iPhone Hacks

Simple Hack to disable iPhone's Backup Process

You might have observed that iPhone syncing with firmware 2.0 takes a very long time. The real culprit for this is the iPhone backup process which takes majority of the time.

It appears that the reason for the long time taking backups is because iTunes is taking a complete snapshot of the iPhone applications that you have installed on your iPhone for restoring purpose instead of taking back up of only the applications documents and library data.

Find out which is the Best Place to Sell your Used Original iPhone

After you have bought the new iPhone 3G (to be rolled out on Friday, July 11) and have replaced your original iPhone with new iPhone 3G and have verified that its restored with the personal data from the original iPhone, I guess the next logical step would be to sell the original iPhone unless ofcourse you want to use it as a Wi-Fi iPod or have already sold it.

There are quite a few options available out there so I thought it would be a good time to check them out to see which one would be the best place to sell your original iPhone.

iPhone 3G FAQ: How to replace your original iPhone with new iPhone 3G

Apple has published a support document for those planning to upgrade to new iPhone 3G and were wondering how to replace their original iPhone with new iPhone 3G.

The details have raised a concern for all those who might have already sold their original iPhone to buy the new iPhone 3G.

iPhone firmware 2.0 will be available on July 11; What should you do?

We have been speculating that iPhone firmware 2.0 will be available to all iPhone users towards the end of June or early July as we were not aware of the exact release date.

The speculations can be put to rest as the release date of the much awaited iPhone firmware 2.0 has been revealed thanks to a tip from TUAW reader. The source of the release date is none other than Apple's iPhone 3G press release which we seemed to have completely missed out.

If you are confused whether to update to the latest iPhone firmware or not then I have some advice depending on the category of iPhone user you fall under.

3G iPhone and AT&T: 3G Coverage, Where to Buy, Cost, Subsidy, Tariff plans and lots more

If you are in the US and one of those who is excited about the 3G iPhone which was launched yesterday by Steve Jobs at Apple's WWDC event and are planning to buy it when it is released on July 11th in US then you might want to run through this post which answers some of your questions.

How-To: Backup the iPhone, Restore from a Backup & Delete a Backup

One of the most common (and obvious) recommendation before hacking the iPhone is to backup the iPhone so that if things go horribly wrong you can at least restore your iPhone to avoid losing any of your settings such as sound settings, widget settings, certain network settings, and other preferences and information such as text messages, notes, call history contact favorites etc.

Ultimate iPhone FAQs List, Part 2

Just got back home tonight after my week in San Francisco, and found ANOTHER several dozen questions about the iPhone waiting on this blog’s comments area! I promise that this blog isn’t going to become “all iPhone, all the time”–but I’ve read through your comments and compiled this second list of Q’s and A’s.

The Ultimate iPhone Frequently Asked Questions

Wow. Predictably, the torrent — and I do mean torrent — of iPhone commentary from the citizens of the Web is practically outflooding spam this week. Most of it comes from people whose shirt fronts are practically drenched in drool. Plenty is negative and bitter.