Comments on: Advanced Users: BlackBerry Engineering Screen Unlock Code Generator

By: The Definitive Guide to Syncing Blackberry With Mac OS X « The Doppler Effect

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:50:27 +0000

[...] Storage Mode, you need to enter what’s called the Engineering Screens. Follow the directions from BerryReview to access the escreens: To access the escreen, access the device “Help Me!” screen. For QWERTY [...]

By: ledoan

ledoan — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 07:50:27 +0000

allway lean you?

By: boldlygoesnowhere

boldlygoesnowhere — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:35:55 +0000

It’s not working, however, with the nine digit hex pin now in my bold

By: ADVANCED USERS ONLY: Unlock Hidden Engineering Screen on Storm - Page 5 - BlackBerry Forums at CrackBerry.com

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:39:28 +0000

[...] before you make ANY changes. Here is an example of one of the screens you can view. Source: Berryreview.com Where did you find this out [...]

By: Engineering screen unlock code website no longer works? - BlackBerry Forums at CrackBerry.com

Sat, 13 Jun 2009 22:13:14 +0000

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By: The battery drain on .148 & zero 3rd party apps installed thread - Page 2 - BlackBerry Forums at CrackBerry.com

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 02:56:19 +0000

[...] much power your phone is consuming while it is running. Here is a description on how to get to your engineering screen. Once you are viewing your engineering screen go to OS engineering screen>Battery>Battery [...]

By: evan

evan — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 05:03:41 +0000

all i can say is thank you sir

By: Thyth

Thyth — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:51:34 +0000

Welcome to three-and-a-half months ago, when that generator was unveiled. It has been used to generate more than 6000 codes since then (about 70 codes per day).

I fully reverse engineered the algorithm for the code generation from the operating system module (at the core, it’s an HMAC-SHA1 with some song lyrics and random science fiction rambling). The implementation of the code generator you see on that site is about 10 lines of code (and about 100 more for user interface). It’s not some ugly hook into the MML tool, or anything else quite as barbaric.

RIM more than likely knows about the generator already, as all of the major English cellphone forums have links to it, as well as a smattering of international forums (I read the referrer log, which is why I am posting here). In the event they become unhappy, I’ll post the program code I wrote to generate the unlock codes — it’s short enough to have memorized.

As for the Verizon GPS lock… I figured that out in about 30 minutes. I know how to modify (i.e. on the source code level) a 3rd party application to work on those crippled devices (by pretending to be VZNav as far as the GPS chip is concerned). Still working on a way to apply it system wide. When it’s working, I’m sure you’ll see instructions copied all over the popular BlackBerry sites.

Cheers.

By: evan

evan — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:28:26 +0000

hey, i just did that and I was wondering what is now unlocked? Google maps still seems to use the tower-tracking technique, unless I am missing the point and this enables something else.

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Sun, 31 May 2009 15:43:33 +0000

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By: Rizon

Rizon — Sat, 30 May 2009 10:50:01 +0000

Yes, you can do the Verizon GPS with it. Go to…
Radio/GPS/GPS Options/PDE Options. In there, input this data:

PDE IP Address: 66.174.95.132
PDE Port: 8888

That fixes it.

By: wu-wei

wu-wei — Thu, 28 May 2009 09:14:14 +0000

True enough. I’m not opposed to helping folks out, but I think this is a little different from a beta OS.

Guess we’ll see what happens. Information wants to be free, and diligent searchers would’ve found this anyway.

And I concur with the kudos/appreciation for the resource. It’s very helpful.

By: kevin

kevin — Thu, 28 May 2009 02:48:47 +0000

Has anyone try to see if they get the restrictions off with the 8330 verizon GPS using this?

By: David H

David H — Wed, 27 May 2009 20:43:40 +0000

I wonder how long it takes for RIM to shut this down? I doubt that they will allow this for to long. But hey I will bookmark it until it goes dead. LOL

By: Ronen Halevy

Ronen Halevy — Wed, 27 May 2009 18:46:25 +0000

True but first of all I don’t see the harm in people asking for help. That is what everybody told us when we posted beta OS releases. Now everybody does it.

Also if all it takes is a simple web generator there could be 10 more popping up. Not to mention you can already do this with mml…
I just want to say kudos to tythe for putting this together

By: wu-wei

wu-wei — Wed, 27 May 2009 18:16:51 +0000

The floodgates are now open for “help me!” threads on forums everywhere.

And the timer is ticking on a once little-known, but very useful resource…

By: the.abyzz

the.abyzz — Wed, 27 May 2009 17:15:54 +0000

This menu really rocks

Now I can evaluate processes which take most of my CPU.