Here’s a poll going on at the Wall St. Journal right now of reader opinions on who makes the best mobile OS. Who is winning? That’s right. Microsoft who just released its Windows phone 7 without multi-tasking and about 30 apps. Can anyone explain this?
Haven't used it too too much just yet. Just tried a couple of Top Gear episodes in .avi format & a couple of .mov files & it worked pretty well.
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The iPhone 4 has had its share of design-related issues. First, the external stainless steel wraparound antenna caused reception hiccups that resulted in the famous "antennagate" Apple event.
Now that a much larger number of the phones are in the wild, there was a brief to-do about the relative likelihood of the iPhone 4's glass back scratching or breaking when the device is slipped into a slider case. gdgt's Ryan Block later noted that Apple is preemptively working this issue from the engineering side, but that didn't stop the Macalope from chastising his eagerness to declare a new -gate scandal involving the phone's reliability.
What could Apple possibly do with future iPhones to prevent similar hardware issues -- widely prevalent or once-in-a-blue-mood as they may be --from cropping up once the devices are out of the corral?
Blogger Raymond Wong at SyFy's Dvice site gave this question some thought in a post this morning, and makes some suggestions about what materials the next and succeeding generations of iPhone might be made of. First, he thinks there could be a move back to plastic, since the material was used in the first three generations of iPhones, is transparent to cell phone signals, and is much more resilient to impacts.
Next, he thinks that aluminum is "off the table for good," considering that it is opaque to cell phone signals and can be scratched, but he thinks there is a good chance that the materials made by Liquidmetal Technologies could be used. They remain scratch-free much longer than aluminum or steel, and could be used in an external antenna like that on the iPhone 4.
Wong thinks that titanium and carbon fiber are also out of the question due to cost. Carbon fiber is extremely light, but can crack under shock, while titanium is strong and light, but tremendously expensive.
What do you think the next generation of iPhones will be made of?
Personally, I feel Apple would use that recent Liquidmetal acquisition to their advantage.
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A security hole in iPhone 4 software allows you to make a call after dialing a few pound signs and timing a few others as found by a MacForums member.
When you iPhone is locked with a passcode tap Emergency Call, then enter a non-emergency number such as ###. Next tap the call button and immediately hit the lock button. It should open up the Phone app where you can see all your contacts, call any number, etc.
Open the number pad and type \”77\” for example and press dial. The screen dims, a loader comes up and after a while a message says \”Unknown Application\” with an option to dismiss the message.
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Microsoft has announced that Messenger for Mac 8 is now out of beta and available for download.
Messenger for Mac 8 provides real-time collaboration between Mac users and their Messenger friends, whether those friends are using Messenger on a PC, phone, through Hotmail, or on another Mac. You can use instant messaging, audio, and video calls to communicate with your Messenger contacts by signing in with your Windows Live ID.
You can download Messenger for Mac 8 from here. It will also soon be available as part of the Office for Mac 2011 suite.
A little too late in my estimation, but there you go.
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Looks like you won’t have to wait too much longer if you’ve been hoping/praying/wishing for a nice white iPhone 4 — as these have begun showing up as available to reserve if you’re using Apple’s freshly-updated Apple Store iPhone app.
Apple Inc. wrote:We’re sorry to disappoint customers waiting for the white iPhone yet again, but we’ve decided to delay its release until this Spring.
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When Microsoft acquired Bungie, creator of the "Halo" franchise, to develop the flagship game for its first Xbox gaming console, Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs reportedly made an angry phone call to Microsoft's Steve Ballmer.
"Halo" was first introduced as a game for the Mac, but all that changed when Microsoft purchased the developer, Bungie, in 2000 to make the game a launch title for its then-unreleased Xbox gaming console. The first Xbox was released in 2001, and the premier launch title, "Halo: Combat Evolved," was celebrated as a landmark achievement.
