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Fenister
09/10/09

In reply to Jailbreakers: Hold Off on iPhone OS 3.1 Until Dev-Team Updates
The frikkin update broke my phone ... all my apps gone and the same with my music. I backed it up and it couldn't restore it after the update.

And mine isn't jailbroken or anything. I'll go and be angry at some poor "Mac-Genius" tomorrow :D
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Eruanno
09/10/09

@Fenister: Mine went bork too, but I restored it to factory settings and reverted to an old backup, and tadaaaah! Works again. I had to remember what music and apps was on there before, but what the hell.
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appletoad
09/10/09

In reply to Jailbreakers: Hold Off on iPhone OS 3.1 Until Dev-Team Updates
@Jux: and everyone else:

If you have a 2G phone, you have normally been free to upgrade without fear, because although you lose the jailbreak until you redo it, your unlock is preserved, as is your activation. When I worked with 3.1beta, I learned the hard way that this isn't the case. So 2G users, wait as well.

3G and 3GS users: You are idiots if you went ahead and upgraded. There's no excuse for you guys.
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MrBlahBlah
09/10/09

@appletoad: do you have any idea if version 3.0 for the 2G upgrades the baseband? I have an old 2G phone, jailbroken and unlocked, on the old 2.something firmware
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Hello Mister Walrus
07/21/09

In reply to iPhone Push May Be Sending AIM Messages to Random People
I didn't mean to send those messages to underage girls - the iPhone did it!
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MrBangBam
07/21/09

@Hello Mister Walrus: LOL
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GitEmSteveDave_RockinLabCoat
07/21/09

In reply to iPhone Push May Be Sending AIM Messages to Random People
I wonder if the messages were sent to a coho or trout AIMbot. Anyone get harassed by those stupid things?
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Curves
07/21/09

In reply to iPhone Push May Be Sending AIM Messages to Random People
I am confused, its sending the messasges TO jailbroken IPhones or are JBIPhones receiving them? I rarely use AIM, but if there are juicy, gossipy or hot, private messages there, I will certainly open it up to see them.
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scriptcypher
07/21/09

In reply to iPhone Push May Be Sending AIM Messages to Random People
Why don't any of my comments post?!?!
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Curves
07/21/09

@scriptcypher: Because someone has to approve them, which I did, as my Good Deed for the Day. Thankfully, now that its off my list, I can go back to normal behavior.
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jrghoull
07/21/09

@scriptcypher: if you click on the "show all comments" at the bottom of the page then you'll see every single posting (including your own)
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Pope John Peeps II
07/21/09

@michael haendler: No Scriptcypher is one of those "red" commenters, I believe. Which explains why he has no comments but this ludicrously retarded bit of gristle right here. Only star commenters can see/approve them.

Curves, don't do that anymore. That's NOT a good deed.

By the way, Scriptcypher, I'll assume you're reading this: that sort of comment will never, ever get you commenting privilieges on any of the Gawker media sites. You should re-think your life.
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Curves
07/21/09

@Pope John Peeps II: I only did it so that he would know what the issue was and didnt try and "fix" it. Henceforth, I will concentrate on good deeds only for the deserving and feel no pity for idiots. (When I get these "helpful" moods, I do all kinds of useless and unappreciated things, the lessons from which I never learn.)
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orthorim
07/21/09

@michael haendler: So - I hate the new comment system. Can I please see all freakin' posts all the time, like God intended? Thanks!

I don't need a nanny to decide for me which are good and which are bad. I am old enough.

If a comment doesn't interest me, or seems stupid, I have the amazing ability to glance it over and skip past it in a fraction of a second. I know - not everyone is that gifted. Apparently Giz readers are retards and need to be treated as such.

/rant
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Pope John Peeps II
07/21/09

@Curves: Well, it's okay to do it. But next time make fun of him homorously, okay? That's the internet way.

THE MORE YOU KNOW.
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Pope John Peeps II
07/21/09

@orthorim: PRO TIP: adding something like the "/rant" tag might SEEM to mollify your comments, and make you seem like some sort of good-natured, jolly, fat belly laugh shakin' party animal. But in reality, adding that after you've called people "retards" just makes you look like an insecure douchebag who's unwilling to accept the tone of what he's saying.

