Untrackerd : Stop iPhone From Tracking

We already reported about how the iPhone or iPad running on iOS 4.x has been secretly tracking all your moves. Security researchers have revealed that iPhone
tracks user’s location and stores it in a secret hidden file which is replicated to the computer once it’s synchronized with the device.

The file contains data about your latitude and longitude along with the timestamp. This information can be easily accessed by jailbreaking the phone, unfortunately, on the computer even without that. Moreover, the file is not encrypted and can be read by just anyone using a simple app.

Now thanks to a new Cydia app called Untrackerd, you can easily prevent your jailbroken iPhone from tracking down all the bits and saving it to a secretly hidden database file.

Continuously clean up locationd’s history data in the background.

This package installs a daemon (process that can run in the background) to clean the consolidated.db file

Available for free on Cydia under BigBoss repository, simply search for Untrackerd on Cydia and install it to prevent your iPhone from tracking your location.

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SBSettings v3.3.1, New Feature And Bug Fixes

What is SBSettings? Let’s just say “welcome to convenience”. SBSettings gives you quick access to toggle on and off connectivity (WiFi, 3G, Edge) to your iDevice, among other features.


What’s new in version 3.3.1

• Fix: statusbar date on 4.2.1 or newer devices.

For those who missed version 3.3 chan
ge-log:

• Fix: Updated fix blanks button to hopefully not crash when more than one blank exists

• Fix: Hopefully fixed the more app crashing when one of the ads cannot load.

• Fix: When moving toggles order, added back the “save” button so user knows to press “save” to save changes.

• Fix: Lock screen buttons when you hit the power button on the lock screen. Removed lock and the title so it fits.

• Fix: Internal window ordering in main drop down window to help compatibility issue with folder enhancer.

• New: Added option to more app, system options, to delete the carrier name to give more space to statusbar for things like date and free memory.

• New: Included Max’s Serious SBSettings HD theme that adds a retina icons display theme to default sbsettings. Thanks to Max at maxthemes.com for this great theme!

• New: Added retina icons for the more app for retina displays. Thanks to 42395_skyline for these icons!

• New: Added support for springboard key that was used by makeitmine app. This means that installing SBSettings should actually fix makeitmine. (I did this because it’s needed for the delete carrier name option).

• Toggles: Removed phone toggle from default. It doesn’t work on 4.2.1 and newer devices. Use airplane instead. (Phone toggle is now installable via separate package in cydia for older devices).

Everytime I release an update to SBSettings, my inbox is literally flooded with a whole bunch of “SBSettings bugs” that are not even remotely related to SBSettings. Sometimes it takes a long time to debug these issues and point out which app had the issues. If you are having problems, and it’s some wacky thing that is not in the change log above, you should consider removing mobile substrate and all the apps it wants to remove, rebooting, installing sbsettings in this state, and seeing if you can reproduce the issue. Then reinstall your apps one-by-one. I know it’s a pain, but this is basically what I’ll recommend you do when I sense that the issue cannot be SBSettings related.

You can download SBSettings from Cydia via BigBoss repository for free.

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PULL TO REFRESH FOR MAIL APP, JAILBREAK APP

As most of you know, the mail app on your iOS device requires you to go back to the main screen of the app just to press the refresh button. With the help of a new Cydia tweak, you can refresh your mail from anywhere in the app. Just like always, anything that uses system changes requires a jailbreak and Cydia.

To be able to use this tweak, you need a jailbroken device, you can jailbreak your iOS 4.x device using the latest version of Redsn0w then simply follow the steps given below.



This Cydia tweak, called Pull to Refresh for Mail, is free in Cydia under BigBoss repository. This very neat little tweak lets you drag your finger down your device screen to refresh your inboxes. This is similar to the feature in the Facebook and Twitter apps. Overall, this tweak is very useful and can overall save you the work of going back to the refresh button everytime you need to check for new mail.

