Tuesday, July 14, 2009

iPhone TIPS & TRICKS

iPhone TIPS & TRICKS

iPhone TIPS: Fix Blocked Push Notifications Unlocked iPhones?

Posted: 13 Jul 2009 12:44 PM PDT


Czech iPhone developer PoweryBase notes that Apple appears to be blocking Push Notifications on iPhones that have been unlocked for use on non-official wireless carriers, fellow blog MacRumors.com reports. Specifically the developer of NotifyMe
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states:
"5 percent of users using unofficially modified or so called
"hacktivated" iPhones. 5 percent of these users generate more than 80 percent of
customer support requests daily, claiming the application does not work as
advertised"
I can imagine this will keep your busy. The developer also explains why the notifications for "hactivated" iPhones are not working, even OS 3.0 is running on it with "notifications" enabled under settings:


"When the Push based application such as NotifyMe requests an ID
from APNS, the server responds within a second and identifies the device with
the unique token. From that point, the connection between APNS and user's device
is successfully established," said Pavel Serbajlo, PoweryBase's lead developer.
"However, on a unofficially activated device, APNS keeps the application wait
forever and does not provide any respond at all, keeping user wait infinitely or
time out the connection, if the target application is capable of timing
out."
Lets Try Push On a Hactivated iPhone
When the above assumption is correct, than any notification app should have trouble with "hactivated" iPhones. We at IT&T did a simple test with the free ebuddy app. ebuddy notifies that you are logout after a predefined time period. We set this time at 5 minutes. After you close the app, ebuddy notifies 5 minutes later that you have signed out. We runned ebuddy on an official factory unlocked iPhone 3G and also on a "hactivated" iPhone 2G. Result: With the official iPhone 3G, push was working correctly. With the hactivated iPhone 2G, no notification message ever appeared. Disclaimer: This was of course a quick test, not based on rocket science maths :)
How about a Fix?
As far as I know of, there is no official statement about this item from Cupertino. And well in my personal opinion, if this is an issue, it will be officially fixed in the near future. This is just because even with a "hactivated" iPhone, you still are a paying App Store Customer. And in Cupertino, they probably like to keep any paying App Store customers. But what I also think is, first, there should be some kind of an official statement to back the poor "Notifications-App-Developers" from complains from hactivated iPhone owners. Fingers crossed. Till then, only install "Free" push notification apps on hactivated iPhones?

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