Fring hack: Free Skype calls via 3G/Edge

Oct 06

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Only 2 days after the release of Fring, there is already a hack available that allows you to make free calls via the 3G network. Fring has been allowed to the App Store under condition that you can just use it to make phone calls via WiFi networks. But on the Fring forum you can already find the instructions on how to perform the hack.

The method below is not guaranteed, but should work:

1) You must be running a Jailbroken iPhone / iTouch
2) Install original Fring via iTunes App Store.
3) Now SSH into your iPhone / iTouch; remember root / alpine
4) Find Fring.app under root var/mobile/applications
5) To find the Fring.app, you then need to click on the most recently installed folder which will be your original Fring and inside should be the Fring.app
6) On your computer, rename the modified 3g Fring .api to .zip; it will now open in winzip or mac compatible unzipper e.g. zipeg
7) Delete the original Fring.app on your iPhone / iTouch

Copy the extracted 3g Fring.app from the zip folder across to your iPhone / iTouch either via the WinSCP (PC) or Yummy FTP (Mac).
9) Now you need to set the permissions. This is easy so please do make it more complcated for yourselves. ALL the files within the 3g Fring.app replacement must be set to 755 (Yummy) or 0755 (WinSCP). You should see all the files being altered as it goes through the process of changing the permissions.
10) When I tried it, it worked immediately after changing the permissions without a reboot but if it does not work then please reboot.

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\\ tags: 3G, call, edge, fring, hack, skype, wifi

21 Comments

At 2008.10.06 13:18,
Nejc said:

Oh, yes … I have been waiting for this one

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At 2008.10.06 15:34,
gabriel said:

only 3g?

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At 2008.10.06 16:37,
gsr said:

can u use wifi also and to Gabriel it say edge , so it must be iphone 2g

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At 2008.10.06 17:08,
gabriel said:

huh?

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At 2008.10.06 17:36,
Wesley said:

“On your computer, rename the modified 3g Fring .api to .zip; it will now open in winzip or mac compatible unzipper e.g. zipeg”

Well… WHERE can I find this Fring.api?!

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At 2008.10.06 18:26,
viru478 said:

thanks for this post its working perfectly with 3g connection without wifi
beautiful work done as we are paying more for data network and cant use more,now it willbe utilized

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At 2008.10.06 21:11,
deflepp said:

Hi, could somebody repost the patch here, as it was taken of the site…
Thx

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At 2008.10.06 21:49,
fuckhead said:

“7) Delete the original Fring.app on your iPhone / iTouch”
…so this can be done on the ipod touch too?
if so, where is the Fring.api file??
i cant find it.

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At 2008.10.07 01:05,
14 said:

once again where is the fring ?? and is it confirmed that it works on edge??

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At 2008.10.07 01:37,
saiyam said:

you can just get a patched IPA for fring which will allow calls over 3g, it should work on edge too…but edge is tooo slow

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At 2008.10.07 06:48,
Josh said:

Fring patched file for 3g iphone:

http://www.anonym.to/?http://rapidshare.com/files/150907173/Fring_patched_for_3G.ipa

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At 2008.10.07 12:44,
sakalli said:

that works. thanks!

btw if you are comfortable enough to use ssh you might also be comfortable enough use scp -r to copy over the file eliminating the need for other applications…

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At 2008.10.07 14:21,
Jash Sayani said:

Another mirror: http://digg.com/apple/Fring_Patch_for_calls_over_3G

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At 2008.10.07 22:35,
i gotcha open said:

last but not least anther one
http://www.audiosuite.at/dropbox/kareem/iPhone/Fring_patched_for_3G.zip

big it up big it up

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At 2008.10.09 01:21,
Eduardo said:

This isn’t necessary to iPods Touch.

Cause they don’t have EDGE or 3G, only Wi-fi. And, don’t have mic.

PS¹: This is my case.

PS²: Sorry my poor english.

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At 2008.10.24 23:39,
Marco said:

Dear all,

I tried it but I got stuck when setting the permissions. How do you do that? I don’t use WinSCP to connect to my iphone but Total Commander.
Please help!!

Marco

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At 2008.10.25 01:54,
xj said:

hallo
can somebody help me how to set permission to 755?

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At 2008.10.25 03:37,
alex said:

after u download the patch what are the steps

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At 2008.10.25 04:01,
alex said:

no 2g patch?

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At 2008.10.26 00:11,
Regi said:

I could believe, it works! Great!
I need to call friends in Japan (from Brazil), and now from my iPhone 3G network through skype.
Thanks a lot for this tutorial and for all posts (the community makes the world better… … … for users).

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At 2008.10.27 04:21,
tom said:

way cool can u please email me the full instructions with all the links in them and some helpful hints addedfor coMplete boneheads, very new to this thing just jailbroke it today, thanks mucho

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