UPDATE 20100102: As there seem to appear some unsatisfied fuckup-folks, read this first:

• code is provided AS IS, no warranties
• got no time to sort things out? don’t lose your time checking out the code then
• lazy enough/looser-programmer and looking for spoon-feeding solutions only? don’t lose your time checking out the code then
• don’t like my code? write better one instead and let me see you give it for free before you comment
• for those whoever is “fuck you"-ing me for whatever frustration reason they got - you are free to leave the blog - this blog is not for you

UPDATE 20090921: ZIP with sources is NOT corrupted. Please use 7-Zip archiver (ver >= 1.59)

Some time back, I was asked by Emi Abramzon and Gustavo Rubacha from http://www.ideasforiphone.com if I could do some freelancing for an effect of water waves for iPhone. Though I didn’t get into that project, I wanted to do some demo.

Spent one weekend on this. Not very astonishing, but still was an interesting task :). Algorithm is not mine. It is based on “DSAqua project”.

I just integrated everything into the iPhone OpenGL ES skeleton of the cube.

Also, previously provided the sources to Tony Konstant from mousehog.com (btw he has some nice ideas) - he was interested in this effect, but unfotunatelly couldn’t any application related to this on this site.

Download iPhone OpenGL Demo - Water Waves Effect Source

Enjoy!

In an older post I have been trying to figure out how to make the T-Mobile’s Sidekick prepaid plan to work with iPhone - without success, but with some useful info.

Now, basically it’s reportedly possible to have Sidekick plans (both prepaid and contract) on iPhone, given the following are satisfied:

1. You have a Sidekick plan activated for your SIM and you use hiptop.t-mobile.com as APN in the Settings->General->Network->EDGE of your iPhone
2. You have changed you iPhone’s IMEI (BEWARE: it’s illegal) to match a Sidekick device IMEI.

Now, how to know a Sidekick device’s IMEI or IMEI pattern (just for informational/education purposes on topic of IMEIs):

1. Buy a Sidekick device or borrow a device from a friend - I think this is the easiest, though the most expensive (price-convenience trade-off)
2. Search Google - you will be suprised how many people openly and desperately are posting their devices’ IMEIs
3. Generate an IMEI - just look for Advanced IMEI Generator keeping in mind Sidekick devices have Type Allocation Number (TAC - this is publicly available information) something like: 01016000, 01019000, etc. - just search entire TACs list for yourself if you are interested.

WARNING: Changing IMEI is illegial (at least the claims are like this - learn your country LEGALese language) in many countries. Check your country if you are “elligible” too. Do this on your own risk. I am not responsible on what you do with IMEI of your phones/iPhones.

DISCLAIMER: this post is intended purely for research and educative purposes. Any use of this information is sole responsibility of the reader/user and the author is not to be held liable for any miss-use of the above informative technical details.

TAGS: iPhone, IMEI, change iPhone IMEI, iPhone EDGE T-Mobile, TMobile, T-Mobile, EDGE, iPhone Sidekick, iPhone T-Mobile, Sidekick prepaid, Sidekick data iPhone

UPDATE (26-10-2008): a newer post related to this

I am for a short period in USA. So I was looking at some prepaid GSM SIM cards and the most attractive for me was T-Mobile’s prepaid service. From those, I’ve chosen for some reasons Prepaid SideKick plan, which (not surprisingly, as it is states in the presentation of the plan) is working ONLY on SideKick device for the data traffic, voice is fine.

I was basically looking for a way to use this plan on my iPhone. For the SideKick plans, the APN to be used is for sure hiptop.t-mobile.com - only this APN seems to communicate/process something with the network, any other APN will NOT work and will give you on iPhone “Could not activate EDGE".

However, this APN implementation has some kind of software check that is allowing only SideKick devices to route data thru it.

I was able to get IP address and DNS IP address for the EDGE interface of iPhone, but no pinging/routing was availabe, not even to the proxies mentioned in other blogs nor pinging/routing of DNS IP addresses it have gotten from the network.

Since the EDGE interface is not having a MAC associated (someone, correct me if I am wrong. I have checked it also with ifconfig from iPhone terminal). Having no MAC, what are the other information the APN software/hardware could use to identify and permit only SideKick devices. Could it be IMEI? If it is IMEI, then IMEI change utility for iPhone would do the job - but we need IMEI patterns for SideKick devices. If it is anything else, what is it?

