Here is a good way to improve the battery consumption, speed and memory use on your iPhone 3GS.
If you already disabled spotlight and you are still unhappy with your phone on ios4, the next logical thing would be disable multitasking if you don’t use it.
One way would be to kill apps all the time but if you don’t care for multitasking like me, you can go to cydia and get latest ztoggle and disable things you don’t need.
Now I only have an iPhone 3GS and acre liquid e
I rooted the phone, howto coming up today or tomorrow
I finally got around to install Froyo on my spare iPhone 3G, it’s not as quick as 1.6 android but it’s very usable
See pics below
To get the Mac installer go to www.iphodroid.com
If you are busy with too many things and just happen to have an iPhone and want to post on your wordpress blog then you now have a quick way of doing so.
I have stumbled upon this great app today and made few postings using just the iPhone.
There has to be a faster way.
I have few office documents from a customer and it’s taking forever.
GangsterServer.com is down for redesign and complete rebuilt due to a fuckup. My fuckup to be more precise. I have failed while trying to update wordpress. I have redirected most of traffic here for now
So I’ve iphone 3g laying around for quite a while, the overall shape of it is mint, practically looks unused but after a battery change I suddenly saw the dreaded NO CARRIER symptom.
I’ve spent quite a lot of time on the net trying to figure out what might the issue be and I had a feeling a resistor might have fallen off but I wasn’t sure. Then last night I stumbled upon a website where someone took the time and looked into this issue deeper.
It turns out that I was somewhat right, there was a piece missing, a tiny little inductor which was on the underside of the iphone 3g main-board next to the gsm antenna. I followed the sites instructions and tried soldering the two contacts together omitting the inductor all together.
What did that do?
I now receive 5 bars in the basement where before I could barely even catch Edge, now have full 3G reception.
I find this rather weird, if someone knows why this happens after removing that piece, please shed some light on this topic as I am very intrigued by it.
Now, soldering this piece is difficult if you have hard time working with things this small, I had to improvise a little bit and made my own soldering magnifying glass using a web-cam rigged with a magnifying lens.
For more information please visit the website I got the fix idea from http://www.mauron.net/iphonerepair/
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Purple Haze, Green Haze and Orange Haze
Most of these have cracked apps and hard to find hacks that have been since pulled off main distros in cydia
NOTICE: DON’T USE ROCK TO ADD THESE, THEY ONLY WORK WITH CYDIA
http://repo.beyouriphone.com/
http://apt.pwncenter.com/
http://sinfuliphonerepo.com/
http://cydia.xsellize.com/
http://cydia.install0us.com/
http://cmdshft.ipwn.me/apt/
http://apt.123locker.com/
http://overloadnetwork.com/cydia/
http://iphone.org.hk/apt/
http://clubifone.org/repo/
If you have no clue how to add these to cydia, check out the screenshots below:
Well not really a fix, I thought it will be just like most water damaged Iphones that I can do a quick fix and get it up an running in minutes.
When I was given this phone it looked like it was brand new, not a scratch on the bezel or the back cover or anywhere else, phone will not charge, I looked into the headphone hack and saw white so I assumed that maybe it isn’t so bad, maybe it needs a new battery as it was laying around for nearly year and a half.
Water Damaged Iphone Outside shot 1
Water Damaged Iphone Outside shot 1
As you can see, the phone looks great on the outside, so far the story of it being new when it happened is true.
I start investigating further by checking the outside test strips.
First is the headphone jack, its hard to take a picture of it so excuse the bad quality.
Alright so its white!!! But this still doesn’t give any indication that the phone will fine inside so I check the bottom test strip.
Yes, its pink, first signs of water, it could also be caused by sweat or humidity but lets investigate further. Next I proceed to open up the iphone and look inside and I see this….
Yes, its really corroded, I think and i am in no way an expert btw, the water was left in the phone, got onto the battery, the chemicals out of the battery got out and ate right trough the board. Someone correct me if I am wrong on this one.
Lets continue…..
The bottom test strip on the board itself is pink too so there was quite a bit of water here.
So we continue….
This is the LCD/Digitizer/Top frame assembly, look at this residue, that part is upside down actually so if there is this much on here then I am starting to think there was quite a bit of water in this phone.
Under the board where the battery sits, you can see green that was stripped off somehow and leaked down. I am really curious now how much water there really has been.
As you can see, alot of water got into the phone and it looks like it was left inside and no attempt to dry it out was made. It ended up corroding the main-board around the bottom right of the phone, right where the contacts where underneath.
I cleaned the corrosion and replaced the battery but the phone will just turn on for a split second with the apple logo appearing for that split second and it shuts down as if a hard reset was done to the phone.
I am pretty sure there is more corrosion under the metal pieces that cover the board. I am in no way an expert in electronics, I have fixed numerous iphones some with water damage but never had I come across this type of damage.
If anyone has any idea what else can be done, feel free to contact me and let me know.
- Chris (3gs32g [a-t] gmail.com)
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