Aral Balkan

Hey Flasharoos, I'm back in beautiful Brighton and finally enjoying the comforts of home after almost four weeks away. It's great to be back. Even bumped into Andy today!

So, on to news about my iPhone: I've got it working with EDGE on T-Mobile UK! Yay!

Aaron, in the comments to my Unlocking the iPhone for T-Mobile UK pointed me to Ross Barkman's GPRS Info Page with a note that he got his iPhone to connect via EDGE by using the settings on that page. Lo and behold, it doth truly worketh!

So, if you're on T-Mobile UK and want to use EDGE, go to Settings -> General -> Network -> EDGE and enter the following details:

APN: general.t-mobile.ukUsername: <strong>user</strong>
Password: user

That's it! It should really work on any network via the settings on Ross Barkman's site but I've only tested it on T-Mobile UK.

Yay! I've got a phone that does mobile data again! :)

Now what remains to be seen is whether this will be included in my unlimited data plan or whether I'll be charged extra for it (I'm assuming it will be included!) Thanks, Aaron, for the tip!

Comments

• Thank you for posting this! I got my hacked iPhone yesterday and had a hostile response when I took it to the huddersfield T-Mobile shop just now to ask what my GPRS settings were. Now if only I could get YouTube to work...

  by Luke on 2007-10-06 13:36:05

• Hi Aral! Do you also have problems with the stability of Safari or Google Maps on the iPhone (fw 1.0.2) ? The applications crashes on daily basis (crash=back to the home screen) quite annoying, I have to say.

  by Weyert on 2007-10-06 16:12:22

• hi guys im trying to find some info on iphone i am with t-mobile uk. really want white 16gb where can i buy? i hear of hacked and turbosim but dont think these are good.. is ther such thing asa an offically unlocked phone.. this search has driven me into the hands of some bad dealers.. please help

  by ralph on 2008-10-08 06:51:26

• Hey Those who say it's £1 MAX per day PAYG, how did you try this out? With my old phone when I connected to the internet it took the £1 straight away. On my iPhone I only went onto google for like 10 seconds and it took about 11p off me. Will this keep on charging until it gets to £1 then stop????

  by Jason on 2008-03-28 01:17:39

• hi guys, Signed up to the £7.50 W&W package today and have been testing it out. I decided to check my current bill online only to find that £2.31 has already been charged as unbilled usage. There are two entries neither are for the largest amounts of data I've recorded so far; one is around 300Kb the other 30Kb. All the rest is down as chargless but I cannot understand these two and have emailed T-Mobile. I've only used iPhone apps so something is wrong. I think the culpeot is YouTube which won't work over gprs anyway but here is noway to no. Anyone else get this? Bob

  by Bobby on 2007-12-14 03:57:29

• Hi did you receive your bill and if you didn't get charged extra what t-mobile plan are you on?

  by Matt on 2007-11-14 14:51:27

• On the T-Mobile Web and Walk (whatever is their unlimited account).

  by Aral on 2007-11-14 14:57:07

• Ello. Sorry to bother you with such a mundane question, but were you able to use EDGE on T-Mobile with your previous handset? I ask since I've got a Blackberry Pearl that won't do more than GPRS, and I'm wondering if, once I get the SIM card in my iPhone, I'll still be stuck there. Thanks!

  by Ant on 2007-11-15 16:54:44

• Hi, I did that but it says that it cannot load due to no connection. I went into network and edge did what it said, but do i go into VPN and set something there.

  by Shar on 2007-11-30 21:39:23

• Speed of GPRS (NOT Edge I believe) is sloooow, but at least it works. I live in the midlands and get charged £1 max a day.

  by Nick on 2008-02-18 21:59:14

• Hi Aral, Could you please tell us about your bill after you used the iPhone with the T-Mobile network. Did they charge you at the end for using the Internet or everything was part of the including cost? Thanks.

  by George on 2007-11-01 18:13:07

• Hi Guys I had T-Mobile edge switched on for a month. Got hit with a £400 bill, which is £250 over my normal monthly amount. No more edge for me!!

  by Lou on 2008-01-02 13:56:06

• Hi, I have a hacked iphone, and when I turn it off it looses the APN settings all the time. Is anybody know something for that? Thanks in advance. tom

  by Tom on 2007-12-03 18:15:28

• I am running an unlocked 1.1.4 iPhone in US and was wondering if these setting will work or is there anyone out there who knows what i would need to do in order for my EDGE to work without paying the huge bill that comes with the full data plan?? Thanks!!

