It’s hip2b2

Yes, there are some lemon iPhones that don’t allow you to receive SMS messages. Yes, you can’t receive SMS message in your iPhone. After a bit of playing around with the unit, it really feels like BETA quality hardware. Lots of little issues left and right. Oh well. Maybe their new version will be better? iPhone 2.0? Anyway, here is the procedure for fixing this issue. Fair warning: Make sure you know what you are doing and ensure that your units are fully charged. You don’t want to interrupt the process in a middle of an update.

1. Grab latest 1.0.2 (latest safe firmware) firmware update. Extract the bbupdater, ICE03.14.08_G.fls and ICE03.14.08_G.eep files. You can do this by unzipping the firmware file then mounting it in a MacOSX or Linux box. If you are using Windows then I suggest you Google for the files there are links lying around. I just don’t want to link to them myself. When you have them upload them to the iPhone. I suggest you use iBrickr or SCP them to the iPhone. Create a directory under /Applications/relock and store the files there. Putting executable files in the /var/root directory won’t allow you to run them.
2. Reflash baseband to its original state. Ok here is the challenging part. Make sure you have enough battery life, good network connectivity and that you don’t get interrupted. Then, login to the iPhone via SSH or use MobileTerminal.app on the phone. Type the following commands:

cd /Applications/relock
launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.CommCenter.plist
./bbupdater -f ICE03.14.08_G.fls -e ICE03.14.08_G.eep
launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.CommCenter.plist

3. SIM Unlock again. At this point, you have a fresh baseband firmware. Of course, this baseband firmware is still SIM locked to AT&T. Therefore, you will have to do the entire SIM unlock process again. I suggest you use the anySIM.app application as it works pretty well already. Or you can use the procedures that I have collected and documented before here.

So if you cannot receive SMS message in your phone. Try this procedure out. Enjoy!

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