Gevey Sim – Caller ID not showing contact name and not showing names on recent calls.
Gevey Sim with Iphone outside the U.S.? maybe you are having the same problem. Read on.
(Or skip to end to see how to fix it)
The other day, my dad was having problems with his Iphone 4 when he decided to switch from his Iphone 3gs. Everything worked as planned, He was able to transfer all of his data and logs; his entire collection of over 400 contacts, etc. So far so good. In Venezuela, it is more convenient to have the iPhone 4 GSM instead of the CDMA version, but because he has the 4.3.3. iOS installed with a baseband of 04.10.01, he was forced to use the Gevey Sim card to unlock it. The thing here is that, it was me who sent him the Gevey sim card he was using, so as soon as he told me about the problem he was having with not being able to know who’s calling, a sense of guilt overwhelmed me when I remember the moment I decided to buy the 7$ Gevey Sim card and later find out that there was a 85$ one out there. My dad didn’t give up and as it is usual, he would find the solution to his gadget problems in less than 12 hrs. After reading many blogs and Internet sites out there. Who would know he would find the fix to his problem not in a blog, but in a response to a post made by someone in Yemen. Under no circumstances I will take credit for any of the solutions listed bellow. I’m simply posting here a sum-up of the steps as my dad in Venezuela described them to me. If this little tutorial works for you, then the credit goes to every iPhone enthusiast out there and of course, my father for putting things together. I hope this will fix your problem of not being able to see the name of the person who calls but just the number when using the Gevey Sim to unlock your iPhone. Also, once you fix the issue with displaying the names, there was another issue: The recent calls list would not show the names, but the numbers only of recent calls. All of these things, of course, would be because of the use of Gevey Sim to unlock.
- To fix the “caller ID not displaying name” problem, the solution was very simple. All you have to do is modify the contact list and add the “+” followed by the country code to every number on your contact list. You can do this manually (you have to do this manually if your iPhone is not jailbroken) or, if you have a jailbroken iPhone with Cydia installed, you could search for “caller ID format Fix” which is a free tweak available in the BigBoss Repository.
However, once you resolve this issue and your caller ID begins to show the name of the person calling you, then you have now inherited another problem: The “recent calls” list would not show the names using Gevey SIM, but the numbers only. This is because of the fix above. If you don’t fix the problem above, then it would be reversed. But, you want both the caller ID and the recent calls working properly, right? To fix this, you would need to do the following: At this point, your iPhone needs to be jailbroken and have Cydia installed.
- Open Cydia and install “iFile” or any other package that would allow you to access the files inside your iPhone.
- Once in iFile, navigate to: /System/Library/Frameworks/UIKit.framework/PhoneFormats
- Click on UIMobileCountryCodes.plist and open it with Text Viewer.
- Click Edit on the top left corner and change the 202 to 001
- Also, change the “gr” of the string to your country code. For instance, “ve” for Venezuela, “pl” for Poland, “it” for Italy, etc.
- Save the file and close iFile.
Now it all should be working just fine. The reason for these steps above is because the Gevey SIM interposer is not related to any country and it uses a default country code as 001. That’s why you need to assign the country manually to fix the called ID issue and the recent calls issue. I hope it works for you. Don’t forget to leave a comment or Google + this post (right below the title). Thank you!
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First-class share it is actually. We have been searching for this tips.
I totally agree.
Thanks a lot. I was having problems when I installed my gevey sim card and finally got it fixed with this info.
this totally works – been looking for a solution like this for a while. Gevey sim card had “cn” and simply replaced “us” for the United States. Simple and quick. Thanks!
thank’s but it dosen’t work for algeria :’((( i see clearly the name on my recent call but not when i have an incoming call :’(
help please
great job, working flawless
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hey dude, had this same issue, resolved it the way u mentioned.
thanks
PEACE
Excellent, thanks for this valuable contribution, I was a big help
Hey! I'm glad it worked. Regards.
Very good thank you very much great post 100 points
I found a solution to this problem. its very simple no jailbreak required. just insert your country carrier sim without gevey sim and reset network setting for 1 or 2 times, after that you can use gevey…. SOLVED.
I am from Yemen has the same problem and doesn’t have the sprint for Yemen, would u pls advise me the contact of the person who led u the solution caz it still not working with me
Hi MD. Unfortunately, I don’t have the contact information for that person. Not even the blog link. But It looks like Sarozan offered a good solution. Please try that first as it seems he really got his problem solved. I’m sorry I couldn’t offer better assistance beyond the solution I posted on the blog.
just use ur local country sim card without inserting gevey and reset network for few times, it will work. It worked on mine and am from Nepal.
plz try the solution its worked on many iphone 4 updated to ios 5.0.
Thank You soooooooo much…. it finally worked on my iphone 4 IOS 5.0.1
Please tell me which solution worked? i updated mine to ios 5.0.1 and it was working fine, but i remove my gevey and the problem came back!!! please let me know
MAS, you should re-try setting everything the way it was. This instructions are only for those who are having problems while using Gevey sim card.
I inserted my local country sim card without inserting gevey and reset network settings just once and IT WORKED!!!!! Im in Bolivia and my iphone 4 is on IOS 5.0.1
Thanks a LOT!!!!
Thank you very much for the instruction. It helped me a lot.
hey this little mother this solution, was very rapid, I just did the steps and it works. thank you very much for the help.
regards
It WORKS!! after researching from the internet, i came up with this page. Im from philippines and im using iphone 4 with gevey sim. My recent calls now shows names not numbers upon editing “gr” to my country code which is ph.
Thank you very much for sharing.
I’m so glad it worked.! Thanks for visiting my site.
it Works for incoming calls but not support to messages
Using local country sim card without inserting gevey and reseting network settings working great in Serbia…Thanx…