A short while back, Digg hosted a link to this crashed iPhone showing single user mode. In that case, the error message stated that the iPhone couldn't "exec /bin/sh for single user: No such file or directory." Now that the iPhone has been thoroughly hacked, this error has evolved somewhat.
Last night, TUAW friend DrunkDwarf crashed his iPhone but since he'd actually installed a copy of /bin/sh his error was somewhat different. Instead of complaining that it couldn't find /bin/sh, his iPhone simply... ran it. Not that this was much better news. Without a keyboard and no way to attach one, DrunkDwarf was a bit out of luck. He ended up having to do a restore.
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7-27-2007 @ 3:39PM
Hamicide said...
Please stop writing.
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7-27-2007 @ 3:51PM
fd said...
Hamicide, please stop complaining. Suck it up. Don't post.
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7-27-2007 @ 3:52PM
Thecompkid said...
Ok, dude, i'm one to jump on crappy reporting too, but this is actually pretty interesting.
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7-27-2007 @ 4:18PM
DrWho said...
Hamicide, please listen to your own advice!
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7-27-2007 @ 5:03PM
Martin said...
While I agree it is interesting, I'm really quite sick of all the iPhone posts I have to wade through to get to something that is relevant to me (read: Everything ELSE Apple).
For the love God, please put in a filter for "Everything but iPhone" :)
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7-27-2007 @ 5:03PM
Erica Sadun said...
Here you go: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=hNQjSv4g3BGE8lINYEsBXw
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7-27-2007 @ 5:20PM
JeffDM said...
I thought there was an RSS feed provided that is basically a no-iPhone feed. I don't know where to look to find it.
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7-27-2007 @ 5:22PM
Kevin said...
I love my iPhone but could we stick to not posting about every * single * little * detail * about * anything * to * do * with * the *iPhone. When something really important happens it's nice to know. But most of the posts about the iPhone post launch are for the %.0001 percent of iPhone users. Who cares about single user mode.
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7-28-2007 @ 3:52AM
Sparks said...
I hate to say it, but I'm kind of with Kevin. This stuff is interesting enough, but it really is starting to sort of take over TUAW. And I say that as an iPhone owner who's been toying with the toolchain myself!
No offense, but it might make more sense to do a 'daily roundup' of iPhone hacking news in a single end-of-day post. Like the TUAW Week in Review posts, but daily instead of weekly. If you did a single 'iPhone Hacking Digest' per day and tagged it with a unique tag, I bet there's even some folks who'd like to get /just/ the hacking digest and who'd make a pipes feed for it. :)
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