Aren’t those messages that tell you an application has crashed annoying. No I don’t want to report this to Apple!
Here’s how to turn them off. Open Terminal.app. Type the following: defaults write com.apple.CrashReporter DialogType none
This mod is very useful and very easy to apply.
Type the following in Terminal.app:
defaults write com.apple.Dock showhidden -bool YES (Press enter)
Killall Dock (Press enter again, the dock will restart and your mod is now applied)
Everytime you sync your iPhone using iTunes it will try to make a full backup image of your phone. This is a great idea but it takes AGES and personally if my phone was to break I’d rather restore to a blank OS anyway. I assume this will work with the iPod Touch as well.
Here’s how to stop this automated process, courtesy of ZeroLogic.
- Quit iTunes.
- Open Terminal.app
- Copy and paste this in, then hit return:
defaults write com.apple.iTunes DeviceBackupsDisabled -bool true
Changing ‘true’ to ‘false’ will enable the backup process again, if needed.
iClarified have got some really great guides when it comes to hacking your iPhone. These guides will show you how to Jailbreak, activate and Unlock your 2.0 2G iPhone and how to Jailbreak and activate your 3G iPhone.
3G
How to Jailbreak and activate - Mac
How to Jailbreak and activate - Windows
2G
How to Jailbreak, activate and unlock - Mac
How to Jailbreak, activate and unlock - Windows
Things to note: These guides are for software version 2.0. Guides for version 1.1.4 can be found on the site but you’ll have to look.
If you’re planning on using your phone on it’s original / allowed network after hacking - such as a Pay as you go user on O2 - then make sure you activate through iTunes, otherwise you may find you have No service and end up having to Restore and start again.
Have fun! And remember there’s no easy way of bricking an iPhone, so if it all goes wrong, just restore.
Let me start by saying this isn’t going to be a ‘full’ review of the phone - just my general feelings after 11 days :-)
When it came in the post I, like any other geek was very excited. I don’t know why but I was expecting something great when it came to the box - I was disappointed to find out it’s just an iPhone box with ‘3G’ on it.
At first, and still to this day, I think the phone feels lighter and slimmer in your hand. The curved back is a really nice touch and makes the phone look very professional - however I’m still not sure it’s actually any better than the previous iPhone, I’ll talk about that below. Having owned an iPod Touch for a very short time I can say it feels very similar to the Touch. The thin feeling of the device is what gives it that illusion I think. The lighter feel is all an illusion though I’m sure as it’s actually only 2g lighter. The metal volume/power buttons are a nice touch.
Unfortunately the 2.0 software isn’t great. The new features are wonderful - and the SDK/App Store brings endless exciting opportunities but 2.0 is very sluggish at times and sometimes struggles to do the most simplest of things. 1.1.4 had an interface that felt very instant, and it’s something I’ve got used to. Unfortunately, unlike the first iPhone, you can’t just downgrade to 1.1.4 and wait until 2.1. You’re stuck with 2.0. Seriously Apple; you need to fix this.
Battery life isn’t great. Apple has really annoyed me with this - they claim on their website an extra 50 hours standby time - that’s bollocks. I felt with my first iPhone it only used battery when I was actually using it - and it didn’t use anything in standby. The 3G uses battery like no tomorrow. I used to get up to around 4 days standby & 10 hours or so actual phone usage. I get 1 day standby and 2 hours usage if I’m lucky with the 3G.
You know how when you buy a new laptop, your old laptop feels obsolete and a thing of a past. With the iPhone 3G I really don’t get that feeling. If someone said to me “Hey Jack, if I give you all your money back and say you have to use your iPhone 2G from now on” I’d have to seriously think about it. GPS, faster data transfer & a nicer design really doesn’t match having acceptable battery life.
So… you’re going on holiday. You’re going to a press event. You’re going to a conference. What ever it is you’re bound to find a time where WiFi is unavailable and browsing the net on your iPhone just won’t do it.
Here’s a how to to get you going. These are instructions for a Mac running OS X Leopard. It should work fine with Tiger and maybe even older OSs.
Turn on bluetooth and choose to setup a new bluetooth device. When you’re done make sure you add you’re Laptop as an ‘authorised’ device or something similar on your phone. This isn’t essential but just makes things simpler.
Select your device in the Bluetooth window (system preferences) and select the configure menu (next to add and remove) and select edit serial ports. Select Dial Up Networking and choose to add to network connections. Hit apply.
Go to network preferences and you’ll see the new connection device. Enter your username and password. For example O2 is o2wap and password. Click advanced and then choose your phone’s model and then GPRS. Enter the APN for example O2 is wap.o2.co.uk.
Go to the proxies tab and enter 193.113.200.195 for HTTP and 8080 for the port. You can do the same for HTTPS. Click Ok.
Hit connect and you should see the bluetooth icon light up (or something similar) and then the GPRS do the same thing. (EDGE in some cases).
Enjoy browsing!
