The iPhone Wiki:Community portal

This is the place to post tasks that need to be done on the wiki. Also this is the place for proposed changes. I heard about people wanting a favicon and arranging the main page into categories.

Site Related Requests

iPhone Compatibility

Well the wikis startpage (and maybe other pages) do not display really good on the iphone ;) -- M2m 16:11, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

Well, I think it's good enough. Ok, it's not optimized, but it's ok. If we improve the startpage to have only one column, then that would look ugly on a PC. I work a lot in here from my iPhone. The biggest problem is the edit box. You cannot really edit big texts from your iPhone. But that's a problem of the Wiki itself (Mediawiki) and we cannot fix that just by changing texts or layout. -- http 22:25, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

On all textboxes, use 2 fingers to scroll --Balloonhead66 02:52, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

Logo

The Logo should be updated as the wiki is no longer iPhone only but (I think) all iOS devices (or a larger part of it). Possibly also a new URL? theioswiki (but i know this is not as easy) -- M2m 16:09, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

A new URL would be something that Geohot would have to do. But although this is not only about iPhones, that doesn't mean we have to change the logo or the URL. At the beginning there was the iPhone and the iPod touch. Now only the iPad has come to the family. Nothing really new. -- http 22:25, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

Isn't the new AppleTV said to be running iOS as well ? ;) --M2m 23:22, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

Yes --Balloonhead66 00:07, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

I could design a new logo that has all the iOS family on it including all generations of the phone and the ipod touch, ATV, and iPad if it is still wanted... --Locke

Merge pages

/private/var is the correct name and has a better description, but /var has a full folder listing. --Ryccardo 12:33, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

Dealt with. :) --Dialexio 02:58, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

I think Sierra_7C108b and SwitchBoard.app should be merged. Or are there any differences that I misunderstood? --http 22:13, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

I wouldn't merge the two since SwitchBoard.app is in Sierra 7C108b, but it's not exclusive to that build. --Dialexio 00:09, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

I understand. Ok, no merge. But currently both are about the app. We should put that content into SwitchBoard.app and focus Sierra 7C108b more on the firmware then (would be very short right now). Also we should delete one of the two images. What do you think? --http 03:10, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

Agreed. Both of the screenshots show different "apps" though, so it might be best to keep both images. --Dialexio 03:41, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

Hackers and Teams

We have only one page for IH8sn0w, but with this name we have both things: the person and the team. I'm not sure how to do this. He is listed as a member of his group. Also all referals should distinguish then, that's quite difficult. He himself also had no idea. Maybe a new page with IH8sn0w team where the current content should go to? -- http 19:20, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

A similar problem exists for chronic. It is split already: User:ChronicDev (user) and Chronic Dev (team). I think we should rename the team to Chronic Dev Team, although this is not their official name, but it helps to distinguish. What do you think? -- http 19:27, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

We could use parentheses, such as iH8sn0w (team) and Chronic Dev (team). Alternatively, we could use prefixes, like Team:iH8sn0w and Team:Chronic Dev. --Dialexio 19:56, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

Parentheses sounds good. Prefix is more wiki-internal stuff for me. -- http 06:03, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

Thanks Dialexio for going ahead with this. We now have a few disambiguation pages, but they are not marked as such (see Special:Disambiguations). I don't know how to mark them with this template. Do you? -- http 06:43, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

I tried to see if I could get it to work (using the Chronic Dev page for testing), but I can't figure out why it won't appear on the Special:Disambiguations. --Dialexio 15:43, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

Baseband: Processor vs. Platform

All right, so The iPhone Wiki has articles about baseband processors. However, the XMM 6180 is about the baseband platform. The wiki mostly references baseband processors, but I'm a bit reluctant to go that route since it was Oranav, who definitely knows more about the baseband than me, that changed the article from baseband processor to baseband platform. I'd like to keep things consistent, so should we stick with referencing it by processor or platform? This inconsistency is bugging the crap out of me. --Dialexio 06:19, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

Will this site keep running?

I'm enjoying learning about the highly technical side to the iPhone, but after what's happened with geohot, will this site continue? -- MaybachMan 16:46, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

Yes it will continue. I had the same question and geohot already answered that on his talk page. --http 18:46, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

That's great to hear, thank you. MaybachMan

REQUEST

Can somebody please make a wiki page on how to boot the device into Recovery mode via itunesmobiledevice?

Thank you! --Johnnyfranks67 18:11, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

Cleanup orphaned pages

The orphaned pages should be cleaned up. Possible work:

• most of those pages need to get updated
• add a link on another page to it, so that it's not orphaned anymore
• The main page and some disambiguation pages may remain orphaned.
• Some pages are really old, outdated and not worth to get updated. In this case add a deletion request to its talk page.
• Maybe we need a new overview page that links to some of these pages (e.g. my request for a Beta Firmware page, see Talk:VFDecrypt_Keys:_3.x_BETA#STOP)
• Please note that links with a prefix don't count for this list, so that pages that only appear on a Category page also appear in this list. To get the full links list, go to the page and click "what links here".

I started with a little cleanup already. --http 10:02, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

VFDecrypt GUIs

I don't mean to sound like a dictator, but I'd like to request for no more VFDecrypt GUIs to be added here. There are more than enough of them, so I feel there really isn't a need to add any more. Whenever a new one arises, an argument spews over about its usefulness, as well as whether it belongs on this wiki. These arguments clog up the Recent changes page, making it tougher to keep an eye on things with the wiki. So, once again, I'd like to ask for no more VFDecrypt GUIs to have a place on this wiki. As of now, this is NOT a rule that will be imposed. It's just a polite request, nothing more. --Dialexio 19:35, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

I'd ask for GUI's of all kinds, such as VFDecrypt, iRecovery, and so on. Anyone can make a GUI. It takes a real hacker to write a program. --dra1nerdrake 22:52, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

We only have 3 publiclly available ones + 2 in development --Balloonhead66 00:14, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

I saw this coming when the new page for GiRecovery (Zeratul) first appeared some months ago. This Wiki is not intended to promote these tools. I didn't want to just delete the page though. One way we could go: Make sure all applications (including highly recognized ones and jailbreak apps like Limera1n) will get listed on an overview Tools page. It should be categorized by tool purpose and operating system. Maybe also by related iOS firmware. As soon as this works well, we just have to assure that not anybody adds new tools there. For example by having two users request a new entry (without the author). We can start this Tools page in any case. Initially we can include all these useless GUI apps already existing here also. -- http 07:38, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

We could delete the original pages and merge them with the page of the original app in a subsection. To be honest, though, I still don't see the point of having 4 softwares that do the same thing with the same features. --Ryccardo 09:22, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

All of them just decrypt. But mine will have 7zip integration to extract it for you and possibly look up the key automatically based on the Dmg name... --Balloonhead66 14:28, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

iPhone Related Requests

See: Unsolved problems

Keys/ivs for 4.0 beta 1/2/3 need to be updated. Many of them on are on the Internet, but not on here. Related pages:

• VFDecrypt_Keys:_4.x_BETA
• Beta Firmware