Baseband 05.12.01 unlockable!!!! Finally!!! :)
Jun0
The day has finally arrived. After buying an iphone in ebay which was with telephony unsable is now fully working, thanks to the awesome work of dev team. They have just released ultrasn0wn 0.93 which unlocks basebands 04.26.08 thru 05.13.04. To install this latest version of ultrasn0wn you just need to add to your cydia sources repo666.ultrasn0w.com and install or upgrade ultrasn0wn.
For more information go to http://twitter.com/iphone_dev
Congratulation dev team! you are awesome!
iPhone at last
Apr0
For a long time I wanted to have an iPhone. As my work and education is all around technology, computers and touch this was somekind of must have. Altough this is a really expensive gadget…. As if it wasn’t enought it’s base price, you still need to afford a monthly plan with a telecommunications operator. Is too much for me!
Well, in the other day I though about searching for some used iPhones on eBay. After watching some items ended I realized that buying a iPhone for 200 pounds in the UK ebay was the normal thing to happen. Then I say an item with a clear description, it was in a brick state. The seller was saying that it was unlocked but it became locked from one day to another. The only thing visible on the screen was an image telling “No sim card installed” and below “Insert a valid SIM with no pin lock to activate iPhone”. Well, I took the risk and bid it with a maximum of 150 pounds. I won it!
After that I started to dig out information on how to make usable again. I knew nothing of iPhone’s until the day it arrived. The only thing I knew was that I couldn’t make updates from iTunes taking the risk of getting it unlockable. I also didn’t knew which version of the firmware as installed and as well as the baseband version. But believe that the last owner made an upgrade via itunes making it unactivated. I had already the pwnage tool and the latest firmware to make a custom firmware but iTunes didn’t let me to restore the custom hardware. The iPhone was in a such state that only making a restore to factory defaults was possible with iTunes.
I have even oppened it to see of there was something wrong with the sim card slot. And yeah, there was. Two of the contacts of the SIM card inner tray were broken. But at the moment that wasn’t my biggest concern. I was around and around until I found the version 0.94 of the redsn0wn tool available for Windows and Mac OSX. I also found a blog post telling me how to jailbreak the latest firmware available so I cross my fingers and took my chance. Guess what, it worked! But no miracles happened. It have 3.1.3 firmware running but the baseband version is the 05.12.01 which it’s not unlockable at the moment. So I now have to wait for those brillants guys from dev team as well as other iPhone hackers can make the wonderfull job of publish a new tool!
I also need to replace that inner tray otherwise the iPhone will not read the SIM card anyway. I now have a 75% usable iPhone for 150 pounds. Nice deal! 
This was how received it
‘Vibrate to this’ mix set
Mar0
Tracklist:
1 Flack.su – T-Break (ICR Remix) – Glack Audio
2 Dan F – Right On (Elite Force Remix) – Disuye Records
3 Mesmer – Weird Funk (Original Mix)
4 Rennie Pilgrem – So Real (Andrea Lai Rmx) – TCR
5 Royksopp – TrickyTricky (Binster Rmx)
6 Darkpunk – A.L.E.C.H.A.O.S – Minus Mal’s Records
7 The Playfellow – The Gunz (Sidel Rmx) – Bass Reflections
8 The Loops Of Fury – Soap (Peo De Pitte Mix) – U&A Recordings
9 Slyde – Vibrate To This (Trouble Soup!! Remix)
10 Product.01 – Destrukt – En:Vision Recordings
11 Joan Reyes – Shakedown (Bass Kleph Remix) – Fresco Records
12 Darin Epsilon – Aural Satisfaction (Inkfish In Indica Satisfaction Land Mix) – Inkfish Recordings
TI’s PCM2704 based USB sound card
Jan0
Hey! It has passed a really long time since my last post but I have been really busy at work in this last months. For a long time that I wanted to make a really simple USB external sound card. The reason for this is that i’m using my KRK Rockit 5 reference monitors with a crapy built in motherboard sound card. The connections are only the ones that come within the main board, in the back of the computer, and if that wasn’t enough i also have noise from the computer when nothing is playing which is terrible.
I have searched for some simple chips that could make me the job and I found TI’s PCM2740. It’s a single ended USB audio interface with analog and digital output.
I have followed the application suggestion that came with the datasheet and tested everything on a breadboard first and then i passed the circuit to a prototyping board to fit in a really small box with left and right output plugs.
This is the result:
Guess what… it sounds awesome! Great sound quality with absolutely no noise at all. Now i have to finish the box, make a an open for the USB plug and that’s it!
Beauty That Never Fades mini mix
Sep0
Hey! I have released a mini mix in my Soundcloud. It is called Beauty That Never Fades! Why don’t you give it a listen and tell me what you think about it?
I love breaks. To not be different from my own sound pattern, guess what… is a breakbeat mix!!!
Soundcloud.com
Aug0
Hey, have you ever hear about Soundcloud.com? That’s is probably my choice for one of the most inovative websites around in the last couple of years in what regards to music sharing. I’m not talking about piracy in the music business but the hability to share a track made by yourself, a dj set or just a simple sample. Soundcloud.com is completly Web 2.0 aware and it’s very intuitive and fast to understand and use.
You can search for tracks, list the results with a visual representation of audio file as well as integrated playback in browser without having the need to download. You can even easily comment a specific part of the audio file.
Well, this is only a basic summary of the possibilities given by Soundcloud.com to users. If you are into music then this is to you!
Changing sensor G62 on Golf MKIII GT
Aug0
I have a Golf 3 GT from 1995 and this car has already an OBD connection to plug into the onboard computer an retrieve error and other kind of informations. I bought a very cheap cable OBD cable from ebay to do this kind of debugging.
There was one error that was making me think from a long time ago. The error was something like “Sensor G62 Open or Short to ground on B+” so I decided to use the multimeter to check if the sensor was really messed up. Conclusion, it was!
In the next day I went to a VAG parts shop and bought a new G62 sensor and put hands at work to make the change.
Be very carefull if you decided to do the following steps!
DO THIS ONLY AFTER COLD OR VERY LITTLE USAGE OF THE CAR FROM COLD!! You can get seriously burned!
First step was to take out the engine cooling liquid deposit in order to reduce the pression of the liquid. Because when you take out the sensor, the liquid will come out. After taking out the deposit is time to take out the sensor from its place and switch it with the new one.
Next, you need to put everything back in place again. You also need to set the cooling liquid level to its place again as some liquid will always be losted.
And voila! There are no errors on the onboard computer. I realized that this sensor was being missed a lot. Since I bought the car that I had problems with cranking after running the car and this becomes warm. The sensor provides runtime information of the engine actual temperature and that information is used to control intake air amount and other sort of stuff very usefull for optimum combustion of the fuel.
Results? Perfect crank and running in all conditions (so far)!!