[barryegan]

mission accomplished:

i think something had simply happened on their system, causing my t-zone feature to bump out of active. when i called, the agent claimed the t-zones had never gone off. it must have even been just because of the actual APN change business. what happened to me was i started getting a "not subscribed to edge service" message with proxy hack active.

I did actually have to reactivate service for a short pro-rated period, but I was able to get right on after entering the epc.tmobile.com apn. also, now apps like beejive work where they always failed on the proxy hack.

now today i have the txt telling me my normal services are suspended and minutes can be used out of flex acc. and my t-zones still up and running as it always is at this stage again.

so relieved.

[journeys]

http://wipcore.t-mobile.com appeared on my safari homepage.

i rebooted 5 times and nothing worked so i called tmobile. they know i have an unlocked iphone and they know i was only paying 5 bucks a month for internet and i explained this to them and they explained to me that they're updating their systems to register the imei number of ALL THE SMART PHONES THEY CURRENTLY ARE GIVING SERVICE TO. then all of these iemi numbers will be on their poop-list, so that internet access will not be provided to these unlocked phones anymore if you pay the minimal $5.99 or $9.99 fee. they said that slowly but surely all of these phones would lose "free" internet. so, i demanded a refund. they gave me a $45 credit for the internet service that i've "paid for" over the last 6 months with them.

hopefully a work around will come, but i imagine if you re-register a different phone on their site and then put the sim back in the iphone it might work for a while.

if there ends up being no work around, call tmobile and demand compensation. they did it for me, and they'll do it for u. if they get enough calls maybe they'll restore things to how it was yesterday.

[pickeledpeter]

Just to add my two cents....I have been on flex-pay tmobile for the past year. Well, last month, my girfriend and I split and had to cancell our two-line plan, and I had to start a whole new account. When I was opening a new account at the store, I asked for t-zones for 5.99 and the clerk said that that plan is not even an option anymore, and that every person who was using epc.tmobile.com, and wap.voicestream.com would eventually all lose their signal becuase theyre making the switch to inertnet2.whateveritis.com. At the time it worked out ok because I just used the 19.99 unlimited data and text plan, so at the time it worked out ok. HOWEVER, my edge would not work at all for two days. I tried all three of the above mentioned addresses and waited awhile just so see if it took longer to activate. After finally getting tired of trying different things I called and they informed me that the only data plan that now supports internet for the iphone is the 34.99 data plan. I was pretty upset.

I feel that It used to be that unlocking your was for great benefit because you could use t-mobile and they're significantly cheaper plans. Like i stated above, when I was on the two phone-line flex pay, I was paying $121 a month for 700 minutes, unlimited internet and texts for both phones.

NOW, after getting a new phone line, Im at $84.00 for ONE! kinda crappy.

Im wondering if its even worth all the unlocking trouble and avoided at&t now, or if there is even an advantage not using att....

I guess the big question I have, and is for another thread is 3G significantly faster than Edge, and how much does the average att user pay for the same services as I am...

Take care

[smirkis]

still works for me, and again another user with less then 10 posts claiming this lol.

we'll see.

[Drummr]

My $5.99 T-Zones is still working fine. I've had it for years to tether a razr to laptop while camping. Never had any trouble.

[jwpaco]

My phone did have some problems with epc.tmobile.com and I just changed it to internet2.voicestream.com and all is well again.

[arich]

@jwpaco what data plan do you have?