iPhone Hacks · Hacks, Cracks, Mods, Homebrew, Utilities

The Operator has released a simple Toolchain Helper responsible for copying the iPhone’s file system to your Mac. You’re granted two options:

1. Copy Core Filesystem
2. Copy Full Filesystem.

“Copy Core Filesystem” copies everything but your media files & preferences (MP3s, pictures, etc…). So obviously it’s faster if your iPhone is packed full of goodies. While, you guessed it, “Copy Full Filesystem” does the whole shebang. Great tool for developers or simply poking around.

Kudos Op.

Note: This app only works when the iPhone is in “jailbreak” mode.

Download: Toolchain Helper 1.0.2

Presenting bitSplit’s most recent iFuntastic release, version 2.1.0 b001. iFuntastic for Mac OS X allows anyone to easily customize their iPhone, and I mean easily. Truly — it’s user-friendly to the max! Custom ringtones, set a new carrier logo, rearrange the home screen, you name it — all customizable!

Very nicely done bitSplit!

Download: iFuntastic 2.1.0 b001

- source: iphonealley

Told you to check back for a release, “Hello World” — the first 3rd party app for the iPhone. Released is a binary from the iPhone dev community. As well, for those with the toolchain installed and/or have a curious mind, the source code is available.

These are the steps I took…

• Perform jailbreak
• Get Dropbear-SSH working on the iPhone — follow this guide.
• Copy the ‘hello’ binary to /bin using iPhoneInterface — putfile /bin/hello
• SSH to your iPhone
• Type: /bin/chmod +x /bin/hello
• Type: /bin/hello

Voila!

Now that we have a functioning toolchain, what’s left? Unlocking the iPhone!

Download: Hello World (bin) | Hello World (src)

- source: #iphone @ irc.osx86.hu

GregCube has his iPhone (even though we live in Toronto, Canada).

Of course have access to the iPhone, without iTunes and AT&T sign-up (see below). We love it. It’s a great device for surfing on a Wi-Fi network, and the Google Maps app is awsome, as is the iPod album art browsing. Now, we impatiently await the final hack–allowing us to connect to any Edge cell network (Rogers, for us here in T.O.). What’s the hold up guys? You need green? Ok–folks, let’s send some money to the hackers, here. No drinking beer this weekend until the job is done!

The iPhone hacks continue to poor in… Introducing new keyboard preferences! Using the supplied “Keyboard.plist” (thanks to zhivago) you are now granted the option of enabling/disabling the Auto-correction feature. The default preferences remain fully intact; as per the screen shot below…

The iPhone preferences application (Preferences.app) contains numerous .plist files. See for yourself by navigating to /Applications/Preferences.app via iPhoneInterface (w/ jailbreak) or SSH. If you don’t know what you’re doing, I suggest not messing with these files — just in case.

Download: Modified Keyboard.plist

- source: zhivago @ hackint0sh

Another guide, courtesy of cre.ations.net, is available for iPhone owners who actually have a working data plan; yes, unfortunately, you require phone/data service to use this hack.

Tethering essentially allows the iPhone to act as a modem permitting access to the Internet over your carrier’s EDGE network. It’s ideal for those with laptops who are always on-the-move, especially if there are no open WiFi spots nearby. It’s unfortunate, being in Canada, I don’t have a service plan to test this method.

Using an iPhone-compiled version of srelay, an open source SOCKS proxy server, you can now Tether your way to the Internet. Download the package below and click the source link.

Download: iPhone Tethering Kit

- source: cre.ations.net

Update: The Operator has upped iActivator to v1.1, fetch the update below.

Stemming from the combined effort of the iPhone Dev community, “The Operator” has released iActivator — a stand alone Cocoa-based application for the Mac. iActivator is a simple graphical interface providing iPhone activation/deactivation tools, and methods for breaking/restoring the jail. Take your time, carefully read through the bundled README, and good luck!

Download: iActivator 1.1

- source: http://iphone.fiveforty.net/wiki/index.php/IActivator

Can’t say I didn’t see this coming… Looks like the iPhone root password which was discovered almost immediately after launch isn’t that useless after all. It’s “dottie” by the way.

Dropbear (PSP users may recollect the name from ZX-81’s port) is now functional on the iPhone! For those unaware, Matt’s Dropbear is a light-weight SSH2 server & client running on various POSIX-based platforms. Now thanks to the entire iPhone dev community, you can SSH directly to your iPhone — browse around, copy/update files, etc… Very cool!

Again, the procedure is a bit tedious; it requires several iPhone-related tools and some technical understanding — nevertheless, it works! Thanks to NerveGas for the well written tutorial, and of course the entire iPhone dev team.

Download the necessary tools before proceeding…

• jailbreak (Windows | Mac)
• iPhoneInterface (Windows | Mac)
• iPhone-SSH kit
• iPhone binaries kit

All set? Read tutorial.

Nightwatch, Tmiw, Darkten, and Daeken, over at the iPhone Dev Wiki, have successfully compiled and launched the first “Hello World” application on the iPhone. Achieving such a feat definitely gives true potential to fully unlocking this bad boy. Hello World is made possible by the ARM/Mach-O Toolchain that has been in development for some time now.

the Dev Team quotes:

After many, many hours of intense work from “Nightwatch”, the first independent “Hello World”* application has been compiled and launched on the iPhone. This was made possible using the “ARM/Mach-O Toolchain”, Nightwatch’s “special project”, that he has been working on so carefully over the past few weeks. Certain parts of the toolchain (such as the assembler) are being refined and tested and these will be released as soon as possible.

It should be noted that Nightwatch has been instrumental in creating these tools, working in near isolation to get them finished. Nightwatch was also responsible for the “jail exploit” that he developed from information he and other members of the the dev team discovered.

Amazing work!

Share your appreciation with the dev team on IRC — #iphone @ irc.osx86.hu. Check back later for a release. :)

Quite the breakthrough this morning… Just waking up to see that the iPhone Dev team; the very talented crew behind all the effort in tearing apart & unlocking this device, have discovered a method in activating existing AT&T / Cingular SIM cards without signing a new contract. The tool used is iASign, and well, it does just as I mentioned above by generating an activation plist given a private RSA key.

So, as many people already noticed, using iASign, you’ll be able to activate existing AT&T and Cingular Sims without signing a new contract. We think it should work with virtual AT&T operators as well (i.e. the ones using the same network code), but we couldn’t find someone to actually confirm it yet. You can get a list of those virtual operators at http://www.prepaidgsm.net/en/usa.html. Please note that TracFone and Net10 won’t work due to some technical details. If anyone could try it out on one of those prepaid cards, that would be great.

By the way, for those of you looking for this “DeviceID”, on a Mac (so on _your computer_) it’s the name of the .plist file in ~/Library/lockdown. We’ll probably release a more automated tool later, once we find some time for those tasks.

As requested, we won’t link directly to the iPhone Dev Wiki, but if you wish to receive all the latest up-to-date news, you can find the crew on IRC — #iphone @ irc.osx86.hu.

Download: iASign (see README — it’s important!)