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Phillfree:
how can i install applications on my iphone 1.1.4?need help please

lookit everyone, fred flintstone is on nairaland!

16 gb is 499 pounds while 32gb is 599 simfree preorder, so how does shipping and their margin almost double the price?

Gsmxpert:
better not try to modify a 1.15 modem firmware as your baseband will be damaged.

? ? ? <lost> ? ? ?

texazzpete:
Lol. Wetin clerk wan take core i5 do? A 2Ghz Dell 1545 Core 2 Duo will do just fine for him.

i'd think an Atom would do, since celeron is no more. hell if ARM was x86 i'd recommend that for most of the office yaps out there. check this, a mate thinks core2duo is faster than a solo extreme! theres something about multiple cores that give naijans a boner. just like they believe lots of ram (even beyond the 2.x gb limit on 32bit) makes a system faster (most times its the cache and the FSB). must be compensating for something.

texazzpete:
Htc Evo? That's CDMA. What are you gonna do with that in Nigeria? Unless you're getting them for the likes of Visafone and Starcomms, but you lose out on resale value.

when they say quad band i think "world phone". truth is, i find the legend a better buy cos i just love Sense on Android (lipstick on a pig, i know, but its one of the lil gems that make me even consider android). i;m not too wild on amoled but i like the Mac-like construction of the Legend.

cabali:
How?

IOS GM is on demonoid and TPB trackers, as well as itunes 9.2 beta which is Mac-only for now. then hop to the usual place for redsn0w 9.5 beta (also Mac-only).

texazzpete:
Google is your friend
The iOS4 Gold Master can be installed on iphones and ipod touches - no biggie with ipod touch since you then don't have to worry about unlocking unlike the iphone.

true, my 3gs is factory-unlocked but you wont get activation because GM is dev-only. something about dev UDID.

texazzpete:
I don dey find a clueless person wey i go sell my 3GS to

har har, dumping mine with a small wad for a HTC Evo this week. meanwhile i betcha im getting iphone 4 first. i pity the fools saving up for nokia's N8, which is relying on specs alone to sell. and we know nigerians LOVE specs- the other day i saw a clerk who does nothing but excel and powerpoint shopping for a 4gb core i5. says he read core2duo is slower!

Ralvy:
Lol! , and u think anyone will pay that much after such a revies, Mind posting pics?

one man's meat,

texazzpete:
PS: Android won't catch up to Apple's iOS in a long while. And as soon as Windows Phone 7 hits the market, expect the release rate of android phones to be slowed down considerably.

i dpont quite agree. win phone 7 is every bit as closed as ios is, and while the momentum of android goes beyond openness, it's still quite a major factor. the hoops oems have to go through with MS and their draconian dictates of hardware, design, app approval etc is far and beyond the hurdles to android. and not being able to customize the hell out of that ugly zune UI (modding UI ala SPB Mobile Shell etc was one of the biggest points of relic winmo) only serves to make android more appealing, especially to the geek squad. just so long as google stops being an ass and allows Marketplace on bastardized android.

i expect Bada to fail, BB OS is just going from bad to worse, if anything i expect a surge in android devices unless and until HP does something with WebOS and licences their inevitable frankenstein-esque creation.

remember, android is always free.

flyuche:
catch up in terms of what? sales ?

ease of use and sex appeal.

look, android goes on countless devices by various oems, IOS is only on like 3 devices (iphone, ipad and ipod touch). discounting fragmentation by volume i'll say IOS outsells android.

