I have been researching and starting to track an issue that has come to my attention regarding the replacement batteries that Powerbook G4 15″ users received after the Replacement Program went into effect. I have recently acquired a 2.5 year old Powerbook G4 15″ that has a replacement battery. The battery, received earlier this year through the Replacement Program, is Dead.
While the System Profiler does show that it is present, it will not charge. Also, after resetting the PMU (Power Management Unit) by following the instructions here, there was no change to the battery’s charging state. Zapping PRam had no effect either. The battery will simply not charge. If this battery were a few years old, I would not be surprised, however, it is not. It is less than a year old. I replaced it with a non-recalled battery from another G4 Powerbook and did not experience any issues, thus removing issues with the PowerBook itself from the equation.
YOUR HELP NEEDED: Please read through this and post your battery information in the comments area. Perhaps if enough readers respond, Apple will Recall the Recall-Replacement batteries.
Also, reading through various Apple Support threads (here) seems to point out some things in common (while discounting others).
[click to continue…]
Conceited Software has released an updated version of their 1.1.2 Jailbreak application.
I have not personally tested this nor do I have an iPhone or iPhone Touch that I can test it on since my iPhone is already jailbroken using my instructions here, but I’m assuming from some commentary that I have read that it supposedly fixes a lot of issues and complaints that users have posted on my site and others, namely:
- Support for PPC (not just Intel)
- No need to do the craziness with the libreadline stuff (that is documented on my previous post)
- Fixes to YouTube support
- Allowing you to connect to activate without connecting to iTunes (e.g., you don’t need an AT&T account)
There are no instructions posted on Conceited’s website, however, for ease of use, I have republished the contents of the ReadMe.txt file included in the zip download so that you can evaluate what needs to be done and make the decision to do so or not. I make no guarantees that this will work for you and since I have not tried it myself, it may be a bit difficult for me to answer many questions (but feel free to ask). Also, you assume all the risk of trying this on your iPhone or iPhone Touch.
[click to continue…]
It has been a while since I found a really useful iPhone 3rd party application that I really liked. Today I was really pleasantly surprised when I discovered a new release called “iFlix” in my 3rd party application installer.
Created by Brent Jensen, iFlix does (almost) everything that I would want a Netflix queue manager to do. From the Google Code Project Home description:
“Reorder, delete, and add items to your queue. With iFlix, you’ll never need netflix.com again.”
This is simply a great application! I recently purchased Netflix Freak which is a fantastic application for the Mac to manage your queue as well. iFlix does many of the same functions but is not quite as robust (but that is fine with me, especially for a free application). iFlix really stands up well!
[click to continue…]
My previous post showed how I failed miserably with the Jailbreak process on 1.1.2. Now I have done some research and have tried it again…and it WORKED!!!
UPDATE on 11.13.07 @ 3:45pm – added some screenshots of the iNdependence MobileFramework stuff at the end of the post.
UPDATE #2 on 11.15.07 @ 10:30am – added instructions on how to put the “libreadline.5.2.dylib” into the proper directory on your MacÂ
So first, here are the files that I used for this: [click to continue…]
