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Hacktivated iPhone? Push Notifications Fixed!
Feb 22nd
For as long as I’ve had my iPhone, I have been without Push Notifications. Reason being, I’ve jailbroken and software unlocked my iPhone so I can use it on a different carrier than the one the phone was originally purchased on. Push notifications hasn’t been something I’ve needed, but it’s been something that I’ve wanted a good, solid, reliable solution for. If you’ve jailbroken your phone, but you’re with the same carrier your phone is locked to, you’re unaffected by this issue. Only those that have had to unlock their phones have struggled with this.
The popular search results on the interwebs site the iphoneil.net repository as the fix. While that might have worked for a select few in the beginning when they first launches their solution, the theory behind their resolution was flawed. The keys used for the iphoneil fix were shared, so it was quite common to get other people’s push notifications on your phone, or not get them at all cause they were delivered to someone else.
Pushfix.info has the ultimate remedy. Although it’s not free, the $6 price tag is well worth it to get this feature working again. If submit your payment by Paypal or credit card, it will only take about 5 mins to get the feature working, and process is dead simple.
Provide your phone’s IMEI# on the purchase page, and submit your payment. This info is required to generate unique push keys for your phone. After your payment is submitted, add http://cydia.pushfix.info to your Cydia repositories. Next, search for and install the PushFix package and all its dependencies. Be sure you’re installing the package from the pushfix repository. A PushFix application will get installed on your Springboard. Launch this app and send a test push notification. You should receive a reply shortly informing you that push is now working. And you’re done!
Any additional info you may need regarding the product or how to install it is available on the creator’s main website, or in their detailed post on how to install the product.
My YouTube access broke after installing this fix, however, unlike push notifications, YouTube does not require unique keys. The PushFix creator has provided 3 working keys that are available in the pushfix repository under YouTube Fix. Simply add one of them (not all 3) to get access to YouTube back.
If your GPS stops working after installing PushFix, turn off Location Services, shut down the phone, wait 10 secs, and power on the power again. After it’s back at the home screen for bout 30 secs, turn on Locations Services and then retest your GPS app.
WARNING!! YOU MAY LOOSE PRODUCTIVITY FROM FIXING PUSH NOTIFICATIONS!!! As a consequence of having push on my phone now, my free time has been spent playing Words With Friends… Damn you addicting social games!!
Motorola Milestone on TELUS
Feb 17th
Canada finally has their version of the DROID. The Motorola Milestone has launched on TELUS’s 3G+ network, giving us north of the boarder official access to an Android 2.0 device (that also comes with a full keyboard). The Milestone is the GSM/HSDPA version of Verison’s DROID. Most reviews of the DROID say the tactile keyboard isn’t the greatest, but it you refuse to use on-screen keyboards and want a fast Android smart phone, this is definitely the one you want.
You can grab yours for $199 on a 3yr contract, or $599 buy out. Motorola is also offering a free car mount kit for use with Google’s kick ass turn-by-turn GPS application that comes with Android 2.0.
Palm’s WebOS – I’ll to do everything for you
May 8th
A friend of mine has been watching Palm Pre news just as closely as I have. He sent me this exerpt today, but he unfortunately did not have a source for the info, so take this at face value.
“Roger McNamee of Elevation Partners, who invested 20 percent of his private equity fund in Palm, has revealed some pretty cool new location aware features that come as standard with the Pre.
The first thing he mentioned is that it “does stuff for you,” which in this case he used the calendar as an example; McNamee said that when you wake up in the morning, it will have already had a look at your calendar and downloaded things such as maps and Wikipedia entries for the people, places and organisations you are going to visit for the whole day, all in advance without you having to do anything other than turn the setting on. Wow, pretty cool, right?
It gets better!
It knows when you are going to be late. No, seriously. Using the Pre’s GPS, Clock and Calendar functionality, the device will check the calendar to see where you are supposed to be and at what time – it will then check where you actually are (i.e, 5 miles away from where you are supposed to be) and then warn you that you are going to be late, calculate roughly how late you are going to be, and email all of the involved parties to let them know you’ll be however minutes late. Awesomeness.”
Giggity Giggity.
If anyone knows the source of the above, please let me know. Thanks!
Palm Pre coming to Canada
May 6th
Info has been released on Palm’s blog site which announces that the Palm Pre will be coming to Canada, with Bell Mobility being the first announced provider, during the 2nd half of 2009. No official release dates has been announced. Thanks to Engaget for picking up on this story.
While I’ve awarded TELUS my business for the past year and half for being the first to pioneer unlimited data plans in Canada, this sexy phone should be one worth switching carriers for.
