Good Luck and Farewell, Dev Team!
April 1st, 2008
The most respectful and well-known developer group in iphone hacking field, iphone dev team, has been eliminated! check out the official press release on their site here. here’s the quote:
iPhone DevTeam PRESS RELEASE
The “DevTeam” would like to announce the immediate withdrawal from the iPhone development arena.
It was anticipated that the DevTeam would be releasing a tool for the iPhone sometime this week, unfortunately it has been decided to withdraw all development activities on this tool.
Criticism of the validity of the tool has been reported in the press and certain actions were taken to prevent the release of the tool on the 30th March.
Due to these actions, certain developers ceased their work immediately, with others reconsidering their position.
On Monday the 31st of March the DevTeam was approached by an unnamed party to sell all of thei intellectual property and related applications.
After much consideration the offer was accepted and work has ceased.
The name of the company that has made this offer is private, and the details of the deal are confidential.
Our only comment is that Pwnage Tool and other such applications will not be seen outside of the lab.
We would like to thank our users for their support over the last 10 months.
ENDS
Really frustrated at this, ‘coz they are the one that owns my full respect and now they are gone. same goes to the long-awaited pwnage project. What do we expect from the iphone hacking field tomorrow, then?!
Anyway, they have done so much to us. and they should have a good ending. hopefully their hacking spirits will be kept and reserved in the following hacking guys. for now, let me say:
Good luck and Farewell, iPhone Dev Team.
Update(Apr.1,2008): So glad to learn that i’m just been fooled 
iPhone 1.1.4 Fix: Safari Can’t Remember Password
March 16th, 2008
For those iphoners who unlocked their iphones by iPlus, they should have the same problem as i do.
The reason is because the user ‘mobile’ under which Safari is running has no permission to save the cookies.
And the fix is pretty easy, run chmod -R 777 /private/var/mobile/Library/Cookies on the iphone by Term-v100 or Putty.
Source: Hackint0sh.
Install Addons on Firefox 3 Beta 3
February 13th, 2008
I just updated my firefox 3b2 to 3b3 this morning. After reading this review by MozillaLinks, guess you will do the same as i did
However, there’s problem coming: i can’t use my previous addons which i really rely on so much. After some googling I finally got this cool Nightly Tester Tools from here.
I installed it immediately. Then i went to ‘Tools’->’Add-ons’ dialog, find the ‘Nightly Tester Tools’ on ‘Extensions’ tab, Click ‘Options’ and navigate to ‘Add-ons’ to ‘Disable add-on compatibility checking’ and then restart firefox.
It’s time foryou to get all of your those favorite addons back now. Enjoy.
Huge iPhone Unlock Progress Achieved
February 13th, 2008
First, BL 4.6 + BB 04.02.13_G is done by the young well-known iphone-unlocking genius George Hotz(a.k.a GeoHot). Here’s his announcement on his blog. What does this means? Well, it means anyone who plans to use iphone on any unofficial carrier network can go to get an iphone without any hesitation for now. For OTB or upgraded 1.1.2 or 1.1.3, try Ziphone . For others, use google.
Second, one of FF 1.1.3’s exploits founded by Dev Team. So what does this mean, again? It means 1.1.3 has been jailbroken. It means you can try the newly-added features in the latest firmware yourself. Without this, you will never ever get Ziphone.
Last but not least, BL 4.6 downgraded to BL 3.9. Done by GeoHot, Again. I know your question. And here’s my understandings. Tutorial here by aCujo.
Basically, it means you can make your 1.1.3 OTB iphone fully functional(hopefully) while staying at the up-to-date 04.03 BB.
Besides, if GeoHot continues his awesome job, a customized BL would be possible. That means, most likely, the hacking community will take a big step advance in the cat-and-mouse battle against Apple. For the iphone owners like me, we will benefit so much from that. Say no worry of no available unlock method at all when we do the upgrade in iTunes
Fix: Customize Doesn’t Work On 1.1.2
February 4th, 2008
If you are in iphone firmware 1.1.2 and wanna re-arrange the icons of springboard via Customize, you may find you can’t for now, ‘coz Customize will crash at the booting spicychicken screen. There’s a lot of bugs reporting this as well.
Actually it’s a permission issue, just set the executable’s permission to 4755 will fix it. You can make it either by WinSCP or other terminal client like Putty. As to the latter, here’s the command line:
chmod 4755 /Applications/Customize.app/Customize
If still failed, try a reset or reboot.
