Basic iPhone Troubleshooting: Apple Recommends Hard Reset-Reboot Before Making Genius Bar Appointments

Basic iPhone Troubleshooting: Apple Recommends Hard Reset-Reboot Before Making Genius Bar Appointments

If you’re iPhone (or other iOS device) is having issues, and you want to book a Genius Bar appointment at your local store, Apple might ask you to take one little step first: Do a hard reset/reboot of your phone. And you know what, that’s a great idea.

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How Does The iPhone 5 Camera Stack-Up Against Previous iPhone Cameras?

How Does The iPhone 5 Camera Stack-Up Against Previous iPhone Cameras?

Though iPhone 5′s back-facing camera has the same 8-megapixel, five-element lens with 2.4 aperture, which is similar to the iPhone 4S, but is 25% smaller and the same 3,264 by 2,448 backside-illuminated sensor, it comes with improvements such as 40% faster photo capture, improved low-light performance, and improved noise reduction.

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Redsn0w 0.9.14b2 Brings Improved iPad Baseband (06:15:00) Downgrade; Adds Ability to Put iOS Device in DFU Mode

Redsn0w 0.9.14b2 Brings Improved iPad Baseband (06:15:00) Downgrade; Adds Ability to Put iOS Device in DFU Mode

iPhone Dev team has released a new version of Redsn0w (Redsn0w 0.9.14b2) that improves the iPad baseband downgrade that was released back in June.

iPhone Dev team have also added a feature called DFU IPSW that should make it a lot easier to put an iOS device in DFU mode.

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Apple Starts Blocking SAM Trick to Unlock iPhone

Apple Starts Blocking SAM Trick to Unlock iPhone

MuscleNerd of the iPhone Dev team has tweeted that Apple has started fixing their activation servers, which means that it may not be possible to unlock your iPhone using the SAM trick.

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Has AT&T Unlocked Your Off-Contract iPhone Yet? [Updated]

Has AT&T Unlocked Your Off-Contract iPhone Yet? [Updated]

It’s April 8th, and according to AT&T’s statement issued a couple of days back, the carrier plans to unlock users with off-contract AT&T iPhones starting today.

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Apple’s iPhone Was Unveiled Five Years Ago, Today

Apple’s iPhone Was Unveiled Five Years Ago, Today

“This is a day, I’ve been looking forward to for two and a half years. Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything.”

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An Animated History Of The iPhone

An Animated History Of The iPhone

CNET UK has created a superb animated history of the iPhone, which they’ve dedicated to Steve Jobs, who sadly passed away two weeks back.

The iPhone might be at the cutting edge of technology but it took a long time and many innovations to get there, take a trip through history and explore the people and technology that contributed to the iPhone becoming what it is today.

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Apple’s iPhone 4 Will Soon Become the Most Popular Camera on Flickr

Apple’s iPhone 4 Will Soon Become the Most Popular Camera on Flickr

Apple’s iPhone 4 will soon become the most popular camera on Flickr and currently the only cameraphone in the Top 5.

According to the graphs on Flickr’s Camera Finder, iPhone 4 which is currently #2 is nudging closer to Nikon’s D90 to become the most popular camera on the popular image sharing site.

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How To Jailbreak Your iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 3G Using PwnageTool (iOS 4.2.1)

How To Jailbreak Your iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 3G Using PwnageTool (iOS 4.2.1)

iPhone Dev Team had released PwnageTool 4.2 few weeks back, which allows users who want tojailbreak and also unlock their iPhone to update their iPhone with a pre-jailbroken iOS 4.2.1 while preserving the baseband from getting upgraded so that it can be unlocked using Ultrasn0w.

This guide will provide iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS and iPhone 3G users with step-by-step instructions to update and jailbreak their iPhone with iOS 4.2.1.

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iOS 4.3: Update On Unlocking iPhone

iOS 4.3: Update On Unlocking iPhone

MuscleNerd, member of the iPhone Dev Team has revealed that baseband – 04.10.01 that comes bundled with iOS 4.3 for iPhone 4 is vulnerable, which indicates that it can be unlocked if Apple does not update it in the final version.

MuscleNerd revealed this news via the following tweet:

Current i4 unlock goal includes til 04.10.01 (4.3b3). Very weird situation…vuln cmds are there, trying to invoke them!

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