Edge networking not working

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croatsensation

Discussion Starter · Sep 9, 2007

I have been trying to use edge but it keeps saying not connected . The E is showing

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G42G6

· #2 · Sep 9, 2007

croatsensation said:
I have been trying to use edge but it keeps saying not connected . The E is showing

Tap Settings, tap General, tap Network, tap EDGE..

Enter the following information:

Rogers
APN: internet.com
Primary gateway IP: 172.25.0.107
Username: wapuser1
Password: wap

Fido
APN: wap.fido.ca
Username: fido
Password: fido
Primary gateway IP: 205.151.11.11
Port: 8080

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HowEver

· #3 · Sep 9, 2007 (Edited)

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Fen

· #4 · Sep 9, 2007

HowEver said:
G42G6 forgot this important step:

1. Start web browser.
2. Sign on to online banking "payments."
3. Go to Rogers/fido payment entry dialogue.
4. Expend many $$$ for edge connection.

Hope you have a data plan...

That's for damn sure. I cleared all my settings and even called Fido/Rogers to disable Edge from being accessed on my account - I'm not paying their bat**** f'n loco rates.

croatsensation

Discussion Starter · #5 · Sep 9, 2007

Thank you it is working fine. I am very aware of the cost of this thing. I will only use during emergency times.

I also find that rogers in certain areas cuts out a bit easier in the iphone then my other phone. Could be my imagination but not sure. But overall loved the phone part now as i was using all the other parts. I found a good guy in Mississauga who does the hardware hack for $100 bucks . Only a small scratch on my iphone barerly noticable. I could no longer wait for that fiasco iphonesimfree. Paypal has just told all the resellers they have to return the money as they have no real product. What a mess.

MACinist

· #6 · Sep 10, 2007

croatsensation said:
Thank you it is working fine. I am very aware of the cost of this thing. I will only use during emergency times. I also find that rogers in certain areas cuts out a bit easier in the iphone then my other phone. Could be my imagination but not sure. But overall loved the phone part now as i was using all the other parts. I found a good guy in Mississauga who does the hardware hack for $100 bucks . Only a small scratch on my iphone barerly noticable. I could no longer wait for that fiasco iphonesimfree. Paypal has just told all the resellers they have to return the money as they have no real product. What a mess.

I pay $10 for 10MB on Rogers' Mobile internet plan. You can also choose the $5 for 5MB. 10MB is not much but it is so easy to monitor your usage. Settings/Usage/EDGE Network Data - shows you the Sent and Received. Having no data, really limits the iPhone experience. If you just use your Widgets for updates and some Google Maps, it should be ok. Internet surfing is very limited for me on EDGE. Plus, it's pretty slow I find.

RunTheWorldOnMac

· #7 · Sep 10, 2007

I would think google maps is heavy on the data download. I am curious how big an area it downloads in relation to the location you are looking for. It is also possible that it downloads each layer of drill-down detail as well for refresh speed. Next time you look at Google Maps; check your data rate, pull up a location and check your rate again.

Is there a way to check this in Firefox? Safari?

Gigantor

· #8 · Sep 11, 2007

G42G6 said:
Tap Settings, tap General, tap Network, tap EDGE..

Enter the following information:

Rogers
APN: internet.com
Primary gateway IP: 172.25.0.107
Username: wapuser1
Password: wap

Fido
APN: wap.fido.ca
Username: fido
Password: fido
Primary gateway IP: 205.151.11.11
Port: 8080

Hi G42G6,

On my Edge setting tap, it would only let me enter the APN, Username and Password. It would not let me enter the IP and Port info. I have tried puting in both the WAP APN and EDGE APN (internet.fido.ca) settings in. The Edge APN setting will come back with the same error msg (EDGE not activated), and when I use the WAP APN setting, it connects but safari, weather, stocks, maps just keeps on loading with no end results. I have double checked with Fido to make sure my data package is active. Nothing is working.... Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks. :clap:

Harg

· #9 · Sep 12, 2007

I am having the exact same problem.

"Could not activate EDGE. You are not subscribed to EDGE"

I called fido and they say I have the data plan and gave me the same internet settings. I don't know more to do.

