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isn't the pinwheels the sign for connecting to internet/downloading.

if you ran em all at once maybe they are still updating? would have to be pretty slow but I guess its possible.

nah, it's a winterboard/etc thing to tell you that that app is running in the background.

i think its called backgrounder

MRJ--> it does seem like that... but cydia would not update the phone app, nor the ipod app.

some other apps get that wheel momentarily after I close them... 3G is not active though, meaning there's nothing downloading....

weird.

edit: fooish--> right, that makes sense... never did that before, I hope I can turn it off. looks crap.

Isn't that pretty much the only reason you'd use Cydia / Winterboard? Like the killer feature?

nah, killer feature of winterboard is theming and adjusting GUI functions (like 5 icon dock/springboard etc)

backgrounding is just one program you can download, which allows you to run apps in the background, which is cool and I do use it... but it's never shown me which apps are running in the main GUI like that before, I usually use SBSettings to see what apps are running and kill/launch certain apps.

deviant wrote:nah, killer feature of winterboard is theming and adjusting GUI functions (like 5 icon dock/springboard etc)

backgrounding is just one program you can download, which allows you to run apps in the background, which is cool and I do use it... but it's never shown me which apps are running in the main GUI like that before, I usually use SBSettings to see what apps are running and kill/launch certain apps.

Go to settings and find your backgrounder settings and turn off badges and they'll be gone

yep, just discovered that now.... YAY

apparently the new os 3.0.1 or what evs its called kills the tethering hack ??

I havent upgraded cos i wanna kep it..

anyone lost theirs or otherwise?

It also unjailbreaks your phone and stops you from re-jailbreaking... an exploit has still not been found by Dev-team (or anyone else for that matter)... I'm not upgrading, it seems as though preventing hacks is the only reason for the update, so why would you?

ADD_Boy wrote:apparently the new os 3.0.1 or what evs its called kills the tethering hack ??

I havent upgraded cos i wanna kep it..

anyone lost theirs or otherwise?

i haven't gone to 3.0.1 yet so couldn't tell ya. but i figured no real reason to go to new firmware just yet anyways, will wait until it actually contains something worth upgrading for.

soon i will be able to fix the world too.

iphone coming this week.

kitty which plan / provider did you go with ?

optus 16gb on the $49 plan with insurance.
will upgrade if i need to later.

scary shit, hate plans, but lost my phone at high vibes, so had to do it.

good work kitty. i am still madly in love with my phone, and weve been together over a year!

yeah plans suck, but if you have insurance, your never really going to lose anymore than the $100 excess. WIN!

i drop phone often. lose unless insurance. never lose phone, but id on sunday due to having WAY too much fun. also lose unless insurance. they even cover water damage.

girlfreinds of mine have said iphone better than a bf! so bring it on hahah

Grab the Make Poverty History app guys.
$1.19 with all proceeds going to a pretty amazing cause.
you get a little banner thingy that you can ad to your wallpaper and shtoof.
was only launched last night and the tally will be up and running soon with an aim to reach 1 million bands.
get on it for a great cause.

It is awesome, and hell, didnt he say there is 50 million i phones and i podtouch in circualtion? !!! we should be aiming for 25 million!

I will be getting it, if i ever get iphone... waaaa

last night, standing in a circle of ppl with them, torture!!!!
apparantly there are none 'anywhere' and i may have to wait another week or two.

thats frustrating kitty.

only ordered mine through vodafone last wednesday and got mine yesterday.

Already loving it. so many cool apps n shit to play with.

okay, few days in and got some questions for you guys...

- what is the best app for checking your optus usage? dan you said you had found one.

- d/l some free apps like metlink/FB/shazam and a copule games, they worked the first day or so, now i touch them and they wont even load. not even to remove them. um.? wtf. what do i do?
geek forums are saying apps from itunes, do you guys install straight to phone or through itunes?

- why does it organise contacts into last name OR first name alphabetically, this is retarded as there is lots of one name contacts but also five daves wth something after to distinguish from them etc. can you change this or no?

initial thoughts are, yes its pretty and hot and snazzy, but why the hell dont the free apps work?

^ http://lmgtfy.com/

yeah thanks system. i have been dude.

I haven't had a problem with free apps

optus have there own app now, grab that one

worked the apps out, and got optus one.

tell me some of your favorites?
and yes i have read all 22 pages of this thread.

if you are into games....

words with friends ftw

flight control

pocket tanks

ping pong

stick wars

music/radio apps

dub siren

ocarina

leaf trombone

last.fm

theramin (sp?)

useful and fun apps

Bump is pretty cool and useful

Frifi - tells you where your friends are... pretty cool

VLC remote is pretty dope

I also use FileAid for PDF viewing and storage

skype works really well (wifi only)

ebubby is great for chat.

get wikipedia app, ebay etc etc.

The rest I use are jailbreak dependant

thanks dan! will check em out...

tram tracker is far superior than the metlink app too

i got a few of them, LOL @ dub siren 'now you can be a dub DJ EVERYWHERE you go" hahah

tram tracker, only for trams? i catch trains mainly...

so whats the deal with jailbreaking ?

Still not sure if i should bother, had an old $50 itunes voucher, that I can now finally use for something. So im not sure if its worth bothering the risk of jailbreaking my phone.

Is there any risk? issues with updates etc?

new thread created for google sync support on the iphone. please post all relevant comments there.

yenks wrote:so whats the deal with jailbreaking ?

Still not sure if i should bother, had an old $50 itunes voucher, that I can now finally use for something. So im not sure if its worth bothering the risk of jailbreaking my phone.

Is there any risk? issues with updates etc?

yes there risks...

there's heaps of info in this thread already about jailbreaking....

whatever you do, don't upgrade to 3.1 if you want to jailbreak.

Aparently google just turned on suna traffic for gmaps aus! I just turned it on on my iPhone, just hit show traffic in maps, mad!

WunderRadio! Bought it last night. Its a bit pricey at $8 but it gets streaming radio world wide. So I can listen to stations back in Canada including Ice hockey when its on and also can tune in to Melbourne radio stations aswell like pbs, rrr, jjj etc etc. Haven't given it a good test yet but so far it seems to be pretty sweet.

as in streams internet radio?

FS Stream does the same thing and thats free!

would that suck up usage?

@Mrj I looked at FS and didn't rathered the interface of WunderRadio. Is it worth paying $8 over the free version? Probably not to most people but it is a better app for what I wanted.

@Dboy It's something like 128kb streaming = 1mb/min.

safari beats all radio player apps cos it can stream in the background

mrj wrote:as in streams internet radio?

FS Stream does the same thing and thats free!

If ur iphone's jailbroken and you have Appulous installed, then all apps are free including the app store ones

mine looks like this now...

lol, the theme is called "urban"

it has been interesting (and not just a bit satisfying) to watch everyone resist for so long, and then eventually cave.

This looks awesome!
Not sure bout the vocals mode though. Why not use the inbuilt mic for it? Oh well. Rest of it looks sweeet!

Watch the posted video on YouTube.

mad!

mrj wrote:it has been interesting (and not just a bit satisfying) to watch everyone resist for so long, and then eventually cave.

I will never want any other phone I dont think.

Ping.

Free iphone to iphone messaging.

Interesting link for all you n00bs with new iPhone's:

ZOMG

what you need is redsn0w steve. heaps easy.

why do you want to jailbreak it?

mecka wrote:what you need is redsn0w steve. heaps easy.

you can't use redsn0w with 3.1.2