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TRDood 02-08-2010 11:04 AM

Can I use my Fido Iphone in HK?
 
I don't want to search the 200 page iphone thread and just looking for a quick answer. :p

I have a Fido Iphone, can I use it in Hong Kong with a HK provider SIM card?
or do I have to unlock my fido phone to do that?

thanks!

[jsx] sky 02-08-2010 11:34 AM

unlock

hk20000 02-08-2010 11:38 AM

as long as it covers the HK GSM frequency and you unlocked it. Depends on your gen of iphone the difficulty of unlocking varies.

!Aznboi128 02-08-2010 11:41 AM

got a mac? use iPwn

Greenstoner 02-08-2010 01:23 PM

download an app called iHk and it does the trick

TRDood 02-08-2010 03:03 PM

my iphone is the 3g one and its not unlocked. oh well i guess i will just bring a gsm phone and use my iphone as a itouch.
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TOS'd 02-08-2010 03:19 PM

whats an itouch..

anyways. you can either spend like 5 mins jailbreaking and unlocking your phone. or just buy a cheap phone over there. or a nice phone which will be an upgrade on your iphone.
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syee 02-08-2010 03:47 PM

Just download blackra1n and jailbreak then unlock it. Takes no more than 10 minutes to do. Just make sure you haven't upgraded to 3.1.3 firmware since there's no way to jailbreak or unlock with the new firmware.

TRDood 02-08-2010 07:14 PM

nah, too much work.
i will bring my crappy w810 from a few years ago or borrow a friend's phone.

thanks though!

DC5-S 02-08-2010 09:03 PM

really? 10 minutes of your time is too much work? lazy mofo

CP.AR 02-08-2010 09:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TRDood (Post 6808325)
my iphone is the 3g one and its not unlocked. oh well i guess i will just bring a gsm phone and use my iphone as a itouch.
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What do you touch?

jimmerz 02-08-2010 09:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TRDood (Post 6808629)
nah, too much work.
i will bring my crappy w810 from a few years ago or borrow a friend's phone.

thanks though!

in dec 08 i went back and there wasn't an software unlock avail at the time for the iphone 3g

what i did was bought a unlock sim card that piggy backs onto the HK-provider sim card

it does work but from time to time i would just suddenly lose signal and can take random times to aquire the network again... (probably new method at the time, i was using People's prepaid sim if that helps)

cost is around 180hkd


even tho it works its kind of unreliable and at times when i went out and wanted to meet up with my frds it would decide to crap out the signal for me... i had to borrow someone else's phone to call my frds to meet up, its a hassle

q0192837465 03-12-2010 11:51 AM

bump

I'm not an iphone user so dun fail me

my gf os going back to hk and she upgraded to the latest firmware. Is it possible to downgrade & then use blackra1n to unlock?

And can she un-jailbreak when she comes back?

TRDood 03-12-2010 11:58 AM

well, back from hong kong. i can tell you that the fido iphone is absolute garbage when it leaves North America.

problems i had was that my caller ID never worked, my voicemail never worked, it rings on my end, but people calling from Vancouver cannot hear the dailing ring tone. I had to reset my network settings every day and now it's all fucked up coming back to vancouver. when i text message, it says some "PDP authenication not correct", i have no clue what it is.

if your vancouver phone number is important, bring another phone. leave it at home. all i used it for was internet and music.

syee 03-12-2010 12:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TRDood (Post 6856663)
well, back from hong kong. i can tell you that the fido iphone is absolute garbage when it leaves North America.

problems i had was that my caller ID never worked, my voicemail never worked, it rings on my end, but people calling from Vancouver cannot hear the dailing ring tone. I had to reset my network settings every day and now it's all fucked up coming back to vancouver. when i text message, it says some "PDP authenication not correct", i have no clue what it is.

if your vancouver phone number is important, bring another phone. leave it at home. all i used it for was internet and music.

I've read that it's due the APN settings not being correct. You can try to manually edit it, or sync in iTunes and have it download the carrier settings (which I do believe include carrier specific settings like the APN). You'll probably want to reset network settings first so you start with a clean slate.


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