Category Archives: iPhone

3G Unlock: A Scam ?

Today I received a mail which offered an ‘opportuniy’ to make huge bucks from iPhone 3G unlock, the deal looked like this:
hi, hello, i got my version 2.0 3G 16GB black phone bought in gray market shop in malaysia fully unlock using iliberty plus. everyone was saying that 3G cannot be unlock, but i have [...]

Execute Custom Script During QNAP Bootstrap

The QNAP NAS (in my case TS-209 II) uses an embedded Linux, during the system startup, a clean runtime environment is restored, then customized configurations are copied over to the default files, this makes a more stable system. After boot, the /etc folder is on a ramdisk (/dev/ram0), thus you can’t modify it as you [...]

Mails From A Fraud Victim

I have nothing to do with your purchase. I have nothing to do with any site that sells iLiberty+ or other unlocking applications. My official domain is: insideiphone.com (I no longer use zjlotto.com since May 2008).
Recently I have received quite some emails complaining about their puchases. In short, they didn’t know iLiberty+ is freeware and [...]

A Seczone Filled With 0xFF

I’ve been sort of busy doing some Python stuffs so this blog has not been updated for days, besides I’m lazy sometimes :) Okay, this is a story about what has happened to my 1st-gen iPhone, the story may prevent you from doing stupid things like me :)
Last week, I was trying the firmware 2.0 [...]

gzDecryptor, A Small Firmware Tool

UPDATE: In firmware 2.0.5A258f, the ramdisk is no longer a 8900 file, it’s just a normal ramdisk (slightly prepended/appened), so this tool will not work (currently) on 2.0.5A258f has been updated to support the latest firmware 2.0 5A258f. UPDATE: Works on 5A274d as well.
UPDATE: Fixed a bug that causes decryption failure if there are spaces [...]

First Chinese Handwriting IME On iPhone

Chinese mobile device users must know HWPen, a famous Chinese handwriting IME, it’s a very good input method, and offers the easiest Chinese input experience on a mobile device. Before I switch to iPhone, my favorite mobile phone was Dopod, and I always use HWPen as my first choice for Chinese input on my Dopod.
Ever [...]

New Features In Firmware 2.0 Build 5A240d

I’m usually not interested in betas, but I’m boring today, so I decided to give 2.0.5A240d a try and see if there’s interesting changes in it. So I restored with iTunes then activated it. Since I’m not interested in using it, so I just looked around trying to find out what’s new, the following is [...]

Geohot Linux Driver And iBooter

You may have known that I took some time reversing iBooter, trying to find out the magics behind it. After reading Geohot’s iPhone USB Linux Driver and client sample code, compared with what I have found by reversing iBooter, I have to say I feel a little disappointed about iBooter. It’s just a wrap to [...]

Recover From “BSD Root: md0, major 2, minor 0″

Some people might have had a problem when their ramdisk boot was not successful. This happens in some rare cases, the ramdisk has been uploaded but for some reason the phone didn’t boot, and you turn it off manually, or your computer had a power failure during the ramdisk boot. In such rare cases, your [...]

Frequently Asked Questions for iLiberty+

Q: Is iLiberty+ free ?
A: Yes, absolutely. UPDATE: Some people reported they bought iLiberty+ from some sites, I can only say you were cheated, I didn’t sell it, I have nothing to do with any of the sites that are selling iLiberty+, and I don’t offer any technical support for any of them. So don’t [...]

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