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Re: iPhone Firmware 3.1 Beta

vinko — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:18:52 -0000

Oh... JB,

I don't understand your point.

Jailbreaking the iPhone does not require command line or knowledge of Unix.

I just don't understand why people want to intentionally make their iPhone unstable. As majority of the "unauthorized applications" are usually hacks to the iPhone firmware resulting in an unstable iPhone.

Re: iPhone Firmware 3.1 Beta

JB — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:53:42 -0000

>> I personally do not know of any significant reasons for jailbreaking the iPhone

Haha. Jailbreak is only for UNIX people only. Those who dont have UNIX experience, should not jailbreak their iphone. Just that dumb iphone. hehe

Re: MMS With iPhone 3.0 On iPhone 3G

vinko — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:18:29 -0000

Yes, the recipient of the MMS must have the MMS service to receive MMS.

For tethering, please read my post on the subject.

Re: iPhone 3G S in Hong Kong

vinko — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:17:09 -0000

The iPhone 3GS has not been released in HK yet. It will be sometime in July

Re: MMS With iPhone 3.0 On iPhone 3G

Benjamin — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:21:11 -0000

HELLO, im a CSL user and i just added the setting u have given to me! AND THANKS SO MUCH!!
but if i send a MMS to someone do they need MMS to recieve because i got a failed to send when i tried to send a pic to another iphone 3g user!!! ALSO do u know how to get the tethering???

Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Languages

Questioner1 — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:26:53 -0000

Arabic?

Re: Tethering iPhone 3.0

vinko — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:00:26 -0000

I too agree that the more and more applications will be utilizing the data traffic. Especially with so many applications upgrading to include Push notifications. Smartone-Vodafone will definitely not consider Push traffic as "Internet Browsing".

BTW: I have now confirmed that my "3G IOM Value Pack" is no longer available as a "no contract" plan.

I personally will NOT be choosing the "Duo Boardband" plan, since its per MB charge is the same as my current plan. Even if I go over HKD45.00 for a given month, I have the benefit of falling back down to HKD0.00 for the month, if I don't use any data traffic outside of "Internet Browsing"; which is unlikely. Plus I do not have to sign a 15 month contract.

What plan do you have that Smartone-Vodafone is willing to offer you HKD60.00 off per month?

Aside from the discount, I think the 15-month contract "IOM Value Pack" at either HKD96.00 or HKD116.00 is still the best option for iPhone user.

Re: To iPhone 3G S or Not?

vinko — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:50:49 -0000

Hi Craig,

You're welcome. I could not have done this without the community.

Check out my post on Tethering iPhone 3.0 for iPhone 3.0 tethering set up. It should be fairly self explanatory. If not please let a message here.

Re: To iPhone 3G S or Not?

Craig Mitchell — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:27:21 -0000

HI Vinko,

Thanks for the CTM MMS settings they working just fine... Do you know of anywhere I can get the tethering settings for CTM Macau?

Re: Tethering iPhone 3.0

Andreas Hung — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:42:18 -0000

Hey Vinko,

Yea, I'm with smartone-vodafone and actually my iphone is a jailbroken Canadian 3G 16g. My brother living with me has an official 3HK iphone, and I was actually sharing experience from his phone.

Right now what is even more tempting about going with the Duo Broadband Plan, is that they are offering me $60 monthly discount on my voice plan, which I can put together with the duo broadband plan. Together this comes to around HKD130 / month with 50MB to use, and capped at around HKD430 for unlimited use.

Another reason I'm considering the switch, is because I've lately been using more and more 'extra data' from my 'internet browsing plans'. I get phonecalls from smartone suggesting me to upgrade my data plans monthly, and it's starting to get tiresome. I agree too that HTTP traffic is considered browsing in this case, but with all the new apps coming up with 3.0 it's becoming hard to stick to this restriction.

I will probably signup for the Duo Broadband this week as my billing cycle is approaching. Will let you know my experience.

Re: MMS With iPhone 3.0 On iPhone 3G

Todd — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:03:44 -0000

Update on MMS on CSL. With the above settings I am able to receive MMS messages from people using other carriers but not able to send them.. so the mystery continues. I am able to send a MMS to myself which I guess would mean MMS amongst CSL customers also works.

Re: Tethering iPhone 3.0

vinko — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:46:30 -0000

Hi Andreas,

Yes, I remember.

I thought you said you're currently with Smartone-Vodafone already? So how come you're referring to your 3 HK iPhone 3G in another comment on my post?

What a coincident, I was thinking about a new combination of Smartone-Vodafone plan(s) also. As my current, non-contract, "3G IOM Value Plan (III)" plan (HKD136/month) will not be feasible if I ever use tethering with my iPhone 3G.

The "Duo Broadband Plan" is also what I'm thinking of. This plan is good for both the iPhone 3G and iPhone 3G S running firmware 3.0. Of course the iPhone 3G S will also have the option to choose the HKD80/month plan, with 21Mbps down / 5.76Mbps up bandwidth, but the iPhone 3G S is only capable of supporting 7.2Mbps HSDPA connection.

