Rock and roll, Apple!
Sep/090
It’s D-Day! Well, not exactly, but Apple’s gotten creative this year by making the event coincide with the 090909 mark of the century. And boy, Steve Jobs is back! He’s the keynote speaker of the event. I’m sure some of you might have missed what has happened in the past hour, so why not make a summary?
Photo courtesy of gdgt
- iPhone and iPod touch OS 3.1. (duh)
- Genius function in iTunes now applied to App Store: It suggests what apps you might like based on your current inventory.
- Ringtones will be sold at $1.29.
- Free for iPhone users. Only iPod touch users who have OS 3.0 will get to download OS 3.1 for free.
- iTunes
- iTunes 9 released.
- Genius mixes (something like your iTunes DJ, but Genius technology incorporated)
- Home sharing. Songs, movies and shows can be copied to 5 different authorized computers.
- Redesigned iTunes Store.
- iTunes LP for music, Extras for movies.
- Sharing to Facebook & Twitter now possible.
- Apps can be managed through iTunes.
- iPods
- iPod touch pricings: $199 for 8GB, $299 for 32GB, $399 for 64GB
- 32GB and 64GB versions will have OpenGL.
- iPod classic will be bumped up to 160GB for the same old price: $249.
- iPod shuffle will not be kicked! In fact, there’s now the “nanochromatic” version of the shuffle for 2GB at $59, and a stainless steel version (4GB) at $99.
- iPod nano will have 2.2″ display, camera, mic and speaker built-in. FM player built-in as well. Voice recorder app and pedometer is also in that small little thing. Amazing.
- iPod nano will be draining your wallet of $149 for 8GB, or $179 for 16GB.
That’s all the announcements. I’m sure many of you guys out there have been expecting much more things from Apple, including a camera for the iPod touch. But cheer up, at least there were other improvements! And oh, jailbreakers: 3.1 is not jailbreakable yet. ;)
No QuickPWN? No Problem! 3.0 Jailbreak for iPhone 3G
Jun/0913
UPDATE: Still awaiting a QuickPWN release? Maybe you got punked! Did QuickPWN.com Rip Off The Dev Team’s iPhone Jailbreak? Just some food for thought. On with the show…
Like many of you, I counted the days until Apple released OS 3.0. I knew the Dev Team had been churning out the jailbreaks for the beta versions of OS 3.0, so I was pretty confident it would be released quickly, but just to be safe I went and glanced at the QuickPWN blog. Yep. It’s out. All set.
Oops… Yeah, so I went ahead with the OS 3.0 update only to realize that in my excitement and haste I had misread the blog and there was no QuickPWN for OS 3.0 yet!!! This was disheartening, but I was sure it would be available any day. Well, to make a long story short, it isn’t out and it isn’t coming, atleast not from the Dev Team. Although QuickPWN’s blog says they will have something out soon, I can’t wait any longer… I’m going in to deep jailbreak withdrawals and need a fix ASAP! So, here’s the result of my digging around to figure out a solution…
Here’s the usual disclaimer… you could turn your iPhone inside out and upside down and maybe make it poop on itself. That said, you’ll probably be just fine if you follow these instructions. And if not, it’s highly probably that a restore in iTunes will fix your problem and get you back to normal. What fun would gadget cracking be if you couldn’t potentially brick you expensive high tech toys? THIS IS NOT FOR IPHONE 3GS! Only 3G. I will verify this on my girlfriends iPod Touch 2G later and let you know if I had to buy her a new one or not :P I don’t mean to make this sound so risky, it really isn’t, but I don’t want angry iPhone users pissed at me because something went awry.
Step 1 – Preliminary Work (read: boring stuff):
Go to this entry on the Dev Team’s blog and READ the entire post. Make sure you understand what they’re saying (okay, this basically more disclaimer). While your there download RedSn0w for your OS of choice (I am jailbreaking mine on a PC). As of right now I think everyone running OS 3.0 is using revision 7A341, but to make this article future proof I need to tell you how to check this on your iPhone to be sure. It is very important to use the correct firmware for the jailbreak! Don’t worry, it’s easy and doesn’t merit a sub-totorial. Just go to Settings > General > About. You will see the firmware version at the bottom of your screen, like so:
See it downthere at the bottom? That was simple enough.