Saturday, September 22nd, 2007
Author: Jon B
Want EDGE on your T Mobile iPhone?
I’ve had my hacked iPhone for quite a while now and always wondered if I can use T Mobile’s data plan on it. I called customer service and asked if I would be able to run their data plan on my iPhone, the person I spoke with told me that it was impossible and cannot be done. I refused to believe this so I did my research online on using T Mobile’s EDGE with the iPhone, and low and behold there are quite a few iPhone owners out there using the T Mobile EDGE connection. It looks like you CAN USE T Mobile’s T Zones internet connection on your iPhone. The best part is it only cost $5.99 a month!Now this requires a simple hack but it is very easy to follow, let’s get to it:
You will need iBrickr to browse the file system of your iPhone.
Download iBrickr
If you’ve never used iBrickr before visit the link below for a video tutorial:
View tutorial
If iBrickr doesn’t work for you, try using WINSCP, it will also allow you to view and modify the files in your iPhone much like iBrickr.
Once you have iBrickr downloaded and the PXL files installed on your iPhone, you will launch iBrickr.exe. You’ll see the main interface, click on files to browse your phone’s file system.
( This procedure is for firmware 1.1.2 and under )
Locate /private/var/root
Launch notepad and paste this code:
function FindProxyForURL(url, host)
{
if (isInNet(myIpAddress(), "25.0.0.0", "255.0.0.0"))
return "PROXY 216.155.165.50:8080";
else
return "DIRECT";
}
Save the file as proxy.pac and upload it to /private/var/root
Right-click this file and select “Save Link As”, you need to save the file as preferences.plist, you will then upload preferences.plist into the following iPhone directory:
/private/var/root/Library/Preferences/
SystemConfiguration/preferences.plist
NOTE : If you are on firmware 1.1.3 and 1.1.4, upload the preferences.plist to this directory:
/private/var/preferences/SystemConfiguration
This will over write the current file that’s already in that directory.
Now grab your iPhone and tap Settings - General - Network - EDGE. The APN you will use is wap.voicestream.com, username and password will be guest. Reboot your iPhone and voila…you should be able to browse online using EDGE.
NOTE: After performing this hack I noticed that EDGE interfered with my wifi connection at home. If this happens to you, here’s a very helpful solution. Launch iBrickr.exe again, this time we will click on Applications. Click on the Browse Applications button, this will launch a list of 3rd party apps you can install at your will, for our purpose we will install an app called Services. Basically this will allow you to turn off WiFi, Bluetooth, and EDGE.
Once you’re done with the installation, iPhone will reboot and on your Springboard you should see a Services icon, tap the icon and here you can toggle between your EDGE and WiFi connection. Here’s the screenshot:
UPDATES…UPDATES…UPDATES… UPDATES…UPDATES…UPDATES…UPDATES…
Updated 9/01/08
T-Mobile USA has changed the IP address in their system for the T-Zones service. For anyone on 1.1.4 and below you will have to SSH in and manually change your settings or upgrade to 2.0+ and install the NEW T-Zones Hack provided by Big Boss in Cydia. For anyone on 2.0+ who has the previous hack installed you will need to update to the new one.
You must subscribe to the $5.99 T-Zones service for the T-Zones hack to work.
“For 1.1.x users that really don’t want to upgrade, you can fix proxy.pac yourself but editing the file /var/preferences/proxy.pac and changing “10.0.0.0? to “25.0.0.0”
Updated 2/19/08
This hack works on firmware 1.1.3, it’s been verified by a couple readers from this blog. The preferences.plist can be found at this directory:
/private/var/preferences/SystemConfiguration
Updated 1/10/08
I’ve decided to copy this post over to a different forum so that others can post and maybe offer some suggestions or tips on making this work. Please go to: http://www.iphoneshowoff.com
Updated 12/20/07
Download the zipped file below and used these files if you are having trouble renaming your files. This zipped file contains proxy.pac and preferences.plist - preferences.plist may just show up as preferences depending on your pc, this is fine…just upload these 2 files to the appropriate locations.
