Cell Phone Hacking?

[Rizz]

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.

[Lestan Gregor]

What exactly do you mean by "hacking"? What do you specifically want to do to the phone?

[Rizz]

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.

[Lestan Gregor]

yeah..........um. Switching out the sim card? Beyond that i cant think of anything. If Im wrong somebody will speak up.

[Rizz]

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.

[PHISH-PHREAK]

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 .

[rbcp]

You forgot to tell him about the 6.5536 MHz crystal!

[PHISH-PHREAK]

You forgot to tell him about the 6.5536 MHz crystal!

stfu I thought we were gonna keep the crystal cell phone trick secret?

[Rizz]

so that's all it takes to make a cell phone make free calls or does that make for some other type of function?

[PHISH-PHREAK]

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.

[phantom757]

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.

[gabby]

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

[afreak]

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.

[gabby]

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.

[I-baLL]

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.