Jailbreak Tweak Roundup: Vibe, Almpoum, quickCam, Daily Dash, IfFound

Here’s another jailbreak tweak roundup for those of you that are looking for some more useful tweaks. We have 5 new tweaks that you might want to check out, so let’s go ahead and jump right in.

This is a pretty unique and free tweak that will tell you the time without having to take your iPhone out of your pocket. If you need to know the time when it’s not kosher to pull out your iPhone, such as while you’re in a meeting or on on a date, then you may want to check out Vibe. Vibe uses a gesture that you can activate while in your pocket and it will vibrate the time. Check out the video for a walkthrough of the tweak.

Here is a free tweak that will allow you to manage your screenshots. There a few options that you can configure in the settings, like automatically saving to a clipboard, saving to your camera roll, or both. Check out the video below for a detailed walkthrough of the tweak.

quickCam

This tweak isn’t very original and I think it’s good to know when to not to check out a tweak as well, especially when it’s a paid one. This tweak is $1.99 and allows you to set an activator gesture to open up the camera. It has some limited functionality compared to the actual camera app and the tweak can basically be duplicated just by adding a gesture in Activator to open up the camera app. Check out the video for the full review.

Daily Dash

If you use Twitter, than you might want to check out this free Cydget. What this Cydget does is give you what the top three things are that are trending on Twitter right on your lock screen. After installing, just make sure you enable it in Settings>Cydget>Lock Cydget Order and you’re good to go.

IfFound

This is a pretty awesome tweak that will help you retrieve your lost iPhone. IfFound is a $0.99 tweak that puts a button on your lock screen that will present the finder of your iPhone with all of your contact information so the finder can get it back to you very easily. It has two separate options to choose from, which are simple and detailed. Select your option, fill in the required information, and give the person who finds your iPhone to do the right thing.

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KeyShortcut Pro lets you add your own keyboard shortcuts to iOS [Jailbreak Tweak]

Editing text on an iPhone or iPad can sometimes be a little frustrating, so it’s always nice to find a tweak that makes it easier. One of those tweaks would be SwipeSelection Pro, and another is a new tweak called KeyShortcut Pro.

KeyShortcut Pro gives you the ability to easily select all, cut, copy, paste, undo, redo, and even create your own shortcuts. Once you download and install this tweak, you can start using it, there’s no disable/enable switch. Jump into the KeyShortcut Pro settings to check out which keys you use for which shortcuts.

 

If you’re used to using shortcuts on your keyboard on your Mac or PC, then these default shortcut assignments make a lot of sense. All you have to do is tap and hold the assigned letter in order to take that action. If you’re not a fan of the those specific letters calling those actions, then you can create your own keyboard shortcuts by using any letter or character on iOS keyboard.

If you scroll down a bit in the settings pane, you’ll see “Profiles”. This is where you can easily create shortcuts. Each number corresponds with tapping and holding on the numbers on the keyboard. When you do that, it will paste whatever you assign to that number.  You can also do the same thing for the spacebar, as you can see in the picture.

If you want to check out this tweak in action, check out the video walkthrough below:

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How to Jailbreak iOS 5.1.1 For iPad 3 (New iPad), iPad 2, iPad 1 Users Using Redsn0w [Untethered]

iPhone Dev team has just released Redsn0w 0.9.12b1 that includes support for untethered iOS 5.1.1 for iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPad 3, iPad 2 , iPad 1, iPod touch 4G and iPod Touch 3G.

In this article, we will take you through the step-by-step procedure to jailbreak your iPad on iOS 5.1.1 using Redsn0w for both Mac and Windows users.

Here are some important points to note before you proceed.

• This guide is meant for iPad users.
• Redsn0w 0.9.12b1 supports 5ntethered jailbreak.
• Redsn0w 0.9.12b1 supports iPad 3, iPad r, iPad 1 running on iOS 5.1.1 .
• Please ensure your iPad is on iOS 5.1.1 (Settings --> General --> About --> Version should be 5.1.1) before proceeding.
• Please note that jailbreaking your iPad may void your warranty and hence proceed with caution and at your own risk.
• Please do not forget to backup your iPad before you proceed. You can refer to this post for instructions on how to backup your iPad.
• Please ensure you are running latest version of iTunes.
• Important: iPad 1 users who have a lot of media on your device, then you can jailbreak your iOS device by putting it in DFU mode (we'll update this guide with additional instructions for it shortly).

You can follow these step-by-step instructions to jailbreak your iPad:

Step 1: Download Redsn0w for Windows from this link and Redsn0w for Mac from this link and save the application in a folder named "Redsn0w" on your desktop.

Step 2: Double click the Redsn0w zip file and extract the application to the Redsn0w folder and then launch the Redsn0w application.

Windows users should run Redsn0w as ‘Administrator’ (right-click on the Redsn0w exe and select 'Run as an Administrator').

Step 3: After launching Redsn0w, click on the Jailbreak button.

