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Other Stuff That Has Little To Do With PLA => Techinical Shit => Phreaking, Hacking, Social Engineering, Lock Picking => Topic started by: Rizz on April 13, 2008, 09:50:58 PM
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So first of all I must ask before I get too far into this. Is hacking a cell phone technically illegal? If so how is it illegal? And if it is not where would be the best place on the internet to find information on hacking motorola phones (in my case a PEBL S/W Version R478_G_08.82.2AR_A Flex GSPU6TMB01NA137) Another handy bit of info would be, what is the easiest OS to use while hacking such said phone if not illegal. :)
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What exactly do you mean by "hacking"? What do you specifically want to do to the phone?
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Well...being able to make free phone calls would be cool. Also just to know what else is even possible to do with it. I lust for knowledge. and free things.
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yeah..........um. Switching out the sim card? Beyond that i cant think of anything. If Im wrong somebody will speak up.
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so when you say switch out the sim card you mean pretty much switching it with someone else's currently active sim, correct? If I were to go that route couldn't I possibly look up how to copy sim cards and flash my sim to match theirs? Although that does bring up the issue of somebody getting mad because their minutes are disappearing and they see numbers on their bill they didn't call. Although that in itself is another issue altogether.
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You need to swap out the internal antennae with a digital transceiver chip. This process isn't that difficult, you don't even have to solder anything, all you have to do is cut the stock antennae and then use an exacto knife to cut the circuit board around it. When you cut the circuit board make sure the transceiver chip will fit snugly inside the whole as the connections on the chip must be touching the circuit board in order to maintain a stable connection. In order to make the phone sturdy enough to travel make sure to apply super glue to the chip and the board to stop the chip from slipping .
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You forgot to tell him about the 6.5536 MHz crystal!
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You forgot to tell him about the 6.5536 MHz crystal!
stfu I thought we were gonna keep the crystal cell phone trick secret?
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so that's all it takes to make a cell phone make free calls or does that make for some other type of function?
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so that's all it takes to make a cell phone make free calls or does that make for some other type of function?
The digital transceiver trick will make it so you can make free phone calls because it unlocks the digital bands which you can make free phone calls on.
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I read somewhere that on OLD Nokia phones there is a secret menu that you can get into and add a # you want to call for free. Kind of like an emergency # like 911. I have a Samsung phone with no active account that can make a call to 911 for free so it seems plausible.
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I have a question about "cell phone hacking" i guess?
I got a tmobile dash (which is actually an HTC Excalibur rebranded with TMobile) last summer and of course laid out some decent cash for that phone. Now that I've moved to an area that TMobile does not service, I'm stuck with an expensive phone that does nothing! >:(
I've been looking around online for cell phone unlocking, but I'm rather new at this "hacking" stuff, so please bear with me... I want to unlock this phone and use it on the Verizon network, legal and paid of course, I already have a verizon account. What do I need to do to unlock it and use it with my verizon account or could any of you point me in the direction of a forum that specializes in this?
thanks,
gabby
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Your phone won't work on T-Mobile. Any phone using its service is going to be GSM and in order to use Verizon's network, it has to not only be CDMA, but authorized for use as well.
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Your phone won't work on T-Mobile. Any phone using its service is going to be GSM and in order to use Verizon's network, it has to not only be CDMA, but authorized for use as well.
You do know that Verizon now carries a line of GSM phones right? They are GSM/CDMA. Thing is, I think you are right in regards to Verizon and the HTC Excalibur (Tmobile DASH) .. which sucks.... nonetheless I have some other plans ..
Last night I used our wireless connection here at home to surf the internet on the wifi of this phone! The wifi works, whether or not cell phone service through a carrier is enabled or not.
What I would like to do then is turn this thing into a wifi phone and use it with skype/gizmo/grand central -- unbrand it and unlock it as well.
sounds like a fun project, eh? The phone was working with skype messaging last night off of its wifi, I did not test the calling features. I want to have it unbranded and unlocked before i start trying to make wifi calls.
BTW, skype is now selling mobile wifi phones. none of them have a handy dandy qwerty keyboard like this phone does, though.
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I read somewhere that on OLD Nokia phones there is a secret menu that you can get into and add a # you want to call for free. Kind of like an emergency # like 911. I have a Samsung phone with no active account that can make a call to 911 for free so it seems plausible.
Hahahaha, I had the same idea years ago. It doesn't work though.
Phantom's talking about the old *3001#12345 secret menu. In it is an option for "Emergency numbers" and there are multiple entries on there including 911, 112, 999, etc. Now let's say you change one of those numbers (let's say "999") to a working telephone number like 1-800-555-1212. What would happen now is if you dial 1-800-555-1212 the phone will recognize those digits as the local "emergency number" (because you programmed it into the phone using that secret menu) and connect you to the e911 call center.
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phractal asked me this yesterday, so I'm asking you..
can the LG Fusic be cloned?!
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splain more on these digital trancievers... gsm? cdma? other?
incoming and outgoing calls? more?
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The digital transceiver is a part that you get out of any electronic device that broadcasts signals. I've taken them out of CB radios before, as well as wireless cards for computers, clock radios, police scanners, GPS units, and loads of other things. Any device that either broadcasts or receives signals from digital bands needs a transceiver, but cell phones use a modified chip that prevents unrestricted broadcasting. That's why you need to put a new transceiver in.
I'll post pics later, unless someone else can help me out.
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explain the whole process... im interested... also whats the legality, reliability, and can you receive as well as send calls? is it hard?
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Okay, well, to answer your first question: This isn't entirely legal. Obviously, you're bypassing restrictions put on the phone to use cellular towers without a paid subscription. That's theft of service, and each carrier devotes a different amount of effort into pursuing cases like this. However, the cell tower may register this as a "roaming" signal, so it would be the same as someone with a T-Mobile plan calling in an area and getting service of the Verizon tower. I'm not exactly sure about that.
As far as the process goes, you basically just need to open up the inside of your phone and line up the transceiver chip. This should fit pretty snugly against your circuit board. All you need to do is make sure the metal on the chip is touching the metal on the transceiver in enough places - it's kind of like shorting electronic devices out - this will bypass the restrictions on the circuit board and allow the transceiver to run. Phish says you don't need to solder, but I always found that taking any wires running off the circuit board and solder them so they're touching the appropriate contacts on the transceiver helps too, that way the contacts on both chips are active. You don't need to do this (as the contacts should be touching anyway, powering the transceiver), but if you drop your phone or something, this will keep it from losing contact. This should still be thin enough that you can close your case back up, but sometimes you may need to glue the case together, as it may be 2-3 mm wider (that really depends on your phone).
Getting the phone apart is going to differ by model. what I've always done is take the phone apart from the headset jack - if you tear the little rubber cover off, you can usually just brute force the two halves of the cell phone apart.
For the transceiver, I recommend a USB-powered wifi card. They're usually the smallest, and that way you know you won't cut any unessential pieces out of the transceiver's board trying to fit it into the phone.
One thing to keep in mind, though: If you have your phone under contract (or recently, where the company will still have your serials), cellphone companies can sometimes monitor for this. To make sure that the serials can't be traced to you, either buy an unlocked phone, get a phone to unlock from a pawn shop, or just steal a cell phone (claiming it at a lost and found usually works).
Good luck!
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do you have pictures?
this seems interesting.
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Here is a link for sim card readers wrighters and copiers I found after reading this thread and they are pretty cheap.
http://www.vavolo.com/Func_info.asp,Func_ID,32,Func_Name,SIM+Card+Readers%2F+Cloners,,.htm
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My Razrv3re AT&T GOPHONE sucks. WUT DUZ I D0?