Meteor GPRS/EDGE fix
Sun, Oct 7, 2007
I should probably stop posting about the iPhone, but hey, what can I say - this little device has captured my heart.
To get GPRS/EDGE working with Meteor and your iPhone is pretty simple, all we need is a proxy auto-config file:
function FindProxyForURL(url, host)
{
if (isInNet(myIpAddress(), "10.0.0.0", "255.0.0.0"))
return "PROXY 10.85.85.85:8799";
else
return "DIRECT";
}
Save this as proxy.pac and pop this into /private/var/root. Next add the following key to private/var/root/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/preferences.plist:
<key>Proxies</key><dict>
<key>ProxyAutoConfigEnable</key>
<integer>1</integer>
<key>ProxyAutoConfigURLString</key>
<string>file:///private/var/root/proxy.pac</string>
</dict>
And that should be it. I haven’t actually tested this yet, so if some kind soul would be good enough to that would be great. Any HTTP traffic should now get routed over Meteor’s proxy. Mail probably won’t work, I’ll try to fix this when I get my hands on a Meteor SIM.
October 22nd, 2007 at 8:53 am
Hi there
I tried this but still get the “Not subscribed to edge” message.
Is it a simple copy and paste into the end of the preferences.plist file or does the key need to be
in a certain location in the file?
Thanks very much
Jim
October 24th, 2007 at 4:24 pm
Hi,
I am a bit of a newbie and am slightly confused. Everything on my iphone is ok except for edge. Could you run me through step by step to get edge working on meteor? Is there something that I am missing - the settings I use are ASN: wap.meteor.ie, wap, wap.
Thanks for any help
Dave
October 28th, 2007 at 10:11 am
Hello, i can’t the edge to work with the meteor sim either, which is a real pity as its not really worth having this phone without data access. If you work out a fix for this that would be great,
thanks
Jon
October 30th, 2007 at 7:26 pm
Go here for clearer instructions on how to do it:
http://www.hackint0sh.org/forum/showthread.php?t=6365
You definitely need to contact meteor technical support to activate isp gprs/edge as the settings they normally give are for wap and mms only. I’m still try to get it to work but it seems like other net works such as T mobile usa have been made to work successfully.
cheers
Jon
October 31st, 2007 at 5:02 pm
Got it working! on meteor.
You need to ask for activation on isp internet access, call 1905. Then use these settings
APN: isp.mymeteor.ie
Username: my
Password: isp
the proxy url 10.85.85.85 & port 8799 do not work and are not required so ignore all of the other posts.
good luck all
jon
October 31st, 2007 at 6:45 pm
Well done Jon! Working for me too now, using those settings :-)
November 2nd, 2007 at 12:55 am
Do the support team care if its an iphone that you use? they said settings are different for different phones. ???
thanks in advance
November 2nd, 2007 at 3:19 pm
The meteor support don’t know much from what i can tell, it’s the technical department who they contact who activate the isp internet access who know what there on about. I told them i’d got a nokia N70 so as not to confuse them, the activation was immediate. The setting are the same for all phones,
cheers
Jon
November 5th, 2007 at 2:17 pm
Hi,
I do realize that this post probably doesn’t belong here but do any of you guys know whether the latest hack works with Three network?
My other concern is; I will be getting an iPhone in the UK but .. I read on news today that it will be coming out with a new 1.1.2 firmware that is supposedly completely immune to all the previous hacks… Does anyone know anything about that?
Cheers,
Jan
November 5th, 2007 at 7:37 pm
I tried to ring the 1905 customer service, to ask them to activate the ISP Internet Access, and he told me that WAP is already activated… but when I try to browse it still says I’m Not Subscribed to Edge… Isn’t the WAP and EDGE different?
or that may be because of my low coverage?
November 5th, 2007 at 8:21 pm
They keep sending me settings via text message that I cant receive on the iPhone so I came clean told them it was an iPhone an they said they would pass on the request to the tech department. Apparently i will receive settings within a week and if I dont i am to ring them back. What a nightmare. Hope you had it easier than me. I’l have to wait and see now if anything happens.
Thanks for the help
Hopefully Meteor will get their act together.
Dave
November 7th, 2007 at 4:10 pm
Hi Dave,
just insist on isp internet, not wap or mms, when its activated it will work straight away. Wap is no good to you. The three sim won’t work i tried it. I suggest you call them back and tell them you’ve got a nokia n70 or n73, just not to confuse them. These are the settings for meteor:
APN: isp.mymeteor.ie
Username: my
Password: isp
good luck
December 6th, 2007 at 8:48 pm
Damn you Meteor support! The guy said I need to go to a Meteor store to deal with it, said he couldn’t activate.
