I have finally got an IPhone 3g from an O2 store which happened to have two left, so can now use my phone contract properly again!

Anyway, what you get with the jailbreak for the 3g IPhone is the installer app to install non apple-sanctioned software. At the moment not a huge amount is available, but this will definately expand over time.

There is however an openSSH shell, a pacman emulator, and a NES emulator, which more than makes this upgrade worthwhile!

Lets get started! So first you need to download PwnageTool. Currently at 2.0.1. you can download it direct from the authors here or here or here

You will need a copy of the firmware for the phone for the install. There should already be one on your system, if there is not, the IPhone 3G firmware is available here.

What the PwnageTool does is create a new backup to restore the Iphone with. It creates a new .ipsw file for you. So follow the instructions on the screen to create this .ipsw

When PwnageTool is finished, it will open up ITunes. At this point you must restore from this new backup PwnageTool created. To do this press and hold down the “alt” key and click on “restore” in ITunes. This will bring up a file selection, select the new .ipsw you just created and restore!

The new Apple 3g IPhone has been out for a while in the UK now. I had the misfortune of losing my old one about two weeks now, and despite my best attempts to get either a replacement or an upgrade, I am now stuck in limbo, or Apple purgatory, with my contacts saved on to my IPod, and a new sim in my old Nokia.

Apple please supply some more phones to the UK!

Version 1.1.3 of the IPhone software (latest version) is currently not jailbreakable which means you cannot install any third party apps.

I have just upgraded my Iphone, it was a difficult decision as was a weigh up between keeping my 30 something apps on the phone or losing it all to the new features such as faux GPS (see feature set here).

I decided to upgrade. There is no problem upgrading a jailbreaked phone, the only downer is that you lose all of the third party apps. You don’t lose your contacts, email or sms. Do not fear! Upgrade now it’s worth it!

On a side note, mid-febuary will see the release of the iphone sdk so loads good stuff to come!

After performing a Jailbreak (as outlined in my previous post Jailbreak the Iphone, you may find that you have issues connecting to edge.

Here is the solution:
I have only tested this on the O2 UK network.

First make sure the IPhone and your computer are connected to the same wireless network. Now find the ip of your iphone by looking in setting, and then clicking the little arrow beside the wireless network you are connected to.

You need to ssh in to your IPhone, so open up the terminal in mac, or download Putty (a free windows ssh client), and connect to your iphone like this: ssh root@ip_address_of_my_iphone
The password is either alpine or dottie, or whatever you may have set it to if you set it yourself.

now issue the following 3 commands:
rm /var/root/Library/Preferences/com.apple.carrier.plist

ln -s /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreTelephony.framework/Support/O2_UK.plist /var/root/Library/Preferences/com.apple.carrier.plist

rm -f /var/root/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/preferences.plist

Reboot your phone by holding down the turn off button and the home button together and then sliding to power off.

And you should now be back on edge!

I am a UK IPhone user and recently got the IPhone on the O2 package. But there are so many funky packages I wanted to use, I simply had to jailbreak it!
Here’s how I did it from Version 1.1.2, using my activated IPhone and my Mac running OS X Leopard.

Pre-requisites: You will need to preliminarily down-grade your phone to version 1.1.1, this is available here:
http://appldnld.apple.com.edgesuite.net/content…_3A109a_Restore.ipsw

And also download jailbreak 1.1.2 from here: http://conceitedsoftware.com/iphone/site/112jb.html

2. Reboot your iPhone holding the top (power) and home buttons BUT release the top button 10 seconds into it (right after the screen goes dark) and continue to hold the home button until iTunes detects the phone in recovery mode. The iPhone screen will appear to be off, but start iTunes if not started yet .

3. Restore your iPhone by pressing and holding the ‘Shift’ key on windows or ‘option’ or ‘option and Alt’ key on Mac, then click ‘restore’ to select the 1.1.1 firmware file you downloaded earlier. The restore should go through and errors at the end with error 1015. However you will notice that the iphone is in DFU mode with the connect to itunes screen from 1.1.1.

