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Are you experiencing low WIFI signal in your iPhone? This generally happens after replacing screen (Digitizer and/or LED) from a street repair shop. The iPhone wifi shield is uniquely designed to provide better reception through a metal ring on one of their screw holder. Either the metal ring is missing from your shield or the screw is loose; sometimes it could be because of a rusty screw as well.

Have a look on the image below to know about the metal ring I am talking about.

Enjoy!! with all 3 bars of your WIFI and better GPS signal

When it comes to upgrading Operating System on your iPhone or iPad, there are two different approaches you can choose from.

1. Update preserving the baseband

2. Upgrade baseband as well

All the jailbroken and unlocked iOS devices should not upgrade their baseband as that may loose the unlock and jailbreak as well. This could be very frustrating as after upgrade you may not be able to unlock your iOS device again. Please check the status of “unlock” before you upgrade to that version.

The first approach is tricky and there are so many utilities out on the internet to preserve your baseband while they upgrade your iOS device. Tinyumbrella and GreenPoison are one of them.

However, if you want a genuine upgrade from Apple; . To provide a custom IPSW to upgrade with press and hold down the shift key while clicking on the Upgrade button.

In our last post we informed that only GSM iPhones can be unlocked through Gevey SIM Ultra S. Gevey guys made some more progress and come up with the CDMA unlock as well. However, for CDMA unlock Jailbreak is required. Currently the unlock is limited to 5.0 and 5.0.1 :(.

Below is the Features/details on Gevey ultra s (as per manufacturer’s website). Please note, right now Ultra S is available for pre-order only.

GEVEY Ultra S for CDMA+GSM iPhone 4S
•Jailbreak Required for CDMA iPhones S
•No Need to Dial International Emergency Number 112
•Untethered Unlock
•Compatible with all GSM iPhone 4S SIM Cards
•Compatible with all GSM iPhone 4S SIM Cards
•Complete Unlock with all 2G and 3G data services
•No SIM Card Cutting or Physical Modifications
•Works on iOS 5.0, 5.0.1
•Works on Baseband 1.0.11, 1.013, 1.0.14
•Guaranteed Better Reception than Previous
•Decreased Power Consumption

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