The Dev Team seem to have made some sort of breakthrough with the iPhone 3G
Here are some bits of MuscleNerd and planetbeing's Twitter
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Cool

The guys have said they'd like to break the chain of command sooner in the boot process maybe they have found a way to do that

maybe we'll see a full fledged baseband rewrite soon

Seriously, in my opinion, not been an expert in that matter, leaving the baseband intact is the best and safest way to go

"nothing near usable."

Originally Posted by IphoneEntusiast.

"nothing near usable."

Ya, that kind of negates the entire thing, don't you think?

Originally Posted by crispain

Seriously, in my opinion, not been an expert in that matter, leaving the baseband intact is the best and safest way to go

nah dude, just patching the MCC + MNC checks would not hurt. if you mess with other stuff, that could be a problem, but just patching those checks should be OK in my opinion

Originally Posted by ChronicProductions

nah dude, just patching the MCC + MNC checks would not hurt. if you mess with other stuff, that could be a problem, but just patching those checks should be OK in my opinion

Once the chain of trust is broken at the bootrom level, we can pretty much duplicate the 2G situation, with neutered bootloaders and ignore MCC/MNC patches, exactly as you mention. Writing to baseband NOR isn't as safe as patching the RAM, but probably ultimately a superior solution.

yea plus if it becomes like the 2g solution, apple will probably give up on baseband updates

i know this is in regards to the touch but im wondering, as others might be, does anyone know or think that this problem might be applied to the iphone in future updates by apple. Ive been an iphone user and never owned a touch so if anyone has insight on this and can shed some light that would be awesome.