iPhone Hacking

iPhone 3G Jailbreak

2008-07-16T19:51:00.000-07:00

While you wait for the iPhone Dev Team to release their iPhone 2.0 jailbreak, you can follow along on the antics of the various iphone dev teams .

http://blog.iphone-dev.org/

Be sure to read the comments to get a good idea about what people on the internet are like these days. It's quite funny.

Meanwhile, some of the hackers of the original iphone have gone on to creating apps for the itunes app store. With suspected 10 million phones out there by the end of the year, if you put your $5 app on the app store and 1% of the iphone popluation buys it, you are making some nice cash even after apple takes their 30% cut. I like those odds, however i fear the cat is out of the bag and every app that could be made is already in development. it will be the guys that can get in there first that will really make out big.

Anyways, if your new to app store, be sure to check out:
Pandora
AOL Radio
Tap Tap Revolution
Aurora Feint
Where
which are some of my favorite freebies.

iPhone SDK Tutorials

2008-04-05T09:34:00.000-07:00

Here are some useful tutorials that I found in my quest to learn more about Cocoa Touch:

http://zone12.co.uk/iCode/?p=7#more-7

iPhone Native Application Button Click

iPhone - Cocoa Touch Tutorial Video

Install iPhone Hacks and Apps in 1 click

2007-11-04T06:37:00.000-08:00

Direct Safari to jailbreakme.com and click install AppSnapp...
that’s it, your done

Enjoy you new iphone apps!

Great work by the developers for bringing this all together to make this happen.

iPhone Hacks and Customizations

2007-10-11T19:20:00.000-07:00

Here are a few of my favorite iphone dev community websites and forums.

iPhone Dev Docs

iPhone Dev Team Wiki

hackint0sh.org iPhone Forums

More on the way...

iPhone SIP Client and other 3rd party apps

2007-08-04T21:50:00.000-07:00

Unlocking the iphone aside, the third party apps that are coming out now are very interesting. I think the holy grail hack for this device is a SIP client. If you are anywhere within wifi you will be able to use your iphone to make sip calls through your asterisk server or some other voip provider. My bets are on gizmo being the first to roll this out.

So far there have been two GUI iPhone Apps:
MobileTerminal
Tetris & Tic Tac Toe

And Lots of command line based programs and hacks:
SSH on the iphone
Wifi adhoc tethering

And so it begins... As if it didn't already have enough, this device is going to be able to do some amazing things soon thanks to clever hacks and software put out by the iphone development community.

iPhone Skins - Decal Graphics for your iPhone

2007-07-26T20:59:00.001-07:00

Decalgirl has posted up some iPhone skins. I purchased a Wii skin from them a while back and it's looking great still after many months of use.

If your wondering how they got the screen to look like that, each skin comes with a wallpaper that you put on your iphone to complete the style across the entire front and back of the phone. For only $6.99 it seems like a pretty good deal. I wish decalgirl would let you submit (or even sell) your own designs. Then we could have some fun with this.

I will order one to try it out, and post some pics letting you know if it's worth it or not. Stay tuned.

Check out all of these iPhone Skins

HOWTO: Modify the iPhone's Main Menu

2007-07-26T20:32:00.000-07:00

Here are some step by step instructions on how to modify the graphics on your iPhone to put in your own carrier logo, add additional buttons to the main menu, and change the graphics for your application shortcuts.

Getting Started

Warning: It's pretty hard to brick an iphone beyond repair, however we should warn you that you are doing things that were not meant to be done to your phone and must accept responsibility for your actions. If you screw up your phone, it is your own fault.

First if you have not read the tutorials on how to add your own ringtones, I suggest you start there. These guys have done a great job explaining how to access the iPhone's Filesystem and upload your own files, which is key to getting this mod to work..

There are 2 tutorials for doing this: Windows Tutorial Mac Tutorial

The software you need can be downloaded from the author's website:
http://www.wotan.org/jailbreak11.zip

007 Replacement Graphics

These are the PNG files I used, just right click and 'save as' keeping the name intact. Save them to the folder where your iPhoneInterface app is located. You can use any standard PNG. Nothing special needs to be done to the files just needs the correct name to overwrite the default image.

icon.png

Default_CARRIER_ATT.png

FSO_CARRIER_ATT.png

I hope Sony won't mind that I'm borrowing their 007 graphic, they've got enough PR problems as it is.
007 is a trademark of Sony Pictures. I like these movies. Visitors, go buy the Casino Royale DVD!

