Weekly Jailbreak Update : February 1st, 2010

[nickhesson]

In an effort to bring our readers more frequent news on Jailbroken Apps and Updates available in Rock and Cydia, we bring you a new weekly featured article. There are so many updates each day it's hard to keep up sometimes. Especially if you haven't logged in for some time! We'll go over some new apps, if there are any that day, and any new updates available in the repos that are noteworthy. Another option is to use Rock's built in filtering for What's New.

For our first segment, heres whats on the radar for tonight. There are some additional updates to be added tonight, so this might get updated

New Apps

iShakeLock
iShakeLock is a simple mobile substrate extension which locks or unlocks your iPhone by utilizing the shaking gesture. Unfortunately this seems very "beta", which would make sense from the version number. A few users have reported the tweak to not be functional at all on some iDevices. The tweak seems to lose function if the phone sleeps for more than 5 seconds. Use this one at your discretion.

gpsSMS
gpsSMS is a simple application that will grab your GPS coordinates and let you test them to any number you wish. This one works just as it states. Although I didn't have much use for it, the description makes it sound a little creepy and the logic really doesn't make sense. I could only guess that you need to send GPS coordinates to someone who has an actual gps unit to plug in manually or something.

"Ever been in the situation when you were lost during your car trip with no map or naviation at hand? Let your friends help you. Send them SMS with GPS Coordinates and they will tell you directions. East-to-use applications. Automatically determines your location. You just need to select a phone number from your iPhone address book and touch "Send""

Also check out heyWAY or echoECHO or G.maps or TOMtom.

Cerebro
Cerebro is an app similar to MobileMe's "Find My iPhone" service, or like Cylay's current service. The biggest difference here is that the service is FREE. Once you've installed the app, you will get a popup to allow Cerebro to use location services. Upon opening the app it will ask you to enter credentials, register and will inform you that you can track your iphone at iFindMyiPhone.com. Although it's interface is not very attractive, the service works... kind of. There are additional features once you log in, such as history, sending messages, etc. Not sure how safe this one is in terms of privacy, but again, use at your discretion.


Noteworthy Updates

RockApp 2.20.9
-Internationalization Support
-Unicode Support
-Performance Enhancements
-Major Fixes for Independent Repo Support
-Additional support for 3rd party app liscensing
-License Central
-More Options for Developers

LockInfo 2.0.1-3
-Added full screen option which will let LockInfo use the entire lockscreen. Swipe left to right at the bottom to unlock (as if there was a slider there)
-Fixed crashes in the LockInfo Mail and Calendar settings
-Added switch to hide delete/mark as read buttons
-Added animations for unlocking
-No longer requires a respring for new plugins
-Reworked homescreen logic to hopefully fix the last issues with extra pages
-Added override switch for Calendar alerts to show them even if popups are blocked
-Reformatted settings pages

Activator 1.2
-Support for activating regular applications
-New events
-Built-in system actions
-Safe to generate evens cross-application
-Cached Settings
-Grouped Actions
-Italian Localization
-Bugfixes

Firewall iP
- added Global allow/deny to the popup
- changed *host/*.host to *domain/*.domain (request from users)

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[KartRacer]

Speaking of jailbreak, is anyone else scared of the new OS and new devices really screwing up jailbreaking? We've gone a long time between OS updates and that gives them lots of time to close potential loopholes.

gpsSMS seems like a really weird app. If you can get your coordinates, AND a data connection to text someone, why would you need them to send you directions? Seems a little out of place. Can someone explain to me why you'd need this?

[Fodd1337]

Woah! I must have missed the activator update! YES, App store activation was a MUST! Thanks Nick!

Speaking of jailbreak, is anyone else scared of the new OS and new devices really screwing up jailbreaking? We've gone a long time between OS updates and that gives them lots of time to close potential loopholes.

gpsSMS seems like a really weird app. If you can get your coordinates, AND a data connection to text someone, why would you need them to send you directions? Seems a little out of place. Can someone explain to me why you'd need this?

The fact that they got MS working on an iPad sim leads me to believe that they aren't working that hard to block jailbreaking...

[k.nitsua]

Total newb question... What is activator?

[nickhesson]

Total newb question... What is activator?

It was introduced with ProSwitcher. It is a common library for activating apps via gestures, buttons and shortcuts. Such as double tapping the Home button to bring up ProSwitcher.

[tudtran]

I like this weekly Jailbreak Update. iShakeLock is awesome.

[Fodd1337]

I could see iShakeLock as a hassle if you are jogging or using your iDevice in a turbulent evironment. And frankly, it seems like a helluva lot more work than just clicking a button

[Windmeel]

It was introduced with ProSwitcher. It is . a common library for activating apps via gestures, buttons and shortcuts. Such as double tapping the Home button to bring up ProSwitcher.

Not to mention that it is AWESOME. Especially this new update. Petrich is the man

[Bernie-Mac]

What about news for an untethered 3GS jailbreak?

[HDoan112]

i could see how gpsSMS would come in handy... say you're at a party one of your friends drove you to, and you didn't really pay attention to how you got there, and you wanna invite someone else, you could just use gpsSMS instead of asking for directions or an addy....... but idk how coordinates work... so it would be awesome if it did the address of where you currently are

[stevele823]

Hey can any1 tell me if I need a app to download videos from websites to my iPhone. I am on the tmobile edge network.

[k.nitsua]

Cerebro sounds like a nice alternative to MobileMe. However, I find Longitude and Google Latitude to be the best approach at tracking your iPhone.

[Fodd1337]

What about news for an untethered 3GS jailbreak?[/B]

Obviously there isn't any

[NakedFaerie]

gpsSMS
gpsSMS is a simple application that will grab your GPS coordinates and let you test them to any number you wish. This one works just as it states. Although I didn't have much use for it, the description makes it sound a little creepy and the logic really doesn't make sense. I could only guess that you need to send GPS coordinates to someone who has an actual gps unit to plug in manually or something.
[URL="http://modmyi.com/cydia/package.php?id=17359"]

Whats the use of this? If you were lost with an iphone then why dont u just use maps to tell you where you are...
Some of these iphone apps are totally pointless and stupid. :P

[toyotag]

I loaded CEREBRO yesterday & already removed; it really drained my battery.

[corkey20000]

I loaded CEREBRO yesterday & already removed; it really drained my battery.

errrr :/ I was afraid of that happening

[confucious]

In an effort to bring our readers more frequent news on Jailbroken Apps and Updates available in Rock and Cydia

Nice to see Cydia actually gets a mention.

I guess MMi wants more questions such as ' Why does my iPhone not work' so encourages people to install Rock.

I prefer my phone to work so will stick to Cydia thank you.

[bigboom193]

Why am I and others getting the "host unreachable" error for the modmyi source?

[wiltok]

Is Activator downloaded as part of Proswitcher? I downloaded Proswitcher but removed it. I still have Activator and just enabled it. It's awesome. I still can't figure out where I got Activator from....

[Mes]

....I still can't figure out where I got Activator from....

Installed with ProSwitcher.