2g + 3.0 + hacktivation = Broken push

Just to let people know, since I have answered a few threads that were wondering about push or suffering from poor battery life with 3.0; push does not currently work on 2g hackitavated phones.

The error is currently related to Apple Push Service Daemon. Here is part of the error produced. "Stream error occurred for : TLS Error Code=-9831 peer reported unknown certificate authority."

To fix the poor battery life, install a push app if you have not already such as taptap2, AP news, or textfree lite. Go into the settings app and disable push notifications. Your battery life should go back to normal.

The dev team is now aware of the problem after several people trying to contact them about the problem. I say still let the dev team know about the problem, just so they know there is a large enough group that is experiencing the problem. Musclenerd said that it might be looked into after ultrasn0w is release. So there is no ETA for a bug fix, just have to wait I guess. Read here for more info (not my blog) and be sure to read the comments.

Push Notifications on hacktivated 2G iPhone Bram Bourgonjon

I hope this helps and I will be cross-posting this in the pwnage tool forum.

will we get an error notification if we are experiencing this? or will Push just not work? i have AP News setup and Yahoo mail (both supposedly using push) and havent gotten any updates from AP yet and email is coming through ok (not instantly but takes 10 min or so)

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Originally Posted by a3p3g

will we get an error notification if we are experiencing this? or will Push just not work? i have AP News setup and Yahoo mail (both supposedly using push) and havent gotten any updates from AP yet and email is coming through ok (not instantly but takes 10 min or so)

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No you will get no error, just poor battery life. I am sorry I didn't make it clear what is broken is push notification on apps not mail. Unless I am crazy, you will never see a push notification from any app other than mail.app until this gets fixed.

Someone on that blog posted this comment:

Kanenas (12:30:05) :

Differences being that
1.the push notification is handled by Apple, while YouTube is handled by google.
2. the youtube activation can be a “one activation -> millions of handsets”, while the push notification has to be a one to one.

If this is the case I think we, original iPhone owners, are pretty screwed. One more way for Apple to force those with hactivated original iPhones to upgrade :fail

This is not looking good if #2 has any truth to it. :(

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Originally Posted by RiqTosh

Someone on that blog posted this comment:

Kanenas (12:30:05) :

Differences being that
1.the push notification is handled by Apple, while YouTube is handled by google.
2. the youtube activation can be a “one activation -> millions of handsets”, while the push notification has to be a one to one.

If this is the case I think we, original iPhone owners, are pretty screwed. One more way for Apple to force those with hactivated original iPhones to upgrade :fail

This is not looking good if #2 has any truth to it. :(

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I think dev team will fid a fix. As they did for youtube. It's just a certifications problem.

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Originally Posted by Mark151

I think dev team will fid a fix. As they did for youtube. It's just a certifications problem.

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I sure hope so. I mean I paid full price for my original iPhone (not subsidized), I paid for Beehijves, and I was hoping to use the PUSH service. Once my T-mobile contract expires in December I'm just going to switch to AT&T and upgrade to the 3G s. I don't think that AT&T will ever let go of their exclusivity on this Goddamn phone, if they have any brains. :fail And I'm getting a bit tire of Apple screwing over original iPhone owners.

I re-activated my phone using redsn0w and the "connect to iTunes" message doesn't come up any longer, but of course PUSH still doesn't work. :(

At least my Youtube and MyLocations work now. :D

I feel for you man.
Dev-Team is looking into Push issue with "hacktivated" phone.

For contracted users, activate the phone first via itunes then jailbreak. Redsnow will bypass hacktivation if phone is already activated and push will work.

The key is to activate the iphone once in a "proper" way with a sim card of your official iPhone Provider (even any prepaid card would work). This gets you a certificate installed from the Apple Push server. Afterwards unlock it with a method which doesn't replace the Firmware, like redsn0w). Therefore Pwange wont work.

Here the steps I've done to succeed.
- Restore with the stock iPhone 1,1_3.0 firmware.
- Activate it with a valid SIM (my case german T-Mobile). So the certificate for push notification would get installed.
- Unlock the iPhone through redsn0w did not replace the entire firmware and kept the installed certificate for push notification

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Originally Posted by teleharry

The key is to activate the iphone once in a "proper" way with a sim card of your official iPhone Provider (even any prepaid card would work). This gets you a certificate installed from the Apple Push server. Afterwards unlock it with a method which doesn't replace the Firmware, like redsn0w). Therefore Pwange wont work.

Here the steps I've done to succeed.
- Restore with the stock iPhone 1,1_3.0 firmware.
- Activate it with a valid SIM (my case german T-Mobile). So the certificate for push notification would get installed.
- Unlock the iPhone through redsn0w did not replace the entire firmware and kept the installed certificate for push notification

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I still have the original packaging for my iPhone. There is a chance that the AT&T sim card that came with it might be still in the box (here is hoping).

If not, is going to be hard for me to get an AT&T sim, unless they sell the Pre-paid sims at Best Buy :spinme

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Originally Posted by teleharry

The key is to activate the iphone once in a "proper" way with a sim card of your official iPhone Provider (even any prepaid card would work). This gets you a certificate installed from the Apple Push server. Afterwards unlock it with a method which doesn't replace the Firmware, like redsn0w). Therefore Pwange wont work.

Here the steps I've done to succeed.
- Restore with the stock iPhone 1,1_3.0 firmware.
- Activate it with a valid SIM (my case german T-Mobile). So the certificate for push notification would get installed.
- Unlock the iPhone through redsn0w did not replace the entire firmware and kept the installed certificate for push notification

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Yeah, this method works! but instead of running redsnow again after activating, unlock the phone using bootneuter 2.1 (available from cydia)
Using iphone browser or SSH, replace the lockdownd in
\usr\libexec
with this patched one:
Lockdownd.zip

and whoop! Your phone gets unlocked and hacktivated with push notifications now work!