Prior to Microsoft's acquisition of Bungie, "Halo" was planned as a Mac game, just as Bungie's previous titles "Marathon," "Myth" and "Oni" were released for the platform. And Microsoft's deal was apparently enough to prompt a phone call from Jobs to Ballmer, according to Ed Fries, former vice president of game publishing at Microsoft.
In an interview with Develop, Fries revealed that Jobs called almost immediately after the Microsoft-Bungie deal was announced. The report said that Jobs "raged at Microsoft" over the acquisition.
"[Jobs] was mad at Ballmer and phoned him up and was angry because we'd just bought the premier Mac game developer and made them an Xbox developer," Fries said. He added that Ballmer told him to contact Jobs and "calm him down."
Microsoft attempted to placate Jobs' alleged unhappiness by making a new deal that would bring some other game titles to the Mac. The original "Halo: Combat Evolved," even made its way to the Mac years after it debuted on the Xbox.
"We did this deal with Apple where we'd port some PC games to the Macintosh and help [former Bungie vice president] Peter Tamte create this company to do it, and I had to go to a Mac developer conference and get on stage and talk about this whole new partnership," Fries reportedly said. "It was a pretty strange time."
Bungie may yet again make games for the Mac, as the company broke free of Microsoft in a deal that allows the Redmond, Wash., software giant to retain the rights to the Halo franchise. Brian Jarrard, franchising director at Bungie, said in 2007 that Mac games could be in the company's future.
"Now that we're branching off and controlling our destiny, that puts us in a position where we could put ourselves back on the [Mac] platform definitively again," he said.
The president of Nintendo of America said during an interview that Apple is more of a near-term threat than Microsoft in the gaming industry, but dismissed iPod and iPhone games as casual.
Reggie Fils-Aime admitted to Brian Caulfield of Forbes that Nintendo views Apple as a serious threat, while stressing that the iPhone and iPod are used mostly for casual games that provide a "welcome distraction."
“Do I think that in the near term they can hurt us more than Microsoft?” Fils-Aime said. “Absolutely.”
Some of that hurt could come this holiday season, as Nintendo lacks a new device to drive sales. Though it has seen several minor revisions, the Nintendo DS handheld is now 6 years old, and the company's current generation console, the Wii, has been around for 4 years.
Nintendo President Satoru Iwata admitted last month that the company had originally hoped to release its 3DS handheld, which will feature glasses-free 3D gaming, in time for the holidays, but was unable to meet the goal. The device will instead ship on Feb. 26 in Japan and a month later in U.S. and Europe.
As more evidence of the company's struggles, Nintendo cut its profit forecast for the fiscal year by more than half last month. The company lowered its profit forecast from 200 billion yen ($2.39 billion) to 90 billion yen ($1.07 billion).
Fils-Aime remains undaunted, however, asserting that Nintendo has an edge because games on the Nintendo DS are more in-depth and can "consume." For example, Fils-Aime has spent 150 hours playing Dragon Quest. According to the Forbes report, Nintendo makes fourteen of the 20 best selling games for the current generation of gaming devices.
Apple isn't seen as the only threat to Nintendo, though. Fils-Aime says the Kyoto, Japan-based company is competing for people's time. "I compete with Zynga, I compete with surfing the net, I compete with the newspaper," said Fils-Aime.
For years, Nintendo has led the pack in the gaming industry, selling 20 million gaming devices in 2009, more than Microsoft and Sony combined. But, despite being a relative newcomer to the gaming device industry, Apple has the sales volume to compete with Nintendo. In the most recent quarter alone, Apple sold over 20 million iOS devices.
In September, Apple boss Steve Jobs declared the iPod touch "the number one portable game player in the world," saying "the iPod touch outsells Nintendo and Sony portable game players combined," though those numbers have been called into question.
Apple's push into the gaming market is paying off. Between its Game Center social gaming network and a new games editor position for the App Store, Apple has demonstrated that, when it comes to games, it's not playing around. According to a recent survey, Apple has joined the "major league of the portable gaming market," with over 40 million iOS gamers in the U.S.