IOS4 Gold Master on my ipod touch, multitasking and wallpaper enabled.

kodeblurr:
@ na2day

U right, but after unlocking it with blackrain

I don't see any network and the version is 3.1.2 (7D11)

Need help please

blackra1n jailbreaks, blacksn0w unlocks

paid a small fortune for a Nexus One. the phone sux something awful. hate android, feels much like my old G1 does even with froyo (rooted).

gimme 110,000 and its yours.

next stop: iphone 4G/HD

ibookstore

free tv shows

Nairaland gloried by iPad

[quote author=na2day? link=topic=125097.msg6105888#msg6105888 date=1275009370]ok, mods pls do something, i am sick of posting and your silly bot deletes and innocent post! [/quote]same here, typed a thousand-word rejoinder over our background/multitask argument but tthey kept killing it so i gave up.

still removing my posts.

jailbroken, cydia'd and rocking HD versions of Real Racing, NOVA etc and iphone apps via fullforce.

meanwhile try this source in cydia: www.sinfuliphonerepo.com.

all cydia store apps cracked.

the Bot is still taking my posts down. WTF?

3GS Cam pix

@na2day

in your haste-nay, zeal-to further expose yourself as an utter slowpoke you deliberately made up tall tales which only serve to embarrass you.

[quote author=na2day? link=topic=125097.msg6013568#msg6013568 date=1273212316]@ Ex Inferis
This is what happens when half baked ikeja computer village technicians hit the streets[/quote]woops! im not from lagos, and certainly not a technician. so, FAIL!


[quote author=na2day? link=topic=125097.msg6013568#msg6013568 date=1273212316]. i am not sure which is your problem, your inability to comprehend or your desire to impress. like they say, when the blind leads the blind, both will fall in the ditch.[/quote]i have no desire to do either, i only jumped in to your spat with cabali. i have no horse in this race save to enlighten you.

[quote author=na2day? link=topic=125097.msg6013568#msg6013568 date=1273212316]did u read the wiki link u asked me to read? did u see where it referred to the CPU as core unit for multitasking to take place? the OS can only take advantage of what the CPU can offer. implication, if the CPU can't handle multiple processes at one time, an OS will not create in it a miracle, period![/quote]exactly! so its not a hardware thing, its the OS crippled in terms of multitasking. every architecture from x86, x64, ARM, PowerPC and instructions sets like RISC and CISC support multitasking. iphone and iphone 3G run on 620MHz (crippled to like 400mhz ) ARM1176JZF chip with TrustZone. it has SIMD, high perf integer CPU with 8-stage pipeline, 675 Dhrystone, 2.1 MIPS (2.1!). the 3GS runs a ARM Cortex-A8 833mhz throttled to 600mhz or so. the ipad runs a faster ARM cortex too coupled with a PowerVR SGX 535 GPU. all are 32bit RISC-based cpus. therefore all three idevices are more than capable of multitasking. this leads back to the question: why wasnt the iphone multitasking from day one?

the answer is: memory consideration. both iphone and the iphone 3g are limited by 128mb of RAM and a lame 400mhz clock speed. core animation would have suffered if Apple had implemented full-on multitasking from the onset. this means the transitions would stutter same as happens on android when you have too many running apps.

BUT. . .apple's first party apps (ipod,mail,etc) have always supported multitasking right from the beginning. the problem had always been apple not allowing third part apps to run in the background because of that precious 128mb RAM. wehn 2.0 came out, AppStore fell among the allowed first party apps to background.

this clarfies your statement. i never said cpu hardware limitations prevented multitasking. it was a concious OS design choice on the part of apple.

now back to backgrounder. go to subversion and check the code trunk, particularly the header file "overridesController.h". when you close an app backgrounder runs an override that persists the app in ram while alerting the OS the memory space occupied by the app is now free. false pretense! problems arise when the OS seeks to allocate the space to another request. then crashes abound. surely that isnt how multitasking is supposed to be?


