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HowTo: How to Downgrade iPhone 3Gs From Firmware 3.1 to 3.0 For Users Who Have Saved The ECID via Cydia

iPhone 3GS have to communicate with Apple’s servers before allowing the installation of any version of firmware (restore or update ) .With the release of Firmware 3.1, Apple’s server has stopped certifying all previous firmware and this makes it impossible to restore your terminal to version 3.0 or 3.0.1. The certification is done through 3 files called IBSS, IBEC and ECID that, once signed, are a kind of “green light” to install the firmware through iTunes.

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iH8sn0w: iPhone 3Gs Downgrade from Firmware 3.1 to 3.0 Possible

The other day, FSMdotCOM offered some info on iPhone firmware 3.1 jailbreak on iPhone 3Gs. Apparently iH8sn0w managed to find a way to provide the ECID for all users who have not had time to save him. This will downgrade your iPhone firmware 3Gs from 3.1 to 3.0 and it will allow you to jailbreak.

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Jailbreak Firmware 3.1 on iPhone 3Gs: Understanding The Problems

First of all you need to understand that Apple knows everything you do with your iPhone and iTunes. Yeah, not such a major privacy invasion as it sounds but still… No matter if you do a upgrade, recovery, downgrade of the firmware, the entire process starts to communicate with the Apple servers via iTunes. In case of the iPhone 3Gs, iTunes sends to Apple a certificate in order for the phone to be verified. If, during this “test” , the certificate fails to respond clearly , the server tells iTunes to return an error. If the certificate responds as it should, the firmware is installed flawlessly

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Meet: Saurik ( Cydia Dev ) and GeoHot ( 1st iPhone SIM Unlock and Purplera1n Dev )

You all know what Cydia is and probably you know that Saurik is the the one you have to thank for this app. And you might know George as well. If you dont know him from the “war” that was going on a couple of months back between George and the dev-team, you might know him as the Purplera1n dev. Anyway, here’s a couple of pictures of the two. Meet the dudes behind the name ( virtually at least )

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Steve Jobs: Reason Why iTouch Has No Camera And iPod Nano Can Record Video

Im sure that everybody was wondering why Apple upgraded the iPod Nano with a camera instead of the iTouch. Steve Jobs, was interviewed yesterday after the Apple event by David Pogue who is a technology columnist for the New York Times. David’s first question was “why a camera in the tiny Nano and not in the iTouch?”

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iPhone 3Gs Users Can’t Downgrade From Firmware 3.1

iPhone 3Gs users who didn’t save the ECID file and probably the IBSS and IBEC files, will no longer be able to jailbreak their device. People who saved those files, are in luck and all they have to do is to wait for the DevTeam to release the jailbreking tools.

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HowTo: Share Via FaceBook and Twitter With iTunes 9

iTunes 9 seems to be a trending topic all over the Internet right now. Its pretty badass, and we briefly covered it here. One badass feature ( or not ) is the ability to share stuff with your Twitter and Facebook account. But i got really frustrated when i couldn’t find this functions in iTunes 9. Looked in the menu , in the bar and nothing.

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