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WHITE CYDIA ICON AND SAFARI CRASHING WHEN USING REDSNOW 0.9.6 B4 TO JAILBREAK iOS 4.2.1

After releasing iOS 4.2.1, the dev-team updated redsn0w to version 0.9.6b4 to jailbreak iPhone 4, 3GS, 3G, iPod touch 4G, 3G, 2G and iPad, I received many comments complaining about white Cydia icon and Safari crashing after jailbreaking their devices.



Therefore, dev-team has sent a new blog post update while the concept of a “tethered” jailbreak is pretty new to many people, let's check out this :

The notion of a “tethered” jailbreak is pretty new to many people, so here’s a quick rundown on what to expect:

1. If you’re on an iPhone3G, old-bootrom iPhone3GS, or non-MC ipt2g, life is easy. redsn0w installed an untethered jailbreak and so nothing below applies.
2. “Tethered” does not mean you cannot boot at all without PC/Mac assistance. If you have not installed any tweaks that hook into important programs like SpringBoard or CommCenter, your device will actually boot. However, jailbreak programs like Cydia won’t work (and Cydia may still have a white icon). Also, certain built-in apps that had to be moved by Cydia will fail (Safari being the most noticeable example).
3. If you’ve installed MobileSubstrate tweaks that hook into SpringBoard or other important programs, your boot will actually fail (you’ll get stuck at the Apple logo). You need to use redsn0w to “Just boot tethered right now”.

Remember, @comex and others are working on a way to untether the 4.2.1 jailbreak. Meanwhile, the above 3 points hopefully will make it all seem less confusing :)

You can avoid the reasons above to enjoy a jailbreak free of bugs (i.e. White Cydia Icon and/or Safari Crashing), but I highly recommend to wait for the comex untethered jailbreak on 4.2.1 which expected to be very professional (still no ETA).

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How to : REMOVE CYDIA ADS AND SPEED UP CYDIA

Are you familiar with Cydia and often using Cydia? I think most of you often suffer from advertising that is on Cydia, especially if the ad makes it difficult to use applications without accidentally tapping on the ad.
It makes sense if you find ads on the free application, but at the same time and at the time you want to be able to do things like read a description of the application, see the details and others, the ad will not disturbing you?

In this post we'll show you a very simple way to get rid of ads on Cydia.


Follow these steps:

• FTP / SSH into your device.

• Find the file is / Applications / Cydia.app / package.js

• Look for these, you can find it on line 209:

if (depiction == null)

Change to:

if (depiction == null || true)

These are screen shots before and after the ad is removed from Cydia.

Now enjoy Cydia no advertising on your Cydia.

Of course if you want to see the ad again you only need to reverse the step 3.
Enjoy.

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BACKGROUNDER NOW SUPPORT iOS 4.1

Backgrounder allows for total control of backgrounding on an iPhone/iOS-based device. With Backgrounder, *you* decide when an app should keep running, and when it should quit. Backgrounder provides true backgrounding; minimized apps can be made to continue to run as if they were still the foreground app.




Backgrounder, a jailbroken app to enable multitasking on the iPhone, and iPod Touch has been updated to version svn.r558-1 with iOS 4.1 Support.

Changes in this version: MOD: Allow installation on iOS 4.1.
You can download Backgrounder from Cydia for Free.
Enjoy with this app.

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CYDIA IS NOW READY FOR iOS 4.2

As noted by Redmond Pie, one of Twitter users has asked the popular iPhone developer Chpwn about the progress in the new Cydia. He has confirmed that Cydia is now ready for use on jailbroken iOS 4.2 devices.

EsMaNdAu: @chpwn how’s Cydia for iOS 4.2 Going….! #Thanks "For Just Reading Me"

Chpwn: In ready position.

As you know, iOS 4.2 public release seems very near (may be Friday?), Cydia is now ready on iOS 4.2, and also iOS 4.2 is already jailbroken with the latest Redsn0w. So, we won't wait a lot for the untethered jailbreak & unlock on iOS 4.2.

stay tuned on ARASHI NETBLOG because we will keep you updated with posts over the web.

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