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what are you, a lawyer?


listen, any data plan includes uplink/downlink traffic, so browsing constitutes data usage out of your 3gig bundle.
also, remaining connected and leaving the computer idle doesnt mean your trafic is idle. for some strange, unknown and disturbing reason the MTN datacard still transmits and receives data on its own.

you ought to be no stranger to MTN's thievery, any one who's played MTN Treasure Hunt will tell you that the giant yellow hungry monster wont balk at any opportunity to milk you of your last kobo. ive never seen a corporate entity this greedy and out of touch with its customers.


its funny though that a company with this shady reputation and which never even once gave out ONE free sms to ONE single customer will con people into thinking it can give away a million naira daily.

cabali:
do you own an E71 or a BB??

And must u own a phone to know its functions or matter of fact experience its functions?? please?

yes to all questions.

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cabali:
True!!

shebi na you yarn say you no get iphone?

if you get Blueray, hd dvd, dvd upscaler or other HD source, abi?

w007.

v3ry i33t. 8u7 joo b3 a llama

SE Walkman series have a better audio processor, and besides this processor its all down to the particular earbuds used. even the stock SE buds are better than the flat stuff on the nokia music phones. also, SE phones have a varied EQ range and deeper bass.

logica:
@Ex Inferis,

I own the phrase "Monkeys coming out of your ass Bruce Almighty style" that you saw in the first unlock. But who cares?

you mean you "pwn" the phrase . but then, who cares?

naijafan:
@ex inferis, just updated my firmware to 2.2 seems snappier. hope it lasts this way.

that update is much more sensible in the 3G because Street View, though lawd knows i dont need no street view. just a gimmick. will update the non-3G iphone later, though the 3G using pwnage can be left at the 2.1 baseband but im not inclined to bother.

Dentale:
Help Ex Inferis!!!!!!!! Three questions please,

1. How can I use my bluetooth headset with my iPhone. I turn on the Blue tooth on but they both can't seem to find each other.
2. Is it me, or is the battery life so poor? I'm coming from using a Sony Ericsson W850 because i like music and then I could listen to songs all day without wearing out the battery but now I have to recharge the battery everyday, sometimes twice a day.
3. As you advised, I tried to sync my phone with Apps downloaded from my PC (more convenient) but it generated this error. Please advise. Thanks.

1. unfortunately im not one for bluetooth earpieces, too cumbersome and i mostly use bluetooth HFL when i drive. however i learned that iphone works best with *official* (read: Apple approved) bluetooth devices. thats not to say it wont workwith generics, just that pairing is a hassle.

2. battery is iffy, but your case sounds extreme; maybe your battery is on the verge of conking out. avoud overcharging else you risk killing the cell entirely. also, dim the backlight, kill wifi and bluetooth if not in use. since i hardly use either iphone as a phone per se, mostly i do my ipoding in Airplane Mode.

3. evidently you missed one crucial step: installing MI2.2 patch from the hackulo section of Cydia. do install this patch and reboot your phone before attempting to Sync. refer to my earlier post on how to add the hackulo source in Cydia.

for the record, i tipped off Engadget first! i came across the dev team breaking news 4 minutes after the devteam posted it, and tipped off Engadget. their own "breaking news" just appeared.


lungwun, be patiient!!

@ Dentale


amendment to post on app installation above:


install Installous ONLY, Appshare is now obsolete because Installous does both downloading and installing.

good news!

iphone 3G unlock completed by dev team. release date: december 31.

note: only applicable for baseband version 2.11.07, meaning firmware 2.1, so do not update your 3G yet and dont buy anything with firmware 2.2.

cheers!

logica:
u guys should read the link i posted above. maybe that will give you a pause, and u can quit all these "iphone vs N97" crap, and figure ways of making dough.

hmmm, back to Xcoding.

texazzpete:
Just heard that o2 Uk Is selling the iPhone 3g on pay as u go basis for 350 pounds. Will check that out.

i did tell you we bought one for 360, ripped 10 pounds. and its 2.1 already.

