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Show HN: Carrier-Explode: iPhone, Pixel and Galaxy carrier settings decoded

141 points by simplyalec ago | 14 comments

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.

isomorphic |next [-]

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.

etatester |next |previous [-]

This is super cool. Particularly for the fact that it just showed my country's operators rather than the usual America First.

seba_dos1 |next |previous [-]

It would be great to contribute whatever's applicable to https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mobile-broadband-provider-inf...

simplyalec |root |parent [-]

will look into this :)

tantalor |next |previous [-]

How did you build the UI? Is it custom?

mycofunguy |next |previous [-]

What do you use the info you have gathered for? It seems comprehensive but curious as to how you use it?

denysvitali |next |previous [-]

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

tylergetsay |next |previous [-]

Reminds me of the CDMA days when the qualcom software got leaked

ahmedfromtunis |next |previous [-]

Are these configs read-only on the phone or is it possible to manipulate them using the data here to de/activate any service?

simplyalec |root |parent |next [-]

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

flotzam |root |parent |previous [-]

Depends on the OS. GrapheneOS can override a bunch of them: https://grapheneos.org/usage#carrier-settings-overrides

mrweasel |next |previous [-]

Not really sure what to do with the information, but I love the UI.

mjhagen |root |parent [-]

Very early-2000s

dorianmariecom |next |previous [-]

very interesting here is my carrier for instance https://carrierexplode.com/ios/carriers/Free_fr/72.0/setting...

decodingsi |previous [-]

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