How to make iPhone work with TMobile with Internet

Posted on April 10, 2009 by Nishant Pant

For y’all out there who are not willing to move to ATT or pay for their expensive internet plan, I am outlining the steps for what I did to get an iPhone working with TMobile. Plus, you can have internet for $9.99 per month

  • Buy an iPhone 2G. There is no point buying a 3G because the frequency on which ATT 3G operates is different from TMobile and other GSM providers so, you wont be able to utilize 3G even if you are paying for it.
  • Jailbreak it. This step is so simple I could not believe it.  Instead of repeating things that have been covered elsewhere I am pasting a link to a real simple article which walks you through the process : http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=1880. The only exception being… you can get QuickPWN from their official website now, instead of going to weird Rapidshare links. http://www.quickpwn.com/downloads
  • NOTE : There is no way to brick your phone as some scared people may lead you to beleive…even if you brick your phone you can always restore it to factory settings using iTunes. Also, this one is obvious..make sure your phone is at least 50% charged before you Jailbreak it. (Don’t try to sue me :) because your phone died on u while you were jailbreaking it on a low battery just because I said “you cannot brick your iphone”)
  • Log in to my.t-mobile.com (DO NOT CALL Customer Service…either they are too friggin dumb or too smart not to tell you, that you can get Internet for $9.99). On the top right corner (where it says “not your phone”) change your phone model to “Nokia 5310″
  • Now, in my.t-mobile.com click on plans–>Change services–>Add the “100 MB Web for phones” to your plan.
  • In your iPhone go to Settings–>Network Settings–>APN and set it to  EPC.TMOBILE.COM no username/password required.
  • Try browsing the internet. It should work…you will see a blue E icon at the top, which means EDGE network.

I am still in the process of updating this article with exact steps so keep checking on it.

Also See : iPhone App to check your TMobile minutes

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8 Responses

  1. Maridrw, on April 10th, 2009 at 8:38 pm Said:

    I Phones latest version is a 3G version, so cam i use this directly?

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  2. Praveen Prakash, on July 25th, 2009 at 2:13 pm Said:

    Hi Nishant,

    Thanks for the posts. I’m looking for ways to get a cheap data only option on my iPhone – is it even possible to have ‘no voice – but data only’ option?
    I saw one from T-Mobile for $45 or so – but not sure if its the best option.

    thanks
    Praveen

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  3. kristi, on October 12th, 2009 at 2:48 pm Said:

    i bought a jailbroken 2G iphone for $200 online, plugged in my tmobile sim card, added the $9.99 data plan and it worked perfectly. for about 2 hours. then some how they figured out that i needed the $24.99 data plan, so i upgraded and it worked perfectly again. i followed the instructions above. THANK YOU!

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  4. Lucy, on November 23rd, 2009 at 3:53 pm Said:

    THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!!! IT WORKS REALLY WORKS

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  5. Scott, on December 7th, 2009 at 11:52 am Said:

    Still not so easy, for someone who is new to all of this.

    re: “you can get QuickPWN from their official website now”

    There is nothing called QuickPWN on their web site. Is it the same as WinSCP? The site also has firmware downloads, are they needed?

    Also, the iclarified link lists four files you need:

    - QuickPwn-225-2.zip
    - BL 3.9
    - BL 4.6
    - 2.2.1 (2G): iPhone1,1_2.2.1_5H11_Restore.ipsw

    Are they all supposed to be on the QuickPWN web site? If not, where do you get these?

    Also, the instructions assume you have a Windows machine. What do you do if you have a Mac?

    re: “Log in to my.t-mobile.com”

    How do you do this? It sounds like you can’t simply put a t-mobile SIM into the iphone, it sounds like you have to first activate the t-mobile account by putting the SIM into an official t-mobile phone and activating that phone with a monthly plan, is that right? And if that’s the case, once you put the SIM into the iphone, which phone number is used, the one that was associated with the tmobile phone or the one associated with the iphone?

    thanks for any help…

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