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Blog Entry[it just doesn't work] where did iPhone SMSD go?Jun 26, '08 9:06 AM
for everyone
so, trying to find a fix for yet another iphone suckage. SMS service is quite weak as most of you know.
I installed (via Installer) the SMSD yesterday, something didn't go well and the program is crashing back to desktop. So, i started digging for docs, new version anything.

and.. it's like it's been wiped off the face of the internet.. or at least http://code.google.com/p/iphone-smsd/, which is referred by all the blogs praising the goodness, gives me a "Forbidden". Well, maybe it's just not being familiar with code.google but I starting to suspect that apple approached the maintainer (or google?) with an offer he couldn't refuse..

Anyone played/hacked their iphone's SMS program? got any favourites? I see weSMS, aSMS (to be used with a remote browser)
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michaelg wrote on Jun 26
Get a Samsung Instinct.
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vilius wrote on Jun 26
it's not for me.. the iphone is Laura's now.

a little follow-up:
i found something what looks like smsd page http://amrut.joshi.googlepages.com/
i even found a version (0.2.3beta1) which supposed to work with 1.1.4 fw i got. i does but is rather unstable.

so i tried weTool (installed it via cydia installer, which uses apt-get/deb repos; pretty cool but so far has failed to upgrade itself successfully). From the first looks wetool looks and feels great, should do a good job as a side-kick for the stock app.

i still have to find a way to disable the annoying T9/self learning dictionary.. it's great at catching typos in english but suffers with Lithuanian words having 10s of different endings..
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petra1 wrote on Jul 1
hm... I use sms service on my iphone quite succesfully. But I have no idea how my hacker-fellows unlocked the iphone.
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vilius wrote on Jul 1
petra1 said
hm... I use sms service on my iphone quite succesfully. But I have no idea how my hacker-fellows unlocked the iphone.
unlocking is cake.. forwarding, saving as draft or writing an sms to more than one person is not.

weTool is an app which does exactly those two things.
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pez wrote on Jul 1
Sooooo... it just doesn't work because you've hacked your phone against the terms of service and it doesn't do exactly what you want in that state? Sounds like a reasonable complaint. Not.

Save an SMS as a draft? Weird.

iPhone can easily send an sms to multiple people.
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everdred wrote on Jul 1
pez said
iPhone can easily send an sms to multiple people.
...with a firmware update.
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pez wrote on Jul 2
everdred said
...with a firmware update.
Firmware update? That's a term that applies to old cranky phones that don't get improvements regularly.

iPhones get software updates that add tons of functionality. If you had the first iPhone you have enjoyed, for free, three reasonably large software updates so far, and a HUGE one coming in about a week -- all for free -- that added significant functionality.

These updates get added to the phone automatically without having to worry about stuff like "firmware." It just works.
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vilius wrote on Jul 2
pez said
Sooooo... it just doesn't work because you've hacked your phone against the terms of service and it doesn't do exactly what you want in that state? Sounds like a reasonable complaint. Not.
As far as I've noticed jailbreaking iphone did not break any features for me so far. it did allow me to patch up/work around what i didn't like: transferring contacts from another SIM card, recording video, xterm+ssh, use that "phone" feature in the rest of the World.


re 2.0 firmware - sounds like it is going to be fun:

However, the last SDK update was iPhone SDK beta 8 which was released last week and as iPhone Hacks reader, JFA, had mentioned in the comments yesterday "2.0 (iPhone firmware 2.0) code signing is done even at the kernel level so running unauthorized apps will be a tougher cat & mouse chase from now on...".
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everdred wrote on Jul 2
pez said
Firmware update? That's a term that applies to old cranky phones that don't get improvements regularly.
Ooookay, outside of the RDF, I think these things are typically called "firmware updates." We're talking about software updates that are intended to work only on a particular device.

And lest you take my original comment for I-can't-believe-it-didn't-launch-with-that-feature-and-the-fanboys-still-lined-up-for-it-type snark, I was pointing out that maybe Vil's was lacking the multi-SMS feature because it wasn't up to date.
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pez wrote on Jul 2
everdred said
Ooookay, outside of the RDF, I think these things are typically called "firmware updates." We're talking about software updates that are intended to work only on a particular device.

And lest you take my original comment for I-can't-believe-it-didn't-launch-with-that-feature-and-the-fanboys-still-lined-up-for-it-type snark, I was pointing out that maybe Vil's was lacking the multi-SMS feature because it wasn't up to date.
Mea culpa. I interpreted it as snark.
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petra1 wrote on Jul 8
pez said
iPhone can easily send an sms to multiple people.
yep, event it's unlocked
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