If jailbreaking an iPhone alone does not make you happy enough and you are looking to pimp your iPhone much more, how about changing your carrier name?
Here is a short guide that will help you customize the carrier name that is displayed on status bar of your iPhone.
Requirements
Before you start, please note that this guide only works on iPhone OS 3.0 or above. Also, you need to have a jailbroken iPhone with Cydia installed. If you have not jailbroken your iPhone yet, click here for the jailbreaking guide.
Instructions to Change Carrier Name
Step 1: Tap on the Cydia icon on the Springboard to launch the application.
Step 2: The carrier name is changed with the help of an app called 'FakeCarrier'. Tap on the 'Search' option in Cydia and type 'Fakecarrier' to find the app.
Step 3: Select the app by tapping on the name and click on 'Install'. Follow the instructions to install the app. Finally, click on 'Return to Cydia' to finish installation.
Step 4: Once the installation is completed, you will be able to find a 'Carrier' icon on the iPhone Home Screen. Tap on the 'Carrier' icon to launch the FakeCarrier application.
Step 5: You are now given three options - 'Fake Carrier', 'Fake Time' and 'Show BatteryLevel'. Tap on the 'Fake Carrier' option to change the carrier name.
Step 6: You are now prompted to enter your Carrier text. Enter the text of your choice and tap on 'Set'.
Step 7: Similarly, you may replace the time banner on top with your customer text using the 'Fake Time' option. Tap on 'Set' to confirm the change.
That's all, the carrier name on your iPhone should change to the one of your choice. Please note that if you would at any point like to get back to the default Carrier and Time text, you may follow the same steps and at the final text input, tap on 'Reset' to get the text back to default.
Please let us know how it goes.
This should be great news for all the Verizon fans who would much rather have Verizon as their carrier! Be the first to impress all your V friends!
We know this already
yeah, this has been around since 3.0
there's also another cool app by Erica MIM (make it mine) doing the same purpose. It's been there for ages on Cydia.
While many people may have already known about this, it is news to me and I imagine a few other people. Thank you for posting it.
Now I have to get back to writing my letter to Santa Claus.
This seems like a rip off from MIM.
MIM not 3.0 compatable
just how many apps out there are rip offs of each other?
90,000 appstore apps and no two are similar??????
ya mim is a load of bollox,,anyone know of good cydia apps for the iphone 3g????
MIM works with 3.1.2
I am using it with my iPhone 3G…
And also works well with 3.0.1. I'm on a jb 3GS 16GB 3.0.1. Everything's working fine. I tested it on my friend's iPhone, a jb 3G 16GB 3.1.2, works great as well.
rip off of MakeItMine.
I would have to agree. I've been using Make It Mine for over a year. Works perfectly on my 3.1.2 3G. With make it Mine you can also customise the Banner (Where the time is). Rip off!
Mim still works with 3.0 3.1 and 3.2. I'm running it on 3.1 On 3gs
Sorry people, MIM refusing to work on my iPhones (3G 8, 3G16, 3Gs16&32) must be some software conflict I have, now works on my touch32gig
me bad, sorry for misleading comments
TimW
thank you
We know this already
Will it drop the signals by any chance…. I am experiencing signal drop "No Service" very often… could it be because of this Fake Carrier… Is there anyone experiencing the same..
I remember changing my carrier back with 1.1.4
MIM is better/safer
and i run 3.1 and it works fine
Bull crap mim is 3.1.2 compatible
Just jailbroke my 3g and it has the word "BuG" in quotes where T-Mobile should be. Anyone know why?
does this mean I can buy my friends phone who was with rogers
and use it with my bell plan?
yea this shit bricked my phone..
Yeah, it killed my battery pretty fast too
bricked it twice
I uninstalled like three days ago and I haven't had any problems.
ya thanks buddy. I am looking for that tips from last 3 days. I am a new I-phone user and searching for I-phone tricks and tips. thanks for sharing information with us.
Good TIp – One more tip from me you can always put your girlfriends name there
nice trick to get some… 
You can delete it afterward if you want too the effect still stays.
help
i have a att g3 and had it working on t-moble and tryed to fix it and now im unable to use it atall, is there anyone that can help ?
where can i download it
“fake time” and “show battery level” are both grey on this app and will not let me click it to change it…i have IOS 4.2.6… anyone have any suggestions on how to access those two options???
Mine too, the “fake time” and “show battery level” are both grey. Can anyone advise how to get those two work?
niceeee! thanks
Check FakeOperator, no icon, in Global Settings, works perfectly
It worked! So simple and easy. Thank you!