Daktari

· #10 · Sep 12, 2007

HowEver said:
G42G6 forgot this important step:

1. Start web browser.
2. Sign on to online banking "payments."
3. Go to Rogers/fido payment entry dialogue.
4. Expend many $$$ for edge connection.

Hope you have a data plan...

LOL!

potato

· #11 · Sep 12, 2007

Quick question... A newly unlocked iPhone cannot possibly access EDGE on Fido/Rogers right? One has to actually go in there and type the above in to get it to work?

Just trying not to accidentally get a $500 bill

Harg

· #12 · Sep 12, 2007

potato said:
Quick question... A newly unlocked iPhone cannot possibly access EDGE on Fido/Rogers right? One has to actually go in there and type the above in to get it to work?

Just trying not to accidentally get a $500 bill

Correct.

The default factory settings for EDGE are setup for AT&T.

interact

· #13 · Sep 12, 2007

Edge not working on my iPhone either.

Not

happy.

interact

· #14 · Sep 12, 2007

Anyone come across this? Especially Page 2 and the reference to using a text editor.

http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1232389&page=2&pp=15

This is all those who has unlocked their iPhone, have an old AT&T sim and no EDGE.

1. don't bother looking for than damn EDGE setting. You have to go old school and edit a file.
2. ssh into your iphone
3. cd /var/root/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration
3.5. cp preferences.plist preferences.plist.orig
4. vi preferences.plist
5. search for "cingular"
6. This should bring you to a code chunk that has the following
<key>apn</key>
<string>wap.cingular</string>
<key>password</key>
<string>CINGULAR1</string>
<key>username</key>
<string>[email protected]</string>
7. replace wap.cingular with proxy. Delete CINGULAR1 and [email protected]. So it looks like the following
<key>apn</key>
<string>proxy</string>
<key>password</key>
<string></string>
<key>username</key>
<string></string>
8. Save. Exit you session. Reboot your iphone.
9. Enjoy edge on your old AT&T plan

Your mileage may vary

I don't know is SMS works. why?. I'm tired and I'm going to bed.
You can do any of the steps if you don't have an unlocked phone and at the very least have ssh installed on the iphone.

Cheers y'all

I wonder if it could help us.

bennymoto

· #15 · Sep 12, 2007

I called fido for data plans. This is what they offered:

$12/month 1mb
$20/month 3mb
$40/month 7mb.

The things i put up with for billing by the second...

HowEver

· #16 · Sep 12, 2007 (Edited)

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Harg

· #17 · Sep 13, 2007

interact said:
I wonder if it could help us.

Good find.

I took a quick look through the preferences.plist file on my iphone. I was hoping there would be unused tags for dns/port ect. All I found are the same values that you enter in via settings. So it does not help us yet.

The problem has to be either
1) our fido accounts don't have somthing enabled to allow this kind of use of EDGE.
2) fido is using some kind of proxy and the iphone does not have the settings to set that up exposed.

Anyone have any other thoughts?

birdstomach

· #18 · Sep 13, 2007

So under Settings->General->Network->EDGE i only have 3 fields i can modify: APN, Username and Password.

Has anyone got their edge to work with Rogers using only these 3 fields?

i have tried internet.com and goam.com for APN and username wapuser1 and password wap.

Any ideas here??

cptraisin

· #19 · Sep 14, 2007

I got it working for rogers!!

I found another fellow canadian online who had it working for Rogers.
All you have to do is put in

APN: internet.com
Username: guest
Password: guest

and it works like a charm.

Duno what it is for Fido, but I switched to rogers anyway cause of the better data plans and the eventual support for iphone.

Hope this helps

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interact

· #20 · Sep 14, 2007

cptraisin said:
I found another fellow canadian online who had it working for Rogers.
All you have to do is put in

APN: internet.com
Username: guest
Password: guest

and it works like a charm.

Duno what it is for Fido, but I switched to rogers anyway cause of the better data plans and the eventual support for iphone.

Hope this helps

*Sigh* ... Maybe per second billing isn't all that it's cracked up to be.

Still looking around, but there's no solution anywhere. Some FIDOians get it to work, a lot don't.

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