4. In order to kick the phone out of that mode, start TouchFree by double-clicking “windows.bat”
on Windows or “jailbreak.jar” in OS X, then click the “Boot from Recovery” button. Note: You must quit Itunes for this to work.

(the rest is taken from the README in the Jailbreak download)

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Step 2a: Jailbreak 1.1.1 on Unactivated iPhone

*** NOTE: If your phone has been activated through iTunes, you can proceed to step 2b. ***

1. enter *#307# press call, now use the back button on the top of your screen to remove *#307#, now enter 0 , press call, press answer, press hold, press decline. And you get to the contact list. And thereafter every time you push the homebutton you just slide the “emergency call” slide, then enter 0 , press call, press hold, press decline.

2. Push contacts, end call and you get called again, this time hit decline and you access one of menus with favorites, you can edit contacts, do a test ride on keyboard, take photos etc.

3. Now edit a new contact and type in “prefs://11″ as web-address and “http://jailbreakme.com” as an additional URL.

4. When you tap “prefs://11″ you can now select your favorite WiFi gateway.

5. Now press the home button and move the slider to the dial-pad.

6. Now you can go back to the contact list by Dialing 0, push call, then answer, then contacts, then hit the “http://jailbreakme.com” web address you typed in.

7. Scroll down to the bottom, click “Install AppSnapp”. Safari will exit and you’ll return to your springboard. Wait for the phone to reboot. You are now jailbroken. and are able to use Installer.app.

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Step 2b: Jailbreaking on iPod Touch or iTunes Activated iPhone

1. Launch Safari
2. Visit http://jailbreakme.com, Scroll down to the bottom, click “Install AppSnapp”. Safari will
exit and you’ll return to your springboard. Slide to unlock, you are now jailbroken. and are able to use Installer.app.

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Step 3: Prepare your 1.1.1 device for the Update

1. Launch Installer.app
2. Scroll down to Tweaks (1.1.1)
3. Select OktoPrep
4. Click Install

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Step 3b: Prevent SpringBoard crash on previous hacked iPod touches

If you have installed MobileMail on your iPod touch, there is a chance an update to 1.1.2 will render your device inoperable until a restore. This issue can be prevented by switching Auto-Check off.

- Go to General->Mail->Auto-Check. Set it to Manual.

If you forget to do this step and update, proceed with the jailbreak in step 5 (even though SpringBoard is unusable) and we will fix it for you.

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Step 4: Update to 1.1.2

1. Connect your device to your computer
2. Launch iTunes
3. Choose your device. Click Update
- If update still shows 1.1.1 as being the newest version, you may download the 1.1.2 from an Apple download server and shift-click (PC) or option-click (Mac) on “Check for update” and select the update you downloaded.
- DO NOT CLICK OR SHIFT-CLICK RESTORE: That will wipe the changes OktoPrep made.

5. Wait forever for your device to update
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Step 5: Jailbreak your iPod Touch or iPhone

WARNING: If your iPhone is unactivated, it will be factory “hactivated” for you and YouTube enabled.
If this is not desired behavior, activate your iPhone with iTunes before proceeding.

1. Close iTunes
2. Connect your device to your computer
3. On Windows, double click on windows.bat, on Mac, double click on jailbreak.jar
4. Follow the on screen instructions.

I got an IPhone the other day, and it is great!

I have about 250 contacts on my nokia n95 and wanted to import the lot over. Unfortunately the IPhone does not support VCard sending via Bluetooth, the bluetooth functionalities of the IPhone are pretty limited. This is a shame as if it had this would have been so easy to do.

First enable bluetooth on your N95, in tools, bluetooth.

Anyways, first off you need to get your contacts off your n95. You do this using the ISync software that comes pre-installed on the Mac, but you need the Nokia n95 plugin for ISync available here: http://europe.nokia.com/A4299040.

Then its as simple as syncronising your contacts using ISync from your phone to your apple address book.
Once all of your contacts have been exported, plug in your IPhone and set up the synchronizations on ITunes so that it merges data from address book to phone. Your contacts should now be transferred!