Step 4: Redsn0w will start the jailbreak process and go through the following three steps:

1. Preparing

2. Processing

3. Finishing up

Step 5: Once the three steps are completed, Redsn0w will inform you that the jailbreak was successfully installed. But please wait, leave your device alone. Your iPad will reboot on its own. After it has rebooted, wait for it respring again.

After the respring, your iPad will be successfully jailbroken and you should be able to find the Cydia icon on the Home screen (please note that the Cydia icon may not be on the first page, so don't assume that your iPad hasn't been successfully jailbroken, use Spotlight to search for it).

After the jailbreaking process is complete, do not forget to checkout our article on tips to keep your iPad secure.

If you're new to the jailbreaking world and wondering what to do after jailbreaking your iPad, checkout our jailbreak apps category page to find out the apps you can install on your iPad using the Cydia app.

Hope this helped. Please don't forget to let us know how it goes in the comments and drop us a line if you hit any issues.

If you want to show your appreciation for iOS 5.1.1 Jailbreak team's hard work, then don't forget to give them a donation using the link on the Redsn0w application.

Via: iphonehacks

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Redsn0w, PwnageTool With iOS 5.1.1 Untethered Jailbreak Support & Ultrasn0w For iOS 5.1.1 Released

iPhone Dev team has just released a new version of Redsn0w and PwnageTool, which includes Rocky Racoon and untethered iOS 5.1.1 jailbreak developed by pod2g and planetbeing that was used in Absinthe 2.0.x jailbreak.

If you were having problems jailbreaking your iOS device with Absinthe 2.0.x then you could try again using Redsn0w 0.9.12b1.

If you've already jailbroken your iOS device using Absinthe 2.0.x, iPhone Dev team's CLI tool or the Rocky Racoon 5.1.1 Untether, then you don't need to use Redsn0w or PwnageTool.

iPhone Dev team have provided the following information about Redsn0w 0.9.12b1 on their blog:

redsn0w allows owners of A4+earlier devices to install rocky-racoon two different ways:

• backup/restore method similar to Absinthe and cinject
• its traditional limera1n-based ramdisk install.  If you have a lot of media on your A4 device (music, movies, TV shows, etc), then the ramdisk method is preferrred because it avoids any possibility of later problems related to syncing to iCloud (including Photo Stream and Music Match).  The ramdisk method is not available for A5 devices or later because limera1n can’t be used.  If you’d like to use redsn0w’s ramdisk method, just be sure to put the A4 device in DFU or Recovery mode before starting redsn0w (otherwise it will immediately start to use the backup/restore method).

iPhone Dev team has also added support for the SAM unlock, which allows you to add the SAM tickets that you might have saved as part of your initial ramdisk jailbreak of iPhone 4 or earlier. Alternatively, it allows you can upload your SAM tickets to any device after its been jailbroken.

redsn0w accepts either the individual SAM activation ticket plist file, or the entire zip file created by redsn0w’s “Backup” button. 

Redsn0w 0.9.12b1 now allows users to jailbreak their iOS device on iOS 5.1.1 all the way back to iOS 4.1.

PwnageTool 5.1.1 allows users who depend on Ultrasn0w to unlock their iPhone, to create and update iPhone with custom pre-jailbroken iOS 5.1.1 firmware file to preserve the baseband. PwnageTool is available only for Mac users. iH8sn0w had released Sn0wbreeze 2.9.5 for Windows users. Dev team has also released an updated version of Ultrasn0w (v1.2.7), which now supports iOS 5.1.1 that can be installed after preserving baseband with PwnageTool or Sn0wbreeze. iPhone Dev team have provided the following information about PwnageTool and Ultrasn0w: 

PwnageTool also avoids any possible sync issues, but again it applies only to A4+earlier devices.  If you unlock your iPhone with ultrasn0w or a commercial method, you must use PwnageTool to avoid updating your baseband otherwise you’ll lose the unlock.  PwnageTool will also jailbreak+untether the AppleTV2,1 5.0_2B206f (unless you customize the IPSW further, you’ll have just basic SSH access to the device).

iPhone Dev team had included PwnageTool functionality into Redsn0w last year so it's not clear why they've again released PwnageTool as a standalone tool to create custom iOS 5.1.1 firmware file.

Here're the download links:

• Redsn0w 0.9.12b1 for Mac
• Redsn0w 0.9.12b1 for Windows (Run in administrator mode)
• PwnageTool 5.1.1 for Mac
• cjinject 0.5.4 for Mac and Windows

As always, let us know how it goes.

If you want to show your appreciation for iOS 5.1.1 Jailbreak team's hard work, then don't forget to give them a donation via PayPal link on Dev team's blog.

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PagePreview: Jailbreak Tweak Offers Alternate Method to Browse Through Your iPhone’s Home Screens

PagePreview is a neat jailbreak tweak that allows you to preview all your iPhone's Home screens from the current Home screen by just dragging your finger on the page indicator dots, right above the dock.

