sunny416

Q: Wind Mobile Activate iMessage / Facetime

iPhone 5 AWS

 

 

Cannot activate imessage and facetime with my phone number on Wind Mobile here in Canada. I have international text and it still wont activate. Wind Mobile doesnt carry the iPhone. I thought any carrier can get imessage??

iPhone 5, iOS 6.1.4, AWS

Posted on Jul 17, 2013 6:44 PM

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  • by smcclay,

    smcclay smcclay Jan 29, 2014 9:39 AM in response to caduguid
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    Jan 29, 2014 9:39 AM in response to caduguid

    So far, the volume of requests have not crushed the 'Good Samaritan'. It is best to time requests to the evening (Mountain time) as time, access to hardware, and access to a SIM card don't always line up. If you are going to use the services of this 'Good Samaritan' you can just provide the latest 'GSM SMS Point to Point PDU (as hex str):' from 447786205094. Keep in mind that you may be required to run the process again if the string provided is not the latest or iMessage shows an error instead of 'Waiting for activation'.

     

    The 'Good Samaritan' also asks that in return you pay it forward by doing something nice for a fellow human.

     

    wind@theonlinemac.com

  • by S Mahey,

    S Mahey S Mahey Jan 29, 2014 9:52 AM in response to smcclay
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    Jan 29, 2014 9:52 AM in response to smcclay

    brother SMCCLAY, your the best. you just made my day (although my phone still doesnt work, lol). God Bless you.

  • by S Mahey,

    S Mahey S Mahey Jan 29, 2014 10:02 AM in response to sunny416
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    Jan 29, 2014 10:02 AM in response to sunny416

    Brother, I truly beleive in " whatever you sow, so shall you reap philosophy"  and i appreciate your hard work and patience. Please send me your personal email to me at maheysubhash@hotmail.com, i am going to transfer you some money as a token of appreciation. As well, i havent got time to sit and properly do that thing yet, but if anything, i will ask you. Thanks once again. And everyone here who has been benefitted from this thread, i think we ought to appreciate SMCCLAY.

  • by S Mahey,

    S Mahey S Mahey Jan 29, 2014 5:22 PM in response to sunny416
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    Jan 29, 2014 5:22 PM in response to sunny416

    much thanks to SMCCLAY for his help to figure out this absolutely complicated issue .

  • by QMalik,

    QMalik QMalik Feb 1, 2014 5:12 PM in response to sunny416
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    Feb 1, 2014 5:12 PM in response to sunny416

    Please help.

  • by QMalik,

    QMalik QMalik Feb 1, 2014 5:11 PM in response to sunny416
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    Feb 1, 2014 5:11 PM in response to sunny416

    Hi sunny416, glad to see you got this issue fixed.

     

    can you please write a step by step, easy to understand instructions so that others may benefit as well. I have tried reading every comment on this forum however its quite confusing, I seem to just be going in 360 degrees.

     

    thank you.

  • by mo416,

    mo416 mo416 Feb 1, 2014 9:25 PM in response to QMalik
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    Feb 1, 2014 9:25 PM in response to QMalik

    I can help with imessage activation send me email wind416@mail.com will get back

  • by mo416,

    mo416 mo416 Feb 2, 2014 10:08 AM in response to mo416
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    Feb 2, 2014 10:08 AM in response to mo416

    You must be able to get your latest baseband log and then i could help, sometimes folder may be hidden.

    follow this as it was already posted by smcclay on how to get latest baseband log

    https://developer.apple.com/bug-reporting/ios/baseband-iphone/

  • by caduguid,

    caduguid caduguid Feb 2, 2014 2:32 PM in response to QMalik
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    Feb 2, 2014 2:32 PM in response to QMalik

    I'm not sure I'm the best person to write out step by step instructions, however, now that I've got my iPhone activated, thanks to smcclay, I think I can at least help summarize what's going on.

     

    - When you tell your iPhone to activate iMessage (by flipping the switch in the settings), it sends a special message to Apple. Apple responds by sending a special sms back to your phone. Unfortunately, in the case of Wind, the message is getting corrupted somewhere. We don't know where, but it's presumably on the Wind network. Wherever it is, by the time the message gets to your phone it's broken. Your phone doesn't recognize it is as the special Apple 'imessage activation', and so nothing happens. You stay stuck at 'activating' forver. Repeat as many times as you want.

     

    The good news is, somebody on this forum, I think smcclary, figured out that although that message is broken, it can be fixed.

     

    So... how can you take advantage of this fact to get your phone properly activated?

     

    Well... if you understood it all well enough I suppose you could jailbreak your phone and write some special software to do it.  Or, much easier, you can find that broken message and send it to one of the people who has figured out both (1) how to repair it, and (2) how to resend it, fixed, to your phone.  smcclay is one, I think. The email is wind@****.  From today's messages, it looks like wind216@**** may be another.

     

    But the part you care about, and your main job other than being super appreciative to the people who do the real voodoo later on:  how do you get ahold of that broken message Apple sent you?

