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YourTube 3 iPhone Cydia Tweak Which Lets You Download Youtube Videos

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Youtube has always been the first priority when we are uploading a video and when we are searching for a video. It’s one of the best resources for music on the web too. But there is a limitation to the users that videos can’t be downloaded, specially for iPhone users. There are many Apps that let you download videos from Youtube, the famous of all being the MX-Tube. But here is the treat for you.

There is a famous tweak released specially for Youtube, which will remove the limitation and would enable the downloads of Youtube videos on iPhone. This cydia tweak is known as YourTube 3.

yourtube 3, youtube videos, iphone, youtube, download, videos

The main novelty in YourTube 3 concerns the ability to extract audio from videos downloaded from YouTube and save them as MP3 files in the iPod library to play the track even without an Internet connection, WiFi or 3G. Once you have extracted and saved the audio track, you can send the music file by email so you can play on a Mac or a PC.

YourTube 3 is available in Cydia Store and can be purchased at a price of $ 5 (the update will be free if you have previously purchased YourTube 2). Of course you can install this tweak only on jailbroken iPhones.

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Do You Know You Can Enable Facetime On your iPhone 4 without Jailbreaking?

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If you believed till now that you would need to Jailbreak your phone to enable facetime on your iPhone 4, well you might have to change your perspective about that, because we are about to tell you a method to let you enable Facetime on your iPhone 4, without any Jailbreak tweak.

Note: This method will only work on a Factory unlocked iPhone 4.

facetime

So here is how to enable Facetime on your iPhone 4 without Jailbreak.

1. Go to the ‘Settings -> Phone’ and check that you have your number there with the country code added.

2. Now try to turn off Caller ID, if you can, otherwise just proceed to step 3.

3. Now make sure your Facetime is turned OFF, Wifi is OFF and Cellular Data network is OFF also.

4. Connect your device to your System, whether PC or MAC.

5. Shut down ‘iTunes’ if it pops up in your system.

6. Now hold  ’Home+Power’ and wait till your iPhone 4 restarts and you see the Apple logo.

7. Now when your iPhone is completely turned rebooted, Go to ‘Settings’ and turn everything ON again, that you turned OFF in step 3, one by one. Tap OK if any warning message pops up.

8. Close SETTINGS and open it again and look underneath ‘Facetime’ that it has a message and it is Turned ON.

That’s it. Facetime is now enabled on your carrier. Enjoy talking to your contacts.

Disclaimer: We at Webscopia have not tried this method out, because we don’t have a factory unlocked iPhone yet, but according to our sources, it works only on Factory Unlocked iPhone 4 and not some other unlocks such as Gevey Sims.

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Downgrade from iOS 4.3.4 to 4.3.3 and Verizon iOS 4.2.9 to 4.2.8

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Apple just rolled out iOS 4.3.4 update for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. This update from Apple will most probably fix the JailbreakMe PDF vulnerability patch, and thus all those who rely on JailbreakMe should avoid to update to iOS 4.3.4. So, we have this tutorial about how to downgrade iOS 4.3.4 to 4.3.3 and Verizon iOS 4.2.9 to 4.2.8

Actually Apple has described the technical fixes already as:

Impact: Viewing a maliciously crafted PDF file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution

Description: A buffer overflow exists in FreeType’s handling of TrueType fonts. Viewing a maliciously crafted PDF file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution.

iOS 4.3.4 Software Update
Fixes security vulnerability associated with viewing malicious PDF files.

Direct Download Links for iOS 4.3.4 (Official from Apple)

I would repeat it here again that those who rely on Jailbreak should stay from iOS 4.3.4 especially iPad 2 users as they can lose their Jailbreak by updating to iOS 4.3.4. On the other hand, Apple also released an update of iOS 4.2.9 for Verizon iPhone users which offers the same changes.

In between all the hussle of iOS 5 Betas, I believe this update is no good, obviously. It was even said by Comex

Now indeed you might want to downgrade your iPhone from iOS 4.3.4 to iOS 4.3.3 and same for the Verizon iPhone users downgrading it from iOS 4.2.9 to iOS 4.2.8

NOTE: This guide will only work if you have shsh blobs saved for the particular firmware you are downgrading too.

Step 1: Download old iOS’s firmware to which you want to downgrade.

Step 2: If you are a Windows user, then navigate to the following folder “C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc”

OR if you are a mac OS X user, you can get to “/etc/” directory by going through “Go –> Go to Folder” from Finder.

Step 3: Look for the file name hosts and open it with Notepad in windows and mac users should look for TextEdit.

