Actually looking at TS problem, it got nothing to do with activation or anything. It's just that TS is using the custom carrier bundle (referring to the "Maxis" logo for the carrier part). Why Hades86 have it and TS don't because in the custom carrier bundles have an option to show what setting to show and what not (hope people understand this).

@TS
What you can do is temporarily disable/delete the custom carrier bundle and see if the "Sim Applications" appears on your settings.

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Added on May 30, 2009, 5:35 pmThe SIM Applications 'software' is not installed on the phone but its in the SIM itself. Activation can be done by anyone and anywhere given its a maxis set or not. Maxis activates the phone for you so you can straight use it when you purchase it. Look it this way ... I purchase a RM2k++ phone and it's still wrapped in the plastic. I go out hopping with my new phone, open it and turn it on and found that I need to connect to itunes first and activate before i can use. I would be furious that I need to go back, plug in the phone to itunes just to use the phone. So Maxis does this for you so you can be a happy camper and start using the phone.



p/s - this is just to straight things up and not trying to pick a fight with anyone.

This post has been edited by frozzbyte: May 30 2009, 05:35 PM

@siqplus
Why did you restore your phone? This can be easily done without restoring your phone (unless you have all the time to redo back everything).

After you restore the phone, did you restore the backup from iTunes? If you do, then it will restore back the carrier bundle and you are back to square one.

How did you change the "Maxis" logo in the first place, using the IPC (izzit correct?) file or manually copied the carrier bundle folder to /System/Library/Carrier Bundles?