IRC Channel

Well, talking with Woo (admin of tux-irc.net) we are starting a support project. Right now we are starting our own channel, and we try to support every solution and help every user... you can reach us now at irc.tux-irc.net:6667, channel #iphone-support

Hope to see u there!

IRC and help for iPhone users...

With all the drama and the "open war" surrounding the different methods for Activate/Jailbreak/Unlock the iPhone, I'm beginning to think that the support community is fading.

IRC is a great way to get in touch with people who share the same interests as you and, yes, to get support if you need it, but right now the "usual" channels for getting help or just to talk about the iPhone are either war campaigns or bashing meetings.

I have met some people who are actually glad when I, or any other room member, gives them support. That persons usually leave comments such as "hey, this is a great community, where people are willing to help, thanks!". That's what makes my day. I'm NOT in this for the money... in my particular case, I love apple and makes me happy when people walk away with their problems solved and happy because they can use their iPhone or iPod Touch the way they want to.

Maybe some of them are what I call "professional unlockers" or scammers, for short. Those people are in that just to make money and though I don't agree with that, there is no real way for me to know, so I help anyone I can.

My personal take on the different methods is theme for another post (STILL lazy...), but I wanted to get this out of my head.

If you need help with your phone/touch, look for me... I hang out at TuX-IRC.Net (known by some as irc.ziphone.org) in channel #ziphone and in irc.osx86.hu in channel #iphone. If I'm around, feel free to PM me and ignore the usual BS that floats around nowadays.

BTW, before finishing, I would like to mention that if I could have my way, I would have a channel just for helping and informing people. No war, No Bashing. 

If I EVER get around to create such a channel, I would be VERY happy if I could gather my personal "IRC list of good people/great helpers". In no particular order (I consider all of you my friends):

• SunnyD
• Eastyboy
  
• JEsTer
• DrkRealm
• LiKeFRe
• geeb

Well, here's hoping!

Pwned!

Yep, as the title said (and in part thanks to a "little" pushing from a friend), I took the plunge and now my iPhone is officially "pwned" (without the frigging pineapple! yay!).

I have to say, though, that the results were, for me at least, anticlimactic. 

Don't take me wrong!, I respect and admire the wonderful work of the Dev Team on this project but, as I expected, right now there were no reasons for me to "pwn" my phone (except for testing/give support on the software). Everything is working fine (except for the crapload of apps I had installed which, obviously, were wiped during the restore), but it WAS working that way before... I think the fruits of this labor will present themselves when 2.0 finally is out, but for now I see nothing REALLY different (though my bootloader is now neutered). 

From a purely technical point, however, this software (and the Dev Team) raises the bar on iPhone jailbreaking/unlocking and in the future, modding. This. Is. HUGE. And it will get even better: the makers of iLiberty+ are creating an app that will extend pwnage so you can (among other things) preinstall apps on your custom firmware... It will be callled IPSWTool

In a nutshell, I would have to say that the software works beautifully, save for a little glitch where for some reason it failed to see the iPhone at the very beginning and I had to click the "pwn" button several times until it got the iPhone :-(. If you have already used either ZiPhone (successfully :-P), iLiberty+ or similar, and you are in 1.1.4, you won't see any difference right off the bat. In that case, you could wait until you really need it (or you could continue to use your preferred solution...).

I intend to write a longer piece on this later on, along with another that has been buzzing inside my head about all the drama surrounding ZiPhone, i+, iLiberty, iLiberty+ and now Pwnage, but that will have to wait until I figure out which apps do I really need on the phone to get them installed again (laziness....)

Yes, the iPhone future looks very promising...

Update: Well, after syncing my 7.odd gigs o'music, the iPhone gave me the (now familiar) error "the iPhone canceled the Mail syncing"... Why does this happpen? I don't have a clue. Fortunately, the fix (for me, at least) is simple: Install BSD Subsystem and OpenSSH (or Term-VT100). Get into the iPhone and change the permissions on /var/mobile/Library/Mail (the folder and the .plist file inside it) to 755 or 777.

All is working normal now.