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lungwun:
28 hours? men! i got the same in like 2. what do you think of it? have been on it since late feb. and save for superfetch, i dont think
anything is too different.

hell no! even if MTN runs CONSISTENTLY at 1mbps (ie 125KBp/s) which rarely happens and only at some nights, it means the most you can download after 2 hours is 900mb, less than a gig.

average speed these days falls between 20KBp/s and 50KBp/s. with a good download manager (which sucks up all available bandwidth) the speed hovers between 120KBp/s and 70KBp/s, still below the 1.5-2mbps you need to download over 2gigs in just 2 hours.

heck even the 240mb iphone firmware these guys are complaining about will take you near an hour to download with MTN. i know, because i do heavy downloads all the time.

if you had a 3mbps DSL, FiOS or Cable link then you can get 2gigs in an hour or less; but not with MTN's HSDPA link which is simply horrible.

Infoseye:
I finaly got a game to install I did not update but I downloaded a mobileinstallation Patch for 2.0.2 but when I tried opening the game it says "The Application cannot be opened" man am getting tired of this Iphone wahala just to install a game only is trouble sha.I Just need the update.

The Iphone is a great Phone but its complexity is what put pple off the phone, Now I see why pple prefer Nokia all the same its a great phone.

you do realize, dont you, that you're trying to install pirated games? what, you thought Apple was going to make it easier for you to steal? in any case, cracking iphone games and apps is the easiest on any platform. its far easier than Nokia's app-signing, cert-uploading wahala.

incidentally, installing legitimate, official apps and games on the iphone is also easier than on any phone. why, the entire catalog resides on the iphone home screen! on tap, and thats it!

Infoseye:
is just that b4 I can upgrade I have to download 240MB file and then jailbreak again for the second time not complaining but I wonder why apple had to make us go through all that stress thats all.

well, Apple clearly said jailbreaking is illegal; you dont expect them to make it easy for you, do you? besides, thank goodness one can download the iphone firmware update and install offline. ever trying to do that with a Nokia phone? especially with the bad network links we have in naija?

a damn sight healthier than the sh1t dangling off your butt

. . . .aaaaand the man talks to a bot.

mendax:
@ex

i am using an iphone 1.x, & i really need 2 upgrade 2 d 2.x. pls, culd u assist me 2 do dis (as in physically), my prob is iv seen d whole procedure but downloading d software i need is really very taskin almost impossible for me. i dont really know where u are residing, though i enter lagos once in a while. alternatively, if u can help me or willin 2 talk, i'l just get across 2u (or drop my number), thanx a million! u'v really been helpful since ur last reply 2 me. it actually made me realise i'v not been utilising d fone.
thanx

mostly i live in KD, but im often in Abuja and other places (ie sweeter places         ). mobility plays a role in my line of work as i dont physically have to be in the office all the time. its been a while i was in lagos, dont plan to be there anytime soon.

what you need to do is get hold of MTN's 3G modem and load up 2,500, wait until 3am and then use your fave download manager (Orbit is best, i downloaded Windows 7 RC worth 2.37GB in just 28 hours off and on) to grab the firmware using the links i gave you. then follow the steps given earlier. once you get hold of the firmware, just let us know here.

if you happen not to be in naija, getting cable or DSL broadband wont be too much of a hassle (depending on where you are).

@Texazzpete

well i got fed up waiting endlessly for you so i went ahead and got another 3G. wasnt the plan but then you failed, epically.

Resident Evil Degeneration on iPhone.

ive converted some of the pix from PNG to JPG because the file sizes were too big.

um, Logica, pipe down. you aint doing no one no good going thermal like this. klas isnt a fair fight.

@klas

im sure Logica meant no harm. you just have to get used to the fact that not all insults are meant to sting.

there are various apps that supposedly back up cydia apps; i say supposedly because they are often dubious and dont do as claimed. most cydia apps are in the kilobytes range, yellowsn0w included. i guess the benefits of having your own account far outweigh the hassle of re-firing up cydia. you can try Icy if you hate cydia's infamous "reloading data" time waster.

i'll advise exorcising your phone of its previous owner's demons and infusing yours from scratch.

