If you had trouble unlocking your iPhone using SAM then we’ve some good news for you.

Sam Bingner – developer of Subscriber Artificial Module (SAM) has updated it to make it a lot easier to unlock your iPhone.

You no longer need to worry about having the original SIM or copy the IMSI. It just works. He tweeted few hours back:

The latest update for SAM should fix some issues with the activation if you click in SAM, and give you a pretty indicator while you wait.

Here’s the simple step-by-step instructions to unlock your iPhone using the updated SAM jailbreak tweak:

Step 1: Launch Cydia on your jailbroken iPhone.

Note: If you haven’t jailbroken your iPhone yet then check out our How to Jailbreak webpage for links to the latest tutorial to jailbreak your iPhone.

Step 2: Sam Bingner’s SAM (Subscriber Artificial Module) package

Note: If you’ve already installed SAM then install the latest version of SAM via the Changes tab and jump straight to Step 4.

Tap on the Manage tab

Then tap on Sources

Then the Edit button

Enter repo.bingner.com as the Cydia/Apt URL

Tap on Add Source

Cydia will verify the URL of the repo and successfully install it.

Step 3: After the package is installed, you need to Install SAM and SAMPrefs.

Either tap on Changes tab or use the Search tab to search for SAM Select SAM for the list of search results Tap on the Install button Then tap on the Confirm button. Tap on the Reload Springboard button when prompted.

This will also install SAMPrefs

Step 4: Insert the SIM card that you want to use in your locked iPhone.

Step 5: Launch SAMPrefs from the Home screen.

Step 6: Tap on Utilities and then tap on Attempt Activation under Activation Utilities.

That’s it, you will see the Activation message box telling you to “Please wait …. this may take a while“. After a while, your iPhone will reboot and it should be successfully unlocked.

You can also refer to this video tutorial by Jeff Benjamin if you had problems following the step-by-step guide:

After you’ve successfully unlocked your iPhone, please don’t forget to take a backup of the activation ticket using Redsn0w or iFile as it could be useful in the future.

Update:

Apple has started blocking SAM trick to unlock iPhone, check out this post for more details.

As always, let us know how it goes.

Frequently asked question:

➤ Can I unlock iPhone for free using Ultrasn0w (software unlock)?