In October 2011, Apple won a patent detailing the method of sliding an onscreen mark to unlock the iOS operating system on a mobile device. Now, just four months later, Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus is coming under fire for violating that patent.
As Samsung and Apple have been going head-to-head in court lately, this should come as little surprise. The latest battlefield was in Germany where Samsung was hoping (more…)
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, which brings a number of cool unlock animations to your iPhone .
UnlockFx is developed by Filippo Bigarella, who has developed popular
users to customize almost each and every aspect of iOS.
As you can see from the video below, UnlockFX is quite easy to setup and it allows users to setup simple animations such as Translate up, rotate clockwise/anti-clockwise etc and complex animations such as slide away, wiggling etc.
It also allows you (more…)
, iPhone Dev team have released an updated version of
.
Ultrasn0w 1.2.5 can now be installed on a
running iOS 5.01. Dev team hasn’t added support to any new baseband so it will be compatible with basebands 04.26.08, 05.11.07, 05.12.01, 05.13.04, and 06.15.00 for iPhone 3GS and baseband 01.59.00 for iPhone 4. You can find your iPhone ’s baseband by going to Settings –> About –> Modem Firmware.
Please note that the only way to upgrade (more…)
Few days back, MuscleNerd – the most vocal member of the
.
MuscleNerd has just posted an update on the progress on Twitter.
Here’s a tiny snippet: http://twitpic.com/7mg5hp …but we’ll be digging into the rest of it too! 
iPhone 4S teardown had revealed that it comes with Qualcomm MDM6610 chipset, which is confirmed in the tiny snippet below:
The baseband bootrom (called “SecureROM” by Apple ) is the first code that runs on the baseband (more…)
and iPad 2 users, has been patched by Apple in the final version of iOS 5.
users.
Crazy Thanksgiving weekend! Very promising 4S unlock (http://twitpic.com/7kku4t) is in the works (Not i4, just 4S..that’s crazy part)
It means that they have discovered out an exploit in the A5 processor that powers iPhone 4S and iPad 2 that will allow users to unlock their iPhone 4S so that they can use it with any other GSM carrier.
Since you first need to (more…)
Yesterday, the blogosphere was abuzz with news that it was possible to
.
When we first read about it, it seemed quite unbelievable, but various user reports, a video and confirmation from sites like
seemed to suggest it works.
It was unbelievable because never in the history of the iPhone , unlocking an iPhone has been possible without hacking the device or using hardware such as GEVEY SIM. But based on comments from our wonderful readers (more…)
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Image composite by Joe Aimonetti)
If you’re suffering from iPhone 4S envy, chances are you’re stuck in a contract on a non-iPhone network such as T-Mobile. Now, according to a developer’s post on Pastebin, users can unlock their iPhone 4S for use with any network, without any software or hardware hacks.
Before we get started, this is one of those workarounds that should be done with caution. As (more…)
Few days back, Apple won a patent for the “slide to unlock” gesture.
Apple had applied for the patent back in 2005, claiming the exclusive rights to unlocking a touchscreen device by tracing a preset pattern or gesture with a finger.
“a device with a touch-sensitive display may be unlocked via gestures performed on the touch-sensitive display. The device is unlocked if contact with the display corresponds to a predefined gesture for unlocking (more…)
