<![CDATA[Gizmodo: jailbroken]]> http://tags.gizmodo.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gizmodo.com.png <![CDATA[Gizmodo: jailbroken]]> http://gizmodo.com/tag/jailbroken http://gizmodo.com/tag/jailbroken <![CDATA[Jailbroken iPhones Get Support for Bluetooth Keyboards]]> Good news for those wanting to use a physical Bluetooth keyboard with their iPhones: Now you can. The catch is that you'll need to jailbreak your iPhone and that input doesn't work outside of one particular app at the moment.

Apparently all you need to do is download the driver, Bluetooth Keyboard Driver, through Cydia, install the demo app, and let your keyboard connect with your iPhone. Simple as that. Anyone given this a test run yet? [Ringwald via Mod Your i]

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<![CDATA[iPhone 3.0 Beta Jailbroken, QuickPWN Up For Download]]> QuickPWN for Beta 3.0 is out for all devices but the Touch 2G, but it could sabotage future unlocking, says the Dev Team. And so the untelevised procedural drama that is jailbreaking continues, forever. [QuickPWN]

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<![CDATA[Shot of Jailbroken iPhone Sneaks Into Apple Patent Application]]> Looks like somebody over at the Apple legal department has been enjoying a little Jailbreak action, because a sketch in a recent patent application includes some features a stock iPhone just doesn't have. Update:

Let's see here, we've got a custom wallpaper, that's not allowed. We've got the Installer and SMBPrefs apps, you're not going to find either of those in the Officially Apple-Controlled Apple-Permitted App Store By Apple. Update: So after reading, it turns out that this image is actually illustrating a point, and isn't a mistake. The patent explains that it covers all uses of the iPhone, including a customized background and other bonuses available to the Jailbreak community. This is interesting in itself; Apple seems to be at the least permitting Jailbreaking enough to cover it in a patent. [Engadget, thanks Travis!]

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<![CDATA[Amazing Retro Megaman iPhone Theme Is Why Apple Should Allow Skinning]]> There are a lot of very good reasons why Apple doesn't let you to skin the iPhone's UI (just glance at most BlackBerry or WinMo themes). But then there's this awesome retro Megaman theme.

It's like an 8-bit Capcom fanboy wet dream that's congealed into a custom iPhone theme. Sure, like most of the apps populating that App Store, the vast majority of themes would probably terrorize your eyeballs in ways that would make Gitmo detainees cry. But! A few gems, like this one, would undoubtedly peek out of the mountain of shit.

Apple's attempt to protect you be damned, if you want it really bad, here's how to jailbreak your iPhone so you can put this (or whatever other unseemly graphical user interfaces you want) on your phone. [Mac Themes]

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<![CDATA[Dev-Team Shows Live iPhone 3G Unlock 'Yellowsn0w' Demo]]> This video is the first public demo of the iPhone 3G unlock, named "yellowsn0w", courtesy of Dev-Team member MuscleNerd. With a wave of his hand, he goes from AT&T to T-Mobile, and makes a call.

The target release date for the official unlock is New Year's Eve. The unlock will only be available to iPhone 3G owners that have 2.11.07 baseband or earlier (jailbroken). As you can see in the demo the hack is finished—Dev-Team members say all that's left to do is package it up into a nice, user-friendly package. [Dev-Team Blog]

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<![CDATA[iPhone Firmware 2.2 Jailbroken, QuickPwn 2.2 Released]]> Once again, anything Apple can make, the enterprising Dev Team can break: the brand-new firmware 2.2 has been jailbroken. QuickPwn should take care of everything, unless you're one of those unfortunate owners of the second-generation iPod touch, in which case you're out of luck at the moment. But everything else seems to be running fine—anybody here broken the new firmware yet? Let us know in the comments. [iPhone Dev, thanks Mehmet!]

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<![CDATA[Android G1 Jailbroken Already]]> It's been less than two weeks since T-Mobile's G1 hit shelves, and Android's already been jailbroken. Folks over at the xda-developers forum discovered an easy way to start telnet on the device, log in as root and get full system access and read and write. While the Googlephone is nowhere near as restricted as the iPhone, there were apparently still a few walls that needed to be broken down and now, anything goes. Check out modmygphone for the full list of jailbreak instructions. [modmygphone - Thanks Kyle!]

