On an original iPhone 2G yes.
Try it with a 3G, 3GS or iPhone 4 and see how far you get
My brother's been on an iPhone 3G that I gave him and it's been about 3 months and he still doesn't have a data plan.
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Found a way to get an iPhone 4 without a Data plan from AT&T
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My brother's been on an iPhone 3G that I gave him and it's been about 3 months and he still doesn't have a data plan.
does it matter at all if the iphone is jailbroken????
my friend got a jailbroken iphone 3G and has tmobile SIM but has no data plan for a long time, when jailbroken does the network of the provider not detect anything or....
or if someone has a AT&T SIM and puts it in a jailbroken iphone 3G will it be the same situation???? will AT&T detect they have an iphone and give them a data plan automatically? my friend does not want a data plan with the iphone 3G so pretty much an expensive ipod touch lol will this work for him?
he just want the phone with wi-fi no data plan?
my friend got a jailbroken iphone 3G and has tmobile SIM but has no data plan for a long time, when jailbroken does the network of the provider not detect anything or....
or if someone has a AT&T SIM and puts it in a jailbroken iphone 3G will it be the same situation???? will AT&T detect they have an iphone and give them a data plan automatically? my friend does not want a data plan with the iphone 3G so pretty much an expensive ipod touch lol will this work for him?
he just want the phone with wi-fi no data plan?
tell your friend if he doesnt want a data plan to stay with T~Mobile because ATT + iPhone = Data Plan Charge!! sorry!!
IMEI is the answer
I was looking at this post hoping for some IMEI mods because is how AT&T detects the type of phone you have. Every time you turn on your phone it sends the IMEI to the carrier to verify the info.
Therefore, AT&T can run a kinds script and pull all the SmartPhones IMEI in their database and add data to them. If you see the first few numbers of the IMEI in the phones are unique to each manufacture. In this case Apple only makes smartphones.
After extensive research I have found that reasons for iPhone 1st Gen can go w/o data plan is because they are either "grandfathered" (activated before 09/2009) by at&t or because they don't want to allocate resources to go after old models.
To avoid that is modding the IMEI of the phone. Any other method such as ASP or Datablock is just luck that AT&T's script hasn't hit your IMEI yet.
Until the data mandate is not abolished. I am staying with my 1st gen iPhone. Hopefully Verizon get the iPhone 4 so maybe AT&T decides to eliminate the mandate.
I was looking at this post hoping for some IMEI mods because is how AT&T detects the type of phone you have. Every time you turn on your phone it sends the IMEI to the carrier to verify the info.
Therefore, AT&T can run a kinds script and pull all the SmartPhones IMEI in their database and add data to them. If you see the first few numbers of the IMEI in the phones are unique to each manufacture. In this case Apple only makes smartphones.
After extensive research I have found that reasons for iPhone 1st Gen can go w/o data plan is because they are either "grandfathered" (activated before 09/2009) by at&t or because they don't want to allocate resources to go after old models.
To avoid that is modding the IMEI of the phone. Any other method such as ASP or Datablock is just luck that AT&T's script hasn't hit your IMEI yet.
Until the data mandate is not abolished. I am staying with my 1st gen iPhone. Hopefully Verizon get the iPhone 4 so maybe AT&T decides to eliminate the mandate.
Doesn't work
I followed James' instructions. I went directly to the AT&T store and had the data blocked from my daughter's Samsung phone. They even gave me a confirmation receipt. Next, I connected the iphone 3G to Wifi, without any SIM card. Then I went to unlockit and installed a fake APN (it even saved an icon on my phone like an app). Then I inserted the card into the iphone.
His system worked - for about two weeks. My daughter just received a text from AT&T stating that a data plan is required.
Although James was adamant that his method works, I can assure you that it does not.
I followed James' instructions. I went directly to the AT&T store and had the data blocked from my daughter's Samsung phone. They even gave me a confirmation receipt. Next, I connected the iphone 3G to Wifi, without any SIM card. Then I went to unlockit and installed a fake APN (it even saved an icon on my phone like an app). Then I inserted the card into the iphone.
His system worked - for about two weeks. My daughter just received a text from AT&T stating that a data plan is required.
Although James was adamant that his method works, I can assure you that it does not.
I knew it
All these bs tricks to avoid a data plan on AT&T don't work. They will eventually catch on.
