 (as well as any other firmwares you plan on using the simulator with). Paste your LockBackground.jpg into Library, and Library.previousinstall.

Restart the simulator, and you should be good to go.

*Note: For the iPhone, the extension may need to be .png instead of .jpg, so just change that around.

Unfollow everyone on Twitter Instantly!

admin — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 02:49:43 +0000

There’s a number of reasons why one would want to unfollow everyone they’re following. For instance, to clean up your followers (you might be following too many people, and can’t keep up with their tweets). There are a lot of websites and scripts that can unfollow everyone in one fowl swoop, but they can often have problems (not unfollowing everyone, stopping halfway, etc). The following script will unfollow everyone in less than 10 seconds. In other words, this script here will work 100%.

Your information is safe and secure. It will only be used to unfollow everyone on your Twitter account. Simply enter your username and password, and kiss your followers goodbye. The entry screen may not actually look like it’s doing anything, so to actually see the process in action, open up your main Twitter.com page in another window (or tab, if you prefer), and keep refreshing the page, and watch your follower count decrease.

[iframe http://cloudappers.com/unfollow.php 300 165]

Script provided by Cloudappers.

And just like that, your following amount is down to 0.

[How-To] Run ChromeOS on a Mac from USB

admin — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:06:57 +0000

Running ChromeOS in a virtual machine was the only way to run it on a Mac, until now. After a bunch of Googling and trial-and-error with a bunch of different things, I figured it out, and it’s extremely simple.

So what we’re going to be doing is using an external bootloader to boot off of the USB key. Macs, even when holding ALT when you turn on your computer, will not display USB drives. rEFIt detects these drives, but you can’t actually boot from one. We’re going to be using the Plop Boot Manager to boot from the USB drive so that you can run ChromeOS natively.

Complete details after the jump!

There are two different methods:

Download/burn the ISO image to a CD, and boot from that to boot the USB drive.
Use Ubuntu & GRUB2 to boot the .BIN of the boot loader to use without a CD, but you need Ubuntu installed (natively).

.ISO DOWNLOAD

.BIN DOWNLOAD

We aren’t going to explain the second method. If you were able to install Ubuntu onto your Mac (natively), then you should know enough to get the bootloader to work from GRUB2.

The first method is very simple. You basically need to burn the ISO image to a blank CD, and boot from that.

Burning the .ISO to a CD

Download the above .ISO download.
Unarchive the downloaded .ZIP file.
Open Disk Utility.
Click on the Burn button (or press CMD+B).
Insert a blank CD.
Find the .ISO file.
Click Burn.

Booting the Burned CD

Insert the burned CD.
Insert your USB key with ChromeOS on it.
Hold ALT/Option while turning your Mac on.
Choose the disc.
When at the bootloader, select USB.

You should now be booted into ChromeOS (natively!) on your Mac!

Increasing Performance Using Swap Memory

admin — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:42:19 +0000

Performance on the iPhone 3GS and 3rd generation iPod Touch is fantastic; with twice as much RAM and a much more advanced processor, slowdowns have become a thing of the past. But what about those of us who are still using “old school” hardware, such as the iPhone 3G or (dare I say it) original iPhone? Often, apps can become sluggish, even crash, due to the lack of RAM. While a significant increase in performance will not be possible until the iPhones CPU can be unlocked and “overclocked”, you can marginally increase performance and prevent significant slowdowns using swap memory.

Swap memory is used on all operating systems- Linux, Mac, Windows, etc. When the computer begins running out of RAM, it begins writing unused or seldom used code to a file or partition on the hard drive, freeing up memory for other, more immediate needs; this file or partition is referred to as “swap” on Mac and Linux, and as the “pagefile” on Windows.

By default, swap memory is disabled on the iPhone. To enable it, you can install “iMemory Enhancer” from our Cydia repo.

