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Downgrading your 2.0 iPhone from the Pink Screen of Death

Posted Apr 2nd 2008 11:00AM by Erica Sadun
Filed under: iPhone

I haven't played with iPhone firmware 1.2/2.0 yet, but I'm told that some developers have encountered what is becoming known as the PSOD: a pink-colored start screen that apparently replaces the "connect to iTunes" graphic you'd normally see before activation.

iPhone hacker AlJaMa wrote in with his how-to method for downgrading a 2.0 iPhone back to 1.1.4. According to AlJaMa, you can put your iPhone into restore mode, do a 1.1.4 restore (use option-Restore to pick the 1.1.4 ipsw package) and be no worse off than getting the Error 1015 we've all come to know and love. iLiberty or INdependence will kick you out of the 1015/recovery mode. The restored phone will continue to work as a phone despite the updated baseband.

AlJaMa warns that you may encounter error -2002. In such a case, he suggests you try restoring to other firmware versions until you get back to the 1015 error.

Apple seeds iPhone 2.0 beta firmware

Posted Mar 30th 2008 9:30PM by Cory Bohon
Filed under: iPod Family, iPhone

According to our sister blog, Engadget, the iPhone 2.0 firmware has been seeded to developers. Before this update, the firmware was listed as version 1.2, but now shows up as version 2.0. Engadget says that the update didn't provide many changes: Cisco VPN tweaked, root-level mail / ActiveSync settings were changed around, but not much else.

Found Footage: iPhone firmware 1.2 hacked

Posted Mar 17th 2008 12:00AM by Cory Bohon
Filed under: iPod Family, Found Footage, iPhone

The iPhone hacking community is at it again, and they're not going to take the SDK for an answer. The dev team has recently found out how to install and run iPhone firmware 1.2. This is supposedly the SDK-only developer version, which runs the iPhone (Aspen) simulator. Firmware 1.2 may end up re-released as version 2.0 in June, assuming there are no showstopping problems. There is no word yet on how they got access to the firmware, but it is still a cool video, and looks like the real deal. In this video, you can see the following 2.0 features:

New calculator with squared buttons
iTunes Wi-Fi Store with a missing button (and missing text under the "search" icon)
Select multiple messages to be deleted/moved in Mail
New calendar setting (with Time Zone support)
Microsoft Exchange in the new Mail accounts
Parental controls
Cisco VPN settings

However, not shown was the AppStore (which was clearly displayed on the home screen) or the search feature in the contacts list. This video is just a taste of what firmware 2.0 should bring -- it also makes me look forward to getting it in June.

Thanks Adam!

[via InsanelyMac]

iPhone parental controls?

Posted Mar 11th 2008 10:30PM by Cory Bohon
Filed under: iPod Family, Portables, iPhone

The iPhone Dev Team seems to have stumbled across a hidden feature in the next version of the iPhone firmware. The picture is reminiscent of the iPhone SDK "Organizer" that shows the currently connected iPhone. However, something that's different from the screenshots that we posted is the "Console," "Crash Logs," and "Screenshot" tabs at the top of the window.

The screenshot shows a "Parental Controls" setting inside the "General" iPhone settings. It looks as though you can enable these parental controls and turn on or off:

Playing explicit songs in iPod
Website control in Safari
YouTube control
iTunes Wi-Fi Store control
AppStore control

According to a recent post on the Modmyifone Forum, this is a version of the firmware that was distributed with the SDK (version 1.2) which the forum post seems to believe will be re-issued as firmware 2.0. The forum post also goes on to say that the firmware is jailbroken; however, this has not been confirmed.

[via iPhone Dev Team]

Shiira 2.0 Preview

Posted Jul 23rd 2006 8:00AM by Dan Lurie
Filed under: Software, Internet, Internet Tools

Shiira has always been the browser we all have installed, play with when we're bored or need to test site compatibility, but never really use in day-to-day work. Despite the fact that the current version has essentially all the features of Safari, the interface and features always felt a bit unpolished, at least to me.

Delusions of Grandeur has a preview of the next version of the open source browser, Shiira 2.0, and it looks to be a refreshing change. Sporting a newly designed interface, multiple ways of viewing tabs, full screen mode, plugin API, and so much more, Shiira 2 will be pretty, if nothing else.

Firefox 2.0 alpha released

Posted Mar 19th 2006 8:17PM by David Chartier

DownloadSquad has noticed that an alpha release (read: not stable) of Firefox 2.0 is live, available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, and waiting for your clicks. I'm having a hard time tracking down any kind of official list of what's new in this next major point release, but after quickly running it I can tell you it's at least a bit zippier. I've heard reports of a much-updated UI, better bookmark management and more security options are all on the menu, though I'm sure (and I hope) there is much more planned for the official release.

So check it out if you're interested in what's coming next, but for those of you who can't afford to deal with sketchy software, you might want to keep moving along.

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Downgrading your 2.0 iPhone from the Pink Screen of Death

Apple seeds iPhone 2.0 beta firmware

Found Footage: iPhone firmware 1.2 hacked

iPhone parental controls?

Shiira 2.0 Preview

Firefox 2.0 alpha released

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