So anybody who’s upgraded their iPhone to 3.0 and Jailbroke it, will notice that thier new PUSH service is BROKEN.
I’ve spent an entire day full of restores and jailbreaks and finally got it working…
The trick was just to follow these simple steps:
PLEASE NOTE: This is currently only for users with valid AT&T contracts and SIM cards.
1. You’re going to need to part with your apps for now… reconfigure them later, step one is to be okay with that.
2. Do a restore in iTunes to the stock iPhone 1,1_3.0 firmware. Activate with iTunes.
3. Download PwnageTool (OSX)
4. Download the iPhone1,1_3.0_7A341_Restore.ipsw firmware file.
5. Once your running 3.0 on your iPhone, download the AIM (Free) app, and send yourself a message from a different screen name on a different computer, and verify that PUSH is working. If PUSHi s not working at this point, it wont be after the jailbreak either…
5. Launch the PwnageTool and choose EXPERT MODE!!!
6. Once in expert mode, go through and choose NOT to let the baseband be updated, and NOT to activate the phone, also do NOT use bootneuter at all, uncheck all boxes. – Depending on the packages you choose in the next steps, you may want to choose your /root partition be 600MB to be on the safe side.
7. Select packages if you want… I didn’t. Proceed to build the custom firmware. OSX will ask for your password about halfway, so watch it closely.
8. After building, follow the instructions in Pwnage to enter DFU/recovery mode. This is essential, and it won’t let you continue until you do so.
9. Open iTunes and close Pwnage, iTunes is going to yell at you, like usual.
10. Hold alt/option and press restore, and choose your CUSTOM firmware to load onto the iPhone.
11. Let it run its rounds with restarts and whatnot, it’s going to take a while.
12. Be sure to set it up as a new iPhone when iTunes asks you, and then LET ITUNES ACTIVATE THE PHONE FOR YOU.
YOU CANNOT DO A RESTORE, IT WILL NOT WORK
13. Before downloading any apps, grab AIM (Free) and try it again, push should be working.
14. Add http://cydia.hackulo.us to your repos and um… happy jailbreaking guys. Have fun w/ PUSH!
Everybody, please feel free to comment with questions about this method. I’ll do my best.
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Mike Reply:
June 23rd, 2009 at 10:07 PM
@Corey,
Dude. Sorry it wasn’t working for you before, but you are the ONLY case I have read that wasn’t working with a LEGIT SIM.
You unlocked and activated your LEGIT sim, so of course it didnt work. The problem is with the activation hack. This is well know.
So again, glad you got it working, but it really has nothing to do with the rest of us.
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Corey Reply:
June 23rd, 2009 at 10:17 PM
@Mike,
There’s tons of pages of users who couldn’t get it working on forums I’ve been reading.
The problem is most people don’t know better enough than to go in and manually disable the auto activation and unlock when they don’t need it.
Also upgrading from 2.2.1 with it unlocked caused alot of issues for me as well.
Regardless, there’s other users out there who couldn’t gt this working even with a legit SIM.
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Mike Reply:
June 23rd, 2009 at 10:32 PM
@Corey,
Even still, the issue is the hacktivation. Upgrading (not restoring) leaves the forced activation intact in some cases.
Its understandable that people weren’t realizing that the phone was being auto-activated by redsn0w/Pwnage. I thought you were referring to a special case in which the phone was locked and activated legit.
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Corey Reply:
June 23rd, 2009 at 10:34 PM
@Mike,
Well the issue I had, was I did a restore to a fresh custom ipsw, and did a restore from my old data… still no push. o_O
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Awesome.. Thanks!!!
fixed my problem.
If push still doesn’t work for you.
Restart the phone
Go to setting, turn push on and off.
This is how i got mine to work!!!
Thanks
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Corey Reply:
June 25th, 2009 at 3:07 PM
@Alex, Thanks for the tip!
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Nice, but still no way to use it with another SIM. After replacing the AT&T Sim, you’ll need to activate again on 2G. This is missing on 3G and in that case you’ll be able to use antoher SIM from your ISP of choose.
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This completely works.
I am on Tmobile with 2g…Push Notification working 100%
I think people having trouble are not following the instructions properly.
FYI, you don’t need to fully activate with the ATT sim, you cancel out.. Therefore no trouble unlocking and sticking in a different sim..
It absolutely works, and is probably the only solution that will ever work.
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nvrbnacmp Reply:
October 13th, 2009 at 6:34 AM
@spikey911, how do you not fully activate the AT&T??
stuck on this step..
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Does this only work in OSX? Can I follow the same steps in Vista?
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July 7th, 2009 at 7:24 AM
@Nodnarb, This does happen to only be on OSX
With the discontinuation of QuickPWN, redsn0w is the only other viable solution, and it forces the activation (hacktivation) which is where the problem lies for AT&T users.
I don’t have much experience JBing on Vista, sorry. I know its possible, just find a way to Jailbreak w/out unlocking OR hacktivating.
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PushiT Reply:
December 18th, 2009 at 10:53 AM
@Corey DeGrandchamp,
Can you send me the Custom Build ipsw file because I don’t have OSX? much appriciated.
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December 18th, 2009 at 10:59 AM
@PushiT,
Can’t do that, sorry.
For one it’s against the law.
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Super solution here for my iphone 3g hacktivated! http://www.simonblog.com/2009/07/09/pushfix-fixes-push-notification-on-jailbroken-iphone/
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