Transfer the files

Follow the ringtone tutorial up until the part that you putfile yourringtone.mp3

Now run the following commands within iPhoneInterface to upload your new carrier logos:

cd /System/Library/CoreServices/SpringBoard.app/

putfile FSO_CARRIER_ATT.png

putfile Default_CARRIER_ATT.png

Editing The Main Menu Positioning

Next we need to edit the DisplayOrder.plist file. You can use the command 'getfile' in iPhoneInterface to get the version off your phone, or you can do it the easy way and just use my version. My version adds a shortcut to DemoApp in position 1 and FieldTest in position 9. DemoApp does not do anything yet, but once the toolchain is working, we will compile and app and put it in there.

Tips for Editing Your own DisplayOrder.plist
On a mac you can just double click on this file and edit in the Property List Editor tree view. I'm not sure how to edit it on a PC, it's not just ascii... Once you are inside the file, It's pretty self explanatory, but you can basically put any app in any position from 0-11 by changing the displayIdentifier variable. The rest of the icons just get shifted down. If you add more than 16 icons, the list does not scroll, however it has been reported that the SpringBoard.app has the ability to scroll more icons, perhaps just not enabled in this version.

The displayIdentifier property under each item in iconList needs to be a string with a value of something like: 'com.apple.mobilesafari' or 'com.apple.DemoApp', or 'com.apple.fieldtest'

Once your happy with your DisplayOrder.plist file put it into the same folder as your iPhoneInterface app, and type these commands in the iphone terminal:

cd /System/Library/CoreServices/SpringBoard.app/
putfile DisplayOrder.plist

Changing the icons on your main menu

To upload a new icon for the DemoApp:

cd /Applications/DemoApp.app/

putfile icon.png

You can do this for any app, just upload a standard 60x60 png file named icon.png to an app directory.

Skinners get cracking on this!! Lets see if we can create some sweet iPhone icons/skins

All Done

Once you have all of your new logos uploaded to your phone, follow the instructions at the end of the this tutorial to upload the Services.plist file so your iPhone will work with iTunes again. Then power down your iPhone and reboot and you should now have the new logos.
If you screwed up run jailbreak and iPhoneTool again and try it again, or if all else fails do a restore from iTunes.

What's Next?

Several people are trying to come up with a way to launch Safari to a specific url from the main menu. If you have any ideas on how this can be achieved, please come on the IRC channel and share.

Thanks!

This was made possible by the hard work of many devs on irc #iphone-dev, including ziel, natetrue, gh, iPhonedHome, and others. Thanks guys!

If this makes it's way to Apple, hear me out.. please consider leaving this open, as it is now. As in, do not try to purposely lock people from doing these customizations. Community support will truly make your device a winner, and with such a clever restore mechanism, it's fairly hard to break your phone beyond recovery. Legions of Open source developers will pick up where you left off and build apps to manage all of these customizations.

iPhone Release Date

2007-05-28T17:26:00.000-07:00

The iPhone release date has been set for June 20th. How far will people go to get an iPhone on the 20th? It's less than a month away until we found out. I've never cared about the Apple releases before, so I never took notice. But, do people actually go and camp out when the new mac mini comes out so they can be the first to get it? I bet somewhere people do.

ATT/Cingular better be ready for all of the new subscribers.

iPhone 3rd party developer support inevitable

2007-05-05T10:27:00.000-07:00

The time is almost here for Apple to release the iPhone. If it is anything like the Apple TV, this is going to be a LOT of fun. I can't wait to get my hand on one of these things and crack it open to see how it works. They said no 3rd party developer support, but it's inevitable that someone will figure out how to run their own OSX apps on it shortly after it comes out.
I'm sure the iPhone is going to have a lot of nice features out of the box, but it's going to be the community effort to create software for this device that will really drive iPhone adoption to the techie crowd.

Stay tuned in June..

Hacking the iPhone

2007-01-10T20:53:00.000-08:00

This blog will be all about iPhone Hacks. Until the phone comes out in June There will not be many updates, but be sure to bookmark this page, as there's is sure to be lots to talk about come june.

What is known so far:
Cingular Only
You must sign a 2 year contract to get it.