Wind Mobile Activate iMessage / Facetime

Oshawapilot,

That's exactly right. I was never able to get my phone number activated on iOS 7 after the Wind SMS changes that prevented the round-trip.

Today, with iOS 8, was the first time with hex dump that I was able to activate.

I'll be trying the process again this evening with my wife's phone and will report back.

Hey everyone, I am attempting to activate on iOS 8. I have never had my iMessage working properly on Wind so this would be amazing. But I'm using the Yosemite beta and can't get iTunes to transfer the diagnostic data. Anyone have any suggestions for me? This is driving me insane!!

Try using FaceTime instead of iMessage (basically turn both off in the first part of the intrusions and then just turn on FaceTime let it send the silent text and follow instructions and usual)

It worked like a charm for me, first attempt after iOS8 update.

Dr3za wrote:

Hey everyone, I am attempting to activate on iOS 8. I have never had my iMessage working properly on Wind so this would be amazing. But I'm using the Yosemite beta and can't get iTunes to transfer the diagnostic data. Anyone have any suggestions for me? This is driving me insane!!

Make sure you are looking in the correct Library folder. If I recall, you can hold the option key and choose the correct one from the 'Go' menu.

I'm getting the dumps and I'm seeing other texts in them, but not the magic text. I just cycled imessage on/off again and ran a dump after 2 minutes and 1 every minute thereafter for about 10 minutes....absolutely nothing is coming back.

I'm just going to let it sit now and see what happens, running a dump every 5 minutes or so.

For those who apparently had iMessage reactivate without any intervention, I think you should all look really closely - I too had thought (right after the iOS8 update) that I had had the same luck, but it actually had NOT properly activated with the phone number attached - a quick imessage to my own iPhone showed that it was actually activated using the iCloud email address, but it wasn't properly attached to the actual phone number.

OK, finally had some success and found the HEX in the dump...took about 30-40 minutes to arrive in my case. It did NOT activate automatically nonetheless.

I copied and pasted it to the website and it accepted it. Sure enough about 30 seconds later iMessage activates. Everything LOOKS good, but not so much. As I alluded to earlier (and everyone who THINKS they're getting iMessage activated needs to check this) - when you look at the iMessage "Send and Receive" settings and then the "You can be reached my iMessage at:" submenu, you may see (like myself) that only the icloud email addresse(s) are activate, with the actual phone number ghosted out.

So in reality iMessage is only activated through the iCloud address - my wifes actual phone number (which is the key to iMessage really working seamlessly) is still not actually attached to the iMessage servers correctly.

Yep, removing/deactivating all the iCloud addresses in the iMessage setting seems to be the trick to getting the actual phone number to become the default "send new messages from" for iMessage.

Working perfectly!

Thanks to smcclay, I'm now up and running on iOS 8 with iMessage activated on Wind mobile.

The iPhone was previously activated with iMessage on one of the major 3 carriers but the iMessage activation was lost after moving to Wind mobile. iMessage activation didn't seem to work on it's own even with iOS 8 even after waiting upwards of 20 minutes.

Dumped the logs, captured the hex string, submitted and within about 20-30 seconds iMessage was activated.

Hey

Just wanted to let you know that i followed your steps today on your website and its working again!

Thank you so much!!

Just FYI, I had a ported number from Rogers, i downloaded ios8 this morning, and I didnt wait 2 mins for the log, i did it right away.

I tried it many times but i guess the 8th time was the charm lol

Sweet Cherry Pie.

Thank you sir. I tried it previously, and was thrilled to read it was working under iOS8. I tried it and the correct info didn't show in the log, I tried the procedure again and waited longer, and this time the HEX string showed up.

Small donation sent. Thank you again.

So, I got brave, and went and purchased an iPhone 6.

I'm having a heck of a time getting the hex string to appear.

Anyone with an iPhone6 get this to work yet?

I did have the hex once, but after 2 hours it didn't activate. 😟

Finally got it to give me a hex, however the sender number is different.

2526.679 sms: Format : 6

2526.679 sms: Decoding using 3GPP Decoder

2526.679 sms: GSM SMS Point to Point PDU (as hex str): 440b915178886955f20000419002104085696c06050415790000d2e2b1252d4ea13f7b6fb693f76 8329bec2683d9683b776f15cbc16ab61ace5693dd76f31e4c56a3c5883059d068341a8d46a3d1682 4ce70b9a01147b4d960b1999066bbc58c42e230689be16634613087ab0d713159d106

2526.679 sms: MT SMS Message details:

2526.679 sms: Message ID: 0

2526.679 sms: Sender: +15878896552

2526.679 sms: MC Timestamp: Y:2014 M:09 D:20 @ 01:04:58 (Offset:-240, DST:no)

2526.679 sms: MC Timestamp: 1411175098

2526.679 sms: Source Port: 0

2526.679 sms: Dest Port: 5497

2526.679 sms: Msg Encoding: 0 (7bitGSM)

2526.679 sms: Body Length: 100

2526.679 sms: Raw message was successfully parsed, and the message is valid

2526.679 sms: Sending manual ack (pdu parsing succeeded)

2526.679 sms: Acking messageID 3 with success and is temporary on mode GW

2526.679 sms: ACKing an SMS on signaling

2526.680 disp: [qmux4] queueing qmux pdu for svc=5 client=1 (txid=22 msgid=0x37)

2526.680 send[qmux4]: WMS:0x05 Length:25 Flags:0x00 ClientID:1

2526.680 send: 0000 01 19 00 00 05 01 00 16 00 37 00 0D 00 01 06 00 .........7......

2526.680 send: 0010 03 00 00 00 01 01 12 01 00 00 ..........

2527.002 recv[qmux4]: WMS:0x05 Length:19 Flags:0x80 ClientID:1

2527.002 recv: 0000 01 13 00 80 05 01 02 16 00 37 00 07 00 02 04 00 .........7......

2527.002 recv: 0010 00 00 00 00 ....

2527.003 sms: Ack sent successfully

2527.003 sms: Notifying of message reception

2527.004 sms: Destination port is: 5497

2527.004 PhonenumberRegistrationController::handlePhoneNumberRegistrationResponse: Incoming response description: <CFBasicHash 0x12ef80460 [0x194f12770]>{type = mutable dict, count = 5,

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Thanks for confirming. I got iPhone 6 and got it to work earlier using Mavericks. Now I just realized my new iPhone is bent out of shape and will need to get it replaced by Apple. In the meantime I have updated my OS X to Yosemite 😝

So I guess I will have to go through this whole process again soon!

i wasnt able able to find the diagnostic file on Yosemite. I tried at least 20 times and I couldn't do it. I then did it on one phone with Mavericks and another with windows 8. I don't think the beta iTunes that comes with Yosemite copies the diagnostic file. Good luck though 🙂

It's a lot easier now but you have to read a lot further into the thread to see that.

Go to this website, follow the directions, you'll be done. Be sure to send him a donation afterwards, he's saving you (and everyone else who's taken advantage of his service) a LOT of hassle.

http://www.theonlinemac.com/wind