Jason Madigan

As I sort of suspected, the IMSI read flaw in the iPhone’s baseband has yet to be patched, so Turbo SIM’s should still work with 1.1.1. In addition it should be noted that unlocking via hardware using geohot’s method should always work, regardless of updates.

The problem, of course, is that in order to actually use your unlocked phone you need to activate it. And this can’t be done without having write access to the iPhone’s filesystem. iPhoneSimFree.com reported that their software unlock remains working, but without a way of activating 1.1.1 iPhone’s this can’t really be confirmed.

We knew this would happen weeks ago. Most of us knew that the iPhone was going to be locked down for third party applications as well as SIM unlocks. It isn’t possible (currently) to jailbreak an iPod touch and the same can now be said of any iPhone running 1.1.1. iTunes no longer communicates with the iPhone, instead iTunes listens for commands sent from the iPhone. This means listening for keys is no longer possible, which means decrypting ramdisks is also no longer possible. The whole thing is a tremendous pain in the ass but absolutely nobody can say this wasn’t expected. Just deal with it and accept it; we all knew what we were getting ourselves in for.

Incidentally, if you do need to restore your iPhone, download this:

http://content.info.apple.com/iPhone/061-3823.20070821.vormd/iPhone1,11.0.21C28_Restore.ipsw

And alt-click the restore button in iTunes. You’ll be able to choose the firmware you wish to restore using.

I’ve noticed some weird issues regarding certain kinds of SMS messages not being delivered properly to my iPhone. Specifically, voicemail alert alerts sent by SMS never land in my inbox at all. After doing a little digging, it seems that the iPhone’s baseband has trouble interpretting incoming SMS messages coming from short codes.

Since short codes are used quite a bit in Europe for promotions, banking and the like I should think that the firmware shipping on European iPhone’s will have fixed this. In the meantime we’ll have to keep digging to try to find a workaround.

You can use your iPhone’s Voicemail button to call your local carriers voicemail number by doing the following:

1. Disable your SIM PIN, if enabled.
2. SSH into your iPhone - I’m going to assume your iPhone has been jailbroken, has SSH installed and the latest BSD Subsystem installed.
3. The latest BSD Subsystem (1.5) comes with minicom, but you’ll need to generate a configuration file for it to interact with the baseband. You’ll need to create /local/etc/ in /usr/.
4. In /usr/local/etc/, run nano minirc.dfl and paste ”pu port /dev/tty.baseband”
5. Save the file, CTRL-O, exit nano CTRL-X
6. Disable the commcenter - launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.CommCenter.plist
7. Run minicom
8. Run AT+CSVM=1,”171” where 171 is your carriers voicemail number
9. Exit minicom - CTRL-a, then q
10. Restart the commcenter - launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.CommCenter.plist

Done!