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Turning off Edge on iPhone (1st gen)

Phatpat

Phatpat

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I have AT&T, but I don't want to pay for the iPhone data plan, nor do I need it. Is the best way to do this to jailbreak 1.1.4 and install Bossprefs, and turn off edge from there? That would be my only reason to jailbreak it.

I was just thinking now that 2.0 is out maybe there's an app that will do it without jailbreaking.
 
Phatpat said:
I have AT&T, but I don't want to pay for the iPhone data plan, nor do I need it. Is the best way to do this to jailbreak 1.1.4 and install Bossprefs, and turn off edge from there? That would be my only reason to jailbreak it.

I was just thinking now that 2.0 is out maybe there's an app that will do it without jailbreaking.
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You can do that and the only way to get an app to do so is to jailbreak it. There's nothing in 2.0 that does it as far as I know.

You can also add an additional letter to the end of your network settings but I can't find it in 1.1.4 now...
 
Next Tuesday said:
Iphone without data plan=useless. Might as well just sell it and go with a razor.
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Not really true, especially now. It's easily the best music-playing cell phone. Easily the best video-playing cell phone. And with the on-board apps (no data connection required) it's a fabulous handheld computer and gaming device.

And, as pointed out above, there's always WiFi. Especially if you live in a city.
 
Warbrain said:
Yea, because there aren't enough available wi-fi networks in the world...
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Exactly. I want an iPod touch and a phone, but in one device. Simple enough.

I might just wait until the 2.0 jailbreak is released and go from there.
 
It's not actually as useless as something like a blackberry without a data plan. The iphone can do anything everything it's suppose to do even when connected to wifi. Can't say the same for a blackberries. For some reason they need service books pushed to them from the providers in order for the internet to function properly.
 
I just want to strangle people that say that iphones without data are useless. They're just trying to justify their extra and forced 720 dollar expense and a crappy 2 year contract by saying so. I go to college, work, and home and have wifi at every single location. I live in the city and 9/10 I can pick up free wireless if I need it pretty much anywhere.

I wish there were more free apps for 2.0, they should be coming soon.
 
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