1.1.3 BL 3.9 Unlock Comming Soon!!
February 3rd, 2008
Just got it from hacktintosh. Very exciting news, isn’t it?
BTW, actually just tried to update my iphone from 1.0.2 to 1.1.3 recently. But in the final end i failed. As a result, i’m on 1.1.2 now.
If the software unlocking for bootloader 3.9 firmware 1.1.3 would be released very soon as said, then I’ll be waiting for it without a second 1.1.3 soft-upgrade try.
iPhone 1.1.3 H/W Unlocked!!
January 18th, 2008
Believe it or not, iPhone 1.1.3 firmware just released three days ago has been hardware unlocked!!
Photo by the unlock team.
TOTALLY UNBELIVABLE!!
It’s said that unlocking process is very complicated, totally different from the software unlocking, and it’s not for normal users, so it won’t be open to the public.
However, there’s an old saying: if winter passed already, then spring is not far away, right?
My Top 10 3rd-Party Native Apps For iPhone
January 6th, 2008
There are tons of native apps for iphone already, no matter your ff is 1.0.x or 1.1.x. And there are tons of favorite app lists already by different people in different criteria. I don know how much you agree with them, but here’s mine. And the criteria is simple: free.
1.iCosta - the first native and system level Chinese input method. Absolutely No.1.
2.Installer - The one which makes the installation of following native apps pretty straightforward. A must, too.
3.MobileFinder - The first file system explorer and management tool. For me, most likely it works as kinda launcher
4.rSBT - The tool I used to re-arrange my springboard. Yes, i know SummerBoard. but I still prefer this one due to its simplicity and less resource requirement.
5.SMSD - Almost replaced my default SMS.app. And the author is keeping on working to make it better. I’ve talked it before.
6.Books - The ebook reader. Absolutely one of the first 3rd party native apps for iphone.
7.SwirlyMMS - The first and only MMS app for iphone until now. Even though it’s still lack of some key features like MMS receiving, it’s still worth to be in the list. And the feeling is great when I send the pictures to my friends successfully.
8.ScreenShot - A screen capture tool with GUI. Most of the pictures in this site are created by it, except the very early ones by the command tool.
9.TuneWiki - Lyrics showing while listening music. Very impressive, not only for its functions, but also for its idea of syncing lyrics by taking full use of the community. Only one thing, when can i see some Chinese song’s lyrics?
10.weDict - Dictionary, esp. for people whose mother language is not english. If you wanna know how to add your local dictionaries to weDict, read my previous post here.
One more thing, there’s some very valuable tools i didn’t cover, like jailbreaking toolkit and SSH server etc, because for most of iphone users they are transparent and hidden. Perhaps, that’s what foundation means
That’s it. Also, hackintosh has one sticky post talking about this. You may check it out if you are interested.
Say Goodbye To Firefox 2
December 28th, 2007
Yes, I really don wanna go back to firefox 2. But there are some add-ons i really need there. So what should i do?
After some googling i got this work-around today. I tried immediately by adding the boolean “extensions.checkCompatibility” with the value of “false”. Then restart my firefox.
You know what? Oops, it works! At least most of my favourite add-ons are working now, including del.icio.us, ABP, IE Tab, Foxyproxy, Search Status and Forecastfox. Then from now on I will stay at firefox 3 for sure, even it it’s still in beta. Tons of positive reviews plus my personal experience push me make the choice.
We all know in the end those add-ons will be definitely upgraded to be compatible with firefox 3. for now I just can’t wait. How about you?:-)
Update(Feb.17,2008): if you are now in firefox 3 beta 3, just as i am, you may check out my new post here on how to make your favorite add-ons working there.
Couple Of iPhone Toolkit Upgrades
December 9th, 2007
1. icosta 1.0.3 released, which will be working under ff 1.1.1 and 1.1.2.
great progress, icosta team!
I haven’t got a chance to try it out yet.and i’m now considering to upgrade my iphone to 1.1.1 later.
2. screenshot - capture your iphone’s screen freely.
I just happened to get this utility. It’s very nice and now has won a fixed position on my iphone’s springboard.
3. google’s new homepage for iphone.
very nice. the best part for me is google reader. Now i use it every day to read the news when i’m on the way to office or back home.
4. open-sourced anysim by dev team
To be honest, actually considering the quality issue of the following to-be-public hacking tools based on it, i’m not one of those who’d love to make it open, even if i’m one of those who’s looking forward to the next anySim 1.1.3 miracle
