Jailbreak

Der Jailbreak ermöglicht das Installieren von Software auch ohne Apples AppStore.

Man kann also Software entwickeln und weitergeben, ohne dass sie über Apple’s Tisch läuft. Somit gibt es keine Qualitätsprüfung, die einige Tage oder Wochen dauern kann. Außerdem ist man auch nicht der Gefahr ausgesetzt, dass die App abgelehnt wird.

Zusätzlich können Funktionen aktiviert werden, die für ältere Modelle deaktiviert wurden – beispielsweise Fast-App-Switching.

Unlock

Der Unlock erlaubt es andere SIM-Karten als beim Kauf mit Vertrag zu verwenden. Das macht Sinn, wenn man einen günstigeren Mobilfunkanbieter findet oder sich z.B. im Ausland befindet und lieber eine dort gültige Prepaid-Karte verwenden möchte.

Unlock nur mit Jailbreak?

Immer wieder liest man in sämtlichen Foren, dass ein Unlock des iPhones nur mit einem Jailbreak möglich ist. Es gibt die Software Blackra1n, mit der es sehr einfach auch ohne Jailbreak funktioniert.

Allerdings hat das den großen Nachteil, dass nach jedem Firmware Update des iOS auch der Unlock wieder weg ist – und zwar so lange bis eine Möglichkeit gefunden wird das zu umgehen.

Wer immer sein iPhone also mit Unlock auf dem neuesten Stand halten will, hat das Pech immer warten zu müssen, bis es den entsprechenden Patch gibt und das kann auch schon mal einige Tage dauern.

Dauerhaft unlocken?

Ja, es gibt die Möglichkeit sein iPhone und jedes andere Telefon auch SIM-Lock-frei zu bekommen. Beim Provider anrufen und genau das verlangen! Benötigt wird noch die IMEI-Nummer, die dann an Apple zum Freigeben weitergeleitet wird. Etwa drei Tage später ist das iPhone frei wie ein Vogel.

Gerüchteküche

Das Unlocken soll erst nach einem Jahr Vertragslaufzeit möglich sein und es könnte kostenpflichtig sein.

In meinem Fall war das iPhone nun zwei Jahre alt und ich habe den Vertrag nicht verlängert. Eure eigenen Erfahrungen könnte ihr gerne in die Kommentare schreiben.

When I was playing around a little bit with it, after the upgrade to the 3.0 firmware and quit Skype, then it somewhat crashed. I saw the the dialog as the picture shows at the right hand side, but then, after relaunching the spingboard, everything worked fine.

For sure, I did I a reboot after that and noticed by the way, that one of the new 3.0 firmware improvements is the SIM-card-unlocking. It is so much faster, that I can not feel any delay, anymore.

To have all that comfort really greatful on your Mac’s screen, I absolutely recommend the installation of the Fritz.Mac Suite. Unfortunately it costs almost 30 Euro, but keep in mind that you use it every day! You can download a full working trial.

Fritz.Mac Suite

The software communicates via different TCP ports with the FritzBox itself to have all that live data.

In my case the Box did not have the required ports for CAPI and Fax services open. This can be done by simply dialling some codes with the phone.

#96*3* to enable CAPI over TCP
#96*5* to enable Fax support

My problem was, that I could not dial those numbers, because I am using a VoiP enabled handset. The Fritz.Mac Suite contains a Call Manager which can dial for you. Putting the codes in there, solved the issue.

Guess what's in firmware 3.0

Apple invited to a iPhone 3.0 firmware presentation. Of course we are all awaiting new features and some things to be optimized. The iPhoneBlog.de invited this evening at 6pm CET to a live chat and a live audio stream.

There are many rumors what could be and would surely will be changed and added. I have created a voting rumor and you are welcome to take part and then let us see what of it will become true.

Speedport’s original firmware has some bad properties. After login it resizes the browsers window, the interface is ugly and some items seem to be misplaced in my opinion. But, all in one it is ok.

Due to I am having T-Home, I am forced to use the Speedport router because of the built in Modem. I just wanted to use my TimeCapsule only, but that did not work, because I do not get any internet connection then.

