Before Giving Away or Selling, Clean / Wipe / Erase iPhone iPad Touch iOS 8)

1. Backup device

• via iTunes' Back Up Now button
• via iPhone's Tap Settings > iCloud >  Backup

2. Sign out of iCloud

• Tap Settings > iCloud
• Scroll down
• Sign Out

3. Erase iPhone's Content and Settings

• Tap Settings > General > Reset > Erase All Content and Settings
• If passcode enabled, Enter your passcode and Restrictions Passcode
• Tap Erase iPhone
• Tap Erase iPhone again to confirm
• If Find My Phone enabled, Enter Apple ID password

Extend / Save Battery Life of iPhone 5

1. Reduce Screen Brightness via Settings->Brightness & Wallpaper
2. Turn Off Bluetooth via Settings->Bluetooth->Off
3. Turn Off LTE via Settings->General->Cellular->Enable LTE->Off
4. Turn Off Wi-Fi via Setting->Wi-Fi->Off
5. Turn Off Data Push via Settings->Mail, Contacts & Calendar->Fetch New Data->Push->Off
6. Turn On Auto-Brightness via Settings->Brightness & Wallpaper->Auto Brightness->On
7. Turn Off Location Service via Settings->Privacy->Location Services->Off
8. Reduce Mail Fetch via Settings->Mail, Contacts & Calendar->Fetch New Data
9. Reduce Auto-Lock period via Settings->General->Auto-Lock->1 Minute
10. Disable Unnecessary Notifications via Settings->Notifications
11. Disable Vibrations via Settings->Sounds
12. Disable Siri via Settings->Siri->Off
13. Turn Off Equalizer via Settings->Music->EQ->Off
14. Close unused App via Double Tap Home Button. Close App by pressing icon for a short period and tapping the red close icon beside the App.

Make iPhone look like iOS 7

1. Must be Jailbreaked
2. Must have Cydia
3. Install Winterboard
4. Install iOS 7 Theme (pw5a29)
5. From Winterboard, enable iOS 7 theme
6. Install BytaFont
7. Open BytaFont, select iOS 7 font
8. From Cydia, Add Repo Source http://rpetri.ch/reposetup/
9. Install DeepEnd
10. Install NCSettings, enable via Settings->Notifications
11. Install BlurredNCBackground
12. Install iOS 7 Control Toggle Theme
13. From Winterboard, enable iOS 7 Control Toggle
14. From NCSettings, enable iOS 7 Control Toggle theme
15. Install NCMusicGestures

Add Custom notification (e.g. SMS and iMessage alert) to iPhone Status Bar (top most bar icons on screen)

#Jailbreak required

Install OpenNotifier from Cydia

Fix Google Chrome 25 Crashing on iPhone 5 iOS 6.1.2

The following should be performed as quickly as possible before Google Chrome crashes

Open Google Chrome
Select Menu button (2nd button from the upper right)
Select Settings
From the Advanced, select Privacy option
Select Send Usage Data
Select either Always or Only on Wi-Fi is selected from the list.

Cydia Apps (Recommended Apps)

Activator
OpenNotifier
Five Icon Dock
SMS Timestamps
MobileTerminal
OpenSSH
Protect Photos
RecordMyScreen
SBProfiles
SBSettings
VeencyDataMonitor
Insomnia
KillBackground
AppCake
AppSync for iOS 5 &6
AppVV
AptBackup
evasi0n 6
iFilevShare

How get your own number from iPhone

Settings->Phone->My Number

Set DisableLaunch access keys

Settings->Activator->Anywhere ... then set which activation to choose

This is useful if accidentally set DisableLaunch to lock Settings and cannot access it

Set Up Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Contacts on iOS

Settings-> "Mail, Contacts, Calendars"->"Add Account->Microsoft Exchange (NOT Gmail)

Email          : [use gmail email address]
Server        : m.google.com
Domain      : [leave the Domain field blank]
Username   : [use full gmail email address]
Password   : [use gmail password]
Description : [use any description]

(If error encountered ie "Unable to Verify Certificate", just tap cancel).
Enable Mail, Contact, and Calendar syncing from the account settings by turning ON feature.

