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September 18, 2012
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Custom iPhone Carrier Logos for iOS 6

Beau
September 18, 2012

They’re back!

Come here and you’re curious as to how these work without a jailbreak? Or are interested in an overview of making your own, then read this post about carrier bundles.

Ahead of the iOS 6 release later this week, I have taken the carrier bundles and thrown in the custom carrier logos again.

When Apple releases iOS 6.0.1, or your carrier pushes an update, these logos will be overwritten back to stock and you can come back here shortly after for an updated bundle.

If you decide that you no longer want the custom logo – you will need to restore in iTunes, and then restore from backup. Unfortunately Apple doesn’t make this easy.

These bundles will only work on retina devices (iPhone 4, 4S and iPhone 5).

An oddity with iOS 6, is that when you open the Maps app, your carrier name returns. This only happens in the Maps app, and we’re not quite sure if this is by design or not.

The other thing to note that as of iOS 6 and the new dynamic color changing status bar, there are now only two color states; usually a ‘white’ logo displayed against any color (blue, black, red etc) and another white logo with a shadow, displayed in Notification Center). Sadly this means that colored logos now look more out of place and less pretty than they did in iOS 5. As an example, here’s the blue Telstra logo. Contrast this with the logo atop this post.

As such, I will only be updating the white and grey logos for iOS 6.

 

 

To install these on your own iPhone, first you must tell iTunes that you can side load your own carrier bundles. Usually iTunes will not let you point your way to a carrier bundle on your own computer. This is easily fixed;

For both Mac OS X and Windows, make sure iTunes is closed before proceeding.

For Mac OS X; open up Terminal.app and paste in the following;

defaults write com.apple.itunes carrier-testing -bool true

For Windows, open up Run (Winkey+R) and paste the following;

"%ProgramFiles%\iTunes\iTunes.exe" /setPrefInt carrier-testing 1

If you’re running Windows x64 bit, do this instead:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\iTunes\iTunes.exe” /setPrefInt carrier-testing 1

Done! Now simply connect your iPhone, open up iTunes, select your iPhone from the sidebar, and hold down option (Windows users, hold down Shift instead) while you click on restore. Now simply point your way to the .ipcc file you wish to load. You may also want to repeat the above, but click on ‘Check for Updates’ instead.

Now once that is finished, flick your iPhone into Airplane Mode, or reboot your iPhone and you should be good to go.

These have been updated to also support the iPhone 5 and LTE.

Right click on the logo you want for your carrier below, and save it to your desktop.


Telstra
Version 13.1.1

Optus
Version 13.1.1

Virgin
Version 13.1.1

Vodafone
Version 13.1.1

 

Blank
Version 13.1.1

If you really don’t want to see your carrier at all, here are some ‘blank’ carrier logos.

Telstra

Optus

Virgin

Vodafone

 

Please remember that you cannot go back to your original logo without restoring. Carrier bundles are not backed up, and so will not come back if you restore from backup.

However – carrier bundles can’t be overwritten back to the original bundles with the standard text logo. You must restore in iTunes.

82 comments

  3. Telstra on iPhone is 13.1 (not 13.0.1). After installing this, almost instantly a carrier update is pushed through to override 13.0.1

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  4. Hi, i´m from Argentina and I want to know if this method can help me to enable Thethering on my iphone. I know that here, if the iphone does not recognize the SIM CARD carrier, it will let edit the apn settings, etc and the thetering will be enabled. also, since a while my carrier name is bad recognised and it´s longer than the space on the top bar and the name is scrolling every time i wake up the phone.

    can you share the method to create the ipcc so we can make tests to see if it works?

    thanks

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    1. I have the exact same problem.
      I managed under 5.1.11 to make visible APN settings for both MMS and GPRS but not tethering. Once updated to ios6 the phone does not recognized the injected ipcc file as it continues to state Movistar 13.
      Please any help would be valuable… as Javier mentioned, the carrier actually does not support Personal Hotspot but under certain circumstances it works so it would be just a question of turning some value to True or something like that… I have been with this for more than a week with no real luck.
      Many thanks

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  5. I can’t seem to get this to work, I edit the setting in terminal and i option+click the restore and update buttons and choose the blank .ipcc, but no amount of restarting, syncing or airplane mode-ing will change my current carrier text to the blank logo.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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  6. Do these work with the iPhone 5? I’ve been holding on updating the ones on my site until I know if these will affect 4G or not. I’m not in a 4G area, so I can’t test.

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  7. Hi, can you post a guide on how to do this when you are on a different carrier? (in my case it would be T-Mobile in Germany).