Alternatively, you can enable swap memory manually. First, download this .plist file; then, SSH in to your device and copy it to /System/Library/LaunchDaemons. After you do this, reboot your device and it will be activated; things should be running smoother now, and you’ll probably have a constant 30 or 40 megabytes of free RAM.

Obviously, it won’t work if you have little or no room on your device. Also, doing this won’t show any improvement on an iPhone 3GS or iPod Touch 3rd generation because of the increased amount of RAM and faster CPU. If you find that there is actually a *decrease* in performance, simply remove the package from Cydia. Alternatively, you can SSH in to your device and remove the .plist file. Either way, be sure to reboot, and your device will run just like it did before.

Enable Tethering on 3.1.2/3.1.3 on iPhone 3G/3GS [UPDATED 2-1-2010]

admin — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:15:50 +0000

UPDATED 2-1-2010

I thought that I could update this thread with some new links and information. See the update ALL THE WAY AT THE BOTTOM.

UPDATED!

SEE BOTTOM OF THIS POST FOR INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO DO THIS FROM RIGHT ON YOUR iPHONE!

You can finally re-enable tethering on a iPhone 3G or 3GS running 3.1.2! It’s really simple, but, as with everything cool and awesome, you have to be jailbroken.

PATCHING COMMCENTER

Download THIS if you have a iPhone 3G and put CommCenter.patch on your desktop.

Download THIS if you have a iPhone 3GS and put CommCenter.patch on your desktop.

1. Transfer /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreTelephony.framework/Support/CommCenter to your desktop (KEEP A BACKUP OF THIS FILE IN CASE YOU WANT TO REVERT ANYTHING YOU’VE DONE!)

2. Open Terminal and cd to your desktop.

3. Copy and paste the following into Terminal:

bspatch CommCenter CommCenter-hacked CommCenter.patch

4. Delete the original CommCenter from your desktop.

5. Rename CommCenter-hacker to CommCenter.

6. Replace the old CommCenter from /S/L/PrivateFrameworks/CoreTelephony.framework/Support/

7. Change the permissions to +755 with your usual chmod tool (iFile can do this).

8. Reboot your iPhone, and see if Internet Tethering is there under Settings>General>Network. If not, go to step 9.

9. Go to http://help.benm.at from Safari on your iPhone.

10. Find a carrier profile for your carrier and install it, then reboot. If you’re on AT&T, use this.

You should now have Internet Tethering available in Settings>General>Network. Remember, if you get caught tethering from your carrier, we’re not responsible!

UPDATE! DOING THIS FROM YOUR PHONE

You can try downloading the proper CommCenter for your iPhone that is already modified, so that you can do all of this from right on your iPhone.

iPhone 3G (Courtesy of @besweeet) | iPhone 3GS (Courtesy of @alnandr)

1. Download that file from Safari on your iPhone.

2. Use iFile to navigate to /var/mobile/Library/Downloads.

3. Extract the CommCenter file from the CommCenter.zip file.

4. Move this file to /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreTelephony.framework/Support, overwriting the existing file.

5. Make the permissions look like the below screenshot:

Follow steps 8-10 to finalize the process.

The only known problem with this so far is that the usage data will be incorrect when viewed under Settings>General>Usage. No big deal, though.

UPDATE, 2-1-2010

There have been a lot of updates over the past couple of months that makes tethering easier.

You can skip all of the CommCenter methods by either jailbreaking with blackra1n RC3, or redsn0w 0.9.2. If you used PwnageTool or blackra1n RC2/RC1, you still need to use the CommCenter patch above.

After you’ve used blackra1n RC3 or the latest version of redsn0w, just go to http://help.benm.at and find a carrier profile for your specific carrier. If you’re on AT&T, use this.

[How-To] Run Snow Leopard in VMware Workstation

admin — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:54:10 +0000

Have you ever wanted to give Mac OS X a try, but you either:

Don’t want a Mac
Can’t afford a Mac
Don’t know how to hackintosh
(All of the above)

Well, virtual machines can make running Mac OS X on a PC extremely simple. Should you do it? Of course! It’s so easy to do, that everyone should do it.

