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

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.

COMEX CONFIRMS IOS 4.2.1 UNTETHERED JAILBREAK RELEASE BEFORE CHRISTMAS 2010

Comex of Spirit and JailbreakMe fame has confirmed that a more efficient userland-based untethered jailbreak method for iOS 4.2.1 will be released before Christmas 2010. This confirmation in fact came before MuscleNerd got abackup method to make jailbreak untethered on iOS 4.2.1.

Cannot connect to iTunes store while trying to update an app

Ok today's fix is faced by a lot of people on all iDevices (iPhone, iPad, and iPod) this problem occurs sometimes when you try to update an app through the app store and although you enter the correct credentials still you get this problem.

Misconceptions:
1- That this problem is caused by carrier restrictions.
2- That this problem is caused by 3G or WiFi.
3- That this problem is caused by the latest update or backup you made.
4- That this problem is caused by the jailbreak or unlock.

iPhone OS Battery Drainage Problem Fixes Cont.

Ok as promised I will be writing about other possible solutions for the iPhone battery drainage problem and how to fix it these possible solutions the I will list below after the break are usable on both the Jailbroken iPhones as well as the official non-jailbroken iPhones.

To make things clearer these methods also apply to hacktivated iPhones that weren't fixed in my previous post about how to solve the battery drainage issue in iPhones, so if you tried my previous solution and have a hactivated iPhone and still facing the battery drainage problem you should also think about trying below solutions before giving up.

Methods in solving battery drainage issue with iOS 4.x updates:

iPhone OS Battery Drainage Problem Fixes (updated)

So here it is the fix for the battery draining of iOS 4.x on all the updated devices, this problem is being faced by a lot of iOS users out there specially iPhone users 3G, 3GS, and 4, mostly the ones with jailbroken and hactivated phones to run the iOS. from its symptoms also the extra heat sensed from the iPhone.

Misconceptions:

1. Ultrasnow update is causing it
2. Something is wrong either with pwantool, or redsnow.
3. The update firmware is causing it. (AKA Apple)
4. AT&T or the Carrier is ripping you off.

It is neither of these, after investigating the issue for so long and facing it personally I found a tiny thing that lead me to pinpointing the problem.

The Problem Cause: