Monthly Archives: September 2008

[iPhone] Nullriver’s Netshare remains banned from AppStore

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Nullriver reports, their tethering software Netshare remains banned from Apple’s official AppStore. Netshare allowed MacOS X users to use the iPhone as a wireless modem to connect to the internet. While most of  nowadays’ cell phones include such functionality, the iPhone still doesn’t.

Besides Nullriver many other developers critisize Apple’s AppStore policies for being too vage. In the past weeks Apple banned several Apps or even disallowed them in the first place. Apple argued the banned apps had a limited value of benefit for the AppStore customers. Developers argue Apple doesn’t want real competition.

[iPhone] Recommended Apps: Karajan Eartrainer

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Abstract

As Holger Meyer puts it: “Karajan is an easy to use music and ear training application for the iPhone and iPod Touch. It provides lessons for learning to recognize intervals, chords, scales, pitch and tempo (bpm) with detailed statistics. Karajan is a great tool for music theory students, whether they are in junior high, high school, or college. It is also very useful for every hobby musician.”

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What we say

Karajan is our APP OF THE WEEK. Karajan is pure fun. Improving our music skills is fairly easy with this program. Karajan includes:

  • Intervals
  • Chords
  • Scales
  • Pitch
  • Tempo (BPM)
  • 5 built in instruments
  • Pre defined and individual levels
  • Detailed statistics function
  • Reverse play
  • 4 different play modes

Karajan is available in two versions. The beginner version does not include all functions, but is free of charge. Get it from the AppStore (links are provided below). For first testing purposes this is the app of your choice.

Karajan is really easy to handle. See this video here:

Suggestions

We wonder, why this has not been released for a Mac yet? Holger, come on…

Download

» Get “Karajan Beginner” for free here…
» Get “Karajan” (14.99US$ or 11.99€) here…

[iPhone] Workarounds for Issues with PwnageTool/QuickPwn for Firmware 2.1

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We read all over the net and found some solutions to the most common issues that occurred. If you are kinda conservative user, we’d recommend not to update to firmware 2.1 and wait until a PwnageTool and QuickPwn update has been released. Since the iPhone Dev Team is reacting very fast, this should take only some days.

Known Workarounds:

Error 1600 and Error 6: restore with stock firmware 2.1, then QuickPwn (you may then put into restore mode and install custom IPSW, but it’s not necessary- credits to “HomeGrown”).

Error 1600: when Pwnage asks, if already pwned your device, answer NO, no matter if you pwned if before or not (credits to “Maurofoto”)

Error 1600: let iTunes download firmware 2.1 again (you may delete it from the local folder if you already downloaded it via iTunes. Folder on a Mac: ~/Library/iTunes/iPhone Software Update/), then exit iTunes, prep a custom IPSW using Pwnage, delete the iTunes downloaded firmware from the above mentioned folder again and copy your custom IPSW to that folder, but name it exactly as the original firmware was named (credits to “Markat”)

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[iPhone] PwnageTool and QuickPwn for Firmware 2.1 released (Updated)

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The iPhone Dev Team did it again. Firmware 2.1 has been released yesterday and PwnageTool and QuickPwn are yet updated to support jailbreaking and unlocking. Nice! Besides support of firmware 2.1, the iPhone Dev Team found a way to even fool the new iTunes 8 pwnage detection (read our recent article here). Now iTunes 8 will install custom firmware compiled with PwnageTool again – no patching or modifying of iTunes 8 required…

[Update] 14th of Sept, 2008: People report issues with different errors. We are just prepping a collection of workarounds. Find them in some minutes here.

Kudos to the Dev Team !!!

» Download QuickPwn here… (SHA: 0b2dcb51e224b12590793e8a758dd80c450e5b64)
» Download PwnageTool here… (SHA: 92487230c66296ec1e414260b5f107e5d351923f)

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[iPhone] iTunes 8 crashs Windows Vista

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Windows Vista users complain about complete operating system crashs resulting in blue screens. iTunes 8 for Windows seems to have the following issues, when using under Vista:

  • after connection an iPod Touch or an iPhone to the USB port: complete system hang up
  • CD/DVD drives disappear from Windows Explorer

But Apple already reacted and distributes now a fixed version. This implies you need to uninstall your current iTunes 8, then download the fixed iTunes 8 and install ii.

