Show HN: Carrier-Explode: iPhone, Pixel and Galaxy carrier settings decoded
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.
Discussion Highlights (15 comments)
mrweasel
Not really sure what to do with the information, but I love the UI.
dorianmariecom
very interesting here is my carrier for instance https://carrierexplode.com/ios/carriers/Free_fr/72.0/setting...
tylergetsay
Reminds me of the CDMA days when the qualcom software got leaked
seba_dos1
It would be great to contribute whatever's applicable to https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mobile-broadband-provider-inf...
ahmedfromtunis
Are these configs read-only on the phone or is it possible to manipulate them using the data here to de/activate any service?
mycofunguy
What do you use the info you have gathered for? It seems comprehensive but curious as to how you use it?
isomorphic
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
This is super cool. Particularly for the fact that it just showed my country's operators rather than the usual America First.
denysvitali
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
tantalor
How did you build the UI? Is it custom?
roundup
Can I use these settings to disable incoming calls? Does GrapheneOS have this option at the android level?
arslan9063
bro this is neat
jakobdabo
I wonder which field is responsible for disabling the Personal Hotspot feature? About a year ago mine suddenly got disabled in the phone's UI. Since then, the only time it got enabled was when I was traveling and using a travel eSIM. It's sad that phone companies allow carriers such anti-user things.
rustcleaner
Nice! Thank you for this public service. Phone makers & carriers should be ashamed of themselves for hiding such important configuration behind proprietary formats. If you [lurker] are a decision maker who decided to make our world this way: for shame, for shaaame!
m463
just amazing - good work! ...and wonder what kinds of settings "restrictive regimes" will use I could imagine stuff like com.apple.voicemail.imap use SSL => false