From last week AT&T have started unlocking the Iphones officially who met prerequisite conditions set by the company
The conditions are as follows:
1) Customer's account is on good standing
2) Iphone is officially bought and off contract ( means contract already ended or paid early termination fees )
3) If it's more than one Iphone on the same name of the person ( Family plan ), it is also available to unlock if it met above requirements.
Now based on this criteria, company will decide that Iphone is eligible to unlock or not.
How to proceed to unlock
You can either choose calling customer care or online chat with representative.
He/she will check the eligibility as you need to provide IMEI No of Iphone.
then, if you are eligible, he/she will file a case for you. Please make sure that your case has been filed and you get case ID no with expected resolution date ( Sometimes they just send you an email saying that your IPhone is eligible to unlock and you need to connect it to itunes with internet connection in your computer and restore your IPhone and you are done. It will not work directly. you need to file a case and an detailed email with IMEI No and Phone Number will be received after few days and after that email, you will be able to unlock )
Now once case is filed they will give you maximum time for the answer ( Approximately 7 days ). Then you will receive a detailed email with IMEI No and Phone Number of your Iphone with instructions.
Instructions are nothing complicated but pretty much straight forward. You need to connect IPhone with computer and open ITunes. Make sure to have internet connection. Detect the IPhone in ITunes and restore it. It will automatically restore your IPhone and Instructions will show that Your IPhone has been unlocked. There is not any unlock code or anything you need to enter or required.
Usually the process will take 4 to 5 days, once you file the case after confirming the eligibility.
Finally the resolution will be good for all good profile customers.
Note that I have unlocked two of my devises already and it is my self experience.
The conditions are as follows:
1) Customer's account is on good standing
2) Iphone is officially bought and off contract ( means contract already ended or paid early termination fees )
3) If it's more than one Iphone on the same name of the person ( Family plan ), it is also available to unlock if it met above requirements.
Now based on this criteria, company will decide that Iphone is eligible to unlock or not.
How to proceed to unlock
You can either choose calling customer care or online chat with representative.
He/she will check the eligibility as you need to provide IMEI No of Iphone.
then, if you are eligible, he/she will file a case for you. Please make sure that your case has been filed and you get case ID no with expected resolution date ( Sometimes they just send you an email saying that your IPhone is eligible to unlock and you need to connect it to itunes with internet connection in your computer and restore your IPhone and you are done. It will not work directly. you need to file a case and an detailed email with IMEI No and Phone Number will be received after few days and after that email, you will be able to unlock )
Now once case is filed they will give you maximum time for the answer ( Approximately 7 days ). Then you will receive a detailed email with IMEI No and Phone Number of your Iphone with instructions.
Instructions are nothing complicated but pretty much straight forward. You need to connect IPhone with computer and open ITunes. Make sure to have internet connection. Detect the IPhone in ITunes and restore it. It will automatically restore your IPhone and Instructions will show that Your IPhone has been unlocked. There is not any unlock code or anything you need to enter or required.
Usually the process will take 4 to 5 days, once you file the case after confirming the eligibility.
Finally the resolution will be good for all good profile customers.
Note that I have unlocked two of my devises already and it is my self experience.
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| Iphone 4 |
Shortcuts for Quicker iPhone Use
DOUBLE-TAP: Users can access audio by double tapping the home button when Iphone is locked ( Lock screen appears ). It saves time as you don't need to unlock the iphone and go to the music to play songs. this feature also works with applications like Pandora and bring up its controls.
VOICE ACCESS If you press and hold the home button while the phone is locked, you can still access Voice Control to place a phone call (or FaceTime call) or get to any of the iPhone’s other voice commands.
TELL TIME Voice control can dial phone numbers (“dial 212-555-1212”) or people (“Dial Mom, mobile”), and it can control music (“Play music,” “Play artist Earth, Wind & Fire,” Play album “That’s the Way of the World,” “Play more songs like this,” “Shuffle,” etc).
But did you know that it can also tell you what time it is? Say “What time is it?” and your phone will say the time back to you. It may sound silly, but it comes in handy if you are rushing and do not have the time or inclination to pull out your phone. (And who wears watches anymore?)
