Jailbreak is not for pirating software!

I just read that Hackulous servers were shut downed. And you know, I feel better right now, just because every time  I started speaking about jailbreak people says "Ah! You are doing jailbreak to play free games!". No, I don't. I feel better because many small developers, like me, in Apple ecosystem would be able to earn a little more money, someone would be able to start they first micro business and so on.

In my opinion jailbreak is for the software and people that do not fit into Apple concept of devices for dummies. We have number of tweaks and software that just impossible to get though certification process, but they are still great.

This is my iPhone/iPad and I want to have a ssh/usb drive in them, but let's do not pirate software.

P.S. Happy New Year and Merry Christmass :)

A2DP Enabler updated. Ads were removed.

If you still use A2DP I've got a good news for you. I just posted an 1.3 update which removes Quattro advertisements. They didn't work anyway, since Quattro were purchased by Apple. This also removes annoying CoreLocation warning and white rectangle at the bottom of the main form.

Regarding future development and USB Drive. I still do not have any time to respond to suport enquiries and have to warn anyone who will try to use that this application that it was development on 2.x.x firmware and probably have issues on modern devices.

If anyone have connection problem to apt.dmytro.me please drop me e-mail, I am keep an eye on the server, but sometimes it fails.

A2DP Enabler Released (1.0.1)

I just released a small update to the A2DP Enabler application,  the application which enables A2DP Bluetooth profile on iPhone 2G (also known as original iPhones, iPhone Edge, simply iPhone).

The biggest change is a version number to force Cydia update expired versions around a world.  In fact a released version of A2DP Enabler was available in repository since 1st of December, but looking into my Inbox it seems it wasn't noticed by many users.

If you have updated it to the 1.0 released 1st of December - there is no reason to update it another time.

Released version removes beta expiration only.

A2DP Enabler for iPhone 2G (original iPhone)

Have a good news for original iPhone owners, you can use Bluetooth Stereo headsets with your iPhone now.

Bluetooth Stereo Profile (A2DP) and Remote Control Profiles were available for iPhone 3G starting from firmware 3.0, but wasn't available for original iPhone. This tiny application A2DP Enabler fixes this.

Technically it should be compatible with any A2DP Headset, but since it seems iPhone BT module is quite weak RF signal, I'd recommend trying few headsets to check what fits you. Lennie from http://a2dp.info agree to recommend best headsets from her collection, but until this review complete please post your experience here.

Make iPhone a bootable USB Disk - Tutorial

One of our friends, limneos has published an excellent article about using an iPhone in quite unexpected way - to make it bootable device for the PC. 

That is, you can boot a PC  using your little shiny iPhone or iPod, it seems it should work for Mac too, but you will need to google for bootefi too. 

http://limneoswizard.blogspot.com/2009/09/make-iphone-bootable-usb-disk-boot-your.html

USB Drive Updated (beta1)

I have published small update to the USB Drive utility yesterday. There are few cosmetic changes in disk creation routine, progress bar was added and now cancellation of disk creation doesn't leave incompleted disk images on iPhone.

Few answer to the popular questions:

Q: Where disk images are located? I want to remove them manually
A: Check /var/Volumes. You can remove using "rm /var/Volumes/*" command from your favorite ssh client or terminal.

Q: How remove disk image?
A: Swipe on a disk name (slide from left to right) and tap "Delete" button

Q: I have uninstalled USB Drive but disk space was to freed
A: This is by design. You need to remove disk images manually. I will not automatically kill your data.

Q: It doesn't work under with Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7
A: If you have iTunes installed there is known problem regarding Apple Mobile USB driver.  You can use workaround posted by limneos here.  I am working on a better workaround, but this is the best at this moment.

USB Drive for iPhone

It seems I am getting closer to publish first beta of my new application. This is a USB Drive for iPhone - an application which let you use iPhone as USB Mass Storage protocol device.

I took (with permission) sources of our Card Export for Windows Mobile add some magic and now iPhone supports USB Mass Storage.

Unfortunately it requires jailbroken devices.

The Cydia repository is not functional at this time, but I am working to make it online.

iPhone and A2DP. Why there is no Softick solution yet?

Softick is known for their A2DP for Palm OS devices (Palm Treo, Centro), less known a Mac OS X version of the same application (Softick Audio Gateway for Mac OS X) and we've been often asked why we still doesn't release A2DP for iPhone.

iPhone and Bluetooth

Did you known that iPhone Bluetooth Stack shuts down WiFi during discovery? I didn't. I suspect that any Bluetooth activity will terminate WiFi activity. So you will not be able to listen to the Internet radio using A2DP headphones using iPhone.

Yeah.