Couple of days back, we had reported that the US International Trade Commission (ITC) had ruled that 
 and had banned some HTC phones from April 2012.
At that time, we had noted that if HTC can work with Google to come up with an implementation of the feature without infringing on Apple ‘s patent or remove the feature completely then the ban on HTC products won’t have any effect.
reports that HTC already has a workaround to avoid ITC ban.
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, unofficial custom bundles, Universal Ramdisk Fixes and tetheredboot utility.
tools are released.
As always, I give my standard warning not to update and wait for the jailbreak release. This time, I am giving some extra caution, however.
With 4.3 comes apple ’s implementation of address space layout randomization (ASLR). In short, this will mess up the way mobile substrate works. You will need a new mobile substrate in order to use your favorite (more…)

In the support document, Apple has described the symptoms as follows:
In some regions, shortly before or after the daylight saving time (DST) change, repeating alarms created in the Clock app may work incorrectly
, Middle East,
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Apple has provided the following solution to resolve the issue until iOS 4.2 is released:
To resolve this behavior for existing alarms, set the repeat interval to Never. You will need to reset these alarms for each (more…)

In a blog post,
This time of year there are lots of new iPhone owners, and not everybody knows that accepting new iOS updates is the surest way to lose your jailbreak and/or unlock. While those of you who have Cydia or TinyUmbrella backups of your FW hashes will always be able to get back to 4.0.1 if you make this mistake, this doesn’t hold for unlockers. There’s currently no known way to revert your baseband — if you update your baseband (more…)

Gripping any phone will result in some attenuation of its antenna performance, with certain places being worse than others depending on the placement of the antennas. This is a fact of life for every wireless phone. If you ever experience this on your iPhone 4, avoid gripping it in the lower left corner in a way that covers both sides of the black strip in the metal band, or simply use one of many available cases.
Steve Jobs had also responded to (more…)

According to the release notes, iTunes 9.2 includes the following new features and improvements:
Sync with iPhone 4 to enjoy your favorite music, movies, TV shows, books and more on-the-go
Sync and read books with iPhone or iPod touch with iOS 4 and iBooks 1.1
Organize and sync PDF documents as books. Read PDFs with iBooks 1.1 on iPad and any iPhone or iPod touch with iOS 4
) are recommending users to avoid installing iTunes 9.2 if they want (more…)

WARNING! At 10.30AM PST on February 2nd 2010 Apple released the 3.1.3 version (7E18) of the iPhoneOS.
If you care about your jailbreak and unlock, don’t update your device – 3G and 3G(S) owners should pay particular attention to this warning.
PwnageTool and redsn0w are not yet compatible with 3.1.3
There is no estimated release time for compatible tools (please don’t bug us about this).
It also looks like iPhone OS 3.1.3 also updates the (more…)

WARNING! At 10.20AM PDT on October 8th 2009 Apple released the 3.1.2 version (7D11) of the iPhoneOS.
If you care about your jailbreak and unlock, don’t update your device – 3G and 3G(S) owners should pay particular attention to this warning.
PwnageTool and redsn0w are not yet compatible with 3.1.2
There is no estimated release time for compatible tools (please don’t bug us about this).
for Mac to allow iPhone 2G,
to upgrade to iPhone (more…)

This week Apple will be all over the news with their announcements at Wednesday’s “Let’s Rock” event. But with so many new owners of the iPhone 3GS, and with so many new owners of the iPhone 3G (perhaps sold to them buy these new 3GS owners)…now is a good time to send out this general advisory.
If you update to Apple ’s new software using the normal iTunes process, you will lose your ultrasn0w unlock. In fact you may lose it permanently, (more…)

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iPhone OS 3.1 updates the iPhone OS as well as the modem firmware (from 04.26.08 in iPhone OS 3.0 to 05.11.07). So users who have jailbroken their iPhone and want to unlock it will have to wait for the
to release an updated version of their PwnageTool, which will allow them to update the OS without updating the modem firmware.
MuscleNerd has confirmed that Dev Team will release PwnageTool for iPhone OS 3.1 :
If you want to only jailbreak (more…)