iPhone HTC Sense
You’ll need a jailbroken iPhone to accomplish the task, but once you’re done, you’ll have the beauty and awe of the HTC Sense UI, complete with the sexy clock/weather widget, updated app icons and delighfully curved launch dock. Check out a video of HTC Sense on the iPhone in action:
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Google Voice Mobile is now available for free. It used to cost $2.99 on the App Store, the only problem is where and how to install Google Voice Mobile when it is no longer available on the App Store.
The solution? In order to grab GV Mobile, launch Cydia on your jailbroken iPhone and search for GV Mobile. Yes, you need to jail break your iPhone.
Update – Neal from the comments pointed this out:
You can use Google Voice without Jailbreaking – http://www.intoyourheadpodcast.com/blogpressexperiment/?p=478
[via Gecko And Fly]
SMS Fix
Apple released the iPhone 3.0.1 software update, patching the SMS vulnerability revealed Thursday at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. The release notes of the 3.0.1 update were short and to the point: “Fixes SMS vulnerability” for the iPhone 3G and 3GS.
Security researchers Charlie Miller and Collin Mulliner demonstrated the SMS flaw at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas on Thursday.
Apple was quick to fix the problem after it went public, although the two researchers said they told the Cupertino company about the flaw a month ago. Google has already fixed the flaw for its Android OS, the BBC reports.
The company has begun sending out more detailed messages to some of the frustrated customers who have been voicing their complaints. The message below was written by Glenn Lurie, AT&T’s President of Emerging Devices and Resale.
Your letter concerning Apple’s decision on the Google Voice iPhone app was forwarded to me since I work closely with Apple.
While we’re very proud to offer the iPhone 3GS along with the thousands of apps available through the App Store, AT&T does not manage the App Store – and we are not involved in the approval process for apps in the App Store. I recommend in this particular case that you express your concerns to Apple.
I’m glad you’re enjoying your iPhone and hope that you continue to be an AT&T customer. We appreciate and value your business.
Sincerely,
Glenn Lurie
AT&T’s stance is no longer that it can’t talk about the App Store — it’s that it doesn’t manage the App Store, and that any concerns about this case should be directed at Apple. Of course, the note leaves plenty of wiggle room for AT&T.
[via Tech Crunch]
the iPhone Dev Team has now gone live with their redsn0w iPhone 3GS jailbreak, something they were holding off on doing and waiting for the iPhone OS 3.1 update reports Intomobile.
Redsn0w replaces QuickPWN and preserves the iPhone 3.0 baseband for future iPhone OS releases which is important for people who want to unlock their iPhones at a later date. Once you have jailbroken you can then use ultrasn0w to unlock your iPhone.
We have a video demonstration for iPhoners on unlocking the iPhone 3GS, which can be viewed below, so hit it up and enjoy.
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[via Phones Review]
Cydia Store
The Cydia Store launched its first product on March 07, 2009. Cyntact sold sells for a buck, and was the first paid package through the Cydia Store. It allows you to see profile pictures in contact lists. While not the only 3rd party application store for the iPhone (Rock Your Phone also exists), it is definitely the most popular one, largely due to Cydia’s immense popularity as the source for jailbreak packages (items you can only get when jailbroken – like themes and apps such as GV Mobile, recently kicked out of the AppStore).
Now, 4 1/2 months later, “the Cydia Store has had ~53,000 purchases for a grand total of ~$210,000 spent,” said Jay Freeman, creator of Cydia, known as saurik to most in the jailbreak crowd. And for a good while, packages weren’t even being accepted into the store other than a few beta packages, which he used to live test the service after the initial offline testing. (Packages are now being added more and more as the service matures – use our Cydia submission form if you’ve got an application you’d like ModMyi to host (we’re not your only option), and we’ll be in touch).
