After restoring a family member’s iPhone that was acting up, I began setting up t-zones for them, but couldn’t find the t-zones hack in the BigBoss repository. After some experimenting, I soon realized that none of the proxy configuration work is required anymore either. Setting up t-zones on your iPhone is now an easy 3 step process:
- Go to
Settings->General->Network->Cellular Data Network
- Type
wap.voicestream.com for the APN (leave the username and password) blank
- There’s no step 3!
That’s all there is to it. YouTube even works over t-zones now.
BTW, if you’re a long time T-Mobile customer, you can call in right now and ask about the loyal customer plan. If you’ve been with them long enough, you can have a plan which gives you unlimited minutes for only $50 a month.
If you’re trying to get T-Zones working on the iPhone 2.0 software, you don’t need to follow the old manual way of doing it. Just go into Cydia and search for ‘TZones Hack’ (without the quotes) and install the BigBoss tweak that comes up. Restart your phone, and you’re good to go.
As usual, the YouTube app still won’t work with this hack.
I finally upgraded my iPhone from 1.1.1 to 1.1.4, and after dealing with the Installer.app “main script execution failed” error (solution here), I began to setup my EDGE access. The steps are mostly the same as before, with the exception of the location of the preferences.plist file. Previously, it was located in the user partition, but now the file is located in:
/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/preferences.plist
In addition to the upgrade, I also took the opportunity to install Telesphoreo/Cydia, which is a port of APT to the iPhone by Jay Freeman. There seems to be lots of interesting ports available to install, and a Java VM, which is of particular interest to me. If I make any progress in developing with the new tools, I’ll post any helpful info I find.