On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 09:27:47AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Install Linux on them, and never use any of Apple's software. Then you > > won't need to reunbrick, because you never upgrade with Apple's stuff. > > Actually, there can be occasionnal boot-firmware upgrades. > > > Has enyone done this yet? Or has Apple found a way around this? > > I don't think GNU/Linux works yet on the ipod touch or iphone. I highly > doubt it already works on the ipad. > And of course, in the case of the iphone, your carrier might refuse you > access if your iphone is not running the expected software.
Yeah. Phones are type-certified by regulatory agencies based on their behaviours. There are certain things they should do on the radio waves and certain things they must not do. If this behaviour is implemented in software, then the software is part of what is type=certified,a nd it has to be there. As a result, if replacing software in an iphone or other phone can affect its radio behaviour, the phone companies are probably right to refuse access, and you may well be braking the law by effectively using uncertified radio equipment. Do you have an experimental=grade radio license? If the software and hardware for the actual telephony functions is divorced from the user software, there should be no problem, however. I have no idea how these interact on the iphone. Or Openmoku. Or Android phones. Does anyone have any technical information on this? -- hendrik _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