SHORTCUT TO SEARCH Swiping to the right from your first home screen pulls up the search window, where you can pull up any contacts, apps, e-mails, calendar appointments and media that have the word you are seeking.
But the search screen is also a shortcut to Google and Wikipedia. The last two search results for any entry are always “Search the Web” and “Search Wikipedia,” saving you the time it takes to open browsers or apps.
FORCE-QUIT APPS Double-tapping the home button while your phone is unlocked reveals a panel of most recently used apps. Swiping to the left moves through the apps in reverse chronological order to aid in quick app switching. This is advanced-beginner stuff.
But serious iPhone ninjas know that pressing and holding an app icon in this panel will cause minus signs to appear beside each app. Touching an app in this state forces it to shut down, a useful move if you have an app that is running in the background and causing trouble.
MUSIC SHORTCUTS Swipe that same previously used app screen to the right and you get another shortcut to music-playing controls. If you have the latest operating system, iOS 4.3, you will also see a button that will call up controls for AirPlay, Apple’s wireless audio feature.
It is here that you also gain access to the screen rotation lock button, so you can turn on or off the iPhone’s ability to switch from portrait to landscape mode. Swipe once more to the right from this screen and the iPhone’s volume control appears.
VOLUME LOCK If you want to limit the iPhone’s volume (because it is being used by your children, for example), you can go into Settings, then iPod. Under “Volume Limit” you can adjust the maximum volume and set a code to lock the setting. This code can be different from the lock code for the entire phone, if you have set one of those.
SAVE WEB IMAGES When you’re looking at Web pages in Safari, tapping and holding any image will call up buttons that can save the image to your camera roll or copy it to the clipboard.
FIND WORDS Safari’s search bar will not only look up sites, it can also be used to find a word or phrase on a Web page. Type in your search term and scroll to the bottom of the results; the last result is always “On This Page”; tap that and you can see where that term appears on the page you are viewing.
MULTIPLE KEYBOARDS You can add keyboards in other languages. Go to Settings, then General, then Keyboard, then International Keyboards. Add as many keyboards as you like. The next time the keyboard appears, it will have a small button next to the space bar with a globe icon on it. Tapping that will cycle through the languages you have selected (the name of each language will appear on the space bar).
Tap and hold the globe icon, and a menu will pop up showing all your selected languages. You can then tap whichever one you want and jump right to that keyboard. Bonus: If you’ve downloaded an app for emojis, those little happy faces and icons, you can add it to your list of keyboards in this panel.
ACCENT MARKS In the plain-Jane United States English keyboard, tapping and holding a letter will bring up other permutations of that letter for expressing yourself with aigus and macrons. Hold down the letter “e,” for example, and you will see diacritical-marked versions of the letter “e.”
QUICK ERASE In a nod to the Etch A Sketch toy, shaking the iPhone when typing something brings up the option to undo it.
WI-FI ALOFT Since in-flight Wi-Fi is growing, but cellphones still must be disabled on planes, the iPhone’s airplane mode does not control the Wi-Fi switch. You can still get on the plane’s network without running afoul of federal regulations.
SCREEN GRAB Tapping the home and sleep buttons at the same time will save a picture of whatever is on your iPhone’s display to your camera roll.
FORWARD AND REWIND When listening to audio or watching video, you probably know that you can move through the song/movie by sliding your finger left and right across the progress bar. But if you slide your finger down and then across, you can move at different speeds, allowing you to advance or rewind with increasingly fine control.
RESTART If your phone is acting sluggish or buggy, do what the pros do: initiate a “hard reset” by holding down both the home and sleep buttons until the phone powers down completely and restarts with the mirrored Apple logo appearing on the display. Do not let go until you see this logo. Doing this will often solve a number of small to medium-size glitches; it’s a good idea to do it periodically if you do not regularly sync your phone.
Knowing tricks like these will not necessarily earn you a job at one of Apple’s Genius Bars. But knowing them means you will not have to go to the Genius Bar nearly as often.