Step 4: Now add this following line at the bottom of the file. “74.208.10.249 gs.apple.com”

That’s it. Save this file and proceed.

Step 5: Get your iPhone, plug it in and lets put your iPhone into DFU mode.

  • Turn off your phone.
  • Now press Power button and as soon as you seen Apple Logo, press Home button while keeping pressed Power button too.
  • Keep holding down both button for about 10 seconds.
  • After 10 sec, release Power button but keep holding Home button until iTunes recognizes your iPhone. You should keep the PC volume high to hear New Device Detection sound.
  • Let go the Home button. At this point your iPhone screen should be blank (black in color).

Step 6: Here, iTunes will alert you that “iTunes has detected an iPhone in recovery mode. You must restore it before it can be used.” Click okay

Step 7: Now, it time for us to restore the firmware – Hold down the “SHIFT” key (windows)/ “ALT”key (Mac) and click on “Restore“

Step 8: Wait for the restore to finish and you will then have a sigh of relief.

If you face any bugs or errors, feel free to comment and we will help you out.

 

Editor’s Note: Some people have faced problems with error 1013 when they downgrade from ios 4.3 to 4.2.1. Here is a video, suggested by a reader, that will help you bypass that error.

 

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iOS 5 Beta 3 New Features and Jailbreak via Redsnow and Snowbreeze

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iOS 5 Beta 3 was released some days ago when we had yet not even got our eyes away from the new features that Beta 2 brought us. As Apple can’t stop amazing us, it brought up some new features like custom ringtones for messages and notifications as well  as fixed some bugs. There is now an Assistive Touch besides the custom Apple ringtones on iOS 5 Beta 3.

assitive touch ios 5

Actually this feature was already there since the first release of iOS 5 but it got activated now. These new features are meant to provide additional interactivity for those who might have trouble using the traditional gestures and buttons on the iPad.

This control panel is activated with a swipe from a user-designated corner of the screen (in apps, the home screen, and the lock screen, Notification Center, etc). Once this new panel is activated, an HUD (heads-up-display) type of menu will appear. From this menu a user can rotate the screen orientation, control the device’s volume, “shake” the device (is an API for developers in applications), lock the display and more.

Check out the video posted by 9to5mac

 

 

Talk about Jailbreak, MuscleNerd confirmed that iOS 5 Beta 3 could be  jailbroken with the latest version of Redsnow, but later it was discovered that sandboxing issue existed, i.e after jailbreak Beta 3 app doesn’t work and keeps crashing. To help this out, iPhone Dev Team released Redsn0w 0.9.8b2 which comes with fixes for sandbox changes that affected App Store apps in 5.0b3.

Redsn0w 0.9.8b2

They say:

We’ve updated redsn0w to account for the sandbox changes that affected App Store apps in 5.0b3 (and it now recognizes the IPSWs for all three betas so far).  If you already jailbroke 5.0b3 using the previous redsn0w, you don’t need to re-jailbreak…just use this updated version to boot tethered.  Start pointing redsn0w at the 5.0b3 IPSW starting with 5.0b3.

The method to do jailbreak is the same as we told you before.

On the other hand, if you are among those people who want to preserve their baseband on iOS 5 beta 3 to unlock their iPhone, then you must need to Jailbreak your iPhone with the latest version of Sn0wbreeze 2.8b4.

Sn0wbreeze 2.8b4

Full release note of Sn0wbreeze 2.8b4 is as follows:

Sn0wbreeze v2.8b4 — For iOS 5.0 b3(9A5259f)
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* Intended only for developers (as usual).
* Hacktivation is disabled (again).
* MAKE SURE YOU UPDATE TO iTunes 10.5 BETA 3!
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Supported Devices/Tethered?
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iPhone 3G[S] (old bootrom)       [UNTETHERED]
iPhone 3G[S] (new bootrom)       [TETHERED]
iPhone 4 (GSM)                   [TETHERED]
iPhone 4 (CDMA)                  [TETHERED]
iPod Touch 3G                    [TETHERED]
iPod Touch 4                     [TETHERED]
iPad 1G                          [TETHERED]
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Those wondering, the jailbreakme exploit cannot be integrated into applications such as PwnageTool/redsn0w/sn0wbreeze.

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redsn0w seems to be having sandbox errors due to it using the old b1 kernel. I and many others have not seen any issues with sn0wbreeze related to App Store apps. If you prefer to use redsn0w, I am sure @MuscleNerd is working on a fix.

