iPhone 3G - Tips and Tricks #1

Alot of stuff can only be done when your iPhone is so called "Jailbroken". Meaning using a 3rd party software to force it install some kind of installer applications. I have found out "Cydia" and "Installer" are the 2 popular installer applications. With these installer applications, you are able to add sources which allows you to download any kind of stuff you can ever imagine.

Inaddition, when "Jailbroken", you can installed OpenSSH, thus allowing you to access the filesystem .... But still there are still numerous basic stuff which you can so called tweak without getting it "Jailbroken".

How to lock you iPhone ?
Under Settings/General/Auto-Lock, you are allowed to set the time that is required to lapse before the iPhone get locked. But minimum is 1 minute, pressing the power button locked it immediately

How to display contact's mobile number in 9XXX XXXX ?
Under Settings/General/International/Region Format, you have to change it to Singapore.

How to know the current iPhone's firmware ?
Under Settings/General/About/Version. In addition, numerous information are found here. They are network, number of songs, number of videos, number of photos, capacity, available, serial number, model, wi-fi address, bluetooth, IMEI, ICCID and modem firmware.

To be continued ....