@Klas

itunes uses cookies to keep track of account holders. purge the iphone of any and all apps installed by your source, or do a complete restore since evidently the content in there isnt yours anyway. then go in and sign up.

@hayprof
you cant get a purchase account with any naija credit card, so you can only go with a free itunes account. getting one is dead easy.

1. fire up itunes when online (make sure you've good connection; itunes can be picky).

2. click Itunes Store on the left sidebar

3. when the store interface comes up, click AppStore

4. go to Top Free Apps on the right, selct any app

5. on the next screen that pops up, select Get App

6. when the log in dialog appears, choose Crete Account

7. At the credit card registration screen, select None.

8. fill in all the details

9. use any US address including ZIP code, State, City, Area Phone code, and phone number. the address can be blah blah but make sure the ZIP, city, Area and phone numbers are genuine. you can use these (State=CA (california), City=Van Nuys, ZIP Code=91401, Phone area code=818, Phone number = 785-xxxx)

10. open your mailbox and verify the sent email from Apple.

that's it; freee podcasts, album arts, tuesday giveaways, and free iphone apps.

lynxnoon:
To all iPhone gurus( esp  Tex&Ex)
Yesterday i tried transfering audio files tru itunes 2 3 difrent iPhones but cudnt, i tried dragging d file(wich wokd 4 ipods), copy&paste didnt, also cudnt modify d Sync features & u all knw wat wil hapen if i directly sync
I dunno but it sims iPhones r configured 2 work on a single pc,  or am i wrong?

absolutely.

synchronization means keeping two things in ,er, sync. its different from drag and drop which the iphone does not support. even if you enable manual management of media in itunes, it still wipes off alien stuff.

there is a solution called freesync that messes with your ipod db and can crash your library. avoid.

next best is swaptunes on Cydia which allows syncing with 2 different machines though you can only access one library at a time.

AMAKAONE:
and your point sir is, ?

my point, ma'am, is this entire thread is pointless and has no justification for its existence. of all the serious stuff you can ponder on, it has to be fried plantain? this topic has neither entertainment nor educational merits and adds no value to nairaland.

you might as well talk about the stuff i posted earlier.

and it seems all that fried oily plantain has deadened your sense of sarcasm.

some people just dont have anything to do. i always say that seun should start charging 10 naira per post, perhaps then people would post only meaningful stuff. like:

how do you like the air you breathe

should the sky be less bluer

if grass isnt green, what color should it be

water is tasteless; true or false

my sh1t is brown, what color is yours

do you like yourself? if not, why?

you're like, a whole year behind in this. there are far easier methods. just check the iphone killer apps thread and flick a few pages back.

[quote author=*Hauwa* link=topic=266343.msg3789737#msg3789737 date=1240884611]yeah, Ecomug ofc, happy now?

Semper Fi[/quote]yeah, Semper Fidelis to you too.

in naija, rather than "always faithful" its "Forward ever backward never" and "no going back" etc. depending on the army unit.


me, still prefer FUBAR: Fuct Up Beyond All Recovery

or SNAFU: Situation Normal, All Fuct Up


on topic, if you issue ipods to naija troops, first thing they do is sell them.

turawafett:
Apologies to all, we are here to help each other.

so we are, so we are.

but then, a "help" that suggests using minicom to create a serial connection is more difficult than SSH, especially with all that CLI messing. BB version is obtainable via ABOUT in settings.

i guess its better to just SSH with Tunnel Suite or WinSCP (Putty on Mac).

turawafett:
For the mannerless here u don't have to use abusive words, Unlocking and jailbreaking are same method, i will post you the do its yourself link to you, the difference is you add bootlog to it during jailbreaking process, and you need to connect the iphone to internet to finished the unlocking in case of a 3g iphone.

the stuff in bold above is patently false. EPIC FAIL!!

if you mean they are the same, you are wrong. if you mean they are arrived at by the same method you are wrong. we have said this before.

jailbreaking is freeing up the filesystem with admin privileges. unlocking is modifying or spoofing the baseband to get network service.