What we’re doing here, is pretty much making a hackintosh inside of a virtual machine (in this case, VMware Workstation 7 for Windows XP/Vista/7).

You could always make a hackintosh, but your system may not be *fully* compatible. Doing this in a virtual machine instead of natively ON your machine is a safe and simple process for anyone.

Pros

Run the latest version of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard (including 10.6.2) on ANY PC.
Quite speedy.
Simple and safe alternative to hackintoshing.

Con

Only one: No hardware video acceleration (QE/CI). Without QuartzExtreme and CoreImage, graphics will be laggy, and a lot of programs (such as iMovie ’09) will not run. Why? Because there are no display drivers. But don’t let this ruin everything, as you can still run other things, like iTunes, Tweetie, Adium, etc.

Demo video

*Being worked on at the moment.

Requirements

VMware Workstation 7 – Pretty pricey, but you can get a trial of it. YOU MAY ALSO TRY VMWARE PLAYER, WHICH IS FREE.
Retail Mac OS X Snow Leopard DVD – Only $30; go get it.
Intel CPU (with VT-x support) – Check your BIOS to see if your CPU supports this (you’ll see an option for VT-x or ‘Virtualization Technology’). Most modern Intel CPUs have VT-x (ie. Core 2 Duo).
This file – About 13MB, which has everything you need (besides a copy of Snow Leopard).
About 45-60 minutes of time.
Some common sense, and the ability to follow [simple] directions.

Once you have all of those requirements (ESPECIALLY NUMBER 6!!!!!), go ahead continue reading.

Part 1 – Setting up the VM

*Make sure you have the file (from step 4 above) extracted – Just take the ‘Snowy_VM’ folder and stick it on your desktop.
*Make sure VMware Workstation 7 is installed and working.

Open VMware, and load the .vmx file that you extracted (in /Snowy_VM/Mac OS X Server 10.6 (experimental).vmwarevm/).
Edit the settings for Processors and Memory to suit your needs. Mine was 2 CPU cores, and 2.5GB RAM.
With the ‘Virtual Machine Settings’ window still open, go to CD/DVD (IDE), and click on the bubble for Use ISO image file, and find the ‘darwin_snow.iso’ file (in /Snowy_VM/). Click on OK when finished.

Part 2 – Installing Mac OS X

*Now comes the fun stuff!
*Insert your Mac OS X Snow Leopard DVD at this time.

Start the virtual machine.
Hit F8 after seeing the VMware boot screen.
In the bottom of the virtual machine window, right-click on the CD/DVD drive icon, and choose ‘Settings’.
Choose Use physical drive, and make sure the proper drive is selected.Also make sure that the Connected & Connect at power on checkboxes are checked. Click on OK when done.
Press c on your keyboard (to boot from the DVD).
(Optional) – Press F8 on your keyboard, and type -v and press enter. This bypasses the Apple boot screen, and boots into verbose mode.
Once you’re at the installer, follow the prompts to install it. Reboot when finished. If you get a kernel panic upon rebooting, open up the “Mac OS X Server 10.6 (experimental).VMX” file in /Snowy_VM/Mac OS X Server 10.6 (experimental).vmwarevm with Notepad, search for “smc.present”, and change “TRUE” to “FALSE”. Save and close out of Notepad. You shouldn’t get anymore kernel panics.

Part 3 – Booting Mac OS X

*Assuming installation went well… (Which it should)

Start the virtual machine up again. It can take anywhere from 30 seconds to 3 minutes to boot, depending on your virtual machine settings.
If you get a “Operating system not found” error, go back to part 2 and follow steps 3, 4, and 5. BUT, on step 5, instead of pressing c, press h. This boots from the hard disk instead of from the DVD.
Once booted, you should be at the setup screens.
Fill out the registration details and whatnot. When you’re finally at your desktop, go to step 3.
You’re booted!

