How to: Ghetto iPhone Stand using Clothes Hanger

You might have heard that you can make an antenna with a cloth hanger but not an iPhone stand right?... wrong:

UPDATED: How to jailbreak new iPhone 3GS (step by step)

- first, download and install iTunes on your pc or mac:
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

- Download iPhone 3GS firmware 3.0.1 from here:
http://appldnld.apple.com.edgesuite.net/content.info.apple.com/iPhone/061-6976.20090731.Vgbt5/iPhone2,1_3.0.1_7A400_Restore.ipsw

- connect your iphone to iTunes.

- update to iphone 3.0.1 in iTunes: Start iTunes then connect your phone via USB. Then WHILE HOLDING DOWN THE "SHIFT" KEY, press the "update" button in iTunes. Select the file you downloaded above: "iPhone2,1_3.0.1_7A400_Restore.ipsw"

- Download:

- Redsnow:
http://thebigboss.org/hostedfiles/redsn0w-win_0.8.zip

- iPhone firmware 3.0:
http://appldnld.apple.com.edgesuite.net/content.info.apple.com/iPhone/061-6582.20090617.LlI87/iPhone2,1_3.0_7A341_Restore.ipsw

- Run redsn0w
- Click browse
- Select the 3.0 firmware file you downloaded "iPhone2,1_3.0_7A341_Restore.ipsw"
- Click next.
- Select Cydia (not icy)
- Follow on screen instructions.
- iPhone will reboot Jailbroken. You will see a brown Cydia icon on your second screen.

How to jailbreak new iPhone 3GS (step by step)

UPDATED: Go here for updated version:
http://www.modiphone.com/2009/09/updated-how-to-jailbreak-new-iphone-3gs.html

- first, download and install itunes on your pc or mac:
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

- connect your iphone to iTunes.

- update to iphone 3.0.1 in iTunes.

- Download:

- Redsnow:
http://thebigboss.org/hostedfiles/redsn0w-win_0.8.zip

- iPhone firmware 3.0:
http://appldnld.apple.com.edgesuite.net/content.info.apple.com/iPhone/061-6582.20090617.LlI87/iPhone2,1_3.0_7A341_Restore.ipsw

- Run redsn0w
- Click browse
- Select the 3.0 firmware file you downloaded "iPhone2,1_3.0_7A341_Restore.ipsw"
- Click next.
- Select Cydia (not icy)
- Follow on screen instructions.
- iPhone will reboot Jailbroken. You will see a brown Cydia icon on your second screen.

How To Guide To Update and Jailbreak iPhone 3G 3GS and 2G iPhone and All iPod Touch Versions

Here is the video:



And here are the links and information:

Redsn0w v0.8:
http://thebigboss.org/hostedfiles/redsn0w-win_0.8.zip

Select and download 3.0, NOT 3.0.1 firmware for your device. This is needed by Redsn0w to jailbreak your device:
http://www.felixbruns.de/iPod/firmware/



ONLY if you have iPhone 2G: Download bootloaders for unlocking iPhone 2G: http://www.mediafire.com/?9mdezqi2jem

Add this source to Cydia to unlock your iPhone 3G or 3GS and install Ultrasn0w: repo666.ultrasn0w.com

Written instructions:

http://www.iphoneinquirer.com/2009/07/how-to-unlock-and-jailbreak-firmware.html

Credit for this video and links goes to: iPhone Inquirer. Thanks :)

You can visit his website to get all these download links and more:

http://www.iphoneinquirer.com/2009/07/downloads.html

How to sync your iPhone with Google Calendar and Contacts (includes iCal instructions)

It does not require MobileMe. Google Sync does the job :) To set it up go here:

http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=138740&topic=14252

It does not conflict with MobileMe as far as I know... I tried it :) There are however some known issues but they are minor:

http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=99360

Want to synctonize iCal as well? Click the link below for more:
http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=99358#ical

Enjoy your (automatically) perfectly synchronized life :P

How to Enable Emoji Icons On iPhone OS 3.0 and iPhone 3GS

Here are the steps:

1. go to the App Store and download "Spell Number":

2. Launch the app and type 91929394.59

3. Press the home button

4. Go to Settings > General > Keyboard > International Keyboards > Japanese. Then turn “Emoji” to "ON".

All you need to do is tap the globe icon to the left of the space bar to see the Japanese icons.

You can delete the Spell Number App if you don’t want to keep it anymore. Your Emoji keyboard will still be there :)

Video and Step-By-Step Instructions for iPhone 3.0 Jailbreak

Here are the instructions and video from iClarified:

http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=4301

For SIM Unlock step-by-step instructions, go here:

http://www.modmyi.com/forums/iphone-news/643991-ultrasn0w-out-3-0-unlocked.html

iPhone 3.0 Network and SIM Unlocked for All Carriers and Jailbreaked, Plus Cydia Installed

YellowSn0w is now UltraSn0w! So, if you have an iPhone 2.2 or prior with YellowSn0w SIM Unlock, you can restore and upgrade to firmware 3.0 now :)

You FIRST need to restore and upgrade your iPhone to firmware 3.0 in iTunes.

Then you have to Jailbreak your iPhone and install Cydia on it.

Instructions For that can be found here (don't worry about the yellowsn0w warnings!):

http://blog.iphone-dev.org/post/126908912/redsn0w-in-june

You will then need UltraSnow which you can download from Dev-Team:

http://blog.iphone-dev.org/post/128573459/ultras-now

That is all :) Enjoy your newly unlocked 3.0 iPhone goodness :)

MobileInstallation Patch For iPhone 3.0 (7A341)

Here is where you can get the file:

http://www.iphonedownloadblog.com/2009/06/20/mobileinstallation-iphone-30/

Alternatively, go to Cydia and add the following source: http://cydia.hackulo.us.

Then install the application called AppSync. This will patch your MobileInstallation file.

How to Force Quit Applications in iPhone 3.0 and iPhone 3GS

To force quit an application in 3.0, press and hold the sleep/wake button until the slide to power off screen appears, then press and hold the home button until the application quits (about six seconds).

Link:

http://www.iphonedownloadblog.com/2009/06/13/force-quit-iphone-30/