Bootneuter unlocks 2G iphone, yellowsn0w "unlocks" 3G. i put unlock in quotes because the 3G unlock is not full unlock. it uses an injection vector running on something similar to Backgrounder to deliver its payload which initializes and runs on boot time. the baseband remains completely unmodified with its seczone intact.

turawafett:
For the mannerless here u don't have to use abusive words

im guessing you are referring to Logica and I with the above. well, anyone posting wrong info is fair game.

you included.



mannerless?

hark!!


"in this world of vainly missions

im the god of superstition

would you cope for my existence?

would you last or cease persistence?

im the moon and the seventh dreamer

you're the hewn and a lost redeemer

heaven works for a welkin at dusk

but you're the frail outcast

sit and recall the fragments of a broken life

just like a shattered soul divine

you are the treason-reflecting eyes

you are the darkness that sets in every light

you are the scavenger of the dreamless night,

a token of murdered sleep




but I

am the arrow

the shaft that dispels

your horror."

Liberati tu te me ex inferis (means "save yourself from hell"

-Sirenia on the Wane Revisited

@Turawafett

your efforts are commendable.


the need to downgrade from 2.2.1 to 2.2 is mostly on account of the 3G software unlock known as yellowsn0w. this unlock method requires only the 2.2 baseband (ie 02-28-00) to work and nothing else. upgrading from 2.2 to 2.2.1 on the 3G updates the 02-28-00 baseband to 02-30-03 which is incompatible with yellowsn0w.

clearly anyone wishing to use their phone on any unauthorized network who have upgraded to 2.2.1 MUST downgrade, where possible, to 2.2 (or at least downgrade only the baseband from 02.30 to 02.28).

your method above describes downgrading FOR THE IPHONE CLASSIC. in the original (non-3G) iphone the baseband remains the same across 2.x.x (ie 2.0 to 2.2.1). this baseband is 04-05-04_G. therefore on whatever firmware from 2.0 through to 2.2.1 downgrading is possible and is easy because the baseband remains the same.

however the issue here is downgrading the baseband from 02.30.03 to 02.28.00 on the iphone 3G. downgrading from a higher baseband to a lower one is difficult across almost any device range.

just try downgrading the firmware of NICs say from gigabit ethernet to 10/100 Base T. (the BASE here refers to BASEBAND, the opposite of BROADBAND).

so, 2.2.1 software is downgradeable on iphone classic to 2.2 because only the software is downgraded, while on 3G its much more difficult because the baseband is involved.


hope this makes the issue clearer.

[quote author=*Hauwa* link=topic=266343.msg3786184#msg3786184 date=1240836334]God bless our troops. Great news!
Semper Fi[/quote]*OUR* Troops? what is this, Nairaland or RedNeck Immigrant Forum? unless you mean naija troops in Ecomog or something, seriously you're way off.


*semper fi*

right

FUBAR, more like.

@ OYB

haha, nice bait on the opener.

logica:
Ex Inferis,

Applying a little bit of logic, my BL could not have been upgraded to 5.9 from my 2.2.1 Custom OS update. Reason being the BB downgrade was specifically made for those who mistakenly upgraded to 2.2.1 using the official OS, and if this also upgraded the BL to 5.9, then this would make no sense as the exploit only worked on 5.8 and not 5.9. So my iPhone definitely came with a 5.9 BL (on 2.2 OS).

im not disputing because you just made a valid point. as for DownBB i was just thinking phasebandowngrader ought to be on cydia when i saw ur post.

nice one.

seighapaul:
I honestly don't know why posters prefer responding to a comment with abusive languages. It only shows how immature and professional they are. I only give an advice that the owner of the iPhone should consult a technically inclined people to help him solve the iPhone problem, and as usual, insults was the response.

