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  • #4442
    Sam Vimes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,611 ✭✭✭✭Sam Vimes


    120_Minutes wrote: »
    Unlikely via Bluetooth, as the iphone only supports headsets via bluetooth and not data transfer. Not sure about wifi though.

    omfg :eek: phones haven't done that since the 6310 days. that is f*cking ridiculous


  • #4443
    Creamy Goodness
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,449 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    it's very unlikely, the iphone's os is based on a scaled down version of mac os x, which in turn is based on BSD os.

    you'd be lucky to know of 10 mac os x virii in exsistance, this is passed down to the iphone as well.

    many people will say ohh mac's don't get virii because no one uses them, well there's some truth in that, but by in large unix/bsd based operating systems are hugely more secure due to the way they are designed.

    wiki up on unix and bsd and you'll soon see why i use them for everything bar gaming.


  • #4444
    Doctor DooM
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,880 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM


    Sam Vimes wrote: »
    omfg :eek: phones haven't done that since the 6310 days. that is f*cking ridiculous

    indeed, are you sure about that? You cant for example, swap images via bluetooth?


  • #4445
    Oafley Jones
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,408 ✭✭✭Oafley Jones


    SDooM wrote: »
    indeed, are you sure about that? You cant for example, swap images via bluetooth?

    Correct. Bluetooth on the iPhone is used exclusively for the headset and nothing else.


  • #4446
    ve
    Closed Accounts Posts: 448 ✭✭ve


    Cremo wrote: »
    you'd be lucky to know of 10 mac os x virii in exsistance, this is passed down to the iphone as well.
    I agree completely, however I'd say that could change considering the popularity and uptake of this OS X based device.

    Pretty crappy, if you start getting text messages off people asking why did you send them a text saying "I love you".

    Also I see there is a serious amount of applications already available for the iPhone and a SDK on the way. What's the deal with deploying 3rd party apps on the phone. Surely it's possible for the next community based "Big thing" (in the background of course) turn you in to an open mobile access point.

    iDriving ... It's all ahead of us ;)


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  • #4447
    swingking
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,260 ✭✭✭swingking


    just picture the situation:

    your in a coffee shop and the guy beside you also has an iphone. You know the user name and the password to set up an ssh link ( same as all iphones). Nothing to stop you going into his iphone, taking his photos, contacts, emails, itunes wifi music store info ; and while your there why not delete his iphone files altogether.

    It's a scary thought!! :eek:


  • #4448
    mgsrocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 601 ✭✭✭mgsrocks


    swingking wrote: »
    just picture the situation:

    your in a coffee shop and the guy beside you also has an iphone. You know the user name and the password to set up an ssh link ( same as all iphones). Nothing to stop you going into his iphone, taking his photos, contacts, emails, itunes wifi music store info ; and while your there why not delete his iphone files altogether.

    It's a scary thought!! :eek:


    If someone figured out how to do that it would be a good think. With no bluetooth on the iphone theres no way to send files across. If someone came up with a way to send and recieve songs/photos/contacts over a wifi connection it would be a handy feature. But i dont think the hardware allows for this.


  • #4449
    cdebru
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,761 ✭✭✭cdebru


    swingking wrote: »
    just picture the situation:

    your in a coffee shop and the guy beside you also has an iphone. You know the user name and the password to set up an ssh link ( same as all iphones). Nothing to stop you going into his iphone, taking his photos, contacts, emails, itunes wifi music store info ; and while your there why not delete his iphone files altogether.

    It's a scary thought!! :eek:


    SSH is only on jailbroken iphones and even then not on all and even then can be turned off via boss prefs or services

    And the password is the same because bsd subsystem has not been updated to fix the password change coomand crashing but there is an alternative




    Cydia can replace the installer or be used with it and replaces BSD subsystem and the fixes the password issue so you can set it to whatever you like

    http://www.iphonenano.net/installing-cydia-an-alternative-to-installer-mac-windows-xp-vista/iphone-card



    On bluetooth it only works with headsets

    And open wifi hotspots are dodgy no matter what you use phone or laptop


    Just to frighten you

    http://www.securityevaluators.com/iphone/


  • #4450
    madmoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,409 ✭✭✭madmoe


    Hey mate,
    Is it not possible to update directly to 1.1.4 from 1.0.2 and then use Iplus to do the unlock, jailbreak etc. etc.

