5 Ways To Not Brick Your iDevice

Ryan Ray — Sun, 16 May 2010 19:17:54 +0000

I’ve caught the iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch development fever and I’m ashamed of myself right now. I have officially bricked my first iPhone. I’ve been learning the basics of objective-c and the ins and outs of Xcode and had even started my first simple app just so I could play around. Then I had a brilliant idea, torrent 4.0 and put it on my iPhone. I thought it would be cool to see if I could run OS 4.0 without actually registering my device in the 99$ a year program. That was n00b mistake #1 in what will be the thousands as I try to learn to code for the app store. By the way, I love making interfaces for these sorts of things so if any one wants to partner and help me with the code I’m all for it! So here are my top 5 ways to not brick your iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch, any stinkin’ iDevice…

#5 – Don’t try to upgrade to an iDevice OS not supported by the free SDK.

This was what I just did, luckily I can still put my iPhone in restore mode. This allows me to restore to a clean firmware and then I have to sync up my info,apps,songs all over again. Not to mention re-jailbreak and get my tethering and turn by turn back! Stupid me, stupid me, stupid me!

#4 – Only use the iDevice simulator on your computer.

This isn’t the best testing ground, but at least you’ll keep all development on the desktop and away from your iDevice, this only tempts you to torrent the newest OS 4.0 and see if you can use it on your iDevice

#3 – Be careful when using iPwn, Apple knows…

Ok Apple doesn’t really know, or do they? iPwn for the Mac works great at jail breaking your iDevice, I’m hoping it works great a second time as I really need it to! PLZ iPWN!

#2 – Write clean, heavenly code that Steve Jobs would praise.

If you were making a porn app the SDK and iPhone would automatically know to brick you from ever trying to compile and run it, even the iDevice simulator would mysteriously crash every time you tried to open it. You’d probably get so frustrated that you’d give up on developing for the day and go do something else. While you do that a letter from Jobs is already en route and your Mac has decided to delete all your apps files. WOOPS!

#1 – Give an offering to the iGod.

At this point in time I am burning everything I have that may resemble a droid, windows computer, etc… All in my hopes to please the iGod and let my iDevice come back from it’s iHell. I loved my iPhone and don’t wish any kind of harm on it, his soul may be sitting somewhere right now being tortured because he was jailbroken. Come back buddy and let me treat you right this time. iPromise iGod as soon as iGet my iPhone back I’ll restore him to a clean 3.2. I’ll never jailbreak or mess with 4.0 again! Just give him back to me!

As a bonus tip don’t forget to openly bash flash!

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5 Ways To Not Brick Your iDevice

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Jailbreakers: Record and Upload LIVE Video from your iPhone with Qik

Erik MacKinnon — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:37:30 +0000

It’s no secret that for some reason – which us Joe Q. Publics won’t hear about due to the developer-stifling NDA – that there has been a strange absence of video recording applications on the iPhone App Store. Before the iPhone 3G, video recording functionality has long been accessible to jailbreakers through DreamCatcher’s iPhone Video Recorder. Since the 2.0 firmware though, video recording has been absent. Until now! Read on to hear about Qik.com and their amazing live video streaming client for the iPhone.

Qik – pronounced “quick” – has been around for a few months now in open beta as a solution to stream live video from a Nokia S60 or a number of Windows Mobile enabled smartphones straight to the web. Qik is designed from the bottom up as a video-streaming social network. You can send automatic updates of your videos to Twitter, Pownce, Blogger, Seesmic, YouTube, and the list goes on. You can subscribe to others’ Qik feeds to receive updates when they release new videos. And of course, you can form and join groups with other Qikkers. Seeing as how the iPhone 3G is an amazing platform for Qik, it was only a matter of time before a client was released.

Step 1 – head to Qik.com and sign up. You’ll be asked for your mobile number, along with a username and password. Once you have completed the signup process, Qik will send a SMS message to your phone with details that the Qik application will automatically pick up and register you with.

Step 2 – Once you have downloaded and installed Qik (remember: available ONLY through Cydia or Installer.app on jailbroken iPhones) you can now stream video LIVE (through WiFi or 3G only!) which is also recorded and saved to your profile at Qik.com. Click here to view a video I took while walking through downtown Vancouver the other day. A neat feature is that Qik users can chat with you while you’re streaming live – and it shows up right in the video window.

One of the downsides is that the iPhone’s camera, combined with the compression required to stream live video, causes the video quality to be… less than amazing. But considering that you’re able to stream video and audio live to your friends/subscribers/any creepy stalker that may be watching, it’s well worth the trade off. Also, as you can see in the screenshots below you can keep your video private, mute the audio (it’s busted in this beta) and hide/unhide the chat window.

All in, Qik is a fantastic video streaming solution for the iPhone and a VERY easy way for you to record video and save it online. Quite simply, it’s a must have.

Screenshots:

That both Qik (and competing site Flixwagon which released its client on the same day) released their clients on Cydia and Installer – available only to jailbroken iPhones – and not on the iPhone App Store is telling. Is this just an open beta, or are developers’ hands tied in regards to streaming video? Only time will tell.

Until then… long live the free video streaming!

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