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Old 04-05-2011, 08:50 PM
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I just love Google

First up on the list.

http://intelliborn.com/mywi.html
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Old 04-05-2011, 09:07 PM
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MyWi and all of the others require that you "jailbreak" your Iphone to make it a hotspot. Personally, I have no desire to do this. It violates my agreement with Apple. Lots of people obviously think otherwise.
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Old 04-05-2011, 09:30 PM
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Very nice anit-glare screen...it is pricey at nearly $30.00 but works well. One nice thing about it is that you do not have to be a freaking surgeon to put it on like the other ones. This one "sticks" the outer frame of the screen and does not stick the screen itself. Took my 15 seconds and one try to put it on.

..supposedly you can take it off and wash it too!

http://store.moshimonde.com/ivisor-ag-ipad.html

http://www.amazon.com/Moshi-iVisor-A.../dp/B003YMC5RC
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Old 04-05-2011, 11:22 PM
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First up on the list.

http://intelliborn.com/mywi.html
Right on! The app works great and jailbreaking is not illigal, however it is up to each individual to decide for themselves if it is moral or not.

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Old 04-08-2011, 12:10 PM
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Yes, there is an app called MyWI tethering that you need to purchase (rather inexpensive). This requires to jailbreak your Iphone but it is of no consequence nor illigale.
I plan on jailbreaking my iPhone 4 in a couple of months when it's out of warranty. Which jailbreak did you use? Seems there are 3 or 4 working ones.
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Old 04-08-2011, 12:19 PM
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When it comes to JB, the best software changes with each release of iOS and the subsequent JB releases. Just watch for what options are announced for the version of iOS you have when the times comes.
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Old 04-08-2011, 12:42 PM
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I plan on jailbreaking my iPhone 4 in a couple of months when it's out of warranty. Which jailbreak did you use? Seems there are 3 or 4 working ones.
I used green poison to jailbreak my iphone (3GS running version 4) and has been jailbroken for almost a year with no issues at all. I have also jailbroken my IPAD and run an application BTSTAK ($5) to connect to any Bluetooth GPS. I am using my HOLUX GPS with my IPAD with no issues.

Regarding jailbreaking, there has been much discussion about that and I encourage you to read about them. I don't believe really there is any issue with warranty as I can always go back to my back up and restore to original version.

Please check your current version on that site to see if they support it.
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Old 04-08-2011, 02:58 PM
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I used the poison green iPhone jailbreak software. It's been a month since I did it and the phone works great. The mywi software allows my iPhone to be a wifi hotspot for my iPad.
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Old 04-08-2011, 09:06 PM
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I plan on jailbreaking my iPhone 4 in a couple of months when it's out of warranty. Which jailbreak did you use? Seems there are 3 or 4 working ones.
I just this week jailbroke both my First-gen iPad and my iPhone4 using redsn0w. The only issue was ensuring that the app ran as an administrator (right click on the executable and select "run as adminsitrator") and that it was locked to running on a single processor (most modern PC's have more than one CPU Core... Open Task Manager, right click on the redsn0w application once it's running, and select "Affinity". Then select CPU 1 only, and close the window). Once I did those two things, the jailbreak worked perfectly on both devices. Now running the latest 4.3.1 OS, with MyWi on the iPhone4.

FWIW, when you connect the iPad to the iPhone4 using MyWi, the iPad gets location data from the iPhone's GPS via WiFi. I didn't expect that, but it works.
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Old 04-09-2011, 06:50 PM
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It turns out the jailbreaking is easy enough and here's a couple of tips I found to cut through the potential confusion.

First, there are several different JB methods and patches. To know what is appropriate for your device, the easiest is just go to this website http://intelliborn.com/download.html, find your device and iOS you run on it, and click on the link for the appropriate download.

The only tricky thing I found is putting the iPhone into ?DFU? mode to install the Jailbreak. This video show the timing and sequence needed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bITIiGswjFI Watch it once or twice to know what to do, then use it for the timing of the two steps.

Once it?s Jailbroken, you will find the Cydia icon added, otherwise it appears normal. Click on the Cydia icon to purchase and install the JB apps like MyWi. It?s not as slick as the regular app store, and I appreciate more how much work Steve Jobs put into making the regular iPhone so easy to use.

On the other hand a bit of research and work, and $20 for MyWi, saves me hundreds every year on tethering or paying for additional data plan for an iPad 3G. Since I have the 2GB/$25/month plan, it was really galling to learn that if a bought an iPad 3G model, I'd have to buy another data plan to use the 3G! Every so often the little guy can win against the corporation.
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