Apple Crippling iBooks On Jailbroken iPhone?
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Apple Crippling iBooks On Jailbroken iPhone?
If you’ve jailbroken your iPhone using greenpois0n, Redsn0w then you might have noticed that you’re not able to open some eBooks using the iBooks app.
Comex, member of iPhone Dev team and developer of jailbreaking tools like JailbreakMe and Spirit has figured out what might be causing the problem.
Comex explains:
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Hi, Well I'm using iBooks and everything seems to be ok.I just use it for my own epub books that I create with the software "Calibre".
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ShapaPooee
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COMEX is awesome nice work man..
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...and that is why I don't make purchases (except Apps) from iTunes... I buy music/vids/books/etc from other sources.
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dev team just released pwnage tool for iOS 4.2.1 include fix for iBooks by @comex check it iphonehacks!!!!!
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That's why Issaelk. Any book you purchased on Apple (like Winnie the Pooh) won't open and you get an error message. Anything books that you imported through your iTunes library or Calibre works fine. I love Calibre its awesome and converts any format. I only have the one ebook from Apple, everything else I open in iBooks works fine.
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Seems pretty lame for Apple to sabotage their own iBook interface. Preventing someone from opening books that were purchased from Apple is a great way to stop people from buying books from Apple. I think they may want to rethink this.
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how about fixing the GPS issue with 6.15.00 on 3g's and 3gs's. Stupid baseband trick!
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2nd!!!I mean I second this notion - great work Comex!
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Maybe it was unintenional you never know, but unlikely, still you gotta love apple
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I agree. Buy your books from Amazon. Buy your music from Amazon. Get your purchases (except apps) from anywhere else but Apple. I love my iPhone, more so after jailbreaking it, but I do not enjoy their proprietary file system. I get all my music, books, etc from anywhere else I can. That way, I can listen to that music, read my books on any other device I want.
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I'm running 4.1 and I get the error but all I do is keep opening the book in iBooks and the file opens without anymore issues. Did anyone try this with the latest jailbreak on 4.2.1.? Will it work the same?
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you would think apple would use this "feature" for apps that were pirated. not legit books. so are they telling us that its okay to pirate apps but it will cost you ibooks?
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well done comex. we all comex alot for the hard work he puts into jailbreaks, fixes and keeping his fans upto date with what he doing next.hats off to ya. good honest hacker
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Well I'm sure glad I cant read! Nothing to concern Me here : )
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snowbreeze 2.2 is out
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who the hell would bother trying to read an e-book an the iphone anyways....
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Yes, the ibook crashs when i up grade to the newest version, fu*king apple
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ibooks crashes fixed in pwanage tool and sn0wbreezecheck the official sites
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Apple will murder the iPhone. They have lost it.
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Note to self, Apple hates people who read.
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IBooks is for n00bs. They are so limited and it is the second worst piece of itunes (ping is the worst).
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the newest hunnypot fix dont work on vzw iphones
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Hmm apple just released an update for ibooks
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Best part? The few I have downloaded not on iTunes have been fine... Basically apple is only screwing themselves over as the store itself is limited yet you can download ebooks and pubs from other sources and they work perfect... Apple should seriously rethink their iBook notion in fact their whole jailbreak notion...
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This jailbreak also seems to break photo uploading in the Facebook app.
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Apple wouldn't want their customers to become too inteligent. They might discover the meaning of the word "monopoly" lol.
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I have not purchased any book through iBooks, I have downloaded some of the free ones, but if I am going to buy an eBook, I will buy it through Amazon, Kobo or one of the other cross-platform options, then if I need to replace my phone, I am not stuck with an iPhone.
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Oh, also, I have my phone jailbroken and I upload photos via Facebook app all the time with no problems.
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Since using the greenpois0n JB update I have not been able to update Apps (unrelated to iBooks). Is this related to the iBooks issue? Will the greenpois0n iBooks fix also fix this issue? Thanks!