  by Nick on 2008-09-29 17:57:58

• Hi All, Got my unlocked iPhone 1.1.1 working with EDGE settings as above. Works really well until I come in to work site where an they have a locked Wireless network. If I forget to switch WIFI off and iPhone tries to use web, it seems to erase my EDGE settings. Apart from that minor irritation, it's fab!! Hope T-Mobile don't start getting difficult with us iPhone users using EDGE. If they do, I'll leave them immediately and suggest all others do the same :) Nick

  by Nick on 2007-11-19 09:31:09

• Hi Ant, I really don't think that we're actually on EDGE -- we're using the GPRS connection. I just don't think that the iPhone has a GRPS connection icon.

  by Aral on 2007-11-19 13:41:36

• hi, ive got it working now, ive restored it to 1.1.1 jail broke it. back to 1.1.2 now and changed the settings and its worked fine,

  by grego on 2008-01-20 18:03:03

• i have a 1.1.2 uk iphone on tmobile, i renewed my contract and took out the unlimited web and walk, i have changed the settings but still seems not to work, do i also need to change the DNS and SMTPServer as well? how would i do that on my iphone?

  by grego on 2008-01-20 16:24:56

• For some strange reason I was able to connect on my hacked 1.1.1 iPhone using edge on T-Mobile network. Even though I never wanted data pack. I did not configure anything. It just connected it's self. After just 2 days od push email. I wacked a bill of £34.00 just for data only. I had to call T-Mobile to block it off my sim card. It is a feature of the card and not the phone I think. Now no more edge, no more buy viagra junk mails, no more huge EDGE bill.

  by chaffy on 2007-11-23 12:36:37

• Just checked it out on T-Mobile.On PAYG it's £1 a day maximum to access the internet. Confirmed this works on iPhone.

  by Nick on 2008-01-09 21:11:27

• Nice site - very informative. There is another useful blog about internet access in the uk at internetaccessuk.com

  by Sandra on 2008-03-24 15:33:17

• Hi I just got my iphone and I have tried all the setting and I still can not get onto youtube. My content lock has been removed and I'm on web n walk. It works on safari but nopt on youtube. Can someone help . . . Thanks in advance

  by Corey on 2008-05-06 23:27:28

• I just saw on macrumor site, i called up cust serv, they are saying my account is open for adult content. anyone willing to try. pls post back. tx "Kuffdam macrumors newbie Join Date: Nov 2007 Iphone, T-Mobile, You Tube UK - Read This Hey guys Just to let you know.... I have been having problems getting access to YouTube, MySpace etc on my Iphone for about a week now.. I'm a T-Mobile UK customer and I have finally found out the problem is due to an Adult Lock on my account. Yes that's right, T-Mobile class Youtube videos as an adult site so its blocked. I called to remove this and an hour later it was back on... so again I called and it was removed.... once again within an hour the lock re-appeared. So I called customer services and its now be escalated as a fault. Its the network and not the phone and T-Mobile are looking into it as its a problem for many UK customers. So if your having problems and don't know why... it could be this issue. Hope that helps"

  by Somzii on 2008-04-07 01:57:57

• Hi Guys I have a hacked iPhone running 1.1.1. on PAYG which is now using edge. Except I'm not on a web 'n' walk package or signed up to any web connection! I can use it when I need to and seems to be charging me just 1p per kb!

  by Nick on 2008-01-08 21:57:02

• i have a hotmail.co.uk account. how do i get the information to input into my iphone??

  by steve robinson on 2008-04-11 15:12:59

• Thanks for the info. 3 questions, whats the speed, where in the UK do u live and did u charge you while you were on web'n'walk

  by Ali on 2008-02-11 19:51:11

• I'm a T-Mobile customer, and I am using the web'n'walk unlimited data plan. Can anyone confirm whether you are charged extra each month?

  by Jim on 2008-04-10 20:30:48

• im using 1.1.4 and those settings. i've enabled web n walk on my contract, but i only get gprs and no edge. it doesnt make sense, my friend has the same settings on his phone but he gets edge, we live in the same area he is only few doors away from me. anyone know what the problem could be?

  by sid on 2008-05-11 00:08:25

• Perfect, It works fine on my 1.1.4 iPhone from US Unlocked with T-mobile contract Unlimited GPRS. Bingo !!

  by Arvind on 2008-04-26 21:29:31

• Many thanks for this - just what i needed!

  by Peter White on 2008-07-28 11:44:46

• i have literally tried everything and i cant get youtube working on the iphone without Wifi. I think this is because i am not using Edge but GPRS and i am on a Web n Walk pack on Tmobile. I was just wondering whether anyone can get youtube working with thier Tmobile web n walk. if so wat settings have you got? thanx alot..

