The man behind the iPhone JailBreak has come up with a new HACK. And now its for Sony Playstation 3. Some days earlier he posted a blog entry about the hacking of the playstation. Now today he released the exploit to the public. As of now for a normal person, i think its not easy to use this exploit. But there will be easy to use kits in no time as, homebrew developers will find new ways to run custom code on the PS3.
In the interest of openness, I’ve decided to release the exploit. Hopefully, this will ignite the PS3 scene, and you will organize and figure out how to use this to do practical things, like the iPhone when jailbreaks were first released. I have a life to get back to and can’t keep working on this all day and night.
If you’re scrolling through a long document/page in an application – if you tap the bar at the top of your screen containing the time and battery, the application will automatically scroll up to the top of the document/page.
To take a screenshot of any screen of your iPod (including the lock screen), hold the power and home buttons and release them. A white flash will appear on screen and a screenshot will appear in your Photos application.
If your iPod is frozen and will not respond, you can force reboot by holding the power and home buttons until your device turns off. Please note that this is not recommended and is the equivalent of pulling the cord out of your computer to turn it off.
Need a spare cleaning cloth for your touch, or an extra cloth to rest your iPod touch on while at work or school? Just go to your local vision care store (or pharmacy) and get an eyeglass/sunglass “cleaning cloth”. Cheap and works great!
If you wish to change your device’s root SFTP password, open Terminal and type ‘passwd’. You will then be prompted to change your password.
Tips and Tricks Regarding Media
Double tapping the home button in any application, or with the screen off will bring up the music controls.
When watching a video, tap to bring up the onscreen controls. When you are done watching a video make sure you press done so your progress will be saved.
When listening to an audiobook, iTunes and your iPod create a new chapter list unrelated to the subject of the book. It’s accessible using the same control used for viewing audio tracks (upper right of screen).
When playing media, press and hold the forward button to incrementally increase the speed of playback. When the media is paused, holding the fast forward button will make the media play slower.
When listening to music, double tap the album artwork to have it flip over. You can then view the tracklisting of the album.
If you pull your headphones out of the socket, any currently playing media will pause.
If you would like to view the lyrics of a song (if you’ve added lyrics), by tapping the album art on the Now Playing screen.
Tips and Tricks Regarding Battery
Turn off WiFi to save battery power when not in use.
JB ONLY: Turn off SSH via SBSettings.
Make sure to completely close apps when you are done with them to save battery power. This is accomplished by pressing and holding the home button for approximately five seconds. This boosts battery life big time if you run lots of different apps all the time.
You can charge your iPod Touch from any fully powered USB 2.0 port. A PS2 does not have a fully powered USB 2.0 port. Ports that will work include a computer, printer, or a media centre. The device does not have to have iTunes installed to provide power to your iPod Touch.
To improve battery life, turn down brightness through the Settings application.
Home Screen Tips and Tricks
If you would like to rearrange your Home Screen icons, tap and hold an icon until they all start to wiggle. Drag the icons around to rearrange them, and when it is satisfactory, press the home button.
Websites without an icon will just be a screenshot for webclips, for websites like this zoom into an area of the site you would like the webclip icon to look like… ex. zoom into the website logo and that will be the webclip icon.
Press the home button while on the home screen, and it will return to the initial home screen.
Instead of sliding across the page, tapping imediately left or right of the page dots on the Home Screen and Weather will move to the next page.
THEMES: JAILBREAK ONLY
If you want to set a picture as a permanent background (and not only in the “wake” screen) Set the picture as a background in settings or directly from the picture gallery. Then, open Winterboard and tap User Wallpaper.
Tips and Tricks for Keyboard
When typing a lot of text in Safari turn it to horizontal view. The keyboard will be bigger and you can get a better grip of the Touch while typing with two thumbs.
When typing, if you press the space bar twice after a word it will insert a period and another space.
When using the keyboard, if you hold the delete key down for about 3 seconds it will change from deleting letters to deleting words.
Holding down letters on the keyboard will pop up the accents/symbols associated with those letters. Once it pops up, slide your finger over to the accent/symbol you like.
When typing if you want to add something from the numbers keyboard just hold down the numbers and slide your finger to the number or symbol you want, and release. It will take you back to your letters keyboard. This way you dont have to tap numbers, tap your number, then tap numbers again to go back. This also applies for using the ’shift’ key to apply capital letters.
Make a spelling mistake? Press and hold the word you spelt wrong and a magnifying glass will appear. Slide your finger back and forwth to move the cursor.
Tips and Tricks for Safari Browser
When in Safari, if you are presented with a link, hold your finger over the link, and a bubble will appear showing the URL that the link is tied to.
In Safari since you can’t open links in a new windows, you can open a new page, tap the bookmarks icon, tap the history folder and direct yourself to the last page you were just on and tap the link from there. You can also use a javascript bookmarklet called Tabulate.
When you’re on a website that has a frame or an iframe with scrollbars in it, use two fingers on that frame to scroll that window and back to a single finger to scroll the whole page.
If you would like to save an image from the web, simply tap and hold the image to save it.
