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Love the bigger and better keyboard in Gingerbread? Can’t wait till Gingerbread becomes available for yourAndroid phone? Here’s a solution from XDA-Developers. A user has uploaded an APK of the new Gingerbread keyboard which can be used on Froyo as well as Eclair without requiring a rooted Android device. To get the new keyboard from Google on your device, follow the instructions below – 1. Download the APK from  here . 2. Place the downloaded APK into your phone’s root folder by connecting your device to your PC. 3. Install the APK from your device by using a file manager. 4. Open the “Settings” application, go to “Language and Keyboard,” and enable the “Gingerbread Keyboard. Great, you’re done! You can now navigate to any field where text input is required to try out your latest input method.

iPhone Battery Life: 4 Quick Tips “Siri, what in the world is wrong with my iPhone’s battery life?” This is what I found myself asking my “personalassistant” after a couple of days with fighting with my new iPhone 4S battery. She didn’t answer of course, but if she could, I can think of 4 easy things she would have told me to try. I’m here to pass those along to you. 1.  Do not use location based reminders : While this feature can sometimes be proven very useful, it can seriously drain your battery, since your iPhone constantly monitors your location to activate your reminders. This is a feature that can be done without, and should be until a permanent fix is found to repair the battery lifeissue. 2.  Turn off location services : Turn off all of the location services you aren’t using. You can do this by going to General Settings -> Location Services. Also go into your system services and disable “Location-based iAds” and “...

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All of you witnessed the release of  untethered jailbreak for the A4 devices just before the start of the new year. Pod2g along with the iPhone Dev Team and the Chronic Dev Team managed to pull it off. There has been recent activity going on for the untethered jailbreak for the A5 devices. Details below! Only 3 days ago, Pod2g tweeted that the untethered jailbreak for the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 could be expected the coming week. There isn’t any permanent jailbreak for the A5 devices as they haven’t received any bootrom exploit such as limera1n as the A4 devices had received in the past. The iPhone 4S hasn’t been jailbroken ever and the iPad 2 can be jailbroken using JailbreakMe 3.0, which was released by Comex on iOS 4.3.3, later patched to iOS 4.3.4 update. However, the fact is that this isn’t an untethered jailbreak. On the same day, pod2g was asked that whether it was ok to update to iOS 5.0.1 on which his reply was a positive one. Users on lower versions ar...

The Absinthe jailbreak for the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 running iOS 5.0.1 is now officially available, here are some of the tweaks that will be useful to install in your device. Most of the tweaks we covered are not specific to iPhone 4S. You can also apply it on 3GS or iPhone 4 but make sure your device is running on iOS 5.0 or up. SBSettings : which is one of the best jailbreak tweaks. Once the device is jail broken this allows the device to turn on/off 3G, Bluetooth, WI-Fi andworks on some other helpful functions as notifications. iFile :  makes the folders on your iPhone visible. You can use it for several functions. You can see all your folders, compressed files, bookmark folders and more, which allows you not to scroll to find any particular thing. Celeste :  this is one of the best tweaks as it allows you to transfer all the files from an iPhone via Bluetooth. Celeste has brought this function for only $9.99 from Cydia Store; this would all...

Ok people! It is here at last. The Chronic Dev Team has  released the Greenpois0n Absinthe tool  which will enable you to jailbreak both iPad 2 and iPhone 4S on iOS 5.0.1 untethered. Full tutorial after the break. The  untethered jailbreak for A4 devices  was released by Pod2g at when the new year was at the brink. He formed a “Dream Team” later on to find an exploit for A5 untethered jailbreak. Finally he has accomplished his mission. Warning:  This guide is for iPhone 4S and iPad 2 ONLY. If you’re looking for iPhone 3GS/iPhone 4 jailbreak guide, check out  here . For jailbreak guide of the original iPad, you can check out  here . The new tool will jailbreak the iPhone 4S untethered on iOS 5 and iOS 5.0.1. However, the iPad 2 will be jailbroken only on iOS 5.0.1. Complete Guide to Jailbreak iPhone 4S (iOS 5/5.0.1) / iPad 2 (iOS 5.0.1) Untethered What You Need iTunes v10.5 (Download from  Apple’s iTunes Page ...