If you check from the original poster's comment, a reasonable reader would deduct that the poster has little technical IT knowledge on solving the current problem and here you are (insulters), giving him online technical asistance that'll confuse him the more. Why don't you tell him to take it to someone who does.

According to my fellow "insulters", two days to solve a problem means I'm incompetent, with this assumption, you can only classify the mindset of these "insulters". Using 1 month to solve a problem doesn't mean it'll take another same 1 month to solve the same problem at another time or place. Only downloading the firmware (~245mb) took the whole day with my current internet speed.

You need your iPhone unlocked?, Pls call me or walk down to the nearest Techie that can help. ONCE AGAIN DO NOT DO IT URSELF.

This is just my little advice to you.

Ezekiel
07025958303

if you want to come across as a techie, do so without assuming no one else knows anything about anything. your previous post seems to suggest we all dont knwo what we're talking about when most of us were on the iphone haxxing scene since 2007. Logica in particular hops on to iphone IRC channels and talks with the actual devs. i know something or two about electronic circuitry, telecoms and software programming. Texazzpete has been doing ROM flashes and moddings since you were a sperm. so what makes you think we are know-nothings encouraging "Trial and error"?

market your "genuis" if you so wish, but on this forum, in all things iphone, we dont let anyone profit from what is free. anhyone seeking help on any thing iphone need only ask.

if our posts are highly technical, its only to encourage others to do some research and learn the ropes. thats how we learned. if you dont google say "S Gold" or "Bootloader" or "signature checks" you wont really get a full picture of what iphone haxxing is all about.

you may know how to use Ziphone, Iphone PC Suite, Quickpwn etc but thats only because everything was prepackaged for you with nice big round buttons on a kid-friendly GUI. when we were doing Command Line you probably were messisng with dotsis.

if you want to be a part of the team, simply be humble. stop gloating and calling on "techs". those same "techs" you bleat to hi heaven have contacted us many times to help them out after making bricks of people's iphones. justb because some dude wasted his money in NIIT studying COBOL, FORTRAN, ENIAC and vacuum tubes doesnt mean he has inner grabs on all things iphone.

knowing C or Java doesnt necessarily predispose one to being an iphone genuis. or any phone for that matter. how many so called technicians well versed on unlocking Nokia and samsung phones with Dragon box can unlock the iphone? few.


so be humble, play nice, respect others and i guarantee you wont see any insults.

even a genuis knows greater minds.

logica:
Are you sure it wasn't fiddled with before she got it?

possibility isnt far-fetched, though it was OTB. maybe a cleverly repackaged refurb.

logica:
Well then it must be one of the very first set to be sold right after Yellowsn0w was released, and they were yet to release 2.2.1.

so where did they get 02-30 from? its common knowledge it came only with the 2.2.1 update.

logica:
In reality 2.2.1 was the most redundant update of all (it had fixes of issues nobody knew of), and the only recognizable change was the base-band update.

safari stability, web page cache, saved Mail images in camera roll.

and 02-30. lol.

logica:
You know it just occurred to me that my BL was updated when I tried the custom 2.2.1 FW (which doesn't upgrade the BB but just may update the BL). I had not checked it until after I had tried the custom 2.2.1, though right now I'm on 2.2.

that will happen. glad to know you have a mac.

logica:
@Ex Inferis,

My point here is, as long as the problem is S/W (even though we call the O/S the firmware, the firmware should actually refer to the BL and BB), it can be EASILY resolved. With the firmware issues, of course you require a little more expertise (I'm sure there are tools you can get to resolve this if you speak with members of the DEV team, Elite DEV or even Geohot).

so true. anything in ROM is firmware, and the bootloader is in a PROM chip. except the Baseband actually resides in Flash Memory to alllow for updating. Firmware is a relative term and is not always fixed to mean low-level ROM microcode. Ha! told you i was brushing up to start dumping!!

ok, that was all besides the point but you are absolutely right: software crashes and mods are recoverable. "Firmware"/ROM, not so easily. and that was why stuff like BBUpdaterXtreme, iErase, phasedbandowngrader etc give me the creeps.

logica:
Ex Inferis,

The owner probably upgraded to 2.2.1 then downgraded, by which time the base-band had been updated to 02.30.

