Reprogramming the NAND Flash and device ID on iPhone and iPad
Reprogramming the NAND Flash and device ID on iPhone and iPad
I am wondering if anyone has done it. The Apple projected their sales on iPhone over 24Mil device more than before. All I can see the trend started after iCloud activation lock is introduced. There are hundreds of thousands of bricked iPhones sitting around or may be taken apart as no one care.
"If there is no factory activation log on the server, Apple simply refuses to activate this product altogether, so just making up a new device ID cannot work.
You can swap chips from another clean but broken device and assume identity of that device to activate, however you have to swap all major chips together since they are encrypted and matched to each other on both local and server end. Breaking these pairings will likely result in refused activation or immediate bricking.
However there has been recorded events of new (not icloud locked) devices been locked by someone else, because iPhone 4 has been hacked enough to reprogram IMEI and other internal IDs. So malicious users can obtain IMEI/serial pairs, use the hacked iPhone 4 to trick icloud to lock other new and not locked devices, then scam money from the victims."
"If there is no factory activation log on the server, Apple simply refuses to activate this product altogether, so just making up a new device ID cannot work.
You can swap chips from another clean but broken device and assume identity of that device to activate, however you have to swap all major chips together since they are encrypted and matched to each other on both local and server end. Breaking these pairings will likely result in refused activation or immediate bricking.
However there has been recorded events of new (not icloud locked) devices been locked by someone else, because iPhone 4 has been hacked enough to reprogram IMEI and other internal IDs. So malicious users can obtain IMEI/serial pairs, use the hacked iPhone 4 to trick icloud to lock other new and not locked devices, then scam money from the victims."
Yes, you can do it, for the 32 bits and 64 bits, the thing is you need a compatible or programmed Nand, baseband and eeprom and they have to be from the same board in that way you have to solder again in the new PCB and in that way it will work. For the WIFI products like iPads and iPods only changing the Nand will work, and YES there's a special tool to reprograming the imei, and yes you can create a new completely imei and still would activate in the activation process.
Yes and no. For 5s and older, you have to change the baseband, NAND and the baseband prov. On newer ones you change those plus the CPU and ram. So, yes, it is possible, just extremely hard.
