Show HN: Carrier-Explode: iPhone, Pixel and Galaxy carrier settings decoded
4 hours ago (carrierexplode.com)
Showing off carrier-explode, one of my side projects that continuously archives carrier settings for all major phone brands.
carrier-explode also contains decoders and explanations for all the common baseband configurations, etc.
There’s still quite a bit of work to be done in checking my assumptions, but the tool has already been proven useful for a few enthusiast groups.
I saw this linked from MacRumors during the AT&T iPhone 18 Pro Max lockup news discussions. It was interesting to see what AT&T/Apple did to try to get ahead of the issue. So far it looks like they disabled 5G Standalone mode, possibly just to prevent a bug from literally destroying the hardware (possibly only on one batch of phones).
Apple/AT&T still haven't released any kind of statement addressing the issue other than to replace affected hardware.
This is super cool. Particularly for the fact that it just showed my country's operators rather than the usual America First.
It would be great to contribute whatever's applicable to https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mobile-broadband-provider-inf...
will look into this :)
How did you build the UI? Is it custom?
What do you use the info you have gathered for? It seems comprehensive but curious as to how you use it?
What's more useful, or at least was a while ago, is the CA combos list - basically showing which bands can be aggregated and how.
A while ago I built a decoder for that (Qualcomm only!), it was fun and helped me improve the support of my device for my carrier.
https://github.com/denysvitali/ca-combos-editor
Reminds me of the CDMA days when the qualcom software got leaked
Are these configs read-only on the phone or is it possible to manipulate them using the data here to de/activate any service?
You can trick iOS into running different bundles for your carrier up until the most recent beta (just fixed)
A very common thing to do in Russia for instance where WiFi calling isn’t available: https://github.com/ios-bundles/CarrierSIM
Depends on the OS. GrapheneOS can override a bunch of them: https://grapheneos.org/usage#carrier-settings-overrides
Not really sure what to do with the information, but I love the UI.
Very early-2000s
very interesting here is my carrier for instance https://carrierexplode.com/ios/carriers/Free_fr/72.0/setting...
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