Dentale:
Many thanks to you Ex Inferis, I could almost hear you speaking sloooowwwwwwwwlyyyy to enable me get the drift . I needed that and it is helping so far so thanks again. Ciao.

i did speak slowly considering you called yourself a noob.

cabali:
this clown is back! lol. i never said i had one. i made general statements and u went to bed with it without know what it was. the import of my posts was this:

compare 2 phones based on what they both hv and that if a phone doesnt hv a function we can't fully say it is a flaw. another phone can hv an advantage over it but it wont make sense to a user who doesnt need it.

i made an example saying a person who does business, would he say a phone not having games is a flaw? different phones r made for diff lifestyles. butno, u went and read that i hv an iphone.

and yeah i already hv a bold. i will give it out soon, trust me!

good points. for once.

havengt been in abuja in a whiulle, but i heard theres someone there called bluetooth who sells. dont know his contact detailks but will ask around. forgive the typos im using N800.

microsoft joins iphone developers with first iphone app, SeaDragon.


http://livelabs.com/blog/seadragon-goes-mobile/

cabali:
What is wrong with all these schmucks? Where did i say the iphone is better than the bb as a business tool?

y'all need tostart wanking if u have a hard on off my posts. I said i will never say one is better than the other except i mention functions and i said the storm can not b d answer to d iphone just because it is touch screen period. don't u gays read english?

what a foul-mouthed snotty little brat. you always come off sounding like a teenager with all this language.

clean up your act a little, clown, the gutter route is unbecoming of an Apple loyalist.

neoteny banned again

oh well. Ex lives!

lungwun:
@ neo, ex and all your other alter ego's you forgot to tell me where i can get d sim freer and how much it is.
my 3g iphone is arriving tomorrow and i would seriously hate to just be looking at the thing.
hook a brother up!
would have ordered one but my connect bringing in the iphone couldnt is highly not versed in these aspects
and would most likely buy me a sim card even if i sent him the link on how to get one.
dude! hook me up!

a friend hauls them in from china but sadly he's out of stock now, expecting a new batch by the 27th.

but try here http://www.iphonesimfreer.com/

requires valid paypal, but no harm if you sabi a few yahoozee 

cabali:
@ neo

u are ex as well I admire ur honesty. But i like neo better.

whoa!! So cool

@pete whts up?

nah! ex is the man.

Dentale:
Hi Guys,  I'm new to the forum. I've been reading this thread all morning and must say that you guys really know ur stuff. Thing is, I just got a jailbroken iPhone and since i'm no computer guru, I really am at a loss as to how to love-vendor it like what I see from the screen shots displayed. I'ld really appreciate a simple and patient step by step explanation on how I can get those really nice games and apps into my phone as well as how I can configure my yahoo mail on my phone and also browse the net. I use MTN.
Just yesterday, the Cydia menu on my phone was upgrading some stuff and before I knew it, I had exhausted N1500 credit within a few minutes and I didnt even know! Is it that expensive to download stuff into the phone?

Somebody, anybody, please holla back. Thanks!!!

well, considering trawling back all thos pages may be a bother, let me see if i can recap the basics.

and you really want to allow cydia upgrade otherwise you'll have missing sources and broken dependencies.

and do not do this over GPRS/EDGE, get a good wifi connection.

1. you need to be on firmware 2.x, preferably 2.2.

2. you need to be pwned. if you don't know what "pwn" is, then read the asterisked item after all this.

3. you must have Cydia installed (obtainable at the pwning stage, else add apptapp.saurik.com to Installer sources).

4. if you already have Cydia and you've met conditions 1 and 2, then go to 5, else go to 1. 

5. go to Cydia>Manage>Sources>Edit>Add. type in http://Cydia.hackulo.us

6. Now go to Sections>hackulo. install miPatch2.2

7. reboot the phone

made it thus far? good. there are two ways to install all those cracked apps: downloading them into your computer and syncing via itunes 8, or installing directly on the phone via AppShare and Installous.

Via computer (make sure you have itunes 8 installed):

1. go to www.appulo.us

2. download whatever rocks your boat

3. double click to import the ipas into itunes library.

4. simply hook up your iphone, in intunes select the APPLICATIONS tab, check what you want to install, click Sync.


via Appshare/Installous:

1. go back to Cydia>sections>hackulo, install Installous FIRST, then install AppShare.

2. launch Appshare, choose Appulo.us

3. download your apps by following the links and prompst.

4. when you are prompted to DOWNLOAD or INSTALL by AppShare, ALWAYS CHOOSE DOWNLOAD. NEVER INSTALL FROM APPSHARE OR YOUR PHONE WILL FREEZE!!!!