Here are some logs which I got from iPhone’s BB dump (baseband, GSM processor, whatever you call it):

_________

173789393 recv[pdp_ctl]: +XDNS: 1, “216.220.208.209″, “216.220.212.29″
173789393 recv[pdp_ctl]: OK
173789393 send[pdp_ctl]: at+cgpaddr=1
173789405 recv[pdp_ctl]: +CGPADDR: 1,"10.116.158.163″
_________

174312526 send[pdp_ctl]: at+cgdcont=1,"IP","”
174312535 recv[pdp_ctl]: OK
174312535 send[pdp_ctl]: at+xgauth=1,1,"","”
174312542 recv[pdp_ctl]: OK
174312542 send[pdp_ctl]: at+xdns=1,1
174312549 recv[pdp_ctl]: OK
174312556 send[pdp_ctl]: at+cgact=1,1
174313489 recv[pdp_ctl]: OK
174313490 send[pdp_ctl]: at+xdns?
174313500 recv[pdp_ctl]: +XDNS: 1, “216.220.208.209″, “216.220.212.29″
174313502 recv[pdp_ctl]: OK
174313502 send[pdp_ctl]: at+cgpaddr=1
174313514 recv[pdp_ctl]: +CGPADDR: 1,"10.119.157.172″
174313515 recv[pdp_ctl]: OK
174313516 send[pdp_0]: at+cgdata="M-RAW_IP",1
_________

173789374 send[pdp_ctl]: at+xdns?
173789393 recv[pdp_ctl]: +XDNS: 1, “216.220.208.209″, “216.220.212.29″
173789393 recv[pdp_ctl]: OK
173789393 send[pdp_ctl]: at+cgpaddr=1
173789405 recv[pdp_ctl]: +CGPADDR: 1,"10.116.158.163″
173789408 recv[pdp_ctl]: OK
173789409 send[pdp_0]: at+cgdata="M-RAW_IP",1
_________

173830458 send[pdp_ctl]: at+xdns?
173830469 recv[pdp_ctl]: +XDNS: 1, “0.0.0.0″, “0.0.0.0″
173830471 recv[pdp_ctl]: OK
173830472 send[pdp_ctl]: at+cgpaddr=1
173830482 recv[pdp_ctl]: +CGPADDR: 1,"10.203.202.171″
173830484 recv[pdp_ctl]: OK
173830484 send[pdp_0]: at+cgdata="M-RAW_IP",1
_________

DISCLAIMER: this post is intended purely for research and educative purposes. Any use of this information is sole responsibility of the reader/user and the author is not to be held liable for any miss-use of the above informative technical details.

TAGS: iPhone, IMEI, change iPhone IMEI, iPhone EDGE T-Mobile, TMobile, T-Mobile, EDGE, iPhone Sidekick, iPhone T-Mobile, Sidekick prepaid, Sidekick data iPhone

Many, many, actually a manyfinity of blog-posts and opinions about recent mass Apple addiction. It’s like people can’t get enough apples. Where they “eating” only “vegetables” all these years? I will not reiterate the idea that can be seen here and here and many other places.

What I want to put in light is a simple comparison. Nowadays you can see the Apple stores overcrowded. It’s like a mass hypnosis, a sense of all-so-waited sense of freedom. It’s like the 90’s in my country (from exUSSR) and neighboring ones.

Those times, people got sick of communism which they called a slavery. This is a parallel to Microsoft for the recent years. And then people rushed head-ahead to democracy, blinded by the sense of freedom, never wanting and waiting to see that there is a slavery in democracy itself - just another flavor and more fancy-boxed. It’s the same with Apple – people blindly follow the sense of freedom they have about Apple (based on supposition of Open Software ideology behind the Apple initial philosophy), not seeing the closed boxes into which they sell themselves to Apple (iPhone 3G, players, DRMs, etc.). All this turnover of open-Apple into slavery-Apple – it’s all because of the money. This is the same as discredited democracy by money-greed of Enron, BlackWater Corp, Helliburton and alike.

If taking a conspiracy perspective and thinking lunatic way, here are some thoughts. Behind all big corporations (who aim your money and freedoms and whose goals are to make you dependent on them and sell yourself to them metaphorically speaking) are usually and mainly the same persons and circle of interests. It doesn’t matter who is today ruling the masses – as long as they keep the people mind’s busy. Yesterday it was Microsoft with their PC and Win, which separated each individual into it’s own social cell, who prefer to date virtually rather than trying to socialize in a park for example. It may have distracted masses minds from essential things like Federal Reserve Bank being a private corporation and things alike. Today is Apple with their highly addictive, nearly hypnotizing and entertainment-oriented devices. Entertainment is good, but with limits, because as someone once said “This country is a fucking amusement park”. Tomorrow it can be Google, which is being prepared now and every single second now for it’s social-center-command-and-control-point. It’s all about your money, your freedom and your mind.

And for the end – don’t get me all wrong. I am not saying technology and it’s advancement is bad. It is a wonderful thing. The problem is it’s final and real use, it’s way of being delivered and the way it acts and affects people and societies.

Just my two cents…

As some already know (especially my cubicle neighbors at work - i keep bugging them), I own an iPhone - which of course I am not satisfied to use only as a simple user.

Below are some videos related to my iPhone testing.

iPhone - Calculator Math Bug:

iPhone - Calculator Keytouch Feature/Bug

iPhone - CameraPro Dummy Crack

I am very interested by the progress of *NIX toolchain porting to iPhone, as well as gcc, gdb and of course mplayer.

zveriPhone details:
1.1.2 OTB (Week 50)
Jailbreak + Activate 1.1.2
Unlock with gunlock for 1.1.2 & 1.1.3
Carrier - CYTAVODA