The iPhone Dev-Team has issued an update to the UltraSn0w unlock which fixes the disappearing carrier name issue. 

UltraSn0w .92 was posted by MuscleNerd and uses an extra 10 lines of code to fix the carrier name. It is available on the normal repo666.ultrasn0w.com Cydia repository. 

Remember to use UltraSn0w you must be on the 04.26.08 baseband. 

The carrier fix has been confirmed for:

USA, Thailand, Austria, Trinidad, Germany, China, Kuwait, Serbia, Poland, France, Nigeria, Egypt, Pakistan, Ireland, UK, Turkey, Sweden, Switzerland, Malaysia, Hungary, The Netherlands, Bahamas, Jamaica, India, Israel, Belgium, Canada, Portugal.

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Apple on Thursday released an update to the iPhone OS, bringing it to version 3.1.2. The minor update reportedly fixes a handful of issues with the software. 

According to Apple, the update — which applies to the iPhone, iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS — has the following improvements: 

• Resolves sporadic issue that may cause iPhone to not wake from sleep
• Resolves intermittent issue that may interrupt cellular network services until restart
• Fixes bug that could cause occasional crash during video streaming

The update, which weighs in at over 200MB, can be downloaded through iTunes. A corresponding update for the iPod touch was also released. 

A month ago, Apple released iPhone OS 3.1, which debuted a number of new features, including a Genius recommendation system for software in the App Store. It also added ringtones from record labels, directly into the iTunes application on the phone. 

Of course the iPhone Dev Team has to have their say on 3.1.2…

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Yesterday, the Dev-Team tweeted about their concern with the release of Snow Leopard and jailbreaking. They said,

“If you get both Snow Leopard & iPhone on Fri, easiest to jailbreak 1st, update to Snow 2nd  Til any kinks are worked out.”

However, a little later they tweeted,

“Lots of tweets that redsn0w and PwnageTool work great on Snow Leopard, so *should* be kink-free Friday! Thanks twitterers!”

So, if you are getting (or got) Snow Leopard today, you should be good to go.

(via AppleiPhoneSchool.com)

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A new version of Facebook for iPhone OS 3.0 is available now with many new features and improvements. 

The App Store description still contains information for version 2.5; however, the actual download is now version 3.0. I simply deleted my previous Facebook app from Applications then redownloaded it to update to the new version. 

So Whats New in This Update? 
1. The “new” News Feed 
2. Like 
3. Events (including the ability to RSVP) 
4. Notes 
5. Pages 
6. Create new photo albums 
7. Upload photos to any album 
8. Zoom into photos 
9. Easier photo tagging 
10. Profile Pictures albums 
11. A new home screen for easy access to all your stuff, search, and notifications 
12. Add your favorite profiles and pages to the home screen 
13. Better Notifications (they link to the comments so you can reply) 
14. Quickly call or text people right from the Friends page 
15. Messages you are typing will be restored if you quit or are interrupted by a phone call 
16. Video uploads for the 3GS 

one feature they don’t seem to mention is the mini-browser (like IM+) where you click links & it now loads in the Facebook app vs closing it & launching Safari in the previous version

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It looks like version 0.9 of ultrasn0w fixed up the vast majority of any problems people were seeing with the 3G/3GS carrier unlock. But here’s a brief list of fixes for anyone still seeing problems: 

* Unusual battery depletion is almost always caused by people choosing to “Restore from backup” instead of “Setup as new iPhone” when iTunes asks you. This isn’t caused by either the jailbreak or the unlock, but it’s a common 3.0 snafu. The fix is to just re-run the official 3.0 restore and choose “Setup as new” this time. Your music and apps and all that will still be synced, but you’ll get rid of any conflicting wifi, bluetooth, or carrier settings. Then just re-run redsn0w and install ultrasn0w. 
* Remember, ultrasn0w works with hacktivated phones too, but don’t outsmart redsn0w into thinking you don’t need hacktivation! If you don’t plan on using an official sim, don’t activate via iTunes with such a sim. Just keep your unofficial sim at all times and let redsn0w and ultrasn0w handle hacktivation 
* T-Mobile in the USA doesn’t use the 3G frequencies that the iPhones support, so turn off 3G in Settings->General->Network. (Some T-Mobile territories gracefully hand down to Edge mode, but most do not). 
* Certain unofficial plans have limitations on whether you can make calls and use data at the same time. That’s not unlock-related. 
* Some people have installed previous versions of ultrasn0w using non-standard techniques. While the ultrasn0w 0.9 update should have removed all previous versions of ultrasn0w, these users may have outsmarted our removal. So make sure you don’t still see /usr/bin/ultrasn0w present if you’re at ultrasn0w 0.9 (which doesn’t have such a binary anymore). 
* If you don’t need or plan to update to ultrasn0w 0.9 from a previous version, you can avoid having that red badge over Cydia by removing repo666 as a Cydia source. Don’t worry, you can always add it back later  If you follow us on twitter you’ll be advised of any new updates anyway.

(via iPhone Dev Team Blog)

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Last night we released updated versions of our redsn0w jailbreak and ultrasn0w carrier unlock. These versions are now compatible with the iPhone 3GS running at 3.0. Welcome aboard, 3GS owners! (The tools of course remain compatible with all of the other platforms too.) Also last night, saurik released 3GS-compatible versions of MobileSubstrate and WinterBoard, components that enable many different add-ons and themes. 

