The iPhone thread - Page 73

chrisjones · 03-11-2009, 15:31

Quote:

Originally Posted by grandmaster

I could not upgrade, I had to take an "iphone" tariff.
Â£87 for the iphone 3gs 16gb in black.
Â£35 a month.

They reckon it should be delivered on the 10th but im not holding my breath due to the amount of sales i think they will get.

Well thats hardly surprising as its not the 10th yet. Since Iphone is in high demand too, 02 don't loose out by telling people to get 'on their bike' if they ask for cheapo deals.

Stuart · 03-11-2009, 17:27

Just bought myself one of these. It's a small rechargable battery pack and is perfect when you want to use the iPhone (or iPod) on long journeys.

And, it's small enough that it fits in a pocket easily.

---------- Post added at 17:27 ---------- Previous post was at 17:20 ----------

Oh, and a hacker who tried to extort money out of some Jailbroken iPhone owners has published details of how to close the backdoor he used...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/03/iphone_hack/

Basically, you need to change the device's root password..

grandmaster · 03-11-2009, 19:58

Without reading the entire thread have we talked about cases yet?

Im already looking at ebay for protection of my newest gadget...

Im looking at this at the moment..

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...=STRK:MEWAX:IT

Tezcatlipoca · 03-11-2009, 21:43

Quote:

Originally Posted by grandmaster

Without reading the entire thread have we talked about cases yet?

I have a Powersupport Black Air Jacket for my 3GS, my wife's 3G has an, IIRC, InCase Slider.

I had a screen protector on my 3G (Powersupport Anti-glare I think), but haven't bothered with one on my 3GS.

-----------------------------

The new baseband introduced by firmware 3.1 has been cracked by "geohot" (he of, most recently, 3.0's Jailbreak "Purplera1n" & 3.1's Jailbreak "Blackra1n"), meaning that it is now finally possible to perform a carrier unlock on a Jailbroken iPhone running 3.1.x, using the "Blacksn0w" feature of geohot's updated "Blackra1n" OS 3.1 Jailbreaking app.

http://www.tuaw.com/2009/11/03/black...band-05-11-07/

punky · 03-11-2009, 22:05

Regarding Blacksn0w... While geohot is legit and does work with the dev-team his releases do tend to be more sloppy than the dev-team (more crashes, worse battery life, etc). He prefers to get them out asap whereas the dev-team tend to want to release more robust solutions. I'd wait until the dev-team do a solution.

grandmaster · 04-11-2009, 09:30

04 Nov 2009 parcel - dpd next day - Customer data received

Do you think they will hold on to it till the 10th?
I got a text at 6 this morning with a tracking number etc...

superbiatch · 04-11-2009, 16:10

Quote:

Originally Posted by Matt D

I have a Powersupport Black Air Jacket for my 3GS, my wife's 3G has an, IIRC, InCase Slider.

I've got something similar on mine, but its a bit too chunky and has to be removed before I can sit it on my docking station - is it really slim around the phone?

punky · 08-11-2009, 20:10

Quote:

Originally Posted by punky

Some people are having problems with P55 mobos and their iPhone...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10..._p55_problems/

Gigabyte have released a beta BIOS update, nothing from ASUS or MSI though.

http://gizmodo.com/5399320/gigabyte-...syncing-issues

Stuart · 08-11-2009, 20:26

Quote:

Originally Posted by punky

Gigabyte have released a beta BIOS update, nothing from ASUS or MSI though.

http://gizmodo.com/5399320/gigabyte-...syncing-issues

In fairness to Apple, I've had problems with USB with other, non-apple devices on my intel chipset. On thing that springs to mind is my old Freeview box (an unbranded one). When it was plugged in, my external USB HDD would suffer disk errors and eventually disconnect.

**Hugh** · 09-11-2009, 12:14

There appears to be a "virus" affecting jail-broken iPhones.
BBC

Quote:

The self-propagating program changes the phone's wallpaper to a picture of 80s singer Rick Astley with the message "ikee is never going to give you up".
The worm, known as ikee, only affects "jail-broken" phones, where a user has removed Apple's protection mechanisms to allow the phone to run any software.

punky · 09-11-2009, 12:16

Quote:

The worm, known as ikee, only affects "jail-broken" phones, where a user has removed Apple's protection mechanisms to allow the phone to run any software.

No, it only affects phones that have a SSH server installed with the default password. Big difference.

Stuart · 09-11-2009, 12:19

And instructions for changing the password (which you should do anyway regardless of whether there is a virus) are at http://cydia.saurik.com/password.html

**Damien** · 09-11-2009, 12:20

Quote:

Originally Posted by punky

No, it only affects phones that have a SSH server installed with the default password. Big difference.

As far as I know though, that is a process with happens during the jail break meaning users need to explicitly turn off (or change the password for) the SSH server after jail breaking their phones?

punky · 09-11-2009, 12:25

Quote:

Originally Posted by Damien

As far as I know though, that is a process with happens during the jail break meaning users need to explicitly turn off (or change the password for) the SSH server after jail breaking their phones?

There is no process, but users are reminded. Trouble is people don't read things like manuals and readmes anymore.

dilli-theclaw · 09-11-2009, 16:47

This is good news for me anyway

I don't like having to use my iPhone via jailbreaking. Well worth the Â£15 to have it unlocked (I'm on a pay as you go handset).