iPhone Hacks

New iTunes Updates Lets You Manage More Than 180 iPhone Apps

In September when iPhone OS 3.1 was released, Apple also introduced an App management feature for iTunes, which let you manage iPhone apps on your iPhone Home Screens directly from iTunes. 

One of the issues with this iPhone app management feature was that it only displayed the 180 iPhone apps spread over the eleven iPhone Home Screens. This was okay if you had fewer iPhone apps. However, for users who had used up most of their 180 app slots, adding and sorting newer iPhone apps was a tedious and clumsy process. 

iPhone OS 3.1.2 Fixes Random Shutdown or Coma Mode Issue Observed in iPhone OS 3.1

iPhone users were facing many issues after upgrading to iPhone OS 3.1. It was probably one of the reasons why iPhone users didn’t upgrade to iPhone OS 3.1.

Wired reports that Apple has confirmed that the “coma mode” bug has been fixed in iPhone OS 3.1.2, which was released last week.

Sn0wBreeze: PwnageTool to Jailbreak iPhone OS 3.1 for Windows Coming Soon

George Hotz (aka Geohot) dropped a hint that he plans to release a tool that will allow users to jailbreak any iPhone and iPod Touch running any version of iPhone OS, which came as welcome news for Windows users as currently there is no tool available to jailbreak the iPhone for Windows users.

Windows users who have been waiting to jailbreak their iPhone might have another reason to rejoice as a team of iPhone developers are porting PwnageTool to Windows. The Windows version will be called Sn0wBreeze.

Geohot Planning to Release Tool to Jailbreak Any iPhone and iPod Touch Running Any Version of iPhone OS?

George Hotz (aka Geohot) who was the first to release a software called Purplera1n to jailbreak iPhone 3GS is at it again.

He has dropped a hint that he plans to release a tool that will allow users to jailbreak any iPhone and iPod Touch running any version of iPhone OS.

Step By Step Guide to Upgrade Jailbroken iPhone 3GS to iPhone OS 3.1 Using PwnageTool 3.1.3

iPhone Dev Team released PwnageTool 3.1.3 for iPhone OS 3.1, which added support for iPhone 3GS so that  users can upgrade their jailbroken iPhone 3GS   to iPhone OS 3.1 and also preserve the baseband firmware so that they can unlock their iPhone.

This step-by-step guide will show you how to use Dev Team's PwnageTool 3.1.3 courtesy folks at iClarified.

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.

MMS feature is Now Live for AT&T's iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS Customers

AT&T had announced that MMS will be available to their iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS customers from today and they had reconfirmed this couple of days back.

We have got quite a few tips from our wonderful readers that MMS has started working for them.

Apple Actively Investigating Poor Battery Life Problem Reported in iPhone OS 3.1?

One of the problems reported by users who have upgraded to iPhone OS 3.1 has been poor battery life.

According to folks at TheiPhoneBlog, Apple is contacting users who are reporting the problem and asking them for more information. They're also sending these users an unsigned profile to enable battery life logging on the iPhone to troubleshoot the problem.

Step By Step Guide to Jailbreak iPhone 3G running iPhone OS 3.1 using PwnageTool 3.1

The iPhone Dev Team had warned iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS users who had jailbroken and/or unlocked their iPhone to avoid upgrading to iPhone OS 3.1 a day before it was released and had asked them to wait for them to release the PwnageTool.

iPhone Dev Team released PwnageTool 3.1 for iPhone OS 3.1 few days back to allow users to jailbreak their iPhone and also preserve the baseband firmware so that they can unlock their iPhone.

This step-by-step guide will show you how to use Dev Team's PwnageTool 3.1 courtesy folks at iClarified.

iPhone OS 3.1 Problems: Random Shutdown, Poor Battery Life, Bricked iPhone, Slow Performance

According to TUAW, iPhone users are facing many issues after upgrading to iPhone OS 3.1.

iPhone users are reporting the following issues after upgrading to iPhone OS 3.1, which was released a week back:

• iPhone randomly shuts down

• Poor battery life

• Bricked iPhone

• Slow performance