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iPhone Hacks
To apply any of the hacks in this page you must modify or jailbreak your iPhone. You know if your iPhone is jailbroken by verifying that you have Cydia installed on your home screen of your iPhone. Moreover, you will know if you have a tethered jailbreak or untethered jailbreak when you reboot your iPhone. If you must connect your iPhone to PC or Mac every time after you reboot, then you have a tethered jailbreak, if not, then you have an untethered jailbreak. The iPhone is a powerful mini computer, but because of some restrictions applied by Apple, and the phone carrier many powerful features are disabled. Although jailbreaking is becoming more difficult with iOS 5 and the Apple A5 CPU which is used on iPhone 4S, and iPad 2, it is still possible to jailbreak iPhone 4, and iPhone 3GS and use all the tools in this page until an iPhone 4S jailbreak comes out.
These tweaks and hacks are completely software driven. There is no hardware modification involved. Most iPhone hacks don't happen by running applications. However, they are system level tweaks and tricks that could enable or enhance a feature in the iPhone software that allows other applications to take advantage of it. Most of those hacks don't have an iPhone icon after they are installed. You won't know that they are installed until you run an iPhone application that use them. There are so many hacks for the iPhone that I won't be able to cover them all in this page. I will however, cover the best ones, and the ones I personally use the most. Also look at the iPhone tips and tricks section of this website to learn more about other iPhone system tricks. 3G Unrestrictor is a hack that tricks your iPhone 3G or EDGE network into thinking it is wifi. This allows you to make iPhone VOIP (Voice Over IP) phone calls and save your monthly minutes. You can use FaceTime over 3G network instead of wifi only. iPhone Tethering is a hack that allows you to share your internet connection from your carrier with other external devices such as a laptop, iPod touch or an iPad. So your iPhone will work as a wireless modem or a moveable hot spot. MyWi is an iPhone tether application that allows you to do that with ease. Unlocking an iPhone is one of the most popular modification. It allows you to use your iPhone with any carrier. iPhone unlocking allows you to use any SIM card carrier. You won’t be restricted to use AT&T in the US with your iPhone if you unlock it. There are many paid and free iPhone unlocking software available on line. iPhone widgets are mini applications that run as a second layer on top of any currently running iPhone application. With CrazyDashboard, you can run Mac widgets on the iPhone. Moreover, with iOS 5 new notification center, iPhone widgets have a bright and exciting future.
Backgrounder is my most important hack which allows the iPhone to truly multitask. This means that when you press the home button, the app doesn't actually quit, but it is minimized. It is like minimizing an application in your Mac or PC. The app will stay running in the background. Multitasking became a native feature starting with the iOS 4. However, I still use Backgrounder multitasking and love it more than the native iOS 4 multitasking that came with the iPhone 4.
Moreover, you can quit any of the running applications by tapping the x next to the running app. This iPhone hack has an icon, and has the option to create a list of favorite apps for quick start right in Kirikae. Unfortunately Kirikae is not supported on the iPhone 4 and iOS 4. However, another hack that does the same thing but much better is called Multiflow.
It uses some of the storage memory as ram which improves performance and allows you run more applications at the same time. As you tap the "FREE UP MEMORY" button available in Sbsettings under Processes, more memory will become available. Fortunately, one of the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S features are the increase in physical ram to 512MB that there is no need to use such hack any more on those newer iPhones.
With those iPhone icons hacks you can squeeze more icons on a single home screen and have quicker access to more apps in one page. mQuickDo is a cool hack that allows you to fully control your iPhone by touch actions or gestures. You can power down, restart, open and close apps all with gestures. You can assign any application to different touch action or gesture. For example, you can assign a long slide at the bottom from left to right to open Multiflow to see all running apps. This hack is specially useful to protect your home screen button from physical wear. Inspell is an amazing little hack that adds a spell checker to anything you type on your iPhone. Just double tap on the incorrect word, and you get a list of several corrections to pick from. iOS 5 included similar features like this one such as word definition.
Action Menu allows you to add more options and features in the iPhone contextual menu. One of the features is called Favorites, which allows you to copy several words or sentences in a clip board that is stored in the iPhone memory. Then you can paste any of the words or sentences selected from the clip board at anytime in any iPhone application. You can create a list of your favorite words, or phrases that you use a lot so that you don't have to type them every time you need to enter them. Action Menu Plus Pack is the full version of this iPhone hack which is available in Cydia and cost $2.99.
iPhone Video Out is a hack that allows you to mirror your iPhone screen to your TV by connecting an iPhone Video out Cable to your iPhone and your TV. The iPhone can by default display photos and videos to a connected TV through an iPhone video cable or an iPhone HDMI cable. However, with this iPhone video out hack, you will be able to mirror the whole iPhone screen to your TV. iOS5 has a great feature called Air Play Mirror which allows you to do the exact same thing without wires!. However, Air Play mirror is only supported on iPhone 4S, and iPad 2 and requires an Apple TV to be connected to your HDTV.
