#Iphone gecko toolkit update
#Iphone gecko toolkit code

I suspect many phones, even finding their way to an official lost property office, just languish there. But good grief, how many people would be as geeky as me? I firmly believe that most people would do the right thing and try to get the phone back to its owner. Warren, the owner got it back later that week and was mightly pleased. So I found the phone at 2300 on a Sunday night, and it was in Nick’s hands by 1800 on Monday. I rang the number, and learned that unfortunately the owner was on a plane back to the USA, but his friend Nick, (who handily lived on the same tube line as me) would come and get it straight away. It had a UK number in there as a contact point. With Wifi now on, the phone updated the inbox and the first message to pop in there was the copy of the online form the owner had filled in with the railway company. I also saw the phone did have the icon for Find my iPhone, so I turned off the flight mode and connected the phone to my own Wifi, so the phone could start signalling home.įinally I flicked into the Email, to find that address too. Once I had the code, I was immediately able to see the owner’s Facebook and Twitter accounts, so I contacted him on Hopefully you were feeling lucky today … I’ve found your phone! It’s missing its owner too, so msg me 🙂 The beauty of this hack is that it maintains all the existing phone data.

#Iphone gecko toolkit update

This exploits a previous iPhone vulnerability, so you must also put the phone into firmware update mode and inject an earlier version of the firmware into the device. I used the Gecko iPhone Toolkit for this.

#Iphone gecko toolkit code

It’s a brute-force attack where your computer runs through every possible 4 digit combination and then tells you what the code it. Getting past the passcode is boringly unsophisticated. I also had a look for any contacts that were saved on the SIM. ‘Find my iPhone’ wasn’t running, but if the SIM was still enabled, the owner would hopefully try to ring their phone.Īlas, the AT&T SIM was either blocked already, or had never been enabled for the UK phone network. I removed the SIM card and tried it in another phone. There were a couple of other things I thought were worth trying before resorting to phone hackery. The simplest thing here is to take a photo of your contact details and use this as your lockscreen wallpaper. Unless you know the code, you can’t get into the contacts to start ringing obvious numbers, eg. This is the first hurdle most people will fall at. They are unable to be reunited with their owners because Apple’s security features make it impossible and the owners themselves haven’t planned for their possible loss. I don’t have an iPhone, but I’m prepared to bet there are lost property rooms packed with dozens of lost iPhones/Pads all over the world, particularly in airports and train stations. It was in flight mode, so the ‘Find my iPhone’ function would have been inoperable. There wasn’t anyone else in that part of the carriage. It was an iPhone 4S, lying on the edge of a seat. I’d been on the train since it started in Brighton, and was walking up through the carriages after we left Clapham Junction when I found the phone, so I’m guessing that’s where the owner got out in a hurry. … but I want to use this post to detail a little more about how it was done. I made a short film about what happened … It was well after 11pm and with few people around, I took the phone home, aiming to try tracking down the owner myself, else hand it in to a staffed office.įind him I did, but the whole exercise made me really wonder how any lost iOS devices ever get returned (assuming they haven’t been stolen). Frankly I’m surprised any lost phones make it back to their owners at all.