Comments on: Is Apple Blocking Push Notification on Jailbroken iPhones?

By: Betyár

Betyár — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:38:11 +0000

I'm using a Jailbroken iPhone 3GS, running 3.1.2. I am still on the network that originally issued my iPhone. Push seems to have worked fine until a few days ago. Ironically, I recently installed an SBSettings add-on called "Push Notifications SBSettings" and this problem started occurring afterward. Uninstalling the add-on didn't do anything. It seems to have permanently altered the push notifications.

Any help would be appreciated.

By: Jasmine

Jasmine — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:48:41 +0000

okay i have a iphone 3g using t-mobile but i dont get aim push notifications at all soo is there anyway that some one can help me?

By: alfred

alfred — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:42:14 +0000

i have a 3g and my carrier is tmobile. can someone instruct me on how make it work

By: antonioj

antonioj — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:29:59 +0000

iSkythe has it WRONG...i have several friends using SIM cards from networks that dont support the iphone...and guess what?? PUSH NOTIFICATIONS WORK

Why? Because there are at least TWO methods to make them work

By: joe

joe — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:49:02 +0000

guys just to have a nice summary on this:

scenario A)

1) buy net-locked phone (i.e. t-mobile) 2) activate it officially via itunes 3) jailbraik & unlock 4) = push is working fine

scenario B)

1) buy net-locked phone (i.e. t-mobile) 2) jailbraik & unlock 3) activate already unlocked iPhone via itunes 4) = push is NOT working?

so it is about "when" you unlock the phone?

By: abcez123

abcez123 — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:36:42 +0000

I have an att iphone 3G (jailbroken & unlocked) and i am using it in Germany with o2. I am using IM+ and i get push messages all the time. Works great.

By: lgreenberg

lgreenberg — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:30:02 +0000

I think iSkythe has it right - the title of this article isn't accurate.

It's the unlocked and activated phones (i.e. ones on t-Mobile) that are/were having PN issues.

By: iDutch

iDutch — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:35:40 +0000

i agree wuth Greg and abtionoj, the post has a bad title and it is it even newsworthy...?

By: iSkythe

iSkythe — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:16:50 +0000

It's the unlocking of the phone, not jailbreaking. So if you arn't on the official iPhone carrier, you won't get the Push Notifications

By: Joe McG

Joe McG — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:40:07 +0000

I have a jailbroken 3G on AT&T and Push works for me. However, I did notice a hiccup the other night with AIM. I was in a conversation and switched my 3G off in the middle because I was on my Wifi network. I didn't get any push notifications, so I thought my conversation was over (other person went away). However, 2 hours later I got a push notification which was from a message that was sent 2 hours previously. Not sure if this had to do with switching from 3G to EDGE, or if push doesn't work well with EDGE, or maybe something else???

By: antonioj

antonioj — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:06:18 +0000

I don´t understand how this is a story, all this time after 3.0 is out, and specially after people figured how to solve the problem on hacktivated iphones. That chzech guy is just dumb

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 05:00:48 +0000

i am having no problems at all with my jb 3g.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:34:45 +0000

Ok, really how can you post about something like jailbreaking without checking the iphone-dev teams blog. It is a known issue, hacktivating a iphone screws up its unique ID that push services use to find your phone.

Guess what is even more fun if you are not getting the messages chances are someone else with a hacktivated phone IS as the beejive IM forum has jailbreak users complaining about getting messages for other people in other languages.

Do NOT USE PUSH if you hacktivated!

By: iRoc

iRoc — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:03:10 +0000

Push works great on my jailbroken 3G. I'd say it's the unofficial carriers that require the hacktivation. Best to activate with a go phone sim and then use ultrasn0w to hacktivate. Perhaps that would work better.

By: Dionte

Dionte — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:57:33 +0000

works for me

By: Truth

Truth — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:37:42 +0000

Too bad I don't need it and Push Notifications is such crap anyway. Now eat that Apple. By the way I tried the Pre and with that WebOS and the up and coming Android UIs I would be very scared.

Time to start working hard on revolutionizing the smart phone industry like the first go...right Jobs?

By: Rene Ritchie

Rene Ritchie — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:01:35 +0000

@Greg: So more a product of the hacktivation process than Apple going "Aha! Hactivated iPhone! Block it! Block it!!!!"?

By: Danny

Danny — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:57:02 +0000

I activated mine with an official ATT sim to get push working, later I jailbroke and unlocked and Push works awesome, wouldn't work when I hacktivated before.

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:52:15 +0000

The difference is hacktivation, not jailbreaking. There's a fair bit of crypto involved in the activation process and the "fixes" so far involve taking certs from other phones. This will only work for so long; eventually people are going to have to be on official carriers and paying official plan rates for Push and YouTube and who knows what they'll cert off in 3.1 or 4.0?

By: ZeroShift

ZeroShift — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:49:01 +0000

My Jailbroken 3GS gets Push just fine. I think only hacktivated iPhones are having these issues.

By: Wesley

Wesley — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:46:35 +0000

For me too, I've jailbroken my iPhone before any push enabled app was available and Beejive and eBuddy are working fine with push.

By: Daje

Daje — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:30:46 +0000

It's working fine for me. I jail broke my 3G and I get push notifications in AIM.