Guys, this is very important and everyone should read this immediately!

The iPhone’s Messages app apparently has had a killer SMS flaw on it, now this has existed for a couple months now, well Apple hasn’t done anything about it. The bug still exists in the latest 3.1 beta.

Well, that bug has been exploited by malicious hackers, hackers that give us good hackers a bad name.

All iPhones are vulnerable!

If you get a text message with just a square in it, you have been hijacked. Now, when this bug is exploited, they can take complete control of your iPhone. They can listen in by using the mic, take pics, take video, send stuff using email or sms, it just like them using veency, but from any part of the world.

The only solution is to turn your phone off, or restore and put it into dfu mode and “set up as new phone”.

NEVER GIVE OUT YOUR PHONE NUMBER TO JUST ANYONE ON THE INTERNET! THERE ARE BAD PEOPLE OUT THERE!!!

That’s all for now.

Did you just purchase Prowl only to find out that it does not work on jailbroken iPhones?  The creator of Prowl is aware that jailbroken iPhone will not properly register and thus push notifications will not work on most some jailbroken iPhones.

Prowl is an application that lets you push pretty much anything to your iPhone.  As long as you are using Growl on your mac or windows(in beta) Prowl will push all of your Growl notifications to your iPhone.  The possiblities are endless!

THE FIX:

Most people who have jailbroken their iPhones have mobilesubstrate installed and probably SBSettings.  In order to get Prowl push notifications working on your jailbroken iPhone you need to reboot your iPhone into safe mode and then launch Prowl and let it register your iPhone.

You can do this by opening SBsettings.  Hit Power.  Then press Safe Mode.  Once you are in safe mode just open up the Prowl app and it will register your iPhone.  You can now reboot into regular mode and growl push notifications will be working.

No longer can you just hold down the home button to force quit applicaitons in iPhone firmware 3.0.  This is due to the iPhone 3GS’s voice control feature.  Apple has changed the way you force quit applications.  First you need to hold down the power button untill you see the slide to power off screen.  THEN you can hold down the home button and your application will force quit.

So you just jailbroke and unlocked your iPhone 3G to work with the new 3.0 firmware only to find out that push is not working?  Well we have a solution for you.  Its not pretty but it works.  I know the iPhone-Dev team is hard at working getting it implemented into RedSn0w.  But for now here are the steps you need to take in order to get push working on your newly jailbroken iPhone.

First thing you need to do is get a AT&T simcard
Put the AT&T Sim card into your iPhone 3G and restore to firmware 3.0.
You will now have an unactivated iPhone 3G, so you will need to jailbreak it with RedSn0w.
Once that is done you will need to turn of 3G.
Go to settings and turn off your 3G.
You will probably see a waiting for activation message. Just ignore it an open up Cydia.
You should get a “Waiting for activation.” message, dismiss it and Open cydia.
Install all of the updates and then restart Cydia.
Next add the Ultrasn0w source repo666.ultrasn0w.com.The Last o is a number zero.
Let Ultrasn0w install and then turn off your iPhone 3G.
Remove the ATT sim and insert your T-Mobile simcard.
When you turn the iPhone 3G back on you will see the message. “iPhone has been activated” and Push will now be working!

So Tethering is not included in the 3.0 firmware for the iPhone 3G from the start.  You need to do a few simple things to enable it.

From your iPhone visit the site: help.benm.at

Go to Tethering & Internet Settings.
Click where it says Mobileconfigs   download >
Choose USA.
Choose T-Mobile.
Then click Install.

You should now have the tethering option when you go to Settings->General->Network

It should also configure MMS for you as well! (note mms does not work on the 2G iPhone unless you get ActivateMMS2G from Cydia.)