[GUIDE] Activate your Phone Officially with SAM (Subscriber Artificial Module)

[LiveWire195]

SAM - (Subscriber Artificial Module)

For those of you that don't know what SAM is, or how to use it... here you go.

SAM (Subscriber Artificial Module) activates your iPhone officially with iTunes and enables your Push Notifications / Increased battery life.

They are two different things.

-Hactivation bypasses 'connect to iTunes' and gives access to the springboard. That is necessary to get to Cydia and install anything.

-SAM generates the official certificates that allow Push, iMessage, FaceTime, etc to work. (Note: FaceTime/iMessage still not working with this program, I will put up a guide as soon as I come across a solution)

Thank You to JMartinez for the clarification.

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[This tutorial is assuming you have Jailbroken your device and have "Cydia" installed]

1. Cydia, Manage > Sources > Edit > Add "http://repo.bingner.com" no quotes

2. Click on SAM and Install (It will install the rest of the dependencies along with it), Restart your iPhone after

3. Open "SAM" under "Utilties" select "De-Activate iPhone", "Revert lockdown", and then select "Restore Activation"

4. Plug into iTunes, and wait for the phone to load up + activation.
-If you get a iTunes Error saying invalid sim, go back into "SAM" and make sure "Auto Detect" is selected at the main menu.
-Once your phone loads up in iTunes, check SAM under "More Information" & look for Activation Status to read "WildcardActivated"

Your phone is now officially activated!

*After you successfully activate your phone, you can delete SAM and the dependencies that go with it.
-Push Notifications + Increased Battery are still in effect.

[vokesy]

so the only difference between SAM and Hacktivation is better battery life and push notifications?

[LiveWire195]

Way better battery life in my opinion

[JMartinez]

Originally Posted by vokesy

so the only difference between SAM and Hacktivation is better battery life and push notifications?

They are two different things. Hactivation bypasses 'connect to iTunes' and gives access to the springboard. That is necessary to get to Cydia and install anything. SAM generates the official certificates that allow Push, iMessage, FaceTime, etc to work.

Official activation (with an official SIM) does both at the same time.

[LiveWire195]

Thank you for that, I didn't know to describe it

[vokesy]

interesting, i might have to do this later.

[Khmer_Boy]

Originally Posted by livewire195

SAM - (Subscriber Artificial Module)

For those of you that don't know what SAM is, or how to use it... here you go.


SAM (Subscriber Artificial Module) activates your iPhone officially with iTunes, its better than the hacktivation simply because Hacktivation will consistently check for your PushCerts. SAM does it officially and stops the consistent check for the PushCerts...in short increased battery life and full push notifications.

[This tutorial is assuming you have Jailbroken your device and have "Cydia" installed]

1. Cydia, Manage > Sources > Edit > Add "http://repo.bingner.com" no quotes

2. Click on SAM and Install (It will install the rest of the dependencies along with it), Restart your iPhone after

3. Open "SAM" under "Utilties" select "De-Activate iPhone", "Revert lockdown", and then select "Restore Activation"

4. Plug into iTunes, and wait for the phone to load up + activation.
-If you get a iTunes Error saying invalid sim, go back into "SAM" and make sure "Auto Detect" is selected at the main menu.
-Once your phone loads up in iTunes, check SAM under "More Information" & look for Activation Status to read "WildcardActivated"

Your phone is now officially activated!

*After you successfully activate your phone, you can delete SAM and the dependencies that go with it.
-Push Notifications + Increased Battery are still in effect.

Hey, Bro. I cannot find 'Auto Detect' under SAM.

[vokesy]

worked great for me. thanks

[916Series]

Stupid question (cause I have a billion), anyways... will this conflict with FaceBreak or 3G Unrestricted, only asking cause my facetime doesn't work, and wanted to see if this will make it work. Again a stupid question. Thanks

[iphonehckr]

Does it work on iOS on 5.0?

[LiveWire195]

Originally Posted by Khmer_Boy

Hey, Bro. I cannot find 'Auto Detect' under SAM.

Settings > SAM

Look for Method and it should be there

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Originally Posted by iphonehckr

Does it work on iOS on 5.0?

Yes it does.

---------- EDIT ----------

Originally Posted by 916Series

Stupid question (cause I have a billion), anyways... will this conflict with FaceBreak or 3G Unrestricted, only asking cause my facetime doesn't work, and wanted to see if this will make it work. Again a stupid question. Thanks

This will not activate your iMessage / Facetime... I'm still messing around with SAM to find an activation method. I've restored my phone about a dozen times in efforts to find a solution. I'll keep you posted

[llj143]

hi, i tried the method, but when i open itunes it doesnt seem to recognize my phone :/

[LiveWire195]

In the SAM Preferences, you have to set your phone to the original carrier it was on... then it will do the rest.

[Elsocio83]

Originally Posted by livewire195

In the SAM Preferences, you have to set your phone to the original carrier it was on... then it will do the rest.

I am following your instructions but it does not verify my phone number for iMessage. Does it matter if I'm on T-Mobile?

[LiveWire195]

I haven't figured out a solution for iMessage as I stated in the other post. Still working on it

[Miztory]

sim card not supported error
how to fix it???

[LiveWire195]

Make sure your phone is set in SAM to Method > Auto Detect.

If that doesn't work, set the phone to By Bundle, and select the Orginal Lock of the phone, then hit Restore activation.

[llj143]

ok i already have the wildcardactivated, but facetime and imessage currently not working for activation right?

[LiveWire195]

It does not work for iMessage yet.

[llj143]

i see, so does the facetime activates right away? mine is still "waiting for activation", btw im using a different carrier.

thanks