Snowbreeze 2.8b4 lets you create custom firmware with preserved baseband option for iOS 5 Beta 3, which can later be restored with iTunes 10.5 beta 3. Something you must need to know is that this jailbreak is tethered and as iOS 5 Beta 3 is only for registered devs, you need to have UUID registered with Apple in order to activate iOS 5 Beta 3 iOS device as Sn0wbreeze 2.8b4 will not bypass activation.

Download links to the tools you will need

ios 5 Beta 3 Download links

Download Sn0wbreeze 2.8b4

Download Redsn0w 0.9.8b2 for Windows.

Download Redsn0w 0.9.8b2 for Mac.

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Mobile Notifier 5 – iPhone Notifications

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Lately, out of the blue, Peter Hajas released a final version to his tweak ‘Mobile Notifier Beta’. This new version Mobile Notifier Beta 5 came out with much more features and improvements than its last Beta 4 version. To those who don’t exactly know what Mobile Notifier is for, it’s an awesome solution to Apple’s push notifications. It is a great improvement and the best way, by far, for handling the notifcations.

use mobile notifier

Photo credit: iPhone4Jailbreak.org

 

Now, instead of those notifications all of a sudden bubbling up upon the application you’re using, will stay on the top bar ready for you to check out anytime you want. It lets you read all your messages while still being in the application that you were using. This turns to be possible due to the ‘MobileReply‘ feature which will lets you read full text messages rather than just the excerpt.

 

mobile reply notifier

 

Other than the feature of MobileReply, comes the brand new and prominent dashboard known as AlertDashboard. It comes with a new and better look with better management indeed.

According to Peter, Beta 5  has these new features:

  • MobileReply. Reply to text messages while within other applications! It works like magic!
  • Full message text! Read everything in the alert, not just the first few words.
  • Redesigned minimalist alert display!
  • A brand new AlertDashboard!
  • Dismiss alerts right from the popup! Hate going into the dashboard to remove alerts you’ve just archived? Simply hit the “X” in the popup to dismiss them for good!
  • Recall the most recent alert easily with an Activator action. Then use MobileReply to reply to it!
  • Way way faster.

What’s been fixed?

  • Lockscreen no longer displays if you have it set to “off”
  • Various small bugfixes.
  • Did I mention way way faster?

So, as I already told you about the new AlertDashboard, where users are now able to delete all the notifications at once by just a ‘Clear All’ button, as well as the Cross ‘X’ button for a new notification when it pops up.

 

mobile notifier for iphone

 

If you haven’t installed it, you can install MobileNotifier for free from Cydia by following these steps:

  • Launch Cydia from your jailbroken iOS device homescreen.
  • Tap on the Manage Tab and then tap on Sources.
  • Tap on the Edit button and then tap the Add button to add the following repo URL: http://phajas.xen.prgmr.com/repo
  • After it is successfully added, tap on the Search tab and search for MobileNotifier.
  • Tap on MobileNotifier from the search results
  • Then tap on the Install button and then Confirm to install it on your iOS device
  • You will be prompted to Restart SpringBoard, tap on the button to proceed.

That’s it, you should now be able to use the revamped notification system courtesy of MobileNotifier.

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How to Turn Your iPhone into a WiFi Hotspot

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I was seriously in the mood today to play with my iPhone in a new way, and so thought of turning my iPhone into a WiFi hotspot. This trick can be performed using a combination of the latest “jailbreaking” software and an app called MyWi. The app takes your iPhone’s 3G data connection and shares it out so other computers can connect to it as if it’s just another Wi-Fi network. You can even share your 3G connection with your iPad, if you like.

turn your iPhone into a wifi hotspot

But first things first, which is that your iDevice should be Jailbroken. If you don’t know what ‘Jailbreak’ is,  its the process of opening up your iDevice to allow for the installation of unapproved 3rd-party applications. You can follow our jailbreaking guides to learn how to jailbreak different versions of iOS. Remember that this process voids the warranty on your phone.

How to Turn your iPhone into a Wi-Fi Hotspot

  1. You must have a jailbroken iPhone.
  2. Now Launch Cydia and search for “MyWi”.
  3. Purchase this app for $9.99, then install MyWi. Alternatively you can follow the video below to get for free.

 

After you get your MyWi application on your iPhone, resume the steps below:

  1. Reboot your iPhone.
  2. Now Launche MyWi and apply the following custom settings:
  • Change the hotspot name
  • Change the channel
  • Enable Wep security
  • Enable USB/Bluetooth tethering

Maybe this video could help you with this too.