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<![CDATA[iGameboy Theme: If the iPhone Were Around Two Decades Ago]]> Apple did a passable job with the iPhone UI. But let's face it: We need some tough love nostalgia injected into the overly polished device. Luckily for us, there's the iGameboy theme for the iPhone. At last, we'll be able to cover the universally stylish black background with the trademark B12 vitamin-pee green backdrop of our first beloved handheld gaming system. Available in button and buttonless versions, the skin is free, but you'll have to jailbreak that iPhone first. [MacThemes via GoNintendo]

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<![CDATA[How to Block Ads on Your (Jailbroken) iPhone]]> It's always a kick in the nuts waiting for a page to load in mobile Safari when you know like half of it is for an ad. Luckily, there's a way to block most of them using this method from James Is Bored. It requires a jailbroken iPhone and bit of voodoo, but it's not overly complicated. Once you've got a jailbroken iPhone, you need to install OpenSSH from Cydia. And that's where the work starts.

After your phone restarts, head to Settings>Wi-Fi and hit the arrow next to your home Wi-Fi server. Write down the IP address you see. Then pop back to general settings and set auto-lock to never. On your computer, download this replacement hosts.php file.

Then, using an FTP client like FileZilla or Cyberduck with SFTP (secure SSH connection over FTP), open an SFTP connection with your iPhone's IP address as the host. U/P is root and alpine. The connection will take a bit, and might fail a few times, but say yes to any prompts and keep trying.

At your iPhone's root, navigate to the /etc folder and move the hosts.php file there somewhere on your computer for safe-keeping (don't lose it!). Then replace it with the one you downloaded and restart your iPhone. Now you'll start seeing glorious blank spots or compressed frames wherever ads used to be. It'll nuke ads at most sites serving them through a third-party server. That wasn't so bad was it? One word of caution: Changing the hosts file can play hell with some apps, so watch out there.

The method will work on iPod touches too. Let us know how it goes. [James Is Bored via Lifehacker]

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<![CDATA[How to Disable the App Store Kill Switch Using Your Jailbroken iPhone]]> Stephen Colbert spoke, and the people listened: The kill switch that lets Apple remotely remove applications on your iPhone can be disabled with the push of a button. All you need is a jailbroken phone and the updated BossPrefs app found on Cydia. Simply choose "Disable Apple App Killswitch" in BossPrefs and Bob Barker that puppy into oblivion. This isn't the only way to get rid of the kill switch, but it's the easiest we've seen and can quickly be toggled on or off. Just be careful: if Apple wants to remove an app, they probably have a pretty good reason for doing so. [Thanks Alan, bryonbrock!!]

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<![CDATA[Next Version of Installer.app For iPhone 2.0 Software Looks Like It's Getting Close]]> These screens were released today by the developers of Installer.app showing Installer 4, the next version that will work with jailbroken iPhones running firmware 2.0. By the slick looks of it, it looks like they're getting close. When it's done, it will be multi-threaded (meaning everything doesn't come to a halt while your sources are being updated) and support package dependencies as well. As you know, we can't wait. [RiP Dev Blog]

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<![CDATA[Twinkle, the iPhone Twitter Client, Adds Location Features]]> Twitter Fans: an iPhone client called Twinkle was just released on Installer.app. What's the difference between Twinkle and other apps? It's true that you can let the world know that you're getting a haircut or some taxi zoomed past you without stopping on any client, but Twinkle lets you use the iPhone's location feature to add location data to your tweets. Not only that, there's a "near me" feature that can show you tweets from people within X miles of you, which is good for organizing a meetup or party. Location information is only visible from Twinkle and not on the Twitter website, unfortunately. Hit the link to see how you install it on your jailbroken iPhone, then follow me (diskopo) for some good times. [Just Another iPhone Blog via Tech Digest]

Note: It looks like Twinkle automatically adds "Twinkleking" (their official user) to your followed list, which isn't cool. Remember to remove this if you don't want to follow them.

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