How To Unlock Any Jailbroken iPhone On Any Baseband (iOS 5.0 To 5.1) With SAM

For those, who have been waiting around for an unlocking solution that supports iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 or iPhone 4S (CDMA+GSM) on any firmware previously mentioned iOS 5.0 and also on any baseband, here is some true very good news. 

iPhone Dev Team's MuscleNerd has confirmed that a Chinese researcher named Loktar_Sun has uncovered a method that permits unlocking any design of the iPhone on any baseband with the assist of the Subscriber Synthetic Module (SAM) by Sam Bingner. MuscleNerd took to his Twitter account and said that he was in a position to unlock his T-Mobile iPhone 4S with the method. 

"That strategy worked for T-Mobile on my 4S. Almost Certainly expect an update to SAM from @sbingner to incorporate that trick from Loktar_Sun," MuscleNerd tweeted.
Before likely ahead with the unlocking process, end users ought to be mindful of some of the details:
Users want to have a jailbroken iPhone, which is not detailed on any IMEI blacklists.
Users want to make certain that the latest edition of iTunes is installed. They must also know which provider their iPhone is locked into. 

The method makes a ticket that is valid to the SIM card used throughout the process, which means that if anyone wishes to use some other SIM card in the unlocked iPhone, the procedure desires to be repeated with the new card. 

Step 1: Open up Cydia on the jailbroken iPhone and include the official repository for the SAM package. The repo URL is "http://repo.bingner.com" and includes the official up to date SAM package and the needed dependencies. 

Step 2: The Moment the repo is added, go to the sources web page by simply tapping on it from the record of mounted source. Now uncover the SAM package deal and install it to your iPhone. Make confident that the SIM card you would like to use on your unlocked iPhone is inserted in the iPhone. 

Step 3: Now launch the SAM interface by tapping the SAMPrefs icon on your Springboard, or by discovering the SAM preferences bundle through the Settings.app. 

Step 4: Following SAM has been launched, go into the "Utilities" tab and then tap on the "De-Activate iPhone" option. To ambigu check out that the iPhone is genuinely de-activated, return to the principal options menu and go into the "More Information" tab. Appear at the "ActivationState" label and it ought to exhibit as "Unactivated." 

Step 5: Go again to the major settings pane and then into the Method tab in which you will require to select the "By Country and Carrier" option. Now select the Nation you are heading to be making use of your iPhone in and then your real Carrier.
Be mindful that some networks function with far more than a single network ID. In such cases, you require to decide on the "SIM ID" option. 

Step 6: Go to "More Information" and make a copy of the "IMSI number" that is current in the "SAM Details" section. 

Step 7: Faucet on the "Spoof True SIM to SAM" and go back again to the main SAM display screen and adjust "Method" to manual. Soon After deciding on the guide selection and returning to the principal screen, you will discover an IMSI input field. Paste the IMSI range you copied in the prior step.

Step 8: Hook Up the iPhone to the laptop or computer utilizing the USB cable and use iTunes to re-activate the phone. After iTunes re-activates the iPhone, double click on the Phone Range label located in the facts pane and guarantee the shown ICCID matches that are discovered on the SIM card. If the strings do not match, you are going to have to repeat the approach from the beginning. 

Step 9: If the strings match, you will want to unplug your iPhone, go again into "SAMPrefs" and disable SAM by sliding the Enabled button to the off position. Now, re-connect the iPhone to iTunes and do not panic if error messages pop-up declaring that the gadget cannot be activated. This error is normal and needs iTunes to be shut down and then restarted. 

Step 10: Following a couple of minutes you really should notice signal bars on your iPhone, meaning the method has been successful.
In case the push notifications don't work, you can resolve the issue by selecting the "Clear Push" selection identified in SAM and then re-connecting the iPhone to iTunes.
After successfully unlocking the iPhone employing this method, customers are also suggested to help save the activation ticket produced because of to the reality that it could demonstrate essential in the long term to maintain your unlock. This Is the process to manually save activation ticket. 

Step 1: An unlock ticket will be produced right after you successfully comply with actions 1-10 outlined above. 

Step 2: Use an SSH program to accessibility your iPhone's filesystem (WinSCP Windows or Cyberduck Mac OS X). You can also use some thing like iFile on your real iPhone. 

Step 3: Navigate to "/var/Root/ibrary/Lockdown" and make a duplicate of almost everything that is found in that directory for each and every SIM card you unlock your iPhone with. 