Part 4 – Updating to 10.6.2

*This is assuming your DVD of Snow Leopard is 10.6.

Inside of Mac OS X, open up Safari, and go to this link (the 10.6.2 Combo Update): http://bit.ly/4zMBJJ
Download the .dmg to your desktop.
When done downloading, open the installation package, and install 10.6.2.
Reboot when completed.

Part 5 – Getting sound to work

*This will get audio working.
*You’ll need to put “EnsoniqAudioPCI.mpkg.tar.gz” onto your Mac OS X desktop. You can put the files on a USB drive, and mount the drive in the virtual machine. Once mounted, copy that file to your desktop.

Double-click on “EnsoniqAudioPCI.mpkg.tar.gz”. Out should come a installation package.
Double-click on the installation package.
When you get to where you have to ‘customize’ the installation, check all 2 options.
Install.
Reboot when finished.

Part 6 – Installing VMware Tools

*This helps in overall performance of the VM.

In the bottom of the virtual machine window, right-click on the CD/DVD drive icon, and choose ‘Settings’.
Click on the bubble for Use ISO image file, and find the ‘darwin_snow.iso‘ file (in /Snowy_VM/). Click on OK when finished.
You should see a new drive on your desktop called ‘VMware Tools’. Double-click on this.
Run the installation package.
Reboot when finished.

That’s it! In less than an hour, you have a [almost] fully functioning Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.2 machine on your PC. Again, you won’t get QE/CI (hardware video/graphics acceleration), but that’s not a big deal unless you plan on running real applications like iMovie or other things.

[How-To] Jailbreak ANY iDevice running 3.1.2!

admin — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:00:43 +0000

UPDATE

Guide has been updated a bit. Includes links for blackra1n RC3 & all firmware files for all the iDevices. First video was made a long time ago. New video coming soon!

Geohot has released his jailbreak program, called “blackra1n“. This small Windows-only program lets one jailbreak their iDevice (iPod Touch or iPhone) running 3.1.2, which is Apple’s latest version of the iPhone operating system. This is the only jailbreak solution that jailbreaks 3.1.2, as well as all devices. There is one problem regarding iPod Touch 3G users: this is currently a tethered jailbreak, meaning you have to have your iPod Touch 3G connected to the computer to enable the jailbreak. If you don’t, or if your iPod Touch 3G happens to reboot, you’ll be out of luck.

Follow the simple tutorial below to get started. If you’ve never done this before, don’t sweat it! It’s extremely easy. It only takes a few minutes and does the job without any problems or loss of files. There is also a video of how to do this at the bottom of this post (in HD).

Before we get started, you need to make sure that you are on a device with 3.1.2. You can either update it to this, or do a restore, which I recommend doing, because everything will be nice and new. I doubt there will be any errors during the jailbreak process if you happened to do a update and not a restore. You can download your firmware .IPSW file here: http://bit.ly/XLIp

Once your device is on 3.1.2, follow the below steps to jailbreak your device. It’s a very quick and painless.

WINDOWS, RC3

MAC, RC3

Plug your device in. Make sure iTunes is closed.
Run ‘blackra1n.exe’ or ‘blackra1n.app’.
Click on the ‘make it ra1n’ button. The jailbreak process should begin on both your computer and iDevice.
After the jailbreak process is complete, run the ‘blackra1n’ app. Here, you can install Cydia, Icy, and/or Rock. Cydia is still the most popular form of installing jailbreak-only packages.

There you go! A simple 4-step jailbreak process, all made possible by Geohot. If you have any questions or comments, make a comment to this post, or send a email: contact@gumballtech.com.

I have also made a video showing you how to do all of this.

