UPDATE February 2014:
If have iPhones in hands please email us @
[email protected] for Sprint/other CDMA patch applications testing.
Old Topic Text:
Make sure that your X-SIM works on Sprint iphone 5 (insert sim card with X-SIM, enter 3101200, accept and restart phone. If, after a minute or two, phone displays 'Waiting for activation' that is OK. After 3-5 minutes phone should display 'Could not activate iPhone'.
Click 'Ignore' and if you see signal bar and network name X-SIM is setup well.
Wait for a little while to make sure that your phone has a solid signal.
If it fails after a several minutes, that means that your card is not supported (maybe some un-supported SIM Card).
Now you have working Sprint iPhone 5 but without SMS and 3G network functionality.
That is OK, because Sprint disables those functionality by default (even on unlocked phones).
Now, a complete procedure what to to:
1. To Jailbreak it you need to download evasi0n from evasi0n iOS 6.x Jailbreak - official website of the evad3rs and Jailbreak your iPhone
2. Open Cydia and wait to configure filesystem. Re-open Cydia.
3. Install SAM from repo.bingner.com in Cydia\sources (of course, you'll have to tap edit/add to add that source in cydia)
4. Open SAM and enable Hactivate option.
5. Download iFunbox (i-FunBox v2.1 | File Manager, Browser, Explorer, Transfer Tool for iPhone, iPad & iPod) and run it
6. Click on raw filesystem and open System, Library, CarrierBundles
6. Delete 3 folders: 310120, Sprint_LTE_(...something...) and Sprint_Virgin(...something...)
7. Now back to raw filesystem and open folder var, Wireless, Library. Search for any file that has extension .plist in that folder and ALL of the subfolders and delete it.
* Now you have iPhone that doesn't know from what network it came from
8. Restart iPhone
9. Insert plain SIM card without any interposter. As if it is a SIMfree iPhone. Activation screen will not popup because you have jailbreak and SAM
installed. Go to setting/carrier and enable manually search for network.
* If there is no Carrier option, just tick on Airplane mode On/Off and Carrier should appear.
10. When your iPhone displays networks available, Eject SIM card and put in X-SIM together with your SIM card. Make sure that in Setting/General/About it displays Carrier 14.0 (as if it is a SIMfree phone).
11. Open SAM, turn off Hactivate option, go to Utilities and tick Atemp Activation.
Phone should Respring and you'll have iPhone 5 with SMS and 3G functionality
* Off course turn on Data Roaming option in General/Cellular Data
Important note: DO NOT ACCEPT Carrier update from iPhone or iTunes, or you'll have again Sprint settings which disables SMS and 3G.
1a) All those having activation error in step 11 (during attempt activation)
1. Insert Sprint SIM
2. Copy ICCID and IMSI info. from more information in SAM under sim details.
3. Remove Sprint SIM, and insert you sim card with your X-SIM.
4. Now configure SAM manually(use ICCID and IMSI info you copied) and attempt activation.
* iPhone should be connected on wifi for attempt activation
Thanks for this manual goes to all X-SIM users who found out the procedure and allowed us gather all this info and share it to all X-SIM customers.
Yours,
X-SIM Team