One of the emails we received this week asked about how to set up Google Calendar with your iPhone Calendar. Bob did some digging and found the following links that should be able to help our listeners get Google Calendar set up. (Given the antagonistic strategy between Apple and Google at the moment, Kevin was surprised that this was even possible)
This first link is a basic introduction to beginning the setup. The fields you’ll need to fill out are in this first link.
This second link provides the full instructions.
As mentioned in last week’s podcast, one of our listeners- Luke- sent in a nice little review of iOS4 from the standpoint of someone without a jailbroken device. He’s given his approval for us to post it here for the rest of you to read (since it was a bit long to read in the episode itself), so here it is: Read more »
So, over the last few days I went through the process of preparing for and jailbreaking my 3GS to iOS 4. Unfortunately, there isn’t as simple of a method as there was with the ones last time like Blackra1n or Spirit, so it required a return to the old ‘create a custom upgrade package and restore from it’ method using the Dev Team’s PwnageTool. A bit annoying since this requires a good bit more time AND risk in what can go wrong, but on the whole not entirely too bad.
The actual upgrade/jailbreak process went fairly easily, though the guide I was following wrongly stated to put the phone into DFU mode instead of the Recovery mode that you actually should be using. I was able to restore from the custom .ipsw without real incident, and soon had a 3GS running iOS 4 with Cydia on the springboard. But- that’s where things went very wrong.
Since I had a whole lot of Jailbreak stuff on the device, I decided to use AptBackup to archive everything and then re-load it onto the device once the upgrade was done. Now, the last time I did this- when giong from 2.X to 3.0- this caused me a whole lot of grief, and resulted in my having to basically completely restore the phone. Twice. But, I figured this was a fluke so gave it a shot again- and ended up in largely the same boat.
After loading all the packages onto the phone, immediately upon booting up the phone would go into MobileSubstrate ‘Safe Mode’- meaning one of the extensions/apps had crashed badly. So, I started uninstalling Cydia apps to try and find the offending one. Eventually, I got down to it and just uninstalled MobileSubstrate and all the apps that relied upon it. At which point, when the phone rebooted, it was working just fine- but I had nothing on my Springboard except for the Cydia apps and the stock ones that the phone comes with. ALL of my App Store-downloaded apps were not showing up. iTunes was still showing them as being there- but in the listing of the things on the phone, they were lumped into ‘other’ so I had like 20GB of ‘other’.
After doing everything else I could think of to no avail, I eventually simply restored the phone from the custom .ipsw again and let it re-install from the backup made right before the jailbreak process, after which it has been running just fine.
Now- to be fair, this likely is not AptBackup’s fault itself. The problem most likely is that one of the packages/dependencies installed messed things up- and that it installs a whole mess of things at once likely makes it all the worse. So, if you’re going to upgrade to Jailbroken iOS 4, I heavily recommend avoiding AptBackup and simply write down all of the Cydia apps/utilities that you make use of and then installing them individually to ensure that there aren’t any problems- some of them likely aren’t updated to be compatible with iOS 4, and by loading them up individually through Cydia you’ll likely be alerted to this.
Due to both of us being out of town over the weekend and travel delays, this week’s episode isn’t going to be recorded until Tuesday night and will likely be up sometime on Wednesday. We’re sorry for the delay! This week’s core topic will be a discussion in response to a reader email about whether the coming changes in 4.0 will eliminate the need for jailbreaking.
3.1.3 Firmware is latest in the game of tennis between Apple and Jailbreakers- but the losers in the game could be those of us who have paid for jailbreak apps that we’d lose forever if Apple succeeds in eliminating Jailbreaking.
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I just wanted to make a quick note that there will be an episode this week, it just got delayed a bit due to my vacation last week. We’ve tried a few things differently as well to hopefully correct a few issues people have pointed out to us, so hopefully it’ll turn out well! So keep an eye out for the new episode, and thanks for listening!
This past week was my annual trek down to Atlanta for a few days vacation visiting my family there followed by Anime Weekend Atlanta. The last time I’d made the drive to Atlanta, I was testing out the then initial-release version of Navigon’s MobileNavigator software. Shortly before it was time to make the trip again, Navigon released a fairly significant update, version 1.2.0, so I got the test it out again on this drive. Read more »
I promised in this week’s Appcast episode that I’d link to the panoramic image that I made using pictures taken with my iPhone and combined into a panorama using AutoStitch ($1.99)- so here it is! I tried putting it into the post itself, but WordPress doesn’t seem to like it- so here’s the link to the picture.
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August 9, 2010 1:10 am | 
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