Hmm. I've found a Cingular SIM in my desk and tried the Redsn0w / SAM thingie to two identical 3GSs. One is "FactoryActivated" and one is "WildcardActivated". The Wildcard one never showed the "Phone is activated" message on the phone, whereas the other one did.
Update: I've tried SAM on both of these 3GSs and I'm not getting any effect on battery, even disabling just about everything. I fully charge one of them, and it's dead by morning.
I did see in the dev's instructions to Deactivate using Redsn0w, then click De-Activate Phone in SAM prefs, THEN activate using iTunes. I tried that on one of them - I'll let everyone know what happens once I have it fully charged again.
On another topic, I do hope they figure out what's affecting the GPS on 06.15 - I hope we're not SOL on that, I really liked having a working GPS unit.
Can anyone tell me if I have to restore before trying redsn0w 9.6b6? I currently have my iPhone:4.1 (Jailbroken - Redsn0w), Unlocked (Ultrasn0w). I'm having the battery drain problem, so I installed SAM (2 apps). Tried the new Redsn0w (9.6b6). Still having battery drain.
Then a new SAM came out with:
Clear Push Sessions
Revert Lockdownd Stock
and,
De-Activate iPhone
I tried the new SAM, still battery drain issues. I tried to activate without my SIM in the phone (Fido) and use Method 'By Country and Carrier' which I have set to ATT 310410. Now, when I try the activate via iTunes, the 'Accesseing iTunes Store' is continuously popping up - and I guess, trying to activate.
So, I tried putting my my Fido SIM as I don't have an AT&T SIM. It then activates via iTunes, but there is still a major battery drain problem.
Then I tried turning off the 'Cellular Data' under General>Network. This seems to save the battery power. HOWEVER, I would like to use the Cell Data!
Suggestion, ideas? This is really bugging me now as I've spent MANY hours trying (and recharging) my iPhone.
GuinnessDrinker, just rerun Redsn0w again and just select Deactivate.
Update: the 3GS I updated yesterday with the procedure in the last post Now has normal battery life. SAM works!
The Prefs component has an update in Cydia that offers some more options, but documentation is still lacking. Grab it if you want it - I'm not touching any other settings.
I'm still struggling to get SAM working properly on my 3G/06.15.00/4.2.1. I still have to turn off all notifications to keep my battery from being eaten alive.
Oddly enough, I can only get SAM to report plain old "Activated" on my phone. Then I reboot and get an MismatchedICCID. Weird. I need docs.
You said you got SAM working on your 3GS...and you said you had two. Which one is working? The "Wildcard Activated" or the "Factory Activated"?
I'm think about restoring and trying it all again.
Yeah, it's been a strange trip on this one. There have been two rounds of updates to SAM in Cydia (first to the prefs, then to both SAM and SAMPrefs). The developer is obviously working to hone the code, but I've had more strangeness with the updates than the original versions.
The "Tale of Two 3GSs" saga continues. I redid a 4.2.1 flash on both phones with a Cingular SIM from start to finish, and only when I inserted my T-Mobile SIM did it say "Phone is Activated." The procedure was:
1) Create a 4.2.1 firmware with PwnageTool but select "YES" when it asks you if you activate in iTunes
2) Reboot, now with Cydia installed via the Pwnage firmware, run Redsn0w and "Deactivate" only - if Cydia doesn't show up after the Pwnage flash, then you can install Cydia using Redsn0w
3) Reboot, open Cydia and update the packages (full), install Ultrasn0w, SAM, SAMPrefs, reboot as needed
4) Insert your "other" SIM and launch iTunes - phone should then say "Phone is activated" and you should see WildcardActivated" in SAMPrefs.
When I redid the procedure, the "FactoryActivated" went away, never to return. I wonder what that was - alas, we have no documentation (maybe someday).
After the updates to SAM, when I put the phone in Airplane Mode, then back, it would occasionally kick out an "Invalid SIM" message. Power off, remove and clean SIM, reinsert, power on, and it would come back with another "Phone is activated" message. I fear this is not a stable solution, but it will have to do.
My advice to you is to redo the procedure from start to finish. If you have any friends with an "official" SIM, try using that first. Here in the US, any Cingular/AT&T SIM should work, but again, the phone didn't seem to respond to me until I installed my T-Mobile SIM, so Your Mileage May Vary (TM).
Best of luck,
MB
Last edited by MartiniBoy; 12-09-2010 at 06:03 AM.
Just an update here.
So not exactly sure what the heck was the actual problem. But I was having phone crashes left and right, the wifi/cell would just drop out, and the phone really liked to crash when I locked it...so I would never know until I went to check something. Tried reinstalling iOS a couple times, but still had crashing problems.
So, I restored it to 4.1 this time with sn0wbreeze. Deactivated and "upgraded" to 06.15.00 (again) with redsn0w, couldn't activate with old ATT SIM, installed SAM and Ultrasn0w. And now it's running stable. But, SAM still doesn't work for me. Had to turn off notifications and push email.
I'm wondering if the 06.15.00 had something to do with all the crashes, after reinstall, they went away. I'm just going to hang out and wait for the next iterations of SAM, Ultrasn0w, and baseband downgrader (dev-team) before I start messing with push again. (During that whole fiasco with battery life, I ran up 750MB of data, I'm on the 9.99 Unlimited-Web-for-Phones plan on t-mob so I'm pretty sure I'm gonna be flagged for it.)
Push is overrated... ok it's not...but I'm trying to convince myself of that in the meantime.
Honestly, dude, I have lulled myself into a false sense of "less is more" by turning off Push, Fetch, Cellular Data until i go outside, wifi if I AM outside... really it's a good habit to get into. My battery life is pretty good.
So, my iPhone is still having reboot problems, about 2x a day. I'll be doing something on the phone and then the backlight will turn off and the LCD display will fade the current image away. (Sometimes I dont have to be doing anything, it'll happen in my pocket). Then I hit the power button and it restarts...sometimes...sometimes it will take 1-2 reboots (does the lcd fade with the Apple logo). I'm trying to find a way to make it repeatable. The closest thing I have is that it likes to die when I'm moving (bus, car, etc)...perhaps when it's jumping cell towers? I've looked around the 'net and found some other users with this problem so I'm hoping its not hardware...just the BB.
That brings up another interesting piece of the puzzle. My GPS works, I watch it and I can see it go from cell triangulation to GPS, I walk a bit and it follows exactly. So, it seems there may be two flavors of problems with the BB 06.15.00/4.2.1/redsn0w/ultrasn0w:
1) Where it makes your GPS inoperable.
2) Where your GPS works, but the phone reboots itself alot, especially while moving.
I guess it makes since to point out that I'm using a 3G and MB is using a 3GS.
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