[quote author=na2day? link=topic=125097.msg6013568#msg6013568 date=1273212316]btw, what brought all these, i simply said apple likes to create a hype on their products and for the iphone this is very true, how do i know this, i worked for apple for a while supporting apps developers and some other department b4 moving to my current job so i know; and u will be surprised the amount of employees that have jail broken iphones including most of the supervisors i worked with. when the 3gs came out after they release 3.0, one of the hypes was that the 3gs can record videos, well folks have been recording videos on their 3g even without jail breaking it, just get the right app and u are in business. another hype still date is that, u have to buy the 3g or 3gs to have MMS capability, well folks using a jail broken original iphone with the right app on the T-mobile network already use MMS, once again, just get the right app and u are in business.[/quote]Wrong!! apple never hype their products. blogs and fanboys do. they never previewed the ipod, iphone, ipad, iwhatev; not one leak, photo, press statement, or laundry list of features. all you seee and hear prior to official unveiling is rumors, renders, fan art, wishlists, supposed leaks, scoops etc. except for the next gen iphone (if gizmodo is to be believed) no one ever glimpse an unveiled apple product before launch. unlike microsoft et al. first, they previewed the courier and then killed it, HP previewed the Slate and supposedly killed it. all marketing and hype for apple products are done on their behalf by us in forums such as these, and in blogdom.

or can you tell me what the next ipad looks like?

[quote author=na2day? link=topic=125097.msg6013568#msg6013568 date=1273212316]i am off to bed but when i get back from work tomorrow, i am game if u will be online, just give me the time u wanna be online and i will be here to school u on about emulators, ram, multitasking etc. btw, u think apple computers dont have processes running at the background? wow, shows how dumb u are. apples version of the task manager is called the activity monitor, if u click on spotlight and type in activity monitor u will call it up with all processes running at the moment including the ones generated by user apps. for your info, when ever u "X" out of a program in a mac OS, they are really never closed, if u look at the dock u will see the app having a little blue light under it to indicate it is still running at the back ground, to actually quit the program u have to click on the program name and click quit b4 it really goes away and releases memory, so stop running around NL giving fake info like u know something.[/quote]i never mentioned mac os x in all my earlier posts on multitasking, but in your frenzy to atrribute horse manure to me you saw fit to mention mac os x's X button.

bros, ive been with Apple since Mac os 9, just yesterday i gave out an old Powerbook G4 15" (the DVI model) still hanging on to Panther! In Mac OS X closing an app requires going to the app menu in finder and selecting "quit".

now, i

moonraker:
@ na2day?

Well said bro, you really know your stuff,

@ Ex Inferis

i seriously think you need to calm down, Your weakness (notice i didnt use the word problem)

is that you never ever admit that your knowledge is limited. you always think you know all but

every human being has his or her own limits,

wait for you to prove me wrong.

i will admit wrong if and when im proved so. im not saying im omniscient, and i do know my limits (which is why you dont find me in ther sections where i know jack, like Romance section) but i'll say my piece where i feel i can contribute. it is now left for you to prove my limits.

nazzyon:
Not really.

I did not post the link for anyone using it as their day to day phone.

It is here for anyone who might be interested.

the entire interest here is jailbreaking, unlocking, updating, pirating, recovering etc. we aint devs, so why seed a dev fw that basically serves only to update baseband and consequently bricks phones? there are too many noobs and b00bs here who wont have a clue that 4.0 is dev only and may go ahead to update to it thereby creating pains for us who have to painstakingly go through the trouble of replying to insane posts about boohoos and ifails.

if your postings and links cannot contribute anything remotely beneficent then i urge you to cease and desist because as i said, its basically pointless.

no offense.

