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Access Safari on your unactivated 1.1.1 iPhone

by Erica Sadun Oct 10th 2007 at 2:00PM

TUAW reader fraggle tipped us to these instructions showing how to access Safari on your unactivated 1.1.1 iPhone. By unactivated, I'm talking about the phones that say "Connect to iTunes" and allow only emergency calls. The hack involves using the iPhone contact list to enter and access web site addresses.

This morning, a couple of intrepid iPhone users tested this out for me (thank you xorl and SmileyDude) and confirmed that the hack works. They were able to skip steps 6-8 on their bricked iPhones but you may need to do those steps if your 1.1.1 iPhone is new-in-box.



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A.L.

Am I right in thinking that if I had a completely new out-of-the-box v1.1.1 iPhone I would be able to use this exploit to unlock + jailbreak my unactivated iPhone without ever having to register with AT&T?

October 29 2007 at 11:45 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
iSkysoft Studio

I use dvd to iPhone converter to covert my dvds to iPhone.Someone told me it is invalid.But I think it is valid if I just convert my own dvd.
http://www.iskysoft.com/dvd-to-iphone-mac.html

October 11 2007 at 10:02 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
VanillaSpice

Cue paranoid rant from DrunkDwarf in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ...

October 10 2007 at 8:25 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
fraggle

P.S. anyone tried this

http://www.toc2rta.com/?q=blog

with the engineering code method.

P.S Johhny your submition is overwhelming, I nearlly shed a tear. It's just deep. You should write for cnn or somehting.. No really it was good. A+ even better. honest

October 10 2007 at 4:24 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Johnny Thrash

/yawn

October 10 2007 at 3:44 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
fraggle

Thanks go to Gricko66 and pilot1 for these findings. Check out this thread for the details and to discuss further.

http://www.hackint0sh.org/forum/showthread.php?t=10378

October 10 2007 at 3:35 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
egordin

We're getting there!

http://www.iphonealley.com/news/iphone-v1-1-1-jailbreak-apptapp-installation-guide

October 10 2007 at 2:48 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
J.C.

"Now we see the level we're dealing with here"

Exactly....

October 10 2007 at 2:42 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dan

It could be useful... if you can access the site with an exploited tiff image to jailbreak it... you should then potentially be able to activate the iPhone without ever putting in an AT&T sim.

October 10 2007 at 2:38 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Steve Denton

"your doing great!"

Now we see the level we're dealing with here

October 10 2007 at 2:38 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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