Jailbreak iPad (WiFi or WiFi + 3G) 3.2.1 Problems

A quick tip I’ve noticed for all those trying to Jailbreak their iPad (WiFi or WiFi + 3G) running 3.2.1. If you’re using Jailbreakme.com on your iPad a lot of people are getting the error “file received was invalid”.

There just so happens to be a very quick and easy fix for this. First go to Settings and press “Safari”, swipe down to the bottom and press the “Clear Cache” button.

Now relaunch Safari and try Jailbreakme.com, everything should be working perfectly! This only works on 3.2.1 and not 3.2.2 as of right now, but who knows what the future… read more

Load a Nexus One with the HTC Desire ROM

I put this blog entry together because I could not find a complete guide on how to install the HTC Desire ROM on a Nexus One, instead I actually had to piece it together from different blogs. I hope this saves you guys a lot of time and a lot of searching.

Prerequisites

First of all, you’ll need a few things to get started. You’ll need the Android SDK (link), Nexus One USB Drivers (link), and to put your phone in debug mode (Settings > Applications > Development > USB debugging).

After your device is in USB debugging… read more

Cross Browser Minimum Height (CSS)

A issue in my coding life is dealing with IE6 and making things work in it and Firefox (among other browsers). One thing I’ve learned to deal with successfully is putting minimum heights on DIVs. Some people may put a “spacer” image or DIV inside the parent DIV to stretch it out. The problem with that, is sometimes it can be buggy.

Here’s my solution:

#div_name {
    min-height:500px;
    height:auto !important;
    height:500px;
}

Firefox will go off of the min-height property, however, IE will ignore that and will render the element according to the height property.… read more