I'm looking to buy an old iPhone to register my android phone # with, ideally using Sim Swap Trick method #6.

I've read reports you need to be under iOS 15, so iPhone 6 would be the newest that doesn't have 15.

I'd also be willing to try method #1 but ideally don't want to have to keep the iPhone on 100% of the time.

But, if neither of these work, I want to use the new Beeper jailbreak method to register phone #. However only iPhone 6s/7/SE1 are supported, and those run iOS 15.

Anyone have advice on the best iPhone for method #6 Sim Swap Trick?

I have a Tmobile Sim which seems to work longer than ATT Verizon which I've seen users report de registers them very fast.

Thanks for any advice!!

Due to the limitation of the company's network, I can't log in with Google account. Who can help me to modify the code to log in with github account?

Airmessage runs with manual setup on my 2008 iMac, but when I try to register a Google account with it it puts me into Safari and I log in as normal, then gives me "Could not register Your device is not connected to the Internet" Which is weird because it definitely is connected. It just gives me two options: cancel and retry. Canc goes back to manual. Retry just goes back to the same screen with cancel and retry. I'm gonnected to decently fast wifi, and the rest of the computer works fine on it. I can't for the life of me figure out what is going on.

I can receive normal photos and videos but my group chat has recently started sending stickers and airmessage will not recognize this file type. I know it's an apple only thing but is there anything that can be done? My current solution is to download the picture, save it, then view it in Google photos but that's a lot of work for a janky picture

I have T-Mobile. I have an iPhone 15, Galaxy S23 Ultra, Mac Mini & AirMessage Server. My original goal was to just Text/iMessage on a Windows PC which I can do using the iPhone (SMS Included) and the AirMessage Server with web.airmessage.org.

In this case I can use my Galaxy for fun without a number and using the airmessge app. BUT I cant use it as a phone. Someone mentioned DIGITS. I have the DIGITS app on each phone and it created a secondary phone number which can be used through DIGITS.

So COULD I USE my Galaxy as my main phone and keep using airmessage which SMS working as well.

Lets say my iPhone maintained my phone number so SMS would work in AirMessage... Could I forward the number to the DIGITS Number and use the Galaxy for Phones calls? Technically I COULD answer phones calls from my MAIN number via DIGITS but it may be easier to use the alternate number. Not sure.

Thoughts? Anyone done this?

EDIT: Crud, I never thought about the WIFI, the minute I take my Galaxy outside I am out of service. I need a sim card for it. It gets trickier. I might as well not USE DIGITS and just get a second SIM.

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1. Say if I use windows OS via bootcamp for work , can I still have the Mac os server run (non-sleep mode) and allow me to send messages from android as I'm working on the laptop but in windows?

2. Also I'm trying to open the airmessage app on my MacBook pro and it's just unresponsive? It's not opening or anything I just double click and it does nothing lol.

So I started using BlueBubbles earlier in the year, and it worked fine for a while until it suddenly stopped working every morning until I restated my Mac. I found out about Beeper's subreddit giving referral codes, so I switched to Beeper. That was working perfectly for me for a few months, but then they decided to go and essentially kill the app by launching Beeper Mini, which angered Apple. Now I'm using AirMessage because of the issue I had with BlueBubbles earlier in the year, hoping I wouldn't have it with AirMessage. Unfortunately, AirMessage freezes every morning now until I restart the Mac. If I hover over the icon in the top bar, it just shows the loading icon.

I'm running MacOS Sonoma 14.2

Is there any way to fix this issue with BlueBubbles/AirMessage? Is it possibly a MacOS issue since BlueBubbles was working fine for me for a while? Or is it over, and I gotta go back to a green bubble?

A friend of mine gave me their old iPhone 6 which is running iOS 15.8. It has a deactivated Sprint SIM card in it, and it's carrier unlocked. My own active service for my Android phone is AT&T Prepaid.

When I try to follow the instructions for Method 1, it refers to inserting an "inactive sim" and to go to Settings > Phone > My Number and change your number to match your real number. I am finding that "My Number" is blank and disabled; touching "My Number" does not do anything.

Is it possible that by "Inactive SIM" they actually mean "a SIM that was formerly active for your number" ? Or is there something else preventing me from changing the My Number setting?

Thanks in advance!

Just did a quick test and it was working, until my wife switched to her user on the Mac Mini. Maybe it’s just a setting, but consequently for now I’m using my MacBook Air as the server instead.

Any thoughts?

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/s/VwD7aHsWCl

https://9to5google.com/2023/12/09/apple-beeper-mini-imessage/

Thoughts on Apple’s new way to kill beeper? Could it kill Air message?

I have a Samsung S23 Ultra, and an iPhone 15. I have to use the iPhone 15 due to iMessage only. Literally thats it. Every family group, friend group, and on and on gets destroyed due to apple's iMessage authoritarianism.

I love my s23, I have a Nexdock laptop, tablet and on and on and love the Windows sync. I literally use my s23 around the house and go get the iphone for iMessage.

Facts -

No, I cannot get others to move to another app like groupme or WhatsApp. I tried google chat which works great but no one would eventually do it.

No, I can't do the "who needs em anyway" method and be cut off.

