- Get a Windows machine with administrator rights. Windows running inside Parallels doesn’t work, as the Windows iTunes will not see the iPhone’s USB connection.
- Install iTunes 7.3.0.54. Get it from Apple. (mirror) (via Softzilla :: iTunes 7.3.0.54)
- Install UltraEdit 32.
- Download Phone Activation Server v1.0. (mirror)
- Using notepad or any other text editor, edit the file “c:\ windows\ system32\ drivers\ etc\ hosts” and add the following line:
127.0.0.1 albert.apple.com
- Backup the file iTunes.exe on C:\Program Files\iTunes.
- Edit iTunes.exe using UltraEdit32. Press CTRL-G, enter “2048912“, write “33 C0 C3“. Then Offset 257074, enter “28“. Finally offset “257013“, enter “33 C9 B1“. Save the file and close UltraEdit32.
- Make sure nothing is running and using the port 80. (e.g. no HTTP server running)
- Start the Phone Activation Server v1.0 application.
- Plug the iPhone and start iTunes.
- iPhone will activate after some seconds and will show some message like “Invalid SIM card”. Slide it to continue.
- Have Fun!
Info via Jon Johansen’s Blog and The iPhone Development Wiki.
If only you could use the phone to make calls…
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(…) How to Crack the iPhone
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Nuno, now you can
If only I could spend that amount of money on a phone :-p
(…) This document describes how to get the iPhone working on the Vodafone GR network in a few steps. If you encounter problems, see [1] and [2] which have more detailed descriptions than mine.
Have a US friend buy you an iPhone and FedEx it to you. That’ll cost you about 470€.
Plug it in to your PC using the USB connector. It’ll ask you to activate it; don’t do that yet.
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Are these steps only for cracking the iPhone for a specific operator and for a specific country. And does any1 know a website having details on how to crack the version 1.1.X. Pls reply ASAP…
@Moe: the 1.1.1 is crackable, just do a search. The crack looked a little bit unstable (either the AnySim, or the SummerBoard). For the 1.1.2, it seems to be possible via some combination of firmware downgrades and upgrades, but I haven’t tested it.
(…) Tuesday, November 06, 2007
How to Crack the iPhone
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Top five shortcomings of the why iphone sucks? according to Newlaunches:
1. 2-megapixel camera when others have 5-megapixel shooters on board
2. 5-hour talk time: not enough battery life
3. No expansion slot. Go for the 8-gig model and that’s it.
4. No 3G: EDGE is so last year
5. No removable battery: You mean we can’t take along a spare battery? WTF?
@Kris Lee: you should not trust everything that gets published and instead have your own opinion
1. there are laws of physics that can’t be broken down. Yes, the iPhone 2MP camera is not the best sensor in the market, but most 5MP mobile devices out there can be even worse. If you put 5MP in a sensor the same size as the 2MP, the image quality just degrades and the noise level will be unbearable. For example, the 3MP camera of the SonyEricsson K800i is way better than the 5MP camera of the N95.
2. 5 hour talk time is more than most devices out there, when used in real live. There is no such device I used that lasts as long, both on talk time and standby time, than the iphone, and I do work in a telco company. Since the blackberrys (when they were still 2.5G) and the K750i, the iPhone is the only device that lasts weeks in standby mode.
3. 8G is more than enough and more than all devices out there. Only recently 8G (and 16G) memory cards appear, and they’re all SD(HC), when the devices have moved to mini sd and can’t reach that memory size. The physical state waste of a memory card slot would make the iPhone much bigger. See also 5.
5. A removable battery uses double the physical state - the connectors, space between the battery and the device, the cover, etc. But yes, I can partially agree that when the battery dies (and they do a lot), it will be a pain to take it back to apple, specially outside the US and the Apple shops.
4. Like they say, it’s not the size that matters, but what one does with it. Although 3G is the future, it’s still not there. 2.5G++ (and then EDGE) have been around for enough time to get it fully optimized, both on the network and on the devices, whilst 3G is still too immature and too far away from the theoretical benefit. Also, it’s not only the bandwidth that matters, but the quality and speediness of the software. In practice, it’s much faster and pleasant to browser and read email and see videos and etc. on the iPhone, than in any other 3G device. Just try to browse a page on the iPhone and EDGE, and on a N95 on 3G+ or HSDPA, and tell me which one is the faster one. (if you could even open the page on the N95 without a memory exhaustion).
The iPhone is not perfect? Of course it isn’t. But Apple has to be recognized by having done something much better, on the first attempt, than all other manufactures have done after years of trying.
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