Now that I remember, mine came on 2.2 not 2.1.

nope. its my auntie. she cant tell the difference between downgrade and downshift. the phone actually came like that. 02 england.

seighapaul:
Once again I advice you, don't listen to all these do-it-yourself posters/self-acclaimed engrs. You might get urself in a worst situation than you currently are. Get an experienced techie, someone who has done it live. Should only take a couple of minutes and your gadget should be back on its feet.

I had a client walked down to my office with the same problem. He updated is iPhone using iTunes and after the update, when he restarted the iphone he got this exact error msg on the itune connected with the phone "The SIM card inserted in this iPhone does not appear to be supported. Only compatible SIM card from supported Carriers may be used to activate iPhone. Please insert the SIM card that came with your iPhone or visit a supported Carrier's store to recieve a replacement SIM card." It took me two days to finally unlock the iphone. PLEASE DON'T DO IT URSELF OR YOU'LL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE MADE TO YOUR $400 GADGET.

Ezekiel
07025958303
PC Tech Support Specialist

crisis! we are bedevilled by no-nothing idiots. is it too much to ask for help, rather than fiddling TWO WHOLE DAYS for what takes a few minutes?

for your info, that message above always appears whenever a non-sanctioned SIM is in the iphone. anyone who knwos what he's doing KNOWS that the jailbreaking process also ACTIVATES the iphone, no need for itunes activation. only fools get that message.



@Logica

ive seen a phone on 2.2 but with the 02.30 baseband.

turawafett:
www.quickpwn.com go there and download quick pwn its jail break 2.2.1 and even 3.0 filmware u can reach me on turawafetty@yahoo.com

Quickpwn is hosted as a FREE torrent on PirateBay with unofficial mirrors on other community sites, not on Quickpwn.com or other such bogus sites that charge a fee. this post betrays your ignorance: Quickpwn "pwns", it does not unlock iphone 3G.

seighapaul:
The truth is that you have to be a real techie to do it unlock it yourself, and from what I've seen from all posters replying, they're just giving you trial and error solution. If you want your iphone gadget unlocked and working under 15mins, get a genius and pay for his service.

You can reach me on 07025958303 or 08028178405 and get ur gagdet working.

people like you ought to be on the FBT thread selling your "free browsing" wares to the cheapest freeloaders (eg Honsule) who want nothing but to browse for free, get free credits, make free calls, free sms, free food etc. now its greedy people like those you ought to charge, not folks who come here genuinely looking for help.

going by your post and your stupidity in baring your phone numbers for all to see, i can safely say that if you're a genuis, im superman. Dork.

@Poster

this should serve as a lesson; jumping the guns and upgrading without prior research is invitation to bricks. since the iphone normally comes locked and needing to be hacked open to use outside officila networks (HINT: MTN, Zain, Etisalat, Glo etc are NOT official networks) it then stands to reason to at least assume that every update MUST be warily applied on the strength of the probability that Apple must actively be trying to foil hacking and illegal unlocking.

As logica said, baseband 02.30 can be downgraded to 02.28 and be vulnerable to the Yellowsn0w unlock. it requires a fairly technical method involving command line, secure shelling, etc. the tool is called pHaseBanDowngrader and only works on the 5.8 bootloader. if your phone is older than the 2.2.1 update then chances are good you already have the 5.8 bootloader; newer phones come with 5.9.

before you proceed you need to be able to do the following:

1. tunnel into the phone using SSH or similar invasive methods (iphone Pc suite, iphone Tunnel suite etc)

2. download, install, and know how to use mobile Terminal shell commands.

(im not sure but i think MT comes with SSH built in)

get the tool here : http://www.modmyi.com/forums/iphone-news/575351-downgrade-3g-baseband-2-30-2-28-a.html

instructions on usage are there.

if you dont understand a thing, maybe the "genuis" above can put you through. NOT.


