Tuesday, October 02, 2007

iPhone SMS problems

I have been having problems with the SMS application in iPhone, it displayed 1 message but whenever i try to view my inbox it simply crashes and springboard gets displayed. After much googling, I found the answer here.

I found the problem is with ZYB... yup. the same cool service I blogged a while ago, which can get all the phone numbers from your cellphone stored in a central repository. Apparently a message they send has few alphanumeric characters which iphone can't open ;) cool hack.. So the simple solution is to use iBrickr to delete the /var/root/Library/SMS/sms.db file. Caution : This will delete all your messages that are stored in your inbox. You can also take the approach of installing SQLite and browsing thru the records and then deleting the malicious sms alone.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

hey i deleted the DB through Ibrickr but now cant send an sms.It justfreezes halfway...any ideas ?

premkumar said...

Did you turn off your iphone and turn it back on after deleting the db file thru ibrickr?
Try that and see if it works..

Zaidhimself said...

Awesome..thats what i needed..thanks so much mate !!

Anonymous said...

Tx a bunch Prem! my iphone had conked off forever. doin dis sorted out my problem in a matter of minutes.

Bond said...

Hi,
I did not got any junk sms, but still my sms application is not working.

I have deleted sms.db as suugetsed by you, but still the problem exists. I'm not able to send or recieve any sms . My Sms screen jsut gets freeze out for 10 seconds and then goes back to home screen.

Please help.

Anonymous said...

reboot your iphone

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