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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
8) 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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21 Comments

  • At 2008.10.06 13:18,
    Wavatar Nejc
    said:

    Oh, yes … I have been waiting for this one :)

    • At 2008.10.06 15:34,
      Wavatar gabriel
      said:

      only 3g? :evil:

      • At 2008.10.06 16:37,
        Wavatar gsr
        said:

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

        • At 2008.10.06 17:08,
          Wavatar gabriel
          said:

          huh?
          :?:

          • At 2008.10.06 17:36,
            Wavatar 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?!

            • At 2008.10.06 18:26,
              Wavatar 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

              • At 2008.10.06 21:11,
                Wavatar deflepp
                said:

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

                • At 2008.10.06 21:49,
                  Wavatar 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.

                  • At 2008.10.07 01:05,
                    Wavatar 14
                    said:

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

                    • At 2008.10.07 01:37,
                      Wavatar 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

                      • At 2008.10.07 06:48,
                        Wavatar Josh
                        said:
                        • At 2008.10.07 12:44,
                          Wavatar 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…

                          • At 2008.10.07 14:21,
                            Wavatar Jash Sayani
                            said:
                            • At 2008.10.07 22:35,
                              Wavatar 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 ;)

                              • At 2008.10.09 01:21,
                                Wavatar 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.

                                • At 2008.10.24 23:39,
                                  Wavatar 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

                                  • At 2008.10.25 01:54,
                                    Wavatar xj
                                    said:

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

                                    • At 2008.10.25 03:37,
                                      Wavatar alex
                                      said:

                                      after u download the patch what are the steps

                                      • At 2008.10.25 04:01,
                                        Wavatar alex
                                        said:

                                        no 2g patch?

                                        • At 2008.10.26 00:11,
                                          Wavatar 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).

                                          • At 2008.10.27 04:21,
                                            Wavatar 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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