iPhone on T-Mobile T-Zones

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All credit for the hard work here goes to syasses and the iphone dev team and my friend sachin who sold me his old 1st gen iphone for cheap. I just wanted to aggregate all the steps in one place and share my experience. I linked to sources where applicable.
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This documents my experience from start to finish of unlocking, jailbreaking, and proxying a 1st Gen 2.0 iPhone to work with the T-Mobile T-Zones dataplan (the $5.99/mo one). I figured there should be one page that has all the steps from start to finish.

0) Buy an iPhone (1st gen, not 3G).

1) Unlock and jailbreak phone. One app will do this all for you, but you need access to a mac. Download it here: http://blog.iphone-dev.org/post/42931306/pwnagetool-2-0-1

Follow the instruction here: http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=1557

There are instruction out there on how to do this on win32, but I haven't tried them.

2) Here's how to sign up for the cheapest T-Mobile data plan (T-Zones - $5.99/mo)

• Goto my.t-mobile.com.
• Login.
• Under the "My Account" menu click on "Change Services".
  
• Scroll down to "Web & Application" and select "T-MobileWeb".
• Then click "Change services" at the bottom and step through all their confirmation pages.
• Now, this can take up to 24 hours to take effect. You can continue following the rest of the steps, but if it doesn't work right away, try waiting 24 hours.
  

3) You should have Cydia installed after Pwnage pwned your phone. Which is great because there just happens to be an app that handles all the t-mobile hacks for your

• Open Cydia from the home screen.
  
• Hit "Section" in the lower menu.
• Scroll down to "Tweaks".
• Scroll down to "TZones Hack".
• Select and install it.
• When it's done, restart the iphone (hold down power + home for 8 second).
• Once it comes up, goto Settings > General > Network > Cellular Data (used to be label EDGE). In the APN field you should see "wap.voicestream.com". Username and password should be blank.
• To test your connection disable wifi (Settings > Wifi > Wifi Off) and open up Safari. You should be able to hit pages. If you have Gmail configured w/ IMAP, it should also work as should Google Maps. YouTube does NOT work, unfortunately, so you'll have to save the videos for when your're on wifi.
  

4) Speed test. Make sure you're not on wifi. Here are some to try:

• http://www.iphonespeedtest.com/
• http://i.dslr.net/tinyspeedtest.html
• http://testmyiphone.com/speedtest
  

6) Done. It's not the fastest connection in the world. It's sort of bursty, but it's enough to check mail, etc. And, hey.. it's only $5.99.