iPhone unlock and more….

And, for the moment, it cannot be activated anymore! Translation: don’t update.

By the way: also tell your friends in the US not to bring back phones anymore. Wait and see!

It happened! The 1.1.2 and 1.1.3 OTB firmware with bootloader 4.6 have been cracked.

Following a bit of a hardcore method, theses phones can now be fully unlocked!

Stay tuned and allow me some time to test it this week-end!

For the moment, until I write a nice little tutorial, more info can be found here.

How cool is that? With “Listen”, the guys at Erica Sadun have developped a very cool application: recognize the music you’re hearing with your iPhone.

Launch the Listen application, it will sample the music that the iPhone’s mic is hearing and will compare it to a music database to give you back the result.

The application is available from “Installer” on your iPhone or via download from EricaSadun .

Caution: it is very early beta… and it uses network bandwidth… (I don’t know how much…) Users from Switzerland (that means: with cracked iPhones), make sure you are on WiFi… Edge is still very expensive with the Swiss GSM providers…

So, you cannot connect to YouTube?

The very first answer is… are you connected to WiFi? If not, you know what to do…

The second answer is that you need to replace these 3 YouTube fix files in the /var/root/Library/Lockdown folder of your iPhone. So you need to connect to your iPhone via SSH and replace the existing files with the ones from the download above.

Reboot your iPhone and then, usually, it works.

What? That’s not enough? You can only access the bookmarked clips from YouTube? The answer is very simple, even if I don’t understand why this affects YouTube on the iPhone Have a look at the date and time of your iPhone… I’m almost sure that it is set somewhere in 2015… Correct it and it will work!!!

This time, it’s here!

Edit: careful guys… Swirlyspace has not updated the application to work on firmware 1.1.3 and above. So it won’t work on these versions! I’m sure an updated version exists.. but they wait to sell it soon on iTunes

Finally The guys at Swirlyspace have released the first MMS application for the iPhone. It’s called SwirlyMMS and the current version (0.2) works on Swiss networks! Currently, it allows you only to send MMS but they promise an update version for January 08 which should let you receive them as well.

To install it, simply download it in “Installer” (under “Network”) and configure it using the settings below.

If anybody has the settings for Tele2, Orangeclick and the other Swiss MVNOs (Mobile Virtual Network Operators = Operators that do not have their own network but rent one from a “real operator”), please post a comment!

I have tested it on 1.1.1 only for the moment. Please report if it works on 1.1.2 !

SwirlyMMS Settings for Swisscom (Switzerland)

MMSC : mmsc.swisscom.ch
Proxy : 192.168.210.002:8080
APN : event.swisscom.ch
Username : <empty>
Password : <empty>

SwirlyMMS Settings for Sunrise (Switzerland):

MMSC: mmsc.sunrise.ch
Proxy: 212.35.34.75:8080
APN: mms.sunrise.ch
username: mms
password: mms

SwirlyMMS Settings for Orange (Switzerland):

MMSC: 192.168.151.3:8002
Proxy: 192.168.151.002:8080
APN: mms
Username: <empty>
Password: <empty>

Each time you receive a call, the iPhone will check against the address book to see if the incoming number matches any of your contacts. If it does, it displays the name instead of the incoming number.

On the iPhone, this does not work, because it checks the entire number instead of the last X digits. As you can enter a number in various ways in your address book (+41791234567, 0791234567, 0041 79 123 45 67, …), it will often mismatch and display the number instead of the contact name.

For the 1.1.2 iPhone, it is very easy:

- Go to “Settings” > “General” > “International”

- In “Region Format”, choose the one that fits your region. Note: for the French part of Switzerland, go to “French” and select “Switzerland”. For the German part, it’s the same principle.

- Your incoming calls will now match your address book!

For the 1.1.1 iPhone, it is easy… but a bit less

Our friends from the DevTeam have recoded the files and our other friend from unlock.no has put a simple installer in its repository. This makes it very easy for you to fix the issue:

- On your iPhone, go to Installer application (yes, you have it…)

- On the bottom right, go to “Sources”

- Tap “Edit” (top right) and then “Add” (top left)

- In the window type “http://i.unlock.no” and tap “OK”

- It will refresh the sources, wait for a few seconds

- Tap “Done” (top right) and “Install” (bottom, second from the left)

- Scroll down to the category “Unlocking Tools”, tap on it and select “Phone # to name fix”

- Tap “Install” (top right), confirm… and here we go!

Your annoyed because the Voicemail button does not work on your iPhone?

Reconfigure the button to dial your own voicemail:

- Get to your iPhone’s number keyboard

- Type *5005*86*xxx# (where xxx is your voicemail number). In Switzerland, the standard number is +4186YYYYYYYYYY (where YYYYYYYYYY is your phone number: ex: 079 123 45 67). Example for a Swiss number: type *5005*86*+41860791234567#

- Press the “Call” button, wait a few seconds… and it’s done! Now, when you tap the Voicemail button, it will dial your own voicemail.

Remark: you can also configure it with your national number (0791234567) instead of the international one (+41791234567), but it won’t work when you are roaming…

Tested on 1.1.1 (unlocked with AnySIM 1.1) and 1.1.2 (OTB with Turbo SIM)