Windows 7 Upgrade DVD – Do a clean install!

admin — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:18:00 +0000

Windows 7 came out today. The upgrade copy of it is considerably cheaper than the regular copy. With Vista, you can only do a upgrade and still be able to use and active with the key given with the package. Although there was a workaround (install a lower copy of Vista using your upgrade DVD, then upgrade it to the version you’ve purchased), it just wasn’t a very practical solution. With Windows 7, you can use your upgrade DVD and upgrade key to install a nice clean copy, AND activate it!

Just go into the installer like normal, and choose Custom (Advanced), format the drive, and install it. When it’s done, activate, and enjoy using Windows 7.

[How-To] Run Windows XP, Vista, or 7 Natively on your Mac

admin — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:55:52 +0000

Running Windows on your Mac may sound like a very scary thing to do, but it’s really simple. If you want to run Windows on your Mac without a virtualization program (like VMware Fusion or Parallels), this is for you! It’s actually very easy and doesn’t take very much time, at all.

This tutorial will tell you how to install Windows, specifically Windows 7, on your Mac, using Apple’s ‘Boot Camp’ tool, which easily lets you safely partition your hard drive, and install Windows on to that new partition. I will be using Snow Leopard. The entire process should take between 20 and 60 minutes.

Before we start, you need to have a few things:

A copy of a Snow Leopard installation DVD – this contains the drivers for Windows which we will be installing last.
A copy of Windows – Windows XP, Vista, or 7 should work just fine.
30GB of free space – I recommend having at least 30GB of free space on your hard drive to make a Windows (NTFS) partition.

If you’ve got those 3 things, then we can get started:

1. Open up “Boot Camp Assistant” in Applications>Utilities.

2. Go through the series of menus to create a Windows partition.

3. When done, put in your Windows CD or DVD, and go to “Start the Windows Installer”. This restart your Mac into the Windows installer, where you would install Windows on to your hard drive.

4. Make sure you format the proper partition to NTFS. Don’t choose the wrong partition! Make sure you remember how big you made your Windows partition, since it’ll make formatting the right one easier.

5. Install Windows.

6. Once you’re at your desktop, pop in your Snow Leopard installation DVD.

7. Install the Boot Camp software and drivers.

8. Reboot.

That is just a quick overview of how to install Windows XP, Vista, or 7 onto your Mac. If you’ve installed Windows on a PC before, this is almost exactly like it, except making a partition is slightly different.

[How-To] Hack your Wii to do things you wouldn’t imagine!

admin — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:24:31 +0000

Not very many people think of the Nintendo Wii to be a powerful gaming machine. It really isn’t, but it’s still worthy of an overall good gaming machine. While the Wii itself is near perfect (ie. no bugs, etc), there are lots of cool things you could do by hacking it. You may be thinking, “Isn’t that going to break it?” The answer is: maybe. It’s not very likely. There are many communities around the web that could help you in the event of a catastrophic failure. The overall hacking process is extremely easy to do; it’s never been easier to hack your Wii. Oh, hacking your Wii is more commonly known as “homebrew”, as iPhone/iPod Touch hacking is “jailbreak”.

This post will tell you how to hack your Wii to allow the HBC (Homebrew Channel) to be installed, which is the gateway to doing other things.

There are a few things that you will need before we can begin:

SD Card – Mine is 1GB. This is the optimal amount of memory your card should have, should you decide to do other things like put music or movies on it, or extra apps.
Time – When I first tried this, it took SEVERAL hours to do. Things have changed since then, and now it can take less than one.

It’s good to know the version number of your Wii. The latest system menu update is 4.2. This guide will show you how to get up to 4.1. 4.2 doesn’t have any crucial changes that you actually need, so 4.1 is what this guide will cover.

This guide originally came from this link. All the steps are listed below. The process may seem really hard and time consuming, but it really isn’t. Give it a good read a few times over before attempting any of this. If you have any questions, contact us and we’ll try and help you.