Updated 12/01/07
This hack works on firmware 1.1.1. I finally updated my firmware and EDGE works flawlessly. I have both the 4GB and 8GB updated to 1.1.1 and so far everything is working as it should.
Updated 10/25/07
Some people are having problems with the preferences.plist I have, if the one I provided doesn’t work out for you try using the one from the link below:
http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2007/09/12232/
Thanks Paul !!!
Updated 10/24/07Here’s a comprehensive list of EDGE settings for different countries:
http://www.taniwha.org.uk/gprs.html
Updated 10/23/07There seems to be a bit of confusion about making this hack work, let me just clarify a few things.
- You don’t have to buy the $19.99 data plan with T Mobile, the $5.99 plan is all you need.
- There are 2 files you need in order to make this work, proxy.pac and preferences.plist (both are on this page).
- To enable EDGE go to Settings - General - Network - EDGE. APN will be wap.voicestream.com, username and password will be guest.
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Tuesday, 16. October 2007
I was having some trouble. I did everything you said but it’s still not working. Do you have to call T-Mobile ask to sign up for EDGE then do this? Thanks. Respond as soon as you can!
September 24th, 2008 at 12:49 am
All this may not be needed. All I had to do was find a program that Unlocked the SIM-lock, if it isn’t unlocked already. Then Do this:
1.) Tap “Settings”
2.) Tap “General”
3.) Tap “Network”
4.) Tap “Cellular Data Network”
5.) Tap “APN” and enter: internet2.voicetream.com
This will only work if you either have the Data/Internet included in your plan or if it is added onto your current plan.
This works on my iPhone 2G with only the “Unlock SIM-lock” hack by QuickPwn 2.1 for Windows
Tuesday, 16. October 2007
Yes you will need to get the $5.99 Unlimited Web Access with T Mobile. This hack will not work w/o that plan, I guess I’ll modify my post. Good luck!
Friday, 19. October 2007
Hi Guys,
Switched to T-Mobile recently for their plan, don’t know much about other stuff from T-Mobile. “T-MobileWeb” for $5.99 is this what i should get? A little bit confused about T-Zone and T-MobileWeb.
Got 1.0.2 fw Iphone today, i will hack it over this weekend.
Thank You.
CK
Friday, 19. October 2007
Hey CK,
Yes you should get the T-MobileWeb for $5.99 plan.
Saturday, 20. October 2007
hey man i did everything you said, i even have had the 5.99 plan with tmobile since 2 days ago, but even opening up safari…still says cannot find server
Saturday, 20. October 2007
Jeremy,
Browse into the /private/var/root of your iphone and delete proxy.pac and re-upload the proxy.pac. Now browse into /private/var/root/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/preferences.plist and delete preferences.plist and reupload it again.
Shut down the iPhone completely and turn it back on and make sure your EDGE settings are still intact. Let me know how it goes.
Saturday, 20. October 2007
Jon,
I did exactly what you said (actually used iPhoneBrowser to completely delete the files first before uploading the new files…before was just overwriting using ibrickr). Anyway, restarted the phone, went to EDGE settings and they are exactly as you say they should. wap.voicestream.com (guest/guest). WIFI on or off, nothing comes up in safari, saying it can’t find the server. any ideas?
Saturday, 20. October 2007
Jon B,
I don’t understand how to paste the code in notepad and save it with proxy.pac
I launch notepad, paste the code and try to save it, but see only txt or all files choice.
Please tell more detail instruction for the beginner like me.
Thanks a lot.
Saturday, 20. October 2007
Tom,
Just paste the code into into Notepad and click File - Save As. For the filename type in proxy.pac and just save it, don’t worry about the file type. Once it’s saved double check the file name to make sure it says proxy.pac and not proxy.pac.txt
Saturday, 20. October 2007
Thanks Jon,
I got it, the next question is the next step : “Download this file and copy into your iPhone’s directory:
/private/var/root/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/preferences.plist”
How I download and copy?
