For as long as I’ve had my iPhone, I have been without Push Notifications.  Reason being, I’ve jailbroken and software unlocked my iPhone so I can use it on a different carrier than the one the phone was originally purchased on.  Push notifications hasn’t been something I’ve needed, but it’s been something that I’ve wanted a good, solid, reliable solution for.   If you’ve jailbroken your phone, but you’re with the same carrier your phone is locked to, you’re unaffected by this issue.  Only those that have had to unlock their phones have struggled with this.

The popular search results on the interwebs site the iphoneil.net repository as the fix.  While that might have worked for a select few in the beginning when they first launches their solution, the theory behind their resolution was flawed.  The keys used for the iphoneil fix were shared, so it was quite common to get other people’s push notifications on your phone, or not get them at all cause they were delivered to someone else.

Pushfix.info has the ultimate remedy.  Although it’s not free, the $6 price tag is well worth it to get this feature working again.   If submit your payment by Paypal or credit card, it will only take about 5 mins to get the feature working, and process is dead simple.

Provide your phone’s IMEI# on the purchase page, and submit your payment.  This info is required to generate unique push keys for your phone.  After your payment is submitted, add http://cydia.pushfix.info to your Cydia repositories.  Next, search for and install the PushFix package and all its dependencies.  Be sure you’re installing the package from the pushfix repository.  A PushFix application will get installed on your Springboard.  Launch this app and send a test push notification.  You should receive a reply shortly informing you that push is now working.  And you’re done!

Any additional info you may need regarding the product or how to install it is available on the creator’s main website, or in their detailed post on how to install the product.

My YouTube access broke after installing this fix, however, unlike push notifications, YouTube does not require unique keys.  The PushFix creator has provided 3 working keys that are available in the pushfix repository under YouTube Fix.  Simply add one of them (not all 3) to get access to YouTube back.

If your GPS stops working after installing PushFix, turn off Location Services, shut down the phone, wait 10 secs, and power on the power again.  After it’s back at the home screen for bout 30 secs, turn on Locations Services and then retest your GPS app.

WARNING!! YOU MAY LOOSE PRODUCTIVITY FROM FIXING PUSH NOTIFICATIONS!!!  As a consequence of having push on my phone now, my free time has been spent playing Words With Friends… Damn you addicting social games!!