5. Once downloaded, click INSTALLOUS at the bottom, you'll see all downloaded apps there. select each and click INSTALL.

and thats it for apps.


for themes, go back to Cydia>sections>Themes (Springboard). select whatever catches your fancy (always read the MOre Info for screenshots and details).

also for extra pimphood go to THEMES(Lockscreen) for Sliders.

or alternatively, dig deep into ALL PACKAGES to hunt for themes, sliders, wallpapers, battery icons replacement, icon packs, wallpapers etc.

also, don't forget to install Net Fix (search for it or look under Tweaks) otherwise your sms mesages wont show contact names, only numbers. thats because of the default number formatting.

MAIL: start the Mail app, click your service (yahoo or gmail), input your credentials. shikena!

BROWSE THE NET:

just enable dataroaming in settings>general>network


hope all this helps you, any question please do ask here.


* pwn


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pwn


as applied to the iphone, it basically means an advanced jailbreaking which allows unfettered access to the entire iphone filesystem as root, NOR (or ROM) flashing and running of unsigned code which totally removes the restrictions and chain of trust between the ROM and the OS.

it is a prerequisite for installing custom or modified firmware.

Rich Dad:
Ex,
So does this mean i can't get where to unlock it here in naija? I don't seems to understand those tutorials .

i have never owned or unlocked a palm os device before, only WinMo and iphones. but here is the deal in reference to the problem you face:

one, most software updates on Palm OS devices and a few on WinMo update ONLY the OS and not the baseband. before you ask, the baseband is like a separate entity in your phone responsible for all radio and network functions like network search, network authentication and connection, calls incoming and outgoint, sending SMS, data links (GSM,3G,EDGE, CDMA etc), bluetooth, wifi, SIM operations etc.

so, this baseband has its own mini OS known as the MODEM FIRMWARE, which is often separate from the phone OS SOFTWARE.

most software updates from the phone manufacturer contain only updates to the non-baseband features of the phone: User Interface, code refinement, bugs elimination, added features etc.

but sometimes software updates also contain firmware updates for the baseband which tweak network service, sms sending/reception, bluetooth or wifi power usage, network serach etc: in such, all the PHONE aspects of your device.

so, most carriers lock the phone via the baseband, meaning that any unlock, official or illegal, must run code on the baseband in order to modify it to accept other SIM cards. that is why some phones are easily updated by software, but SIM-unlocked only via dongles, USB or testpoint hacks. such methods interface directly with the baseband firmware, bypassing the general software to perform its tricks. this is often because a layer exists between the software and firmware to check each other for tampering: ie the OS checks the baseband to be sure its not modified and hacked, and the firmware also in turn checks the OS for any running software hacks that attempt to fool either the OS or the baseband into accepting unauthrized SIMS. so unlockers use tools that place the phone in a sort of half-sleep mode since the OS and baseband only talk to each and enforce their security when the phone is fully awake. I'm sure you must have seen some of these exotic unlocking tools if you've ever taken a phone for repairs (dragon box, etc).

now back to your case: Palm released a number of updates for your phone, but even though some contained updates to the baseband firmware, none contained any unlocking mechanism to free the baseband of its SIM lock.

the post i gave above was an attempt to upgrade the software of a locked phone using software from an unlocked phone. problem is, the software relocks the baseband, so no unlock. i just found that at the edit the guy gave after he updated and the phone remained lock.

the only option as far as i can tell is to send the phone for physical unlocking via dongles.

as long as theres EDGE/GPRS, you only need to enable Data Roaming. at least as naijafan says, on MTN. but it works for me on other networks elsewhere.

flyuche:
@tex. you give yourself too much credit over a phone. does the iphone browser support tab browsing? yes or no

in a way, it does. when you have multiple open pages, just click on the bottom right icon, swipe and voila, Bob's your uncle. do you ever consider that mobile phone browsers are not intended to be full desktop replacements? not every single feature on desktop browsers can be cloned on mobile counterparts so stop trying to make a mountain out of a teeny molehill. perhaps next you'll ask whether safari supports add-ons and widgets.

