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12:12 pm
February 6, 2012
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Thanks a lot for your reply. I guess it makes sense (unfortunately). It was good while it lasted though ...
bridonca said:
Best guess is that Rogers plugged an exploit that allowed people to bypass their proxy. I do not believe Rogers ever intended you to use netflix, VOIP, etc on a $10 unlimited data plan, but it happened, and now, no more. Considering you were sold a unlimited browsing plan and not a unlimited data plan, there is not much you can do about it except cancel.
1:20 pm
April 8, 2011
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harvey said:
I Update: the GPS doesn't work. Apparently this is very common with jail broken phones. The jailbreak/unlock involves a fake update to firmware baseband version 6.15, and this causes the GPS to be not found by ios. Too bad, I was looking forward to having a great GPS in my phone.
I have the exact same phone (iPhone 3G, Jailbroken, unlocked, BB 06.15.00) and my GPS works fine. It's more likely that your logic board has a cold solder joint in the GPS chip. How does your WiFi work? Also a common cold solder joint problem area.
11:03 pm
August 13, 2009
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Cold solder joints are my worst nightmare in the ownership of modern electronics.
That or the main reason my girlfriend won't kiss me.
10:39 am
January 11, 2012
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altadude said:
harvey said:
I Update: the GPS doesn't work. Apparently this is very common with jail broken phones. The jailbreak/unlock involves a fake update to firmware baseband version 6.15, and this causes the GPS to be not found by ios. Too bad, I was looking forward to having a great GPS in my phone.
I have the exact same phone (iPhone 3G, Jailbroken, unlocked, BB 06.15.00) and my GPS works fine. It's more likely that your logic board has a cold solder joint in the GPS chip. How does your WiFi work? Also a common cold solder joint problem area.
A search on google will tell you that most 3G and 3GS with 06.15.00 ended up with a dead GPS. Here's one example:
http://jailbreakqa.com/questio.....ps-working
1:54 pm
February 4, 2010
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That GPS issue is a difficult one to discuss! Some people think their GPS is working fine if it shows their location on the maps app; but iPhone can also get the location from Apple's big collection of wifi signal locations. In a city, you pretty much can't tell because there are so many wifi routers running. Away from civilization, you can tell immediately. The circle of uncertainty is half the distance between cellular towers - 50 km here. Also, apps like GPS Data give no altitude.
I gave my unlocked iPhone 3G to my daughter and got another one locked to Rogers for myself. The GPS works. It is only accurate to about 50 m, though. Perhaps there is a poor contact problem.. I just took it apart and put a new battery in; will be interesting to see if reconnecting the antenna helps the GPS accuracy.
9:37 am
August 13, 2009
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Out of curiosity I spent the $10 monthly fee to see if data would work on my iPhone 3GS. Good news, it worked.
My iPhone is locked to Rogers, so it looks like they haven't blocked data after all.
It did take over night for it to work though. Yesterday I downloaded the iPhone Configuration Utility to my computer and setup the APN profile, but it wouldn't work. I assumed the bad news I've read on some of these threads were true, data wasn't working on the iPhone.
This morning I was going to call and cancel it when I noticed the little 3G indicator showed up. I tried browsing today and discovered that now I could surf on Safari and use apps with just 3G and no wifi.
7:05 am
October 7, 2011
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Mortaric said:
Out of curiosity I spent the $10 monthly fee to see if data would work on my iPhone 3GS.
This morning I was going to call and cancel it when I noticed the little 3G indicator showed up. I tried browsing today and discovered that now I could surf on Safari and use apps with just 3G and no wifi.
I was going to ask you where you see the 3G icon, but I just found out that if I am set up for WiFi on my iPhone 4S that the 3G does not show, but disable the WiFi and it does.
So my next test will be to re-enable WiFi when I leave my house to see if when away from my router that the 3G icon will show again even with WiFi enabled.