@ Texazzpete

this relates to our phone conversation earlier.

official unlock comes immediately after official activation. this means you need to be online and let itunes do its thing.

lots of phones with some sort of sim proxy (turbo sim, gevey etc) are sold as "officially " unlocked. they're bogus. network keeps dropping, so-so 3G signal etc.

since you say the model number thing is deceptive, here's a great way to find out.

officially unlocked iphones, yellowsn0wed iphones and iphone classics unlocked by bootneuter all share one common feature: in Settings the CARRIER option is always present. in sim proxied phones the case is not so. CARRIER, which allows you to manually select network, either does not appear or appears briefly before disappearing in fake unlocks.

bootneuter tears the baseband wide open by removing all sigchecks and modifying the seczone where unlock states reside, yellowsn0w spoofs the baseband into thinking the sim is officially sanctioned and thus allows full network access. sim proxies, on the other hand, do not directly interface with the baseband seczone. they use a sort of weakness in the networks via the IMSI (Int'l mobile subscriber identity)and spoof the mcc/mnc (Mobile Country Code/ Mobile Network Code) to get service. because the baseband is not fully exploited, features are limited to the sim curently installed. hence the ability to select carrier is normally unavailable. and because 3G uses slightly different approach to service, mostly 3G service on sim proxied phones is very spotty.

therefore any phone parading itself as official unlocked but without the CARRIER option in Settings is almost certaily  fake.

texazzpete:
The thing even has my favourite formula (VLOOKUP) and you say make i no use am? lol

pretty sure you wont mind VBA macros in QO, abi?

texazzpete:
That was my first idevice. AFter spending N22k on a nano, you think i was happy to see that happen?

As someone who had in the past fearlessly flashed firmwares, upgraded Xbox and PS2 consoles and done general tinkery i came to the sudden realization that i'm far more comfortable messing around with other people's stuff than my own. That fact was driven home when i was flashing my N140,000 HTC TyTN with an xda-developers cooked ROM and it hung for 20 mins at 95%. I still remember the feeling of cold sweat trickling down my buttcrack

i myself have had several butthole-puckering moments messing with ROM flashes on countless devices. just cant resist the joy of seeing "EEPROM Flash Successful!" on screen. that nail-biting, adrenaline-rushing, sweat-inducing, teeth-clattering moment when the programs says "Working, DO NOT DISCONNECT!/INTERRUPT!". and you wonder what really does happen if you DO interrupt.

im brushing up on interrupts and memory addressing as well as Hexadecimals, all gearing up to start dumping stuff off ROM chips. its the ultimate geekiness.

now, who has an oscilloscope.

logica:
He must have put it in a frying-pan and put it on fire to fry it. I have never seen an iPhone that cannot be fixed as long as it's a S/W problem.

actually ive had 3 experiences where the phone went beyond normal restore salvage. the last one, during Quickpwn flashing NOR, the bootloader became corrupted and booting the phone takes ages, hanging at the apple logo. i downloaded bootneuter to change from 3.9 to 4.6. phone froze, did a hard reset and refused to go beyond the boot logo. i did a restore but seems the original (corrupted) bootloader which resides in ROM is unchanged by the restore, just as in most cases baseband doesnt get touched in a restore to the same firmware.

long story short: the phone freezes on its own, and restarting sometimes hangs on apple logo requirring a hard reset, which takes forever to boot.

lesson: anything that mods ROM/NOR can severely cripple any hardware device. Texaspete found that out with ipod linux.

cabali:
it aint jailbroken actually!

and that, sir, was why we recommend quickpwn. it jailbreaks.

texazzpete:
I was trying to do a simple CellA - Cell B
as in, in excel you'd typically put the '=' sign so it know it's a formula, then click on the first cell, enter the operator and then click on the next cell. Seems in Quick office when you select the other cell the 'cursor' leaves the previous one.

rather than put the arithmetic expression first, key in values to the cell, then place your expression and reference the cells.

texazzpete:
I also tried to do a simple IF statement, was a bit tedious since i had to enter each cell name in the formula. But i can see the potential in the app.

