JailBreak, Unlock iPhone 3GS and old 3G.

iPhone unlocking and jailbreaking is the lingo used in while making iPhone to use other Network and insalling iphone apps from stores other than Apple app store.
let me explain these two terms

JailBreaking : Breaking the phone software jail. so that it can install apps from diffrent stores other than app store.

Unlocking: as i phone comes with a specific provider lock. to break the lock so that i can be used on other GSM network, called unlocking..

from the very first phone called IPHone 2g, jailbreaking and unlocking are the common terms.

iPhone 2g-> 2 years back Zibri launched the ZipPhone, a very good unlocking and jailbreaking tool. very userFriendly tool, but he didn't release the software after the 2g and 1.1.4 os verson. and sold his blog to somebody (ziphone.org)

iPhone 3g -> Iphone 3g came with 2.0 software with many secruity against unlocking and jailbreaking. But iphone dev team broke the security and released the tools for both mac and windows os. tools name were
Mac: PwnageTool
Windows: QuickPwn
it requires two mandatory files..
bl39.bin 3.9 BootLoader
bl46.bin 4.6 BootLoader
they vary according to your iPhone and os.

Iphone 3GS -> With launch of 3gs apple released 3rd version of Os ie. 3.0 and third hardware device. Now when you talk about 3gs. we always talk about 3.0 version operating system.
now unlocking and jailbreaking has been categorised as following.
iPhone 2g with 3.0 or 3.0.1
iPhone 3g with 3.0 or 3.0.1
iPhone 3gs with 3.0 or 3.0.1

The first jailbreaking of iPhone 3gs having 3.0 os was released by "George Hotz"( a teenager hacker). You can download the tool from http://purplera1n.com/ which was release by above hacker.
After that Iphone dev team also released some version to break the phone.

Use iphonse as USB external storage for copying/storing files

iPhone got very big storage space like 8gb/16gb/24gb. 24 gb ipod or upcoming Iphone :) as rumour says.

i used to carry my kingstone 4 gb pendrive. and also used to though how to utilise iPhone storage space. i search a lot and got some solution like wifi file transfer using some ftp. but did not like it. as you do not get it everywhere the configuration problems

then i come across diskAid. with it you can copy file to iphone/Ipod and from it to the computer disk. it comes for both windows and mac.

DiskAid is a freeware for PC / Mac which enables to use your iPhone/iPod Touch as external Disk. With DiskAid you can transfer files and folders via USB between your device and your pc

it can be downloaded from "www.digidna.net/diskaid/"

if your phone is jail-broken then only above utility is enough.

if you do not want to jailbreak your contractual phone. just spend $5 and purchase fileaid (www.digidna.net/fileaid/) its from same vendor.

with above tools you have 24gb space in your pocket. use it. Another reason to buy Iphone

Attempting to copy the disk "iphone" failed. an unknown error ocurred (-53)

Attempting to copy the disk iphone failed. an unknown error occurred (-53) (-69) (-36) (-54) (-51) (-48).

This is rare problem that occurs in Iphone. but very difficult to resolve if you don't know the reason. with this problem copy songs to iphone or ipod problem occurs. ie. you will be unable to copy songs or video to this amazing gadget. but itunes will sync calender, outlook and contacts but songs.

Resolution/Solution

According to my experience. it occurs when itunes_control directory got corrupted due to some reason. This is the directory where iTunes store the songs & metadata about the songs. so if its corrupted iTunes will either copy 1-5 songs or none.

I made my phones itunes directory corrupted via deleting and recreating its some interal directory/folders. I searched the web almost a weak to get the solution but in vain. i upated my iphone os from 2.2 to 2.2.1 in try to remove the error. i though new os will again create the directory structure. But after completing the installation Itunes backup the songs with the same itunes_control structure. so all was like hell. i tought i lost my phone's song feature & should go to some expert or get my previous os back but after 15 days i got the solution and that was so easy that i laughed on me even you will.. just get a software like diskaid (www.digidna.net/diskaid/) got o itunes_control folder and rename it to some itunes_control_old.

First Screen:

 

 

 

 

 

Second Screen:

 

 

 

 

 

 

plug out and plug in, then start the Itunes.after connecting to the itunes, you will get the following screen

Select first option "set up as new iPhone" -> continue

Itunes will recognize it as new phone. it will recreate all the directory structure and will ignore the old itunes folder.

Now try to sync it. you will automatically get smile on you face when ituens starts copying the songs.
this article is also applicable to ipod touch, or iPods

Note: Itunes will create a new folder that will not have any of the your previous songs you need to sync it to copy all the songs again to the deviceRenamed folder still on device contains the songs & it occupies space,

You have two choice,

1. Cut paste that folder to the machine/computer (Choose if any of the song is not in your itunes, but only on the device(iphone/ipod), so that later on you can search it, but thats tedious process, because itunes renames the songs while copying to the device, so you have to play songs one by one to get to the desired songs.)

2. Delete the renamed folder, if you have all songs on you machine you can delete this folder. you have to remove that folder from the device using either of above two option, to clear the space from the device.

I wrote this article to save others' 15 day. if you like share it on (digg,fb,delicious,twitter)

Thx , comments are welcome.

