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Carrier information "Not Available" after 3.0 jailbreak

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gerfuls

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Jan 31, 2009
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Being all excited to get my iPhone 3G running 3.0 jailbroken, I downloaded PwnageTool 3.0 and built my custom firmware. Went into DFU without any problems, selected my custom firmware, waited....., and then when my iPhone was was finished I looked up into the top left corner only to see 1 bar of signal and no "AT&T" logo. When I went to Settings > General > About > Carrier read "Not Available." So obviously I have no cell service now. No SMS, Calls, Internet (except wifi). What did I do wrong??? My specs:

Mac OS 10.5.7
PwnageTool 3.0
iPhone 3G 8GB
iTunes 8.2

Please help me!
 
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gerfuls

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Jan 31, 2009
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gerfuls said:
Being all excited to get my iPhone 3G running 3.0 jailbroken, I downloaded PwnageTool 3.0 and built my custom firmware. Went into DFU without any problems, selected my custom firmware, waited....., and then when my iPhone was was finished I looked up into the top left corner only to see 1 bar of signal and no "AT&T" logo. When I went to Settings > General > About > Carrier read "Not Available." So obviously I have no cell service now. No SMS, Calls, Internet (except wifi). What did I do wrong??? My specs:

Mac OS 10.5.7
PwnageTool 3.0
iPhone 3G 8GB
iTunes 8.2

Please help me!
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found a possible solution for anyone who may have similar issues. When creating my firmware I had been going through expert mode so i could turn off the custom boot logos and now i realize that i had left the "activate phone" option on under general which is on by default. if you turn this off it should work correctly. I'll let you know when/if i confirm the fix.
 
Tokiopop

Tokiopop

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Dec 6, 2008
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Yeah, activating (well, hacktivating since it's activating the iPhone unofficially via hacks) an already activated iPhone screws things up. Restore and start over, and only choose expert mode if you're an expert ;)
 
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gerfuls

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Jan 31, 2009
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Tokiopop said:
Yeah, activating (well, hacktivating since it's activating the iPhone unofficially via hacks) an already activated iPhone screws things up. Restore and start over, and only choose expert mode if you're an expert ;)
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haha thanks. i thought i wouldnt have any issues with expert mode since i had used it before on 2.2.1
 
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gerfuls

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Jan 31, 2009
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anyways that was the issue and i just confirmed it was fixed through what i posted above for anyone else who was the issue
 
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AlcoholicFrog

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Jun 27, 2009
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gerfuls said:
anyways that was the issue and i just confirmed it was fixed through what i posted above for anyone else who was the issue
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Thanks for posting what you found! I did the exact same thing. The only thing I remain ticked at myself for is that I let the phone go through the entire first sync and got it all set up... only to have to do it again...
 
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duffsrp

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Oct 29, 2004
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Thanks Forum Friends. I thought I was an expert as well. But with 3.1.2. Started to think I was going to have to reinstall with the legit 3.1.2. I'm going to give this a try.
 
dhlizard

dhlizard

macrumors G4
Mar 16, 2009
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The Jailbreak Community
gerfuls said:
Being all excited to get my iPhone 3G running 3.0 jailbroken, I downloaded PwnageTool 3.0 and built my custom firmware. Went into DFU without any problems, selected my custom firmware, waited....., and then when my iPhone was was finished I looked up into the top left corner only to see 1 bar of signal and no "AT&T" logo. When I went to Settings > General > About > Carrier read "Not Available." So obviously I have no cell service now. No SMS, Calls, Internet (except wifi). What did I do wrong??? My specs:

Mac OS 10.5.7
PwnageTool 3.0
iPhone 3G 8GB
iTunes 8.2

Please help me!
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Just be advised when updating and jailbreaking your phone to firmware 3.1 or 3.1.2 with the lower baseband (4.26.xx) the lower baseband does not correctly report the carrier info to the firmware.

What that means is that even if you set up the IPSW correctly, there will be no carrier name in the status bar and the Settings/General/About will show not available.

You should have service bars if you made the correct choice for activate phone, yes or no. This a cosmetic bug and does not effect the ability of the phone to make and receive cellular service.
 
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milerich

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Jun 17, 2009
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dhlizard said:
Just be advised when updating and jailbreaking your phone to firmware 3.1 or 3.1.2 with the lower baseband (4.26.xx) the lower baseband does not correctly report the carrier info to the firmware.

What that means is that even if you set up the IPSW correctly, there will be no carrier name in the status bar and the Settings/General/About will show not available.

You should have service bars if you made the correct choice for activate phone, yes or no. This a cosmetic bug and does not effect the ability of the phone to make and receive cellular service.
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I have modem firmware 04.26.08, so I guess this is the lower baseband?

I deactivated the phone in expert mode like I was supposed to do. No carrier icon shows for AT&T. The phone works just great without this, but my question is this:

Will AT&T assume I don't have service, or is this just the baseband reporting to the Apple firmware?
 
dhlizard

dhlizard

macrumors G4
Mar 16, 2009
10,214
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The Jailbreak Community
milerich said:
I have modem firmware 04.26.08, so I guess this is the lower baseband?

I deactivated the phone in expert mode like I was supposed to do. No carrier icon shows for AT&T. The phone works just great without this, but my question is this:

Will AT&T assume I don't have service, or is this just the baseband reporting to the Apple firmware?
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It's cosmetic, just the carrier logo doesn't appear in the status bar and it says Not Available in the Settings/General/About box

Has nothing to do with your service. It's not reporting anything to AT&T or anybody, just cosmetic.
 
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