HABA!! guy, this thing is for basic spreadsheeting nah! this one that you're invoking complex statements as if QO is a full office replacement app.

quickoffice is good, but i find Documents to Go (which is in an old motorola Q i never i remember owning until i just dug it up out of mountains of boxed rejecta) retains better compatibility and features closer to MS Office 2003. its the same stuff in my Blackberry Curve.

texazzpete:
Not touching that thing again. I tried it on my ipod nano in december 2005, got a bit impatient while it was updating the firmware and pulled out the cable. Next thing the bugger crashed and rebooted with only linuxy text scrolling on the screen. I had to take it back to the shop and lie that it hapened to me just like that. The confused salesman changed it for me. . .that was the end of my ipodlinux experiment 

chicken!

rockbox and ipod linux are two different things aimed at doing one thing. ipodlinux is ia fork of linux and is ipod-only and tries to mirror the ipod; RockBox is spread wide across various media devices and has its own unique interface as well being built from the ground up with C. it has its own  bootloader which steals bootup routines from the native apple bootloader and can load either firmware, sort of dual boot.

its relatively safe. besides, you can always enter diskmode and revert to your original firmware.

logica:
Ex Inferis,
Refer to this quote in my first post on the subject:

"If u r having WI-FI problems and don't want to spend too much on using GPRS/EDGE/UMTS (which is my exact situation)"

Yes, my iPhone WI-FI functionality has completely kaput.

the only way i can have wifi problems if my machine is connected via ethernet is when my box or the iphone lacks wifi. even with mac filtering or pre-assigned router on the network, its a simple case to hook up wifi via local proxy (such as Free Proxy) and share net connection.

but then, to each his own.

arsenal4va:
Assassins creed

that game looks suspiciously like Hero of Sparta, even the control schemes. a curious job of same engine, different sprites.

logica:
Ex Inferis,

We are not talking about Tethering. What we have in mind is the reverse (browse on your iPhone using your PC connection).

whatever happened to ICS via wifi ad hoc? unless your box doesnt have wifi (which i doubt), fiddling with USB seems like unnecessary geekitude.

cabali:
well, I got it on itunes successfully but it wouldnt go into the iTouch. I just got the firmware upgrade to 2.2

see? laziness. if you'd bothered to flick a few pages back to where we gave tuts on how to install cracked IPAs you wont get this error. install MIPatch and one free appstore app before syncing the pirated apps.

Netshare still exists somewhere on the ether (read: Rapidshare, Demonoid). it only works with Opera and Safari (so far as i know) and supports only HTTP ( no ftp, no POP/Imap, etc). great way to  share internet connection from Iphone 3G to PC (though why anyone would want to do that is something else).

@Tex

Assassin's Creed for the iPhone is out. check Appulo, its 129mb. as for Excel in QuickOffice, just select a cell, type in the formula. the formula bar appears at the top of the screen.

experimenting with RockBox on ipod, so far works great, almost better than Apple's default firmware. it makes even non-video ipods PLAY videos.

Ushersx:
Iphone is a must have,cos its got any gadet yu cud imaging any to have,

iphone, like any other phone, IS a gadget.

Ushersx:
its got almost a 922, 879,271 apps

actually that figure represents TOTAL APPS DOWNLOADED SO FAR (and counting). actual total iphone apps so far = 25,000 +

Ushersx:
Ma iphone is got VIDEO RECORDING,BLUETOOTH etc, its really kool

big blinking deal. any two bit phone got those. that's not what the iphone rage is all about.

cabali:
Amazing Ex!!

Meanwhile how do I get free games on MY itouch? Firmware 2.2

Tex and i covered that ground extensively. search a few pages back.

