{"id":638,"date":"2009-06-24T13:03:49","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T17:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/wordpress\/?p=638"},"modified":"2011-12-17T12:30:40","modified_gmt":"2011-12-17T16:30:40","slug":"what-to-do-with-your-old-iphone-when-you-get-a-new-3gs-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/2009\/06\/what-to-do-with-your-old-iphone-when-you-get-a-new-3gs-iphone\/","title":{"rendered":"What to do with Your old iPhone when you get a new 3Gs iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"

As soon as my ATT store has iPhone 3Gs is stock I will upgrade – I held off upgrading last year – so this is my year! Next year I will be kicking myself – but what the heck!
\nI want to give my old iPhone to Brent to replace his phone – he simply hates carrying his phone around and so maybe if I give him a phone+gaming platform+SMS with keyboard+Wifi Surfing – he will be carry his phone around a lot.
\nWhat I don’t want to do is pay $20.00 for his data plan which he will really not use. I do want to give ATT my money because I will likely pay for tethering on my new phone regardless of the cost.
\nBu you need to put the data plan on the phone – when you activate and if you take it off later – it still uses data here and there and you can rack up a bad bill pretty quick – so you need to really turn off data.
\nI was so cheesed about this that I figured I might finally jailbreak my phone. Driving away from the ATT store I even though about jail-breaking and going to T-Mobile for Brent (I wuz steaming). So far I have not jail-broke my phone on principle (yes – I even resisted “free” tethering – and yes that was hard to resist) – since I am an unabashed Apple-fan-boy I feel good about the “have never jail broke my phone”.
\nAnd then here is a super-duper blog post that effectively shuts off 3G\/Edge data without a jail break by making a fake APN – I don’t know what that means exactly – but it works. Here is the blog post:
\nhttp:\/\/www.iphonedownloadblog.com\/2008\/10\/11\/using-an-iphone-without-the-data-plan\/<\/a>
\nAnd here is the web site it works at:
\nhttp:\/\/unlockit.co.nz\/<\/a>
\nI would go to the blog entry because it has instructions. The instructions worked for me on a first-gen iPhone. I immediately undid the Fake APN (following instructions) since it was only a test. But so far this looks pretty nice.
\nI will do a bit more research and if things feel right, I will end up with three iPhones on my plan (iPhone 3Gs for me with tethering, iPhone 1G’s for Brent and Amanda with data plans turned off). I do have to check to see how much Amanda uses her data plan.
\nAs best I can tell the only bad thing about the no-data-plan is the loss of the visual voice mail feature.
\nFunny thing about this – if the iPhone family data plan was $10 – I would put it on all the phones and never have a second thought. If the family data plan is $20 per phone – I get all crazy and go to great lengths including contemplating jail-breaking phones and switching to TMobile – I have no explanation for this seeming inconsistency. Perhaps the best explanation is that $40 per month is getting awfully close to the payment on a new or slightly used motorcycle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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