[quote author=na2day? link=topic=125097.msg6007099#msg6007099 date=1273116385]@ Ex Inferis

i dont know where u fell from but since u want to prove u are smart, kindly define multitasking again and name one phone or computer that multitask and doesn't use its memory in the process?

this dumbazz is still here?[/quote]my pointing out your stupidity is proof enough of my smarts, and i refuse to entertain your idiocy by defining what is one of the most common known OS properties. i do not suffer fools, but if your dementia is a stumbling block to your grasping of my little piece on multitasking then by all means access the ACCESSIBILITY options of windows (its meant for the disabled afterall), open your browser, type the following slowly: www.en.wikipedia.com/wiki/multitasking

you can do that, right? or need i use highlight colors, underlines and bullet points?

oh, and by the way, you b00b, ALL OS operations run in memory. everything is malloc'd at the coding stage. how else would the CPU randomly fetch data to execute? my point is that realworld multitasking has the whole app with its associated processes running in memory in the background. in simulated or sort-of multitasking ala iphone OS 4, the OS has certain services (VOIP, Location, Task Completion, etc) running in the background. any app that supports any of these background services can use those services to maintain operation while in effect the app itself is closed and garbaged out of memory. lets use task completion: say you're running an app thats in the middle of something (like downloading) and you need to switch to another app. closing the in-progress app wont kill the download: the app would just hand over its requests to the running Task Completion service and then close. so, you've freed up memory yet your download is still ongoing thanks to the TC service. see?

now, assuming you have an app that doesnt support any of the background services. what happens when you close the app to switch to another? simple: the app sorts of freezes its current state, saves it in flash memory (not RAM),quits and picks back up when you return to it.

now compare that with true multitasking as in webOS. switch from an app to another and the backgrounded app is still running completely in RAM. no freeze-and-quit, no hand-to-service-and-quit. dont believe me? call up the task manager and see! its what you have in windows.

Apple's approach is what gives the longer battery life and better memory management.

now, Don Juan, i have educated you and i feel elated. why? schooling a slowpoke is gratifying. now go back to the romance section, Maria Sabina is pining for you.

its not even chipping, as in there's no hardware added to mod it. they simply flash the dvd firmware so it can play backup dvds. can even do it yourself. check here: www.ixtreme.net

@funkybaby

i gave the steps you needed but the idiots that run things around here felt is was spam and nuked it. i got sort of banned from posting to boot. even demonoid isnt this tyrannical.


[quote author=na
2day? link=topic=125097.msg5982854#msg5982854 date=1272730839]4.0 is just going to do what jailbreaks have done already for years. multitasking and folders isnt new to the iphone, only that apple likes to take their time and make a hype[/quote]you are referring to backgrounder and variants based off of it. for one, backgrounding isnt true multitasking; its just save states in RAM. its buggy as hell and crashes sprinboard. meanwhile 4.0 offers native "multitasking" in the OS which though it isnt pure multitasking works far better than anything the jailbreak community can cook up.

its not pure multitasking unlike webOS which runs app processes as against iphone OS 4 running services. problem is, if an app doesnt support any of the 7 services apple is running in the oS, then that app can only save its state and quit. so basically its impure multitasking.

iphone OS goes far beyong multitaking: theres gamecenter which jailbreak cant give you (openfeint comes close an its not a jailbreak app), theres Folders, iAd, unified mail inbox and threaded mail etc.

theres only so much jailbreak can do; for most things we still rely on apple. . .

like live homescreens and widgets.

nazzyon:
iPhone OS 4.0 Beta 2
iPhone OS is the operating system running on the iPhone (both original and 3G models) and the iPod Touch. It is based on a variant of the same basic Mach kernel that is found in Mac OS X. iPhone OS includes the software component “Core Animation” from Mac OS X v10.5 which, together with the PowerVR MBX 3D hardware, is responsible for the interface’s smooth animations. The operating system takes up less than half a GB of the device’s total 8 GB or 16 GB storage. It is capable of supporting bundled and future applications from Apple, as well as from third-party developers. Software applications cannot be copied from Mac OS X but must be written and compiled specifically for the iPhone.

