Newbie iPhone 2G User - Help

[bigyun2000]

Hi all.

I have just bought the iPhone 2G which has been unlocked and jailbreaked. It should be arriving today. Its been fully updated to latest firmware 2.1 i think.

Does anyone have any do's and don't's please.
I have read and read and read and totally confused about iTunes setting your phone back to standard iPhone and allsorts of horrors.

Just really need to know the way forward from here please. What i can do and what i shouldn't do.

Any app sites would be appreciated too.
Unfortunately i am on Vodafone UK so guess i will have no internet access.

Anyway a big thanks for any help.
Kind regards
Bigyun2000

 

[Moi un Mouton]

iTunes will not do anything to your phone unless you let it.

So when it offers you an update (2.2 for example sometime soon), just say no - at least until you know from here that it is safe to do without losing unlocking.

For apps, you may have Cydia and/or Installer already on the phone, if you do check it out.

And you can get internet on Vodafone UK, as long as your contract includes it and the phone's settings are right. The Vodafone add-on for internet is £7.50 a month according to their website: click here

 

[bigyun2000]

Hi and thanks.

My network is Vodafone and i already have the mobile internet but that was all on my N95 8GB.

Now i have the iPhone 8GB but vodafone doesn't have any settings for me to download to get my internet working on it.

Cheers

 

[Moi un Mouton]

This is from a previous post on the same subject

I've been using an unlocked US iPhone in the UK on Vodafone for the last month or so -

texts and calls all work perfectly - you just can't do visual voicemail, as some people have already pointed out.

The internet works well too - Vodafone does have EDGE in quite a lot of areas, especially in London. It's still pretty slow, but it's definitely usable - the only thing I've found is that larger emails (ie ones with photos, other attachments etc) sometimes fail to load through EDGE (but then work on WiFi)

The settings I'm using (and they work perfectly for Safari and for sending/receiving email through Mail) are:

APN: internet
Username: user
Password: user

You can set the Mail app to only check for messages manually - just go to Setting>Mail and set 'Auto-Check' to Manual.

I've also got the 7.50 internet bolt-on and I've only used around 90MB in the past month (which includes upload and download) - the phone has a Usage screen which tells me exactly how much data I've used. I'm also a light email user and use the browser mainly for checking directions, train times etc.

Cheers