Thx !

A word of warning to anyone who is thinking about jailbreaking. Don't fall for any of these sites who charge you money to access their jailbreaking software. All of the jailbreaking software is available for free. These websites are simply charging you to download it from their server when you can get it totally free of charge.

Depending on your phone's firmware/generation and computer operating system the solutions are available from the dev team (blog.iphone-dev.org/) and Geohot's Blackrain (www.blackra1n.com).

N.B. ignore the brackets in previous post - they'll send you to pages that don't exist. Use these instead:

blog.iphone-dev.org
www.blackra1n.com

Greginchina, got a question for you.

I got an iPhone from the US, unlocked and jailbroken couple of weeks ago and have been using it with my China Unicom SIM card. I have Wi-Fi at home and assumed that I was checking my email through my Wi-Fi but found out yesterday that I was charged over 140RMB for data usage!! Is there a way to set the iPhone to not use the carrier and only to only use Wi-Fi to download emails?

Thanks

Thanks

Greg may know better but as far as I know if you have gone through settings - Wifi and have chosen your wireless network, and the WiFi symbol has appeared in the toolbar at the top of your screen then that is what it should be using...

that's not strictly true because unfortunately the iphone turns off wifi when the screen goes to sleep (but can still use your data plan to download stuff at that time). If you keep it plugged in to a power source it will stay on WIFI.

However, if you want to totally turn off the network's data plan you can download either SBSettings or Bossprefs and turn off both 3g and EDGE (GPRS).

Another alternative is to check out what packages China Unicom have. I think I'm paying 100 for 1GB. I never use that much. you can possibly get a 50 or 100MB package for a few kuai. Its always best to get a package sorted out in advance than to pay for it per kilobyte after the event.

Hi everybody!
I was really tired of itune and istore wih is really expensive and i found a phone manager software better than itune!

Name is ipc edited by chinese company Panda app. and the software is translate in english!

this is the link:

www.pandaapp.com/

just have to click on iphone download it and that s it!
It can manage your files your applications and the best part of it:

All the apple store applications are free in the download center : games ( i downlooad a lot of game : GTA chinatown, i can t stop playing!) dictionary (there is a really good chinese english talking dictionary and others...!}

this is the link if you want to have a look on the applications:

download.pandaapp.com/?app=soft&controller=iphone

Hope someone already post this usefull advice but i really love this website so enjoy!

So Micheju, you got fed up of paying and decided to take it for free. Must be tough owning an iPhone. I'd like a house and a car, no, perhaps a motorbike given the state of traffic in the rush hour. Any ideas for getting these without paying?

Come to think of it financing basic needs is becoming tiresome, perhaps you have equally useful advice about where to steal rice, vegetables, tools, books........? Thanks in anticipation.

i love this forum! Everytime i write a post there is someone with a gun ready to pull the trigger!

What s wrong with you?

The software i'm talking about is not only about free application but is also a great iphone manager!
You can manage music pictures applications but also update youre phone and even more than itune!
The thing with Itune is that this actions are most of them locked1
Usefull in this software too, there is a part of it where you can fix youre iphone software in case of problem!
So i just give the advice and nothing bad!
have a nice critic day!

actually the website you are talking about has hacked copies of legitimate apps from Apple's appstore which require a modification to a jailbroken iphone to allow it to install hacked applications.

This is not the same as taking advantage of the wealth of free and paid for apps available after a jailbreak through repositories such as Cydia. Jailbreaking your phone and downloading additional content may be against Apple's end user agreement but it is not illegal. Installing the applications from pandaapp is software piracy.

Considering most Appstore applications cost about 1 or 2 dollars (not the hundreds of dollars of professional desktop applications like Office and Photoshop) the case for installing hacked apps is fairly weak. All it does is give the Jailbreak "community" a bad name and give Apple justification for closing their Operating System and making it that bit harder to tinker with through each firmware update.