iOS 4.3 users report subpar battery performance

iOS 4.3 brought enhanced AirPlay, a speedier Safari, iTunes Home Sharing, and more to iOS device users, but it appears that iOS 4.3 has brought another thing, a seemingly negative one: subpar battery life. A number of readers have written in to less us know that since upgrading to iOS 4.3 their battery life has been “drastically” worse. One report to us claims random battery life drops in 15-20% increments.

Installed iOS 4.3 on my iPhone 4 and also have it on my iPad 2 and I am noticing drastic battery loss. Sometimes will even randomly drop 15-20%.

This battery life bug in iOS 4.3 could come as a natural bug in the operating system, or could be related to some of the new features present in the latest system upgrade. It is possible that the faster rendering in iOS Safari uses more processing power, furthermore battery life. Another possibility could be the new Ping push notification feature, which runs in the background.

CDMA iPhone 4 makes its way to Cricket through Jailbreak

As any astute follower of the “pay-as-you-go” world knows, there are quite a few back alley Cricket dealers (and quite a few main street ones as well) that will happily flash any phone you give them for use on their network — and not even Verizon’s CDMA iPhone is immune. Ready to jump ship from “America’s largest?” Of course, you’ll have to jailbreak, install some third party MMS software, and trust some random dude at the Cricket store with your precious smartphone. We’re not saying it’s wise, but it is possible, as the video below attests

iPhone Unlockers DON'T use GreenPoison at the moment

Ok so an untethered Jailbreak is officially out by Chronic Dev wildly know for us as Greenpoison we used it for as one of the jailbreaks available for 4.1 iOS version, and now it is out for 4.2.1, it was long awaited.

Take notice that Greenpoison will only jailbreak your phone but will not aid in unlocking it to be used by the carrier of choice, as this part is done by UltraSnow, so for all of you depending on UltraSnow for carrier unlock out there at the moment stay away from using Greenpoison as your jailbreaking tool as it requires to use the official firmware by apple then use Greenposion to jailbreak, which in return will update the baseband to the latest released by apple, which are NOT yet supported by ultrasnow.

Greenpoison iOS 4.2.1 Jailbreak is out

p0sixninja, the key figure behind Greenpoin Jailbreak Tool has just posted on his twitter account that he is working on a permanent untethered jailbreak for iOS 4.2.1 on all idevices i.e., iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 3G, iPad, iPod Touch 4G, iPod Touch 3G. However, he didn’t disclose what type of exploit he was working on/using for this permanent untethered jailbreak.

Few hours ago MuscleNerd also confirmed that he had achieved untethered jailbreak on iOS 4.2.1 using iOS 4.2 Beta 3

 

iBooks 1.2 Configuration problem while opening books

Ok so here is the latest of the issues that I have faced since updating the iBooks on my iPhone to 1.2, ok I know it is so damn slow, anyways as you can see in the image below each time I try to open a book I get this msg:

"There is a problem with the configuration of your iPhone. Please restore with iTunes and reinstall iBooks."

How To: Install new Cydia on your iOS device without the need to upgrade to 4.2.1

Cydia update has now arrived by saurik and his helper chpwn to version 1.0.3366-1 for all iOS iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. The new Cydia is more faster and lots of bugs fixed, iPhone Dev Team has already used cydia with new version of Redsn0w 0.9.6b4 on iOS 4.2.1. if you need Cydia 1.0.3366-1 on your iOS 4.1 or older version you can update it by following below guide.

DOWNGRADE BASEBAND 06.15.00 ON IPHONE 3GS / 3G

Yeterday, @MuscleNerd confirmed that he has got a “backup” method of making jailbreak untethered on iOS 4.2.1. This new method utilizes iOS 4.2b3 (Beta 3) SHSH blobs which Cydia only recently started saving for all iOS devices.


And in a reply to Twitter users @Lezanz and @idansc, @MuscleNerd also confirmed that the IPhone Dev Team is working on a method to downgrade 06.15.00 baseband back to 05.15.xx so that iPhone 3GS and 3G users who upgraded to iPad’s 06.15 for iOS 4.1 / 4.2.1 unlock can restore to the stock iOS firmware.