Speculation earlier this week that Apple was looking into purchasing Nintendo rival Sony at first seemed to increase the threat that Apple could pose to Nintendo, but the rumor dissolved as analysts dismissed a buy-out as highly unlikely
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The white glass planned to be used for the delayed iPhone 4 model allows in too much light, resulting in poorer quality digital pictures, according to a new rumor.
Apple announced this week that its white iPhone 4 was delayed yet again this time until Spring 2011. Apple has not offered any reason for the delays, except that the device has proven "more challenging to manufacture" than the company had originally anticipated.
Cult of Mac on Wednesday offered a potential explanation for the delay: an anonymous source "with connections at Apple" indicated that the white model takes poor pictures due to its white glass. That person indicated that the white case allows light to leak in, causing washed out pictures.
"The white iPhone 4 can't take accurate photographs," author Leander Kahney wrote. "The handset's semi-translucent glass case leaks light in, ruining pictures taken with the internal camera, especially when the built-in flash is used."
The source reportedly indicated that Apple has ben "struggling it isolate the camera sensor," and may have to completely redesign the iPhone 4 to address the issue. The problem was reportedly found at the last minute at a secret testing facility Apple uses to allow case manufacturers to qualify for its "Made for iPhone" certification.
Previous reports had alleged that the white iPhone 4 experienced delays due to light leakage, but suggested the issue was light leaking from inside of the case. Another report alleged that Apple's overseas manufacturing partners were struggling to achieve the right balance of paint thickness and opacity to color the glass front and back of the device.
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Adding on to last night’s Apple announcement that the company would further delay the release of the white iPhone 4, we have received new information that paints a different story. According to a previous source of ours, we have been told that Apple in fact has no plans to release the white model iPhone 4. Our source hypothesizes another “delay” communicated around March leading us into an iPhone 5 release time-frame in June / July. Something interesting is that manufacturing sources our contact has are keeping quiet on the matter, not confirming that this was in fact a manufacturing issue at this point, but that there might be something else going on behind the scenes. Oh well.
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Apple's crusade against Adobe Flash has shown success in a new survey, which found that 54 percent of video online is now available in H.264 via HTML5, the modern standard for the web embraced by Apple in iOS and Mac OS X.
MeFeedia revealed on Wednesdsay that more than half of the web's video are now available for playback in HTML5, a number that has more than doubled in the past five months. It's also a significant increase from the 10 percent availability seen in January 2010.
The survey found that Flash remains the dominant player on traditional PCs, but mobile devices like the iPhone and iPad (which don't support Flash at all) are driving HTML5 video adoption. Many publishers and platforms are now using the iframe tag instead of the "object" tag, allowing the source to serve a video format optimized for each device.
MeFeedia's findings were based on the company's index of videos from over 33,000 different publishers. It includes content partners such as Hulu, CBS and ABC, as well as online video destinations like YouTube, Vimeo.
"Alongside mobile growth, we expect that most video sites will follow this trend," the report said. "We are also seeing an increase in ad formats, services, advanced players & the use of canvas combined with video."
Apple and Adobe have been at odds since 2007, when the iPhone was released without support for Flash. The conflict escalated this year with the release of the iPad, and Apple's refusal to allow Flash on it or other iOS-powered devices.
The feud gained considerable steam this year after Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs published an open letter criticizing Flash as old technology that is unfit for the modern era of mobile computers. The CEO also said that Flash is the number one reason for crashes on the Mac platform.
Adobe fired back and said that any crashes of Flash in Mac OS X are not related to its software, but are instead the fault of Apple's operating system.
This month Apple stopped preinstalling Adobe Flash on its Mac computers, starting with the new MacBook Air. Apple explained the change by stating that requiring users to install Flash on their own ensures that they will always have the latest and most secure version of the software.
Microsoft hasn't preinstalled Flash on Windows PCs since the shift to Windows Vista in 2007.