It's like saying "no offence". "No offence, but your mother's an ageing whore who's bounced from bed to bed for the past 40 years." See, the "no offence" thing doesn't work. Just like /rant. /rant is for losers.
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glamajamma
07/21/09

@scriptcypher:
Ewwwwww he is all covered in red.
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ddaq89
07/21/09

In reply to iPhone Push May Be Sending AIM Messages to Random People
One more reason not to screw around with something that is not broken. I have been using my iPhone for a while now and still have not seen a reason to jailbreak my phone.
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Lupus_Yonderboy
07/21/09

@ddaq89: There used to be plenty of reasons (especially back in the 1.0 days when that was the only way to get new applications), but most of them have been fixed with 3.0 (copy/paste, soon MMS, etc.). I still jailbreak and probably always will (if my next phone is an iPhone, that is) because of Themes (don't like the stock look of the iPhone icons, I prefer to use something a little flatter & less glossy).

Just updated to 3.0, so tonight/tomorrow/this weekend I'll probably be re-jailbreaking and re-theming it back to what I used to have, A8stract.
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Justinpaulson
07/21/09

@Lupus_Yonderboy:Do you make up cool new icons for every app you download too or do your subsequent pages all look like lame old iPhone icons?
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Lupus_Yonderboy
07/21/09

@Justinpaulson: You can handle that in a few ways-there are a lot of home-made icons floating around that you can replace stock icons with-just put it into the theme in the Library, and a lot of people will make icons for different applications if you ask them to. You can also make your own (I made one for the Songbird remote app using Gimp because I couldn't find one that I liked). There's also, at least for the theme that I was promoting above, a little utility that will format existing (Apple-approved) icons to look like the ones in the theme with no editing on your part (for instance, it turns the rounded corners on a normal icon into the pointy/rounded corners that A8stract uses, and flattens out the glossyness). All in all it's not too hard if you want a unified look on your phone-you just have to spend a little time.
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Justinpaulson
07/21/09

In reply to iPhone Push May Be Sending AIM Messages to Random People
Wait, so even if I'm sending messages through AIM via iChat on a mac to people that are using unlocked iPhones my message may go out to God-knows-who? That is really messed up...So do I need to keep track of which of my friends are using unlocked iPhones and which are not?
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nutbastard
07/21/09

@Justinpaulson:

well AFAIK this only pertains to messages sent FROM JB’d iPhones, and the only people who will get them is other people with JB’d iPhones – sending a message TO a JB’d iPhone shouldn’t present any risk, but it’s a bug, so there’s really no telling.
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Justinpaulson
07/21/09

@nutbastard: Then what the heck does this mean...."Here's a screenshot the random receiver of my msgs sent me back http://twitpic.com/b3bct I used iChat on a Mac #iPhone #push #security #hole"
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TheSonOfKrypton
07/21/09

In reply to iPhone Push May Be Sending AIM Messages to Random People
Warning: You may literally be labelled a homo sending a sexually loaded comment from your jailbroken/unlocked iPhone/iPod Touch. Expect angry return messages from guys reading "No ASSHOLE, I will NOT 'stroke' your 'ego' "
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Ben Zvan
07/21/09

@TheSonOfKrypton: Gosh... being called a homo would be the worst thing evar!
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TheSonOfKrypton
07/21/09

@Ben Zvan: If you're not homosexual, then why, yes, it would be. Just like someone calling me a 'ginger' (I'm black) would be...
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Hello Mister Walrus
07/21/09

@TheSonOfKrypton: I imagine that being labeled a serial rapist or child molester would be just slightly worse.
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orthorim
07/21/09

@TheSonOfKrypton: Really? You must have some issues. If somebody calls me gay, I find it slightly amusing - that is, I find it amusing that the other party thinks gay is something bad.
While I am hetero, I have many gay friends. If I were gay - so what? I'd be into guys instead of girls, I don't really see what the big deal is. Some are into girls, some are into guys, some watch internet porn all day, and some are into S&M sessions - who am I to judge any of it?
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shopperciti.com
07/21/09

@Hello Mister Walrus: CHIMO: PRISON TERM FOR CHILD MOLESTERS.
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shopperciti.com
07/21/09

@orthorim: Well lets see if what you say is true, GAYLORDFOCKER.
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TheSonOfKrypton
07/21/09

@Hello Mister Walrus: Why would a sexually loaded message from me to another guy (grown man, mind you) be construed as a rapist or child molester implying comment?
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TheSonOfKrypton
07/21/09

@orthorim: Dude, you're acting like being friends with gay guys is a novel thing. These days, EVERYONE has gay friends, its not a big deal. Ive known a guy since he was hitting on me in high school TaeKwonDo (guess how many times HE'S seen me naked) and we're still friends today.

The point is, whenever someone calls you something you're not, it's *USUALLY* to offend you. That's the whole point.

