How To: Straight Talk and iPhone - SIM Swap from Nokia Smartphone

[needST]

Miami CS, 800-876-5753. Give them the IMEI number and see if they will discuss the phone with you. Ask if it is ready to activate or if you need to do anything.

+rep thanks for being really helpful... last thing. my sister has the phone that you need with right sim card and i tried it to see if it would work and the talk and text did but i wanted to try the data thing... so yea i emailed the mobile config and installed it.. little did i know that it would disable the data for the plan i currently have. (i am getting rid of it soon but would like it back if possible at all)

[RobNyc]

I wonder if anyone been able to try this on a blackberry?

[Tracfancier]

+rep thanks for being really helpful... last thing. my sister has the phone that you need with right sim card and i tried it to see if it would work and the talk and text did but i wanted to try the data thing... so yea i emailed the mobile config and installed it.. little did i know that it would disable the data for the plan i currently have. (i am getting rid of it soon but would like it back if possible at all)

Sorry, unable to help with that one.

[needST]

Sorry, unable to help with that one.

thats ok! i just figured it out actually (theres setting under general that said straight talk and then it let me remove it so its all good). thanks again for all your help.. cant wait to reduce this bill by 55$ a month!

[Haas_Dave]

did you guys try this?
Curious if its killing the APN abilities like the last beta

Beta 3 doesn't work with the mobileconfig either.

The only way I got it to work was to remove the at&t bundle and reboot the phone, forcing the 'unknown' bundle to take over and allow APN input.

[ClEaTIs]

Info back up because I feel bad for the people that bought a e71 because of this post.


Thought I would do a quick how to.

If you have a iPhone (3G, 3GS, 4) and want to use StraightTalk $45 unlimited WITHOUT!!! unlocking your phone, here is what you need to do.


A few thing you should know

1. Your phone does not need to be jailbroken to make calls, send plain text or use the internet! The only reason to jailbrake your phone is to make MMS work!

2. Your phone does not need to be unlocked to make any of these thing work!

3. All of this was tested on a iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4, both on iOS 4.2.1, on the newest baseband. IF you have problems, upgrade to the newest IOS.




Goto Walmart (And only Walmart!!! NOT EBAY, NOT CRAIGLIST!!!! WALMART!!!!!)and buy either a Nokia E71 or Nokia 6790 phone and a $45 unlimited card. Bring it home and activate it. (other phones will not work!!! only the e71 and 6790 comes with a compatible sim) Before you activate, make sure the sim card from either the E71 or 6790 says TF64PSIMC4 on it, if its missing the P in the part number, it will not work!

After it has been activated and you can make calls from the Nokia phone, take out the sim and put it in your iPhone (you will need a sim cutter to make it fit in the iPhone 4, go here to buy one for about $7 http://www.amazon.com/Noosy-Cutter-M...8045936&sr=8-2)

Your iPhone does not need to be unlocked or jailbroken for this to work!!!

At this point, you will only have access to phone calls and plain texting!

To get your internet to working follow one of the 2 methods below, pick one, it doesnt matter which one, just one that you think is easier for you. (You can skip this step IF you are going to jailbreak your phone for MMS to work! Just go right to the "If you want MMS" instructions)

Method 1 - download the attached StraightTalk.zip file below, unzip it, and e-mail the StraightTalk.mobileconfig file to your iphone.

Attachment 68931

Open the e-mail in your iphone (which should be connected via wifi at this point so it can get e-mails) and open the attachment and install it.

Method 2 - Goto http://unlockit.co.nz from your phone while on wifi, click/tap on continue, click/tap on Custom APN, then type in att.mvno in the APN field, leave the user name, pasword and carrier fields blank. Click/tap on create profile, then install the profile.

You should now have access to 3G internet!!!!!

Nothing further is needed if you dont want MMS

IF YOU WANT MMS, KEEP READING!

But if you want MMS to work, you will need to jailbreak your phone, to do so, visit this link, and follow all of the instructions to jailbreak using greenpois0n http://www.jailbreakmatrix.com/iphon...ered-jailbreak You can download the newest version of Greenpois0n from www.greenpois0n.com just click on the windows or mac icon to download.

Then follow these instructions after your phone is jailbroken and is booted into cydia.

search (in cydia) for TetherME and install it. It costs $1.99, not a big deal.

UPDATE: A bit of an update, you no longer have to install TetherMe APN Editing, the new version of TetherMe already includes TetherMe APN Editing. So skip the installation of TetherMe APN Editing below

After you purchase it and install it, search for and install TetherME APN Editing, its free. <---NO LONGER NEEEDED! READ ABOVE!!!

(The reason for installing TetherMe is to gain access to the Cellular Data Network tab, without it, you cant get MMS to work!!!)

After TetherMe is installed, exit cydia and go to your home screen.

Go to Settings, then General, then Network, then click on Cellular Data Network

This is what your settings should look like!

Cellular Data
APN: att.mvno
Username:
Password:

Visual Voicemail <----dont know the settings for this one yet, will update it when I figure it out!

MMS
APN: att.mvno
Username:
Password:
MMSC: http://mmsc.cingular.com
MMS Proxy: proxy.mvno.tracfone.com:80
MMS Max Size: 1048576
MMS UA Prof URL:

How to change the carrier name from HOME to anything you want (like AT&T, or StraightTalk)

Search Cydia for a app called Fake Operator, install it. It will ask you to reboot your device, do it. After it reboots, go to settings and scroll down, you will see a new tab called Fake Operator, tap to enable fake operator, then tap on the bottom to edit the text. After you edit the text to whatever you want, reboot your phone and the new carrier text will appear at the top.


Thats it! Enjoy

I had sucessfully activated e71 , cut and loaded per instructions. I did notice a visual voicemail setting preloaded, not sure it works but FYI it had
APN acds.voicemail

[Cuser]

does straighttalk have an outgoing mail server? I want to link my schools email account to my iphone, and need an outgoing mail server...

You should use the server address for your school. If your school gives you an e-mail, you should get the settings from them.

[tidd1340]

Is there a way to monitor usage on the iphone 3G? I want to see how much data Im using to avoid hassles.

[mbaverizon]

is there a way to monitor usage on the iphone 3g? I want to see how much data im using to avoid hassles.

yes i would like to know too! I do have free wifi where i live but when iam i want to know!

[mbaverizon]

Quick question and a little off topic, but i set up my gmail and it works i get them but how do i open a attachment, i open the attachment and then check the box but nothing happens, whats wrong

[ydkjman]

Is there a way to monitor usage on the iphone 3G? I want to see how much data Im using to avoid hassles.

Yes there is it should be this:
Settings,
General,
Usage,
Then under cellular network data it will show you how much data has been sent and received since last reset

[mbaverizon]

Quick question and a little off topic, but i set up my gmail and it works i get them but how do i open a attachment, i open the attachment and then check the box but nothing happens, whats wrong

if your using wifi will it still show regular data usage as if you were on 3G

[Milkbone98]

Data Man free from the app store.

[mbaverizon]

Data Man free from the app store.

what is data man

[3fingerbrown]

Is there a way to monitor usage on the iphone 3G? I want to see how much data Im using to avoid hassles.

MyDataUsage Pro is my choice.