@naijafan


now your bluetoothing scenario is a very valid point and solidifies your argument for the lack of bluetooth OBEX/FTP.

as applied to me, my music tastes are very peculiar (Amethystium, Information Society, Savage Garden and lots of grunge and New Age stuff) so chances i may not run into someone with similar bizarre tastes. if, however by some freaky chance i do and i hear some tune i wanna snarf, then dad blast steve jobs and Apple!

to steves mind, any track you hear elsewhere is a chance for the itunes machine to milk 99 cents off you, and over time this loose change piles up into mega investment in songs, strengthening steves bank account.


but bear in mind that most of the iphone lacks are software-based (bluetooth stack/protocol, MMS, video recording, clipboarding, office docs editing) so it stands to reason that perhaps they'll be introduced over time via software updates, same way we got the AppStore, Itunes WiFi store, sms multicast, etc. at least that'd keep interest in the iphone longer down the road given the frenzied anticipation of any new announced software update.


what im really looking forward to is iphone 2.0, assumed to be announced late next year. given the two years of iphone OS X in the wild and the lessons learned from its bugs, features, strengths and weaknesses, im sure Apple will polish up the software and leave Android etc in the dust.

oh, and i still prefer touch keyboards to physical qwertys. hardware keys are so 1990.

as for video, well streaming is perfectly okay with 200kbs, except if you wanna be pushing Mobile HD!

Rich Dad:
Ex inferis,
Its a palm treo 650.any hope ? 

everything you need is here:



http://blog.treonauts.com/2005/06/cingular_treo_6.html


and here:

http://uneasysilence.com/how-to-upgrade-locked-cingular-gsm-to-unlocked-gsm/

note: it seems carrier/SIM unlock remains a paid option.

Adobe is developing a flashplayer for iphone, now its how to get it into the AppStore. Opera too has OPera browser for iphone except Apple wont host it, citing competition with mobile safari.



http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/09/30/adobe_flash_player_for_iphone_due_soon_if_apple_approves.html



http://gizmodo.com/5072333/opera-for-iphone-ready-to-go-if-not-for-apples-app-store-policies

flyuche:
@naijafan. That's a candid user review of the iphone.

i concur, except for one thing:


the iphone 3G was actually announced at Macworld 2007 when the first iphone was unveiled. steve jobs, on talking about EDGE as the data medium of choice in the iphone mentioned plans to release a 3G device down the road.

in essence, iphone 3G is not N97 to N95; that is, it is not a wholly divergent highend device from the original. its simply a revision, iphone-i (like you have N93i, etc). we do not expect a new iphone hardware iteration or major release (iphone 2, of sorts) until sometime 2009 in WWDC, certainly not in Macworld 2009 when Snow Leopard is set to debut and new iphone firmware revealed.

iphone 3G is a stop-gap measure hence the similarity to the first gen.


Naijafan, i agree with you on picking Nokia over SE or Samsung anyday. i once in a moment of foolhardiness bought the Samsung F480; its a looker sure but a darn thing slower than a crippled tortoise. the P1 i got as a hand-me-down got me wondering whether the SE R& have take one too many and slumbered on the design board. however its refreshing that SE has signed up with the OHA and is going the Android route, joining motorola and Lenovo in there.

i agree with you on the shortcomings of the iphone, particularly the battery. I'm not really into MMS, video recording, photos, bluetoothing etc so maybe thats why i don't sorely miss these features. a front-facing camera would have been nice to have in a sort of ichat way, and perhaps Photo Booth thrown in for good measure. i think apple screwed up in one major area: in their bid to make a device slimmer than the MotoQ, they left out features which would have added to battery drain, given the 480x320 screen is a juice monster. but A2DP in a multimedia phone is a no-brainer. Apple please fix this!

on, and free the phone too from itunes, give us Disk Mode! itunes is notorious for screwing up media libraries and third party apps worsen it. imtoo ipod transfer always deletes my media plist, as does Touch Copy and iphone PC suite.


but then, with all the missing features, the iphone does what it does pretty good sha.

as for 7.2 HSDPA, what network currently churns out that speed? the modems bearing 7.2mbps are capable of attaining that speed if and when it becomes available, not that they transfer data that fast. most 3G connections top out at 1.2mbps in real world speeds. its like having a multicore 3ghz CPU when your RAM is rated 600mhz! the CPU is capable of crunching data at 3 billion cicles per sec, except the bottle neck RAM can only turn up around 600mhz of throughput.

