.
Semaphore,
that prevents users from using Firmware Umbrella.
It seems that Apple has decided to put a baseband requirement on iOS. So at this point, if you are using Saurik’s server or tiny umbrella and trying to restore 4.2.1 on an iPhone 4, you will end up in recovery mode and tiny umbrella will not be able to pull you out of recovery.
This means that tools like Firmware Umbrella allow you to update your iPhone 4 to the latest firmware (more…)

Seriously looking forward this one.
Also I need some help here guys! I have an Iphone 3Gs that I did jailbreak it with the “jailbreakme” link that you was released few months ago. My problem now is that I don't know what happened down the road, but with that Jailbreak I couldn't send MMS. So after 4.1 was released, I decided to update my iPhone so I can be able back to send MMS. Almost after I did so, my iPhone is acting weird regarding (more…)

It seems that Apple has decided to put a baseband requirement on iOS. So at this point, if you are using Saurik’s server or tiny umbrella and trying to restore 4.2.1 on an iPhone 4, you will end up in recovery mode and tiny umbrella will not be able to pull you out of recovery.
This means that tools like Firmware Umbrella allow you to update your iPhone 4 to the latest firmware but preserves the baseband from getting upgraded will not work.
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The ‘baseband’ is the generic nickname given to the internal components of the iPhone that handle the phone calls and Internet access. This ‘baseband’ is a tiny and unique independent computer system that runs inside your iPhone , it is separate to the main system that handles the applications (such as email and google maps) and it talks to the main part of the phone over an internal communications network.
Think of it like a cable modem (more…)

to confirm that they’re incorrectly displaying the signal strength, which will be fixed with a
that will provide users a much better indication of the reception that they are getting in a given area.
Upon investigation, we were stunned to find that the formula we use to calculate how many bars of signal strength to display is totally wrong. Our formula, in many instances, mistakenly displays 2 more bars than it should for a given signal strength. (more…)

Ultrasn0w 0.93 released! Cydia repo is repo666.ultrasn0w.com. Works with basebands 04.26.08 thru 05.13.04
or earlier (upto iPhone OS 3.0) then you should be able to install Ultrasn0w from Cydia to unlock your iPhone .
Please add the repo repo666.ultrasn0w.com to Cydia. That last “o” is actually the number zero “0”. If you use the letter “o” you’ll get an error.
Then search for ‘ultrasn0w’ in Cydia and install ultrasn0w.
T-Mobile (more…)

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When MuscleNerd was asked a question about unlocking iPhone OS 3.1.3 and baseband 05.12.01 that’s included in it, he responded with the following tweet:
yep…the final 4.0 next week will be an even later version and is confirmed unlockable (possibly iPhone 4 too)
few months back but had decided to wait until a major version of iOS such as iOS 4 to release their unlocking tools.
after iPhone 4 is available on June 24. The tools should also
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The iPhone hacking community has already discovered two working exploits for the baseband 05.12.01 that is bundled in iPhone OS 3.1.3.
Last week, Sherif Hashim had also discovered an
had confirmed that it is working.
And we reported yesterday that Geohot, the iPhone hacking expert who had released popular
,
that was bundled with iPhone OS 3.1.3.
“Ha just re-found crashing command yellowsn0w was originally going to use before +stkprof. (more…)

d8b50dc95d7906e3ff6155331a534b55d0f6cac1=good. And motorama this weekend!
had confirmed that it is working.
iHackintosh has also published the conversation between Visnet (iHackintosh reader), Geohot and MuscleNerd:
What does geohot tweet mean?
geohot: did you turn that over to the dev team or are you doing something with it?
yep, just checked
Oo, it carries over from 05.11 to 05.12?
why wouldn’t it, apple doesn’t fix things proactivly
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If you are a loyal blackra1n user who kept the blackra1n.app on your iPhone , run it. You will see Icy replaced by an option “ra1n”. Install this to upgrade your app. After upgrading, run blackra1n.app again. You will see “sn0w”. Install this, and enjoy your unlocked iPhone .
If you are new to the scene, just looking for an unlock, finally ready to upgrade to 3.1.2 and the accompanying baseband, willing to restore for the latest and greatest, or stuck (more…)