Category Archives: Hardware

Everything related to physical devices/objects

iOS Firmware Unpacking

Preparations You’ll need the following tools: Now compile the genpass.c: Unpacking the ipsw file The iPhone Software .ipsw files are normal ZIP files. You can extract them with e.g. IZArc. The archivescontain several files and some disk images: the iPhone OS itself, an Upgrade image and a Restore image. These 3 interesting files for the… Read More: iOS Firmware Unpacking »

Samsung SE-T084M

The SE-T084M is an external USB burner with everything but BluRay burning. Firmware RPC1 RPC1 means removing the region code or region-switching lock from the drive. Normally the DVD drive is set to your region (1..5) so that you can only play DVDs from your region. You can change this region 5 times with the… Read More: Samsung SE-T084M »

Analog TFT calibration

If you have connected your TFT via an analog VGA cable, you might have some blurry vision or even flickering in some cases. If the following picture shows some flickering or looks blurry, your display needs calibration. To calibrate your display, go to Randy Simons’ page and do the following:

T-Mobile HotSpot

Registration To get your login credentials, you have to send a SMS with the word open to 9526 (at least in Germany). After that you’ll get a SMS in return containing your login data. Bookmark You can add a bookmark to Safari with the following link: (Replace USERNAME and PASSWORD with your data.)

Flash in Safari

(Found here.) You need to have a jailbroken iPhone for this. Add the repository http://d.imobilecinema.com/ to Cydia and find the iMobileCinema. After installing it, you should be able to watch Flash movies in Safari (most of the times).

Develop iOS Apps

real Apps Pseudo-Apps Pseudo-Apps is what I call the apps which are actually a bunch of HTML pages with JavaScript and some JavaScript-API for accessing the iPhone internal features. These open in a WebKit-control so that they are basically some spiced up websites. Web-Apps