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According to a report from Gigaom, Apple may be planning to cut out their carriers in future iPhone purchases. The report claims that Apple is working with SIM-card manufacturer, Gemalto, in order to create a custom-made card that is installed in the phone.
The card’s purpose would be to allow users to purchase an iPhone directly from Apple’s online or retail store, then choose their carrier when they get the device. The SIM-card would work with an Apple carrier-chooser App Store app thus cutting out the need for users to call or work with the carriers, in order to get their devices all set up.
The apparent future of iPhone sales appears to be geared towards Europe as Europe has several iPhone carriers, versus one in the U.S. – until January-ish, that work on similar cellular and data connections.
Interesting
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Go to gmail.com from your iPhone and you’ll notice two improvements rolled out over the past few weeks. First, scrolling is snappier: the speed of scrolling reflects the speed of your swipe gesture. This is helpful for long conversations where a few quick flicks will get you to the information you need much faster than before. Second, the toolbars stay on screen while you’re scrolling rather than moving down into view after each scroll. Being able to access your toolbars from any point on the page should make it easier to triage your email and move around the app.
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Yahoo! Messenger has updated its iOS application to enable video calling on the iPod touch 4G.
What's New In This Version: ● Enabled video calling on iPod touch (4th generation). ● Bug fixes.
You can download Yahoo! Messenger from the App Store for free.
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In the past Cydia has given the option to “Make my life easier” which automatically saved SHSH blobs on the Cydia server, but since the release of limera1n and greenpois0n, this option has disappeared and your saved SHSH blobs are not shown on the Cydia front page. The Cydia server is still up and running, and any SHSH blob that you saved previously is still saved. Also TinyUmbrella, which uses the Cydia server, still works perfectly and should be used to make sure your 4.1 SHSH blobs have been saved.
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Are you not seeing what I am not seeing?
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Something tells me that there are going to be many requests for this feature
Adobe demos Flash to HTML 5 tool at MAX conference
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TechRestore CEO Shannon Jean says the new MacBook Air screen is unlike any other used in a laptop.
In a message to ZDNET Jean writes, the screen is paper thin and it’s not inside a housing like the traditional screens. It’s in layers, it’s insane. Perhaps you can do a post on this service, then I can send you images of the screen to do an additional post. I don’t think there’s ever been a screen like this used in a laptop. It’s very similar to a Sony PSP screen, where the LCD panel and backlight are separate pieces.
Like I mentioned, this is an ultra-thin screen that is not encased in a typical screen housing. Looks like Apple saved weight and space by keeping the parts separate. Very cool, except getting the screen out of the unit is a challenge with the Iron Man adhesives that Apple uses. Plus the fact that replacing the screen will require a dust free environment, since you are essentially peeling back the screen like an onion and there are all kinds of ways to cause damage. If you scratch the backlight layer, it will show through the LCD, if you get dirt/dust in between the LCD and reflective layers, it will show up, just to name a few.
TechRestore is offering a service that replaces the super glossy, LED backlit LCD with a matte-finish screen that has the exact same specifications as the original.
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Apple has shown interest in creating stainless steel electronic devices that are more durable and scratch resistant, thanks to a thin external coating of nitride.
This week, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published the details of Apple's invention in a new application entitled "Nitriding Stainless Steel for Consumer Electronic Products." It describes a cost-effective system that would place a layer of nitride atop a stainless steel exterior.
"In addition to providing a durable, hard surface that is both scratch and impact resistant, the nitride layer allows for the natural surface color and texture of the underlying stainless steel to remain visible to the user," the application reads. "It is this natural surface color and texture of the stainless steel that adds to the aesthetically pleasing appearance of the consumer electronic product, thereby enhancing the user's overall experience."
The ability of a nitride coating to allow the stainless steel color to show through is different from titanium nitride, a ceramic material also used as a coating on metal. Titanium nitride carries a metallic gold color that covers the metal beneath it.
Apple's proposed patent would maintain the look and feel of stainless steel on its electronic devices, by both allowing the color of the metal to show through the nitride coating, and also relying on the nitride to protect the device from scratches and blemishes.
