Help with jailbreaking and Cydia for iPhones, iPads, and iPod touches.

Question

Here's the situation. My wife's iPhone 4S is running stock iOS 5.0.1. It is locked to an official carrier. She is using an official SIM card provided by that carrier. The phone is not jailbroken and has never been jailbroken or unlocked. I want to preserve the ability to jailbreak. Thus, I have not updated the phone to 5.1 and I would like to avoid doing so until a jailbreak is available.

In the past 24-48 hours (i.e. since Apple closed the 5.0.1 signing window), she has been unable to send or receive iMessages. Previously, iMessage and FaceTime worked fine. In Settings, I see that neither iMessage nor FaceTime is activated. I turn iMessage on to activate it, and after a brief delay, a pop-up message appears: "iMessage Activation An error occurred during activation. Try again." I have repeated this process to no avail. Attempting to activate FaceTime produces a similar error message. Power cycling the phone solved nothing. Removing and replacing the SIM card solved nothing. I have not attempted to restore her phone or put it in DFU mode as I don't want to have to upgrade it to 5.1.

My initial theory is that, with the 5.0.1 signing window closed, perhaps Apple is no longer authenticating FaceTime and iMessage certificates for phones running 5.0.1. I am guessing this only affects A5 devices, since my officially unlocked iPhone 4, running iOS 5.0.1 jailbroken with redsn0w, has no iMessage or FaceTime activation issues.

Are any other A5 device owners experiencing this problem? Can anyone provide insight into the cause and possible solutions to this problem? Thanks in advance!

Accepted Answer

2	Problem solved! My wife had the date and time set manually on her phone. Daylight savings time change on Sunday must have screwed something up. Changing the date and time setting to automatic solved the issue. link answered 13 Mar '12, 22:46 sith_spit 173●1●2●5

Answer 2

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As far as I know it is dependent upon proper activation. Meaning activated with either the original carrier or official carrier SIM card. Requires certs from Apple. Will not work with hacktivation, unofficial SIM (eg T-Mobile_US for activation only), or Gevey.

eg. So if model MC603LL iPhone (5.0.1 / 1.59), activate with AT&T SIM, then unlock and switch to T-Mobile.

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answered 13 Mar '12, 22:09

JuergenWest ♦
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Hi Juergen,

The phone is officially activated. She is using the official carrier to which the phone is locked. The SIM is an official SIM from the official carrier. The phone has never been jailbroken, unlocked, hactivated, or used with an unofficial carrier.

(13 Mar '12, 22:18) sith_spit

Answer 3

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Juergen got owned lol. Guess that's what happens when you don't read a post to its entirety in the first place? When will morons stop skimming? No offense but is a horrible way to learn anyhow. I mean shit look how much you missed out of that Juergen. Honestly. People need to start paying better attention to detail. This is the reason for the epidemic of stupidity in this world we live in today. Stupid teachers whom don't know jack in our schools teach little Johnny oh it's ok to skim Johnny. No it's not. People wouldn't write the rest of the words if they were not required for complete comprehension.

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answered 10 Jul '14, 06:48

Alpinestars_2002795
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Don't resurrect posts over 2 yrs old.

Seems it's you that needs to pay attention.

Your post serves no purpose and is unhelpful. If you wish to troll and abuse people with your first post please go elsewhere.

(10 Jul '14, 06:53) Tilerone

he didnt skim and offered what it could be with lack of info. owned would require being told off and the op answered what was said in a polite constructive way.

Little jhonny alpinestars_2002795 should take a long look in the mirror and seek help for anger issues

(10 Jul '14, 12:54) theiphoneguy ♦

And you felt this needed to be pointed out after TWO YEARS? Wow. Why not try reading some more recent posts "to" (the proper word is "in" in this case btw) their entirety?

(10 Jul '14, 13:10) spockers ♦♦

Help with jailbreaking and Cydia for iPhones, iPads, and iPod touches.

The question has been closed for being "Solved" by Tilerone, 10 Jul '14, 06:53

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