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Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 review: Very acceptable Android book amount for the price

Apple has little to anguish about aback it comes to antagonism from Samsung's latest Android tablet, the Galaxy Tab 2 7.0, but Amazon care to be cerebration about how it can up its book game. (Rating 4 out of 5)

At $250, the new Samsung tablet, which will be accessible April 22nd,  is able antagonism for Amazon’s $199 Kindle Fire but – accustomed Apple’s bazaar ascendancy – it’s far from an iPad killer. Still, its price, ablaze weight and baby brand could dissuade at atomic some bodies from spending $499 for a third bearing iPad or alike $399 for an iPad 2.

The Tab 2 measures 7.6  x 4.8 x .42 inches and weighs 12.2 ounces. The Kindle Fire is appealing abutting to the aforementioned admeasurement and hardly added at 14.6 ounces. The new iPad, admitting of advance best and wider, is absolutely thinner (.37 inches) and weighs 1.44 pounds.

Its abstruse specs are about lower than that of the iPad as able-bodied as Samsung’s beforehand Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus, but the new Tab 2 is able with Google’s new Ice Cream Sandwich Android operating system, a air-conditioned “Peel” TV alien ascendancy app (coupled with an IR blaster), advanced and rear cameras and you get 50 GB of chargeless Dropbox billow accumulator that works with the Tab’s camera app so that pictures you breeze are automatically synced to the cloud.

Adequate hardware

The accouterments itself is annihilation to get too aflame about. Like the beforehand Galaxy Tab 7.0, it sports a bifold amount 1-Ghz processor that’s absolutely a bit slower than its predecessor’s 1.2 Ghz version, while befitting the aforementioned 1024 by 600 TFT LCD screen. It has the aforementioned 3 megapixel rear-facing camera but the advanced adverse camera has been downgraded from 2 megapixels to VGA quality.  Alike admitting it has abandoned eight gigabytes of storage, it has a aperture for a Micro SD agenda which agency you can calmly and cheaply add up to 32 GB added accumulator (32 GB cards alpha at beneath $20).

By contrast, the Kindle Fire additionally has a 1024 by 600 pixel 7-inch screen, but doesn’t alike accept one camera, let abandoned two.  It too has 8 GB of accumulator and that’s it. There is no MicroSD Agenda slot.

And while the Kindle Fire and Samsung are about the aforementioned size, the Tab’s gun metal gray case is softer and hardly beneath boxy.

There are two stereo speakers on the basal of the accessory which put out decidedly bright and loud sound. Clashing some added accessories I’ve used, I didn’t accept to bung in an alien speakers to apprehend the accessory over the babble of my calm bike while application it to watch video while exercising.

Unfortunately, Samsung uses a proprietary USB cable for ability and abstracts instead of the accepted micro-USB cables acclimated on best added company’s Android devices. There’s annihilation amiss with Samsung’s cable, but if you confuse it or lose it, it’s not as acceptable to alter as a accepted micro USB cable. Of course, Apple uses its own proprietary cable, but the astronomic acceptance of iOS accessories accomplish those accessible to appear by.

The actuality that Samsung’s new Tab has beneath than arch processing ability shouldn’t be a big accord for anyone who’s mostly application it to absorb content. I activated it by account a Kindle book, watching Netflix and YouTube video and accomplishing some email and web surfing and had no achievement issues. The archetypal I activated is Wi-Fi only. Yes, it’s a bit added apathetic than a third bearing iPad but we’re talking a additional or two actuality and there which isn’t acceptable to bother best users.
Virtual buttons

Like the Kindle Fire (but clashing the iPad) there is no home button on the front. There are basic buttons on the basal of the Samsung that accompany up the home awning and assignment administrator forth with a aback button and one that takes a snapshot of the screen. These basic buttons reposition themselves as you change the screen’s acclimatization amid account and landscape.

Google’s Ice Cream Sandwich additional Samsung’s proprietary Touch Whiz bark provides a apple-pie interface and allows for bland scrolling amid screens with no apparent lag. Although I would adopt that Samsung and added buzz and book makers abstain putting their own banknote on top of Android, the accepted adaptation of Touch Whiz isn’t ever intrusive.

Samsung endless up the new Tab with a cardinal of its own apps including a media hub, music hub and bold hub. There is additionally a Samsung Apps figure that takes you to the company’s own app store.

