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[19 Sep 2007 | One Comment | ]

Well, after going through a lot of posts/comments – some people believe that they are not eligible for the store credit cos’ they are using T-Mobile or something else but how about this – borrow a Cingular sim or better yet buy a Cingular Prepaid card for some $10 and then pop the sim in and use the regular unlock procedures. Then hit this link and claim your $100 credit. It is not required that you sign a 2 year contract to get the job done. People residing overseas might …

apple, AT command »

[19 Sep 2007 | 6 Comments | ]

anySIM is confirmed to behave rather odd as far as the unlock procedure is concerned. The sound malfunction and unlock failure following the GUI unlock methods (iUnlock, anySIM) forced me to go the traditional, terminal way as described @ http://iphone.unlock.no/. After a lot of experimenting with different ways to achieving the unlock mentioned at http://iphone.unlock.no/, I was lingering at the bbupdater -v,minicom thingy. I got the minicom thing up but when it was time to do the AT commands, I always got the same ERROR message 🙁 I do the …

0xE8000023, apple, itunes »

[18 Sep 2007 | 2 Comments | ]

0xE8000023 error really did trouble me.It is the error message which iTunes report of while trying to sync your phone. At one point I convinced myself that I bricked my device but somewhere in my mind, I had a feeling that I could overcome it. After hours of restarting my phone and trying to sync the iPhone with iTunes with the sync cable, I thought going to an Apple store will be my last resort. Then I came home, tried one last time with the dock this time and Voilaaaa, …

apple, hack, iphone »

[27 Aug 2007 | 14 Comments | ]

UPDATE : Completely free, no frills iPhone Unlock procedure released to the world. Dump iPhoneSIMFree and visit http://iphone.unlock.no 🙂

The originators – iPhone Dev team failed to release the free unlock so far while many other hacks are being worked out. Only time will tell if iPhoneUnlocking.com team is staging a drama with all the Lawyer from Silicon Valley stuff but GeoHot, the teen who put the hardware unlocked iPhone on eBay has proved it, so did the engadget team with complete proof.
Different approaches for unlocking your iPhone :
1) TurboSIM
Well, …

apple, Hacks, iphone »

[6 Aug 2007 | One Comment | ]

I was astonished to see this update this morning. It works with a SuperSim hack and hey all iPhone lovers around the world, the iPhone is no longer a WiFi iPod!! Many confirmed that they can now make/recieve calls and SMS though YouTube is still arrogant. Probably the developers are not concentrating on YouTube but lots of excitement in store in the next few days!!
What all you need to make this work :
1. iPhone
2. SIM Reader/Writer (Infinity USB Unlimited, Dynamite Programer(I used this) ,etc…)
3. SilverCard
4. V1 SIM card (U must …

apple, iphone, unlock »

[18 Jul 2007 | 6 Comments | ]

A Brilliant Step by Step Tutorial from HacktheiPhone.comWell, the iPhone Hack team finally released a tool called iASign which allows you to use other Cingular, AT&T sims which are not destined to be used with an iPhone. Hence, we could save about $20 by going the iASign way – EDGE is reportedly not that fast and this utility definitely will save money for those who are surrounded by WiFi hotspots all the time!!Download the tool and the source code here.

apple, Hacks, iphone »

[11 Jul 2007 | 2 Comments | ]

At a time when the entire world is abuzz about unlocking the iPhone for other carriers, the iPhone Hack-Team released a snapshot depicting that Application installation on the iPhone is very much possible way before Apple releases them!! They are yet to detail about the process involved in achieving it. Installing applications, setting our own ringtones and a lot more – VERY SOON!! A commercial app known as iPhoneDrive from Ecamm makes life simple for naive users to use their mighty 8/4 GB iPhone for storage purposes!!
See the picture on …

apple, Hacks, iphone, security »

[9 Jul 2007 | 8 Comments | ]

This is the current status of The Mission and good to see words of confidence amongst the team.

People all over the world are eagerly waiting for the BIG news and the hacint0sh guys are at work after a small break,hence the delay in updates they say. Anyways, enthusiasts who bought the iPhone worldwide were reportedly using all of iPhone’s features except for the ‘Phone’ part.
They hit a roadblock working to Unlock the iPhone via BootLoader (‘kin Apple Security!) but they say they have another method to achieve the purpose as …

apple, Hacks, iphone »

[4 Jul 2007 | 8 Comments | ]

Well,the word is (un)officially out from iPhone Dev WiKi and Nanocr confirming that iPhone which has never been activated can be used a glorified iPod with WiFi features. Both the sources followed similar approaches and attained an even similar results – Independence day gift indeed 🙂
Though the entire process of achieving the iPod and WiFi functionalities of iPhone without even doing anything AT&T is recommended forhardcore geeks at the moment cos’ it is pretty complicated. Anyways,the cracks are out and can be accessed from http://iphone.fiveforty.net/wiki/index.php?title=Major_Release and http://nanocr.eu/ – whichever you …