Thursday, April 24, 2014

Instructions for flashing an iPhone 5, 5(c), or 5(s) to Page Plus

You will need to be on iOS version 7.0.6 or an earlier version of iOS 7 to be able to do this, because a jailbreak is required, and there is no public tool for jailbreaking iOS 7.1 or 7.1.1 on the A5 (iPhone 4(s)) or later models. First, you will need to jailbreak your device. Then, add this source-cydia.myrepospace.com/wirelessworkshop
Install the commcenter patch for iOS 7. Reboot. Then, add the source cydia.xsellize.com, and then install iFile. Navigate in iFile to the carrier bundles. They are located in this path../System/Library/Carrier Bundles/iPhone. Then, if your phone is Verizon, rename the Verizon_LTE_US.bundle to Verizon_LTE_US.bundle.bak and rename the Tracfone bundle to Verizon_LTE_US.bundle. Reboot. Dial *22890 to activate your iPhone on Page Plus. If you can’t dial *22890, swap your SIM. By this, I mean take your SIM out, and put a Sprint. AT&T..etc..SIM in, and let it recognize the SIM, then put yours back in. Note:This applies ONLY if you have activated your MEID with Page Plus. The same method works with Sprint iPhones, just rename the Sprint_LTE_US bundle to Sprint_CSIM_LTE_US.bak, and the Tracfone bundle to Sprint_CSIM_LTE_US. If data doesn’t work, try renaming the Sprint bundle to the verizon LTE bundle and dialing *22890 before renaming it to the tracfone bundle, then dial *22890 again.  Please note that there have been mixed results with this method. Approximately 50% of the phones that I’ve flashed the data and MMS didn’t work on, only talk and text. I haven’t figured out why, but even at that, if you have a Sprint bad ESN iPhone 5 or 5c or 5s, it’s definitely worth doing. Good luck.

2 comments:

  1. got from ebay a clean esn sprint 5c ios 7.0.6 on pageplus has the 'could not activate cellular data network' message...i tried reset network settings, *228, even the remotesquad esn reset..what can i try next. but afraid of breaking the flash/jailbreak..thanks

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  2. Like I said in the post, mixed results with data. I've done a dozen or so, and sometimes data works, sometimes it doesn't. Also, you need to be dialing *22890, not *228. Try the renaming the Verizon_LTE bundle, *22890, then name back to the Tracfone, *22890 again. You can also try a SIM swap with a Verizon 4G LTE SIM, or a GSM one. I believe there are different baseband chips, and this is what is impeding some from data activation. It's really tough to do without being able to restore back to a jailbreakable firmware. There is the Semi-Restore for iOS7 utility by CoolStar, but I'm not certain about it. I would be leery just because if it fails, you HAVE to update, and then you're screwed.

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