iPhone Dev Team Update: More Baseband Hacking!
Tags: baseband, iphone dev team, Jailbreak, unlock
The iPhone Dev Team has been hard at work trying to get a soft unlock for the iPhone 3G baseband. The baseband portion of the phone locks the phone to specific carriers, so you’re unable to use sim cards from different carriers. Currently the only baseband unlock available is for first gen iPhones, which for all firmwares.
As you will see below, the iPhone Dev Team has come a long way in trying to crack the baseband so they can put an unsigned baseband firmware on the iPhone. Here’s a short clip of the iPhone Dev Teamspawning a background task, why you ask? Well as quoted.
http://www.vimeo.com/2291914“This ability we now have to spawn background tasks means we are one step closer to the 3G soft unlock. We have a clear path to follow, and “all” that remains is the implementation.”
Here’s a list of achievements by the iPhone Dev Team on the soft unlock for the iPhone 3G:
A quick summary of the key 3G-unlock-related achievements we’ve made so far:
- Unsigned code execution on 3G baseband
- Reverting 01.45 baseband to previous versions
- Patching of static text (the AT&V demo)
- Injection of AT routines (the task list demo)
- Injection of background tasks (this demo)
Now it’s on to overriding the baseband code that enforces the carrier lock.
Read the original post “The silicon chip inside her head..”