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dallow_bg said:
PDAnet is great for tethering.

Didn't LCFiner or someone here say that the way it works, none would be the wiser?
I only use it for emergencies however.


It's so easy.

I took my little mini laptop to work today to jailbreak two co-worker's phones at the office.
Took 7 mins each.
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I'm not worried about the ease of doing the activity, but what could possibly happen if Apple decides to start cracking down on this type of stuff.

:/
 
Thanks, I'll pass that along.

Also, if I were to get a new 3G phone and replace my older iPhone, is there anything I need to know before I do that? I hear the data plan is $30/month rather than the $20 I pay now plus a new 2-yr contract, and I assume there's some sort of an activation fee when I make the switch over?
 
dLMN8R said:
Two questions:

I know that applications do not run in the background on the iphone. However, what if you run an application and lock the screen – does it continue to run? I think it does, but then when I open Byline to have it start syncing and archiving, then lock the screen waiting for it to finish, I often go back and see it unfinished regardless of connectivity.

Does anyone else have trouble with wi-fi connectivity? Regardless of signal strength, it seems like my iPhone loses the connection and reverts to Edge or 3G far, far too often. On the other hand, I do not have any problems with calls dropping – happens very very rarely on my phone.
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LAST TRY I SWEAR
 
dLMN8R said:
LAST TRY I SWEAR
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I do know that some apps, like say AOL Radio, will run even when the phone is in the lock screen. However I guess when the phone goes into 'standby' (unless you set to not do that) will shut everything down. I'm not sure.

As far as the wifi goes - I only ever see it disconnect if I'm not doing anything. At least on the 3G, the phone won't grab the iPhone if it's in sleep mode or just idle. As soon as I start doing something it reconnects (at least the icon at the top reacts this way).

Other than that, if the phone is just randomly losing the connection when you are using it, something's wrong. Mine doesn't do that.
 
dallow_bg said:
PDAnet is great for tethering.

Didn't LCFiner or someone here say that the way it works, none would be the wiser?
I only use it for emergencies however.
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I use PDAnet for when I need it. It bridges the connection over its own NAT. So it hides your machine in the same way a traditional consumer router does. Without performing deep packet inspection (DPI), AT&T wouldn't be able to tell that's what you're doing UNLESS you really cream them with bandwidth on a port that no legit iPhone apps use. Then they'd know at the very least you jailbreaked it.
 
Juice said:
I use PDAnet for when I need it. It bridges the connection over its own NAT. So it hides your machine in the same way a traditional consumer router does. Without performing deep packet inspection (DPI), AT&T wouldn't be able to tell that's what you're doing UNLESS you really cream them with bandwidth on a port that no legit iPhone apps use. Then they'd know at the very least you jailbreaked it.
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Anybody else use it for torrents?
 
Thanks for the answers, guys. I looked closer and noticed that Byline does indeed seem to continue downloading.

For example, the program might say "Archiving item 10 of 50", I lock the screen, wait a few seconds, and upon unlock it says "Archiving item 1 of 30". So basically, it does continue archiving, but the program for some reason resets the items remaining count upon unlock.
 
RubxQub said:
I'm not worried about the ease of doing the activity, but what could possibly happen if Apple decides to start cracking down on this type of stuff.

:/
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Nonsense. Just jailbreak it.
 
mrmyth said:
Holy fuck. Isn't iPhone subject to a download cap?
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Where do you live? Canada? :lol

I've only done it once though and for about 50MB... ok add another 0...

Ostensibly the AT&T data plan is unlimited. There is a jailbreak bittorrent program but it only has a command line interface. And there is a plugin for the iphone's safari that allows you to download files from rapidshare etc. Don't forget the 'official' cydia app from Sendspace that enables you to easily upload and download from their website. There are even unzip programs. Only problem is that it's hard to access and make use of the files without connecting the iphone to a computer and organizing it through..
 
Bboy AJ said:
Nonsense. Just jailbreak it.
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I don't know enough about it.

What to you lose, what do you gain?

From the sounds of it you get complete app control, gaining the ability to MMS and tether...but what do I lose the ability to do, present and future?

Have the cracked down on this in the past and could they catch you.

I just don't feel like wasting another 300 bucks on a phone because I didn't want to spend 30 bucks a month to tether.
 
RubxQub said:
I don't know enough about it.

What to you lose, what do you gain?

From the sounds of it you get complete app control, gaining the ability to MMS and tether...but what do I lose the ability to do, present and future?

Have the cracked down on this in the past and could they catch you.

I just don't feel like wasting another 300 bucks on a phone because I didn't want to spend 30 bucks a month to tether.
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Jailbreaking
http://arstechnica.com/journals/app...and-unlocking-an-iphone-what-you-need-to-know
or
http://www.hackthatphone.com/20/read_me_first.html

More reasons to jailbreak
http://thebigboss.org/why-jailbreak-iphone/

It's really easy but I guess wait until after the upcoming update.
 
RubxQub said:
I don't know enough about it.

What to you lose, what do you gain?

From the sounds of it you get complete app control, gaining the ability to MMS and tether...but what do I lose the ability to do, present and future?

Have the cracked down on this in the past and could they catch you.

I just don't feel like wasting another 300 bucks on a phone because I didn't want to spend 30 bucks a month to tether.
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there is nothing that can go wrong with jailbreaking. if apple miraculously starts to stop it, you can ALWAYS prevent any damage to your phone. apple can only do something through a new update. if this happens, u can either not update, wait until the update is jailbroken, or if ur a pussy, restore the phone to factory settings and completely rid urself of the jailbreak. its 99.99999999% full and fool proof.
 