Number keys area they belong

This may be a baby thing, but I absolutely acknowledge that the accepted on-screen keyboard that ancestor up on the accessory has a row of cardinal keys aloft the accepted alphabetic keys aloof as on a acceptable PC keyboard. I absolutely accepted not accepting to columnist a appropriate key to accompany up the cardinal keys, abnormally aback entering my passwords which, for aegis reasons, about accept numbers in them.

Consumer or business tablet ?

The arranged apps that appear with the Galaxy Tab 2 advice position it as mostly a customer device. But the nice affair about Android tablets is that they are adaptable and aloof as iPads are award their way into the enterprise, it’s absolutely accessible to use this accessory for business tasks such as email, web access, sales presentations, as a quick advertence apparatus or for any business accompanying Android apps that assignment able-bodied on a seven inch screen. Aloof to see if it could be done, I commutual the Tab 2 via Bluetooth with an Apple wireless keyboard and did some typing, but alike with a keyboard, it’s adamantine to brainstorm application the Tab, with its baby screen, as a laptop replacement.

Overall impression

How a accessory feels in your duke and performs is a lot added important than its abstruse specs and, aback it comes to the user experience, Samsung gets aerial marks. Its bland concrete design, baby and ablaze weight anatomy agency and abreast software and operating arrangement appear calm to accomplish the Tab 2 an accomplished best for budget-minded book buyers or those who artlessly demand a carriageable media burning device.

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iOS 5.0.1 Untethered Jailbreak: RedSn0w Updated To v0.9.10b7

The absolution of the "Absinthe" untethered jailbreak a few months ago came as a absolution for the owners of iPhone 4S and iPad 2 active on iOS 5.0.1. And now, with Apple authoritative the iOS 5.1 accessible for an upgrade, jailbreak lovers are agilely cat-and-mouse for the abutting iOS jailbreak.

However, for the users of A5 accessory (iPhone 4S and iPad 2) owners, who are still on iOS 5.0.1, here's some abundant news. The accepted RedSn0w jailbreak apparatus has aloof accustomed a cogent amend to adaptation 0.9.10b7 with a cardinal of advantageous added appearance that absolutely accomplish the amend account trying.

In addition, the amend additionally brings basic abutment for an agitative new aspect of the tool, accepted to affection in the abutting release. As the iPhone Dev Team acicular out, the abutting new affection to be added would be congenital restore abutment to accommodate an another to iTunes restores. The new affection would advice users "handle all of their jailbroken needs from aural one application," Redmond Pie reported.

The seventh beta of the accepted Redsn0w absolution additionally accouterments the corona-A5 jailbreak for iPhone 4S and iPad 2, as continued as they are active iOS 5.0.1. Moreover, the improvements additionally accommodate the adeptness for users to re-install the Corona untethered jailbreak if they've accidentally uninstall it.

Another arresting aspect of the new adaptation of RedSn0w is its adeptness to cull SHSH balloon anon from Cydia Store while bond an IPSW (custom firmware bundle).

According to iPhone Dev Team, RedSn0w v0.9.10b7 additionally "shows a lot added advice about your accessory (for instance, whether your iPhone3G has the accessible baseband cossack loader, or whether your iPhone3GS has the old accommodating bootrom."

The amend does accompany acceptable account for those A5 users who are still application iOS 5.0.1. However, "the big account has to be the planned restore affection that will hopefully appear with the abutting Redsn0w release," says the Redmond Pie report.

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HTC EVO ONE leaks: CDMA One X

The CDMA variant of the HTC One X has seemingly leaked, the HTC EVO ONE, complete with carrier branding and a handy pop-out kickstand for hands free enjoyment of multimedia. Yet to be officially announced, but escaping for some brief playtime with Android Life, the EVO ONE has the same 4.7-inch 720p HD display and 8-megapixel main camera as the One X we reviewed this week, but does questionable things to the styling.

The One X’s polycarbonate casing is a thing of, if not exactly beauty, then at least balance between size, durability and weight. Although it precludes a user-accessible battery, it does at least keep the One X from feeling too heavy, and the curved side profile helps make the smartphone appear thinner.

This CDMA version, however, does away with the curves and instead makes for a slab-sided, blunt device. The kickstand – which we’ve seen on previous EVO phones – is a nice addition for those wanting to use the excellent 1280 x 720 LCD display for video playback, but the rest of the design feels like a step back from what HTC achieved with the One X.

