A few days ago another tremendous breakthrough was achieved by the iPhone Dev Team. The skilled individuals behind the iPhone unlocking movement have successfully developed a program responsible for dumping the baseband chip’s NOR memory.

NOR memory is dumped while in the bootloader’s interactive mode; the resulting file will contain the bootloader, the main code, and the eeprom. Somewhere in that mess of binary data is what we’re looking for! ;)

Just a couple of days ago we managed to extract the full content of the NOR memory (from the S-Gold2), which is the main key to achieving a true unlock. Releasing this dump would be of course illegal and risky, as it contains personal information and copyrighted code. That said, we’re going to release the NOR Dumper binary to enable everyone else to continue working on the iPhone’s unlocking. We’ll release the source code at a later date when we feel it is mature enough to do so.

To use iPhone NOR Dumper:

• copy NORDumper to /usr/bin
• set the executable flag with chmod (chmod +x /usr/bin/NORDumper)
• add <key>Disabled</key><true/> to /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.CommCenter.plist and reboot
• type: NORDumper dump.bin

Download: NOR Dumper

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