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iPhone Call Recorder is now available (limneos hack)

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dhlizard said:
Well, it's done !

http://www.limneos.net/audiorecorder.html
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It was a VERY bad decision on his part to abandon the project. (At least he'll provide private support for people that have purchased a license.) Call recording is a MUST.

Let me cite him:

"Also, the official repositories did not want to host this application, perhaps for the same reasons that I am stopping it for."

Surely not. See Call Recorder for Skype, which has been on BigBoss for more than one year. And it's completely WITHOUT any kind of warning.

And, let me add again and again, there are tons of other call recorders for more open platforms. Heck, Bada 2.0 even supports starting call recording right from inside the stock (!) phone interface. None of their devs have ever received any threats etc and, yes, none of them play any warning. many of them even suppress the hardware-generated beeps on Symbian.
 
I wouldn't like someone recording my call without letting me know about it and then use it against me in the future.

Just my humble opinion.
 
The devs statement is a contradiction in it self.

Jailbreaking and unlocking is legal in some countries, in others it is not.
That does not refrain the jailbreak to exist and be actively developt or ultrasn0w be availbale on the main repo's of Cydia.

Inline with the whole idea of jailbreaking, freedom, i think the app would have been no legal problem whatsoever. However it is ultimately up to the dev to decide what do do with the app.

Sad it came to an end. Hopefully Ryan is a bit more realistic and the big repo's a bit less 'double' in there stand.
 
The SIP/VOIP app "Groundwire" available on the Apple Store itself allows recordings without beeps (after user acknowledges to use in compliance with local laws etc etc etc).
 
Menneisyys2 said:
But it's VOIP and, therefore, not using GSM at all.
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It's VOIP to PSTN therefore I imagine covered by the same legislation, and if Apple accepts it in App Store I'm guessing its legal.

Bottom line is I doubt there is anything illegal to sell a device capable of recording without beeps even in US so long as user is made aware and acknowledges to use legally.

Anyway, elsewhere in the world it's perfectly legal to record without beeps.
 
occamsrazor said:
It's VOIP to PSTN therefore I imagine covered by the same legislation, and if Apple accepts it in App Store I'm guessing its legal.

Bottom line is I doubt there is anything illegal to sell a device capable of recording without beeps even in US so long as user is made aware and acknowledges to use legally.

Anyway, elsewhere in the world it's perfectly legal to record without beeps.
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OIC. Then, this also shows Elias was unnecessarily cautious. Not even Apple has against anything recoring apps, let alone less restrictive software distributers (Cydia; see the example of Call Recorder for Skype) or other operating systems (see the numerous call recorders on Symbian / Android / WM or the one built right into Bada).
 
Recorder updated to .227 and made public again: http://www.limneos.net/net.limneos.callrecorder_0.2-227_iphoneos-arm.deb . Of course, it'll only good for existing users (he doesn't sell licenses for new ones).

Unfortunately, the CAF warning files are not hackable in this version either.

Hope I'll have some time to learn GDB debugging this week.

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Menneisyys2 said:
Recorder updated to .227 and made public again: http://www.limneos.net/net.limneos.callrecorder_0.2-227_iphoneos-arm.deb . Of course, it'll only good for existing users (he doesn't sell licenses for new ones).

Unfortunately, the CAF warning files are not hackable in this version either.

Hope I'll have some time to learn GDB debugging this week.
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GUYS!

I've just tested the khmmm... 'other' version (the .223 one) linked by another user here - and it doesn't play the warning message! All localized CAF files have been changed to zero-second ones by the cracker. Works wonderfully on my iPhone 5!

EDIT: unfortunately, these zeroed-out CAF files don't work with the official version, only the "unofficial" one.
 
Menneisyys2 said:
Recorder updated to .227 and made public again: http://www.limneos.net/net.limneos.callrecorder_0.2-227_iphoneos-arm.deb . Of course, it'll only good for existing users (he doesn't sell licenses for new ones).

Unfortunately, the CAF warning files are not hackable in this version either.

Hope I'll have some time to learn GDB debugging this week.

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GUYS!

I've just tested the khmmm... 'other' version (the .223 one) linked by another user here - and it doesn't play the warning message! All localized CAF files have been changed to zero-second ones by the cracker. Works wonderfully on my iPhone 5!

EDIT: unfortunately, these zeroed-out CAF files don't work with the official version, only the "unofficial" one.
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so installed audio recorder and iapfree or just audio recorder?
 
Menneisyys2 said:
I've just tested the khmmm... 'other' version (the .223 one) linked by another user here - and it doesn't play the warning message! All localized CAF files have been changed to zero-second ones by the cracker. Works wonderfully on my iPhone 5!

EDIT: unfortunately, these zeroed-out CAF files don't work with the official version, only the "unofficial" one.
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Continued testing. The cracker didn't actually crack the playback routine (it might be checksumed too hard?) but updated the individual CAF file CRC's (for every localized version) in the executable. This is why the "unofficial" version only works with its own (zero-length) set of files but does exactly the same (refuses to record) as the official one when you change a byte in them / delete the files.

This means it might be possible to transfer the new CRC's into the official version as well, that is, the one without the removal of the license protection itself.

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chaohliu said:
so installed audio recorder and iapfree or just audio recorder?
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Just the "unofficial" (hints above) version. No iAPFree needed, it seems. I don't know as I've installed it on an iPhone 5 that already had an officially purchased and licensed version.
 
Menneisyys2 said:
Continued testing. The cracker didn't actually crack the playback routine (it might be checksumed too hard?) but updated the individual CAF file CRC's (for every localized version) in the executable. This is why the "unofficial" version only works with its own (zero-length) set of files but does exactly the same (refuses to record) as the official one when you change a byte in them / delete the files.

This means it might be possible to transfer the new CRC's into the official version as well, that is, the one without the removal of the license protection itself.

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Just the "unofficial" (hints above) version. No iAPFree needed, it seems. I don't know as I've installed it on an iPhone 5 that already had an officially purchased and licensed version.
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tested, unofficial installed, disabled beep and works without any messages or beeps. just my conversation with me and my voice mail system.
 
I downloaded Audio Recorder but had not yet licensed it, as I was following this thread and wanted to see how things developed. And now there's suddenly no way to purchase a new license...

For now I will try out the "unofficial" version and see if I can simply Paypal Limneos $4.00 for his efforts, and hope that if he comes to his senses, I might be able to get a licensed copy. This developer obviously put a lot of work into the app - I want to pay him for his efforts - but now there's no way to easily to do that (directly through the app). And he's continuing to update it, but now we can't buy it? Ridiculous! :rolleyes:
 
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