In former times I already a had FritzBox and was impressed how far it succeeded with useful options. It was even possible in those days to connect a USB capable printer and to print wireless via WLAN. But now, AVM has implemented state of the art features which are really useful for home users or small networks. It provides now USB-support for harddrives and memory sticks and even sharing them with FTP and SMB, VPN tunneling, call answer machine, fax sending/receiving and many more.

Refering to that article mentioned above, I began some research and found some solutions how to get the AVM firmware to the Speedport.

It is not working by just uploading it the normal way! You need to somewhat compile your own thing out of both firmwares. See my steps, and it will work really easy.

Here is my installation guide for Mac users, but with some fantasy you may adapt it for your own purpose:

Disclaimer! YOU ARE DOING ALL THAT AT YOUR OWN RISK! YOUR HARDWARE MAY GET DAMAGED. Read carefully and make sure to understand before doing anything.

First of all, get the Debian businesscard edition (36 MB). The compiling scripts do require some apt libraries which are not available on OS X by default. The stable CD/DVD of Debian 5 crashed during my installation within Parallels Desktop 4.

Begin to create a virtual machine with Parallels by running the assistant. Set the just downloaded Debian 5 ISO file as the CD/DVD drive. Parallels will automatically detect everything what is needed. When the machine starts for the first time and asks you for the installation method, I recommend you to go to the options and select the graphical unattended one. The installation will download everything what is required.

When done, log in as a normal user, because no root access is required. Use the browser icon from the menu bar to download the master script doing all the nasty work for you. For the ease of use, I have created a short URL to type less. You can use the samehttp://kURL.de/opupiin your address bar. If you get a hint, that you have no internet, have a look at the top right corner of your menubar left next to the clock and calendar. There should be a tiny icon and if you click it, you can select a cable network connection. Then reload the script and you should see it’s source text. Store it with menu file, save as. Change the download folder to Desktop!

Open a root terminal window via the menu bar applications, then tools. Go the Desktop directory where the downloaded shell script is located by typingcd DesktopPay attention to the letter case on unix systems! Start the script by typing sh ./download_speed-to-fritz.shThis will do some downloads and may take some time. Now, we change to the new files and run the first script, which will install some needed libraries to continue.cd trunk/speed-to-fritzsh ./install-start

Follow the instructions and read carefully. If everything is done it will start the module configurator which has a nice interface where you can use the cursor keys to change options. Then it downloads the needed firmwares and will re-image them. When you are prompted to reset the router, turn it off! Wait 10 seconds and power it on again. Then the firmware will be installed. Do not interrupt until it is complete!

Then you can access the router over same IP as before or just with http://fritz.boxAll the settings are still kept.

If you made a mistake, you can re-run the last script and restore to the original firmware or just customize other things.

Now I am so happy beeing able to receive faxes and missed calls running on my answering machine by mail to my iPhone!

In an internal xml description, the iPhone and iPod devices are numbered. If the guess follows the same counting rules for the iPod, the new firmware checks for a new iPhone model which is not available, yet.

The gossip factory was talking about a iPhone nano, but that news was deprecated many times by Apple.

I guess, a new one is coming out with the brandnew 4G communication chip, faster GPU/CPU for better gaming performance and longer life battery. I don’t think they will change the screen resolution, because this would be a big challenge to all devolopers having two versions.

What do you think are the diffences between the iPhone 3G and the forthcoming one? What name will it get? iPhone 4G?

iPhone SDK 2.2.1

Yesterday, I was very suprised to see the iPhone 2.2.1 update in my iTunes and I am very proud to have discovered that before the invincible iphoneblog.de did.

Until now, I did not find anything what has really changed.

The readme told, that some bugfixes are done affecting the picture library and the mail account synchronization. The SMS texting should have changed, but I did not notice anything there. The Mail should receive some new features like deleting all mails, but I have not tested it, yet.

Apple keeps going fast in the moment. They released iWork 09 and iLife 09, continued bugfixes in Quicktime, building new hardware, and so on.

Today, I received also a mail, that the new SDK for the iPhone firmware 2.2.1 is available for the developers.

Go on, Apple, that makes me happy!