Dear forum,
Hi, I'm new, but I hope it's not a great problem if I don't first post in the "thread for new members" but cut directly to the chase (of course after having tried the search-function!)! It's just that I'm mega-frustrated at the moment....
My problem is this:
After having waited for two months for my applenberry-bought Gevey Ultra (shipping to Mexico with USPS is a nightmare - but that's another story, or rather storIES...), the day before yesterday I finally received it. Of course I could hardly wait to try it!
Afraid of doing something wrong, I was definitely going to stick strictly to the instructions on the applenberry-website, so what I did was first try the described "manual" setup:
- Powered off the phone.
- Inserted SIM (cut with SIM-cutter, not scissors or a knife or anything) with Gevey tray.
- Turned on the phone.
- Waited for the welcome screen, but even after 10 minutes, nothing appeared!
- Decided to follow through with the other steps anyway, so I went to Settings Phone SIM Applications Instructions.
- A completely black screen with grey Accept and Cancel-buttons appeared (instead of a screen with text and green / red buttons as in the instructions).
- Clicked Accept and waited 15 seconds.
- Made the 112-call and hung up immediately.
- Turned on the Airplane mode and waited 40 seconds.
- When notification No SIM card installed appeared turned off Airplane mode.
- When notification SIM Failure appeared clicked OK.
And sure enough, after a moment my carriers name appeared. But as I didnt want to have to repeat the process again every time when the phone reboots, I decided to do the automatic setup (again from the Applenberry-website):
- Opened Cydia and installed the FuriousMod-package.
- Restarted the Springboard.
- Powered off the phone.
- Inserted SIM with Gevey tray.
- Turned on the phone.
But now, instead of going to the phones menu, I got a black screen with the symbols of iTunes and the USB-cable, apparently telling me to connect to iTunes! No way to accept, cancel or anything else! But when I connected the phone to iTunes (newest version - 10.4.1.10), it told me it could not read the phones contents?!?!
After switching on and off a couple of times with the same result and having about 3500 panic attacks, I managed to do a hard reset by pressing the Home and On/Off-buttons simultaneously and holding until the phone powered off. Upon switching on again, I got to the phones menu (no connect-to-iTunes-screen this time), but had no carrier-signal. I went again through the manual-setup and managed to get a signal again.
Now, with this I could live, but whats unacceptable is that now about 80 % of my apps will not work anymore!!!At first I thought it was a provider-block because I checked such apps as Skype, Viber and WhatsApp, but then I discovered that this cannot be the case, because also apps like Facebook and even non-internet-related apps like the simple flashlight-app are non-functional now! Even if I switch off the carriers 3G-network and connect per wireless to my home network (something that shouldn't have anything to do with the SIM), these apps will not work!
As a last resort, I took out the Gevey Ultra and inserted my old (not active anymore but original micro-) SIM into the phone without the Gevey Ultra and rebooted. But even with this I cannot use the apps now! These problems are 100% the result of the Gevey Ultra!!!!!
The Gevey Ultra has basically rendered my iPhone useless (except for the pure telephone...)!!!!!
I sent a message to Applenberry, but am still waiting for their reply.
Has anybody ever heard of anything like this and / or have an idea, what the problem could be, or even more, how to solve it?
Thanks so much in advance!
Best regards,
Alex
P.S.: Oh, by the way, this is my phone data:
iPhone 4
iOS: 4.3.1
Baseband: 04.10.1
Jailbreak: Yes
Hi, I'm new, but I hope it's not a great problem if I don't first post in the "thread for new members" but cut directly to the chase (of course after having tried the search-function!)! It's just that I'm mega-frustrated at the moment....
My problem is this:
After having waited for two months for my applenberry-bought Gevey Ultra (shipping to Mexico with USPS is a nightmare - but that's another story, or rather storIES...), the day before yesterday I finally received it. Of course I could hardly wait to try it!
Afraid of doing something wrong, I was definitely going to stick strictly to the instructions on the applenberry-website, so what I did was first try the described "manual" setup:
- Powered off the phone.
- Inserted SIM (cut with SIM-cutter, not scissors or a knife or anything) with Gevey tray.
- Turned on the phone.
- Waited for the welcome screen, but even after 10 minutes, nothing appeared!
- Decided to follow through with the other steps anyway, so I went to Settings Phone SIM Applications Instructions.
- A completely black screen with grey Accept and Cancel-buttons appeared (instead of a screen with text and green / red buttons as in the instructions).
- Clicked Accept and waited 15 seconds.
- Made the 112-call and hung up immediately.
- Turned on the Airplane mode and waited 40 seconds.
- When notification No SIM card installed appeared turned off Airplane mode.
- When notification SIM Failure appeared clicked OK.
And sure enough, after a moment my carriers name appeared. But as I didnt want to have to repeat the process again every time when the phone reboots, I decided to do the automatic setup (again from the Applenberry-website):
- Opened Cydia and installed the FuriousMod-package.
- Restarted the Springboard.
- Powered off the phone.
- Inserted SIM with Gevey tray.
- Turned on the phone.
But now, instead of going to the phones menu, I got a black screen with the symbols of iTunes and the USB-cable, apparently telling me to connect to iTunes! No way to accept, cancel or anything else! But when I connected the phone to iTunes (newest version - 10.4.1.10), it told me it could not read the phones contents?!?!
After switching on and off a couple of times with the same result and having about 3500 panic attacks, I managed to do a hard reset by pressing the Home and On/Off-buttons simultaneously and holding until the phone powered off. Upon switching on again, I got to the phones menu (no connect-to-iTunes-screen this time), but had no carrier-signal. I went again through the manual-setup and managed to get a signal again.
Now, with this I could live, but whats unacceptable is that now about 80 % of my apps will not work anymore!!!At first I thought it was a provider-block because I checked such apps as Skype, Viber and WhatsApp, but then I discovered that this cannot be the case, because also apps like Facebook and even non-internet-related apps like the simple flashlight-app are non-functional now! Even if I switch off the carriers 3G-network and connect per wireless to my home network (something that shouldn't have anything to do with the SIM), these apps will not work!
As a last resort, I took out the Gevey Ultra and inserted my old (not active anymore but original micro-) SIM into the phone without the Gevey Ultra and rebooted. But even with this I cannot use the apps now! These problems are 100% the result of the Gevey Ultra!!!!!
The Gevey Ultra has basically rendered my iPhone useless (except for the pure telephone...)!!!!!
I sent a message to Applenberry, but am still waiting for their reply.
Has anybody ever heard of anything like this and / or have an idea, what the problem could be, or even more, how to solve it?
Thanks so much in advance!
Best regards,
Alex
P.S.: Oh, by the way, this is my phone data:
iPhone 4
iOS: 4.3.1
Baseband: 04.10.1
Jailbreak: Yes