There is a huge number of users who facing “Blue Question Mark” when trying to download an app in Installous. Unfortunately mine is working fine so it’s hard to bring a solution for it!

Randy upload the following screen shot on our Facebook Page  showing the blue question mark when he try to download an app!

Any idea about that?

Update: It seems that this is because of heavy load on download provider websites such as Mediafire.

You probably now that iPhone 4S and iPad2 are jailbreakable now! Here I’m not going to teach you to how to jailbreak your iPhone or iPad, because there are several hundreds websites which has the same!!

Instead I want to tell you how you can install Installous to test drive paid apps for free before you actually buy those. creacking Apple app installation mechanism is easy, Thanks to Hackulo.us (Guys behind the Installous). Follow me

1. I assume that your iPhone 4s (and/or iPad2) is already jailbreaked and you can run Cydia!!!
2. Open Cydia
3. Add the hackulo.us repo (http://cydia.hackulo.us)
4. Go to Search, Search “installous” (without quotes)
5. Let Cydia install that for you
6. Reboot, Reboot,Reboot, Reboot,Reboot, Reboot DO NOT FORGET THIS STEP!!! PLEASE

That’s it!

Here is some useful links

• Download iOS 5.0.1 ipsw for iPad 2
• Download 1OS 5.0.1 ipsw for iPhone 4S
• Download iTunes
• Download Greenpois0n Absinthe for Mac (Mirror)

And Also if you have problem with go ahead and read the following

•  Installous Problem Solving On Facebook
•  Installous Errors and Solutions

If you can’t send message via iMessage try the following solution hope it will fix the problem.

1. go to cydia and add repo url for the application SAM (“Subscriber Artificial Module”), google “Subscriber Artificial Module”; you ll find the repo URL
2. install SAM and SAMpref
3. Click ”Revert Lockdownd to Stock” in Settings>SAM (its unactivating your Hacktivation)
4. Go to Settings > SAM and touch “De-Activate iPhone“
5. Connect with iTunes and activate it (ifs there a problem, google SAM homepage or tutorials for further instructions)
6. If you already have “iPusher“ app -> delete it
7. Navigate to Settings » SAM » Utilities » tap on Backup Activation and then tap on Restore Activation label
8. Reboot your iPhone and then sync it with iTunes
9. Install iPusher App
10. Reboot your iPhone and then sync it with iTunes. Make sure your iPhone is connected to a Wifi with an active internet connection
11. Open iPusher app and tap on Test Push Notifications button. If you see a pop-up saying Yay, push notifications work fine! then it means your Push Notifications are working          fine
12. Deactivate iMessage (if its activated)
13. Restart iPhone
14. Activate it, it should work now.

Dev-Team just updated the redsn0w for iOS 5.0. Unfortunately  it does not support iPad2 (Actually does not support A5 Chip) and it’s a tethered jailbreak, means that you should use redsn0w whenever you want to restart your iDevice. I think it’s good for now.

• redsn0w 0.9.9b5 for Mac
• redsn0w 0.9.9b4 for Windows

• A jailbroken iDevice  -How To-
• Cydia (Automatically installed in jailbreaking process)
• WiFi or 3G Internet connection (Faster is better!)
• A PC or MAC
• An iTunes Account -How To to get it without credit card-
  
• Some ipa files (Can be downloaded from apptrackr.org)

The process

1. Open Cydia
2. Add this source: http://cydia.hackulo.us
3. install AppSync for iOS 5.0
4. Restart iDevice
5. Connect iDevice to your PC/Mac by USB-Cable
6. Copy cracked ipa files into your iTunes Library (just drag and drop to the iTunes Window)
7. Tell iTunes to install applications that you want
8. Start Syncing iPhone!
9. enjoy it!

Today while I try to update my iPhone (3GS) to iOS 5.0 beta 1, I get error 3002! fortunately I found that this error only happens when I try to “update” so I try “restore” mode and it works without  any problem!

Stay Tuned!

In several cases, while developing an application,  you have to convert a number (float, integer, double, etc) to a string. You can easily witre down the following codes and the NSString class do the rest for you!

Source code

float yournumber = 123.456;
 
NSString* yourstring = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%f", yournumber];

As you see the above code convert younumber to yourstring using stringWithFormat method of NSString Class.

Here you can find some useful information about string formats.

Enjoy Coding!

As one knows few days ago Apple released an update to iOS 4.3.3 which solve the location tracking issue.

As I mentioned before apple did not fix the bug founded by @i0nic, which brings untether jailbreak to iOS 4.3.3. As I predicted Dev-Team and iH8sn0w update their jailbreaking tools (redsn0w, pwnageTool, and sn0wbreeze) to support this version.

redsn0w 0.9.6 rc15 , pwnageTool 4.3.3, sn0wbreeze 2.7 are the tools you can use for jailbreaking all iDevices (expect iPad2) running iOS 4.3.3 (4.2.8 for Verizon iPhone 4). Download links could be found under our download section.

Ultrasn0w also updated to support this version. You can find it in Cydia.

As before I just put the links to the instructions from other sites instead of duplicating the world. I think it is much more environmental friendly!

redsn0w 0.9.6 rc15

• How To Guide From redmondpie

Sn0wbreeze 2.7

• How To Guide From redmondpie

pwnageTool 4.3.3

• How To Guide From redmondpie

Ultrasn0w 1.2.3 for iOS 4.3.3

• How To Guide From redmondpie

As I noted before newly released iOS 4.3.3 still jailbreakable using @i0nic exploit which used in the latest version of jailbreaking tools (redsn0w, pwnageTool and sn0wbreeze) so users should wait for new version of these tools to support iOS 4.3.3. But there is good news for those who can’t wait for them, using redsn0w 0.9.6 rc14 you can jailbreak your device. You need to have iOS 4.3.2 iPSW (here you can find it). Now just run redsn0w and point it to iOS 4.3.2 (yes it’s correct 4.3.2 ) and enjoy.

An untether jailbreak is now available for iOS 4.3.1. This new method can jailbreak all iOS devices except iPad2 & iPhone4 CMDA (Verizon) model because they have deferent bootrom which not yet hacked. redsn0w, sn0wbreeze and pwnageTool are all updated to support iOS 4.3.1. As you know AppleTV 2G is also supported.

4.3.1 untether exploit comes courtesy of Stefan Esser (@i0n1c on twitter), a security researcher based in Germany. Stefan has a long history of vulnerability research, and ironically his first contribution to the iPhone jailbreak community was improved security — last year he beat Apple to the punch and implemented ASLR for jailbroken iPhones with his “antid0te” framework. We’re happy to see that Stefan then turned his iPhone attention over to an untethered jailbreak exploit!

The 4.3.1 untether works on all devices that actually support 4.3.1 except for the iPad2:

iPhone3GS
iPhone4 (GSM)
iPod touch 3G
iPod touch 4G
iPad1
AppleTV 2G (PwnageTool only for now)
The reason the untether won’t work as-is on the iPad2 is that it requires a bootrom or iBoot-level exploit to install, and the iPad2 is not susceptible to either the limera1n or SHAtter bootrom exploits.

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