“This guide will fully modify your Wii to safely play backup games, it works on all wiis up to 4.1 regardless of serial number/region etc this includes boot2 v4 Wiis aka ‘LU64-65′ models, If you bought your Wii this year and it came with 3.4+ on it then it will be a boot2 v4. If you are on 4.2 then do this excellent guide by messie to modify your Wii.
When completed you will have everything you need to play backups and the SD card does not have to be left in, you can delete everything off it if you wish.

Make sure you do the steps in the right order or you could run into problems, and read the guide through a couple of times before trying it. Read ALL OF IT! Most problems arise from people not reading the instructions properly or not using a compatible SD card, a plain 2gb one is best. If you are buying a new one try and get a Sandisk.

All you need is an SD card formatted to FAT32, an internet connection on your Wii and these files: DOWNLOAD - MIRROR

Before you start make sure Wiiconnect 24 is off as it can stop bannerbomb working, you may turn it back on once you have completed the guide.

If you get errors during any of the steps format your card with this tool.

TAKE OUT ALL GAMECUBE MEMORY CARDS/CONTROLLERS

1. INSTALL BOOTMII AND THE HOMEBREW CHANNEL

a). Put all the files from ‘copy to sd card.rar’ onto the root of the SD Card. It should look like this when done.

b). Insert the SD card into Wii.

c). Go to Wii Options, then go to Data Management > Channels > SD Card, then you will get a message saying “Load boot.elf?” , select ‘Yes’ and the Hackmii installer will run.

d). Install Bootmii as boot2 if you can, if not then install it as an IOS then go back and install the Homebrew Channel.

2. BACK UP YOUR NAND (OPTIONAL)

Making a NAND backup with Bootmii is highly recommended, it will recover your Wii from 99.9% of bricks.
Use the same SD card you used to install Bootmii and make sure there is at least 530mb free on it.
Bootmii is very fussy about what SD cards it uses, so avoid generic ones and try and use a Sandisk or similar.

a) Put the SD card into the Wii, if you installed Bootmii as boot2 then it will load, if it is installed as an IOS go to the Homebrew Channel, press ‘home’ on your wiimote and select ‘Launch Bootmii’.

b) Use the power/reset/eject buttons to navigate the Bootmii menu and select the icon with the gears on it. If those buttons don’t work then you will have to use a Gamecube controller.

c) Now select the icon with a green arrow pointing from the chip to the SD card and follow the on screen instructions.

D) In about 10 mins you will have a NAND backup, it is normal to have up to 80 bad blocks so don’t worry if you get some.

e) Put the SD card into PC and copy the NAND backup somewhere safe, you can now delete it from your card. If you installed Bootmii as boot2 then also copy the Bootmii folder to your PC and either delete or rename it, otherwise it will load every time you switch your Wii on.

If ever you get bricked then copy the bootmii folder and NAND backup onto your card, do steps a) & b) again, using Preloader to get to HBC if necessary, then select the icon with the arrow going from the SD card to the chip. It is not recommended to restore your NAND if you have Bootmii installed as an IOS.

3. GET A CIOS

You may want to check this video before you do this stage. The only difference is that you can select ‘load IOS from SD card’ instead of download from NUS.

a) Go to Homebrew channel and run Trucha Bug Restorer, load IOS36, press 1, read the warnings then select ‘downgrade IOS15′, select to load IOS from SD card then let it do its job, keep an eye on what it is doing and make sure you select ‘load from sd card’ when it asks & don’t get any errors.

b) Run Trucha Bug Restorer again, this time select to load IOS15 on first screen using dpad left/right, then select the IOS36 menu & install patched (select ‘yes’ on all 3 patches) IOS36 to slot 36, again using IOS from SD card.

c) Run Trucha Bug Restorer again, load IOS36 and this time select restore IOS15.

d) Run cIOS38 r14 installer, select IOS36 as the one it should use and then select wad install.