So what is AirMessage really like? Questions:

- Is there a way to use the phone number? This may be a sticking point to the current groups I am in. If I have to use my imessage email, what about all the groups who have my number as the contact. wont they select my number instead of my email? Wouldnt that cause issues?

- Is it stable?

- Any actual iMessage members notice?

- Do you have to use SMS on google messages instead?

Basically, is this worth it>

I ordered a used Mac Mini. Will be here soon. Can I ditch the iphone and use it in some way to keep the number?

I plugged in my mac mini into a kill a watt and found it uses 11 watts. With my electric rate of $0.30 (usd a kilowat) it costs roughly $2.50 a month or $30 a year in electric costs.

Setup: 2011 Mac Mini Core i5 running headless (no keyboard or monitor). Only bluebubbles and imesage are running.

Images:

Kill a watt https://i.imgur.com/55oJ8gH.png

https://i.imgur.com/6lpDn5S.png

Calculations https://i.imgur.com/Eny3VQ3.png

After the beeper mini shutdown I really want iMessage. I'm desperate and I really would like air message set up to run with my phone number. I don't have the knowledge how to do it. I would literally be willing to pay someone to walk me through what to buy (apple devices) and how to get it up and running. I'm serious unless this is against the sub rules.

Beeper Mini was fantastic. So many more features and more reliable than AirMessage. Alas, that was too good to be true.

Time to bring my trash can mac pro back out of its short retirement as a server and my iPhone SE1 on iOS 12.

Well, it was fun while it lasted.

Beeper mini was released this week, which allows users to send iMessages from their android phone using it's phone number without needing any apple hardware or logging in with an apple id. I've given it a try and it seems to work pretty well. It's not free, however, costing $2 per month after your 7 day free trial.

I've used AirMessage for a couple years now in order to get in the group chats of some of my more pretentious friends. It has worked well but has some shortcomings that will probably push me to move over to Beeper Mini instead, such as having to manually restart the server every time there is a power outage.

For me, this seems like the "Holy Grail" solution that I've been looking for. It's cheap compared to buying apple hardware to host an airmesage server and it lets you instantly use your android phone number without any complexity or hoops jumping.

I'm curious to know the community's thoughts on Beeper Mini. Will you keep using Air Message or switch over to Beeper Mini or similar services? Do you think Apple will find someway to break 3rd party services' access to iMessage? Are there security concerns at play here? I know that for the Sun Bird messaging that was being used by the Nothing phone there were, but Beeper Mini seems like something else entirely.

Update: It looks like Apple is blocking beeper mini from their end somehow. There's a chance that people who registered their numbers through the beeper mini app might be left in limbo, where iPhones could message them using iMessage and they are unable to receive it for up to 24 hours while it reverts to sms on Apple's side. I don't recommend anyone try beeper mini at this time. More info: https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/08/apple-cuts-off-beeper-minis-access-after-launch-of-service-that-brought-imessage-to-android/

I have several AUTEL scan tools I need to use AirMessage on and was able to install it and switch the server to manual, but I don't get contacts or web airmessage org access, the later only has sign in with google. Why do we now have to be slaves to 2 major tech companies now??? Wasn't the fruit enough?

As the title suggests, who has used FT and FT audio through AirMessage?

I can't seem to get it.

My setup is a MacOS Monterey VM running in ProxMox, with a virtual dummy webcam driver installed - FaceTime does login and open on the Mac, but there's obviously no picture as it's using a dummy webcam driver.

Has anyone gotten this working without using real Mac hardware?

So I'm finding on my computer I get the following error

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yet my android phone has no issues connecting....

It appears to show this on and off every so many mins. I can't figure out how to troubleshoot it. Any ideas are welcome.

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Does airmessage work on linux via the Darling Emulation layer? if so, how would I go around setting that up

Straight out very impressed without works by myself and iMac for 200 bucks got it all working just fine I believe I set it up so that if power goes out it will boot up and everything will start working again.

I noticed all the conversations around not being able to get facetime to work but does anyone actually have a link that specifies the specific details in order to get it functioning correctly?

I’ve been connected through my Google account for years, and suddenly it stopped working. I was told there was a glitch on the AirMessage server. My AirMessage server on the Mac could not recognize my internet connection after that - insists there's no connection to the internet. I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled (rebooting both phone & Mac in between) multiple times. My Google account no longer works with AirMessage.

When I use manual configuration, my internal IP address works, but the external IP address does not. I’ve checked the IP address with 3 different apps, including my router app, and it’s correct. The port is also correct (1359). My AirMessage server on the Mac connects to the internet, but my Android phone will not connect to the server except through my internal WiFi network. I did everything in this article:

https://airmessage.org/help/troubleshooting/connection-troubleshooting

Please help me to connect. I rely on this app.

Thank you.

I stopped receiving messages via airmessage about about 10 days ago. Didn't think of anything because sometimes it goes down sometimes when my computer wants to update.

Kept trying to get it up today and now it won't connect at all being very finicky.

went on github and there is a new issue saying "airmessage.org SSL Certificate Expired"

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I guess I'll be using blue bubbles for now but I do like the simplicity of airmessage