Install .ipa App (cracked) iOS 5.0.1 iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad

1. Requirements:
    Jailbreaked iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad with iOS 5.0.1 firmware untethered.
2. Jailbreak device (refer to previous post)
3. Launch Cydia from device
4. Tap the Sources section5. Tap the Edit button in the top right hand corner of the screen.
6. Tap Add button now and type in the following source:
    http://cydia.hackulo.us/
7. After typing the source above tap the Add Source button.
8. After adding the hackulous source into Cydia go into the hackulous source by tapping on it
9. Install AppSync for iOS 5.0+ by tapping AppSync for iOS 5.0+
10. Restart device
11. After restart,
12. Launch Cydia again
13. Install Installous for iOS 5.0.1 (Installous 4)
14. Open iTunes
15. Copy .ipa (App) to iTunes by dragging file.
16. Copy the copied app to device by syncing iTunes or Manual mode.

Untethered Jailbreak for A5 chip-based iPad 2 and iPhone 4S (iOS 5.0.1)

1. Requirement :
    iPhone 4S running iOS 5.0, 5.0.1 (9A405 and 9A406)
    iPad 2 Wi-Fi/GSM/CDMA running iOS 5.0.1
2. Download the Chronic-Dev Absinthe from GreenPois0n for MacOS
3. Connect device to Mac
4. Extract and run, click the Jailbreak button
5. Once restore complete, look for the Absinthe icon from the device and tap it to run.
If nothing happens, do this from your device SETTINGS > GENERAL > NETWORK > VPN entry and then toggle VPN to ON. This will produce an error and will reboot the device .
6. After reboot, device is now in jailbreak state. Tap the Cydia icon to tweak/configure.

Jailbreaked iPhone no longer continue during boot

1. Go to DFU Mode (POWER.. POWER+HOME .. HOME)

2. Restore from iTunes (OPTION + CLICK + Restore) using Custom ipsw

Ultrasn0w 1.0-1

Ultrasn0w is comptable for the following basebands:

iPhone 4

01.59.00

iPhone 3G/3GS

04.26.08

05.11.07

05.12.01

05.13.04

Better disable 3G before running Ultrasn0w

Which Folders to Backup Manually for iPhone

You may use SCP or iPhoneBrowser to copy folders

/var/mobile/Library/AddressBook - Contacts
/var/mobile/Library/Calendar - Your calendar
/var/mobile/Library/Notes - your notes database
/var/mobile/Library/Safari - your bookmarks and cookies
/var/mobile/Library/SMS - your text messages.

How Manually Backup iPhone SMS Database

1. SSH or SFTP in to your phone using the IP address listed in your Wifi settings. (Port: 22, username: root, password: alpine). You may use a gui-client such as WinSCP for Windows and Fugu for Mac.
2. CD to the directory: /private/var/mobile/Library/SMS
3. Copy sms.db to your local computer
4. Use SQLiteBrowser to view the Messages table and Export table to CSV

iOS 4 and Google Sync via MS Exchange ActiveSync Sending Error

Started getting "Cannot Send Mail : An error occurred while delivering this message." on iOS 4. To solve this just go to

Setting->Mail, Contacts and Calendars->Select Account->Account Info->Use SSL->OFF->Done

then

Setting->Mail, Contacts and Calendars->Select Account->Account Info->Use SSL->ON->Done

Cannot find libraries in Cydia

Open Cydia, tap Manage, tap Settings, and tap Developer. It should then appear in the Search results when you search for it.

Ultrasn0w

Finally, the latest carrier unlock ultrasn0w version 1.0-1 works for:

• iPhone 4 baseband 01.59
• 3G/3GS basebands 04.26.08, 05.11.07, 05.12.01 and 05.13.04

JailbreakMe!

Jailbreaking your iPhone never came this easy. Just tap your Safari then type in http://www.jailbreakme.com and follow the instructions.

Remote Control PC using TightVNC

First Install TightVNC on your server and set it up. Ensure you have set a password to access the server!

The best / fastest / safest options seem to be:

• No local input during client sessions
• Blank screen on client connections
• Poll full-screen

Everything else should be fine on default.

The best / fastest / safest options for TightVNC Portable seem to be:

• Tight encoding
• Not 8-bit mode
• Scale by: Auto

If you will be remotting to your iPhone for long duration better set the Auto-lock to Never or install Insomnia to prevent your iPhone for disabling the Wi-Fi when auto lock set's in