    Cheers,
    M
    cdebru wrote: »
    You are both on 3.9

    But to be honest there is now an alternative to Ziphone

    its Iplus
    http://www.hackthatphone.com/114/iphone_114_true_unlock_windows.html

    Thats how I would do it

    On the 1.02

    here is the way I do it

    http://www.hackthatphone.com/111/iphone_repairing_baseband_windows.html


  • #4451
    leef23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 441 ✭✭leef23


    I got an unlocked iphone and there seems to be a few problems with it

    - I can make calls but can’t receive them (when I ring the iphone from another phone nothing happens on iphone yet I get a ring sound on the phone I’m ringing from)

    - When I try to make a call by dialing a number as soon as I hit the first number it goes back to main screen

    Does anyone know a way I can sort this out, it’s on firmware 1.1.2


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  • #4452
    amandac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 216 ✭✭amandac


    leef23 wrote: »
    I got an unlocked iphone and there seems to be a few problems with it

    - I can make calls but can’t receive them (when I ring the iphone from another phone nothing happens on iphone yet I get a ring sound on the phone I’m ringing from)

    - When I try to make a call by dialing a number as soon as I hit the first number it goes back to main screen

    Does anyone know a way I can sort this out, it’s on firmware 1.1.2

    you need to install i world, its in the installer under tweaks(i think) then set the country to ireland and it should be fine


  • #4453
    jamieh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,073 ✭✭✭jamieh


    Hi lads,

    Can someone tell me how to setup EDGE on meteor?

    I've entered the settings....APN = isp.mymeteor.ie
    User: my
    Pass: isp

    I've rang customer care and have been provisioned for ISP internet access, but I still can't connect.

    Any ideas??


  • #4454
    TrueDub
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 2,692 Mod ✭✭✭✭TrueDub


    Folks,

    My apologies if this has been asked a million times before, but I'm totally confused by the terminology & processes of unlocking etc.

    I'm flying to New York tomorrow on holidays for a week, and figured I'd pick myself up an iphone there. This will be brand-new, out of the box. When I get home I'll need to unlock it so I can use my Vodafone billpay SIM, and also (intermittently) my French SFR pay-as-you-go SIM.

    Looking at another thread (http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=55216804&postcount=12) it seems that step-by-step idiot-proof instructions (my kind of help!:D) are available.

    My question is: is this all I need to do? Reading this thread I see the guide is from a knowledgeable source, so I'm not concerned about that, I'm just looking for the easiest way to unlock my phone.

    Thanks in advance for any & all assistance.


  • #4455
    randombar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,490 ✭✭✭randombar


    Any chance you'd pick me up one :D


  • #4456
    cdebru
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,761 ✭✭✭cdebru


    madmoe wrote: »
    Hey mate,
    Is it not possible to update directly to 1.1.4 from 1.0.2 and then use Iplus to do the unlock, jailbreak etc. etc.

    Cheers,
    M


    It depends on how the phone was unlocked if it was unlocked with anysim or I.unlock or any free method then no

    If it was unlocked with ipsf iphone sim free then it can


  • #4457
    madmoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,409 ✭✭✭madmoe


    Thanx cdebru.

    Anyone know if its possible to buy a US iPhone on the Apple store website with an Irish credit card? Have just been traying there and its saying it cannot authorize it??

    I have a US address I am shipping it too so that end is covered.

    Thanx,
    M

    Edit: Was able to order there now. Just an FYI, the bank flagged the transaction after the initial attempt to buy. Had to call them up and advise them it was actually my trying to buy something. Apparently they have it in place on US online shops to help stop fraud....I am with BOI.


  • #4458
    Rob C
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 206 ✭✭Rob C


    For an online transaction, you would have to have a credit card with the billing address in the US.....


  • #4459
    madmoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,409 ✭✭✭madmoe


    It went through OK, well so far, and I got a reference number. The billing address has all my details apart from the country and state bit. I put the same ones in as where my bro lives.....fingers crossed :-)


  • #4460
    Rob C
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 206 ✭✭Rob C


    Actually I'm just going over the ZiPhone stuff again...
    Also proves that this is not a remote possibility nor was I scaremongering if anyone wants to do a google for Ziphone no service they will find plenty of people in the same boat.


    So let me get this straight. You have personally come across one phone that doesn't work, you say because of ZiPhone and that's evidence of ZiPhone not being trustworthy?! Plenty of people screwed up phones in the early days using IPSF and Anysim etc as well....