Saturday, 20. October 2007
If you have the internet plan with t-mobile
Just go to setting-general-network-EDGE. select APN and change to internet2.voicestream.com, username and password will be guest. then restart iphone.
Slow but works…
September 25th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
This does not work. That is why this topic is still alive with tips.
Sunday, 21. October 2007
I get the black screen when i hit safari or maps or whatever. nothing works. sometimes it says something like I am not subscribed to edge. what on earth does that mean. i am paying 19.99 for the blackberry unlimited internet plan, shouldnt that work as well?
Sunday, 21. October 2007
I’m not entirely sure if this would work with the $19.99 plan. According to the Hackintosh forum, this particular hack was specifically for the $5.99 plan.
Monday, 22. October 2007
After follow the instructions, my iphone still got no access for internet (safari, youtube, weather, stock) even I have 5.99 plan T-zone.
I click them, waiting for updating so long (more than 10 minutes) then become an error message.
What should I do? Anybody can help?
Thanks.
Tuesday, 23. October 2007
It worked great!!!! thanks.
Just FYI for people having trouble… where it says “download this file” you need to RIGHT click on it… then SAVE AS onto your computer, and then RENAME the file to.. preferences.plist (for some reason, it wants to save it as …. preferences.xml
Just rename that file… then copy it to your iPhone.
Tuesday, 23. October 2007
Thanks Paul for clarifying that! People make sure the file you download from here is named preferences.plist and not preferences.xml.
Just right click on the download link again and save it as preferences.plist, please post back here if you’ve had any success.
Tuesday, 23. October 2007
worked great!! saved me $15!!
thanks a lot
Tuesday, 23. October 2007
worked great! saved me $15!
thanks a lot!
Tuesday, 23. October 2007
It worked Great!! you may want to update the info, when you downloading the “preferences.plist” windows automaticly will change it and download it as “preferences.xml” make SURE that the extension is the right one…. .plist that it may cause your iphone not to go online.
Tuesday, 23. October 2007
I still can n ot get this hack to work….
safari still tells me that it can not find the seerver. I have the tmoblie hot spot plan for the 5.99. I downgraded from the data package I had but still nothing works.
I have reuploaded the files and everythng…
any suggestions…
thanks
aaron
Tuesday, 23. October 2007
hi, i do everything as said here but i get weird message n diff thn other..i get error 502 on screen it self…error says “server cant resolve yr uri:/” something like it…some help n let me no wht i m doin wrong here…n sometime it pops up n tells me tht server cant find…idk wht to do
Tuesday, 23. October 2007
Sam,
Browse into /private/var/root and delete proxy.pac and re-upload it to that same directory.
Browse into /private/var/root/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/preferences.plist and delete preferences.plist and re-upload preferences.plist to that directory.
Completely shut down the iPhone by holding down the power button for about 5 seconds and sliding the power off.
There are a number of things that can possibly be wrong, the most common is that you may have the wrong file extensions, you should have proxy.pac and preferences.plist
Also you have to purchase the $5.99 plan with T Mobile, this is not a free service. Double check the EDGE settings and make sure EDGE is not disabled.
Tuesday, 23. October 2007
hi, i did everythign again n it worked only for yahoo page..nothing else relevant to edge is workin..i m gettin this error message “internal error. you do not have the access to the http://www.msn.com“. i do have the edge 5.99 plan..idk whts wrong plz help…
Wednesday, 24. October 2007
Hello
I am trying to make a tutorial for the people of my country - enabling them to use EDGE on their iPhone.
I was wondering if the
return "PROXY 216.155.165.50:8080";is conditional ?Can I use null instead of the proxy ?
Thanks
Wednesday, 24. October 2007
Hi, I used another guide that basically did the same thing as this one, except the other guide left password and username blank for EDGE settings. My problem is this: I had it working beautifully for about 2 months. I was using the 5.99 tzones and then about 3 or 4 days ago EDGE disappears. No idea why. So tonight I called T-mobile just to double check that I had the tzones, the lady said yes and then I told her it wasn’t working and she said, “Oh, well do you have an iPhone?” And I immediately said “no” in fear of something going bad. So she said that could be the case. And I’ve done your guide to get it back working, I reset the network settings thinking that would work, but not a thing. So I just thought you should know.
