Tech Jawa > 2009 > June

So anybody who’s upgraded their iPhone to 3.0 and Jailbroke it, will notice that thier new PUSH service is BROKEN.

I’ve spent an entire day full of restores and jailbreaks and finally got it working…

The trick was just to follow these simple steps:

PLEASE NOTE: This is currently only for users with valid AT&T contracts and SIM cards.

1. You’re going to need to part with your apps for now… reconfigure them later, step one is to be okay with that.

2. Do a restore in iTunes to the stock iPhone 1,1_3.0 firmware. Activate with iTunes.

3. Download PwnageTool (OSX)

4. Download the iPhone1,1_3.0_7A341_Restore.ipsw firmware file.

5. Once your running 3.0 on your iPhone, download the AIM (Free) app, and send yourself a message from a different screen name on a different computer, and verify that PUSH is working. If PUSHi s not working at this point, it wont be after the jailbreak either…

5. Launch the PwnageTool and choose EXPERT MODE!!!

6. Once in expert mode, go through and choose NOT to let the baseband be updated, and NOT to activate the phone, also do NOT use bootneuter at all, uncheck all boxes. – Depending on the packages you choose in the next steps, you may want to choose your /root partition be 600MB to be on the safe side.

7. Select packages if you want… I didn’t. Proceed to build the custom firmware. OSX will ask for your password about halfway, so watch it closely.

8. After building, follow the instructions in Pwnage to enter DFU/recovery mode. This is essential, and it won’t let you continue until you do so.

9. Open iTunes and close Pwnage, iTunes is going to yell at you, like usual.

10. Hold alt/option and press restore, and choose your CUSTOM firmware to load onto the iPhone.

11. Let it run its rounds with restarts and whatnot, it’s going to take a while.

12. Be sure to set it up as a new iPhone when iTunes asks you, and then LET ITUNES ACTIVATE THE PHONE FOR YOU.
YOU CANNOT DO A RESTORE, IT WILL NOT WORK

13. Before downloading any apps, grab AIM (Free) and try it again, push should be working.

14. Add http://cydia.hackulo.us to your repos and um… happy jailbreaking guys. Have fun w/ PUSH!

Well well, 3.0 has come and gone, and a few days passed before I had the motivation to upgrade.

I wish I hadn’t.

Out of ALL the new iPhone 3.0 features… The ones I will use are…. NOTHING!

To be fair, the new search is nice, but jailbreak app “QuickGold” did that just fine, it did have one advertisement, but it did the exact same function… In fact Apple got the idea from QuickGold.

Now, lets see what I could be using, but am not, because 3.0 killed it.

Scrobble – Scrobbles songs AS THEY ARE PLAYED over Edge, this means I could be driving somewhere, listening to my jams, and Tech Jawa and last.fm are updated instantly with what I’m listening to… It no longer scrobbles songs. Developer says he no longer uses a jailbroke iPhone, and has no plans to upgrade the app.

AppBackup – Backs up apps saved settings, saved games for games, and everything else associated with apps. I made the backup before the 3.0 format/upgrade, and went to restore, but alas, the app doesn’t work anymore!

WinterBoard Keyboards – Keyboard themes just don’t work anymore, plain and simple.

Status Notifier – Works, but you can’t configure any of its settings, as it just crashes, so I hope you’re okay with the default settings.

MobileFinder – Just plain crashes.

MobileTermainl – works… kinda, it starts upside down? o_O

Cyntact – Displays your contacts photos in your contacts list to left of their name… no photos in 3.0!

Backgrounder – Lets you run more than one app at once… no go on 3.0.

Intelliscreen – Shows calendar and weather on lock screen, nope. not anymore.

Those are just a few, I’m sure there’s TONS more… those are only the ones that affect me in any way.

This is the first entry in my new “Code” category, as I do a LOT of coding for work lately.

So the following script is one of my firsts that I wrote for work.

Sub Delete_Unchanged_Prices()

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' Written  By: Corey DeGrandchamp                     '
' Written  On: December 10, 2008                      '
' Written For: Michigan Drill Corporation             '
' Description: This Excel VBScript will search column '
'              B, and if a cell in B has a null value '
'              then the script deltes the entire row. '
'              This is mainly used for our end of the '
'              year cost changes, but can be modified '
'              to suit your own needs.                '
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' Edit   Date: June 18, 2009                          '
' About  Edit: Added information.                     '
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  Application.ScreenUpdating = False
  Application.Calculation = xlCalculationManual
  Dim Rng As Range, ix As Long
  Set Rng = Intersect(Range("B:B"), ActiveSheet.UsedRange)
  For ix = Rng.Count To 1 Step -1
      If Trim(Replace(Rng.Item(ix).Text, Chr(160), Chr(32))) = "" Then
        Rng.Item(ix).EntireRow.Delete
      End If
  Next
done:
  Application.Calculation = xlCalculationAutomatic
  Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub

It basically goes through and checks every row in column B, and if there is a cell with a value of “” (AKA null) then it removes the entire row.

This can be changed to any column/value combination, but this is the specific combination we need at work.