Entries Categorized as 'iPhone'

iPhone BSD Subsystem 2.1’s broken “su”

Date March 9, 2008

BSD subsystem 2.1 (and I think 2.0 too) for iPhone has a broken “su” binary. This is especially annoying, since the default user is now “mobile” and if you try to change to root using MobileTerminal, you get:
$ su
dyld: Library not loaded: libarmfp.dylib
Referenced from: /usr/bin/su
Reason: unsafe use of relative path libarmfp.dylib [...]

Incoming calls on an unlocked iPhone don’t work

Date September 12, 2007

It appears that when using an iPhone with one of the Slovenian carriers, namely Si.mobil Vodafone, incoming calls don’t work. Incoming calls work just fine with another carrier, Mobitel.
I have unlocked my iPhone using the free/open SW method, but I believe the same behavior was observed with HW-unlocked phones in Slovenia too.
Si.mobil is aware of [...]