Phonebook SIM Card Trick to Activate iPhone Blocked by Apple

Sherif Hashim reports that Apple has blocked the trick to activate iPhone with Phonebook SIM card . Sherif Hashim is the same guy who found the trick to activate iPhone with Phonebook SIM card and exploit to unlock iPhone baseband . iPhone Activation via Phonebook SIM card was the best thing in the age of Spirit and Jailbreakme jailbreaks which required your iDevice to be activated before using the jailbreak .

Earlier if you didn’t have the supported SIM card to activate your iPhone with iTunes, you could use the Phonebook SIM card for activation. But Apple got the way phonebook sim card trick used to work fixed by hooking the activation wildcard ticket to the ICCID of the used sim.
After this first blockage, the hacker developed another way to use the same Phonebook SIM card trick on jailbreaked iDevices, but Now Apple has also fixed that bug too.


Fortunately the new jailbreak tools (Greenpoison, Limera1n, PwnageTool and Snowbreeze) which are based on Geohot’s Limera1n exploit not only jailbreak the phone but also hacktivate it.
So if you are not on official carrier or don’t have supported SIM card, don’t waste your time and money on Phonebook SIM card purchase because it will not work anymore.

There is a fix for this.
http://gfgsm.blogspot.com/2010/11/breaking-news-i-phone-spirit-update-20.html