Jason Madigan

iPhone bootloader changes

For anyone thinking of purchasing an iPhone in the near future, be aware that Apple is now shipping iPhones with an updated bootloader (4.6_M3S2) which has seen the a number of unlocking avenues closed.

All iPhone’s shipped after week 45 are very likely to have 1.1.2 pre-installed with this new bootloader - you can check to see the week of manufacture by looking at the devices serial number (e.g. xxx45xxxxxx means it was manufactured during week 45) or by issuing the following command within a shell:

-sh-3.2# ./bbupdater -v
Resetting target...
pinging the baseband...
issuing +xgendata...
firmware: DEV_ICE_MODEM_04.02.13_G
eep version: EEP_VERSION:208
eep revision: EEP_REVISION:1
bootloader: BOOTLOADER_VERSION:4.6_M3S2
Done 

Thankfully (obviously) Apple has not seen fit to include a bootloader update with their firmware releases, so iphonesimfree users with their zero’d seczones should be okay for the foreseeable future. Updating the bootloader would create all kinds of headaches for all end users - upgrading a bootloader is always a risky proposition.

I hate paragraphs (and freedom) - Safari 3 & Wordpress

A lot of Safari 3 users in Leopard (and now Tiger) are probably wondering why Wordpress’s TinyMCE editor seems to like destroying paragraphs, but there’s a quick fix.

Comment out line 33:

this.isSafari = ua.indexOf(’Safari’) != -1;

And add this line afterwards to remove all Safari 2.0x hacks:

this.isSafari = false;