The application notes that austenitic stainless steel, while scratch-prone, is a desirable material for consumer electronics because it is non-magnetic and less likely to inhibit wireless technology like a cell phone signal, Wi-Fi, or Bluetooth. Apple wishes to maintain the look and feel of stainless steel, but to also provide more protection for the external material.
Apple's patent application describes a variety of methods to place the nitride on the surface, where the material would be at least 15 microns thick and carry a Vickers Hardness value of at least 1,000.
The application, made public this week, is credited to Douglas Weber. It was originally filed by Apple on April 6, 2010.
Apple has repeatedly shown interest in making its devices more durable and protected from daily wear-and-tear. This August, the company entered into an exclusive agreement with Liquidmetal Technologies, creator of an amorphous metal alloy with unique atomic structures, allowing for products that are stronger, lighter, and resistant to wear and corrosion.
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John Savio, the young man who wowed us last year with his iPhone 3GS costume, has made the relevant upgrades and is back with an amazing iPhone 4 costume. It's the Citizen Kane of iPhone costumes, really. Just watch.
Last year's costume, which Savio created in collaboration with friend Reko Rivera, was impressive for incorporating a working TV as the display. Hooked up to a real, tiny iPhone, it gave the appearance that the costume was really a working smartphone. It was genius.
But the, erm, industrial design of the costume left something to be desired—the corners were too square, the costume too thick.
This year's iPhone 4 costume looks like an iPhone 4. Like, exactly like an iPhone 4. It is thin, has gently rounded corners, and even sports a LED light on the back as a flash. I firmly believe that there should be an employee wearing one of these in every Apple Store. According to Savio's YouTube description:
John Savio and Reko Rivera went their separate ways. John created the upgraded rendition of the iPhone 4 featured here at 10x to scale, complete with a 40" LED LCD Panel, a Jailbroken iPhone 4, VGA out from the iPohone, LED Back Camera Light, weighs roughly 75 lbs and uses a mini 12v Battery with 2+ hours of battery life. The costume took a total of 3 days / 40 hours to complete.
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Back in late May, Apple passed Microsoft to become the second-largest U.S. company as measured by market capitalization. Just a few months later, Apple has reached another milestone lined to its longtime rival: For the first time in nearly 15 years, Apple has brought in more quarterly revenue than Microsoft, as Apple's $20.34 billion quarter announced last week topped that of Microsoft, which today reported revenue of $16.20 billion for the third calendar quarter of 2010.
While revenue is only one measure of the size of a company and Microsoft's high profit margins achievable through its primary focus on software mean that it still generates more profit than Apple, today's news offers yet another sign of Apple's resurgence over the past decade.
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It turns out that the iPod touch is a kidnapper deterrent. In Stanton, Delaware, a 12-year-old girl was waiting for a ride outside Stanton Middle School when a man driving a white van pulled up next to her and yelled at her to “get in the van”. Instead of panicking, the girl pulled out her iPod touch, held it to her ear, and told the man that she was calling 9-1-1. Believing that she was using an iPhone, the driver immediately sped off. What a smart girl.
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Mike Pan has successfully modified the iPhone 3GS to record HD video at 30 frames per second!
Here is a way to get the phone to record video (and playback on the iPhone) at 1080×800 @ 30fps at up to 20Mbps. (up from the original 640×480 @ 3Mbps) (I am using the non-standard 1080×800 in order to keep the video at the right aspect ratio)
Antoni has also provided the necessary files to record at a resolution of 960x720 if you so prefer.
Check out the sample video below.
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The iPhone Dev-Team has released a new version of RedSn0w for Mac and Windows that uses the Limera1n exploit to support more devices and adds the ability to restore custom firmware ipsws.