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| IPhone 4 |
There are lot of search over the internet about Jailbreak and Carrier Unlock of IPhone 4 IOS 4.2.1/4.2 Baseband 3.10.01/ 2.10/04. I have gone through each and every article regarding Unlocking the IPhone 4 with the IOS 4.2.1/4.2 and Baseband 3.10.01/ 2.10/04 and finally concluded that Carrier Unlock of the following configuration has not been released. I am writing this so that people should waste their time with different websites. As soon as I will be able to unlock my Iphone 4, I will update here.
I have tried all the software Greenpois0n, redsn0w, limesn0w and others. I haven't tried either GEVEY Sim or TURBO Sim.
You can Jailbreak Iphone 4 IOS 4.2 with baseband 2.10.04 but you can't carrier unlock. See below why ?
The A5, which comes loaded in the iPad 2, is expected to be part of the iPhone 5 upgrade.
According to a recent report, Apple’s iOS mobile operating system has become an increasingly popular gaming platform. In 2009, Apple has achieved 19 percent of the portable gaming market. The next year iOS and Google’s Android OS accounted for 34 percent of the market, which significantly cut down on the dominance of the Nintendo DS.
In addition to an upgrade to the A5 processor, the iPhone 5 is expected to include an 8 megapixel camera (up from 5MP in the iPhone 4), and could be available with 64GB of internal storage. Reports indicate that the next-gen iPhone will ship in September. ( Sources Digital Trends )
According to the rumor's, IPhone units provided to the developers looks identical to that of IPhone 4. Because of this the device has nicknamed as " IPhone 4S"
As we heard that, IPhone 5 will not get major change in design to that of IPhone 4 rather it will be more of the internal variety.This does not, however, mean that the phone given to the developers is the iPhone 5 — it’s most likely not.
Part of the A5′s increased computing capabilities is a significant boost in gaming performance over that of the A4.
According to a recent report, Apple’s iOS mobile operating system has become an increasingly popular gaming platform. In 2009, Apple has achieved 19 percent of the portable gaming market. The next year iOS and Google’s Android OS accounted for 34 percent of the market, which significantly cut down on the dominance of the Nintendo DS.
In addition to an upgrade to the A5 processor, the iPhone 5 is expected to include an 8 megapixel camera (up from 5MP in the iPhone 4), and could be available with 64GB of internal storage. Reports indicate that the next-gen iPhone will ship in September. ( Sources Digital Trends )
Day after an extraordinary quarterly results, there is a raised question about Apple Inc's users privacy and personal data sharing as reported that Apple Inc.'s iPhones and Google Inc.'s Android smartphones regularly transmit their locations back to Apple and Google, respectively.
As per the report Google and Apple are trying to collect location information of their phone users to build massive and specific database capable of targeting individual users via their cell phones, that eventually help them to provide location based services which has a market of $2.9 billion and expected to rise $ 8.3 billion in 2014 according to research firm Gartner Inc.
In case of Google," An HTC android phone collects user information several times in an hour and transmit it to Google, which also includes Name Location, Signal Strength of nearby Wi-Fi as well as a unique phone identifier" says security analyst Samy Kamkar. Company declined to respond against findings.
Until last year Google was collecting similar data with StreetView cars that map and photograph streets world-wide, but it stopped StreetView Wi-Fi after it inadvertently collected email passwords and other personal information.
Apple said it collects data intermittently and transmit them back to apple after every 12 hours, according to a letter from the company sent last year to US Reps.
Last year there was a finding by a journal that some of the apps on the phone uses location services and transmit to third party with out consent or knowledge of a user.
This time Apple comes under fire after a finding that iPhones store unencrypted database containing location information last for several months.
Although Apple Inc and Google Inc previously have disclosed that they use location data, in part, to build giant databases of Internet WI-Fi hotspots. That data can be used to pinpoint the location of people using Wi-Fi connections.
As there are many reasons to collect location information like local business look up or social network or traffic information etc, but it has seriously raised a question about privacy of a user. ( Source WSJ)
I have tried all the software Greenpois0n, redsn0w, limesn0w and others. I haven't tried either GEVEY Sim or TURBO Sim.
You can Jailbreak Iphone 4 IOS 4.2 with baseband 2.10.04 but you can't carrier unlock.
For updates from other websites about IPhone 4 carrier unlock see links below.
For updates from other websites about IPhone 4 carrier unlock see links below.
