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iPhone 2.0 is amazing

Danny — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:07:26 +0000

Added: I wasn’t able to update my firmware on my own iPhone. It errors out as soon as iTunes extract the ROM. The issue was fixed by update iTunes to version 7.7. Everything went well afterwards.

I forgot to bring my iPhone to work today. But I was able to play with my co-worker’s iPhone after we updated (restored) the firmware to 2.0.

Exchange worked great on iPhone, we were able to download Emails, Contacts and Calendars off of our server. The crazy part is we can search users in our Active Directory, holy sheez! I’ll never have to carry my company phone (WM5 Treo) no more.

Funny Geeky Video

Danny — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:00:03 +0000

If you are not in the IT business. You won’t think it’s funny. Basically, my whole department was laughing for a couple of hours and we kept on talking about it.

Whoever did this, is very creative and I’m sure himself is a real network administrator as well.

Real Chinese Input for Iphone 1.1.1

Danny — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 05:21:12 +0000

Thanks to my buddy Rich for telling me about the Chinese input for iPhone 1.1.1. Now, not only in SMS, I can input Chinese in contacts, notes, search bars… Well, anywhere that allows input. I can switch back and forth from Chinese to English. The input method is available in both simplified and traditional Chinese.

Click here for more information and installation instructions:
http://www.iphone.org.hk/cgi-bin/ch/topic_show.cgi?id=1319

iPhone = Hazardous Chemicals?

Danny — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 00:21:23 +0000

Apple might face another lawsuit again, from a report of this firm Greenpeace (I’ve never heard of) shows that the iPhone contains hazardous chemicals that are harmful to the earth.

Zeina Alhajj, Greenpeace International toxic campaigner said:

“It seems that Apple is far from leading the way for a green electronics industry as competitors, like Nokia, already sell mobile phones free of PVC.”

Way to go, Apple! Just one after another!

iPhone Dev Team Unlocked 1.1.1

Danny — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:32:56 +0000

Looks like they finally did it!… 3 weeks after the iBrick disaster. Oh! Hold on, it only works on iPhones in virgin state, meaning if the iPhone was bricked while upgrading to firmware 1.1.1, due to a previous unlock. If this happened to you. Then the Dev Team’s AnySim 1.1 FREE solution won’t work (yet), Hmm… Bummer!

If the phone is brand new, never been unlocked and upgraded to 1.1.1. Or it was purchased with iPhone firmware 1.1.1. Then the AnySim 1.1 will unlock your iPhone! They’ve also announced that “You might run into the same problem when the next firmware version comes”.

I wonder who makes more money. Is it the Dev Team’s FREE AnySim that accepts Donations, or the iPhoneSimFree sold in individual license.

Chinese Input for iPhone (SMS Only)

Danny — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 05:56:13 +0000

This application is called WeSMS, developed by weiphone.com. I know this application means nothing to a lot of us in the U.S, cuz not that many of us have phones with Chinese. But for those who uses iPhone and has a few friends with Chinese phones. This can be fun and useful. I think the messages will only go through if the person you sent msgs to is in the same network as you. Example: at&t to at&t, T-Mobile to T-Mobile. No cross-network Chinese SMS. (Correct me if I’m wrong!) At this time, I think it’s only available in simplified Chinese, and Pingyin input only.

You can download WeSMS (Chinese SMS input for iPhone) on my site. The installation goes as follows.

Use iBrickr to upload the *.PXL file within the rar. (Before you can do this, you need to install the PXL support on iPhone. Just follow the instructions on iBrickr.)
Restart iPhone.
You can to launch WeSms application on the springboard, you cannot just input Chinese via SMS on iPhone.

My iPhone alive again!

Danny — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 22:20:50 +0000

Thursday night, I cannot wait anymore. I decided to purchase iPhoneSimFree (IPSF) v1.6 to fix my baseband. If you have upgraded to version 1.1.1 and bricked your phone, follow the instructions I provided previously to unbrick and activate the phone back to 1.0.2 firmware. I paid $60 to purchase IPSF (The only software that unlock/fix 1.1.1 baseband for now.) to have the phone recognizing my SIM and change the IMEI back to original.