[iPhone] Firmware 2.1 Released

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Apple made their promises come true. Firmware 2.1 is out now. If you are using a pwned iPhone – don’t update now, as it is unclear at the moment, if the iPhone remains unlocked. According to Apple firmware 2.1 should:

  • Decrease dropped calls
  • improve battery life
  • reduce backup time
  • improve email reliability (POP and Exchange)
  • allow faster installation of 3rd party apps
  • reduce hangs and crashes for users with lots of third party applications (we don’t know either what exactly does “lots” mean?)
  • improve performance in text messaging
  • allow faster loading and searching of contacts
  • improve accuracy of the 3G signal strength display
  • and some more…

Rumors say updating the iPhone to 2.1 and using QuickPwn with firmware 2.0.2 in order to jailbreak should work. We can’t confirm this and moreover: we definitely recommend not to try this. iPod Touch may want to visit QuickPwn to find further instructions for dealing with 2.1.

As conservative users: wait a couple of days. The iPhone Dev Team is most likely on their marks…

[iPhone] iTunes 8 detects Pwned iPhone Firmware

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Warning

Firmware 2.1 will be released today. As of now, it cannot be pwned – no matter if you are running QuickPwn or PwnageTool. We recommend not to update until further notice.

Current Status

The iPhone Dev Team reports iTunes tries to countermeasure the exploits the well known Pwnage Tool is using. After having compiled a custom firmware with Pwnage Tool or WinPwn, you need to install it using iTunes. Now, iTunes in version 8.0 refuses to install custom firmware, thus combatting Pwnage’s way into the iPhone or the iPod Touch. The iPhone Dev Team released the photo below indicating the error message from iTunes 8, when trying to install a custom firmware to a (not yet) pwned iPod Touch. As of now, it is unknown if iTunes can also detect an already installed custom firmware. Thus allowing original unmodded updates to install. This would also allow the use QuickPwn. iTunes seems not to be able to detect already pwned iPhones. Forum reports say, iTunes 8 still can install custom firmware to an already pwned iPhone. For those guys of you who are running a device fresh from the factory (means not pwned), use QuickPwn as a workaround for now.

Interim solution to pwn a new device:

  1. Use QuickPwn to jailbreak and then Pwn/unlock your device
  2. if you like you can then use Pwnage Tool to create a recovery custom firmware (imho: you don’t need it, after having QuickPwned your devices

Next Steps

Anyway the Dev Team reports, they are working on a way to trick iTunes, thus forcing iTunes to install custom firmwares even on not pwned devices. The iPhone Dev Team is currently prepping a whole lot of patches for iTunes 8, no matter if you are on Windows or on Mac. Patches will be released during the next week.

» Read the iPhone Dev Team’s article here…

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[MacOS] EFI-X USB Devices on Sale

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Update May 5,  2009: EPOS I. does pretty much the same like EFI-X, but is free of charge for endusers. Find EPOS I. here.

We today finally received an EFI-X V1 device for review purposes. As our device arrived from Taiwan, there is obviously a swiss dealer who really got some devices for sale, yet. We get back to you a little later, when we setup our testing lab devices. In the meantime, enjoy some photos…

» List of EFI-X Retail Dealers…

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[e-Biz] T-Mobile vs. Sipgate: Court rules in Favor of T-Mobile

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The higher regional court of Hamburg (Hamburger Oberlandesgericht) yesterday ruled in favor of T-Mobile. Sipgate is not allowed to promote or distribute its iPhone application that allowed Voice-over-IP (VoIP) telephony on jailbroken iPhones anymore.

The issue is not the application, but installing Sipgates VoIP client required to jailbreak the iPhone. And jailbreaking of T-Mobile’s customer’s iPhones is illegal in germany. By the way: jailbreaking of iPhones bought abroad is not.

[internal] Page Structure, Taxonomy and Categories Updated

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This project grew from a little idea. The idea was to share knowledge about things you can hardly find anywhere else on the net. As we moved forward this project grew and still grows. Each day thousands of people from all over the world visit our pages. In the beginning we were happy with 4,000 visitors a month. In peak times we currently got more than 2,000 visitors per day. Thanks to all of you guys.

Anyway, we realized without searching you cannot find too much on our pages. That’s why we decided to change the categories and the structure of our pages a little bit. Also the weighting of the “similar news” has been adjusted. We expect you to find things much easier and faster.

I you like: drop us a line and tell us what you think…

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