There’s apparently a hack to remove the arbitrarily-imposed 1K limit of SMSs that can be stored on an iPhone.  Since I got one I’ve come across this upper limit a few times already and I’ve always wondered why this has to be so.

iPhone Skinning tells us about a hack called “No SMS Limit” (heck of an imaginative title) that removes this block. Whether or not this will result in complications down the road remains to be seen, so hax0r beware.

To get it, just open up NullRiver’s Installer on your iPhone (assuming you’ve jailbroken your unit and are more or less used to adding third-party apps; if not, you need to go to a whole other post), and add http://iphone.totalmatrix.net to your Sources. Reload and look for it under Tweaks (1.1.1).

Be aware you’ll also need SMSD on your system to access the SMS archives (and you need to get this first before getting No SMS Limit), which in turn require Erica Sadun’s UIctl, a UI for launchctl, first. Both SMSD and UIctl are available on Installer already.

No SMS Limit will require you to cold-boot your iPhone, and will patch SMSD before it runs, so be forewarned.

As usual, Mac-A-Doodle just passes on the info; your risk, your call. I’ve installed it myself and will report back if it messes up or hoses my phone.

Hack into the future!

Great Scott! TUAW’s Erica Sadun reports that the soon-to-be-released Firmware 1.1.2, which comes out today in Europe with the release of the UK iPhone under carrier O2, has already been hacked - at the least the iPod version of the firmware, anyway. The new version, like its predecessor, disables adding third party apps and relocks the iPhone. At least jailbreaking the iPod Touch won’t be a problem anymore, and presumably the iPhone too.

The iPod/iPhone hack team has succeeded with the main task, but are still hard at work debugging their handiwork and are adding safety features. Stay tuned for further details.

In other news, Conceited Software released today OktoPrep Ver. 1.0, which “prepares 1.1.1 phones for TouchFree jailbreak.” Not quite sure what it really does, but it popped up on Installer today. The 13.9kb app is available when you run and update Installer on your iPhone.

It’s ok. I tried it already last night. No problem with unlocks and jailbreaks. Everything’s the way it was.

Not to worry.

Just wanted to say.

(If someone knows otherwise, please holler.)

In an earlier post, I asked why there weren’t more free and useful sites around like that screen test thing.

Ha! Apparently there are!

A friend of mine, Ryan, recently had to restore his iPhone and was worried about jailbreaking it again and putting in Installer.app and he texted for advice.

Well, gone are the good old days of circuitous and tedious hacking - today, for people like Ryan its just a matter of navigating to a website with your iPhone or your iPod Touch and clicking ok to installing AppSnapp for 1.1.1.

All you need do is go to

http://jailbreakme.com

Yes, it’s that easy, believe it or not.

All the instructions and cautions are there if you’re the fraidycat, but it’s just a matter of agreeing to the jailbreak and you’re on your way to the wide and wonderful and often weird world of third party apps. Coolness.

One of the most striking features of Leopard is the “stacks” option on the Dock where you can see a stacked representation of a folder’s content. This is essentially an implementation of the old “Piles” concept, but Apple seems to have a way to make an old thing new, and wholly its own. Whatever the case may be, it is still a cool thing to have.

Of course you knew someone was going to try and do it on the iPhone and the Touch, right?

A Google Code project called mobilestack (”Bringing Stacks to iPod touch/iPhone’s Dock”) is being developed that tries to do exactly this. Still a work in progress, it’s getting a bit of buzz on the net. As to why it’s being done is moot and academic; the fact that it can be done is reason enough. Sigh.

Details on Google Code. Video here.