IPhone :: Can Send Free IMessages With Any Data Plan?
May 30, 2012We are using imessages and live in Canada and going in US with no data plan. Can we still send free imessages
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iPhone 4S, iOS 5.1.1
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IPhone :: Data Only Contract Free IPhone 3Gs Plan
May 26, 2010With recent news of the iPad sim card hack and the low iPhone prices offered by Walmart, I have devised a plan to get an contract free iPhone 3Gs with data cheaper than buying an iPhone at retail.
1. Buy 16gb iPhone 3Gs at Walmart for $97 with contract.
2. Cancel contract within 3 days and pay the $175 ETF. ATT won't demand the iPhone back because it was purchased from a "reseller". Even if they ask for that month's service up front, the total cost would be $97 + $175 (ETF) + $70 (month of voice/data), which would equal $342 (retail for iphone is about $600).
3. Unlock/Jailbreak iPhone
4. Activate iPad sim card and adapt it to iPhone as per these instructions.
http://hijinksinc.com/2010/05/14/usi...-an-iphone-3g/
And congrats, in theory, you have a contract free iPhone with data only for cheap.
Below is what it would cost if you had an iPhone for 2 years in contract in comparison with this hack and similar options with two years of service.
iPhone Hack (Device, Data, ETF): $1062
iPhone 3Gs in Contract (Voice, Data, Messaging): $2257
iPad with Data (Device, Data): $1349
iPod Touch with Verizon Mifi (Device, Verizon Device, Data): $1790
Clearly, the iPhone hack is the cheapest method, coming in at a close second with the iPad. It might be a tough decision between an iPad and an iPhone, but the iPhone has a camera and can fit in your pocket, so it's more of a heavily featured iPod than a large tablet. And, naturally, there is a lot you can do with an unlocked iPhone, even hack it to make phone calls through skip or google voice and have messaging applications. You don't even have to pay for data if you think you won't need it for a month, and you can downgrade to the $15 a month program anytime.
Possible drawbacks, however, is that the iPhone 4G is coming out soon, and looks a lot cooler. You're breaking a contract on a soon-to-be-outdated device and ATT won't let you be a customer for 6 moths afterward. Also, you risk bricking an iPhone, and if ATT catches onto the iPad sim card hack, you're left with an expensive iPod touch.
To everyone on this forum, can you see any additional drawbacks that I might be missing?
BB Curve :: Get A Data Plan To Send And Receive BBM Messages?
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BB Curve 8500 :: 8520 No Data Plan With Carrier / In Post Payment Plan
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Jun 20, 2010I bought an iPhone 3GS off a guy on craigslist and it works great, no complaints. But every few minutes or so I get the alert saying that I "Cannot activate cellular data network - You are not subscribed to a cellular data service", and it's really annoying because it lights up my iPhone all the time and kills my battery. It's also really annoying - it comes up whenever I'm typing a message or playing a game; literally when I do ANYTHING on my phone. I do not have a data plan, but I have used 'unlockit.co.nz' to install a Fake APN to my iPhone to block data. Rogers has also given me a data block. This has been going on ever since I bought the phone, I thought installing a Fake APN would stop it but I guess not. I can't really restore since I have a lot of stuff on this iPhone already.. but if that's the only option then I will be forced to. I used to have an unlocked Fido 3G (about 2 months ago) without data and it never gave me this alert, do you think it has something to do with my 3GS being locked to Rogers?
This phone is a jailbroken iPhone 3GS (model MC143C) running version 3.1.3 (7E18) and locked to the "Rogers 5.0" network. If it helps the modem firmware is 05.12.01.if there are no real solutions, I still have 2 months left on my warranty. Would Apple fix it or give me a new one if I un-jailbreak it?
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iPhone 4, iOS 5.0.1
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iPhone 4S, iOS 5.1.1
IPhone :: Can't Send Any IMessages To 4s
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iPhone 4S, iOS 5.1.1
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iPhone 4S
IPhone :: Can Send Imessages But Not Texts
May 8, 2012I can send iMessages from my iPhone 4s, but not texts. The blue ones send fine, but the green ones just fail and display the red exclamation mark. I don't have an iPad, so don't really have any need for the iMessages, but I need the text to work!
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iPhone 4S
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iPhone 4S, iOS 5.1.1
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iPhone 4S
IPhone :: Unable To Send Or Receive Imessages?
May 19, 2012I am wondering why I am not able to send or receive imessages anymore?
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iPhone 4
IPhone :: Can't Receive Imessages But Can Send Messages?
Jun 6, 2012for the past 5 days or so now I am unable to receive imessages. My phone allows me to send them out but I am getting multiple people telling me that they are unable to send me imessages back, and they are being forced into SMS messages. PLEASE HELP! this is so annoying! my phone is updated and has always worked up until recently. what is the deal?
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iPhone 4, iOS 5.1.1
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iPad 2, iOS 5.0.1
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IPhone 5s :: IOS 7.1.1 - IMessages With Pictures Failed To Send
Jun 5, 2014I'm using a fully updated 5s and getting a delivery failure message whenever I send pics via iMessage. The strange thing is that the people I'm messaging are receiving the messgaes and pics despite the error message on my side. I've talked with some other iPhone users and they are currently having the same issue but I don't see anything online about the problem. I guess it's not a big deal since the messages are being sent.Â
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iPhone 5s, iOS 7.1.1
IPhone 4 :: Texts / IMessages Won't Send - Conversations Are Gone
Dec 10, 2014I have an iPhone 4 (up to date) Â
Frequently, my texts and imessages won't send, the little sending bar stops a little before the end. So I close my messaging app and reopen it to find all the spaces where my text conversations are now replaced with blank spaces. After a few seconds, the "write new message" window opens, and I am able to choose a contact to send to and type a message but the send button doesn't work.
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iPhone 4, iOS 7.1.2,
IPhone :: Unable To Send Imessages To A Fixed Number
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Mar 27, 2012iPhone 3GS
model: MC637C
iOS version: 5.1 (9B176)
This issue started with the last iOS update and has affected not only my phone, but my wife's and father in law's as well (we all have the exact same model) When I attempt to send a text message to my wife, my phone suddenly won't send imessages anymore. Only text. I have tried rebooting my phone, and my wife's phone. We have even tried wiping our phones and restoring them from backups. The problem still persists, wether we are at home connected to wifi or out of the house on 3G. The only way I have managed to send my wife an imessage was by creating a new contact with ONLY her e-mail address. That only worked once. since then, its trying to send everything as SMS again.
This is unacceptable as we live in an area with very poor celular coverage and rely heavily on wifi connections, therefore we won't receive an SMS until our phones get access to the celular network. All other apps and phone functions are working correctly across all 3 phones mentioned. On both my phone, and my wife's, I have double checked to ensure that iMessage is still turned on. I suspect that this is a global software issue seeing as it only started once we updated our phones to the latest iOS. My question is this:
Prior to the update, we were all able to send iMessages to eachother, regardless of where we were. The only time we'd have an issue is if someone's phone was turned off or not connected to either the celular 3G network or a wifi with internet access (which is natural).
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iPhone 3GS, iOS 5.1, iMessages being sent as SMS instead
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iPhone 5s, iOS 7.1.1
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iPhone 4 (8GB)