Download Link:

http://hotfile.com/dl/39436940/040401a/iPhone3GS4.0.2.part1.rar.html
http://hotfile.com/dl/39438177/3b348c9/iPhone3GS4.0.2.part2.rar.html
http://hotfile.com/dl/39437264/e541fcf/iPhone3GS4.0.2.part3.rar.html
http://hotfile.com/dl/39437528/22b99fb/iPhone3GS4.0.2.part4.rar.html

Size: 355MB

NOTE: It is in Beta. And this links will be available just for a while.

unless you're a dev and have a dev's UDID, thats one great way to render your phone useless as a phone. how do you figure on using a sim? your post is pointless.


@cabali RE: your pissing contest with something called "na2day".

there is only one response to an insect who insists on crawling under your skin: kill it with fire!!

@cabali
hey bud! im pretty done with the iphone for now UNLESS and UNTIL they spruce up the homescreen. static icons in grid formation is worn, dated and very palmOS-of-old. glanceable info without having to tap-tap away at square icons all the time is rather cool.

dont get me wrong, still use it, but with phones like the HTC Incredible and Droid Eris you gotta be nuts to fixate on the iphone.

flyuche:
mr Ex. nice to have you back. now i have one more reason to visit the phone section.

heyyy fly. how u? nice to see u still around. wheres that pr1ck cabali?

uncharted 2, and heavy rain.

@ funkybaby

if you've done any updating before then you've done it all, steps are fairly generic. i think we once talked you through in the long gone days of OS 2.x. besides, Blackra1n and Sn0wbreeze make things a whole lot easier. . . even for babes

you know the routine: grab your 3.1.2 ipsw, fire up itunes, shift-click on UPDATE etc and go from there. once done jailbreak with Blackra1n, unlock with with Blacksn0w, then sit back and sip some green tea (see what i did there? wink wink).

its a good idea to install afc from cydia (search afc2add) since blacksn0w by default does not install it. afc allows you to browse the iphone file system with stuff like ifunbox, iphonebrowser etc. redsn0w installs afc automatically but blacksn0w boasts fewer jailbreak steps.

next up, try the following source: www.sinfuliphonerepo.com

you get cracked cydia store warez like ibluenova (bluetooth ftp), iblacklist, lockinfo, yourtube, universal search, safari downloader, status notifier, android lock, cyntact, appsync 3.1.2 etc.

you may also source up repo.beyouriphone.com in cydia and try the rather excellent pogoplank cracked!

the following cydia sources are also noteworthy: repo.iphonedesignz.com, apt.pwncenter.com, cydia.touch-mania.com, cydia.imodzone.net.

a few words of wisdom though:

1. avoid itunes 9.1 or 9.11; they both break Blackra1n. if you've already updated you can fix it with blackbreeze (google)

2. blackra1n sometimes messes with the wifi. if yours is broken, go to setteings>general>reset>reset network settings.

ive been off the iphone bandwagon for some time now so im a bit out of the picture. before you ask, yes im doing Android.

mendax:
the all new iphone OS 4.0. . . . iphone freaks wuld stil have to wait though as i noticed that there is no flash for the cam yet.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_gadg/ytech_gadg_tc1530

wiat, what? you expecting a flash with a software update? <dazed>

you didnt read your blog right; when they say no flash, they meant as in adobe flash player. the new iphone is purported to have cam flash though. see, cam flash is hardware, flashplayer (often just called flash) is software. two different things.

lalaboi:
Isnt that the phone Apple are sueing HTC for copying ideas of the iphone. . .??

hey, so what? everyone's copying everyone already and everyone's suing everyone. microsoft just claimed rights to portions of android so now HTC is paying microsoft royalties for using google's OS. nuts, right? just buy the phone and watch them slug it out.

funkybaby:
pls where's texazzpete and exinferis?

gentlemen, i need your help with the sofware update

oi! i remember you! you always in one fix or another, why not just get a blackberry or some nokia crap and save us all the hassle?

pray tell what is the nature of your current predicament, o damsel in perpetual distress?

yah, but its so big its a bit unwieldy though the hi def screen (with native youtube in HD!) will blow your mind. the mini is out. waiting for HTC Legend.