If you happen to own an iPhone, and you
happen to have updated to the 1.1.4 firmware, you can now easily jailbreak, activate, and unlock your phone with a couple of simple solutions. As you may have heard, iNdependence 1.4 beta 5 is out, which will do all sorts of non-Apple approved things to your device from OS X, though if you're looking for the ultimate cross-platform solution, you probably can't do better than the latest version Zibri's all-in-one package,
Ziphone 2.5. Both apps make it about a million times easier than this was a few weeks ago, though we've seen video of a new solution -- jailbreaking
directly from iTunes -- that could make this process even simpler (though considerably more illegal). Check that out after the break and get a glimpse of your deviant future.
[Via
TUAW; Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
Read - iNdependence
Read - Ziphone's Blog
posted Feb 29th 2008 1:54PM
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How do you change your Name and Avatar on Engadget?
I see people all the time with a custom avatar and I cant figure out how to change mine.
Help!!
Come back to this post and click your name.
It will take you to another page. On the top right side, there should be a section that says "Are you _name_? If so, click here to login." Look in the comment confirmation email for the password.
Enjoy.
Click on your name just above your comment, then on the left it will say "Are you engadget? If So, Login Here." click on that. Now you'll see a round, green button that says "Push to close." .... push it!
@The General Wow. Best Jurassic Park reference ever. +1 for you sir
I try that but is says the password is incorrect. I try the same password I use to leave comments! What gives?
Awesome - Thank you both for your help. Of course I realized i don't have my avatar file here at work, so I will have to go dig it up off another forum and then come back and update it later.
Along those lines, is there a primary login page where I can login before browsing engadget and then not have to login at the bottom of the comments pages?
-Casper42
Nope, they don't have persistent logins yet. Would be nice, though.
Testing Avatar... (or creating) ignore post
Don't feel bad, I find it confusing as hell, too. It took me forever to figure out, mostly because I never tried that hard. I'd glance around the page, not see anything interesting, give up, and then think about it again a few months later. Wash, rinse, repeat.
Also when I ended up uploading my pic I think I had problems in both Safari and Firefox. Meh.
Why would jailbreaking using iTunes be considered "more illegal"? Either jailbreaking is illegal or not, so I think.
Because this "jailbreaking" through itunes is actually restoring a custom firmware. You know how the PSP has custom firmwares that are Sony's FW hacked to do lots of other great things? Coming to an iPhone near you!
"I love this site and its disheartening to see BS posts stacking up more and more"
Says the hypocrite hijacking the thread.
Look whiny bitch (your words), if you want to list all of the gadgets that are getting passed over, then fine. You have no logic only FUD.
But hey, I'll bet you you'd be the first one to pounce all over someone on a Zune post for saying the same things you are here... shit you'd be calling for a lynching. But tell ya what, next time your article on the ZunePhone gets passed over, _then_ you can throw a fit.
Meanwhile, why don't you try throwing your fanboy energies into something useful like getting your idols to make something worth posting about instead of trying to shut up people who want to discuss Apple products?
The only thing worse than a troll is a pretentious troll with a "cause". Someone get me the barf bag.
grr broken comments. this post was directed at sick transit
I love that pic. It made my day.
I was just thinking the same thing.
5 of 10 posts on the first page are Apple... Are you guys on their payroll?
I suggest a new domain... engadgetapple.com
Are you on the QQ 's payroll?
Engadget love this whole jailbreak farrago as it gives them the excuse to keep on and on and on and on posting more stories about - it's the gift that keeps on giving!
Imagine if there was a Microsoft/Phone phone where users were forced to constantly battle with The Man and piddle about with dodgy firmware updates just to get the phone to work like a proper smartphone - Engadget would make a few sneery comments and then ignore it.
But when it comes to Apple, we've got to hear every pointless scrap of non news every day, so we get to thrill to vacuous fluff like: "the Apple store is down" (again).
(waits for fanboys to turn feral)
While this particular post doesn't necessarily annoy me as it is somewhat relevant, I have to agree. I often think I accidentally clicked on TUAW when visiting Engadget...
So what if Engadget editors are closet fanboys? Engadget publishes what it wants to, and it's up to you to take it or leave it... not whine when they post things you don't care about. Everyone who whines about this crap has it backwards... you come here to read what they have to say, you don't come here because they post what you want to read.
@ trumpton
I don't understand your logic here. If Microsoft were to release a similar device (say, a Zunephone), you can be sure our coverage would be just as intense.
Perhaps the issue is a lack of interesting and/or innovative consumer devices coming from other companies. Believe me when I tell you we wait eagerly to swarm on the newest gadgets, regardless of who makes them.
Please remember there are plenty of readers who also identify us as Microsoft fanboys, Sony fanboys, Nintendo fanboys, etc.