In Safari double tap to zoom in or out. You can also “pinch” (putting your thumb and index finger on the screen and pinching in and out) to zoom in Safari, Maps, and in Pictures.
Misc Tips and Tricks
Whilst in Mail’s inbox view, sliding your finger from left to right on a message the ‘delete’ button will appear. This also applies in the list view of the Videos application. You can also delete Mail in bulk by tapping ‘edit’ and selecting the Mail you want to have deleted.
In Google Maps, double tapping zooms in as expected, but single tapping with two fingers zooms out.
The ‘Notes’ application is an easy way to draft mail. The ‘mail’ icon provides a link to iPhone’s Mail and saved contacts.
To use a scientific calculator, simply enter the Calculator application, and turn the device sideways.
So the latest unlocker for iphone 3gs came. Geohot released his latest version of unlocking software for Iphone 3gs. He posted about this in his blog today.
The blog post says,
blacksn0w is a free unlock for the latest iPhone 3G and 3GS blackra1n is a super simple jailbreak used to install unlock
new visitors, go to blackra1n.com download and have fun
blackra1n RC3 is also live for both Windows and Mac!!! Clean firmware 3.1.2 and baseband 05.11.07 are recommended.
Updates:
Unlock!!!
Hacktivation
Keep legit activation if activated before running app
15 seconds faster, you’ll feel it
Tiger + PPC support
Go to blackra1n.com to download
For support, blackra1n.support at gmail…but read this first
blacksn0w is also available on Cydia, add blackra1n.com as repo
iClarified has made some nice tutorials: Windows Mac
The guy who made the blackra1n which is a very(in)famousapplication for jailbreaking the IPhone. That release was for thr the firmware 3.1. Now he is striking again by lauching the baseband application called blacksn0w.
Now this blacksn0w allows people to unlock their IPhones with firmware 3.1.x.
Unlocking Baseband is a process which if done, the phone will be usable for any GSM carrier. Normally Iphone comes locked to some specific GSM carrier. So normally it cannot be used for any other GSM carrier.
The unlock will be made available on Tuesday and you can check geohot’s video here:
Last week Apple finally patched a bootrom vulnerability in the iPhone 3GS which has been used for jailbreaking via the 24Kpwn exploit. Apple replaced the bootrom in units shipped recently with an updated version.
The iPhone Dev Team is reporting today however that jailbreaking is still possible on the 3GS, despite Apple’s latest efforts.
“It’s not going to be impossible to jailbreak even if the exploit we used is gone,” says Eric McDonald of the Team, via Wired.
All new 3GS models will have the new bootrom, patching the long open exploit.
McDonald explains however, that the new bootrom doesn’t do all too much except make owning the iPhone 3GS a bit more of a hassle.
Says Wired:
“The newly shipping iPhone 3GS’s bootrom interferes with 24kpwn, but that will only make the handset difficult to start up after it shuts down. Booting up will require being “tethered” to a computer. That means if you shut down a jailbroken iPhone 3GS, or if it runs out of power, you can only turn it back on by plugging it into a computer.
In short, changing the bootrom makes owning a jailbroken iPhone even more of a hassle than it already is. However, McDonald said the Dev-Team will just have to find a new exploit to enable untethered booting once again.”
A lot of people have been reporting issues with jailbreaking using the new blackra1n tool by George, specially iPod Touch 3G owners. Some of these issues have to do with the fact that this is a tethered jailbreak for iPod Touch 3G so far. This means that to boot your iPod Touch 3G, it must be plugged into your computer and you must run blackra1n again. For those stuck at a white screen or being unable to boot your device, here are a few important pointers to keep in mind during the process:
Make sure you’ve updated to 3.1.2. This jailbreak is not for 3.0 or 3.1.
Download the purplera1n tool to your desktop. Some users have reported issues of the application crashing or having issues with rights on Vista or 7. This should fix those issues. For more convenience. run it as an administrator.
Make sure no other software is running when you jailbreak to avoid interference.
If your device doesn’t boot for a long time, hold down the power and home buttons and restart it. If it tells you to connect to iTunes, something must have gone wrong and you might have to restart the process. I know this is annoying, but it has worked for some people after some tries. It does work.
You won’t lose your data by jailbreaking. Only a fresh firmware restore could mean that your apps might go away, but they can be synced back using iTunes.
If you have a white screen turn off the device by holding the power and home buttons for 10 seconds and boot it again.
If iTunes keeps popping up, use CTRL + ALT + DELETE to go to the task manager and kill all iTunes processes which includes iTunesHelper.exe. This can cause interference with the process too.
Strangely, doing the process on different computers has also worked for some people.
In the end, keep in mind that blackra1n really works. I tried it on my iPod Touch 2G 8GB, and it worked in the first try. It only got stuck when running Cydia for the first time. I had to reboot using the Power + Home buttons trick, but after that it has been really smooth.
Update: George Hotz has tweeted about an important issue that most people are facing. You’ll have to check if your iPod Touch 2G or 3G, 8GB model starts with MB or MC. For MC it won’t work, so you should restore it back to the old firmware. It works fine for the ones that start with MB. I guess that should answer most of the issues people are facing with blackra1n