  by Asvine on 2008-04-14 22:51:37

• Hi . i have just got some new settings for internet conection from T-mobile as I told them I needed it for my MDA. I have an Iphone, hacked, and used these settings with my t-mobiel and W&W contract. general.t-mobile.uk user t-mobile pass one2one it works for me but whenever I turn my phone off I do lose these settings and have to re type them. (But this also happened with the old settings of user user. many thanks

  by Lee on 2008-02-20 17:27:23

• I'm a T-mobile customer service rep. I can confirm that T-mobile has no EDGE coverage at all in the UK, your iPhones are just falling back onto GPRS.

  by asdasdasd on 2008-02-20 00:47:50

• If you're not being charged £1/day, phone T-Mobile and ask them to turn this on for you - it's a relatively new thing they've introduced to complement Web'n'Walk, and if you had the phone before this, you won't have had this activated. Should take a matter of seconds to do. o2 had to start up an EDGE network specifically for the iPhone - prior to this, there were no EDGE networks in the UK, only GPRS and UMTS (HSDPA). You're only using GPRS on T-Mobile, and that's the way it'll stay, as it's not profitable for them to run an EDGE network. The 3G iPhone will change things somewhat, as it will no doubt use UMTS for data.

  by Lokizilla on 2008-05-20 11:31:35

• Hi Lee, Could you elaborate when u said, it works with the new settings. Does youtube work??? thanks in advance

  by Somzii on 2008-04-05 21:08:48

• Hi Aral, Just a quick question for you and anyone else who knows the answer to this. I have a unlocked iphone and staretd to use the W&W settings. The internet worked fine and i was very happy until i noticed that even with the unlimited package i was still being charged. Upon calling Tmobile i was told that with the current settings their system doesnt pick up that you have the W&W settings enabled as the handset is not supported. Tmobile said they should never have given me the W&W in the first place but what i really wanted to know is; can i get round this problem and use the unlimited package without being charged an extra amount for no reason? Just gets to me when you paid so much for a phone and cant use all of its features!

  by Nish on 2008-06-07 07:54:49

• I mean you tube still trying to figure the I phone out

  by alim on 2008-06-07 23:05:26

• hi I got I phone on t mobile far as I know its not billing me for Interne. Can't get urine to work.works. Fine on my nokia n95

  by alim on 2008-06-07 23:03:32

• Hi there, just read every comment and tried with my iphone and it works great, try unlocking with ziphone if your on a 1.1.4, im on a blackberry corporate business contract and got it working with all the apps except YouTube, log on to my t-mobile and you get an accurate and up-to date info on what your being charged on, that way you can see weather your being charged and for what.

  by Liam on 2008-04-24 15:29:55

• Hi, i'm on t-mobile uk with a 1.1.4 hacked iphone, i have had no problems at all with the edge / grps, but the only gripe i have is that it's not charging me at the £1 per day, i was on for about 20 mins just surfing the net waiting for a train, and i got charged around £2.50, but i was using the user ser settings, if i change to what a guy further up the list has suggested, will i be back on the £1 per day ?? any help would be great. thanx

  by Jucat on 2008-05-15 07:52:49

• I am getting some wher as when I follow your instructions I at least get the youtube displaying a range of things to play. Only when I click toplay it says., Youtube videos requir a cellular data wi-fi connection. How can I by pass this ?

  by Chris on 2009-06-10 02:18:16

• i have got iphone 3g version 2.2.1 and want to update my software to 3.0 on 17 june but people r saying my phone will not except the update. can any1 tell me if i was to update and my phone only works on o2 will anything happen to my iphone or will the update go smoothly im a new owner of apple iphone and really need the software update

  by rizi on 2009-06-14 19:22:20

• whats the ip adress

  by kenny on 2009-11-18 23:16:20

• Just want to add this...mms & w&w settings for uk. enjoy.... APN: general.t-mobile.uk Username: user Password: (Blank field) Visual Voicemail: as above MMS: APN: general.t-mobile.uk Username: t-mobile Password: tm MMSC: http://mmsc.t-mobile.co.uk:8002 MMS Proxy: 149.254.201.135:8080 MMS Max MS: 30000 MMS UA Prof URL: (Blank field)

  by TomR on 2009-12-29 01:19:21

• This problem is known as pushfix and it's caused when upgrading a hacked phone to version 3.1.2. Whenever you want to access youtube, whether you use the youtube application on your iphone or safari browser you will see a grey logo with an arrow instead of a preview from the video. It's shitty, and I really had to sort out what was the reason and how to solve it, but it's possible to fix this ! I wrote a tutorial to solve this problem. http://www.vanravels.com/blockedyoutube/blocked%20youtube%20on%20%20iphone.pdf Success ! Whoops

  by WHOOPS on 2010-01-08 19:09:23

• nope nope nope

  by nope on 2010-02-24 23:42:41