Showing posts with label phone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label phone. Show all posts

iOS 7 Beta 2 Download Links + Install Guide

Posted: Tuesday, 11 June 2013

iOS 7 has been released!


Update iTunes to iTunes 11.1 and connect your iPhone, if iTunes does not recognise your phone then follow these instructions:

  1. Right-click the Apple iPhone, Apple iPad, or Apple iPod entry in Device Manager and choose Update Driver from the shortcut menu.
  2. Click "Browse my computer for driver software."
  3. Click "Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer."
  4. Click the Have Disk button. (If the Have Disk option is not present, choose a device category such as Mobile Phone or Storage Device if listed, and click next. The Have Disk button should then appear.)
  5. In the "Install from Disk" dialog, click the Browse button.
  6. Use this window to navigate to the following folder: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\Drivers.
  7. Double-click the "usbaapl.ini" file. (This file will be called "usbaapl64.ini" if you have a 64-bit version of Windows. If you don't see "usbaapl64" here, or if there is no Drivers folder, look in C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\Drivers. instead).
  8. Click OK in the "Install from Disk" dialog.
  9. Click Next and finish the driver-installation steps. Open iTunes to verify that the device is recognized properly.

Then just update your iPhone from iTunes like a normal iOS update (iTunes should notify you about it)

Original Post

Not an Apple developer but want to test out the latest and shinest iOS version, iOS 7?
The following post contains download links for various versions of the latest iOS 7 Beta, iOS 7 Beta 2:
Scroll down for links for the iPad 2, iPad 3, iPad 4, iPad Mini 1, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5 and the iPod Touch 4th Gen iOS 7 Beta 2 firmware.

Google Maps blocked on Window Phone

Posted: Monday, 7 January 2013

Is Google blocking Window Phone users from using Google maps?
Google has been in intense competition with Microsoft, both companies offer rival services and products. However, outside of lawsuits and courts, Microsoft consumers are slightly feeling the burn, with the Google maps mobile page being redirected to the Google homepage when visited by a Windows Phone.
So what exactly is going on? Well, the useragent can tell everything about a browser and when spoofed properly, can trick websites into revealing what's really going on. One simple way to spoof the useragent is to use this website: http://www.wannabrowser.com/index.php, alternatively you can spoof the useragent by changing browser settings or by using a custom browser.
Below is a basic test of spoofed useragents, to try to see what's going on and to identify the culprit.