Laziness.

thegame:
Hmmmmmmm. Mobile geeks.

not really. savvy consumers, more like.   

thegame:
Hey ex, u dnt dig transformers 2 or what?

when i say insane, i mean SICK. the trailer is mind-blowing. you may say its "still the same GM cars turning into giant mecha and slugging it out". the evil cynic in me agrees. but check it, there are more decepticons, everything onscreen gets mega destroyed in typical Michael bay style, and the Autobots get righteous punishment.

and who can deny that the arrival of the decepticons is cinema candy?

its a great trailer, cant wait for may.

but enough off-topic.

Alireta:
Ex, you are correct about the Omnia HD being quite tempting in terms of multimedia features. Unfortunately, the original Omnia was plagued with a number of unforgivable issues, including:

- bad audio during video recording
- audio-video sync issues with recorded videos
- bad implementation of the touchscreen (it just didn't always respond to taps)

The thing about touchscreen phones is that if the touch aspect is badly implemented, the whole experience is ruined. The Omnia left a bad taste in our mouth. While excited about the stunning Omnia HD, we are a bit reluctant to embrace it till it is clear Samsung has sorted out the issues that plagued its older sibling.

As for the N97, its holding very little against the current crop of Nokia devices in its range. A member of our team who owns an E90, for example, says there's very little to entice him to get an N97.

And yes, Symbian OS in its current form is due for overhauling! And that opinion is from a team of mobile geeks who have a long history with Symbian devices.

you are delightfully correct, but the Omnia has great GPS. that alone is worth a purchase.

and yes the N97 is sadly lacking in ways that can be termed inoovative or even clever. its just a cold fusion of N96 and 5800.

we want more. Nokia is looking like the RIM of old, when Blackberries have a frightening monotoniety in spite of the different brand names. now RIM is evolving into a hip player while Nokia is devolving into the Microsoft of the mobile world: inmovable, monolithic, resistant to risks.

jeez, even the new baby, Android, is going through a second iteration (Cupcake).

suspended animation is killing innovation. eventually everyone is going to get tired of S60 and the same way of doing things all over.

same sh1t, different box.

truth is, Symbian is becoming the next WinMo.

@flyuche

im not disputing nokia's market share, indeed apple has lost a little  ( though AAPL is still waxing strong) but if you think the N97 is going to win on the strength of qwerty alone, one may well wonder what Nokia is doing releasing things like the E75. and that also beggars the question why 5800 sales will rise in the face of your assertion that Qwerty phones are the "in thing". in case you dont know (and the evidence clearly shows you dont), the 5800 has a terrible input mechanism, a poor virtual keyboard and of course the stylus/plectrum combo dont help matters.  if you're going to build a phone without hardware keys, make sure the virtual keyboard is up to much. right now, no virtual keyboard can touch the iphone's (why do you think google went back to the drawing board to create cupcake android?).

so, the N97 already has competition from within Nokia stables. the 5800 as i already mentioned, is underwhelming and bound to slow in sales etc. meanwhile, the competition is stacking up (Pre, iphone 3, Omnia, HTC Magic, G2, Touch Diamond2, Blackberry Curve 8900 and storm 2 etc, and dont forget winmo 6.5 is coming while winmo 7 is being cooked).

Nokia will have to go beyond qwerty sliding, OVI, or half-baked touchscreen devices (5800) to survive.

Maybe Nokia ought to leverage one of its best devices: the E90. it already has a nifty hardware qwerty and the requisite screen real estate for multitouch. all it needs is a slim form factor, maemo, AMOLED, and capacitative screen interface. then it'll fit in perfectly as something inbetween a phone and a netbook.

@Mendax

anytime man.

@cabali

i dont charge for the knowledge because i didnt pay for it myself. at any rate, updating the ipod touch is very similar to the iphone, except you dont need to bother with bootloaders and yellowsn0w since the ipod is not a phone.

im sure you know ipod touch firmware, unlike the iphone's, is not free. but thankfully the sharing community exists to make life easier for the token freeloaders amongst us.

so, download ipod touch (firstgen) firmware 2.2.1 FOR FREE from here:

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4805519/iPod_Touch_2.2.1_(5H11a)_full_firmware


do everything as in the previous page EXCEPT downloading bootloaders and yellowsn0w.