PagePreview has recently been updated by Elias Limneos to add support for iOS 5.1.1.

You can also jump to any Home screen, by dragging your finger on the page indicator dots and then releasing it when you see the preview of that Home screen.

The jailbreak tweak also allows you to launch an app from any Home screen in a similar way. Drag your finger to the app and release it to launch the app.

You can customize the look and feel of the Home screen preview such as the background, opacity etc via the Settings app.

PagePreview also supports PageNames, which is a free jailbreak tweak also developed by Elias that allows you to assign a name to the Home screen.

You can check out the demo of the jailbreak tweak in action below:

PagePreview is available on Cydia for $1.74.

It works exactly as advertised and even though it shrinks the size of the icon (and the label) in preview mode, the name of the apps are still quite readable.

PagePreview is a nice alternative to browse through your iPhone or iPad's Home screens to launch an app.

Let us know what you think of PagePreview in the comments.

Note: In case you're wondering, SBRotator 5 ($2.99) is the name of jailbreak tweak that rotates iPhone's SpringBoard in the video.

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Over a Million iOS Devices Jailbroken Using Absinthe 2.0

pod2g and the Chronic Dev team released Absinthe 2.0 on Friday, which allows users to jailbreak their iOS devices running iOS 5.1.1. It was also the first jailbreak for the new iPad (3rd generation iPad).

Chronic Dev team has just revealed that more than a 1 million new iOS devices have been jailbroken since Absinthe 2.0 was released.

Chronic Dev team has shared the following numbers:

Some stats since release of #Absinthe - 211,401 jailbroken iPad3's and 973,086 devices newly jailbroken! #JBFTW ! ;D

This means that 1,184,487 new iOS devices were jailbroken using the Absinthe jailbreak in less than 3 days. Earlier in the year, almost a million devices (953,232) were jailbroken in 3 days using the Absinthe jailbreak for iOS 5.0.1 and iOS 5.

The data is based on the query that is sent to saurik's servers when Cydia is launched to get the list of available SHSH blobs for that iOS device.

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Sn0wbreeze 2.9.4 With iOS 5.1.1 Untethered Jailbreak Support Released

iH8sn0w has also released Sn0wbreeze v2.9.4, which includes suport for iOS 5.1.1 untethered jailbreak for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.

Sn0wbreeze makes use of pod2G's iOS 5.1.1 untethered jailbreak, which was released earlier today.

Sn0wbreeze allows users to create custom iOS 5.1.1 firmware file that is pre-jailbroken, which can then be used to upgrade their iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch to iOS 5.1.1. In case of iPhone, Sn0wbreeze also preserves the baseband from getting upgraded so that it can be unlocked using Ultrasn0w (though Ultrasn0w is not yet compatible with iOS 5.1.1).

Here's what's new in Sn0wbreeze v2.9.4:

• Added the 5.1.1/9B206 untether that was released with today's absinthe update.
• Added 5.0/9B206f (Apple TV 2) support.
• Minor UI changes (thanks @icj_!).
• Bug Fixes.

Sn0wbreeze 2.9.4 supports the following iOS devices running on iOS 5.1.1:

• iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4
• iPad 1
• iPod Touch 3G, iPod Touch 4G
• Apple TV 2

iH8sn0w has explained why Sn0wbreeze doesn't support iPhone 4S, iPad 2, which are powered by A5 chip and iPad 3 (the new iPad), which is powered by the A5X chip:

A5(X) Support?: As stated many times in the past, sn0wbreeze cannot be updated to work on A5(X) devices until a low level exploit in DFU or iBoot is found and made public. Therefore, A5(X) users will have to rely on using the lovely absinthe.

A5(X) Baseband Preservation/Hacktivation? For those running A5(X) devices and need to preserve your baseband, there is nothing you can do at the moment. For those wanting to hacktivate, the only advice I can give is to buy the carrier's SIM (the one its locked to obviously) on ebay. The SIM does not have to be active with the carrier to activate the phone.

Sn0wbreeze also doesn't support the revised iOS 5.1.1 software update that was released by Apple earlier today, so GSM iPhone 4 users should download the older iOS 5.1.1 from here.

In our opinion, Absinthe is the easiest way to jailbreak your iOS device if you're after only jailbreaking, but iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS users who depend on unlocking should use Sn0wbreeze or Redsn0w (whenever Dev team releases it with iOS 5.1.1 untethered jailbreak support) as it preserves the baseband.

You can download the latest version Sn0wbreeze, which is available only for Windows users using this link.

If you need help with Absinthe 2.0.x, then check out our step-by-step guide to jailbreak your iOS device using Absinthe 2.0.1:

• How to jailbreak iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS
• How to jailbreak iPad 3 (new iPad), iPad 2, iPad 1 (original iPad)
• How to jailbreak iPod touch 4G and iPod touch 3G

[via iH8sn0w's blog]

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