Wednesday, 24. October 2007
Chris, you should contact your operator again and tell them that you are using some other smartphone. i.e - Blackberry with Windows Mobile on it or whatever.
Then ask the APN and if user/password is required. Also make sure the “PROXY” is correct or not.
Your EDGE on iPhone depends on All these things.
Wednesday, 24. October 2007
hi, does this hack work on another carrier/country? i have the APN user/pwd.
Thursday, 25. October 2007
I connect my iphone with ibrickr, then I click files, but nothing come up. I tried many times and the same result even though I connect with fresh download ibrickr ver.0.91
How this happen? and how to fix this?
Thank you guys.
Thursday, 25. October 2007
Ok i did everything twice and tried other websites but still no luck. on the weather or stocks page it just says updating the whole time, when i go through safari i get an error that allways reads something like, “internal error You do not have access to the site in…” I signed up for the 5.99 web through my carrier, and just wondering if anyone else knows what could cause these errors.
Thursday, 25. October 2007
another thing, sometimes when i switch back to wifi and on the net everything is good, then go back to edge and the settings ar e changed and under the setting, general, network, edge, my apn says disabled. only sometimes
Thursday, 25. October 2007
Hey everyone….
I used the above settings that Jon B listed and got the $5.99 internet working, but the only problem I had was that my WiFi stopped working!!!
So, I changed my settings (see below) and now… EVERYTHING WORKS PERFECT!!!!!
If you’re having problems with your Wifi, try this……
EDIT and paste this code in your proxy.pac file:
function FindProxyForURL(url, host)
{
if (isInNet(myIpAddress(), “10.0.0.0″, “255.0.0.0″))
return “PROXY 10.23.8.3:8080″;
else
return “DIRECT”;
}
then… EDIT and paste this code in your Preferences.plis file:
Interface
DeviceName
ip1
Hardware
com.apple.CommCenter
Type
com.apple.CommCenter
Proxies
ProxyAutoConfigEnable
1
ProxyAutoConfigURLString
file:///private/var/root/proxy.pac
com.apple.CommCenter
AllowNetworkAccess
1
Available
1
Setup
apn
gprs.qtel
password
gprs
username
gprs
Version
1
Then go to Settings - General - Network – EDGE and for The APN use… wap.voicestream.com and leave username and password blank.
Reboot your iPhone and you’re done… you should be able to browse online using EDGE and Wifi.
Your iPhone should work perfect.
Paul =)
Thursday, 25. October 2007
Jon B,
I just realized I can’t paste the preferences.plist code on here….
if you want… email me and I will send you a copy of my preferences.plist so you can post it on here.
phk990@gmail.com
Thursday, 25. October 2007
or…. you can go to this site to get the preferences.plist that I used.
http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2007/09/12232/
Thursday, 25. October 2007
Hi there–New to the iPhone. Dig it so far. I had the Blackberry Pearl with the $19.99 Blackberry Internet. My Safari/ You Tube/Weather does not work. Any help would be appreciated–thanks, Rob D
Thursday, 25. October 2007
worked perfect
First I tried Settings - General - Network - EDGE. APN will be wap.voicestream.com, username and password guest it didn’t worked I got message bad request, then I tried Settings - General - Network - EDGE. APN will be internet2.voicestream.com, username and password guest. rebooted the apple toy voila everything worked thanks a lot…
Friday, 26. October 2007
Andre,
Which T-mobile data plan are you using? The $5.99/month one? I can’t get EDGE to work using it.
Friday, 26. October 2007
I was wrong!!!!
my T-zones stopped working when I used the other web sites preferences.plist file.
Jon B….
I think your “preferences.plist” file on this page is the only one that works with t-zones.
