by sahil on February 24, 2012 ·
Apple seems to be having a lot of security holes to patch in their upcoming iOS update. The latest security flaw which has been discovered allows anyone to access your Camera Roll without asking for a password. The hack is pretty simple and has been tested on the iPhone 4, though it can be assumed to be present in older generation devices as well.
The flaw was discovered by people at iPatch, the iPhone/iPad/iPod touch repair specialist in U.K. A video demonstration has also been provided by them.
The flaw can be exploited by anyone having access to the iPhone’s battery. The iPhone 4/4s having pentalobe screws are thus the easiest to crack open. To access the Camera Roll all one needs to do is open the two screws at bottom and slide open the battery cover. This lets anyone circumvent the user passcode and access the pictures stored in Camera Roll. The trick does not give access to all the albums saved in the phone but only the Camera Roll which is where most of the user taken pictures are. [click to continue…]
by monis on February 17, 2012 ·
You must be already aware of the fact that Apple has issued a statement earlier according to which the user would be notified if any application try to get the access of address book in upcoming software update. Before that, all the contacts loaded on the server of an application could be misused by the developers. If you want to get the feature right now, install ContactPrivacy tweak from Cydia. [click to continue…]
by monis on February 7, 2012 ·
While restoring my iPhone 3GS to iOS 5.0.1 custom firmware on iPad baseband, i came across a weird issue which never happened to me previously. Even after selecting the option to hacktivate on Pwnage tool, iPhone 3GS got stuck on the same activation screen. At first, i thought that i might have restored wrong firmware in iTunes. But even after several continuous restores, things didn’t work out. [click to continue…]
In our earlier article we showed how to Multi-Task on your iPhone iOS 3.
However, since the launch of iOS 4 & the latest iOS 5, Apple has introduced in-built support for multi-tasking in iPhones. However, Apple’s multi-tasking, is not 100% true multi-tasking. In case of TRUE multi-tasking, the code for each app is held individually in system memory, and the operating system serves as a regulator, deciding which apps get higher or lower system resources. The reason is iPhone doesn’t have enough built-in memory for true multi-tasking. If it held multiple apps actually running in memory even in the background, the iPhone would slowdown over time, battery would bleed profusely, and your beloved iPhone would eventually shut-down.
In case of iOS 4 & 5 the iPhone pauses the active running apps while another app takes foreground. Then, when you switch to a paused app, it resumes exactly where it was. What’s the advantage you ask? The apps do not start from scratch & come alive instantly without having to restart. [click to continue…]
by monis on January 24, 2012 ·
There are many applications in Cydia which lets you change the name of any carrier. Have you ever wondered if you could change the name with the customized logo of your choice? Yes, we would tell you how to do it. The process is very simple provided that you have a JailBroken iPhone 4/4S and openSSH or afc2add installed from Cydia. Both of them would give you access to the root files of the device where we would replace the logo. [click to continue…]
by Ankur on January 10, 2012 ·
Apple has been struggling with battery issues on the iPhone ever since the major update to its mobile OS (iOS 5) came out last year. While we also believe that Macbooks have lost some battery life after the OS X Lion upgrade, lets focus on iPhone and iOS 5. With iOS 5 Apple added a new notifications center and also started to show notifications on the home screen, on the hardware front iPhone 4S got a faster processor and better camera, thus increasing Apple’s challenges on the battery front. However, the blame so far is on iOS 5 and not the iPhone 4S hardware (if we note, the standby time of iPhone 4S is lower than iPhone 4). [click to continue…]
by monis on December 31, 2011 ·
Well, if you are one of those folks who rely on Gevey Sim or Ultrasn0w and preserved your BaseBand using the custom firmware made from Redsn0w or Pwnage tool, you might be facing issues with the push notifications. Due to the fact that push notifications are not working, other services like iMessages and FaceTime could’t work. Thanks to SAM method which is still working on iOS 5.0.1. [click to continue…]
by monis on December 29, 2011 ·
After the iOS 5.0.1 untethered JailBreak, you might not been able to use iBooks. Something similar happened with me. When i opened iBooks after installing ‘Corona’ from Cydia, i experienced the same issue. However, it is not something new if you have JailBroken any of your iDevices earlier. A fix has always been issued for iBooks whenever the problem arrived from the hackers. Unfortunately, they have been a tad late this time. [click to continue…]
Cydia is by far one of the best parallel app stores for an iOS device. I am not going to sing its praises. However, many-a-times Cydia behaves erratically. One simply cannot fathom why. Further uninstalling & re-installing Cydia is not an easy task. One has to literally dig below the surface & re-do everything. You also risking loosing your Jailbroken Status. Who would want that right?
Hence, We have tried to find simpler diagnostic steps that one can do before one decides to do the Final step of uninstalling & reinstalling Cydia. We had attempted one method, which worked earlier. Consider this article an extension.
There are numerous ways to try & see if Cydia resumes smooth operation. To make it do so, we should first see if some garbage (of the soft kind) is laying around in the Cydia house on your iPhone.
Many-a-times the updates have a lot to do with the way Cydia behaves or misbehaves. Hence it is important to get rid of these “Junk” files. [click to continue…]
Apple’s iOS 5 might have brought with it a host of features, but as with all updates, there has to be few bugs. Usually, poor audio, call drops are fixed by small incremental updates. However, some problems needs elbow-grease.
Some iPhone 4S, for example, definitely suffer from the no-audio-on-outgoing-calls bug. However, many have reported a loss of the “Camera roll” post updating to iOS 5. [click to continue…]
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