“Impressed yet not excited” was the takeaway opinion of the Android 4.0.3/Sense 4.0 device, though the camera wowed and the UI was “buttery smooth” just as we found on the GSM variant. Exactly what processor is inside is unclear – the European One X gets a Tegra 3, while the AT&T version switches that for a Qualcomm dualcore S4 and LTE – but we should know soon when the phone gets its full reveal.

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Android 4.0 Forces Samsung To Delay Galaxy Tablets

Samsung has pushed back the release of it second-generation tablets from the end of March to the end of April. The delay, according to a Samsung spokesperson, is because the company needs more time to work on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. That's funny, because Samsung has had access to Ice Cream Sandwich longer than any other hardware maker.

Google released Android 4.0 in October. Samsung released the global variant of Galaxy Nexus with Android 4.0 on board in November, followed by the U.S. Verizon version in December. Other OEMs didn't gain access to the Ice Cream Sandwich source code until November, about a month after Samsung got its hands on it.

The Galaxy Tab 2--both the 7-inch 7.0 version and the 10-inch 10.1 version--will be the first tablets to ship from Samsung with Android 4.0 on board. Android 4.0 offers a number of system-wide improvements when compared to earlier versions of Android.


The two Tab 2s are powered by dual-core 1-GHz processors, accompanied by 1 GB of RAM. Most new smartphones are shipping with 1.2-1.5-GHz dual-core chips. The Tabs supports worldwide 3G data, with HSPA+ at 21-Mbps in the 850/900/1900/2100-MHz bands, in addition to 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth 3.0, USB 2.0, and a bevy of sensors.

The Tab 2 (7.0) has a seven-inch display, with 1024 x 600 pixels. The Tab 2 (10.1) has a 10.1-inch display with 1280 x 800 pixels. Both come with two cameras: a 3-megapixel fixed-focus main camera, and a VGA user-facing camera for video calling. They can record HD video at 1080p resolution at 30 frames per second.

They will ship in three different storage variations: 8 GB, 16 GB, and 32 GB. All three will include a microSD card slot supporting an addition 32 GB of storage. The Tab 2 shaves a little thickness and weight when compared to the original, but not much. The Tab 2 (7.0) measures 0.41 inches thick and weighs 12.1 ounces, or about 0.75 pounds if you prefer.

The Tab 2 (7.0) and (10.1) are not bad efforts, but they are not very sexy. They lack 4G support of any kind, the cameras are low in quality, the processor and memory setups are already outdated, and Samsung already makes tablets that measure 7.7 inches, 8.9 inches, and 10.1 inches.

Samsung says Android 4.0 on the Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0) and (10.1) is much faster than Android 2.3 Gingerbread, with a better app and user interface response. Faster is (nearly) always better, as laggy software is frustrating. Let's hope so, because this is the second delay Samsung has admitted to due to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Last month, Samsung delayed Android 4.0 for the Galaxy Note. 

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The new ipad with 7 updates

The new iPad, while clearly more evolutionary than revolutionary, sports a few headline features, including the best display yet on any mobile device. We decided to explore whether there's an iPad "halo effect" that will extend to Apple products in general and, if so, whether the aura will extend into the enterprise to challenge IT's Wintel preference. To find out, we polled 402 business technology professionals and found that the iPad and iPhone have indeed bought Apple some enterprise cred. About half of respondents to our March 2012 iPad Survey say their policy is to officially support the iPad; 39% are satisfied (30%) or very satisfied (9%) with Apple devices overall from a business IT perspective. Just 9% say Apple products aren't in use at their companies.

"Tablets will replace some laptops and desktops," says one CTO. "Consumer tech is way ahead of corporate IT. In fact, the iPad will be another nail in the coffin of old policy-driven, staid corporate IT control freaks. Business is demanding speed, simplicity, and ease of use. And the companies that get ahead of that curve will have a huge competitive advantage."

Control freaks? If that stings, it's because there's truth in it. Among the top reasons cited for not supporting iThings is an unwillingness to develop expertise and do the work needed to bring these devices into the management fold. Still, more IT pros are realizing they'd better get on the consumerization bandwagon before they get flattened by it.


We did see an interesting dynamic around adoption by executives vs. the rank and file. "Our chairman bought an iPad but refuses to allow IT or anyone else to purchase one," says a respondent. "However, he expects IT to have been born with the iPad gene and know how to support it."

