CleanStatus Tweaks And Hides Status Icons On iPhones

Wanted to have an ability to customize the appearance of status bar of your iPhone? Now with a new tweak named as CleanStatus from Cydia, users will be able to clean or tweak them based on own preference, freeing up some limited space that you have on iOS devices.

RecoveryGuard Prevents iOS Devices Into DFU Mode and Updates Accidentally

If you are owning a jailbroken iPhone and worry about accidentally OS upgrade when connecting to iTunes that cause unnecessary trouble, here is a simple tweak from Cydia that can prevent it. By having this little tweak in your iOS devices it will fool the iTunes that you always have the latest version of iOS so that it won’t prompt you for OS upgrade from time to time. More importantly, it will block iTunes from being able to put your iOS devices into recovery mode so that there is no way to upgrade the OS with any accidentally press on Upgrade or Restore button in iTunes.

iPhone Serial Number Secret (Decode Color, Size, Production Year and Week)

Each and every iPhone(in fact most products) manufactured, sold or yet to be sold, has a serial number printed on the box and implanted on the chip of iPhone, which can be viewed from Settings app -> General -> About. The serial number does contain some information about the type, color, the year and weak of production or manufacturing of the iPhone and more.

Here’s how to decode the hardware information of the iPhone from the serial number. Note that serial number should not be confused with IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity) which is unique identifier for GSM, WCDMA, and iDEN mobile phones. Serial number of iPhone can be changed by Apple, especially when during refurbishing.

Typically, the serial number of iPhone is in the following format:

AABCCDDDEEF

For example, 88025xxxA4T, where the serial information can be decoded as following:

AA = Factory and Machine ID
B = Year of Manufacturing (9 is 2009/2019, 0 is 2010/2020, 1 is 2011 and so on)
CC = Production Week (01 is week 1 of B, 11 is week 11 of B and so on)
DDD = Unique Identifier
EE = Color (A4=black)
F = size (S=16GB, T=32GB)

The factory code does indicates which factory produces the smartphone, and as almost all iPhone is manufactured in China, most if not all factories are located in China. There is no leaked mapping information that identifies which factories or plants to the possible factory and machine ID, such as 6Q, 79, 7R, 7S, 7T, 7U, 7V, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88 and more, but users can know if the two iPhones are from the same plant.

While the last 3 digits of iPhone serial number are indicative of color and size, the 3-digit should be read together to determine which generation, size and color of iPhone. Here’s the list of possible iPhone models:

VR0 (iPhone 2G Silver 4GB)
WH8 (iPhone 2G Silver 8GB)
0KH (iPhone 2G Silver 16GB)
Y7H (iPhone 3G Black 8GB)
Y7K (iPhone 3G Black 16GB)
3NP (iPhone 3GS Black 16GB)
3NR (iPhone 3GS Black 32GB)
3NQ (iPhone 3Gs White 16GB)
3NS (iPhone 3Gs White 32GB)
A4S (iPhone 4 Black 16GB)
A4T (iPhone 4 Black 32GB)

One interesting first two digits of iPhone serial number that stands out is 5K, which has been widely believed to be indicating a refurbished iPhone (reconditioned iPhone). You won’t get a new iPhone with serial number which starts with 5K. The “5K” refurbished iPhone will only be given if you send in your iPhone for repair or exchange and get a replacement iPhone. However, depending on your luck, especially during the initial launch of new iPhone model, you may or may not get an iPhone with “5K” serial number as replacement though.

[via:mydigitallife]

How to Find Out if iPhone Replacement is New or Refurbished

There are many iPhones from the original iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3Gs to iPhone 4 which are on sales or auction at eBay, online stores or local stores, and the seller may claim to be a new phone, which in effect it’s a refurbished (reconditioned) iPhone, which Apple regards as “new” nonetheless. Refurbished iPhone is giving to Apple customers who claim warranty for faulty, defective, spoilt, DOA (dead on arrival) or scratched iPhone as replacement, and consumers can purchase refurbished iPhone as lower price from Apple or AT&T and Verizon when available for sales.

OneNote for iPhone Loading List of Notebooks Failed Error 500

After OneNote Mobile for iPhone hits the news wires, the response, demand and downloads of the app has been tremendous, which rightly fulfills the aim of Microsoft to promote OneNote, one of the best note taking application in the market.

How to Jailbreak Apple TV 2G on iOS 4.2.1 with Seas0nPass [Guide]

FireCore team has come up with a PwnageTool like program to build custom jailbroken .ipsw files for your second-gen Apple TV. Like almost all jailbreaks for iOS 4.2.1, Seas0nPass  jailbreak is also limited to tethered-boot for now.

iOS 4.2.5 on Verizon iPhone 4 Features Mobile “Personal Hotspot” [Hands-On Video]

In an hands-on with the just announced Verizon iPhone 4, Engadget has spotted the “Personal Hotspot” feature in iOS 4.2.5, running on the said handset.

Find My iPhone Alternative iGotYa Takes Snaps of the Person Who Stole Your iPhone [Hands-On Video]

Losing your valuable iPhone or iPod touch sure isn’t very fun. iGotYa is a great alternative solution to Find My iPhone in order to find out exactly who took your iPhone and where they’re located.

Redsn0w 0.9.7 Beta 6 Brings Skype Fix, Next Version Will Use 4.1 SHSH Blobs Instead Of 4.2b3 For 4.2.1 Untether

Well the 6th beta of Redsn0w 0.9.7 has been released. This version fixes all Skype related issues which were hampering users ever since the first beta of this untethered iOS 4.2.1 jailbreak.

Redsn0w 0.9.7 Beta 5 Out Now ! Fixes Bluetooth Issues

The iPhone Dev Team has released yet another update to Redsn0w 0.9.7 jailbreak tool. This new version fixes all sandbox-related issues, including Bluetooth problems on an untethered iOS 4.2.1 jailbreak. Also added is an “anti-piracy plea” note as a warning for those of you who are pirating iOS 4.2 beta 3 firmware.

Redsn0w 0.9.6rc8 for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch Jailbreak Is Now Available for Download

The iPhone Dev Team has released a minor update to Redsn0w jailbreak tool which will now report or notify you whenever a selected .png image file is invalid when using custom tethered boot logo option.

How To Quickly Boot Your Tethered Jailbroken iPhone / iPad / iPod touch on Windows and Mac

The iPhone Dev-Team has released Redsn0w 0.9.6rc7 to help you boot your tethered jailbroken iPhone, iPad or iPod touch quickly, bypassing some of the screen that you will normally see when using Redsn0w for iOS 4.2.1 jailbreak.

How to Update iPhone 4 to iOS 4.2.1 While Preserving Old 01.59.00 Baseband for Unlock [Guide]

If you have an iPhone 4 with the older and unlockable 01.59.00 baseband, and you want to upgrade to the latest iOS 4.2.1 while preserving your baseband, we have a solution for you. The following method will allow you to upgrade your iPhone 4 to iOS 4.2.1, while preserving the 01.59.00 baseband which is unlockable using Utrasn0w 1.2.

Here’s How To Downgrade iPhone 06.15.00 Baseband to 05.13.xx (iPhone 3G Bootloader 5.8 Only)

The following method will help you downgrade the baseband of iPhone 3G from 06.15.00 to 5.13.xx, which is unlockable using Ultrasn0w. This method will also enable you to restore your device on the official stock firmware using iTunes which was otherwise not possible on iPad’s 06.15.00 baseband.

Happy New Year 2011

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2011