Until March, the AppStore was the only sustainable way for a developer to sell their app. There were a few ambitious apps which were freely available in lite versions from Cydia, and had their own built-in payment systems
(PdaNet comes to mind, although that whole move to paid was a bit controversial and actually made me completely revise our update approval process for the MMi repo). ZodTTD created an “invite-only” repository where only donaters could access, with unique URL’s for the repo depending on your device, email, etc. Both these methods were hacks (however elegant) to get around the glaring issue – no way existed for jailbreak developers to make any income from their work, forcing scores of developers to either give up on the jailbreak community, never get involved to begin with, or save their best for AppStore, while releasing lesser quality (and lesser time-consuming) packages on Cydia.
The Cydia Store brings a whole new market as a viable option. Freeman states “In the last day, ~470,000 unique devices reported into my server
(when I last checked, months ago, this figure was ~350,000). In the last week, ~1.5 million. In the last month, ~3 million. In the last two months, ~4 million devices. To be honest, this actually surprised me: I thought the jailbreak community had a higher attrition rate: that I’d be seeing a much smaller percentage of ‘identifiers of jailbroken devices that were seen in the last two months’”. That’s a decent audience. The method of sale is well thought-out, too. Your Cydia Store account is tied to either a Facebook account or a Google account, much like your AppStore account is tied to your iTunes account. Sign in once, and your info is saved unless you log out. Same with payment info – associate your device with your payment method once, and its saved for future purchases (of course with an option to turn it off).
[via Mod My i]
Two researchers have found an iPhone bug that could infect phones virally via SMS. They plan to reveal the still unpatched iPhone bug at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas on Thursday. If you receive a text message with a single square character, you are advised to immediately turn off your iPhone, as they warn it means that someone has utilized the bug to take over your iPhone.
This is serious. The only thing you can do to prevent it is turn off your phone,” said cybersecurity researcher Charles Miller. “Someone could pretty quickly take over every iPhone in the world with this.”
The two found the bug in how the iPhone handles text messages. Once in control, the hacker has complete control over your iPhone, allowing them to make calls, visit websites, turn on the camera and more importantly they can send the bug via SMS.
Well over a month ago, they have reached out to Apple, but have not heard back.
Charles Miller isn’t new at finding security flaws in the iPhone. Back in 2007, Miller found a bug that allowed someone to remotely hijack the iPhone via the browser.
It’s not clear if Apple has included a fix in iPhone OS 3.1, which recently entered beta 3 stage, so will not be ready by Thursday.
Be careful out there and perhaps we’ll have more information come Thursday on a possible fix from Apple.
[via Everything iCafe]
GV Voice, however, didn’t take their removal lying down. Nope, they (meaning developer Sean Kovacs) picked themselves right up, marched over to Cydia, and promptly made themselves available for Jailbreak.
[via The iPhone Blog]
See how weak Apple’s security on your shiny new iPhone 3GS is. Hopefully, after watching this you will be a little more careful about what you put on your iPhone.
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I have seen a lot of people ask how to enable MMS on their iPhone on AT&T. I found an article awhile ago that explained how to do it, but I am not able to find it anymore so I thought I would post up a step by step on how to enable MMS on the iPhone. This is how I got the option to send MMS. I am still unable to send MMS even though some have been successful.
Disclaimer – Neither ATi nor I take any responsibility for any problems, issues, bricking/etc. that may occur while using this software to modify your iPhone.
MMS Process:
You will need the following:
August brought this to my attention, you can load a custom IPCC file with the current iTunes if you run these commands
MAC:
defaults write com.apple.iTunes carrier-testing -bool TRUE
WINDOWS:
“%ProgramFiles%\iTunes\iTunes.exe” /setPrefInt carrier-testing 1
APN Settings:
Note: The reason you reinstall a different version of iTunes is because it’s a “Pre-Release” version which allows you to load custom .ipcc files, whereas in the standard iTunes version you can’t do this. Also you reboot your PC after uninstalling iTunes to ensure all changes take effect to your PC and you’re able to give a fresh install of PR iTunes.
If you have playlists, videos, etc – I recommend doing this on a different machine than your primary machine because it’s easier than saving and restoring all your information.
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