Ashhong said:
there is nothing that can go wrong with jailbreaking. if apple miraculously starts to stop it, you can ALWAYS prevent any damage to your phone. apple can only do something through a new update. if this happens, u can either not update, wait until the update is jailbroken, or if ur a pussy, restore the phone to factory settings and completely rid urself of the jailbreak. its 99.99999999% full and fool proof.
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I'm not so much worried about the jailbreaking itself, more so the tethering.

I've seen in this thread before that PDAnet or whichever the app of choice for this is does a pretty good job of masking your internet traffic as to not make it obvious what's going on, but I'm more worried about ATT finding out about a way to track this down and start taking action against those circumventing their tethering plans.
 
Charred Greyface said:
Anybody else use it for torrents?
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Yeah, they'll pretty much know you're tethering if they see the bittorrent port range pop up.. regardless of the NAT.

mrmyth said:
Holy fuck. Isn't iPhone subject to a download cap?
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"Unlimited" in US translates to a 5GB soft cap IIRC.
 
This may be a stupid question but is there anyway to buy an iphone and just use it pretty much like an ipod touch with a camera and not use the phone? I don't want to pay all that money for a contract but having pretty much an ipod touch with a camera would be really cool.
 
Zaraki_Kenpachi said:
This may be a stupid question but is there anyway to buy an iphone and just use it pretty much like an ipod touch with a camera and not use the phone?
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Well, you can buy a first generation 4gb/8gb iPhone on eBay for maybe $300. Unlock it and activate it using QuickPwn, then just don't use the phone part of it.

But you could buy a 16gb iPod Touch for $300 as well (or an 8gb Touch for $229). The iPhone's cruddy camera isn't really worth an extra $70, nor is it worth giving up 8gb of storage space. You might think differently, though.
 
Zaraki_Kenpachi said:
This may be a stupid question but is there anyway to buy an iphone and just use it pretty much like an ipod touch with a camera and not use the phone? I don't want to pay all that money for a contract but having pretty much an ipod touch with a camera would be really cool.
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1. go to apple and open a new iphone 3g line
2. couple of days later, go to apple and tell them you want to UPGRADE a line to an iphone, and give them the same phone number as your new line.
3. couple days later return the newly bought phone.

this will cancel ur line, leave u with no bill to pay, and you will have a new iphone 3g for 200/300.
 
Street View implementation is fucking sweet.

I don't even think my house shows up in Street View on Google Maps site. But for some reason it's on the phone.
 
Street View is awesome and safari is much snappier although I dont know if I like the google search bar taking up that much space. Another thing that I like is that when you are looking for directions it now gives you the option to get directions using public transportation.
 
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RDP Lite w/ 2.2 fw.
 
I saw that but I wasn't getting the icon as my immediate area had the greyed out icon. Once I dragged a pin on a major street it popped up.

Awesome update!
 
Shawnwhann said:
I saw that but I wasn't getting the icon as my immediate area had the greyed out icon. Once I dragged a pin on a major street it popped up.

Awesome update!
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Would be nice if they'd show you on the map street-capable areas like they do on the web site. Cool feature, though pretty useless for me.
 
has anyone had an issue with the right speaker in the phone going out?

im sure its a hardware problem, just kind of odd seeing as the phone seems very well constructed otherwise
 
GodfatherX said:
has anyone had an issue with the right speaker in the phone going out?

im sure its a hardware problem, just kind of odd seeing as the phone seems very well constructed otherwise
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There is only one speaker.
 
enzom21 said:
There is only one speaker.
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this.

so by "right speaker" which one do u mean? "right" when facing the phone, or right when looking at the back of the phone? if you mean when facing the phone....thats not a speaker, thats the mic :lol
 
Ashhong said:
this.

so by "right speaker" which one do u mean? "right" when facing the phone, or right when looking at the back of the phone? if you mean when facing the phone....thats not a speaker, thats the mic :lol
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A friend of a friend was upset with his new shiny iPhone 3G because only one of the speakers was producing sound. He deliberated long and hard if it was worth returning it after they told him he would have to wait a long time for a new one. It was around launch day and there were shortages.

He ended up returning it, lolz.
 
GodfatherX said:
has anyone had an issue with the right speaker in the phone going out?

im sure its a hardware problem, just kind of odd seeing as the phone seems very well constructed otherwise
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This question's never going to go away, is it?

2.2 got released just as I was leaving for work :(

It's good that it looks like it fixes the email not fetching issue from 2.1. I looked at my email on the phone last night and it hadn't fetched any in over three hours.
 
ahhh, well then my iphone is nowhere near as loud as my friend who has a 4gb iphone so i thought that might be it...thanks for replying in a non elitist way though
 
Sucks that Streetview is not in the iPod Touch update. Even without gps, The bus schedule feature could have been real useful. :(...
 
dallow_bg said:
PDAnet is great for tethering.

Didn't LCFiner or someone here say that the way it works, none would be the wiser?
I only use it for emergencies however.


It's so easy.

I took my little mini laptop to work today to jailbreak two co-worker's phones at the office.
Took 7 mins each.
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I just said it was awesome (till I found it was a time limited trial that costs 30 bucks... now considering the 10 dollar iPhone Modem app)

And, up in Canada, Rogers/Fido doesn't have a ban on tethering in the Terms of Service so I can use it without worry.
 
Any reason for me to hold off on upgrading to iTunes 8.0.2? I have a jailbroken phone and don't want to screw that up. Advice needed. PEACE.
 
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