Category: Mobile Devices

I needed to move music from my sister’s old iPod Mini to her new iPod Nano. At first, I thought I needed to install special software to do the music transfer; however, it turns out that there is a method that doesn’t require extra software. I found it in the…

I finally broke down (after years of defending “real” books) and recently got a Kindle 4 Wifi. It is very convenient (I can adjust the font size and carry a lot of books on trips) and I wondered why it took me so long to get one. To help you…

I wanted to give my iPhone 3G, which I had previously jailbroken and unlocked, to a friend. So naturally, I went into Settings, General, Reset, and selected “Erase All Content and Settings”. Bad mistake. After reboot, the iPhone was stuck in recovery mode. Worse mistake. I then plugged the iPhone…

I use both a Macbook and a Windows desktop and wanted to see if I could sync the same iPod Touch to both machines. Below is one method I found to do this and some caveats about the method. (This method will work with iPhones and iPads also.) Some background…

Luckily, just when I needed to jailbreak a new iPod Touch 4G with iOS 5.0, I found that the iPhone devteam had released a version of RedSn0w (version 0.9.10b3) that would jailbreak the latest iOS 5.0.1 operating system. And better yet, this version would allow untethered usage (thanks to @pod2g!)…

My nephew got an iPhone 3G and wanted to unlock it for use with his T-Mobile plan. Unfortunately, the iPhone was stuck in a weird state with only the Apple logo showing, and the iTunes application did not recognize it. I found that I could put the iPhone into Recovery…

My friend gave me his old AT&T iPhone 3G. I decided to unlock it for use with T-Mobile. On the web, there was a lot of info on how to go about doing the unlock and a lot of caveats. I wanted to summarize my findings below and provide details…