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Prevent Apple “tracking” iPhone’s IMEI
EDIT: As we wrote in this passage, this is for those who still worrying about Apple sending the IMEI of your iPhone. Actually, they does not send any IMEI at all. Read this.
Looks like Apple is going to track your iPhone’s IMEI to their server, so that they know how many unlocked iPhone out there. So it is pretty important for you to prevent this happening. Follow this guide that works for Windows and Mac OS X.
I prefer you still edit it. But just one question: is that really useful since Apple already tracked your IMEI? Verdicts say Apple didn’t get the IMEI from you, but anyway, just edit it for safe.
All you need is Hex Editor, you can find HexEdit for Windows, and 0xED for Mac Os X.
Step 1. SSH into your iPhone using WinSCP in Windows, Fugu in Mac OS X.
Step 2. Copy “/Applications/Weather.app/Weather” and “/Applications/Stocks.app/Stocks” to the local hard disk.
Step 3. Hex edit these 2 stuff. Look for the offset in “1C30C”
Step 4. Change it to something like this (change “%@” to “00″):
Step 5. Upload it back to the iPhone. Yeah. You are done. Happy unlocked iPhone.
7 Comments
1. iPhone moblog replies at 19th November 2007, 10:59 pm :
This message is totally wrong. Take a look at http://docpool.org/iphone/?lang=en
2. admin replies at 19th November 2007, 11:18 pm :
iPhone moblog,
Are you sure?
Can you explain more why they are not getting IMEI so that we can update the news as soon as possible? Thanks
3. Stefano Buliani replies at 19th November 2007, 11:56 pm :
This should work all right. All you’re doing is changing the imei parameter in the url to a static “00″. %@ in this case represents a variable to be replaced with your phone’s imei.
However, I’d be careful because I read somewhere that the applications (weather, stocks) stop working as soon as you get rid of the call.
It would be interesting to see what Apple is responding to that call, if you can figure out whether apple is sending back some sort of “activation” code to start the app the entire thing can be simply replicated/hacked.
http://thebigdeal.wordpress.com/2007/11/19/apple-tracking-its-customers/
4. Greg replies at 20th November 2007, 9:41 am :
They can track me if they want but they may die of boredom…
5. Update and clarifi&hellip replies at 20th November 2007, 10:02 am :
[...] the previous post, because of heavily dugg story of uneasysicence, we posted a little guide for “fixing” the “exploit” that will send IMEI to Apple. Well, we had said [...]
6. lucbu replies at 24th November 2007, 4:50 pm :
Nice, that’s work fine…
Thanks for the tip.
7. jim replies at 5th September 2008, 7:46 pm :
can an imei on a 3g v2.0.2 be changed? and what’s the easiest way of putting ssh on your iphone.
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