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Here is the question that haunts many users struggling with the infamous iPhone, to unlock (jailbreak) or not?
What are actually the advantages and disadvantages of this choice?

I do not want to dwell here in explaining what is ascertained in the operation of jailbreak, but I want to list only briefly, from my point of view, the advantages and disadvantages of such a choice.

Benefits

• Add Cydia (an alternative to the App store)
• Access via SSH to the device (use the iPhone as a hard disk drive into which you can load the files via ssh fact)
• SBSettings (Cydia) that would set quick set menus for frequently used functions (on / off services such as wifi, bluetooth, 3G, etc ...)
• Ability to synchronize applications (IPA) downloaded from the internet via iTunes (the operation is legal, so is everyone the choice to operate more or less legally with your device)
• Clear the blockage bluetooth for data transfer via the upcoming release of iBlueNove (ex iBluetooth) of MeDevil
• Put a firewall (blacklist) for the management of calls / sms / mms incoming
• Add useful features to native applications such as SMS Helper (displays a count of characters entered in the process of writing a SMS)
• Change the 'APN of your phone provider to not run into unwanted charges on its rechargeable

Disadvantages

• For 3Gs with new iBoot, inability to restart the iPhone without having to jailbreak again using blackra1n
• Reduction of battery performance (but not too wisely if you use additional services such as SSH, etc ...)
• I can not think of much more ...

You aggiungereste something else to the list?

After a bit 'of attempts are finally managed to acquire a satisfactory solution that emulates the Mobile Me service from Apple.

Tools and services required:

• Mac OSX 10.5.3 or higher
• iPhone 2G, 3G or 3GS with firmware 2.2 or higher
• Account Gmail
• Account Nuevasync
• Lingon
• Yahoo! account (for push email)
• Calaboration

Email
From the Gmail webmail set the option to forward a copy to a Yahoo! account (previously created) to take advantage of push notifications Yahoo! email on the iPhone!

On the iPhone, therefore, set your own account to Gmail and Yahoo! to be notified of the mail in real time.

Calendar and Contacts
Register on nuevasync and follow the correct instructions to configure the iPhone.

At this point you just have to say Addressbook and iCal to sync with their Google services: Gmail Contacts and Google Calendar.

For iCal can rely on the ease of use of Calaboration made ​​available by Google itself.

For Addressbook instead we have to rely to a little trickery. Enable AddressBook (Address Book) to your Mac to sync to your Gmail address book by its preferences:

Install Lingon and start it and enter a new agent (by clicking the + button) called such com.google.synccontact that will run the following command:

/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/GoogleContactSync.framework/Versions/A/Resources/gconsync --sync com.google.ContactSync

every 5 minutes (or it is possible to indicate at will the time interval for synchronization between Addressbook and Google Contacts).

Also as you can see from the image I added the "Run if this file is modified" by inserting a path:

~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/AddressBook-v22.abcddb (check the name of the file on your computer)

Now Mac, iPhone and Google are perfectly aligned and synchronized automatically in style OTA (Over The Air)! :-)

After you set up Google Sync on the iPhone I proceeded to sync your Google Calendar already synchronized on my Macbook Pro via CalDev. That way I can finally get synchronized Over The Air (OTA) my calendars between iPhone, Mac and Google.

However, after you have everything configured correctly I noticed an annoying problem: the iPhone does not incorporate the same colors of the different calendars in Google Calendar.

Armed with patience, a good search engine and time I am across an interesting article by Chris Carey .

Requirements:

• iPhone 2.x or higher (also tested on 3.0)
• Jailbreak carried out on the device
• OpenSSH and sqlite3 on the device
• a bit 'of familiarity with the terminal

1) First thing to do once you enter via SSH iPhone, you just install sqlite3 if it is still present:

apt-get install sqlite3

2) We continue with:

$ cd /var/mobile/Library/Calendar
$ sqlite3 Calendar.sqlitedb

3) and then ...

sqlite> select title, color_r, color_g, color_b from Calendar; -- List calendars and current colors

4) It should return a message like this (with the names of the different calendars):

Default|-1|-1|-1
Personal |181|0|13
Work |229|98|0
Birthdays-Alarms |15|77|140
Birthdays |229|23|23

5) At this point we just through sqlite3 telling him to change color to the calendars you want:

sqlite> update Calendar set color_r= 15 , color_g= 77 , color_b= 140 where title = ' Personal '; -- Blue
sqlite> update Calendar set color_r= 47 , color_g= 141 , color_b= 0 where title = ' Work '; -- Green
sqlite> update Calendar set color_r= 181 , color_g= 0 , color_b= 13 where title = ' Birthdays-Alarms '; -- Red
sqlite> update Calendar set color_r= 181 , color_g= 0 , color_b= 13 where title = ' Birthdays '; -- Red

6) Let's get out finally by typing sqlite3 ...

sqlite> .quit
$ exit

That's it! Now I put my colors as you can see:

Finally I leave here the RGB values ​​of the standard colors of the iPhone:

Red = (181,0,13) = Red
Orange = (229,98,0) = Orange
Green = (47,141,0) = Green
Blue = (15,77,140) = Blue
Purple = (103,10,108) = Purple

Good hack at all!

Ps: always remember to make a backup before you touch the file in SSH.
Pps: it is taken for granted knowledge of metodologies to jailbreak and use of basic unix commands.

At first it was locked ... then came Zibri and the DevTeam firmware 1.x
With the 2.0 again everything was locked ... and the DevTeam also acted on firmware 2.x

In the meantime, many applications were developed to enhance the jewel Apple held back too much from Cupertino!

They were (I mention only a few):

• BossPrefs with SSH and deactivation of EDGE and more
• iRealSMS to manage individually SMS
• Cycorder to record video
• iBlacklist to filter incoming calls and SMS
• Modem for tethering
• SwirlyMMS for receiving and sending MMS

and finally ... just yesterday the iPhone is also able to receive and send files via Bluetooth to MeDevil with iBluetooth!
Application to the modest sum of € 3.99 (the cost well motivated by the same author) working only on iPhone with firmware 2.1 or higher and jailbreakati.

I can only leave you with images that speak more than words:

I was definitely sick of this key Voicemail: whenever he prefixed by accident, I saw myself climbing the credit.

The Voicemail button is nothing more than a quick link to call the voice mail of your phone number. However when I forget for any reason to lock the keypad to exit the menu or the call, I always run the risk of touching the screen at that point by doing one (inutilissima in my case) call to voice mail.

Armed with SSH and patience I run this little hack to change the number that is called at the touch of that fateful button.

I state that Vodafone and use that to do this you must have:

• jailbroken iPhone 2G or 3G
• 2.2 firmware installed (maybe the procedure is the same / similar with previous versions)
• sFTP client (eg Cyberduck or Transmit )
• Editor. Plist file (eg TextWrangler )

The second premise is that this article does not explain, nor do I intend to do, how to jailbreak an iPhone or how to use an SFTP client and therefore its input parameters. There are hundreds of great guides that show how to perform these procedures on both Mac and Windows and other OS.

The steps to perform are:

1. Enter via sFTP on the iPhone
2. Surfing on your sFTP client to the folder / System / Library / Carrier Bundles / Vodafone_it.bundle
3. Edit the file carrier.plist with TextWrangler (it is always good to make a backup copy of the original)
4. Save the file and reboot the iPhone

Just replace the lines 28 and 67 on the voicemail number 42020 with the one you want (in my case I added 404 which makes me receive an SMS with the remaining balance)

And finally I attach images of the operation:

Good hack at all!