    I just saw an excellent riposte on Hackintosh to all this nonsense and people whining about using a free program like this:
    what you're seeing is the quintessential example of free not being good enough, and people not taking personal responsibility for willingly violating their warranties.

    They'll tell you that they're upset at Zibri for downgrading the BL without their knowledge (no real reason to be mad, except they think it somehow infringes on freedom or something...).

    But if something goes wrong with their phone, they'd be happy to scam Apple into thinking it'd never been tampered with, but since they can't pull that scam, they get mad at Zibri.

    There's really no other legitimate reason for the time being to be upset about it. Don't believe me? Show me the legit 4.6 undetectable UPGRADE from the 3.9BLank. No one can, because it doesn't exist (*edit* I stand corrected.... it looks like it technically IS possible, it's just not the easiest undertaking atm. I'm still not certain that the new 4.6 is undetectable though, especially originating from the 3.9BLank)

    If a need arises, it might, just like if a need arises legit 3.9'ers will find a way to upgrade too... It IS a game of cat and mouse.

    Don't forget there are more 3.9 phones out there than 4.6 anyway (legit ones too I might add).

    Relax... ZiPhone is FREE. People use a FREE program to modify their phone and violate their warranties. Then they get pissed at the provider of the FREE program they WILLINGLY used because it did something they didn't like... It's not like he had a gun to anyones head, or charged $49.95, or even PROMISED it wouldn't...

    Sounds like the definition of a crybaby to me. But that's how we are now: Free isn't good enough. Only flawless free... and even that would bother someone somehow.

    Yikes what a world...


    He is completely correct. Zibri doies not charge for this service and certainly does not put a gun to anyones head. We all unlock fully aware of the risks involved, we all know there is a remote chance these things won't work. So we cannot cry foul if something goes wrong.

    Plus another post states cleary the unlikeloood of Apple running a Serial number + BL check...
    guys relax there is nothing wrong with 3.9 its a genuine apple bootloader, and apple cant do nothing about it becasue they have att people who bought there iphones back in 3.9 days.

    And for the one worried about ITUNES doing a serial+bootloader match check and thats the most apple can do, dont worry I was talkng to MuscleNerd and he said that even if apple did a BL+serial check they can defeat that because they have itunes code patched.

    And the most apple will do is just stop you from updating not BRICKING iphones


  • #4461
    Gryzor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,715 ✭✭✭Gryzor


    Stfu.....


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  • #4462
    MiloFoxburr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 96 ✭✭MiloFoxburr


    For people in the UK BBC's iPlayer is now streaming it's content to the iPhone. Pretty sweet actually


  • #4463
    cdebru
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,761 ✭✭✭cdebru


    Rob C wrote: »
    Actually I'm just going over the ZiPhone stuff again...




    So let me get this straight. You have personally come across one phone that doesn't work, you say because of ZiPhone and that's evidence of ZiPhone not being trustworthy?! Plenty of people screwed up phones in the early days using IPSF and Anysim etc as well....

    I just saw an excellent riposte on Hackintosh to all this nonsense and people whining about using a free program like this:




    He is completely correct. Zibri doies not charge for this service and certainly does not put a gun to anyones head. We all unlock fully aware of the risks involved, we all know there is a remote chance these things won't work. So we cannot cry foul if something goes wrong.

    Plus another post states cleary the unlikeloood of Apple running a Serial number + BL check...




    Ok how many phones should i wait for considering the small number of iphones in Ireland the smaller number of 4.6 phones the even smaller number of those that have used Ziphone to unlock 1.1.4 to already have come across one that Ziphone has ****ed because of the bootloader downgrade blows your claim that the risk of something going wrong was a remote possibility.

    Secondly it is not about freedom as I have always said it is about what is safe to do and what is not and downgrading a bootloader that is not needed but also not recoverable from is taking a unneeded risk.

    The other issue that people know what they are doing quite clearly they don't and Ziphone does not explain the risk. And what you are criticising me for is making people aware of the risk so you seem to want to have it both ways.
    Tell them it is their own fault for not knowing about the risk and attack anyone who tells people about the risk and accuse them of scaremongering.


    Its free so ****ing what just because it is free does not mean that it is somehow above reproach it can not be criticised.

    And lastly yes 3.9 is a genuine apple bootloader but what Ziphone puts on the phone is not the same 3.9 it is a modified 3.9 and a bootloader/ serial number is just the easiest way apple could check they could also do a CRC check which Ziphones 3.9 would fail as it is modified.