Damn reply system...
Tom b >> First off, debate means traffic, lets not pretend they don't post like this for only one reason. Secondly, I can piss and moan all day long as long as I want. Many have said way worse and still have not been banned or had posts deleted. And finally, we are the ones who made Engadget popular by visiting it (Good articles = Traffic, praise, etc.), if they piss us off, we will say "f@#$ you" and they will become the next Slashdot.
You've been a member for less than 2 months, Have a Coke and a Smile and kindly STFU.
If you acknowledge that "debate equals traffic" and it's a topic you would like to see less of, then why are you contributing to the debate/traffic when its against your interests?
Also, as a side note, I would never attack someone based on their join date, but I just noticed you joined 9 days before Tom B. Why would you even go there?
@SIC TR4NSIT: seniority =/= extra whining privileges
Shit. My bad. Apparently I'm worse at math than I thought.
Don said "I suggest a new domain... engadgetapple.com"
Wow Don I've never heard that one before. Not only is that shockingly clever but it's satirical burning truth. You'll go far as an internet anti-Apple crusader. Keep up the righteous fight.
Not to compare this site to this phrases actual representation but "Dissent is the truest form of patriotism"... No im not saying I like Engadget to that level, but im sure youll get what I mean. I bitch because I care. I love this site and its disheartening to see BS posts stacking up more and more. There are literally no worthy alternatives to this site, but they are going downhill in many peoples opinion. If the library you went to started what many felt was promoting republicans and dissing democrats, and you were a democrat, You would still go there, but you would be upset that they are showing favor when you felt they should be unbias. You would most likely fill out a comment card expressing your distaste. Our tax dollars pay for our libraries, and our Ad clicks pay for Engadget. And yeah, I started posting well over a year ago, not 2008, and I brought it up to help my point that Ive been comming here for a long time as have many others, and while many have no opinion on the new slant, many do. Its a public entity, and the consumer ultimately controlls it.
wow, you've been here a _whole_ year? that's amazing, sick transit! anyway, you're not a patriot, you're a troll-- your whole history is one big flame fest. see my other reply which got redirected above.
you might have a year but you'll always be a n00b.
"Much in the way youll always be a virgin. Go back to stroking off to nude photos of Steve Jobs..."
For anyone who missed it here it goes the translation:
"Waaaahhhhhhh!!! I tried to be all logical about my cause but now I'm gonna accuse you of being a fanboy because you talk about Apple products. Wahhhh mommy! I lost and am a big FAILURE!"
Someone call the wahhhhhhhhhhmbulance for SIC TROLL
Dude, your name is "phanbouy"... And dont think that just because I can adequetly express my views through a constructive post that I cant throw down when a little fanbitch forgets his place.
"Imagine if there was a Microsoft/Phone phone where users were forced to constantly battle with The Man and piddle about with dodgy firmware updates just to get the phone to work like a proper smartphone."
Sounds like you're describing the experience of owning a Windows Mobile phone and fiddling around with "cooked" ROMs.
Oh irony, how I love thee.
Give up, you've been pwned. You already dug your hole. You outed yourself as a troll who got (still gets?) beat up in high school way too much when I routed you on your complete gibberish non-logic.
p.s. i have the name i do because i actually have a sense of humor and believe people can like what they want without being attacked by others for it. it's an _ironic_ name, halfwit hypocrite whiny bitch loser. all you do is attack others and expect to be immune? fuck, did you have to study to become such a raving douche bag?
phanbouy >> You dont even have 1 constructive post in all of your rambling incoherent posts. Grow the hell up. Your like those kids on XBL that follow people from map to map refusing to leave repeating phrases like "Make me" and "I can do what I want" I think we all know who the troll really is. After this I'm done with you, I got sucked into arguing with a troll.
Actually, I've been quite constructive. I outed a troll (and a sic one at that). I busted your FUD. I'm getting a good chuckle out of your emotional meltdown though, troll. You've earned it.
But I see you're digging your hole even deeper, saying it's *my* fail for refusing to become some internet scumbag's yes-man? More gibberish from the desperate hater.
btw, i'm calling your parents.. back to military academy for you, spoiled princess!
Does myfaves work on the iphone? Also what data plan do people use on t-mobile. T-zones?
@Sean,
Configure your myfaves online and then you don't even have to use the myfave app to dial your numbers. Myfaves isn't really device dependant.
@Don,
Thanks for the reply
Not to compare this site to this phrases actual representation but "Dissent is the truest form of patriotism"... No im not saying I like Engadget to that level, but im sure youll get what I mean. I bitch because I care. I love this site and its disheartening to see BS posts stacking up more and more. There are literally no worthy alternatives to this site, but they are going downhill in many peoples opinion. If the library you went to started what many felt was promoting republicans and dissing democrats, and you were a democrat, You would still go there, but you would be upset that they are showing favor when you felt they should be unbias. You would most likely fill out a comment card expressing your distaste. Our tax dollars pay for our libraries, and our Ad clicks pay for Engadget.
