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    Stash Bits: Hacking Up The Biggest Selling Smartphone, Unlocking It For 3G

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    52 days ago in AppleStash · Authority: 1

    Apple may have bagged 10 million iPhone sales this year but you don’t care about sales figures (unless your inner geek needs some justification for the popularity of the device) but what you’re more interested in is what you can’t do with it. Well step on down because hacking up the iPhone just got better and more intriguing. Fortunately you don’t need to drag your unwilling little bundle of glass and plastic into the tool shed to make it more useful. Run Apps In The Background, Don’t Wait For Push Notification Battery life may be everything in a mobile device, especially so when it comes to the iPhone. Doing so many things at the same time requires some serious juice sucking but switching in and out of Apps can be just as frustrating. Available via Cydia, (the supposed cooler kid on the block for 3rd party App distribution) Backgrounder allows you to continue running Apps even while you’re on the Home Screen. For now there’s no activity monitor to show which App is porking out on your CPU but enhancements are sure to come with future updates. Of course there are some downsides like the need to Jailbreak your iPhone and while it’s easy to do with the Dev Team’s Pwnage Tool, the faint of heart won’t take too kindly the remote possibility of bricking their iPhones. As Arstechnica points out, system sounds can disrupt music playback with no way to resume playback unless you switch back to that App. Via: The iPhone Blog SOS: Secure Our Screen New Text Messages are displayed prominently on the iPhone’s lock screen but if you’ve turned off the quick glance feature, still rethink what your lovers, stock analysts and mafia connections are texting you. Sure the new text notification doesn’t reveal much at first glance but if you plunge an iPhone into emergency call mode, incoming texts can be read clearly. Unfortunately this didn’t happen for something useful like further exposure to AIG’s use of their bailout bonus but to bag on a 12 year old’s love life. Via: Karl Kraft Unlocking The 3G iPhone? Not Anytime Soon Any bit of hackery includes some frustration and the do-it-yourself approach is less than ideal for some but the wait times can be just as paralyzing. Unfortunately, an iPhone 3G unlock isn’t coming right away. One of the main problems hindering a full Software unlock was the OS freezing up after the Dev Team severed communication between it and the Baseband. Restoring the iPhone resulted in a botched fix but the issue has been remedied. However, this issue cannot be reproduced but a step has been made in the right direction, it wasn’t as big as everyone hoped however. Via: The iPhone Blog iPhone Dominating US Markets, Everyone Else Jealous The iPhone has been a hot selling device in the US since its introduction and a price cut has made it even more attractive. Research by NPD has shown that 1 in 3 new iPhone customers have switched from other carriers making it the second best selling phone since the RAZR. Verizon Wireless was hit the hardest with 47 percent of new iPhone owners coming from big red. However it doesn’t seem to do them any harm considering their past optimism. Via: Macworld

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    Need a Reason to Jailbreak? Backgrounder App is Now Available!

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    57 days ago in iPhone Xtras · Authority: 2

    A new application, Backgrounder, is now available for jailbroken phones! This allows you to run official App Store apps in the background. Yes, you can now listen to music while you are in your favorite App Store app! With Backgrounder, you don’t have to log into a secure shell session. You don’t have to perform black magic. You just press and hold the home key while running any application. After a few seconds, the Backgrounding Enabled pop-up appears. Release the home button and go about your business. Backgrounder automatically returns you to SpringBoard. To quit the background application, re-launch it from SpringBoard, then press and hold Home until the Backgrounding Disabled pop-up appears. Why Apple has not allowed apps to run in the background is beyond me. At first I thought that maybe the iPhone couldn’t handle a few apps running at the same time so Apple rightfully did not allow it… well after trying this new app, which is only available to jailbreakers via Cydia, it is more than obvious that the iPhone indeed can handle apps running in the background. So Apple when will you learn if you don’t give us what we want, we eventually just take it… So are you finally going to jailbreak your phone now? We’ve got step by step instructions up to Jailbreak the iPhone 3G for both Mac OS X and Windows PC users, and for the original iPhone 2G. Jailbreakers UNITE!!! Argh!!!! [Via Ars Technica] This is a story by the iPhone Blog. This feed is sponsored by The iPhone Blog Store. Need a Reason to Jailbreak? Backgrounder App is Now Available!