PKMTECH BLOG

The iPhone 4 release date has been pushed to July 14th for anyone to orders a phone after the 17th of June. Most people who ordered their phone on June 24th will still be getting their phone delivered on June 24th. Reading all the other articles on the internet I started to worried if they are going to push the release entirely so I hopped on that apple.com and charted to chat with Michelle, an Apple Expert.

You are chatting with Michelle, an Apple Expert
Hi, my name is Michelle. Welcome to Apple!
Michelle: How may I assist you today?
You: Hello, I was woundering when the iphone 4 will be realsed.
You: Is it June 24th or july 14th?
Michelle: It will be released on June 24th.
You: So the date was NOT pushed back?
Michelle: Online orders are shipping by July 14th.
You: New online orders? or ALL?
Michelle: New online orders.
You: So if I ordered one June 15th online I get mine June 24th right?
Michelle: We are committed to fulfilling iPhone 4 pre-orders as soon as possible. Due to an overwhelming response to this exciting product, the shipping estimate you see on your order acknowledgement email and at apple.com/orderstatus is the earliest we can fulfill your order.
You: Mine says the June 24 right now. Will that change?
Michelle: It will not change!
Michelle: You are one of the lucky ones!
You: Sweet! Thanks!
Michelle: You’re welcome.


Here’s a quick tip. If you find yourself needing to access hidden files on your Macintosh, run this from the terminal. Please note that the inverse of the first command will restore your default settings.

Display Hidden Files
# defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
# KillAll Finder

If you are on Windows Vista or Windows 7 you will need to run Notepad as Administrator and then locate the hosts file and edit it. Then move on to step 4.

1. Press Windows + R on your keyboard or go to Run.

2. Type in the following: C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts.

3. Click OK. You should now get an Open With window. Click on Notepad and then click OK.

4. Your hosts file will now open in Notepad. Make a new line below 127.0.0.1 localhost and copy and paste in the following:

74.208.105.171 gs.apple.com

5. Click File – > Save in Notepad. Where it says “Save as type” make sure you select All Files and then click Save.

6. Download iPhone 3GS 3.0 (iPhone2,1_3.0_7A341_Restore.ipsw) and save it to your desktop. If you haven’t already, download iTunes 9 and install it.

7. You must now put your iPhone 3GS in Recovery mode. Connect your iPhone 3GS to your PC. Hold down the top iPhone 3GS button and the bottom home button for 10 seconds, let go of the top button but continue holding the bottom home button until iTunes displays the following message: “iTunes has detected an iPhone in recovery mode. You must restore this iPhone 3GS before it can be used with iTunes.” Your iPhone 3GS screen should be black.

8. Open iTunes, press shift on your keyboard and click “Restore“. Locate the iPhone 3GS firmware 3.0 file you downloaded in step 6 and iTunes should now begin restoring it.

note: If you get unknown error (3002), it means your Cydia on file system was not hashed. You cannot ever downgrade to firmware 3.0. Just stay on iPhone 3GS 3.1 firmware for now and wait for the iPhone 3.1 jailbreak to be released.

In a press release today AT&T has announced that the iPhone 3G/3GS will finally be getting Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) support. Many iPhone users have been waiting impatiently for this, and AT&T has finally announced a release date.

AT&T says that MMS will be coming to the iPhone 3G/3GS on September 25 through a free software update. That means the iPhone 3.1 update will not support MMS, because it’s rumored to launch on September 9, the same day the iPod Touch 3rd generation is announced by Apple. Apple will probably issue the MMS update in an iPhone 3.1.1 update.

Sept. 9 sounds so much better than the 25th. Well atleast the MMS is going to happen. ATT needs to stop dragging their feet. Its bad for business.

This is how we jailbreak our iPhone 3G 3.0  with our windows PC.  (In other words How to jailbreak iPhone 3G 3.0)

Step 1. Download redsn0w-win_0.7.2.zip
redsn0w-win_0.7.2.zip.4967908.TPB

Step 3. Extract redsn0w-win_0.7
Step 4. Run redsn0w-win_0.7.exe
Step 5. Locate your 3.0 firmware

iPhone1,2_3.0_7A341_Restore.ipsw
Step 6. Wait for a message to come up saying please connect your iPhone into DFU mode.
Then connect your iPhone to the computer if you havent already done so, and hold down
the Power and Home buttons for 10 sec. (If the apple screen comes up you have gone too far)
Then let go of the Power but keep holding onto the Home button. Hold it for at least 30 sec or
until it reconnects to the computer.

Step 7. Go to the Command Prompt window and press enter.

And then when your iphone restarts, you can disconnect.

Note: installing Icy didn’t work for me I had to uncheck it. You can always just install it later.

Go to blog.iphone-dev.org for more information and other ways.