International Travel with Iphone

[davevt98]

For some reason I cannot find what I thought would be a simple answer.

I am traveling internationally and want to use my iphone for wifi but do not want to incur any charges. When I take out my sim, it does NOT allow me to connect to wifi. If I turn on airplane mode, I cannot use wifi.

Can someone please let me know how to get around this so I can use my wifi on my iphone 4 without having a sim card in the phone? It is activated and jailbroken.

Thanks.

 

[ylerT]

For some reason I cannot find what I thought would be a simple answer.

I am traveling internationally and want to use my iphone for wifi but do not want to incur any charges. When I take out my sim, it does NOT allow me to connect to wifi. If I turn on airplane mode, I cannot use wifi.

Can someone please let me know how to get around this so I can use my wifi on my iphone 4 without having a sim card in the phone? It is activated and jailbroken.

Thanks.

Airplane mode disables all connections including WiFi. You can disable your data/3G or remove your sim card and still use WiFi, just don't turn on airplane mode.

 

[ratzzo]

If you don't want any charges, simply don't make calls or texts and select the 'Off' option for Data Roaming in your phone settings. And I believe you can actually enable Airplane Mode and then enable WiFi (not the other way around)

 

[ylerT]

If you don't want any charges, simply don't make calls or texts and select the 'Off' option for Data Roaming in your phone settings. And I believe you can actually enable Airplane Mode and then enable WiFi (not the other way around)

Cool! Never knew that little trick. You can in fact, turn airplane mode on and then manually turn WiFi on after that. Keeps airplane mode and wifi both on. I just tried it and it definitely works.

 

[ratzzo]

Cool! Never knew that little trick. You can in fact, turn airplane mode on and then manually turn WiFi on after that. Keeps airplane mode and wifi both on. I just tried it and it definitely works.

Yep. But just in case for those travelling abroad I suggest you disable Data Roaming to avoid abusive carrier fees when you get back home (even though airplane mode should do just that)