Filipino Programmer | Philippines

iPhone hype is all over, I have read and wrote a few articles about iPhone lately from the announcement to the release we can say that iPhone and Apple had lived up to its hype. In this article I will enumerate “iPhone Hacked” related stories, which is generating public awareness from the time of iPhone release date. Here are a few stories that caught my attention:

iPhone Independence
This blog claims that he could activate the iPod + WiFi capability of iPhone without the phone functionality of a unactivated iPhone. It means you can use your iPhone as iPod and a Wi-Fi device, without paying for AT&T’s two-year service plan. Jon Lech Johansen the DRM-hacking Norwegian programmer stated that :

Note that this application will not do anything unless you understand the magic numbers as well as add the hosts entry.

Since I iPhone is not yet available on my location, I could not confirm if this hack really works. Wondering what does the numbers mean?

Magic iTunes 7.3.0.54 numbers:
Offset 2048912: 33C0C3
Offset 257074: 28
Offset 257013: 33C9B1

I assume this are hex locations of iTunes 7.3.0.54, you need a hex editor. For example offset 2048912 should be replaced by 33C0C3, and so forth.

Add 127.0.0.1 albert.apple.com
to c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

This is fairly simple, it means that instead of contacting albert.apple.com which is the activate server for AT&T and directing it to your local PC. The Phone Activation Server v1.0 is need to be installed along with MS .NET Framework 2.0 to emulate the AT&T server on your local PC.

iPhone SERIAL HACKED, FULL INTERACTIVE SHELL
This is a thread claiming they have hacked the full shell of iPhone. The trick is to a customized serial pinouts by:
6.8k resistor from pin 21 to gnd tie pin 11-sergnd to the real ground
I assume that this is a layout instruction for soldering PCB board ends to the serial pinouts.

use iphoneinterface to send the following commands in recovery mode:
setenv debug-uarts 1
saveenv
reboot
that should work

First, the iphoneinterface is an application developed by iphone enthusiasts over at the #iphone-talk and #iphone-mac channels on irc.osx86.hu. Download links are also available here you can also use the newer version which is said had a nicer recovery feature. By sending the above commands will enable you to use the iPhone’s shell interface.

So what’s next? Well it is not yet confirmed if you can unlock the iPhone with this shell access but the good news is, hackers have gone this far at a small period of time. This is a great step forward the total unlocked iPhone.

For updated news about this you can check this iPhone Dev Wiki site:
iphone.fiveforty.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

And Hackint0sh iPhone forum section:
www.hackint0sh.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=123

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