How Can I Record Video with my iPhone? [iPhone 101]

One of the major gripes about iPhone is the lack of video recording capabilities. But, that hasn’t stopped some brave souls from making that possible.

To get this cool functionality in your iPhone, you’d have to jailbreak your iPhone.

1. You can use one of our jailbreaking guides to jailbreak your iPhone

  1. How to Jailbreak iPhone 2.1 Firmware with QuickPwn
  2. How to jailbreak iPhone using Quickpwn GUI

2. Get a free jailbreak app like Cycorder from Cydia that lets you record videos with your iPhone camera.

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3. Use jailbreak app like Qik to live stream your video so your friends or family can watch it on the web. if you are wondering what that is, even Ashton Kutcher is Qikking.

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As you can see I was in the basement with no signal but was Qikking with wi-fi.

If you are wary of jailbreaking, it hasn’t ever been easier. Just check out the first guide which is the most recent one. It took me less than 20 minutes to jailbreak it. Also, if you are not so sure about jailbreaking here’s the lowdown.

It has opened up so many more possibilities like adding custom themes, Cydia apps that we can’t find in AppStore because Apple thinks it’s not good enough for us.


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  • iphone 3g

    cycorder is great, but it has a missing feature, it doesn´t upload the videos to youtube or something.iphone 3gs last blog post..VideoRecorder and snapture finally ported to Iphone 2.0!

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  • shriya

    iphone 3g, we are all about sharing love but please use your name instead of a keyword. We do have do-follow enabled in our blog but we would rather talk to people with names. Sorry, we do like your comments and your views.

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  • http://www.iphonerat.com/iphone/how-to-unlock-iphone-3g/ Diego

    ok, sorry, i will use my name next time :D

    Diegos last blog post..VideoRecorder and snapture finally ported to Iphone 2.0!

  • shriya

    Diego, thank you! :-) Glad to see you again.

  • KignKac

    Not a bad app I like it very much but wish it could have both Youtube and email option to send out videos. As always the free apps are the best ones hope that does not change.

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    Ho do I upload my movies onto my 3g iphone. Its easy when I put them on my iPob touch but I’ve never been able to put any on my iphone

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