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I was in the mall this evening so I did stop into T-Mobile to find out how much they were. The rep said they were $20 so I left without getting one. I figure I can easily get a T-Mobile micro sim card from eBay for less than $5 shipped.


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Yes they are 20 bucks but I am surprised they were going to charge you. I just went in and asked and they gave it to me. Maybe try another store? I bought a SIM cutter a while back before T-Mobile sold these and the cut was crappy and the contact in the tray was poor.
 

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I JB and unlocked my 3GS almost a year ago and was able to get the correct APN settings for T-Mobile by going to "unlockit.com" from safari, hit continue, custom APN, and select T-Mobile as the carrier from the drop down box. Follow the instructions. The last step is to go to the network settings and change T-Mobile for the network settings.... This worked for me so I'm thinking it should get MMS working for you as well. Let us know.


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Right, when you JAILBREAK. For someone who is going stock and plugs in the settings found all over the internet, it does nothing. I dont get it either.
 

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Yes they are 20 bucks but I am surprised they were going to charge you. I just went in and asked and they gave it to me. Maybe try another store? I bought a SIM cutter a while back before T-Mobile sold these and the cut was crappy and the contact in the tray was poor.

I think the T-Mobile stores in my area are hurting for business because there never seems to be anyone in their stores, so I think no matter which one I go to they would not give me a free micro sim. I'm not even going to try and cut my regular T-Mobile sim down to size as I've tried this with sim cards before and could never get them right.


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I thought of one more question. Will the factory unlocked 4S work with AT&T's HSPA+ ?


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APN settings

Hey Irish Rose,

I also have an unlocked iPhone 4s and a pre=paid AT &T sim. In order for me to get the data working, I have to plug in the APN carrier settings. Another forum somewhere had pointed me towards unlockit.co.nz/mobilesettings/ World Wide Mobile Phone Settings

There you can find many different carriers. If you visit www unlockit.co.nz (Unlockit - APN Changer for your iPhone) from your iPhone it will do an automatic setup.

I now switch between Rogers (my main carrier) to AT & T when I need to. :D

Just as a heads up - also when installing the SIM, make sure to give it a full minute or two for the SIM to register. I've freaked out a couple of times when the phone keeps "searching" for the carrier thinking the SIM isn't taking, but eventually it finds the carrier.

Congrats on the new unlocked iPhone! :D

(Sorry for the non-direct links, forum won't let me post full URLs just yet.)
 
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Cancelling Rogers

I want to buy an iphone4 unlocked, cancel rogers account, then go shopping for a data plan. Is this possible with a phone like an ipad.

Hey ranallyons - Are you still on a contract with Rogers? Just watch out if you have to pay an early cancellation fee.

I chose to buy unlocked Rogers because they wanted to charge me $350 early upgrade fee on top of the cost of the new hardware upgrade and yet another activation fee. This would be close to $800 including tax, so Apple's unlocked iPhone 4S was easily a better option for close to the same amount.

I don't know about the plans with iPad - but I would think it works the same way.
 

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There you can find many different carriers. If you visit www unlockit.co.nz (Unlockit - APN Changer for your iPhone) from your iPhone it will do an automatic setup.

I just went to this URL from safari on my iPhone 4 and it said the server could not be found. Does this only work if you're jailbroken?


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DIY Microsim

I think the T-Mobile stores in my area are hurting for business because there never seems to be anyone in their stores, so I think no matter which one I go to they would not give me a free micro sim. I'm not even going to try and cut my regular T-Mobile sim down to size as I've tried this with sim cards before and could never get them right.


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I totally thought I would botch the DIY microsim process but it's not that bad. I used this template:
stochasticgeometry.ie/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/DIY_microsim.pdf

(via youtube.com/watch?v=6B0G_qjebJY)
 

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I just went to this URL from safari on my iPhone 4 and it said the server could not be found. Does this only work if you're jailbroken?


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I had to leave the period from in between the www
go to www-unlockit.co.nz

(but replace the dash with a ".")

It should redirect to the "APN changer" setup pages on your iPhone. I just tried it again now...

(No jailbreaking necessary.)
 
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I had to leave the period from in between the www
go to www-unlockit.co.nz

(but replace the dash with a ".")

It should redirect to the "APN changer" setup pages on your iPhone. I just tried it again now...

(No jailbreaking necessary.)

Thanks! This worked perfectly. I did leave out the . before as I just copy and pasted the link to my browser.

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