You can download RedSn0w 0.9.7 from here: ● Windows ● Mac
Reset Network Settings? That should help. That always solves my wifi issues (besides that time a 2G was being a b1tch)
I notice that wifi on my 3GS with iOS 4.x is a real b!tch though.. to connect to data on the whole is VERY buggy. At times flow wifi (Fspot) crashes my wifi and I cant even turn it on, etc. Other times some data networks, wifi and edge it doesnt even detect internet at times...
WRT to the 3GS 720p mod, tried it, removed it. It makes taking pics VERY buggy it does record as stated though...
Skyfire, which is already available for Android, Symbian and Windows Mobile (WP7) has been approved for Apple’s App Store.
The browser is known among its users for its brilliant Flash-to-HTML5 support. It’s not really a browser though, as it is simply a plugin that runs atop Safari.
What Skyfire does is, when you click on playable Flash content (videos only), the video is transcoded to HTML5 by Skyfire’s servers and then sent to your phone. The transcoding is done to ensure that a. the videos download minimum amount of data b. battery life does not get trashed.
This, while not native flash, gives you the ability to watch videos from sites like Metacafe, National Geographic etc. which may not have native video apps. “Millions” of websites with video flash content are now going to be accessible from iOS devices. Hulu has blocked Skyfire from their servers, though. If you want to use Hulu on iOS, you’ll have to pay $10/month with Hulu Plus.
Skyfire will be available for download at 9AM ET on Thursday for a price of $2.99.
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In a reply to one of his many followers on Twitter, MuscleNerd of iPhone Dev Team has confirmed that ultrasn0w unlock for iPhone 3GS and iPhone 3G on iOS 4.1 and iOS 4.2, with 05.14.02 baseband will be released in a day or two at most, once iOS 4.2 is released to public.
Since the baseband OS on iPhone 4 is different than its predecessors, it will probably take a little more time for the devs to figure out unlock for iPhone 4 on 2.10.04 baseband, on iOS 4.1 and iOS 4.2.
Apple is expected to release iOS 4.2 sometime in November this year.
M_2NR wrote:Reset Network Settings? That should help. That always solves my wifi issues (besides that time a 2G was being a b1tch)
I notice that wifi on my 3GS with iOS 4.x is a real b!tch though.. to connect to data on the whole is VERY buggy. At times flow wifi (Fspot) crashes my wifi and I cant even turn it on, etc. Other times some data networks, wifi and edge it doesnt even detect internet at times...
WRT to the 3GS 720p mod, tried it, removed it. It makes taking pics VERY buggy it does record as stated though...
I tried that, and no luck. I re-installed the firmware and still no luck. After attempting a Reset all settings, the phone is now stuck in an infinite boot loop. I'll have to install the firmware again when I get sometime.
What you have again bud? and what OS? There was another fix i was reading up in the days of when i was having those issues.. i think pushfix repo (cydia.pushfix.info i think) in cydia might have the solution
Very cool. Reminds me of a Windows project similar to this. Can't remember the name off hand.
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For the first time since its launch, the availability of the iPhone 4 in Apple's US Online Store has dropped to "within 24 hours." This should be welcome news to investors and analysts as it shows that Apple has successfully ramped up production enough to have good stock on hand levels going into the holiday season. Maybe that production line that was working on prototype white iPhone 4s has finally been brought into the main flow.
During Apple's financial call with investors last month, Apple said the company was selling iPhone 4s as fast as they could be manufactured, and the only reason it didn't sell more than 14.1 million is because of supply. However, even with supply constraints, Apple still sold 2 million more iPhones than some of the higher Wall Street estimates.
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Think the current 30 iTunes song previews are too short? Waiting for those 60 second iTunes song rumors to come true? Well today Apple has announced that it will be extending iTunes song previews not to 60 seconds but to an entire 90 seconds. – That’s half the length of many songs! The news comes from Symphonic Distribution (via MR) who received an Apple e-mail, to music labels, detailing the change.
We are pleased to let you know that we are preparing to increase the length of music previews from 30 seconds to 90 seconds on the iTunes Store in the United States. We believe that giving potential customers more time to listen to your music will lead to more purchases.
