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SemiRestore restores jailbroken iPhone without updating it
Jailbreaking your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch is nice and brings many new options to your device. But it’s only nice until you run into problems with your device and need to get restored. Or even if you want to sale it without removing the jailbreak, the phone has to be restored through iTunes which forces you to install the latest iOS firmware in order to update it. This…
How to jailbreak the iPhone 5 and iOS 6.1
Now that the iOS 6 evasi0n jailbreaking tool is available, here’s how you can jailbreak your iPhone 5, iPad mini, or any iOS device you have lying around that is running iOS 6, 6.0.1, 6.0.2, or 6.1. These are the devices that can be jailbroken using evasion: iPhone 5 iPhone 4S iPhone 4 iPhone 3GS iPad 4 iPad 3 iPad 2 iPad mini iPod touch 4 iPod touch 5…
Jailbreak for iPhone 5 and iOS 6.1 devices to be released on Sunday
The iPhone 5 and newer iOS devices like the iPad mini, iPad 4, and iPod touch 5 will soon be free from Apple’s closed system thanks to the upcoming untethered jailbreak. Real and trusted iOS hackers (@pimskeks @planetbeing @pod2g @MuscleNerd) have created a team named @evad3rs to release the jailbreak as soon as possible. The team launched the website evasi0n.com which is where the jailbreak tool will be released at. As…
iOS 6.1 out now for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch (IPSW download links)
Apple has released the first major iOS 6 update, iOS 6.1, for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Apple TV devices. iOS 6.1 now makes the iPhone 5, iPad (3, mini, 4), to support 4G LTE from more carriers. 4G LTE on the iPhone 5 can now be used with 36 additional carriers, and 4G LTE iPads received support for 26 additional carriers as well. The update also…
Auxo, reinvented iOS multitasking, now available in Cydia for iOS 5.1
Auxo, the jailbreak tweak that brings a different multitasking system to iOS, is now available in Cydia for jailbroken iOS devices running iOS 5 or later. The tweak was first released for iOS 6 devices, but not many users were able to get it due to the lack of jailbreak for most iOS 6 compatible devices like the iPhone 5. This video from MyJailbreakMovies shows what Auxo can to the iOS apps…
Auxo jailbreak tweak reinvented multitasking on iOS (video)
The first time iOS received multitasking was back in 2010 when Apple introduced the iPhone 4 – that’s two iOS versions ago. Ever since it was released, iOS users can say that Apple has not added any major improvements to the multitask system in iOS, even in the iPhone 5 multitasking is almost the same as the iPhone 4 with iOS 4. Back in early October member of The Verge’s forums…
What the iPhone Messages app should look like in iOS 7 (concept)
Since iOS 1 Apple has had added changed many things to iOS, like the Music app. But for the Messages apps – which is one of the most important stock app of the phone – Apple has not made any major visual changes. It still looks like iOS 1 Messages app. But that’s one thing Apple could bring to iOS 7: a redesigned Messages app. Reddit member Pflughaupt designed an interesting new Messages…
Scroll wallpaper on your iPhone with Go Desk (Cydia tweak)
Android has more customization than a stock iPhone does. But a jailbroken iPhone with Cydia can be customized as much as an Android device. One of the customization Android offer out-of-the-box is scrolling wallpaper. When scrolling the home screen on an Android device (from left-to-right or righ- to-left), the wallpaper scrolls as well. There no option to do this with stock iOS. But for jailbroken iOS users, there’s now an option to…
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City for iPhone, iPad, Android devices coming on December 6th
RockStar Games today announced that they will be releasing Grand Theft Auto: Vice City 10th Anniversary Edition on the App Store and Google Play for Android and iOS devices on December 6th. Both versions – on Android and iOS – will be priced at $4.99. From RockStar: This 10th Anniversary Edition brings the full experience of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City to mobile devices, with native high-resolution graphics and…
iOS 6.0.1 arriving in coming weeks to fix bugs, iOS 6.1 after Christmas
Your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch will reportedly get another iOS update in coming weeks. Apple is allegedly testing iOS 6.0.1 with its partnered carriers in the US (Sprint, AT&T, Verizon). As expected on minor iOS updates, the release of iOS 6.0.1 will fix many bugs found in iOS 6 but won’t include any new feature. The news of this rumored update comes from BGR.com, where it’s claim that iOS 6.0.1 will…