Frash is an iPhone port of flash from Android. It allows you to run most flash contents with Mobile Safari. It is easy to install through Cydia and is free. It is available for iPad, iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4. Although many flash contents can be displayed with no problems including games and video animations, video is still not supported. Frash is an iPhone hack that could be installed manually using the iPhone deb file install procedure or directly through Cydia. Visit the iPhone deb file page to learn how to install deb files manually.
iPhone emulators are my favorite iPhone hacks that allow you to run other Operating systems on the iPhone. You can run applications and games from other devices or game consoles. For example, you can run Nintendo and Sega games on your iPhone. Or you can run Palm OS applications. Moreover, an Android emulator will be coming soon that allows you to dual boot your iPhone in either iPhone OS or Android OS. Visit the iPhone emulators page to see a big list of available emulators for the iPhone.
iPhone Folders hacks were introduced after the iPhone 4 release with iOS4 feature called Folders. iPhone folders allow you to categories your iPhone icons to folders. Many iPhone hacks like FolderEnhancer are now available in Cydia that enhance and improve the performance of Folder for iOS 4 and above. iPhone Safari Hacks are little iPhone tricks that allow your default mobile safari browser to have more feature and improved performance. You can add full screen browsing, and many gestures that make iPhone safari the best mobile browser on the iPhone compared to other third party iPhone browsers on the App Store. One of the most useful iPhone hack for SMS text messages is called SMS GV Extension. This hack allows you to use the Google Voice service to send and receive free MMS and SMS text messages. First, you need to sign up for Google Voice for free, and then install SMS GV Extension from Cydia for $2.99. Then, enter your username and password in the SMS GV Extension settings.
Combine this iPhone hack with biteSMS and you get the most powerful and advanced SMS text message system on the iPhone and iPhone 4. The iPhone comes with a camera flash to improve pictures taken at night with the iPhone camera. This hack allows you to use the iPhone camera flash as a useful flash light that can be turned on at any time by pressing some buttons.
GPS iPhone Hack:
You will be able to use Navigon, TomTom, Sygic, iGO MyWay or any other iPhone GPS application that you buy from the App Store as an alternative to the default Google Map application. Then you will be able to get voice notifications and turn by turn support using your paid GPS application any where in the world. This iPhone hack will add a button in Google Map that will send your directions to any installed iPhone GPS application on your iPhone. Navigon is installed in the example on the right.
iPhone Photo Hacks:
For example, an iPhone photo hack called PhotoAlbum+ give you the ability to organize your camera roll pictures into photo albums. This is something that is not possible with the default iPhone photo application. Another iPhone hack is called iSocialShare allows picture and video sharing on Facebook, Twitter, or Tumblr. The cool thing about this iPhone photo hack is that it adds the sharing feature right in the iPhone photo application. Activator:
For example, you can assign a system action or a task to your sleep button, so when you press and hold the sleep button, you restart your iPhone. You can also start an iPhone application by double tapping the status bar. Activator can communicate with other iPhone hacks from Cydia. For example you can assign the volume button to turn on the iPhone flash light which is originally designed for the iPhone camera. The possibilities are endless. Visit the Activator page to learn about all the possible tasks, and how to assign them to tens of possible gestures.
iFile:
You can use iFile to play unsupported iPhone video formats, and to open any file you downloaded directly to your iPhone. You can Move, Copy or delete files from any directory in the iPhone file system.
iPhone Customization:Using a combination of some iPhone hacks you can customize almost anything displayed on your iPhone screen. You can change the iPhone icons arrangement with GridLOck, or select and move multiple icons at the same time for faster arrangement using Multi Icon Mover. Moreover, MultiFlow allows you to see all open applications in a Mac Expose style. iPhone widgets allows you to access little applications anywhere on your iPhone without closing any running application and much more. Visit the iPhone customization page to learn more.
Siri Hacks:
Siri is the intelligent assistant that comes with the iPhone 4S, and can understand what you say. Then, she look for an answer to your question either from your iPhone information, or from the internet. Several Siri hacks are now available in Cydia that allows you to add several functions and commands to Siri. For example, you can control your iPhone settings with voice. You can open apps, and even have Siri listen to you all the time so you don't have to press the home button to activate it. You can tweet, or translate from one language to another all with voice using some great Siri Hacks. Return From iPhone Hacks To Home of iPhone Tips and Advice
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