 

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How to Make and Save SHSH Blobs

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What Are SHSH Blobs

If you are an iDevice user and instead of using it in its original state, you jailbreak it, then you surely would be aware of the term ‘SHSH Blob’. All of the jailbreak guides out there usually ask us about it when they say, ‘Make sure you save your SHSH Blobs before you update’. So what are these SHSH Blobs? Well SHSH Blob is a signature file which is verified against Apple Server to verify the the iPhone is running the latest version of iOS.

The importance of SHSH Blobs lies in the fact that if for some reason, you are trying to restore to a previous iOS version, Apple will not allow you to restore it because, you are trying to load a older version of iOS. To make this possible, we need to send a request to a different server (Local or designated) which sends an SHSH blob (which was saved by you) back to iTunes faking that its the current version.

And these SHSH Blobs are device specific, using the ECID (Exclusive Chip ID) of your device along with a challenge key, as part of the authentication process with Apple. And that is why we just can’t download it like any thing else, and being the same ECID, it makes it possible for us to save the SHSH blob for later use when we downgrade our iDevice.

Make and Save SHSH Blobs

There are many many methods to save your SHSH Blobs, with the help of some firmwares like iSHSHit, TinyUmbrella or AutoSHSH. You can try out any method that you want, but I will tell you the simplest one here for now.

For now, lets talk about the TinyUmbrella.

make and save SHSH blobs

Step 1: Download Firmware Umbrella from here.

Step 2: Launch Firmware Umbrella and plug your iPhone in.

Step 3: Click “Save My SHSH” and wait for Firmware Umbrella to do the job.

This video down here could also help you with it

And you are done with it. This will not only save a copy of your SHSH Blob on your computer but also will send a request to Cydia to save your SHSH on Saurik’s server.

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Jailbreaking iOS 5 Beta with Redsnow 0.9.8b1

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It’s only been a week or so since Apple’s iOS 5 beta came out and yet there are already two jailbreak solutions available for it. Apple won’t be releasing iOS  5 till the fall though the beta version is available for download for developers. The iPhone-Dev team has released a tethered redsn0w jailbreak for iOS 5 beta. A tethered jailbreak means that you have to connect your device to a computer  while turning it on and booting it in a jailbreak state. This means that if you reboot your phone you would have to run redsn0w again. This jailbreak is not recommended for those who need to unlock their phone as the beta could break their unlockable basebands.

Redsn0w 0.9.8b1 jailbreak  is available for both Windows and Mac.  (It also supports the following devices:  iPhone3GS, iPhone 4 (GSM and CDMA), iPod Touch 3G and 4G, and the original iPad. Those people who are looking to download the beta of iOS 5 are out of look as it’s only available for developers. Only those with registered ids can get past the activation screens.

You can download the files from here:

RedSn0w 0.9.8b1 (Windows)

RedSn0w 0.9.8b1 (Mac)

Ios 5 Beta

Please do remember that this is only for developers of Jailbroken apps. It won’t be a great idea for normal users to download it as its still in beta version (though they can’t unless they are developers) there is no way to bypass it as you need to have a registered UDID to get through the activation screens.

Do note that if you see the white icon for Cydia or if either Cydia and Safari crash it means that you haven’t boot tethered it. IF YOU HAVE THE 06.15 BASEBAND ON YOUR 3GS…this redsn0w will get you past the iTunes restore error you’ll get when using the stock IPSW (nobody other than those with the 06.15 baseband should be going anywhere near the stock IPSW!).

*Disclaimer*Webscopia  is not responsible for any damage caused to your device while following this guide. Those who follow our steps do so at their own risk.

Important: Please do backup your device before you being the jailbreak process.

Step 1: Make sure that you have  iTunes 10.5 on your PC or Mac.

Step 2: Download iOS 5 Beta for your iOS device as you need to have it on your system before you can go ahead with the jailbreak. Make sure that you are a developer and you really do have access to the beta version.

Step 3: Download Redsn0w and run it. Select the browse button and choose the  iOS 5 beta firmware. Once the firmware is verified click on next and the jailbreak process will start.

Step 4: Choose the option “Install Cydia” and click next.

Step 5: Make sure that you  iOS device is powered off and plugged in the computer. Boot it in DFU Mode by pressing and holding the power button and then pressing the home button for 10 seconds without releasing the power button. Release the power button and continue holding home button until the installation starts.

Step 6: Now you can sit back and watch while RedSn0w does its magic. You can make yourself a cup of tea or have an energy drink while the process is completed.

Note: As we have told you earlier that this is a tethered jailbreak which simply means you have to connect your iDevice with a computer running Redsn0w tool each time you Power on your iDevice. All you need is to run Redsn0w and select the option

“Just boot tethered right now”.

 

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