Thanks
Friday, 26. October 2007
Ok Let me just say, if you follow these direction correctly
it would work perfectly. just one thing if you call t-mobile to add t-zone dont tell them you have a iphone they would say - t-mobile dont support the iphone so i told them i had a motorola v3x and they said they are going send a setup brower for it, it never show up HaHa. but the t-zone works great…P.S if i would you install the app Service.app because there is interference with EDGE and WIFI….
Friday, 26. October 2007
Thanks Andre–I tried both of those and it still does not work. I have the Blackberry internet not the T-Mobile one–thanks, Rob
Friday, 26. October 2007
Thanks Pete!
I’ve used this method on 4 iPhones and they’ve all worked fine so far. For those of you who wants to avoid speaking with a T Mobile rep, you can simply get on their website and add the $5.99 plan to your account.
Friday, 26. October 2007
Andre et al—I called T-Mobile and switched from the Blackberry internet plan to the T-Mobile Total unlimited internet plan. Then changed the APN to internet2.voicestream.com –left the username/password blank and bang-o it ALL works–everything. Love this phone!
Saturday, 27. October 2007
I did everything on this site I also got the tmobile 5.99 plan but its not working. Can smeone help me? I know I got the file thing right, but people says to put different stuff in. Like which one works wap. Or internet2. ???? I also have a firmware 1.1.1 does this hack work on this iphone?
Saturday, 27. October 2007
Hi,
Thanks for all the instructions on here.
Everything on my iPhone works great with the T-Zones plan.
FYI….
If anyone is having trouble connecting to their WiFi….
MAKE SURE under settings that… “Ask to join networks” is ON!!!! (turning WiFi on alone is not enough)
It took me several days to figure this out. I had internet working, but my WiFi was not.
Now I figured out how to fix that problem and wanted to share it with everyone.
Just go to:
Settings> WiFi > Ask to join networks
Now, my iPhone works PERFECT.
I don’t even need “Services” anymore.
Thanks again JB
=)
Saturday, 27. October 2007
Pete,
I figured out how to Fix the interference between Edge/Wifi.
Make sure under settings…. Ask To Join Settingts is ON
Now, My internet works great… Wifi and Edge.
(Thanks to JB)
=)
Saturday, 27. October 2007
Jon B….
is there a way for you to Delete my earlier instructions above?
YOUR preferences.plist file on top of the page turned out to work great after all.
I was just having trouble with my Wifi… and after several days of trial and error….. I figured out an easy fix!!!
All I had to do was turn on… Ask To Join Networks.
Now everything works great (and I dont even need the Services program anymore).
Thanks JB
Tuesday, 30. October 2007
I did everything that I was suppose to do but nothing work. I check the edge and everything was right. When I try to use the safari all it does was load. Nothing pops up just keep loading. I have the $5.99 tzone but I don’t know why it doesn’t work. The proxy says proxy.pac.doc instead of proxy.pac I don’t know if that changes anything. I used microsoft word so if this is a problem please show me how to fix it. Please help me out someone.
Thank you
Tuesday, 30. October 2007
Michael,
Your file extension is wrong, you should have proxy.pac and not proxy.pac.doc that will not work. Open up notepad and paste the code into notepad, now save the file as proxy.pac and upload it to your iPhone. Make sure you delete the file that you previously uploaded. Good luck!
Tuesday, 30. October 2007
in my case, i did everything correctly as written. when i finished, it didn’t really work at first; until about a half hour later, the EDGE finally worked.
but.
after i put in new programs into my iPhone(v1.0.2) with Installer, when my iPhone rebooted, the EDGE stopped working. the APN was listed as “DISABLED”. i changed it back to wap.voicestream.com, but all i get out of EDGE now is a series of “internal error. You do not have access to the site in “(url)”
help me out here.
Tuesday, 30. October 2007
+ i just got the T-MobileWeb just maybe an hour before i started this hack. is there a waiting period before i am able to use tmoweb? i’d think not because i had my EDGE working for a bit, but it could be possible.
Thursday, 1. November 2007
I have a hack right now on a phone that allows me to use crickets wap proxy server. But when I am connected to their proxy server I cannot use other protocols that do not go through port 80 or 8080 such as you tube video streaming or pop email retrieval. I want to get an iphone, but is this the same situation, you cannot use pop or different protocols through the EDGE proxy server?
