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New SMS Hack Easily Force Reboots Some MediaTek-Based Smartphones

15 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/new-sms-hack-easily-force-reboots-some-mediatek-based-smartphones.185111/

ariftwister
ariftwister Original post #1
Jun 29, 2014 at 3:57 PM
A newly found and rather simple SMS-based hack is said to be affecting some smartphones running on MediaTek processors, rebooting the devices without the user's consent.
The SMS-based hack for the Mediatek-based handsets has been discovered by a blogger named Korben (via Neowin), and is said to restart the smartphones as soon as the handset receives a message containing the equal-to sign, or '='. The blogger notes that in MediaTek's chipset language, the symbol is code for 'shutdown and reboot device'.

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amjath
amjath #2
Jun 29, 2014 at 4:22 PM
lets have some fun :mrgreen:
.jRay.
.jRay. #3
Jun 29, 2014 at 4:35 PM
Time to try it on some friends
ariftwister
ariftwister #4
Jun 30, 2014 at 4:15 AM
Did you guys had any success?
amjath
amjath #7
Jun 30, 2014 at 8:13 AM
.jRay. said:
Don't know. I did send an = to a friend with xperia c. He isn't replying now.
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So it's not working, I mean the phone :mrgreen:
ssb1551
ssb1551 #8
Jun 30, 2014 at 3:32 PM
The phone just restarts!! I've already checked it!
warfreak
warfreak #9
Jul 1, 2014 at 8:47 AM
Confirmed on Lenovo S820 and MMX Canvas 2! :D

So much fun was had!!! :D :D
kaz
kaz #10
Jul 1, 2014 at 9:24 AM
Awesome....The sms should contain only "=" or I can have some text after that?
T
techlearn #11
Jul 1, 2014 at 9:25 AM
Having canvas magnus so should i send it to some one from my mobile or from some other mobile...
kaz
kaz #13
Jul 1, 2014 at 9:31 AM
Time to get SMS pack after years :p
Hrishi
Hrishi #14
Jul 1, 2014 at 9:37 AM
Someone is going to cry now.
kaz
kaz #15
Jul 1, 2014 at 9:40 AM
No one would just blacklist people like us :D