And yeah, I started posting well over a year ago, not 2008 and was a reader for quite a while longer, and I brought it up to help my point that Ive been comming here for a long time, as have many others, and while many have no opinion on the new slant, many do. Its a public entity, and the consumer ultimately controlls it.
Damn posting glitches
Just to make it up to you for reply to the wrong thing I looked it up for you
the 5.99 internet will work, and yes, myfaves will still work as it is not phone dependent as Don said.
http://jbwebdev.com/blog/want-edge-on-your-t-mobile-iphone/
Awesome picture!!!
Viva la jailbreak!
I'm Terry Gilliam and I approved of this pic!
Tom b >> First off, debate means traffic, lets not pretend they don't post like this for only one reason. Secondly, I can piss and moan all day long as long as I want. Many have said way worse and still have not been banned or had posts deleted. And finally, we are the ones who made Engadget popular by visiting it (Good articles = Traffic, praise, etc.), if they piss us off, we will say "f@#$ you" and they will become the next Slashdot.
You've been a member for less than 2 months, Have a Coke and a Smile and kindly STFU.
I just figured it out that to reply you have to hit "Reply" twice.
I jailbroke with independence and now the Mail app on my phone does not open. is anyone else haveing this issue?
I had some issue with it. All I had to do was re-enter my password
i like his pwned logo
So now there is a variation level of Illegality?
Hmm another post hijacked by 50% comments saying "WHY ARE YOU A POST TEH APPLEZ MOAR??!!!11"
Also, as a side note, I would never attack someone based on their join date, but I just noticed you joined 9 days before Tom B. Why would you even go there?
I just want a jailbreak for my iPod Touch 1.1.3, only reason I bought it over other devices is because of the jailbreaking capabilities. I knew I should have just hunted around for a non 1.1.3 version... since I don't feel like going through the hassle of downgrading to jailbreak it right now.
Wow, didn't even realize 1.1.4 was available.
I guess I'll upgrade when my computer prompts me. There seem to be no advantages, so, no hurry..
so, what will happen to you if you do an "illegal" jailbreak?
i don't understand the process of jailbreaking. what does it allow you to do. can someone enlighten me please.
I love his setup! Or at least what I can see of it. =D
impressive what a bunch of freestyle hackers can do..
applause
i think you've got a screw loose =)
Funny how almost every comment here on this "Jailbreak" topic is not relevant to the topic itself.
The Video sucks on this topic btw, can barely see what he's doing.
Faslane
OMG the music for this video is absolutely friggin' awesome !! :o anyone know what song this is? ^^ sounds a bit like petrucci or something.. anyone? :)
im in australia and used that three days ago (iNdependence) it was awesome. i usally used Ziphone to do it but iNdependence is way faster and easier to understand. if anyone wants an iphone but is scared to unlock it, it is so easy and simple to do. and im 14
tim,
Also in Aust (sydney)with an unlocked iphone (Ziphone)
I'm looking for someone to help me with sms and edge on Optus.
I seems i to need two mobile phone numbers for each person. 1 for SMS auto formats in the +61 4 0789 1011 format and the other in standard 0407891011 format for calls.
If i only have 0407891011 and an SMS comes in, it doesn't recognise who it came from. And vice versa.
This is really annoying....Help!!
Also help in setting up Optus Edge.
Can you help or point me in the right direction.
Thanks.
i have the same problem with the "number thing" and still dont know what to do sorry.
i dont think Australia even has a edge network do they?
i just use wi-fi.
you might want to call optus and just ask them if they have edge or not, or check their website and see if you can do anything.
sorry that i cant help you at all.
Nice choice on the artwork. Jacques-Louis David rocks my (art) world.
Dream Theater sucks.
Ziphone is awesome. Anyone else ran into the problem with YouTube not working anymore? I've tried six million different ways to make it work again, and I can't. =(
Do i feel some tension in the house?
Best song behind video ever... Dream Theater kicks all A$$
Great blog and great software. Other great iPhone downloads can be found at http://www.okiphones.com.
Meh, 1.1.2 all the way. iPod touch all the way. Sony erricson w810 all the way. iPhone is phat.
My idea of the perfect phone is a touchscreen phone which is thickness and size of a credit card so you can keep it in your wallet. That would just rock me like a hurricane
I did a jailbreak on my iphone version 1.1.3 using ZiphoneOSX , is it O.K to update to 1.1.4 when itunes prompts?
Will this affect unlocked iphone?