iPhone/iTouch Guides

How to Kick iPhone out of Recovery Mode (Windows)

lightmaster — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 07:27:56 +0000

The Info: Sometimes your iPhone or iTouch can get stuck in Recovery mode and it seems like it might be bricked. Don’t worry, its probably not bricked. There are two very good and very easy methods of kicking your iPhone or iTouch out of Recovery mode: one for Mac and one for Windows.

How to Kick iPhone out of Recovery Mode (Mac)

lightmaster — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 07:15:25 +0000

The Info: Sometimes your iPhone or iTouch can get stuck in Recovery mode and it seems like it might be bricked. Don't worry, its probably not bricked. There are two very good and very easy methods of kicking your iPhone or iTouch out of Recovery mode: one for Mac and one for Windows.

How to Unlock the iPhone 3GS

lightmaster — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 05:05:48 +0000

The Info: "Make it ra1n, I'm makin' it sn0w." ~geohot Our good friend geohot has now created a software unlock for the iPhone 3GS that's super easy to install and works amazingly! Check out the post on his site for more info about it: http://iphonejtag.blogspot.com/2009/07/make-it-ra1n-im-makin-it-sn0w.html.

How to Fix Push Notifications on 3.0

lightmaster — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:38:17 +0000

The Info: A lot of people have been experiencing issues with push notifications and YouTube.app not working properly. Today, the iPhone Dev Team released the beta version of their fix for the issues. While the directions in the readme.txt are very easy to follow, the fix requires that you have a working and activated iPhone or

How to Jailbreak the iPhone 3GS

lightmaster — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:43:54 +0000

The Info Last night, an ex dev team member codenamed "geohot" released the first ever iPhone 3GS jailbreak. This jailbreak will only work on the iPhone 3GS running 3.0. Unlike the official redsn0w jailbreak for the other iPhones and iTouchs, this jailbreak doesn't hacktivate your iPhone, so you must at least have access to an official

How to Unlock the iPhone 3G running 3.0

lightmaster — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:30:51 +0000

The Info: "I think the weather is getting colder... :D" -planetbeing The Dev Team has now released Ultrasn0w, the latest in the growing lineup of sn0w products. Ultrasn0w does one thing and it does that one thing VERY well: it unlocks the iPhone 3G running 3.0. That means that if you have an iPhone 3G,

How To Get Push Email Using MobileMe

lightmaster — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:59:41 +0000

The Info: Everyone loves how Apple has finally added push notifications to the iPhone/iTouch 3.0 OS. It took Apple forever to do it, but they finally did. Now the main thing that is missing is push email. While Yahoo claims to support push email, I’ve found that its not real push email, but IMAP email, which

How to Jailbreak/Unlock with Redsn0w on a Mac

lightmaster — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:41:19 +0000

The Info: The other day the iPhone dev team released redsn0w version 0.7 for the Mac. Redsn0w is a program that was originally created to overcome the change in the iTouch 2g's hardware that prevented the QuckPwn or PwnageTool from being able to jailbreak the iTouch 2g. The dev team has now taken this amazing tool

How to Enable Tethering with or without Jailbreaking

lightmaster — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:14:10 +0000

The Info: If you have an iPhone and a laptop, you’ve probably heard of tethering. Tethering is where a mobile device, such as an iPhone, shares its data connection with a computer. The mobile device and the computer can be connected through USB or through Bluetooth. The point of tethering is so that, if you’re away

Update iPhone/iTouch to Official 3.0

lightmaster — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:18:06 +0000

The Info: Tomorrow, June 17, Apple will be releasing the newest version of the iPhone/iTouch OS to the public. This will be the official release of iPhone OS 3.0. The build number will be 7A341, which suggests that the version of the OS that will be released tomorrow is the exact same as the "GM" version

Downgrade from 3.0 to 2.2.1

lightmaster — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:17:47 +0000

The Info: This guide is pretty much just for the iPhone 3G and the iPhone 2G. The iTouchs should be able to downgrade like normal. The problem with the iPhones is that the baseband is updated when you upgraded to 3.0. iTunes is incapable of downgrading the baseband and realizes that the baseband is not what

Adding Lightmaster’s Cydia Repo

lightmaster — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:04:22 +0000

The Info: I've created my own Cydia repo to host apps that I can't find on any other repo, such as GriP and the newest version of the Five Icon Dock. Instructions for adding my repo are below. If you want a list of the packages available, check out: Cydia Repo | iPhone/iTouch Guides.

How to Make a Fullscreen Video Slideshow Background

lightmaster — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:59:25 +0000

The Info: If you’ve ever tried to make a video background for your iPhone or iTouch, you already know its not too difficult, but its not easy. If you’ve used iMovie to make it, then you know that you can’t set a custom aspect ratio and that you will end up with a video for you

Jailbreak iTouch 2g 2.2.1 – Mac

lightmaster — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:02:46 +0000

The Info: Ok. You have a iTouch 2g and you want to jailbreak it. The first thing you need to know is that the process to jailbreak it is not the same as jailbreaking the iPhone 2G, 3G, and iTouch 1g. On a Mac, you have to use a command line program to jailbreak it. Don’t

Downgrade/Uninstall iTunes on a Mac

lightmaster — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:21:26 +0000

The Info Why would you want to uninstall iTunes, especially if you're on a Mac? Because Apple is constantly trying to prevent jailbreaking. The latest version of the iTunes 8.2 pre-release rewrites the way that your computer communicates to your iPhone over USB, effectively breaking every program that talks to your iPhone over USB. On a