Note: If your iPhone was bricked, the IMEI changed to a default number. When using IPSF, make sure you take out your SIM, although the instructions might tell you to leave it in. Because the IEMI changes only if bricked iPhone descovers a SIM in the slot. It shows your original IEMI when SIM removed.

OK…I’ve Turned it into “iTouch”

Danny — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 09:45:29 +0000

Alright. So, I managed to unbrick my iPhone into iTouch. Basically it has all the features except Calling/SMS/GPRS. But, it’s a break through for me.

Now, waiting for someone to come up with the baseband restore. Then I can have my iPhone back! Yeh!! Here are the steps for my notes. I’m not responsible if this causes any damage to your device.

Download iTunes 7.4
Dock your iPhone and connect it to windows, and press Power+Home button for exactly 10 seconds. Meanwhile you will see the slide to power off screen.
Download Apptap
Confirm your iTune software is not running. Press Crt+Alt+Del Task Manager and end the process of itunes and itunes helper.
Dock your iPhone and run Apptap. It will jailbreak your iphone and install installer.app on your iphone. It might show error at first. But just restart the program and your iPhone keep on trying till it gets done! Don’t worry how many times it takes. It will get through.
Download Paycay (This activates iPhone without using iTunes.)
Run the “(CLICK HERE) activate” Batch File. Follow the instructions. This step should get through at once.
Restart and it should be back to the normal mode without asking you to activate.

OK! Let’s wait for the next step!

Still waiting for iPhone unbrick solutions …

Danny — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:06:32 +0000

Has been a few days since the iBrick heartbreak. My iPhone is sitting on my desk collecting dust. There are ways to unbrick it now according to the iPhone Dev Team, but it works only on mac. (I knew I should’a kept my macbook!)

Some related blogs:

The iPhone Dev Wiki: Downgrade from 1.1.1 to 1.0.2

Hackint0sh Forums: I Have Downgraded Back To 1.0.2!!!!!!!

cre.ations.net: Looks like the iPhone 1.1.1 update is reversible after all (kinda)

New York Times Blog: Hackers Get their iPhones (Back)

iPhone Dev Team Blog: http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/iphone-dev-team

I Miss Her !!! I Miss Her !!! I Miss Her !!! I Miss Her !!! I Miss Her !!!

SOB! I Bricked My iPhone!

Danny — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 05:55:25 +0000

I thought Rich didn’t unlock my iPhone, how did my phone became a victom of iBrick! Thanks to Stevie at Apple. Now you earned yourself a few million bricks that people would love to throw to your face.

What does it mean? Well, a new firmware update from Apple released a couple days ago. It kills aftermarket applications installed on iPhone, and it turns unlocked iPhones into a non-functioning “thing” people refer it to a Brick.

There is a solution out already for the Mac users, I’m still waiting for Dev Team’s PC Solutions.

Yesterday we reported how to unbrick an unlocked iPhone. Today we have discovered that you can send and receive calls, SMS and mails too, as well as surf the Web with it. You just have to use a TurboSIM card (like I did) and, according to the iPhone Sim Free people, any restored iPhone with their paid software installed (we have been unable to test this. )

I was too tired to think about trying this yesterday, but today I put my TurboSIM card with the Vodafone SIM and, as you can see in the video, it works great. The iPhone is now exactly in the same state as it was for me before the software update: it can send and receive calls, SMS and mails, as well as surf the Web.

The iPhone Sim Free people, who previously said their paid software unlock will work despite firmware updates, is claiming now that if you downgrade to firmware 1.0.2 your non-AT&T SIM will work just fine. I’ve tried this but couldn’t get it to work. We are talking to them to see what may be happening.

Meanwhile, iPhone Dev Team is working full speed ahead on two things:

• Downgrading the baseband so they can unlock again the iPhones restored to version 1.0.2 from 1.1.1.

• Crating another free unlock that will work for version 1.1.1 of the software. According to them, both may be very near–now testing– and they have put it forward to people with bricked phones to “be patient and hold on until we come with a full solution for 1.1.1 firmware.”