Apple iPhone Forum problem tricks.

hey this is the forum for iPhone lovers. so tricks helps, upgrading to the new software. reviews etc.

i am keen to have iPhone 3.0 for myself. It is going to improve dramatically. when every phone vendor is trying to catchup with this magnificent phone. Apple is setting new benchmarks for those. this 8, June iPhone 3.0 will be launched, hopefully job will do the honour, but that doesn't matter, who do that. thing is we need innovation in this niche market. Before iPhone had anybody put thought on that big screen, html browser, touch screen of this level. iPhone to have drawbacks that will be improved months by months.

so any body who want to tell something about iPhone. Feature problems anything. please do .... i will love to post that.
i recently found strange feature..

Put your complete finger on the top strip where speaker is placed.

iPhone will stop responding to the touch activities. is that strange. not, because that is feature build to avoid disconnect when you talk on your phone.

wanna screenshot of what you seeing. press home and button simultaneously , you will see a shot and that will be placed in your camera gallery.

copy, transfer songs from iphone,ipod to pc/mac/laptop using widows & apple

Copying/transfer music|songs from apple iphone 3G,ipod nano,ipod touch,ipod classic, to desktop/mac and desktop/mac to iphone, sync and update your iphone,ipod using multiple computers

.
Itunes do not support the first feature to avoid piracy

"Not possible using ITunes' any version" you need some Itunes kind of software without restriction.

a lots of people search for copying data from iphone/ipod touch. so here is the solution.

a lot of good softwares are on net.
but some of the best one are following.

1. www.mediamonkey.com - I am personally using it for my Iphone. really cool- as i sync it with multiple machines, My office and Home.
it is very good free software to use. You can sync and copy songs without Itnues.
both free and paid version exist. but free one is cool as paid does not contain enough options to buy it.

2. www.getsharepod.com/ - gave some problem on 2.2 firmware. so did't used.
it is also good.

3. Amarok
4. iMPware
5 Floola

just google above software you will reach the site and read the details.

now download the software,transfer copy music from ipod to computer|laptop.
Enjoy and thanks the devlopers of the software.

iPhone 3G

Finally on 9-jun-2008, Apple kicks the butts of iphone 2.5G users with the launch of cheaper 3G with Maps and many more features. Apple usually do this as on first 3-4 months after launch it was sold over $500 then dropped the price and 4gb version. With the recent launch of new version it surprise the users and market.
I also felt the heat as only two months ago i spent $430 on device. Its now a like a black box in comparison to the 3g one. Following are the changes.

Price difference:

8GB ---- 16GB
Old $399 ---- $499
3g $199 ---- $299

Features:

Hardware: -- Software

GPS -- Better Email Management
3G -- Contacts Search
Flush Jack(any headphone) -- Email Attachment Support
Battery Life -- Mobile Me(sync features,$99 subscribe)
Multi-color(only 16gb) -- MS exchange sync
Hard Buttons -- Improved Sdk.

Software changes will also be available to the old users free of cost.

Still it lacks:
Bluetooth Transfer
IPod's quality on Speakers phone.
Phone quality (as not mentioned by apple about improvements)
Video Recorder
Audio Recorder
Weight
Camera Quality still same

It also made a threat to the market leaders like black berry and Nokia in enterprise phone market as with $199 we can call it gPhone not Google its Gareeb-Phone (poor people Phone).

Lets wait 10 days and see the reviews.

iPhone experience

Last week i purchased an Apple iPhone. Its security needs to break (Unlock) to run any other network other than at&t so i did. now i am running it on Airtel (Garv se bolo "Hello").
As it is from Apple it is very Innovative. I am damn fan of its tapping and finger touch technology. It is far away from any other high tech phone in market. but one thing it lacks in its phone features mean calling , alarm , speaker phone, network strength are not of very good; Nokia is the master of these features you can't beat Nokia in calling and network strength features. So for these features Apple need to do a lot of work. like me Sergy Brin is also a fan of iPhone
see this.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/31/sergey-brins-iphone-adventure-in-davos/

iPhone lacks in following:

Network strength
Alarm
Speaker phone
camera zoom features
no Video
3G.

Iphone is master of:

User Interface (Greatest feature main reason to buy)
Camera Quality (if picture taken from close.)
built-in iPod (obvious)
Browsing (awesome no phone currently give u such experience)
and third party tools that can be installed on iphone after jail-breaking it.
Photo browsing.

Popular apps on iPhone

Google Maps (great)
Track Ball (Control your computer)
Terminal (like unix)
safari (a full featured browser on this little device)
RSS
youTube downloader
stock and weather (from yahoo)
dictionaries
chat tools.

you can use iphone as a remote of your pc & mac using
trackball app (vnc server required on pc you connecting to )

You can also develop apps but for that prerequisite is mac. Because sdk available is only for mac.
i wanted to start it. but i don not have mac.

legally apple does not allow installing third party apps. but hacker community broke the security just after the release of iPhone.

There is rumour that apple is coming with next generation phone(3g) very soon it might be a unlocked version.

In India it will launch in 3rd quarter of this year possibly with Vodafone

Boot Camp reveals that OSX is slower than Windows

Apple, might be finding out that the problem with having a dual boot alongside Windows is that users can compare both operating systems better.
According to Penny Arcade, the introduction of Boot Camp makes it a lot easier to benchmark what the two operating systems can do.
One of its hacks installed Boot Camp onto his MacBook, installed Windows and then World of Warcraft. To test how the two operating systems compared he ran WoW at 1440 x 900 with all the graphic settings on maximum.
It was barely playable of course but he managed to get a frame rate reading of 15 and 20 FPS under Mac OX.
On the same lap top under Windows and the same settings he managed to get between 35 and 40 FPS. This is a pretty big difference.
The reviewer said that he preferred using OS X, but it was a little difficult to justify when a game runs twice as fast under Windows