Thursday, 1. November 2007
Jason,
I’ve been able to send/receive email and also stream YouTube videos using this hack. The only thing I haven’t been able to use is the web based chat app called BeeJive.
Thursday, 1. November 2007
thanks for the quick response! One more question. How is the speed.. because it is going through a proxy server or on wap….is the speed the same speed as a data plan on the EDGE network?
Thursday, 1. November 2007
I also called T-Mobile, added the $19.99 total internet plan, and everything was working when I woke up the next morning (except YouTube)! This is awesome!
I have a question tho…. When I called T-Mobile… they said the $5.99 will not work to access the WWW, just certain websites… Is this true? I read all the posts, but still am confused..
Thursday, 1. November 2007
Jason,
On my iPhone the EDGE speed is around 56K sometimes less, yeah it sucks but it’s better than not having internet connection at all.
Hey Lisa, don’t believe T Mobile, they told me the same thing. I don’t think they are lying, they just simply don’t know. I can browse any websites and send/receive email just fine with mine. Oh and you don’t need the $19.99 plan, the $5.99 works wonderfully!
Friday, 2. November 2007
Okay, I am pretty skilled with altering system files and I am not sure what is happening. I replaced the code and added the file. I get the “E” for edge to appear, but when it checks for data under stocks and weather and everything else, it just times out. It looks to be connecting though.
Any Help?
Friday, 2. November 2007
Okay, so non of the stock or weather widgets work. Safari does not work, but Mail does work. What could be wrong?
Saturday, 3. November 2007
Hey Matt,
I also have that problem. I have tried everything but only Mail works with the T-Mobile EDGE. Safari, Stocks, Weather, etc. do not work on the EDGE configuration. Someone please help us!
Saturday, 3. November 2007
ok after deleting the .pac and .plist files and then putting them back on the phone I realized that Yahoo.com is working, nothing else. Then i checked stocks, maps, and weather and they too are working! Then I tried youtube and so it that!!! After all that I went back into safari and went to apple.com and that has loaded too! Matt, and anyone else who had problems do this: a) Make sure its “proxy.pac” (not .pac.txt) and same with “preferences.plist” (not .plist.txt)
b) Make sure it’s wap.voicestream.com username and password is “guest”
c) If still not working do this. Delete the proxy and preferences files. Re-download them to iphone. Then make sure the edge settings are as step b says, when it is the same DO NOT GO BACK INTO THE EDGE SETTINGS. Then go to safari and go to yahoo.com. Should work, then try the things I did after.
Hope this helps!
Saturday, 3. November 2007
I’m glad you got it working James! I’m not sure why everyone else is having issues trying to get this to work. I’ve done this on 6 different iPhones so far and they’ve worked perfectly.
I think the biggest issue is the file extension. I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again…make sure you have the correct file extensions for the 2 files needed. The files has to say proxy.pac and preferences.plist, use microsoft notepad when creating these 2 files.
Sunday, 4. November 2007
Thanks John,
well it took me a while to get it working. I had the “disabled” message in the APN name, the 502 erorr message, and basically everything. I was able to recieved messages but not send them. It was when I kept reading these posts over and over again I deleted the 2 files compltely (.pac, .plist) and then put them back on. I rebooted and went to EDGE settings, there was nothing in APN, Username, Password so I typed them in myself. Then went to yahoo.com (i had seen a post that said only yahoo worked so i tried to see if i had the same problem). It worked so I tried a few other sites and also stocks, mail, etc. and they also worked. The only problem is that on Youtube I can’t search or see the “most watched” sections. I get an error message.
Sunday, 4. November 2007
i tried pretty much everything but it says that i am not a EDGE suscriber…
Sunday, 4. November 2007
make sure you tried all my instructions. Re put files on phone.
Sunday, 4. November 2007
Interesting experience today at the TMO store. I had them pull up my account that I use for my iPhone, and… it already said with big letters on top of the screen: iPhone!