This news is surely exciting for those who like to listen to previews before purchasing their music. 90 seconds is three times the current iTunes preview lengths and we agree that this will allow music-purchasers to make better music-purchasing decisions. Oh, there’s always listening to the full thing on YouTube first. Interesting to point out is that Apple only specifically mentions the change happening for the U.S. iTunes store so international folks will probably be out of luck for the time being.
That big Facebook announcement today? Yeah it is a smartphone update, but not a Facephone. Zuck took to the stage to announce some feature updates to the Android and iPhone Facebook apps, including the new Places, Groups and tagging features.
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If you're a fan of jailbreaking your iOS device, here's some good news for you. The iphone Dev-Team has released the latest version of redsn0w (0.9.6b2), allowing you to jailbreak your iOS 4.1 device (iPhone 4 / 3GS, iPad, 3rd and 4th generation iPod touch and 2nd generation Apple TV) into the land of the free.
For either Mac OS X or Windows, this build takes advantage of geohot's recent limera1n exploit (the same used by greenpois0n and PwnageTool), leaving the SHAtter exploit to (hopefully) be saved for another day, according to the Dev-Team Blog.
The Dev-Team has also incorporated two additional extras to this build. Firstly, "...custom bootlogos for iPhone3G/iPhone3GS/iPod2G users (with qualifying bootroms)." And secondly, "an option that implements the 'DFU' button in PwnageTool. This button (which you can use from Windows) lets you prepare your device for a custom DFU. Even if you're purely a Windows user, you can get a trusted friend to run PwnageTool over your IPSW to create a custom IPSW. You can now install that custom IPSW on your own Windows box, after you run this redsn0w version."
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iOS 4.2 bring the volume slider back to iOS which was taken away when iOS 4.0 brought multitasking.
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Oh & Skyfire which was scheduled to be released at 9am ET tomorrow has come out a day early. Its in the App Store now & available for $2.99 USD.
M_2NR wrote:What you have again bud? and what OS? There was another fix i was reading up in the days of when i was having those issues.. i think pushfix repo (cydia.pushfix.info i think) in cydia might have the solution
Initially the problem was on OS 3.1.2. I tried updating the OS to 4.1, but that didn't help the problem. I've read of a few fixes, but that assumes that you have cydia installed and that I have access to a network via the phone.
The phone was not previously jailbroken, and because the WiFi is greyed out I have no access to the internet or a network.
Bezman wrote:so is it safe to restore/update my iPhone 3G to 4.1 with the latest PWNAGE tool (4.1.2) and unlock with ultrasnow??
using the usual custom firmware method... yup! fix up! (see previous page) make sure u enter the "special DFU" mode @musclenerd described. It worked on my 3GS but the 3G i fcuk it up. Gonna test a custom f/w with the 3G on my windows machine now
EDIT: u MUST be in the "Special DFU" mode.. tried it without it.. in recovery mode.. nothing... DFU mode... got 1600.. I used TinyU and kicked it out of recovery loop and ran redsn0w n boomed it with the special DFU and voila! yet again no errors... thanks to @MuscleNerd...
Skyfire, the Flash-transcoding browser for iPhone, will slowly, carefully be returning to the App Store today in small amounts and for limited times.:
We are going to open batches of downloads for new users over the coming days. The first batch will be in a few minutes on the Apple App Store. It will be first come, first serve.
Due to overwhelming demand, we are taking this approach because Skyfire believes a good user experience should come first, and we would rather have fewer, happier customers, and add new users as we can support them. We will open the first batches to US users only, with additional country support to follow shortly.
Please note that there may be some initial congestion as a flood of new users simultaneously try to use the service, but try again an hour later and things should smooth out.
We expect to open more batches frequently over the coming days.
So yes, they removed it because the demand from iPhone users was melting their transcoding servers (the machines that convert unsupported Flash to supported H.264 on the fly), but they’ll slowly be letting it back out. And it’s up to you to get it when and if you can.
it does record as stated though...
yuh not n00b.