same with network links which are very notorious for not living up to spec. even your basic wireless router (not 802.11n) touts itself as 52mbps but try moving data over your local network and see if you can go anywhere near half that speed.

in sum, the 7.2 on nokia and other phones are rated capability, not realworld speeds. though thats not to say its not a good thing to have and we are hoping the next iphone in 2010 will have this capability built in: afterall the AppleTV and Macbook AIR are among the very first to debut the  802.11n draft standard.

hmm, you might need cingular's ( AT&T, actually) help there. its Palm OS i believe, but in any case let us have the model number. will see what i can turn up.

flyuche:
so i now need a PH.D to know how to use a phone.

no, but you need one to use your brain

netsurf:
@ Exinferis,

please help with this problem; i notice this morning that whenever I connect my powerpack to the lappy, the light dropped on the screen. could this be the pack's problm or from the lappy?

im assuming you meant the light dims on the display, abi? well, if your lappy is on a powersaving scheme, the reverse is supposed to be the case: the light is supposed to brighten when charging. therefore there probably is something wrong with either the powerpack or the connector on the lappy.

im actually a software person, so get one of them "engineers" to check it out.

lynxnoon:
Ex & Tex -----hmmmmm
but seriously, Apple should employ u guys oh

Nah! didnt you watch The Simpsons, season 20 episode 7 titled Mypods and Boomsticks? Lisa simpson was offered a job at mApple ( a parody of Apple) by Steve Mobs (yup, a caricature of steve jobs). boy, was she excited! only to discover the job entailed dressing up an a mypod (ipod) and handing out flyers saying "Think Differently" !!

i dont think im cut out to be a mascot.


but seriously, we only say good of good things and we give our reasons for saying thus. i'd feel much better if the opposition had actually bothered to use the iphone so as to appreciate what we talking about. on our part, we are Nokia veterans so we know where the flaws are.

mind you, iphone can be a piece of sh1t if you are into bluetoothing, megapixels, MMS, clipboard, camera flash etc. (FACT: most phone camera flash, especially the LED type, are rubbish anyway).

and frankly how many people's lappy can comfortably display a five megapixel image? megapixel is only a small aspect of digital photography, the others being lens optical quality, camera sensor, and your shutterbug abilities to frame a good shot. so a five MP camera wont necessarily be better than a 2MP if the latter has better lens and sensors.

whenever i take a pic on N95, ive often had to crop the image, on an SXGA (1280 x 1024) screen!

@iice


the last supe flick was darn spectacular enough. it just wasnt endearing, trying too hard to be like spidey, as in gooey love story, human frailty yada yada.

Note to brian singer: the most powerful being on the planet, so powerful the only qualifying adjective is "super" (not red-blue man, or hero guy, or cap'n capes etc), customarily tears things apart and evil limb from limb.

you on the other hand used him to make a sleeping pill.

next iteration, please give your script writer some Red Bull.

flyuche:
the n97 is a functional  multimedia business phone.

which Nseries device doesnt pretend to be a "functional multimedia business phone"? so what else is new on the N97? everything on that phone is a rehash of Eseries/Nseries gone by packaged in one attractive case.


like i said before, the N97 is a crossroad where N96 meets E71 meets 5800 meets E90.

the way you carry on one would think you are craving for an iphone but couldnt get your hands on one; ergo you resort to hateratin' 

flyuche:
the iphone is a toy compared to the n97.

a very expensive, world class, trend setting toy enjoying global cult status. shame Nokia couldnt give us a similar or better toy.

flyuche:
you know, the undiscerning american consumers will buy cow dung as  long as  it's wrapped in macdonald's takeaway pack,

here, steady on. are you implying nigerians, typically you, ar more discerning than americans? you who can neither explain nor get rid of your obsession with HP laptops (and Nokia!)?

anyway, no one hates mcdonalds more than americans ( which you'd know if you had been there). and i could swear my iphone packaging had an Apple logo, not Ronald the clown.


see, if you want to carp all day on the merits of Nokia simply outline your points in terms of the areas Nokia beats the crap out of the iphone. all this while Texazz and I took it upon ourselves to point out how the iphone is technically and practically unmatched (with screenshots and the requisite dose of nerdy techtalk) , but all we hear is "nokia is da bomb", "nokia or die", "nokia is the best" without one iota of valid point to buttress the claim.

much of what you say about nokia, one can as well say about other phones.

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