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HOWTO: Jailbreak iPhone 4S and iPad 2
So I got home, logged onto twitter and found out the iPad2 and 4S jailbreak untethered had been released.
Real simple to do, download Absinthe from http://cache.greenpois0n.com/dl/absinthe-mac-0.1.2-1.zip
- Launch on your Mac
- Disable Passcode Lock
- Hit Jailbreak
- Wait a few moments
- Launch the Absinthe logo on the iPhone
- Your phone will look as though its restoring
- When back up there is Cydia
Enjoy your jailbroken A5 devices!
Update: If your phone doesn’t look as though it is doing anything when the Absinthe logo is launched on your device. Simply do a reboot
Update2: It looks as though greenpois0n.com is having problems at the moment, you may be getting “Error Establishing Database Connection” when you try and launch the Absinthe application on your iPhone 4S or iPad2.
iPhone 4S speaker problems
So today I noticed a problem with my new 4S speaker. I downloaded the 12 days of christmas application and also continued to download the top gear episodes that were todays gift.
When I started playing the video it sounded a little strange, I covered up the right speaker and you could tell something was in the way of the speaker. I then continued to cover up the left speaker and there was no change.
It appears the left hand speaker in my iPhone is not working, I have tried all the usual restoring firmware etc but still had no effect. I made my appointment at the Apple store tomorrow to see if they will swap it out. If they don’t have any in stock I may return the phone and stick with my iPhone 4, but that is another blog post as to why I may just do that.
I will update this post tomorrow when I get back from the Apple store.
So I decided to cancel my appointment at the Apple store. Reason being from a reply on the comments made me look for something so simple. However looking at the iPhone 4 specs this seems to be the same. I will check on my iPhone 4 to see if the issue is the same and if it is, I won’t do anything and just put it down to a stupid moment I was having. If it doesn’t it is def going back to Apple to check.
iTunes Match – First thoughts
So today I subscribed to iTunes Match. Why?
1) I wanted all my music available where ever I went.
2) I wanted all of the album artwork that was available to me
3) I wanted someone to sort out my music collection while I drank coffee and which was all automatic
This works really well, however one thing I am disappointed with was the ability to not rename the file name of my music. iTunes match obviously had in mind what all the albums were but it didn’t rename the tracks that were in different styles. I wanted all my music to look similar. I have file names in capital letters, lower case and was hoping iTunes would sort all these out when it downloaded the album artwork for all of my music. However it didn’t.
This was a huge disappointment for me and for that reason I decided to turn off my auto renew subscription. I am going to see how much i use iTunes match and try to justify to myself is it worth the £22 that I paid for the year.
Another grumble I had, not anything to do with apple, or I don’t think it is, is how long it takes to upload the songs that iTunes doesn’t already have.
I have had iTunes running all day and uploading music files to “the cloud” but this is still on going as you can see from here
I think this may have something to do with my crappy upload speed but Im not sure yet. Time will tell.
Overall I am half satisfied and half not, I really wanted all my music to have a standard naming convention which iTunes match simply just hasn’t done.
Back to the iPhone I go
Back to the iPhone I go
Well it lasted almost 3 months, I said it would be for good but it just wasn’t meant to be.
I said I would stay with the HTC Desire Z but after losing all my text messages for around the fifth time, I finally cracked and decided the only phone for me was the iPhone.
I’m now back using my 16GB iPhone 3GS and I can honestly say I have missed it so much. Its so much nicer to use, nicer to hold, nicer looking apps, basically just a nicer phone and OS!
iPhone 3GS 4.0 Jailbroken!
Well what a morning, after going to sleep last night I had no idea what today would have in store with me. I found myself checking my tweets when I got into work with a mention from @SirTrott asking if I had jailbroken my iPhone yet. This was fantastic to my eyes and straight away I thought damn, I’m at work with no access to iTunes and cannot do it until I get home.
Then a quick search on the internet and found out that you no longer need to do it on a PC/MAC. If you simply browse to http://jailbreakme.com it does it all for you on your iDevice!
After numerous attempts to do it this morning I finally gave up and decided to try the http://modmyi.com mirror which seems much quicker and can be found http://jailbreakme.modmyi.com
I now have my iPhone 3GS jailbroken and cydia is once again on my home screen. This is fantastic new and have been waiting for this for some time now.
Easy peasy for you to do.
Browse to http://jailbreakme.com or http://jailbreakme.modmyi.com
slide the slider bar
wait a few minutes
bingo your done! enjoy your new jailbroken device.
The jailbreak works for the following:
#iquarium cheat iPhone / iPad
If you come across this blog post then you already know what iquarium is and you don’t need me to explain
If you are fed up of waiting and waiting to get new items for your fish tank then follow these few little instructions.
MAKE SURE EVERYTIME YOU EXECUTE THE BELOW YOU FEED YOUR FISH
Ok then here we go.
Launch iquarium and feed your fish
Close iquarium
Change your clock on the iPhone / iPad to 23:59
Launch iquarium again
Now feed your fish!!!
You will notice that you gain 149 points
Feed your fish!!!!
You can carry this out as many times as you wish, but always make sure you feed your fish, otherwise it will die and you will lose all your points and have to start again.
Oh and one last thing, don’t forget to change your clock back to the normal time, otherwise you many be late getting up for work/school ha ha
Enjoy!