BlueSn0w - iPhone Bluetooth Pwned?

**Kyle Matthews** · 01-03-2009, 01:33 PM

The iPhone Bluetooth Project has been quietly pining away at the Bluetooth aspect of the iPhone for months. They recently released BlueSn0w, a small tool (which bears a striking resemblance in name to another recently released - but unrelated - tool) which is mostly proof of concept. It work strictly via command line, but they promise updates in the near future. This could lead to some exciting things, like Bluetooth file exchange being enabled, among other things.

Our team has successfully been able to demonstrate a 'pwnage' of the bluetooth chipset allowing anyone to write/implement a fully functional Bluetooth Stack that runs on your iPhone, and this will be our next step.

At the moment all it does is print the MAC address of any BT devices within range after a 10 second scan, but that's a solid first step. There seems to be some sort of random drama and a bit of "donate now, donate often!" going on over there, and we were hard-pressed to get an actual conversation with any of the devs, but we were able to test and verify the binary - so its legit.

We'll see where it goes from here.

I've attached the tool and their Readme to this post - if you're the command line type, give it a whirl. A few things to note: in this early release, WiFi /must/ be off on your iPhone when running this, and the device you're trying to find should be set to Discoverable.

**12jmartinez** · 01-03-2009, 01:37 PM

wow this could mean stereo bluetooth right??? haha i might actually get to use the rokr headphones i bought!!!

**Stealth1029** · 01-03-2009, 01:38 PM

Most of the credit goes to iSchmave for developing it so far. The next release will have a GUI in order to make it more user-friendly. This is really starting to pick up...

**Sullivan0930** · 01-03-2009, 01:38 PM

nice progress.

**sn0ws** · 01-03-2009, 01:41 PM

thats great work.. I miss stereo headphones sooo much from my blackjack with pandora and wireless headphones.... I would be able to snowboard in heaven

**blanked** · 01-03-2009, 01:45 PM

enable send and getting files!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!????????????????

**tattoojack** · 01-03-2009, 01:48 PM

Awesome!!!

**jaded_lude** · 01-03-2009, 01:52 PM

that is awesome! it has been a while!!! would this mean i could export my contacts to my pioneer nav in my car????

**Dash-2** · 01-03-2009, 02:17 PM

Awesome to see people are working on it. And clever naming as well

**cscho0415** · 01-03-2009, 02:23 PM

we are going to implement all your fav profiles such as stereo audio through bt and fiel transfer in time... we have to knock out a few things before we get there... any way check out our forums @ iphonebluetooth.tk

**reeko** · 01-03-2009, 02:25 PM

mattmac and cscho0415, congratulations.
i remember the doubters at the beginning and well done on getting so far! the task was even labelled "impossible" ....
will be looking forward to the updated gui version with a couple more features before i test it, but, congratulations

Reeko

**SplitFire** · 01-03-2009, 02:26 PM

Originally Posted by jaded_lude

that is awesome! it has been a while!!! would this mean i could export my contacts to my pioneer nav in my car????

What kind of pioneer do you have? I just had the Pioneer F90bt installed yesterday and was able to transfer my contact list to the unit.

**ezekiel2517** · 01-03-2009, 02:29 PM

this sounds awesome, one of the main things the device really needs. full bluetooth support... now i wont have to tell my friends how crappy of a device the iphone is when they want to transfer me a picture of song...

**billchase2** · 01-03-2009, 02:34 PM

now this is starting to get exciting... :-)

**thixtythix** · 01-03-2009, 02:39 PM

Originally Posted by ezekiel2517

this sounds awesome, one of the main things the device really needs. full bluetooth support... now i wont have to tell my friends how crappy of a device the iphone is when they want to transfer me a picture of song...

im soooo tired of being told u suck everytime someone wants one of my tunes or pics !!!

im very excited about this!!!!!

**DylanYo** · 01-03-2009, 03:00 PM

I have been waiting on this forevvvvvvvvvvver.
It would be great to get some use out of these 100 dollar bluetooth headsets.

**iop9000** · 01-03-2009, 03:24 PM

PS3 bluetooth remote app

**KingShorty** · 01-03-2009, 03:26 PM

This is great news.

It's always awesome when the community can overcome the shortcomings set by the corporations.

**at004** · 01-03-2009, 03:38 PM

no way, you guys rock.... iphone is going to ruule the world, although it is now, ok then it would rule the universe :P thanks alot guys keep up the good work thank u

**odbtgdy** · 01-03-2009, 05:54 PM

Thank you!!!!

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