I asked them about it. The answer was, that they know this because of your device’s IMEI when it registers itself on the network (which is definitely feasible…)
Sunday, 4. November 2007
BTW… I have T-Mobile Total Internet; I am using the wap.voicestream.com APN. Works as a train; I don’t put in any usernames and passwords. Stocks, Safari, Youtube work.
My config:
original 1.1.1; iBricker downgrade to 1.0.2; manual unlock following iphone.unlock.no instructions
Tuesday, 6. November 2007
I haven’t tried this out on 1.1.1 yet, has anyone tried this hack on the latest firmware?
Tuesday, 6. November 2007
I followed all the instructions..here is the problem.
when I go to the edge setting and input the wap server address and hit return…instead of taking me to the login field…screen turn black and goes back to the home screen where all the applications are listed. any ideas?
Wednesday, 7. November 2007
hey guys. i recently used this hack two weeks ago. everything was fine, i probably transferred about 16MB of data thru t-mobile’s edge. then all of a sudden, it stops working. i get a message saying “could not activate EDGE” whenever i want to go on the internet/weather/etc. does anyone else have the same problem? do i have to upgrade to the $20/month plan?
Wednesday, 7. November 2007
I would check to see if EDGE is still configured properly, go to Settings - General - Network - EDGE. Make sure you have wap.voicestream.com, sometimes it changes to cingular for some reason. If everything’s correct and it still doesn’t work, I would restore the iPhone to factory settings and try the hack once again.
Wednesday, 7. November 2007
ok, well i called up t-mobile. they told me that there was a ‘glitch’ in the system which allowed customers to access EDGE via tzones via iphones accidentally. they also told me that the ‘glitch’ was fixed back in august 2007 (i bought my iphone two weeks ago and it was working with EDGE perfectly), so i dont know…. what im going now is re-hacking, or re-uploading all the files, and unsubscribing from t-zones then subscribing with t-zones again. hopefully itll refresh my ‘connection’ or something..
Wednesday, 7. November 2007
I just updated to 1.1.1 and signed up the T-zone yesterday.
Except the speed is extremly slow (60kb maximum), i found i couldn’t access to http://iphone.beejive.com. It says ” Tunnel or SSL Forbidden (Description:8189 is not an allowed port for Tunnel or SSL connections).
Meebo works Okay on Tzone. However, i like Jivetalk interface better.
Don’t know what i should do to fix this on my end.
My coworker just signed up the $20 dollar internet plan but his speed is as terrible as mine except that he could youtube search. Not sure if the whole HOUSTON, TX area is sufferring the same slow tmobile edge speed.
Wednesday, 7. November 2007
i got the 19.99 plan for tmobile they told me it was the faster internect for tmobile so i got it.. they gave for the APN internet2.voicestream.com. witch doesnt work. anyone know if it will be avariable in the future? caz the 5.99 sucks for youtube…
Thursday, 8. November 2007
ok i tried this edge hack and i have the tzones currently on my iphone but when i go on safari it just sits there and loads, i think it may be the reason to when i uploaded the proxypac file when i uploaded it, it kept on having the “txt” after it….. does that affect anything??
Thursday, 8. November 2007
Hey Justin,
Your file extension is wrong, you should have proxy.pac and preferences.plist.
Thursday, 8. November 2007
Jon,
how do i get the correct file extension then because everytime i save the code in notepad and i type in proxy.pac when i upload through ibrickr, it keeps on showing the .txt at the end….. but i think i got the preferences.plist on there just fine.
Thursday, 8. November 2007
and i got the 502 error, does anyone know how to solve this problem i have?
Thursday, 8. November 2007
It’s working! Thanks Jon.
Yesterday, I opted $5.99 T-MobileWeb with my regular plan from t-mobile website (no need to call them) ..and today I got SMS confirmation for activation. After uploading those two files and setting Edge setting, it didn’t worked first time. So I remove and re-uploaded both files, reenter those EDGE settings and after rebooting my iPhone..its just working perfectly. Speed is reasonably good..not that fast to watch YouTube video..but its serves my purpose..
