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.

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.

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.

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.

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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

That or the main reason my girlfriend won't kiss me.

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.

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.

Last week something happened (with Speakout ???) and everything data related stopped working for about 1 day. After that, I had to do the http://unlockit.co.nz settings mentioned above and Internet started working again on 3G (it was working all the time on Wifi). Except everything that needs a login: Netflix, ipPhone - used vBuzzer, Gmail Email, etc. does NOT work on 3G anymore.
Any ideas why? It really worked for a couple of weeks amazing.

Not sure what to do other than the APN settings?

I have browsed with Safari and used the built in email app (with Gmail), sent text messages via data with "whatsapp" (text messaging system that uses internet instead of SMS for sending and receiving by others with the app). Maps app. Weather app. No problems encountered so far, except the GPS doesn't seem to work well – very large circle of uncertainty. Cloudy here today, though.

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.

Just to let folks know how it worked out for me. I ordered an iPhone 3GS on ebay.ca from sap-tech in Vancouver. It arrived looking brand new and worked perfectly when I popped in the sim card from my Speakout phone. It took a minute or two at that unlockit site to get the internet working.

Many thanks to whoever it was here who said:
in your iPhone on wifi click Safari go to http://unlockit.co.nz
click coutinue, click Custom APN, Country Select Canada, Carrier Select Speakout
then Create Profile, APN Carrier Setting click install
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Internet works very well - a thousand times nicer than the Nokia C3 I briefly tried.
It is just like my wife's Telus iPhone for $50 a month except I pay only $10 plus my 25 cents a minute and don't have to worry about using more than half a GB. What a deal! I just ordered another one for my daughter.

I used these settings for my iPad. I can surf using Safari with no problem.
My issue is that for certain programs such as mail and a terminal emulator app that I use, I cannot access them in 3G. Wifi works great.
Any ideas?

Glen Lalonde said:

kieran said:
Got it working with an iPhone 2G (original model) using the following steps (OS X):
Download the iPhone Configuration Utility (free from Apple):
http://support.apple.com/downl.....r_Mac_OS_X
Launch it.
Click on "Configuration Profiles" in the left column.
Click the "New" button in the top left corner.
Under the "General" section fill in the "Name" and "Identifier" fields with whatever you like, I used:

Name: "Speakout Wireless"
Identifier: "com.speakout.wireless"

In the "Advanced" section, enter the following:

APN: "goam.com"
User Name: "wapuser1"
Password: "wap"
Proxy Server: "10.128.1.69"
Port: "80"

Then attach your iPhone to the computer, it will show up in the left column under Devices. When you see it, click on it to select it.
In the right screen, click the "Configuration Profiles" tab. You should see the "Speakout Wireless" configuration you just created.
Click the "Install" button next to it.
Your iPhone will now prompt you to install the profile, which should take just a few seconds.
Then you should be done!
Good luck
Kieran

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Success on the 3gs in windows. Many thanks for the settings. Email me with your name and I will credit you in my blog. glalonde at gmail.com

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Things have changed slightly. You will get much better performance if you leave the "Proxy Server" entry blank.

So I have a Rogers 3g I'm trying to set up for data on Speakout. I tried setting up the APN using Keiran's directions but I couldn't find a version iphone configuration utility that I could use with Mac OS 5 so I also went to http://unlockit.co.nz and I still can't connect to data. Advice?

I just recently set up my daughter's 3GS on IOS5 with the current version of iPhone Configuration Utility. Worked fine.

No luck on the local kijiji or Craig's list. Amazon has some 16 GB 3GS's around $280. Ebay is showing some at buy now prices of $230 + $23 shipping, located in Vancouver. I just saw an auction end at $180. A brand new 8 GB from the Apple store is $375.

That is the Apple tax you pay. I would say 3GS is inferior to most Android models but each of their own.

So I have a Rogers 3g I'm trying to set up for data on Speakout. I tried setting up the APN using Keiran's directions but I couldn't find a version iphone configuration utility that I could use with Mac OS 5 so I also went to http://unlockit.co.nz and I still can't connect to data. Advice?

may be rollback to 4.3 ? I don't like these 'latest and greatest', especially from Apple. One more reason for me to stay at 4.3

Does this unlockit.nz site perform iphone unlocking (or whatever is needed to make the phone usable with speakout)? I am giving some thought to buying an iphone 3G or GS on ebay and I see the prices are significantly lower for phones that are locked to some carrier. I don't see any Rogers ones.

Forget ebay. Check your local craigslist or kijiji as you will get a better price and be able to inspect the phone before purchasing.