Unlock iPhone’s potential
Cool, someone has figured out the iPhone field test mode, which shows some interesting, if esoteric, infomation.
Want to take a look at what’s going on inside your iPhone? Dial *3001#12345#* and hit Call and you’ll get access to the special field test mode of the iPhone. This mode is designed to allow technicians and Apple reps to get information on the inner workings of the iPhone and the cell phone network it talks to.
Inside the iPhone field test mode
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There is a nice writeup of how to add custom ringtones to the iPhone. MacOS X users only, for now, unfortunately (Update: Now available for windows).
Custom iPhone Ringtones
Custom ringtones are one of the biggest requests by people that want to modify their iPhone to make it unique. This page will teach you how to add your own files to the iPhone to use as a ringtone. The only thing preventing Windows users from doing this is the lack of someone to write the interface program.
The news just broke, the UK iPhone franchise has gone to 02, which is owned by Telefonica of Spain. Sales will begin “shortly.” This strongly suggests a 3G iPhone will ship somewhere before the end of the year.
iPhone in UK goes to Telefonica’s 02 at European iPhone News
The news just broke, the UK iPhone franchise has gone to 02, which is owned by Telefonica of Spain. Sales will begin “shortly.”
My understanding is that O2’s network in the UK is all 3G, without any support for EDGE. If so, it suggests that 3G iPhones may be available in the US sooner rather than later, if only via the gray market.
It looks like some of the rumors were true , and others were BS
Update 8/21: The iphone has been fully unlocked, but there is still some work to do before it becomes practical
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I just checked the iPhone dev wiki and saw this announcement:
We need help unlocking the radio. We can issue AT commands. Can you help? Join us on IRC!
This is pretty major. They’ve had to get through many layers of defenses to get to this point. It now remains to be seen what the defenses are like in the inner sanctum.
It already looks like it won’t be easy:
“We know how to unlock the phone. Unfortunately the commands needed gave “Permission Denied” errors. We did find a reference to a hardware register that causes “Permission Denied” error in the bootloader, but we cannot software patch the bootloader because it is signed. The only way I see around it is JTAG, which we currently know nothing about. Or possibly in DFU mode. I think we may just be better off accessing the radio through user mode.”
If they succeed, it will be possible to use the core phone features (ie not visual voicemail) with T- Mobile in the US, and other GSM carriers around the world. It remains to be seen whether you will be able to use it with other EDGE networks, and how quickly Apple plugs the holes.
If you think you can help, check this out:
<geohot[sleep]> first person to send me an ida db fully disasm of http://www.gofilego.com/?fileid=a812bf8b92dab591c29689aeba369e839acf5079 gets windows jailbreak w itunes working.
Join them on #iphone-dev on fusion.osx86.hu. Just don’t ask stupid questions, that’s what #iphone is for :).
