There’s a whole lot of hacking going on

iPhone hacks Those iPhone hackers have been busy little beavers. While most of us have been enjoying our phone/iPod/internet device by showing it off to anybody with a pulse who can stand us prattling on for ten or twenty minutes at a time, those other folks have been busily engaged in vivisecting the iPhone’s virtual innards. Now they’ve delved inside its most intimate secrets, they’ve developed the potential to do any number of neat things (of course, there’s the standard caveat that these tasks are undertaken at the user’s own risk). Among them:

A graphical tool that helps walk you through the process of activating your iPhone without using AT&T’s network.

Another tool that helps you put custom ringtones on the iPhone.

Instructions for getting SSH onto your iPhone, which will allow you to put other pieces of software on there as well.

Compiled binary versions of apache and python that run on the iPhone (you’ll need to use the above SSH instructions to get them onto the phone).

A toolkit developed by hacker Nightwatch that appears to allow the creation of full-fledged third-party applications (of course in order to get a third-party app on iPhone, you’ll need to use the above SSH hack).

Instructions for setting up your iPhone to share its EDGE connection with your laptop (this requires use of the jailbreak program).

There’s quite a bit of good hacking going around, so if you don’t have any qualms about potentially causing permanent damage to your iPhone (so far, it appears that nobody has had a problem that could not be fixed by restoring the iPhone via iTunes), then go wild. And the iPhone Dev wiki is the place to go for the latest information.

Category: Hacking

Posted by Dan Moren on Jul 25 2007, 12:52 PM ET

Comments (3)

What you need on your site is feedback not just on your articles, but to the developer market in general. The iPhone is so new no one knows what demand is there for software.

I'd love to replace the basic calculator with financial calc.

I'm sure engineering and science people have specialty needs too. A book reading app would be good too.

my hack: Use my ISP free web space to create site. Put HTML version of book I wish to read on it and use Safari to read it.

I have also emailed myself PDF of book to mail. I would like to be able to read mail horizonanly.

Posted by pepe | July 25, 2007 4:13 PM

The iPhone Dev wiki link is incorrect - the correct link is:

http://iphone.fiveforty.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Posted by David | July 25, 2007 5:19 PM

@David: Fixed, thanks!

Posted by Dan Moren | July 25, 2007 6:07 PM

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