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[How To] Unlock Samsung Galaxy S II With SIM Unlock Code Finder App

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May 24, 2011
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If you were one of the many who got your Samsung Galaxy S II with a locked SIM, meaning that your carrier barred your phone from using another company’s SIM card, then we have some great news for you. There is now a free app available in the Android Market that searches for your Samsung Galaxy S II’s SIM unlock code. Apart from this, the app can also find the unfreeze code that might help if running SIM unlock code search features lands your phone in an unresponsive state. The Samsung Galaxy S II SIM unlock code finder is based on XDA developer Odia’s mode and has been compiled plus released More >

Russian Forensic Experts Crack iOS 4 iPhone Encryption

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May 24, 2011
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A Russian forensic experts team named ElcomSoft was recently able to crack Apple’s iOS 4 iPhone Encryption including backup file encryption and on device data security. The team was also involved in providing software services that are used by law enforcement and certain three-letter agencies. They used a GPU-accelerated Phone Password Breaker Tool to remove protection for Apple and BlackBerry backups. After the release of iOS 4, Apple began providing 256-bit encryption to secure iPhone devices. Since this encryption has now been cracked, we wonder what move Apple is going to take More >

Gevey SIM Updated To Gevey Pro Plus; No Dialing Required

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May 24, 2011
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The Gevey SIM has recently been updated to Gevey Pro Plus. As you aready know, there is no software base unlock for the iPhone 4 on higher basebands including 04.10.01, 03.10.01, and 02.10.04. As mentioned earlier, the Gevey SIM can unlock the iPhone 4 on higher basebands, but the process requires you to dial 112 (an emergency number) in order to unlock it. This newer version which was recently released does not require any emergency number dialing and you don’t need to unlock it on every reboot of your device either.

The rest of the features are the same. The SIM will help unlock the iPhone More >

The Chronic Dev Team Comments On iPad 2 Jailbreak Status

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May 23, 2011
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Since the release of iOS 4.3.3, the iPhone Dev team and iH8sn0w have released Redsn0w, PwnageTool and Sn0wbreeze to jailbreak iPhone, iPad 1, iPod Touch and Apple TV. The only iOS device that cannot be jailbroken currently is iPad 2.

There was some hope about a jailbreak for iPad 2 as Comex had successfully jailbroken it as soon as it was launched. However, Apple was quick to fix the iPad 2 jailbreak vulnerability in iOS 4.3.1. So iPhone Dev team has released untethered jailbreak for iOS 4.3.x using i0nic’s method for all iOS 4.3.x supported iDevices except iPad 2. So if you’re eagerly More >

Windows Phone 7 ‘Mango’ Update To Deliver Over 500 New Features

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May 23, 2011
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According to a Japanese Microsoft Developers Forum, Microsoft’s CEO confirmed that the next Windows Phone update, codenamed Mango, will add “over 500 new features” to the mobile operating system.

Microsoft has an event scheduled for Tuesday, May 24th in New York City, during which it will unveil the new update (again) and discuss its features in greater detail. Earlier this month we heard rumors that the update will deliver Bing Audio, Bing Vision, turn-by-turn navigation in Bing Maps, a new native podcast player, speech recognition, and more.

Microsoft first introduced WP7 in February More >

[How To] Install CyanogenMod 7.1 Gingerbread ROM On Nexus S 4G

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May 23, 2011
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CyanogenMod is a custom developed OS for Android phones that frees them from all kind of operator shackles while kicking out any branded bloatware / apps on board. There is some great news for all those on Sprint who opted to go for the all new Google Nexus S 4G. Android 2.3.x Gingerbread CyanogenMod 7.1 Custom ROM in shape of nightly builds is already available for users to flash and enjoy. CM builds are mostly out of the box AOSP Android source code with mods and hacks integrated to provide optimum user experience.

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The CM nightly builds are mostly auto complied with More >

Jailbreak App Store “Installer” Returns To Cydia; Now Available For iOS 4.3.3

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May 23, 2011
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According to a report by Infini-Dev Team — the world’s first 3rd party App Store, Installer, has been successfully ported to iOS 4.3.3 and below.

Installer was the original jailbreak App Store long before Cydia, Icy and Rock joined the scene, and is now being ported to more current versions of iOS with a version available for download right now. Ironically, the download is done via current jailbreak App Store kind, Cydia.

Yesterday we had success “porting” Installer to 4.3.3 and below. Installer was worlds first 3rd party app store, Introduced by NullRiver, or later known as More >

New Jailbreak App “Rich Text For Mail” Enhances Mail App On iOS Devices

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May 18, 2011
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The developer of jailbreak apps and tweaks such as ProSwitcher, DisplayOut, Rotation Inhibitor, Untrackerd, etc; Ryan Petrich has recently released another jailbreak app called “Rich Text For Mail” that enhances the basic Mail application. As the name suggests, it allows you to compose and reply to email using custom fonts, colors, and styles while adding format, bold, italic, strikethrough, unerline, and image items to Action Menu, which is not available in the default Mail app.

The description of the jailbreak app from Cydia reads:

Compose and reply to emails using custom fonts, colors and More >

iPad 2 Jailbreak Possibly Just A Few Weeks Away

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May 17, 2011
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Jailbreakers are usually very impatient and to no surprise, the lack of a jailbreak for Apple’s iPad 2 is starting to make some fans a little antsy. Hopefully help will be at hand sooner rather than later.

The folks over at CultofMac are reporting that an interview with some folks from MyGreatFest resulted in iPhone hacker, Joshua “p0sixninja” Hill mentioning that a working iPad 2 jailbreak could be released into the wild as soon as the next couple of weeks.

The iPad 2 jailbreak is said to be using the same method as current hacks for older hardware, meaning that DFU mode will be the method More >

Widgets For The iOS In Development

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May 17, 2011
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One of the few things that people complain about the iPhone and iOS platform about is the lack of customization. This can come in various shapes and forms, one of which being widgets. The developer prerelease of Widge, a framework designed by Peter Hajas, has managed to open up the avenue to develop and design widgets for the iOS devices. This undoubtedly has a bright future and strong potential for the platform as a whole. Widge could possibly bring a new outlook and feel to the iOS software and could potentially redesign how users use their iDevices.

Despite there being such possibilities, More >

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