Pssssst… Prepaid TMobile Users, You Get Full Free Internet With the iPhone
This post was published 1 year 6 months 3 days ago which may make its actuality or expire date not be valid anymore. This site is not responsible for any misunderstanding.I keep a prepaid T-Mobile SIM laying around for those “just because” moments. For anyone who has tried using T-Zones on a prepaid cellphone (especially on an iPhone) you are always sadly disappointed with the results. No connectivity.
However, due to a recent change on T-Mobile’s network you no longer are stranded without internet in prepaid land. First you will need an unlocked iPhone 2G. Just use the Pwnage tool to unlock it. You don’t need to install Cydia, Installer or any other hacks – just unlock the baseband.
Once the phone is unlocked navigate to the Settings icon, select General then select Network and finally Cellular Data Network.
In the APN settings enter epc.tmobile.com and restart your phone. Once you restart your phone just open up the Safari web browser (or any other internet enabled application) and viola – instant connectivity!
Now mind you on the prepaid plans T-Zones is free so get while the getting is good!
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Thanks for the tip Dan. I’m currently using t-mobile’s flex pay. With t-zones added it’s around $53.00 a month for 600 minutes and free weekends. But I really don’t use it much, so I’m going to be making the switch back to pre-paid $100 cards (good for a whole year) on my 1st gen iPhone:)
I didn’t know that t-zones came with pre paid, nice!
Speaking of pre-paid t-mobile. Right now you get a FREE $25 dollar pre-paid refill card with select pre-paid phones. Plus if you select the Nokia 2610 Prepaid phone and go through Fatwallet.com you make $5.00 after mail in rebate:)
How to get pre-paid $25 dollar refill card, phone and make $5 bucks.
1) Go to “http://www.fatwallet.com”
2) Open a FREE fatwallet account
3) Once logged into your account. Go to “http://www.fatwallet.com/cash-back/T-Mobile” and click the t-mobile link.
4) Once on T-Mobiles site go to pre-paid phones
5) Select the Nokia 2610 Prepaid phone
6) Send in your mail in rebate and Collect your $5 bucks for each pre-paid phone from fatwallet.com
Note: You can also stack pre-paid t-mobile cards for a better value.
Example: 4 $25 cars stacked will be the same a $100 card and good for 1000 minutes and a whole year. ( you need to speak to a real person in pre-paid customer service to stack cards)
Hope this is okay to post Dan, just trying to help:)
Nice! Works great. Thanks for the tip Dan!
will this work for 1.1.4?
or is it 2.0 and up
because it isnt working for me
I am curious if this will work for 1.1.4 as well.
@ Thomas and Joseph: It doesn’t work anymore. It looks like Tmobile closed the loop hole. It was grat while it lasted!
What a drag! Thanks for the post anyway!
I jus got an unlocked iPhone an tha person told me to do this! But I was jus wondering will this show up in my bill? I don’t have any kind of data transfer program! I don’t wanna get my bill an have it be like 5000 dollars!
@Moniq as Luis mentioned, it does not work anymore. It worked only for about 10 days.
Umm, it does work? I’m using it currently, and I’m not sure why everyone is saying its not working. Just try it out, it takes less than 30 seconds, and it should work quite properly…
I have been using this for awile now…worked great… Worked sniff
Now safari redirects me to wipcore.tmobile.com/upsellbar/wml…….
does this still work.. its been taking mee to some other link?
does this work its been redirecting me to some other site, please get back with me
1. It does work.. make sure to remove any t-zone hack installed.
2. If you do not have t-Zones web ($5.99 plan) then all you’ll be able to access is the T-Zones website itself (to download ringtones, apps etc)
3. If you do have T-Zones web ($5.99 plan) then you’ll have complete internet access. And yeah the speed is better than their previous Edge proxy.
The above holds true with any iphone (2G / 3G)… but since you’ll be using T-Mobile on your iphone you have to have an unlocked phone (OR bypassed via *sim solutions or something)
Morphius,
I have tried it, but still does no work. I have prepaid T-mobile with 2G unlocked iphone F/W 2.1. With T-zone hack and without still does not work of any of APNs’ settings. Any update so far?
I have a t-mobile prepaid sim, and this does not work on my iphone. Tried epc.tmobile.com then restarting the phone. Any suggestions?
I have the same issues with my iPhone 2G….
I have an Apple iPhone 2G v 2.0.2 unlocked by QuickPWN with Cydia & Installer…
My service provider is T-Mobile Prepaid in Burke, VA USA…
I have T-zones or some Internet Package…
I have the Sidekick plan too…
I don’t have T-zones hack installed b/c some of the comments that I read told me it wasn’t good…
I have tried alot of the APN’s and not a single one worked…
Got errors like “Could not activate cellular data network: You are not subscribed to a cellular data service” but I have a “E” and full signal strength…
Anybody who can help…
It would be appreicated
Thanks,
Greg F.
Morphius —
I have a t-mobile prepaid sim, and put epc.tmobile.com in the Edge settings, restarted the phone and when using Safari I am only able to access the T-Zones website itself (to download ringtones, apps etc) — I saw Morphius’ post that you have to have the t-zone’s $5.99 plan in order to get this to give you full access to the internet, so my question is this:
If I’m on prepaid, how do I get the t-zone $5.99 plan?
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btw, I looked at this page on the tmobile site: http://support.t-mobile.com/knowbase/root/public/tm21625.htm?A2L.SERVICE=
and tried using the wap.voicestream.com setting in the Edge in my iphone and when I visited Google, I got this message:
HTTP ERROR: $CODE$
$MESSAGE$
RequestURI=/
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I have a t-mobile prepaid sim, and put epc.tmobile.com in the Edge settings, restarted the phone and when using Safari I am only able to access the T-Zones website itself (to download ringtones, apps etc) — I saw Morphius’ post that you have to have the t-zone’s $5.99 plan in order to get this to give you full access to the internet, so my question is this:
If I’m on prepaid, how do I get the t-zone $5.99 plan?
exactly how i feel!
does anybody have an answer to “owes” question I want to get the tmobile 1000 min card for 100 bucks but yea how to you buy tzones for 5.99 i have an unlocked 2g iphone with 2.1 software on it.