     

    1) turn on logging on your phone. https://developer.apple.com/bug-reporting/ios/baseband-iphone/ (Do the relevant steps for your phone, including the logging step. I think there were 3 different sets of commands to type into the phone.)

     

    2) turn on imessage, (starting the chain reaction... your phone sends to apple, apple responds, message gets broken, arrives at your phone)

     

    3) you sync your phone to your computer. (And in doing so, the logs get copied over.)

     

    4) you scour the logs for the relevant info. (You want to see exactly what your phone recorded in the log when it got the broken message.)  There are instructions earlier on that page that describe how to find your log files. And there are messages earlier in this thread that describe what you're looking for. "

    In the baseband logs, you should find a message from +447786205094

     

    There is a string of hex identified by 'GSM SMS Point to Point PDU (as hex str):' Within the string you should see '06050415790000'. Copy everything after that starting with 'd2'. This is the USER DATA. Make sure you grab the latest one, as it will change every time you toggle iMessage off/on."

     

    FYI: The log i found it in was called something like log-bb-2014-01-29-22-13-00-csi.txt, but it was only one of many that got copied over. And your date and time will be different, depending on when you do step 2. And also I did it on a mac. Windows may differ. dunno.

     

    5) you send the relevant info (basically 2 lines) to one of those nice people above, and hope they're not bored with helping out yet.

     

    Worked for me! All that the Good Samaritan asked was that I pay it forward somehow. Hope this helped.

     

    <Email Edited By Host>

  • by superryo,

    superryo superryo Feb 3, 2014 8:43 PM in response to caduguid
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    Feb 3, 2014 8:43 PM in response to caduguid

    I followed all the steps but could not find the +447786205094 in the logs.

     

    Just to clarify, do we do the following steps first:

     

    1. Dial: *KOOL*CSI# (*5005*274#) and hit Dismiss button.
    2. Dial: *KOOL*DIAG# (*5005*3424#) and hit Dismiss button.

    Then reboot iPhone 5.

     

    Then when turned on, try to activate iMessage.  Getting the "waiting..."

     

    Then do the following?

     

    1. Dial: *KOOL*STATE# (*5005*78283#)
    2. Press "Reply" (big green button).
    3. Enter a description of the problem.
    4. Press "Reply" (upper right corner).

    Then go to the logs?

     

    OR do you do that last step BEFORE activating iMessage?

  • by smcclay,

    smcclay smcclay Feb 3, 2014 8:49 PM in response to superryo
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    Feb 3, 2014 8:49 PM in response to superryo

    superryo wrote:

     

    I followed all the steps but could not find the +447786205094 in the logs.

     

    Just to clarify, do we do the following steps first:

     

    1. Dial: *KOOL*CSI# (*5005*274#) and hit Dismiss button.
    2. Dial: *KOOL*DIAG# (*5005*3424#) and hit Dismiss button.

    Then reboot iPhone 5.

     

    Then when turned on, try to activate iMessage.  Getting the "waiting..."

     

    Then do the following?

     

    1. Dial: *KOOL*STATE# (*5005*78283#)
    2. Press "Reply" (big green button).
    3. Enter a description of the problem.
    4. Press "Reply" (upper right corner).

    Then go to the logs?

     

    OR do you do that last step BEFORE activating iMessage?

     

    Activate iMessage, wait 5 minutes, then *5005*78283#

     

    This gives some time for your message to get to Apple, and the message to get from Apple to your iPhone.

  • by superryo,

    superryo superryo Feb 3, 2014 8:55 PM in response to smcclay
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    Feb 3, 2014 8:55 PM in response to smcclay

    Wow you are fast! thank you for your help.  I think I found it!

  • by superryo,

    superryo superryo Feb 3, 2014 9:10 PM in response to smcclay
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    Feb 3, 2014 9:10 PM in response to smcclay

    Thank you so much SMCCLAY.  You are amazing! I can confirm my phone finally works properly now.  It was so annoying before because every time I send an imessage to a friend it would fail and then send the regular text message so I kept getting alerts to my Pebble for no reasons.

  • by QMalik,

    QMalik QMalik Feb 4, 2014 8:08 PM in response to caduguid
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    Feb 4, 2014 8:08 PM in response to caduguid

    Hey thanks for the step by step!

     

    I just have a few more steps to go.

     

    I completed steps 1-3, however I am stuck on finding the message from +447786205094 in my baseband logs. When I open the most recent log, it has all this random data/values (as seen in the attached picture)

    baseband values.png

    I just need to know where I can find those 2 lines of relevent data I need.

     

    Also, please direct me to who I can send that relevent info to and how, via phone or this discussion board?

     

    Last question.. on this webpage (https://developer.apple.com/bug-reporting/ios/baseband-iphone/) the last step is to disable logging, is this after everything is complete and my iMessage works? 

  • by smcclay,

    smcclay smcclay Feb 4, 2014 8:17 PM in response to QMalik
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    Feb 4, 2014 8:17 PM in response to QMalik

    It will probably look better if you use a proper text editor. Something like Notepad++ should work.

     

    Once iMessage works, you can turn logging off.

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