iPhone Unlocked

It looks like the last progress report from the iPhone Dev Wiki team was premature. Things sound like they’ve totally turned around in the last hour or so. They almost have free reign on the iPhone, and this freedom puts them in a much better position to hack the unlocking functions.

I’m still honoring their request not to link directly to their site.

Update: The team has released two tools, one which allows you to activate the iPhone without an AT&T account or iTunes. The other gives system level access to the live iPhone operating system. Read about them and digg it if you like it.

So, it looks like I was a little premature about some things. We can run any file, we can start and stop things on iPhone at will, we can get files on the phone and put them where ever we like, and we can get into the bootloader and commands are successful (though we can’t read the output yet). We have essentially totally reversed the restore process and totally own several things on the phone. Our technique is based around doing interesting things with restore, and while I can’t publish any code yet, I promise you we will put some information up tonight when we get finished hacking. We will also still do a major tonight, as promised.

Tomorrow will bring some more work on the tool we are releasing, which will allow you to do much more with the phone. I cannot stress enough how close we are to the internals of the phone, and the closer we get, the more opportunity we have to mess with the unlock functions themselves.