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I have been using Gevey Sim for my iphone from last 1 year and 3 months. While it works well most of the time, only issue is that randomly it used to loose signal and I had to follow entire procedure of dialing 112 and doing airplane mode toggle.

Today I ready about SAM unlock method which does not rely on Gevey Sim. After first few unsuccessful attempts, I was able to unlock my Iphone. This method has been confirmed by @musclenerd of the iPhone Dev Team. Only catch is that your iPhone will be unlocked on the SIM card used on this procedure only. So if you gonna use any other SIM card on your iPhone, you will be requested to repeat the above procedure with each SIM on an individual basis to save the unlock ticket for each SIM.

Requirements:

• Your iPhone must be jailbroken in order to install SAM.
• Your iPhone must be in good standing(this method will not unlock blacklisted devices).
• You must be running the latest version of iTunes(10.6.1 at the time of this tutorial).
• You will need to know what carrier the phone is locked to.
• Finally, you will need to have the SIM, you will ultimately use, in the phone.

Step 1: Install Sam Bingner’s SAM package from Cydia. You can get it from Sam’s repo which is http://repo.bingner.com make sure to use the newest version

Step 2. Open SAM through the settings app or by launching the SAMPrefs icon that was added to your springboard. You will need to have the SIM card you intend to use in your phone.

Step 3. Go to utilities and select “De-Activate iPhone”, your ActivationState under “More Information” should now be “Unactivated”

Step 4. With SAM enabled, choose “By Country and Carrier” in the “Method” options and then select the country and carrier the phone is currently locked to in the options boxes. To be clear, in this step you want to choose the carrier that the phone is locked to, not the carrier you will be using.

Step 5. Go to “More Information” and copy or write down the IMSI  listed in “SAM Details,” then tap “Spoof Real SIM to SAM.” Make sure you are copying the IMSI from the “SAM Details” section(the second section under More Information).

Step 6. Go back to the main SAM screen and change your “Method” to “Manual.” This will display 2 new fields, ICCID and IMSI, simply paste or enter the IMSI string that you got from Step 5(you can leave ICCID blank).

Step 7. Connect your iPhone to your computer and allow iTunes to do its job (reactivating your phone), double-click the “Phone Number” parameter in the “Summary” screen of your iPhone in iTunes and make sure that the ICCID matches that of your SIM card. If not you need to start over from Step 1. After the phone is activated, close iTunes.

Step 8. You should now disable SAM(toggle the switch in SAMPrefs). You can uninstall it later, but just disable it for now until you are unsure the unlock worked. (If you don’t disable SAM, you will not get signal).

Step 9. Now reopen iTunes, you may get an error saying that your iPhone cannot be activated but that is to be expected. You should get signal within a few seconds to a minute after this step.

Step 10.You should see signal bars in a short time, congratulations.Push notifications may stop working after this procedure but can be easily restored with “clear push” utility in SAM followed by connecting to iTunes.

Step 11. Now using application like iFile navigate to /var/Root/ibrary/Lockdown and save a copy of everything in this folder for each SIM.  Saving your unlock ticket will ensure that you can continue using this unlock even if and when Apple closes the hole.

Push notifications may stop working after this procedure but can be easily restored with “clear push” utility in SAM followed by connecting to iTunes.

As per a DNA report, 68% of residential flats in Mumbai costs more than Rs 1 crore. Only less than 2% of the flats are in range of Rs 25-50 lacs and over 30% flats are worth more than 2 crores. This was based on a study done by Liases and Foras, a real estate research firm.

With real estate prices in Mumbai climbing to unaffordable levels, expectations of a price correction have been building up for some weeks now. Some choose to describe it as a bubble that is about to burst.

With prices going higher, year by year and buying new house becoming practically impossible, would it retain its tag of Dream City?

This video shows how the visitor will make a journey through a secure connection to a web site by entering the domain name, while making attention to the dangers that lurk.

At F8 2011 conference Facebook unveiled the new profile layout named as Facebook Timeline. The status updates, stories shared, pictures you uploaded, everything you did on your Facebook account will be now an open book, a timeline.

Though this is not available to all (deveopers only), you can enable it by checking out this video posted by blogsdna

Facebook has drastically redesigned its profile page, launching ‘timeline’ – a new way of telling the story of your life on a single page and will now allow users to listen to music, watch films and read news without leaving the site.

In a keynote speech, Mark Zuckerberg, the social network’s founder, also unveiled a big expansion of apps and categories on the service, including the introduction of music services where users can share what they are listening to with friends. For thoughts and commentary on the main announcements as they happened, read our live blog of the event after the jump.

Zuckerberg said he wanted people to be able to share “their entire lives” on Facebook and have “total control” over how their content appeared online. Using his own profile to demonstrate the new timeline, Zuckerberg showed photos of himself as a baby which he has inserted into the new profile page which is organized by years. ‘Timeline’ will be rolled out over the next “few weeks”.

Trust me people. Facebook is not giving any free t-shirt’s and even if they wanted to give it, they would never do it from another domain. They have all your data and would never ask you to confirm that your are a genuine Facebook user, as this scam site seems to claim, by asking your your secondary Facebook id. This email id is your secret id email to post status updates or send photos and videos straight to your profile without any authentication and can be misused by spammers.

Facebook 7th Birthday Scam

Don’t share your secret Facebook email id with anyone and if you have already shared your email id with them, then follow these steps to reset your email id:

1)After login Facebook account, type www.facebook.com/mobile on web browser’s Address bar and hit ENTER key

2)Locate “Upload via email” and click “Find out more” link.

3) Click on the link which reads “refresh your upload email” and click Reset button.

Mobilize.js allows web developers create mobile sites out of existing websites with little effort.

Modern mobile devices are smart enough to decide what is the best way to display the content for their users.

The client orientation and lack of complex server-side dependencies makes Mobilize.js simple and easy to integrate to any web system. You need only to add one <script> tag; it works even on static HTML files.

Mobilize.js is written in Javascript and jQuery – both which are ubiquitous technologies for HTML5 developers.

It supports the following features:

Automatically detect mobile browsers.
Easy to integrate – no server side changes needed.
Open source – no expensive software or licenses needed.
Familiar HTML5, Javascript and JQuery Mobile tools used.
Supports iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Opera Mini and other browsers and devices.

Read more about its functionality.