Archive for September, 2007

On Vacation

Friday, September 21st, 2007

Time for a break now, a relatively ‘long’ one, after more than 2 years’ hardworking. It will continue 14 days, 7 days of my annual vacation days and all 7 days of Oct.1 National Holidays.

I’ll take a trip to YunNan and JiangXi for fun and relax. So before I’m back you wouldn’t get any replay on your comments and questions. Sorry for that.

Regards.

My Most-wanted After Unlock.

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

1. call-in volumn too low
I now use either speaker or earphone.

2.bluetooth doesn’t work well
I tried in firmware 1.0.1. At that time, my friend’s Nokia N70 can find my iphone with its bluetooth enable.
When comes to 1.0.2, N70 can’t find iphone any more.
I googled around. And got nothing confirmed.

3.chinese input
I’m in beijing, china, don forget that.

4.youtube issue
‘error playing video’ needs to be fixed completely.

anySIM – GUI iPhone Unlock Tool Released!

Sunday, September 16th, 2007

Since my iphone has been unlocked already, then it’s not necessary for me to try the newly released GUI tool – anySIM.app by iPhone Dev Team – in person.
And since I HAVEN’T tried, so are the steps not very detailed. It’s just a overall guide. Therefore, if you’ve got any questions in any single step, please leave a comment and i’ll do my best to help you out.

Before you try, make a backup and good luck :-D

  1. Make sure your iphone firmware is version 1.0.2.
  2. Use iBrickr to jailbreak your iphone;
  3. Download unlock GUI tool directly from my hosted here(version 1.0.1))and install ‘anySIM v1.01′ by iBrickr
  4. Launch the anySIM tool on your iPhone and wait until it finished;
  5. Insert your local SIM card and start calling around!

Here’s what the tool looks like.

How To Copy Photos From iPhone To Windows

Friday, September 14th, 2007

First, I’m a newbie to the Mac world.

Second, this how-to, actually, is not worth of a mention, ‘coz it’s really too simple to be put here. But I’d still like to share it with those of iphoners who are still unaware of this ‘trick’.

Okay, so here’s the how-to.

iphone as camera on xp

Picture says all, you got that? :-)

Yes. iPhone will be recognized as a digital camera by Windows after connected via USB.

And then when you double click the ‘Apple iPhone’ icon, you will see a full list of all the photos on your iphone taken by the camera and not capable of being synced by iTunes. Then you can select all and copy them to your local folders wherever you choose.

Update(Jun 4th, 2008): If you didn’t get what you want, which means you wanna copy non-camera-rool-photos to your computer, currently you have two options regarding of my knowledge: 1. commercial software, like Tansee iPhone Transfer Photo ; 2. free one, iThmbConv.exe. As you can see the tool is for iPod from the start, not for iphone, so you may need some additional steps to get the correct-sized photos, esp. when the size of your iphone photo is not the same as iPod’s default size.

iPhone Independent Day Finally Comes!

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

iPhone Dev Team is REALLY GREAT!!

I’ll try the guide after work-time myself, since i didn’t take the USB connector with me right now.

So expecting… :-D

Update: It worked!

  • SMS in/out yes
  • Call in/out yes
  • GPRS ? (To Be Check)
  • EDGE yes(FREE(Chinese) so far in Beijing Here :-D :-D )
  • Youtube no (after tweak, only the video list can be seen)

See pictures below :-D

iphone on china mobile

iphone on china mobile

Salute to iPhone Dev Team!

Saturday, September 8th, 2007

Read this from iPhone Dev Wiki forum by Sam titled ‘My words on iphonesimfree proof‘(http://hackint0sh.org/forum/showthread.php?t=5148):

We had two offers so far form commercial unlocking companys in the past as well, one can be read in the status thread of the dev team news forum, one was only handled on IRC. Even if one of the offers was about 100.000 Eur coming for a company named “da vinci team,” and honestly this is more than I will earn in the next few years all together, not me nor anybody on the team was even thinking of selling the unlock according to our strong believe in hacking ethics, a thing a lot of people properly will never understand but its a way to go for some crazy people like us.

To this ethics we also count the belief that one shall not steal, so we are not going to reverse engineer the ipsf solution as many people believed or expected but finish our own software and way, which will be released as the free unlock solution.

So far we written multiple thousand lines of code, invested endless hours of time and energy (yes also electrical ) into this project. And none of the people left even thinks about giving up now the work of the past 2 months, which was hard, stressing and outsourcing for any of us.

Also in the future we will supply you with further “quality” solutions and hacks to stay and still serve the iPhone community with our work. In the meantime enjoy the fruits of the dev team work, like the countless cool programs made with nightwatchs toolchain or the other neat tool allowing you to do all the stuff you can do today based upon our research.

That’s what a REAL hacker looks like in my minds! And I salute to them!

iPhone Price Cut: Why That?

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

Yeah, I’ve learned this. But why?

My guess is: it’s all about Apple’s business model. Yes, you know it well already – selling music via iTunes to all the device owners.

The way to get more songs sold is to have more people own an Apple device, like iPod, Nano, Shuffle, iPhone and iPod Touch.

Then how to achieve that?

Of course, cool user interface is a factor. But talking about one of the most effective ways, price cut is sure the best candidate.

That’s why all this happened.

For iphone early adopters like me, stop complaining, please. ‘Coz, Yes, Steve is right on this: that’s technology.

Update: Apple to give early iPhone buyers $100 credit … very smart move.

How To Track iPhone’s Latest News

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

Thanks God, We have internet ! :-)

For me, I use two work-arounds:

1. Google Alert.

Type ‘iphone’ into search term textbox and enter your email, you’re done. simple and easy.

The cons of alert is not so latest, compared with the following methods, if you’ve got enough time. Otherwise, Alert is your best bet.

2. Hackintosh’s iPhone forum.

I believe in the power of community :-)

3. Google News Search and Blog Search for iphone.

Based on my experience, Blog Search can give you more recent news than News Search. I’m sure that’s because the latter represents a more formal and confirmed version of news.

Anyway, I use both.