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5 Reasons to Downgrade Back to 3.0.1
Oct 16th
I, like so many others have upgraded my jailbroken phone to 3.1. And also like the others, I regret it. But is it worth the time and effort required to downgrade back to an older version after spending so much time on the upgrade? Yes, and here’s why:
- PDANet was great back in the day of the 2G, but now we’re grown and we’ve tasted the sweetness of actual tethering through the mobileconfig hack. Using PDANet just seems like a step backward at this point.
Digital Privacy Update
Jul 16th
This article is the latest in the struggle to protect our privacy in the digital world. The EFF is central to an ongoing struggle for our rights to privacy. They are slugging it out against their second (and surprisingly equally secretive) administration and seem to be coming up against a red-tape wall.
In case you’ve been in a hole for ten years or just recently purchased your first telephone, here’s some background:
iPhone mobileconfig Settings
Jul 16th
If you follow iPhone news in any way you are probably aware of these tricks, but just in case you’ve missed out here you go. In iPhone OS 3.0, Apple added the ability to make changes to your iPhone’s settings through Mobile Safari. This is significant, seeing as how making these changes does not require jailbreaking your device. These custom settings are stored in Settings > General > Profiles.
My preferred method of installing these settings is to navigate to this post and open these links using mobile safari on your iphone or ipod touch. Some people have also reported being able to install them by emailing the files to the account they check using their device.
AT&T Tethering Workaround: (Off-site link) I saw this for the first time right after the release of OS 3.0. Network tethering is part of the new OS, and frankly is a feature we’ve all wanted for some time. This mobileconfig enables the tethering menu located at Settings > Network > Tethering which is disabled by default in the United States. NOTE: This will supposedly be disabled in OS 3.1 so if this is a feature that you can’t live without, don’t upgrade your device
Alpha-Numeric Password: I first heard about this here. Basically, this mobile config replaces your standard 4-number lockscreen with an alphanumeric lockscreen with a length of your choosing. I have modified the origonal file for the password to expire after 60 days, rather than the default 1 day. Preferences for this under Settings > General > Passcode Lock. NOTE: It seems that the only way to uninstall this mobile config is to restore your device.