Trapped in Time

Finally, a jailbreak for iPhone 4 is out!  Not only can you jailbreak an iPhone 4, but you can now jailbreak any iOS device (iPhone 3G, 3GS, iPhone 4, iPod touch, iPad)  utilizing this hack.  Simply go to the site, slide to jailbreak and about 2-3 minutes later you’ve got a jailbroken iPhone running with Cydida.  Easy, slick and most importantly, it works!

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Tea LockInfo Theme by gruppler

Not crazy about the font, but why on earth doesn’t the iPhone do something like this by default? It’s fantastic.

It has always angered me that the iPhone displays NOTHING on the lock screen and yet it has all that space. I want to see some email, recent SMS messages, calendar items, weather… all of it.

Seeing something like this makes me want to jailbreak my phone.

I jailbroke my iPhone back when you needed to jailbreak to add applications.

How do you jailbreak the latest version to add this cool display to your phone?

If you don’t have a mac made (not necessarily purchased) since October then all you need is to get the latest version of QuickPwn to jailbreak your phone.

After that an application called Cydia will be installed on your iPhone. Launch Cydia and install the required updates. After that install Winterboard, SSH, and Lockinfo. I’d also install SBSettings (best app ever). Then you can get whatever theme you want, this one happens to be Gruppled.

My advice: don’t jailbreak, it’s not worth it

I ran this on a jailbreak version throughout last fall and had run it previously on my original iPhone.  I found the jailbreak slows down your iPhone and generally screws with the reliability of many applications. Some may like it, but I haven’t found it worth the hassle.

Luckily these home screen pieces are supposed to be coming in an iPhone update. Hopefully these are some of the remaining features that will come with the final 3.0 software this summer, but I’m not holding my breath.  In the mean time I’ll continue running the silky smooth build I currently have, and patiently wait for some of these ‘nice to haves’ to appear in updates.

I took  Forbin on an enjoyable two hour walk through Lincoln Park this evening.  I think it may have been the last night of the year in the 70’s (but perhaps not?).  Regardless, it felt great out!

Also, check out the new lock screen on my iPhone.  It’s hard to get my wallpaper when capturing the lock screen as it fades to the home screen, but with this nifty theme, a jailbroken iPhone can function much like Intelliscreen, by collaborating with the SystemNotifier application.

What you need:

- Jailbroke iPhone
- Winterboard Theme Manager (download in Cydia)
- SystemNotifier (download in Cydia)
- OpenSSH (download in Cydia)

Simply download the theme and unzip it, and using an FTP/SFTP client, connect to your iPhone’s IP address over your wifi network (user:root, pass:alpine).  Browse to the root directory, and click through to Library/Themes, drag and drop.  Then using the Winterboard theme manager, select the home screen menu.  Select what notifications you want via SystemNotifier, and you now have a much more functional lock screen available with one click.  It also doesn’t eat up battery life like Intelliscreen because it’s not an application running at all times.  Note that to utilize the weather function, you must add your city, state to the javascript file found in the theme package.  It’s really easy to do, no coding knowledge needed.

If you have an iPhone/iPod touch (1st generation) and are looking to get started, the iPhone Development Team has a very helpful tumblr in place to give you the tools to jailbreak and/or unlock your iPhone.  I had done it with my old first generation iPhone, but decided to add some more functionality and style to my 3G today.  All told it took about a half hour to jailbreak, add applications, and customize some themes.  It’s nice to have last.fm scrobbling straight from the iPhone, along with a plethora of other applications.