GPRS from iPhone

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Buttonmash

361 posts

Ultimate Geek

#20140 14-Mar-2008 13:29

From what I've read on this forum and courtesy of Google I shouldn't be having much trouble but...

I have a freshly unlocked (Via Ziphone 2.5) 16GB iPhone running 1.1.4. The APN is set to direct.vodafone.net.nz (have also tried www.vodafone.net.nz, blank username and password).

All other phone functions work normally and I'm getting the little blue square telling me I have a GPRS connection, full reception bars.

When I open up safari I get "Could not activate EDGE: You are not subscribed to Edge"

I've tried installing Bossprefs and disabling EDGE, but Safari will still go nowhere and I get "Safari can't open the page because it can't find the server."

My previous phone (Non-Vodafone firmwared Sony-Ericsson K610i) worked perfectly fine, and I have a 200MB Data allowance on my account.

Please tell me there is something very simple I'm missing here...

And thanks for any help or input.

Benjip

943 posts

Ultimate Geek

ID Verified

#116626 14-Mar-2008 15:05

Seems strange - I never had a problem with my iPhone getting on GPRS (until I banned my GPRS connection at Vodafone's end as I wasn't using it and the phone kept trying to use it and run me up a decent bill).

There's a list of APN settings here that might help: http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?ForumId=40&TopicId=9780

mikal

172 posts

Master Geek

#116650 14-Mar-2008 17:23

Try another person's simcard that you know is definitely working with gprs just to isolate your simcard.
I know you said it worked on your K610 but you never know...

piksel

129 posts

Master Geek

#116654 14-Mar-2008 17:34

Hey Buttonmash,

It's quite likely ZiPhone is the culprit. Did you use version 2.5c?? Apparently the versions prior to that (2.5 and 2.5b) were known to casue issues with the baseband.

It is unfortunate that you have used ZiPhone. If you'd done a little more homework you would have discovered that ZiPhone downgrades your 4.6 bootloader to OEM 3.9_M3S2. There is no method to reverse this. iPlus is a much better solution as it downgrades your bootloader to 3.9FB (fake blank). This version is upgradeable.

But anyway, your bootloader version is not the issue here. I would suggest you run the Refurbish option in ZiPhone, then restore in iTunes to 1.1.4. Then run ZiPhone again making sure you ahve the latest version (2.5c). Or run iPlus and avoid all the problems :P

[EDIT] I should also add that you do not want to disable EDGE. It needs to be active in order to fall back to GPRS. [/EDIT]

Buttonmash

361 posts

Ultimate Geek

#116715 14-Mar-2008 23:00

Thanks for your help. I'm grabbing iPlus now and will restore and give it a go.

Unfortunately my iPhone arrived and had been "pre-unlocked" with Ziphone. 5 minutes of googling doesn't come up with any reason why the older boot loader is worse. I'll have a bit more of a dig around, but ahh well :)

piksel

129 posts

Master Geek

#116718 14-Mar-2008 23:23

Sorry - didn't mean to imply anything with what I said

It's not a matter of it being any better or worse. There is no problem with 3.9 except that you don't have the option right now to upgrade back to 4.6.

They may find an exploit in 3.9 to allow it... who knows. The thing is, no one (i.e. dev team or geohot) will be interested in finding an exploit as it will then fix the stuff up that Zibri has made by forcing everyone to downgrade in the first place.

Buttonmash

361 posts

Ultimate Geek

#116724 15-Mar-2008 00:30

Ok I've now tried the following.

Refurbish from Ziphone then a software restore. Attempted to unlock via iPlus but it failed as soon as it went to update the bootloader. Gave up and tried Ziphone 2.6 (updated from 2.5b), same problem.

Using both a Vista 64 and a Mac OS 10.5.2 box.

That's it for tonight I think, might give it another crack tomorrow with an older version of Ziphone and will try iPlus again.

Thanks again for your help guys, and piksel... Kiwi-ise rocks, thank you :)

Buttonmash

361 posts

Ultimate Geek

#116848 15-Mar-2008 18:26

Ok it worked fine with my wife's SIM.

A SIM replacement from the store didn't fix it so they're looking into it. So that's that.

Thank you all for your help.

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mikal

172 posts

Master Geek

#116887 16-Mar-2008 09:22

Sounds like the APN's have dropped off your Mobile #. Ask them to check that out

stevenz

2802 posts

Uber Geek

#118355 24-Mar-2008 11:46

I just tried opt.vodafone.net.nz, www.vodafone.net.nz, direct.vodafone.net.nz, and all 3 seem to work fine for the iPhone here. I'm not entirely sure which would be the preferred one to be using (opt might result in lower data charges?). But it looks like it _should_ be working, so it's not a settings issue presumably.

The EDGE/GPRS radio is on the same chip so disabling EDGE will also turn GPRS off. With EDGE on is Bossprefs reporting an IP address? If it's not and you're using one of those 3 addresses, then it sounds like either a baseband or Vodafone issue, although.

Make sure you're killing the itunes helper app too as that'll cause the ziphone/iplus apps to not work.

mhb

9 posts

Wannabe Geek

Lifetime subscriber

#119544 29-Mar-2008 15:23

Buttonmash: Ok it worked fine with my wife's SIM.

A SIM replacement from the store didn't fix it so they're looking into it. So that's that.

I am having similar problems. Just want to clarify what the status is with yours.

Do you mean putting your wife's SIM into the iPhone worked? Yet a replacement SIM for yours did not? And vodafone have acknowledged that it could be a problem with the sim and are looking into it?

Cheers

Mark

[edit] Okay, I put another SIM (Vodafone prepaid) into the iPhone and it connects to GPRS okay. So I am guessing that it has something to do with the setup on my SIM. [/edit]

Buttonmash

361 posts

Ultimate Geek

#119803 31-Mar-2008 08:20

Hey mhb.

It turned out it was Vodafone all along. There was an APN on my account side they hadn't set up properly.

After going into the store (777 is a joke) they made a back end change and all it took was a phone restart and I was away laughing.

mhb

9 posts

Wannabe Geek

Lifetime subscriber

#119826 31-Mar-2008 09:54

Hi That did the trick. Went to local vodafone shop, explained the problem and they tweaked an account setting. Thanks for your help. Mark