Since my phone is under warranty, and since the main reason I have it is that I’m on call 24\/7 for work, I’m not too eager to jailbreak my phone yet. Sure, it’s tempting, but I’m just not going to do it yet.<\/p>\n
But here’s my problem, and the really roundabout way I want to solve it. A monitoring script will send me a text message whenever a service fails on a server. Sometimes it’s just a few messages a week, but sometimes, when it rains, it pours. I probably have a couple thousand text messages on my phone. I’d like to clean them out. For some reason (everyone I know has asked for this feature), there is no way to delete all your text messages.<\/p>\n
People who have jailbroken their phones seem to have found that the text messages are stored in something like a Berkeley DB<\/a> file. That’d be pretty easy to clean out. (Actually, people who have jailbroken their phone can install one of many applications meant specifically for purging your SMS inbox, but I digress. Further digression: someone else mentioned that it seems they’re ‘marked as deleted’ when you delete them, but not actually removed from the .db file.)<\/p>\n Is there a way to mount your iPhone as a disk? I’m yet to find it if there is. There exist tools to create a folder on the iPhone and let you access that on your computer, but not to view the ‘guts’ of the iPhone as a filesystem. I was able to make this happen on my old iPod, but not on the iPhone.<\/p>\n There seem to be a handful of ‘secret’ (not anymore, thanks to the Internet…) ways of resetting the firmware and whatnot. I’m wondering if any of them allow disk access. Thoughts, anyone?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Since my phone is under warranty, and since the main reason I have it is that I’m on call 24\/7 for work, I’m not too eager to jailbreak my phone yet. Sure, it’s tempting, but I’m just not going to … Continue reading