The '3G IOM Value Plan" I am on includes 600MB/month; at 20MB/day limit, of what Smartone-Vodafone considered "Internet Browsing". As I had mentioned in past posts, I had never been able to receive a definite answer as to how they determine "Internet Browsing" traffic.

From my test this past 2 years, it appears that any HTTP traffic is considered "Internet Browsing". Although, Smartone-Vodafone sales and Customer Service representatives will tell you definitely. Their company line is to say "Internet Browsing is any traffic through the phone's native browser."

My test found that several other iPhone applications' traffic are also considered HTTP (ie. Weather, Stock).

I use my iPhone without worrying about the cost of my data traffic, and this normally result in HKD30.00 extra charge for my monthly bill. This is for the HKD15/15MB that they charge for other data traffic aside from Internet Browsing.

I currently do not ever reach the maximum allotment of 600MB/month for Internet Browsing, and the 30MB are usually RSS, IMAP and other Data traffic. The latter I presume are from the Twitter client I use.

BTW: I hate contracts and try my best not to sign any. Having said that I will be discussing my options with Smartone-Vodafone this weekend.

No matter what, you need to make sure you comply with Smartone-Vodafone's Fair Use policies

Re: To iPhone 3G S or Not?

vinko — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:03:05 -0000

Hi Andreas,

Yes, tethering does work on the iPhone 3G running the iPhone firmware 3.0, but it depends on whether the carrier will allow it.

For the case of Hong Kong users, we are fortunately that all HK carriers allow tethering (at a cost). You can see my other post regarding enabling/setting up tethering on your iPhone.

Re: Tethering iPhone 3.0

Andreas Hung — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:53:46 -0000

Hi Vinko,
I emailed you around a year ago when I first got my iphone 3G to discuss the smartone-vodafone 'unlimited internet' plans.

My contract has just ended with smartone, and I'm considering their $50/month 'duo broadband' plan so I can use tethering on my iphone 3G 3.0.

Have you had any experience with this? which plan are you using? would you recommend joining this 15month contract?

Thanks
Andreas

Re: To iPhone 3G S or Not?

Andreas Hung — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:47:27 -0000

I think tethering works on iphone 3G as well, I haven't tried it, but my 16G iphone 3G from 3HK has that option in settings.

Re: MMS With iPhone 3.0 On iPhone 3G

Filipe Costa — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:06:58 -0000

Settings for CTM in Macau for not prepaid SIM cards

APN = ctmmms
MMSC = http://mms.wap.ctm.net:8002
MMS Proxy = 192.168.99.3:8080
MMS Max Message Size = 307200 (be sure to enter this value, otherwise it will not work)

Re: Review: TweetDeck for iPhone

Happy Gilmour — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:25:09 -0000

Very good review. I have made up my mind now.

Re: MMS With iPhone 3.0 On iPhone 3G

Todd — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 02:46:37 -0000

Hey for CSL in HK you need the following:
APN: hkcsl
MMSC = http://192.168.58.171:8002
MMS Proxy = 192.168.59.51:8080

The last part of the MMS Proxy was missing on the posting above. as well the last "/" doesn't seem to be necessary for the MMSC information. I just called CSL and after insisting they help and waiting about 30 mins on the phone they finally got me the information.

Re: MMS With iPhone 3.0 On iPhone 3G

Todd — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 01:34:01 -0000

Just another comment about my iphone 3G not working with MMS. I have an legally unlocked TREO 680 using the Palm OS Garnet v 5.4.9 and can use MMS with my CSL SIM card. The settings are for the GPRS mode (3G not available) and it states IP address automatic as well as Query DNS has been checked. APN is hkcsl with no user name or password. Could it be that CSL has changed the IP address for MMS use?

Re: MMS With iPhone 3.0 On iPhone 3G

Todd — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:58:02 -0000

Hi thanks so much for all of the info. I also have an officially unlocked iphone 3G 16 MB that I bought in France. The data services work just fine with my CSL SIM card. After following your procedure I get the small camera icon as well as the option to send MMS in photos etc but each time I try to send the MMS it fails. Any ideas? Thanks again.

Re: Tethering iPhone 3.0

pavel — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:39:40 -0000

[URL=http://www.speedtest.net][IMG]http://www.speedtest.net/result/500424625.png[/IMG][/URL]
working thanks again

Re: Tethering iPhone 3.0

pavel — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:30:19 -0000

Thank you very much - very easy to set up accordingly your instructions.

Re: MMS With iPhone 3.0 On iPhone 3G

Ju — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 21:50:23 -0000

The proxy setting for PEOPLES shall be 172.031.031.036:8080

Re: MMS With iPhone 3.0 On iPhone 3G

twitter-7287112 — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 10:23:26 -0000

Tested MMS on my iPhone with China Unicom 3G (aka Wo) today. It works with their usual settings:
APN: uniwap
MMSC: mmsc.myuni.com.cn
MMS Proxy: 10.0.0.172

Re: MMS With iPhone 3.0 On iPhone 3G

vinko — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 02:56:04 -0000

Please see my reply to Morris, Sherrell, Cesar and Paul for explanations on why you may not see the Cellular Data Network settings.