Category Archives: iPhone 4S
Sprint sold 1.5 million iPhones to new customers in Q1
Sprint announced its quarterly earnings on Wednesday and the results were disappointing as expected. The carrier posted a net loss of US$863M and cash reserves are now at a razor thin $7.6 billion. In the midst of this doom and gloom, one bright spot for Sprint was the iPhone.
HTC blames iPhone 4S for recent profit drop
HTC is stinging from a less than impressive quarterly performance that’s partially the result of a successful iPhone 4S campaign by Apple, according to an AP report.
The Taiwanese handset manufacturer reported a 70 percent drop in profit and a 35 percent decrease in revenue year over year. Though it expects to do better in the current quarter with its flagship HTC One series, CEO Peter Chou says its biggest challenge is the iPhone 4S, which dominates on the US carriers.
Thus far, US carriers have sold or activated 7.5 million iPhones in the just ending quarter. Verizon Wireless reported that it sold 3.2 million iPhones, while AT&T activated 4.3 million.
How to Take Backup of Unlocked iPhone’s Activation Ticket Using Redsn0w 0.9.10b8
iPhone Dev team has released a new version of Redsn0w, which now allows users who have successfully unlocked their iPhone using SAM to take a backup of the activation key that will be useful in the future.
iPhone Dev team has provided the following information about the new feature in Redsn0w 0.9.10b8 on their blog:
redsn0w 0.9.10b8 adds the ability to backup arbitrary directories or files from your device into a zip file on your Mac or PC. The new button is Extras->Even More->Backup and it requires your device to be jailbroken with the afc2 service enabled (most jailbreaks include that). By default it will backup your activation records from /var/root/Library/Lockdown, which is useful for everyone taking advantage of today’s SAM unlock using Loktar_Sun’s trick (more on that in a later post!).
If you haven’t unlocked your iPhone, then check out our step-by-step guide to unlock your iPhone using SAM. After you’ve successfully unlocked your iPhone, you can follow these simple instructions to take a backup of the activation ticket using Redsn0w 0.9.10b8:
How To Jailbreak Untethered iOS 5.0.1 On iPhone 4S and iPad 2 (A5 Devices) Using Redsn0w 0.9.10b7, b8 For Both Windows And Mac [updated]
Update: this guide also applies to Redsn0w 0.9.10b8
The Dev Team have pushed out the seventh beta of the current Redsn0w release, taking the tool to version 0.9.10b7, meaning that it now comes packed with an array of new features, as well as preliminary support for a very exciting new aspect of the tool, hopefully to come in the next release.
The 0.9.10b7 release also brings with it the implementation of the Corona A5 jailbreak for the iPhone 4S and iPad 2, as long as they are running iOS 5.0.1.
You can download the latest Redsn0w for Mac and Windows from the links give at the end. When running the Windows version of the software, be sure to run it in Administrator mode to eradicate any issues.
As usual, we’ve got the tutorial to help you in your quest to jailbreak your iOS 5.0.1 A5 device:
Replace The Native iOS Spotlight Screen With A Web Page Of Your Choice Using WebSpot
I am pretty sure that most iOS users have found themselves in a situation where they are harmlessly scrolling through their Springboard home screens, looking at all of the beautiful installed applications, only to scroll one step too far and come across a fairly empty looking screen that doesn’t appear to have any use.
I am, of course referring to Apple’s inclusion of Spotlight within iOS, and the fact that it seems to be something that not a great deal of users actually use for its intended purpose.
The WebSpot tweak in Cydia seems to come from a developer who has the same line of thinking due to the fact that it hooks into the Spotlight display and changes the behavior to something that users may actually find useful. Cydia contains a number of tweaks that change the way Spotlight is used, ranging from displaying music lyrics to listing all of the currently running applications. Tweaks like SpotRemover even disable Spotlight altogether, but WebSpot chooses to use this section of iOS in a different manner by allowing users to display a web page of their choosing in the space.