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  10. Telstra have rolled out a 13.1 carrier update. Would it be possible to update the 13.0.1 to work with the new version?

    Thanks!

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  11. Hi. Thanks so much for this. Is it possible for you to include the new version for Optus as well as the original carrier if for them too?

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  12. Hi Beau,

    I’m looking for a version of the generic Carrier file, with LTE enabled. Any help or guidance appreciated.

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  13. Hey. Nice job on the logos. Will they work on the new iPad for Telstra in Aus? I presume they should right?

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    1. Hey henZa; you can put the telstra bundle on the iPad, however you’ll lose the ability to edit the APN.
      Since both the iPad and the iPhone use the same APNs anyway, this most likely won’t be a problem.

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      1. Is it possible to create an iPad Telstra profile so that it doesn’t remove the ability to edit the APN settings?

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  14. Any change to get this to work for amaysim? They use the optus network.

    My really old iphone amaysim says “YES OPTUS” in the bar, and i can change it.

    HOWEVER my new ipad3 amaysim sim says “amaysim” and the optus thingy wont change it?

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  15. Hi,

    iphone4s, iOS6

    I did the optus carrier change and it worked. Then i decided to to the blank change, and it works EXCEPT for notification center, the ‘yes’optus image still shows…

    help thanks

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  16. Hello Beau,

    I actually work for a non Apple carrier (Digicel) , and we are rolling out an LTE network in the 700b17 band (Same as ATT). We were hoping to test the iPad amongst other devices, however we quickly realized that the carrier file used by our SIM has the LTE radio off.

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  19. I forgot to say that Vodafone Italy has everything already enabled, mms, tethering etc…so all I want to change is the LOGO.

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  21. Hey Beau!

    Thanks so much, you’ve really done a great job explaining the whole process. I’m using a Verizon iPhone 5, and I’m wondering if you have an updated carrier bundle or plans to make one.

    Cheers!

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    1. I’ve tried making my own, but when I option-click on “Restore” or “Check for Updates” in iTunes and select my modified .ipcc file, it gives me an error saying “Could not inspect the application package”. Any advice?

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  25. I have tried your logos with my local carrier .ipcc,and I have replaced the logos in my local carrier with yours and renamed it to match the names, but nothing changed.

    Another issue,since you have iphone5 did you try “sbfakecarrier” with ibackupbot..

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  26. Hey, is there a bundle for NET10 (at&t mvno in the us)? I tried making my own from a modified AT&T bundle and have enabled the injection but when I click and select the modified bundle, I don’t get the carrier settings updated message on my phone.

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  27. Any suggestions are welcome! Tired of seeing “HOME” on my screen, looks so plain! Also, without this bundle I cannot get MMS on my phone. I have an factory unlocked phone, I don’t want jailbreak.

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  28. OK, can someone make a Special (Something other than) Company Logo’s and get it to load?..
    I use AT&T but have always used my Call-Sign.. Maybe an Apple Logo or something?..

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  30. Hi Beau Gils,

    I Have got a big Problem to Change my Carrier Logo i`ve tried many ipcc files but the logo doesnt change. Its an German Provider named O2 it would be great if u could change this for my iphone 5. Heres an Screenshot Please let me know if u need something to change this Looong Word 😉

    http://imageshack.us/a/img22/9909/imagelgh.jpg

    Best Regards

    Thomas

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  35. James, Got the File you uploaded, and I got my Carrier set now and lost the AT&T.. Worked with a bit of Tweaking. THANKS for the File…… ANYONE looking to do this, Just follow the Instructions, worked Fine on the iPhone 5 here. NOW if we can get the Jailbreak, I can get my iFile and MyWi back….

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  36. Hello guys, I’ve been looking for something like this for long time, I’ve got Telekom Slovakia. In settings it says it’s 13.0 so I wanna ask:
    1) how do should I call my file?
    2) would that work on an iPhone 5 on ios 6.0.1

    every help is appreciated, If somebody really helps me to get it work I can even pay 😉
    thanks so much

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  37. Can someone make me a ipcc file for Telcel mexico with blank name and instead of 3G let it say LTE please. send me a email thanks.

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    1. Please if anyone can make me a Telcel_MX with Telcel name or blank name and instead of 3G to LTE please my email is: jeff at proyectosie.com

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      1. Jeff, Look Above and Get the File From “James”.. All you need to do is use a BLANK Image if that’s what you like… Worked on my iPhone 5 just Fine here…

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  39. Hi please any chance of anyone making ipcc for vodafone Ireland ios 6 every help is appreciated tired of the long vodafone IE

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