4. UPDATE YOUR SYSTEM MENU VERSION (OPTIONAL)

This step is optional unless you are on 3.3 or 3.4, you may upgrade now if you wish, boot2 v4 owners cannot downgrade! but can upgrade if you want. If you want to update to 4.1 then make sure you have at least 250 blocks free or you will brick, install IOS60-patched first (step 5a), then run Firmware Updater 4.1. If you are on 3.3 or 3.4 then you must update.

5. THE FINAL STEP

Preloader is also an optional install, if you don’t want it just skip b & c, but you must do step d, system menu hacks can be taken care of by Starfall (3.2) or startpatch (4/4.1), if you want them click my sig and have a look through my mediafire. There are no system hacks for 3.3/3.4. There are now Preloader hacks for 4.1J Wiis.

a) If you are on system menu 4/4.1 use Wad Manager with default settings (IOS249 & SD card) to install IOS60-patched.wad – make sure you do this before you install Preloader. If you installed it in step 4 then skip this part. Never uninstall IOS60! You will brick!!

b). Open the Homebrew Channel and load Preloader, press 1 to install. After install, your Wii should reboot and load the Preloader menu. If it doesn’t, turn your wii off and on again whilst holding down reset and it will load the Preloader menu.

c) Select ‘system hacks’ in the Preloader menu, and enable the hacks that you want – ‘skip disc update check’ and the region free ones are all you need. Select ‘save settings’ and wait for confirmation message to display ‘settings saved’. Press B to go back, and enter Settings. Set ‘Autoboot: System Menu’ using D-Pad, then select save settings. Press B to return to main Preloader menu.

d) In the Preloader menu select Homebrew Channel (if you didn’t install Preloader then just open HBC as normal), run Wad Manager 1.4, use default settings (IOS249 & SD card) and install these wads from the ‘wad’ folder:

IOS38-64-v3610
IOS50-64-v4889
IOS53-64-v5149
IOS55-64-v5149
NeoGammaR7

Then restart your Wii.

All done! You will now have the safety/hacks of Preloader & Bootmii, NeoGamma R7 backup loader that has 99% compatibility, cIOS249 r14, IOS38, 53 & 55 for newer games and IOS50 to help prevent disc update bricks. If you ever need to access Preloader’s settings hold down ‘reset’ when switching your Wii on.
If you get the ‘system files corrupted’ screen don’t panic, just reinstall preloader and if that doesn’t fix it reinstall your current system menu with Wad Manager.

UPDATES

If you want to update your cIOS in the future or if you want to install a different one just run the installer and select ios249 as the one it should use, it will overwrite the old one so no need to uninstall. If you want to update Neogamma go to wii options > data management > channels and delete the old one first, then just install the new one with wad manager.
If you want more hacks for Preloader have a look at them here, and copy/paste them to your hacks.ini file. Make sure there is one blank line at the bottom.

OPTIONAL

Install the new 4..2 shop channel with Wad Manager - Download

Install USB Loader GX & WBFS Manager 3 - Download - Mirror

Install cIOS56 to play Guitar Hero 5/Beatles from the disc channel - Download

Install the new cIOScorp 3.4 for DVDR loading through Disc Channel – (works on all wiis) - Download – make sure you read the readme!

Install the Internet Channel - NTSC-U, PAL or NTSC-J

Use your Wii as a media player with MPlayer CE & DVDX

Get some emulators for all your old favourites (better than vc except for N64) ”

So there you have it. You Wii should now be hacked to do things never thought of before.

My most favorite thing I find useful from hacking a Nintendo Wii is being able to play your games on a external drive (ie. USB stick, external hard drive, iPod, etc). You have to use “USB Loader GX” for that, and is the most user-friendly Wii app I’ve ever used. You drive must first be formatted to WBFS, which you can do on your computer with WBFS Manager for either Windows or Mac OS X. You can then use your Wii to import your actual game DVDs to a ISO which is stored on your external drive, which can then be loaded on the fly. You can also add games from your computer to the drive and then play them.

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