Only 7% of respondents to our InformationWeek Consumerization Survey supply iPads to more than 25% of their employees. But the market winds are at Apple's back: Fully 42% of respondents will increase use of Apple products in the future, and an additional 15% are considering adding them to the supported mix. A mere 11% plan to become or remain Apple free.

Now that we've had time to use the new iPad and compare it with its year-old predecessor, the iPad 2, let's run down the top seven changes and assess their significance for enterprise buyers who may be mulling whether to initiate a tablet pilot, upgrade employees on first- or second-generation iPads, or switch from Android tablets.

1. Display: Physically, the new iPad is virtually indistinguishable from the previous version except for the added weight from the new one's larger battery. The new device delivers twice the resolution of the iPad 2 and a greatly improved range of displayable colors and saturation, thanks to a display with more pixels than a 1080p HDTV--pixels so small they're indiscernible at typical viewing distances.

A popular use of the iPad is outfitting sales teams with the devices so they can show customers dynamic, resizable images instead of static catalogs; whether the new tablet will serve that function better than the iPad 2 depends largely on what you're selling. The differences are most noticeable on icons and text. On high-resolution photographs and HD videos, the differences are subtle; the most noticeable improvement is color rendering and saturation, not pixel resolution. This is actually a testament to just how good the iPad 2's display already is. In fact, most images won't test the limits of either device. The same is true of video.

2. 4G LTE: The other big addition on select models is 4G LTE wireless networking, and it's a welcome improvement, especially for road warriors. Verizon models now also support Wi-Fi tethering, what Apple calls Personal Hotspots, to connect another computer to the Internet using the iPad's cellular connection. That makes the new iPad an alternative to mobile routers like the MiFi. Verizon throws it in at no extra cost with iPad data plans (it charges $20 per month for this feature on the iPhone), so it's hard to see how AT&T remains competitive without it.

3. Performance: Most of the engineering for the new iPad's A5X processor went toward handling all those extra pixels, not running applications. Like the A5 found in the iPad 2 and iPhone 4S, the new processor has dual instruction cores running at 1 GHz, but double the GPU count, going from two to four. Apple also doubled the RAM, to 1 GB, and the RAM is now a discrete component, not packaged with the A5 system-on-a-chip. In side-by-side testing, it's almost impossible to detect a performance difference between the second- and third-generation devices. Both are well-suited to typical knowledge worker tasks.

4. Battery life: The new iPad maintains the same impressive battery life as the iPad 2 by packing a bigger battery--in fact, the device could accurately be described as one big, flat battery with a few chips and a fancy display panel glued on.

Battery life is about the same, but recharging takes about twice as long. That's because the new iPad's battery is 70% larger than the old and uses the same lithium-polymer technology. The external charger is highly recommended. Factor all that in when deciding whether to equip traveling users with the new device or stick with the iPad 2.

5. Hardware support: At 5 megapixels, the rear camera on the new iPad is better than the iPad 2's notoriously lame one, but isn't as good as that on the iPhone 4S and doesn't include a flash. But it does sport image stabilization and can take HD video, useful for some functions. There is no change to the front-facing camera, so videoconferencers are still stuck with standard definition. No upgrade advantage there.

6. Better software: iOS 5.1 has no major breakthroughs--those came with last fall's introduction of iCloud and Siri. The big addition for business users is support for voice dictation, an exclusive on the new iPad (sorry, iPad 2 owners). While it's not a full-fledged information assistant like Siri, it's still useful for those times users don't want to deal with the touch screen keyboard.

7. Effortless migration: One area where iPads shame both PCs and Macs is in the upgrade and migration process; it's incredibly smooth and conceptually simple enough that many people won't even need IT: Use iTunes to back up the old iPad, either locally or to iCloud, and restore to the new one. You end up with a perfect clone of the old device, clear down to the screen lock PIN. IT organizations needing to update and sync iPads en masse will find several third-party products that can parallelize the process; these include Bretford's PowerSync Cart, Datamation Systems' sync-and-charge products, and the Ergotron Tablet Management carts.

Upgrading won't make a dramatic difference to most employees with iPad 2s. Unless the business case demands a photographic display or 4G cellular connectivity, you can safely stand pat. For those with the original iPad or an early version Android tablet, now is a good time to move to the new iPad.

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