December 19th, 2007 at 4:39 pm
Hi Guys
Can you help here im just wondering when you are connected to Wi-FI does the network still take your credit or do i just have my settings set up wrong??
January 3rd, 2008 at 3:09 pm
Hi,
My boyfriend wants to buy me an iphone 4 my birthday on ebay from the uk but I am unsure what version I need to get and how do I know 4 sure it is unlocked and do you know if it will work with Meteor??
Lots of questions I know!
Id b grateful for any help u can offer,
Thanks
January 3rd, 2008 at 4:20 pm
@Niamh,
Pretty much any iPhone sold on eBay will mentioned unlocked in its title, just make sure it doesn’t have stuff like “UNLOCKED ANY O2 SIM - Pay & Go OR Contract ” and is instead unlocked for all networks. If you want to be certain the iPhone you’re getting is unlocked and will work on all networks, including Meteor, buy an iPhone which comes with version 1.1.1. These are sort of rare to find since Apple are now shipping all iPhones with 1.1.2, which cannot currently be unlocked without buying a small hardware modification (~€70).
Hope this helps.
January 3rd, 2008 at 4:36 pm
Thanks for that.. just one extra question.. ive seen alot of the 1.1.2 version as unlocked to all sims.. can this be true or would i still have to do it myself?
This is a great site by the way.. ive been a few weeks trying to get this information so im delighted!
January 3rd, 2008 at 4:54 pm
Any 1.1.2 iPhone being sold as unlocked to all SIMs is either a 1.1.1 or older version phone which has been updated to 1.1.2 or includes some sort of hardware modification (Turbo SIM, hyperSIM, whatever - you’ll need to cut your SIM to get these to work). Older phones (those shipping with 1.1.1 or older) can use the 1.1.2 firmware fine. It’s just phones shipping with 1.1.2 out of the box that are tricky to unlock.
February 4th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Hey i know this isnt the right forum but i am desperate….
have my iphone nearly 2 weeks now and havent been able to use it once!
i have had my phone unlocked or whatever TurboSim does, and now thanks to that the phone part of the iphone doesnt work.
SMS - icon opens for a split second and then closes automatically.
Phone - same deal!
Gone back to phonevolts/gsm solutions with it - their answer was i havent done the steps correctly, LIE i have about 6 times now!
Please help :(
February 12th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
Hi, i cannot get the MMS to work at all, i have tried in vein to get edge to work but it wont i ahve added the setting s and according to Meteor the ISP is active…
what can i do? is tehre a setting or step i am missing?
Thanks in advance
T
February 12th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
can i also ask what is SSH, and should i have it on or off?
February 12th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
@Niamh: You need to install the iworld app from installer - this will stop the SMS application crashing
@Fidelma: It SSH (Secure SHell) allows login/data transfer between your phone and a computer. Unless you have reason to have it on you should leave it off since it will use up your battery otherwise
February 16th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Hi John,
Where do i input these settings? If you go step by step that would be great.
Thanks in advance.
Robbie
February 16th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
Hi,
Just published a set of steps to get your iphone’s EDGE feature working with Meteor here:
http://codex1.wordpress.com/
March 6th, 2008 at 10:32 am
Have entered those Meteor edge settings and have been told by Meteor that they only use ISP and my ISP is active but i still can’t connect to edge.
I see fidelma had the same problem but no solution posted so does anybody know a way around this??
March 12th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
Hi
Rang meteor today, asked them to turn on ISP as I wanted to use the phone as a Modem. EDGE was enabled straight away.
March 19th, 2008 at 11:06 am
Called Meteor today, Girl new exactly what is needed to be done, settings
APN: isp.mymeteor.ie
Username: my
Password: meteor
worked and after turning the phone off and on I am IN!!!!!!!!!
May 6th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
do meteor have an option for pay as you go or do you need to be on a contract, have this running on vodafone for 50mb for €1 per day of usage
May 12th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
@ Niamh : Did you get your iphone working.I bought a “demo” phone off phonevolts.ie in January which turned out to be stolen!.Stopped working a few weeks after using.Dodgy company,no wonder they are in a back street behind steel doors
June 24th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
i have just bought the iphone.. im on the meteor network.. and for some reason the screen has frozen and says sim is locked.please can somebody help me with this programme..has the screen broken…… please help me in what to do…thank svery much.. darree