iPhone Hacks

How to Change Your Jailbroken iPhone's Root Password

The recent spate of worm attacks in the past week has brought the focus on the importance of your root password. 

Unlike feature phones, smartphones like the iPhone run on operating systems, which very much like our computer have administrator privileges.

Yet Another Worm Exploit On Jailbroken iPhones That Steals Personal Data

Close on the heels of the iKee virus attack that rickrolled jailbroken iPhone users earlier this week comes yet another worm that exploits the same security hole - just that this one is much more dangerous. 

Identity of iKee Hacker Who Rickrolled Jailbroken iPhones Revealed

The identity of the Australian hacker who had 'rickrolled' jailbroken iPhones with the 'iKee' virus is now revealed. It is 21 year old Ashley Towns from Wollongong, Australia. 

Ashley, who is a student at TAFE, says he had created the virus merely as a prank and to make people aware of security holes. 

Jailbroken iPhones Hit With 'RickRoll' Worm

If you are one of those users who had jailbroken their iPhones but did not care to change the default password after installing SSH, you might want to do it now. 

A new worm has been infecting those jailbroken iPhones that still carry the same default 'alpine' password. 

Gigabyte Releases Beta BIOS Update for iPhone Syncing Problem

A few days back, we had written about a problem faced by some users who had trouble syncing their iPhones to iTunes 9 on Windows 7. 

We are now hearing that a solution to the problem has been found, at least for some of the users. 

iPhone Syncing Problem Reported With Intel P55 Powered Windows 7 Computers

A lot many iPhone users have been reporting on the Apple Support forum that they have been facing trouble in syncing their iPhones to iTunes 9. 

The root cause of this issue is yet to be resolved, however, based on the complainants' computer configurations, it is doubted to be an issue with Windows 7 built with Intel P55 chipset. 

iPhone Users Receiving MMS With Incorrect Sender Number

Quite a few reports are doing the rounds that the MMS messages sent from the iPhones are reaching the recipients with a wrong sender number. 

In all of these cases, the recipients received the MMS message intact; however the displayed sender number was of some other random AT&T user. 

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.

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.

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