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

12 comments

• etatester 3 hours ago
  This is super cool. Particularly for the fact that it just showed my country's operators rather than the usual America First.
• isomorphic 3 hours ago
  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.
• seba_dos1 3 hours ago
  It would be great to contribute whatever's applicable to https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mobile-broadband-provider-inf...
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  • simplyalec 3 hours ago
    will look into this :)
• roundup 39 minutes ago
  Can I use these settings to disable incoming calls? Does GrapheneOS have this option at the android level?
• mycofunguy 3 hours ago
  What do you use the info you have gathered for? It seems comprehensive but curious as to how you use it?
• tantalor 1 hour ago
  How did you build the UI? Is it custom?
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  • simplyalec 7 minutes ago
    plain old CSS w/ svelte (and their new-ish remote functions)!
• denysvitali 2 hours ago
  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 3 hours ago
  Reminds me of the CDMA days when the qualcom software got leaked
• ahmedfromtunis 3 hours ago
  Are these configs read-only on the phone or is it possible to manipulate them using the data here to de/activate any service?
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  • simplyalec 3 hours ago
    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 3 hours ago
    Depends on the OS. GrapheneOS can override a bunch of them: https://grapheneos.org/usage#carrier-settings-overrides
• mrweasel 4 hours ago
  Not really sure what to do with the information, but I love the UI.
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  • mjhagen 3 hours ago
    Very early-2000s
• dorianmariecom 4 hours ago
  very interesting here is my carrier for instance https://carrierexplode.com/ios/carriers/Free_fr/72.0/setting...
• decodingsi 2 hours ago
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