How to Trick Your iPhone Into Activation-Hot News iPhone Hack

I DID IT. Were you like me and STUCK with your phone not being activated. Here is the trick into getting your phone activated IMMEDIATELY. Follow these steps EXACTLY:



Notice you WILL NOT KEEP YOUR NUMBER! DON'T DO THIS IF YOU WANT YOUR # STILL
1. Call up AT&T: 1-877-800-3701
2. Tell them to CANCLE your phone number migration. Tell them you want a new number.
3. Once they do this you will receive an email in minutes telling you your activation was cancelled.
4. Reactivate.
5. Your iRock turns into an iPhone!

Just to prove it is true. My activated phone. Be jealous!

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Instant iPhone and iPod touch jailbreak! Just navigate to jailbreakme.com

A crew of hackers (including hdm/metasploit, rezn, dinopio, drudge, kroo, pumpkin, davidc, dunham, and NerveGas) have introduced a one-touch instant jailbreak for both iPhone and iPod touch. The jailbreak opens your iPhone for full disk access and installs Installer.app so you can add pretty much any third party application you like.

To use it, open Safari and point your browser to jailbreakme.com (which we aren't linking to so folks won't install this by accident, but you are prompted to confirm). Once there, read the directions, scroll to the bottom, and tap Install AppSnapp. If Safari disappears and you return to the main Home screen, you're good. Just wait a minute more for your unit to restart--don't touch anything until you see the slide to unlock screen. If Safari hangs, just quit out (press and hold Home for 4-8 seconds) and try again.

Once you get to slide-to-unlock, go ahead and unlock your iPhone or iPod touch. You'll return to your home screen which will contain a new Installer.app icon. If you'll want to ssh into your unit, install the BSD subsystem, Community Sources, and then install Open SSH--you may need to upgrade Installer.app (thanks Ste). With Open SSH and sshfs (part of Mac Fuse), you can open Finder windows that offer direct drag and drop access to your phone or touch.

The jailbreak really is as easy as it sounds. I restored my iPod touch and jailbroke it just a few minutes ago and it worked great.

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Hundreds of hacked iPhones!

See what others are doing with their iPhones. Check out this huge Flickr screenshot pool for great hacks of all different kinds with themes, apps, icons and games all included. An interesting browse indeed.



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Unlocked, Open Source Phones for Weary iPhone Hackers

IPhone fans are finding there's a price to pay for refined design and an innovative user interface. Attempts to force open the iPhone to third-party development -- not to mention carriers other than AT&T -- have resulted in a tough battle for the hack-minded. But a slew of free, open-source and hacker-friendly alternatives are coming to the market or already available, including a few big boys. Here are nine of the best that let you do things the iPhone won't.



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Preliminary iPhone 1.1.1 Jailbreak

The iPhone/iTouch Dev guys have been hard at work for weeks and have finally managed to jailbreak 1.1.1. Right now, they're nowhere near releasing a general-use tool but the first steps have been made. Congratulations to dinopio, asap18, netkas, Martyn, mjc, Niacin, BloomFilter, pytey, tE_gU, pumpkin, roxfan, sam, SmileyDude, NerveGas, Nate True, Arminius, DirectriX, ixtli, kroo, xorl, and the rest of the team.



So what does this jailbreak mean?

* Third Party apps run. Kind of. We probably have to recompile many of them for the new frameworks because many of them crash.
* Springboard no longer recognizes DisplayOrder.plist. And the list of "whitelisted" apps (that is, the official Applications including Safari, Photos, Calendar, etc) seems to be hard-coded into Springboard.app
* The iPhone has been activated via third-party workarounds.
* The 1.1.1 binaries barely work with 1.0.2 -- at least not well enough to run the music store without major hacking.
* The Mobile Terminal App works on 1.1.1.
* The entire bsd suite still works -- as do standard command-line utilities compiled for ARM.
* 1.1.1 references both com.apple.mobile.radio and com.apple.mobile.nike.
* The jailbreak method is nowhere near ready for prime time. So please be patient.


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