Thanks Jon once again for this tip.
Friday, 9. November 2007
Yeah what is the Error 502??? i have the same problem.. i restored my phone to clean it and i still have the same ERROR 502….. what is this anyone help?
Saturday, 10. November 2007
i just got a plan with tmobile and activated my iphone today, i did the appsnapp unlock w/ jailbreak and anysim. im using the 19.99 internet because thats all i knew of, its slower than wi-fi, but if i can get a cheaper one at same speed ill do that. i didnt need to hack or anything, all i did was:
settings>general>network>edge, then
APN: internet2.voicestream.com user/pass: guest
rebooted, and it worked. no need for hack crap.
but my iphone is brand new, so who knows.
Sunday, 11. November 2007
Anyone know how to fix ERROR 502? jon
Monday, 12. November 2007
hey guys im having a problem, everytime i turn off my phone the EDGE settings reset. what to do? what to do? what to do?
Monday, 12. November 2007
and also, when i send ring tones to my phone i cant see them in the sound settings, is there anything i have to do for that
Monday, 12. November 2007
Will,
Error 502 means you don’t have any internet connection. Browse into the iPhone and make sure the files you uploaded have the correct file extensions. You should have proxy.pac and preferences.plist. Double check the EDGE settings and make sure it’s still enabled, you should see wap.voicestream.com with a username and password of Guest.
Monday, 12. November 2007
How do I e-mail or attach to a text photos from my iphone? When I have the pic up and click on send as e-mail it says “please set up a Mail account in order to email photos” I use hotmail for my personal e-mail and I have the $19.99 T-Mobile internet plan. Any help would be greatly appreciated–thanks, Rob D
Monday, 12. November 2007
I did all the steps u show above the page. i even restored my phone and install everythign again . but it jsut doesnt work. and i do have wap.voicestream. guest guest. and im currently paying 5.99
Monday, 12. November 2007
ERROR 502 said bad request the serve could not resolve your request for uri/… what uri means? and jon do u think i shoudl restore it again , i think restoring put eveyrhing abck to normal isnt it? my phone is unlocked and activated version 1.1.1. i really dono what to do.
Monday, 12. November 2007
how do i get the correct file extension then because everytime i save the code in notepad and i type in proxy.pac when i upload through ibrickr, it keeps on showing the .txt at the end
Tuesday, 13. November 2007
is this applicable with 1.1.1 too?
Tuesday, 13. November 2007
i using v. 1.1.1 and for some reason i cant delete the preferences.plist. When i upload the new preferences.plist file it doesnt show the replace message. please help
Wednesday, 14. November 2007
A couple comments:
1) I didn’t modify any files and upload them to my iPhone
2) I called T-Mobile and was honest with them. They insisted I needed the internet plan (/shrug)
3) I think they provision EDGE almost instantly, so I’ve gone in and tried the following:
- Modified EDGE setting with internet2.voicestream.com (blank/blank)
- Modified EDGE setting with wap.voicestream.com (guest/guest)
The last setting is working.
Couple questions:
1) anyone know whether internet2.voicestream.com SHOULD work?
2) thoughts on why/how this works without changing the 2 files listed above?
Wednesday, 14. November 2007
well guys i dunno but… i just put the APN: wap.voicestream.com n the user n password: guest
without replacing da 2 files on the iphone n it works, a lil slow, but fine…
Wednesday, 14. November 2007
hey can someone recommend me a iphone browser for 1.1.1 n put me the link or where i can download it, cuz i cant do it in other web pages.
hey do u think if i replace the 2 files in the iphone, the internet will be faster???
Wednesday, 14. November 2007
*Press Settings
*Press General
*Press Network
*Press EDGE
*Press APN enter on the keypad: wap.voicestream.com
*Press return on the keypad
DO NOT ENTER A USERNAME OR PASSWORD
then exit by pressing General at the top left of the screen or the bottom on the bottom of your phone
this works with my jailbreak 1.1.1 T-Mobile $59.98 plan
Learned from the dude at the T-mobile store