Redsn0w 0.9.6 Beta 6 Released With SAM (Subscriber Artificial Module) Support

A new Cydia tweak SAM (Subscriber Artificial Module) has been released by iPhone hacker @sbingner. This allows you to officially activate your iPhone 3GS or 3G after updating to baseband 06.1.5.00 using either PwnageTool 4.1.3 or Redsn0w 0.9.6 Beta 5. As you are already aware, many users have started facing battery drain and hotness issue after unlocking with Ultrasn0w 1.2 following updating of bb 06.1.5.00.

The iPhone Dev Team have released an update to Redsn0w, redsn0w 0.9.6 Beta 6 to support SAM on your iPhone 3GS and 3G. After installing SAM as given in this article – fix battery drain using SAM, go ahead and run Redsn0w 0.9.6b6 with the option ‘Deactivate’.

This will remove the normal patches made to lockdownd and let SAM take over.

Here is the update from the Dev Team:

Developer @sbingner (author of TetherMe) has made some excellent progress devising a new hactivation method that kills two birds with one stone for all you ultrasn0w unlockers.  His tool, “Subscriber Artificial Module (SAM)” tricks your iPhone and iTunes into creating legitimate activation tickets even though you’re unlocked with ultrasn0w.  This means you get the full benefit of push applications, and your battery life increases substantially.  If you’d like to try it out, check out http://www.bingner.com/SAM.html

To help make it easier to try out @sbingner’s tool, we’ve updated redsn0w to include a new “Deactivate” option for the 3G and 3GS.  Use this option *after* you’ve installed SAM…it will remove the normal patches made to lockdownd and let SAM take over.  (sbingner plans on making a button to do this within SAMPrefs too).  Great work, @sbingner!

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