The team at iBluetoothProject.tk has released a small MobileTerminal app to demonstrate their progress in unlocking the iPhone's bluetooth capabilities.
The teaser app called "bluesn0w" does a 10 second scan for near-by bluetooth devices and displays each of their MAC addresses. Their goal is to bring to the iPhone the bluetooth services a smart mobile phone should have.
----- Final app deets: 1. Ultimately this application will probably be Free and Open Source, 2. It obviously will look a lot more flashy, with a clean and easy to use GUI, 3. (We think) the app will be able to complete your wildest dreams. (Nothing in the 'requests' section I don't see cannot be done for the most part!) 4. Did I hear something about Bluetooth Super Hack? You can bet your bottom dollar we're working on it! 5. The MAC address can be spoofed, and we will possible add this ability to the final release. -----
You can read the full press release, download the app, and make donations towards the project using the link below.
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vixster - January 14, 2009 at 2:56pm
Does this mean we will be able to bluetooth to the polaroid POGO. I can't wait. I have positive thoughts heading your way!! thanks for your efforts.
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Macopoulos - January 10, 2009 at 8:07am
I love the GUI it's very pretty, but still they followed my advice, new domain, new name! But same results.. I'm still with my opinion, the chip sees all devices but chooses what to display to the Settings screen, to be able to display the rest that the OS cuts off, it's not the same to be communicating with another device at ALL! Sorry to be so hard, but i've seen people throwing away their "donations" like flies to a project that has virtually no future.. If someday there is a way with e.g. an external bluetooth dongle, i'm gonna be the 1ST to donate to that cause and also buy it !
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cscho0415 - January 5, 2009 at 9:52pm
the link for read more should be http://iphonebluetooth.tk/... also we have released more since then check out the status update forum there which is where we have been releasing
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Kikasa - January 3, 2009 at 3:50pm
so does this means that once the whole got released? we can send file through bluetooth to hp of any brands? if so great job guys. Really looking forward to the release of the stable version.
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Macopoulos - January 4, 2009 at 3:49am
Sorry to buzz about this again, but i still think that this project could not go any further, maybe some more by porting bluez-urils from the arm builds of debian, but that's it.. I still think that all this is happening about the donations, and prove me wrong.. Sorry but it's what i think and from what i've seen, it's almost like that, "donate for that" "donate for the other" "only usd" like if i donate on paypal will not convert it to their currency, sorryz but i think its a bunch of guys trying to make a living out of it, thats why they changed the name to a more "wise" one like bluesn0w by copying yellosn0w fame!
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Awayze - January 3, 2009 at 10:09am
The read more link doesn't work.
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maz - January 3, 2009 at 12:26pm
works for me anyway!! :-)
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ipodtouchpro - January 3, 2009 at 9:30am
Medevil responds:
site:http://www.medevil.net/
file:http://www.medevil.net/inq.zip
I don't have instructions I just copied that from a friend in iPhoneHellas.
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ipodtouchpro - January 3, 2009 at 9:53am
Instructions:
1. download the release.
2. copy the file to anywhere but remember where, im going to assume you copied it to /var/root (roots home directory)
3. turn off wifi.
4. turn off bluetooth in preferences app
5. start an ssh session to your iphone WITHOUT USING WIFI (BT AND WIFI ARE ON THE SAME FREQENCY!!!)
alternatively you can login to mobileterminal
6. type su
7. type your iphones root password: this is alpine if you dont know what it is
8. type cd /var/root (just to be sure)
9. type chmod 777 inq
10. type ./inq
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Macopoulos - January 3, 2009 at 12:26pm
to ipodtouchpro :
quote : WITHOUT USING WIFI (BT AND WIFI ARE ON THE SAME FREQENCY!!!
Man.. are you serious? Go search wikipedia a bit! :)
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ipodtouchpro - January 3, 2009 at 5:20pm
sorry re man,the guy in the ibluetooth told.i just quoted.ta leme!!!
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cscho0415 - January 5, 2009 at 9:48pm
you can now use wifi with our last release... also medevil is a zbri dont use any thing he release or beleive wher he ways
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ricardo - January 3, 2009 at 8:06am
WANT TO SEE SOLID PROOF OF AN IPHONE 3G WORKING ON TMOBILE USA SEE MY VIDEO AT www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni5dTBxPkt8 . I UPLOADED IT YESTERDAY ITS NOT THE BEST VIDEO BUT IT LOOKS CLEAR AND IT REALLY SHOWS YOU WHAT WORKS.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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t11chb - January 3, 2009 at 9:05am
Yeah, been there, done that. And this topic is bluetooth!
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Macopoulos - January 3, 2009 at 9:09am
Hah, and i thought someone answered my reply! :P come on man read before posting!
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Macopoulos - January 3, 2009 at 4:38am
I like the translation only, i still think that they are ripping off donations for nothing, either way before resolving an other bluetooth device the mac address is presented, plus the iPhone can se all devices but chooses to display only the headsets, like saying to an ericsson to display only headsets..
but nobody gets it! :P
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Macopoulos - January 3, 2009 at 4:41am
Plus they were a google group with another name, and now that the yellosn0w was releashed, the name had a lot of "acoustics" in it to copy to a one proper for their work. Sorry for being hard on the subject, but asking for donations like that and only USD, whats with that, either way paypal will give you the money to your currency..! Sorryz but i still think that this is a bunch of bluetools compiled from the arm repository of debian..
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Schmave - January 4, 2009 at 7:43pm
ok - if it is: you do it.
the bottom line is i worked 6 months on this and have found away to enable all the BT capabilities. if you dont like it dont use it.
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cscho0415 - January 5, 2009 at 9:49pm
lol fiesty today? love u schmave (no homo)
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Macopoulos - January 6, 2009 at 3:06am
Its not who makes it there first but the way to get there, man, i'm not competitive i just point out that you guys cant even afford a domain..and use ways to get donations.. Thats what bothers me. Now for the project, my oppinion is that this project cant go any further and you're asking me to "compete" .. Sorryz but that why i still think you are a bunch of smarts kids with a nice plan to hog donations.. Sorry for being hard, but you know the whole iPhone thing, i'm too old to be played arround.. I kinda know my way arround our beloved device! ;) (sorryz for the bad english)
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Mes - January 2, 2009 at 10:00pm
A great start. At least you're talking to the chip :). Now the really hard part begins ... Discovered my laptop, but didn't see my headset. Maybe the headset wasn't broadcasting.
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Schmave - aka the bt pwner - January 3, 2009 at 1:41am
aha! heres where your wrong :) this was by far the hadest part - it took 6 long hard months to get here and in 4 days ive nearly finished the GUI for it.
its plain sailing from here on!
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cscho0415 - January 5, 2009 at 9:54pm
are u quoting ur other posts now??? jkjk lol... yah we have already released another version and screen shots of our gui on our site