We realize we upset some folks (e.g. existing 3GS owners) with our earlier announcement that we wanted to hold onto the 3GS iBoot-family hole until 3.1 was out. Our aim there was to get as many people as possible onboard (within reason of course) before revealing the hole, since Apple will fix it immediately. But all of that became moot when the purplera1n release was made, since it uses the same hole. 

For those of you who already own 3GS phones, the outlook is bright. As long as you have your personalized (signed) dfu/img3 files, you’ll always be able to jailbreak (even if you slip up and install stock Apple firmware in the future). For those of you without 3GS phones, it’s a race against the clock to use this particular hole. There’s nothing we can do about that, but we will always be looking for new holes. 

ultrasn0w unlockers — You all must remain particularly vigilant against upgrading your basebands, since doing so will kill the unlock (for most phones, there’s no going backwards in baseband version). Apple has gotten very serious with the latest baseband — they’ve removed 180 (!) commands in an effort to cut down their exposure to holes. So please always stay away from stock Apple IPSWs and instead use our tools as we release them. These tools let you update your firmware without updating your baseband. 

Those installing ultrasn0w will probably also need to do a single run of Settings->General->Reset->Reset Network Settings. We’re testing various fixes for that particular glitch. 

Once again, thanks to @Oranav for finding the new injection vector that allowed us to transform yellowsn0w for baseband 02.28 into ultrasn0w for baseband 04.26, and for not revealing it to Apple before it could be used where it would be most effective — firmware 3.0. 

redsn0w platforms — This is the first redsn0w release that also supports linux! It’s the newest version of the bunch, so any feedback would be appreciated. But right now, redsn0w should work on OS X, Windows, and linux. 

How to get the goods: 

The redsn0w torrent seeds are all here. Any direct mirroring help would also be appreciated. 
The updates to ultrasn0w, MobileSubstrate, and WinterBoard are all handled directly through Cydia (after you’ve jailbroken!) 
The Cydia repo for ultrasn0w is http://repo666.ultrasn0w.com (that last o in ultrasn0w is the number 0!)

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It seems like there is a dev team that currently wants to get the 3G S jailbreak out asap. This Unknown dev team over at http://iphone-unknowndev.blogspot.com/ sounds like bad news. They may be good at what they do but I would not recommend using any software or following them what so ever. They seem like amateur devs testing out a bunch of code signing and resigning trying to get the 3G S to boot up. Again I am warning everyone to have patience with the dev team and stay safe, otherwise if you use any other software that is not official dev team work you may end up with an expensive paper weight.

(via TheiPhoneSpot.net)

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Meanwhile the real iPhone Dev Team have some further words to say concerning iPhone OS 3.1 BETA & the iPhone 3GS jailbreak/unlock

Remember we warned you to stay away from any updates to 3.1 if you want to be able to jailbreak or unlock your 3GS.

Well this is an additional message to all you 3GS owners that would like to jailbreak your device soon.

You may have read or heard about techniques to capture files during the iTunes restore process. These will be required to jailbreak your phone in the near future, most of the methods involve icky USB snoops. Well, there is an even better and more reliable method to get your hands on those lovely files.

During the restore process iTunes nicely keeps these oh-so-top-secret-files in a lovely accessible place for us to copy out and backup, that place? /tmp on Mac OS X or %TEMP% on Windows, thanks Apple, handy.

So during a usual recovery, your signed iBEC is written to /tmp and during a DFU mode restore and the signed iBSS is written there also. To be sure, restore in both modes one after another to be able to grab them both. You’ll need to keep an eye on the temp directory and grab it before it is deleted again by iTunes. I’m sure some nice folks will create a tutorial about this, we’ll link to the first person who makes a nice one.

The downside to this approach is that you actually need to go through the restore process to get these signed files.

Act fast, this needs to be done quickly!

IF YOU CARE ABOUT ULTRASN0W, BE VERY CAREFUL ABOUT THIS METHOD! The last thing you need to do is to accidentally restore to 3.1 beta — you’ll lose ultrasn0w if you do!

(via iPhone Dev Team Blog)

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TheiPhoneBlog.com has complied a list of changes discovered in the recently released iPhone OS 3.1 developer seed.

Currently known changes:
- Non-destructive video editing now gives you the option to trim your clip then “Save as copy…” rather then replacing the original clip.
- Voice Control now works over Bluetooth
- iPhone vibrates when moving icons
- Updated AT&T profile to 4.2
- Updated modem firmware to 5.08.01
- Improvements to OpenGL and Quartz.
- APIs to allow third party apps to access videos and edit them.

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Apple has seeded iPhone OS 3.1 to developers along with a new version of the iPhone SDK.

Few details have been provided; however, its likely that Apple has closed the exploit used by ultrasn0w to unlock the iPhone.

Remember not to update when the new firmware goes public.

(via iClarified.com)

Update:
Word from the Dev Team on iPhone OS 3.1:

You’ve seen us give this warning before, and there are only so many ways to say it or come up with a clever title But here it is: ultrasn0w users must stay away from any firmware updates past 3.0 (including today’s 3.1 beta) until we release the tools that let you update the firmware without updating the baseband. For most phones out there, baseband updates are irreversible and you’ll lose ultrasn0w.  The 3.0 jailbreak was one of those (rare) times where both the jailbreak and the unlock coincided (the only other time was 2.2). It’s important that people realize that *most* firmware releases aren’t like that, and you need to take steps (via the tools) to separate the firmware update from its included baseband update.  This warning does not apply to the iPhone 2G, which uses BootNeuter for the unlock, not ultrasn0w.

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