  • #4464
    Cameraman1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 45 ✭Cameraman1


    Contacts Sync problems - Can anyone please help me. Somehow when syncing my music files with my 4.6 1.1.2 geohot unlocked iphone my contacts got wiped. I cant seem to get them back on the phone, despite updating itunes to the latest version and trying to sync from windows address book as well as outlook address book. I reset the sync history also but no joy.


  • #4465
    Cameraman1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 45 ✭Cameraman1


    It gets even worse. Looks like all the settings in my phone have been reset e.g. email settings, auto lock, internet book marks. Starting to seriously lose faith in this phone, is it really worth the hassle of losing all your contacts. Desparately seeking help


  • #4466
    Cameraman1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 45 ✭Cameraman1


    Cameraman1 wrote: »
    It gets even worse. Looks like all the settings in my phone have been reset e.g. email settings, auto lock, internet book marks. Starting to seriously lose faith in this phone, is it really worth the hassle of losing all your contacts. Desparately seeking help

    Just after figuring out how to overcome the contacts sync problem. Basically, outlook or windows assress book will not under any circumstances sync contacts with the iphone so I had to export the contacts as a csv file from outlook express (as i didnt have the full installation of outlook). I then created a yahoo mail account, changed the view to classic view (otherwise it doesnt seem to let you import csv files) and imported fthe csv file. I then synced my contacts with yahoo mail using itunes and hey presto, i have them back, or at least 99% anyway.


  • #4467
    ADSLUSER
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,207 ✭✭✭ADSLUSER


    Cameraman1 wrote: »
    Just after figuring out how to overcome the contacts sync problem. Basically, outlook or windows assress book will not under any circumstances sync contacts with the iphone so I had to export the contacts as a csv file from outlook express (as i didnt have the full installation of outlook). I then created a yahoo mail account, changed the view to classic view (otherwise it doesnt seem to let you import csv files) and imported fthe csv file. I then synced my contacts with yahoo mail using itunes and hey presto, i have them back, or at least 99% anyway.

    TIP: iTunes does sync with Windows Address Book (WAB). What I did was sync my outlook with WAB and sync'd with iTunes. Worked a treat.


  • #4468
    istep
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 233 ✭✭istep


    can anyone tell me why my wifes sim ( vodafone ) wont work in iphone which i brought home from hong kong today ?> My O2 sim works fine !!! Phone is 1.1.3 and unlocked.
    Also heard from an O2 guy today that O2 will be scanning IMEI numbers for unregged iphones ( can this be true and what do they plan to do ?? say for example if you are spending 500 euro p month ...... are they going to cut you off .... i think not


  • #4469
    cdebru
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,761 ✭✭✭cdebru


    istep wrote: »
    can anyone tell me why my wifes sim ( vodafone ) wont work in iphone which i brought home from hong kong today ?> My O2 sim works fine !!! Phone is 1.1.3 and unlocked.
    Also heard from an O2 guy today that O2 will be scanning IMEI numbers for unregged iphones ( can this be true and what do they plan to do ?? say for example if you are spending 500 euro p month ...... are they going to cut you off .... i think not


    Who unlocked the phone how did they unlock it

    Sounds like it is not actually unlocked

    As for 02 knocking people off on unregged phones makes no sense for a start if you are on the 02 network then they are still making money off you and the bonus for 02 is that they keep all the money as if you are not regged then they dont have to share with apple.

    AT&T and O2 in the Uk have not done this so I would say it is bull**** but if O2 want to stop you spending money on their network there are 2 other networks that will gladly take your money


  • #4470
    jamieh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,073 ✭✭✭jamieh


    Hi lads,

    Anyone have EDGE working on Meteor?

    If so....How!?


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  • #4471
    baggyboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9 ✭baggyboy


    Hey guys. I am hoping one of you clever ones will be able to help me. My brother has an iphone that he bought about 6 months ago and was running 1.0.2 for ages without problems. He then upgraded to 1.1.3 and used ziphone 2.4 (i think) was about 3-4 weeks ago and since then has noticed that the volume level from the iphone speaker is extremely low. I restored my iphone (originally 1.1.2 otb) to 1.1.3 and used same ziphone 2.4 and had no issues. comparing the 2 phones beside each other there is a very noticable difference between the 2 volume wise. He takes incredible care of his iphone has never dropped it etc so I figure it must be a software thing. Have tried re-restoring it and reunlocking it and no joy. Speaker volume is the same low level. So anyone out there can you help us please.


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