Regardless, 'twas a silly joke. If you guys don't wanna laugh it off, so be it.
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Hello Mister Walrus
07/21/09

@TheSonOfKrypton: The other guy posed a question of whether being labeled homosexual would be considered the worst thing ever ("evar"), to which you gave an affirmative reply. My reply states belief that there are worse labels to be stuck with, in general.
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TheSonOfKrypton
07/21/09

@Hello Mister Walrus: "Worst thing evar!!!" is usually just sarcastic internet slang for 'bad'. By affirming his sarcasm, I didn't mean to say "YES, THAT WOULD LITERALLY BE THE WORST THING EVER TO BE CALLED IN MY LIFE." But if I were to read "worst thing evar" strictly at face value, I completely understand your reply. No worries.
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Hello Mister Walrus
07/21/09

@TheSonOfKrypton: Yeah, I know. I wasn't really being serious.
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Justinpaulson
07/21/09

@TheSonOfKrypton:This long thread got completely off topic and my relevant post can't get promoted? :( I miss the old days where I actually felt like I wasn't some second-class commenter. Oh and I'm a ginger and take offense.. That is OUR word dammit! You shouldn't just throw it around like that....it hurts.
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TheSonOfKrypton
07/21/09

@Justinpaulson: Hahaha. Sorry for the ginger reference. Was just making an example. But I'll find you post and promote it! First I gotta put on my night vision-goggles.
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nutbastard
07/21/09

@TheSonOfKrypton:

Well, it’s a LOT more common to have gay friends if you live on either coast of the US. Texas? Not so much.
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nutbastard
07/21/09

@TheSonOfKrypton:

yeah that's really insensitive. gingers already have it bad - is it not enough that they have no souls that you have to use that awful slur?
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Justinpaulson
07/21/09

@nutbastard: I'm just gonna go cry now...
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Dillinger23
07/21/09

@Hello Mister Walrus: Well this little thread here is just a giant case of communication fails, joke explaining and latent peter panism.

Good stuff.
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TheSonOfKrypton
07/21/09

@nutbastard: LMAO. Gingers are soulless? There's something I didn't know.
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TheSonOfKrypton
07/21/09

@Dillinger23: Exactly. Thank you all! Thank you! I'm here Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday nights!
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bornonbord
07/21/09

In reply to iPhone Push May Be Sending AIM Messages to Random People
Meh, I tried that excuse when my girlfriend came rushing up to me asking why I sent her instant messages about "last night" and how "good it was" not to be around "that horrible bitch" that I normally "am stuck with" as if I were in some "sort of jail, and she was the warden, just waiting to rape my brain of all joy in the world".

She didn't buy it.
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Pazu
07/13/09

In reply to Apple May Be Blocking Push Notifications in Unlocked iPhones
I have an unlocked iPhone 2G here in Brazil, on the Vivo network. Vivo is an official Apple carrier, but push notifications are a no go for me.

EDGE is so f'ing slow, however, that I don't care that much about it. I'm waiting for the 3GS launch to get a new model, and this time I'll get an official, factory unlocked phone.
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Identity (reclamation)
07/13/09

In reply to Apple May Be Blocking Push Notifications in Unlocked iPhones
Man, if my name was Jesus, my phone could be a JesusPhone too...
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BagOBones
07/13/09

In reply to Apple May Be Blocking Push Notifications in Unlocked iPhones
Hactivating breaks your unique ID on the network causing one of two things to happen.

1. No push.

2. Your push and other hactivated push messages get delivered to the wrong device.

The iphone-dev team that makes ultrasnow is working on a fix.

Remember people that hacking your device opens up features but may break official one.
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calgary graphic design
07/13/09

In reply to Apple May Be Blocking Push Notifications in Unlocked iPhones
If you don't want to encourage Apple, don't buy their products. But don't support them with your cash and THEN whine about how they do business. There is a reason they are one of the most successful brands in the world, and your money helps.

Buy Apple, support Apple and encourage their brand. If not, but some 3rd class garbage that you geek kids can hack away with.

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Pazu
07/13/09

@calgary graphic design: Ah of course, and in doing this encoure the 3rd class manufacturers to keep pushing their garbage.

The iPhone is far from perfect, but it was a wake up call to the mobile industry, that kept pushing crappy phones after identically crappy phones.
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nutbastard
06/25/09

In reply to Jailbreak and Unlock iPhone 3.0
think i'll do this to my touch sometime, just for the extra apps.

are all cydia apps free or is it like its own store or...?
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