iPhone Hacks

AdMob Report Reveals Poor Adoption of iPhone OS 3.1

It is now close to two weeks since Apple released the iPhone OS 3.1. and according to a new report published by the mobile advertising network AdMob, only 23% of iPhone users have already upgraded to the new iPhone OS 3.1 based on the ad requests coming from iPhone OS devices.

Deleted Emails Showing up in Spotlight Search Bug Fixed in iPhone OS 3.1

It looks like the bug where iPhone users had discovered emails that were deleted long time back while using the Spotlight for iPhone feature is fixed in iPhone OS 3.1.

iPhone user, Ted Landau had reported the bug in iPhone's Mail app after upgrading to iPhone OS 3.0.

iPhone 3GS Users Can't Restore to iPhone OS 3.0; But iPhone OS 3.1 Still Vulnerable

If you are an iPhone 3GS user who has accidentally upgraded to iPhone OS 3.1 as you weren’t aware of the warning given by the iPhone Dev Team to avoid upgrading to iPhone OS 3.1 then there is some more bad news.

Folks at BigBoss are reporting that iPhone 3GS users who had accidentally upgraded to iPhone OS 3.1 can’t downgrade to iPhone OS 3.0 or iPhone OS 3.0.1.

AT&T: MMS will be Available to iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS Customers on September 25

After months of speculation, AT&T has finally announced that MMS will be available to their iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS customers on September 25.

Unfortunately, there is still no news as to when tethering will be available as there was no mention of it in the press release, so looks like AT&T customers will have to wait even longer for that feature.

iPhone User Uses 'Find My iPhone' to Help Police Nab Robbers

If you remember, Apple introduced a new feature called 'Find My iPhone' in iPhone OS 3.0 for MobileMe subscribers. The feature helps iPhone users with a MobileMe account to find the location of their iPhone if it is lost or stolen.

We had doubted the effectiveness of the feature but Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has just reported that an iPhone user was able to direct the police to the location of the men who had robbed him at gunpoint thanks to the “Find My iPhone” feature.

Users Reporting Wi-Fi Connectivity Issues after Upgrading to iPhone OS 3.0

Based on this long Apple Discussion thread, it looks like many iPhone users are facing Wi-Fi connectivity issues after upgrading to iPhone OS 3.0.

They are reporting that after upgrading to iPhone OS 3.0, their iPhone either cannot maintain a Wi-Fi connection or it doesn't download data once it is connected.

iPhone OS 3.0.1 which was released recently doesn't fix the issue, and it looks like the issue isn't fixed in the beta versions of iPhone OS 3.1.

Photos Disappearing due to a Bug in iPhone OS 3.0?

Based on this Apple Discussions thread, it looks like there is a bug in iPhone OS 3.0, it is not a critical bug but an annoying one.

Users are complaining that photos taken using iPhone's camera can't be accessed from the built-in Photo app or can't be seen in iPhone's camera roll, they seem to disappear.

According to iLounge, the bug appears to pertain only to photos with the name IMG_10000 or higher.

New and Improved iPhone Remote App is Brilliant

I bought Apple TV more than a year back and have enjoyed renting movies and listening to music. Even though the UI is extremely easy to navigate, the one thing that I hated about it is the remote that comes along with it, it's the same white remote that I got with my iMac.

It's fine to use it to navigate but it is pathetic when it comes to searching for media on the iTunes Store.  Thankfully Apple released the Remote App for the iPhone and iPod Touch (it was the first official  native iPhone app on the iPhone App Store) which made it a lot easier to control Apple TV then the tiny white remote. It also worked as a Wi-Fi keyboard for Apple TV. I might have the benefit of hindsight but the initial version of the Remote app still wasn't good enough.

Watch Apple's first-ever Live Concert on your iPhone Tonight at 9 pm PT

One of the features overlooked in iPhone OS 3.0 was support for the HTTP streaming protocol, which uses adaptive bitrates. 

Folks at NewTeeVee have just reported that Apple will produce its first-ever live event streamed to the iPhone: a concert by the electronica band Underworld, which will make use of this HTTP streaming protocol so that users can watch it directly in iPhone's embedded QuickTime player rather than needing an iPhone app.

How to Enable Battery Percentage Indicator in iPhone 3G/iPhone 2G running iPhone OS 3.0

When we had described some of the 100 new features in iPhone OS 3.0, we had mentioned that users will get the option to see the remaining battery power in percentage.

But when iPhone OS 3.0 was released, we found out that this feature was strangely available only to iPhone 3GS users and not to iPhone 3G or first generation iPhone (iPhone 2G) users.

Thankfully like MMS and tethering, some clever folks have figured out a simple way to enable this minor but nice feature for iPhone 3G and iPhone 2G users.