Have you ever been annoyed with how iOS notifications only show you a preview of your messages, emails, and other notifications? Well, there is a new tweak in Cydia that changes all that. Conrad Kramer and Joshua Tucker have released "Reveal". This new tweak, now in Cydia, allows you to scroll within your notification bars...
Late yesterday, we told you about a new carrier unlock for the iPhone, called SAM. It was suggested by Musclenerd that if you are using this unlock, you should back up your activation records, as these could be useful for future unlocks. Since then, the iPhone Dev Team have updated Redsn0w, the popular jailbreak tool,...
Update 1: Here's a full video tutorial on how to unlock with SAM: A new software carrier unlock has been released in Cydia, and has been confirmed to work on the iPhone 4S by none other than the unlock wizard himself, Musclenerd. He also says this should work on any jailbroken iPhone on iOS...
Canadian iOS hacker iH8sn0w tweeted that he has found a way to restore A5 devices to an earlier firmware. This is quite significant, as it was previously only possible to downgrade to a 4.x.x firmware and not an earlier 5.x.x firmware. Downgrading is used in a case where you have accidentally, or out of necessity,...
We've heard from many of you that newly released iOS 5.1 has resulted in better battery life, as promised by Apple. The question remains--are you willing to lose your iOS 5.0.1 Absinthe jailbreak to get access to increased battery life in iOS 5.1? The A5 jailbreak for the iPhone 4S was a long time coming....
We've recently published a guide on how to install the new iPhoto for iOS app on the original iPad which is not natively supported by Apple and now, we have another tutorial to help you bypass the iOS 5.1 restriction for installing iPhoto and the latest iMovie update on your jailbroken iOS 5.0.1 devices. As...
Even though Apple now offers unlocked iPhones from their online and retail stores in some countries, there is still a desire to unlock the iPhone, after it's been purchased from a carrier. Having an unlocked iPhone means you can change carriers without having to trade in your device, and gives you the freedom to use your...
Apple could release iOS 5.1 to the public anytime now and when that happens, the window for saving iOS 5.0.1 SHSH blobs will be closed forever. As of now, every iPhone, iPod touch and iPad model is jailbreak-able untethered on iOS 5.0.1 using latest versions of popular jailbreak tools like Redsn0w, Absinthe or CLI. Therefore...
Update 1: @MuscleNerd has tweeted over 205,000 new A5 Cydia installs took place Sunday morning. The Absinthe jailbreak for the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 has exceeded over 1 million downloads in 24 hours, notes @p0sixninja from the Chronic Dev Team to Cult of Mac. The monumental download number was achieved on the first day of the...
The iPhone Dev Team has just released redsn0w 0.9.10b4 (as noted by @MuscleNerd), an update to include the latest iBooks fix for the A4 untethered jailbreak on iOS 5.0.1. Earlier, pod2g notified us of an updated version of Corona via Cydia that includes the newest fix, thanks to @xvolks. Here's what The iPhone Dev Team had...
Ac1dsn0w, the Mac OS exclusive jailbreak tool, is getting @pod2g’s untethered iOS 5.0.1 jailbreak exploit as reported by folks at iDB. The news comes from Twitter user @imRel0ad who is supposedly the vice leader of Pwn Dev Team, the hackers behind Ac1dsn0w utility. It appears that the team has been in touch with @pod2g for a while and has finally...
Earlier, @planetbeing tweeted how A5 jailbreak is a lot more complex than unlocking iPhone 4S baseband and now, we have more news from none other than @pod2g himself, the main figure behind the upcoming untethered iOS 5.0.1 jailbreak for iPad 2 and iPhone 4S devices. He has just updated his blog saying its just a matter of...
