TIP: Telecom XT carrier bundle
Dan (nzbullet) | Thursday, July 16th, 2009 | 137 Comments » | 55,967 views
iPhone XT Style
Here are the files you need if you want to optimise your experience on the XT Network. The iPhone will work on XT without these however it makes life easier
Once loaded the file will do the following:
- Enable Data
- Enable Tethering (using your iPhone as a mobile broadband modem)
- Enable MMS (picture messaging)
- Enable Voicemail Button (to call voicemail)
- Update Taskbar Logo
With XT Logo
Install Instructions
Please download the zip file below for your OS which contains everything you need to install the Carrier Bundle. Contained in the ZIP file there are PDF’s of the instructions, the carrier bundle, and an AppleScript/Command Script to automatically Fix iTunes. Please read these FAQ’s if you have any questions. Please note these files DO work with iTunes 9.
Mac User.zip / PDF Only
PC User.zip / PDF Only
Video Tutorials
If you have any trouble following our guide, or are curious to see the process involved please watch either of the below video tutorials, depending on whether you are using a PC or Mac. Please note to watch these in HD click the videos whilst they are playing, this will open them in YouTube where you can watch them in full-screen HD.
Mac OSX Video Tutorial
Windows Video Tutorial
HELP:
1. Please re-read the instructions, then read them again. After you have done that read them again to make sure you are following them correctly. Nearly all of the issues we have resolved through email in the past are because the instructions are not being followed correctly. If you are still unsure, please watch the above video tutorials.
2.Please use the forums or the comments here if you are still having issues.
Please note: we no longer offer email support for the carrier bundles. There just isn’t the time.
[Carrier Bundle Updated 06/02/10]
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Hi nice wallpaper, where did you get it?
It was one I created
This is awesome! My iPhone 3GS is coming from Apple, hoping for it early next week. I can’t wait to load this software onto it.
AMAZING website by the way! So handy!
Glad you like the site, don’t forget to tell every one about it
Also don’t forget we have an iPhone optimised version of the site. Just visit the site from your iPhone and it’ll automatically take you there.
I would love to hear if anyone has successfully roamed after doing this!
I can confirm the bundle DOES allow roaming (at least in OZ).
Was there yesterday, all worked fine.
@Richard – thank you for confirming that for us, appreciate it.
3.1 beta 2 disables tethering on non-approved carriers…i.e XT and 2D.
More info here
Cheers
Dan
Hi. I dont have 3.1b2 with me, however I read that if you set the version of the ipcc higher than the version thats in the firmware/ipsw then your custom settings take precendence.
Anyone with 3.1b2 willing to try this out?
@acsonline Thanks for the tip, we will test later today and report back.
Note: in OSX you MUST use ‘Get Info’ to change the file name if it saves it as a .zip, you can’t just click the file and remove the .zip extn.
Hi, can I put these settings onto my phone MANUALLY if I want to? If so, is there a list of the settings somewhere?
Also, how do I get back to Vodafone settings if I have to do that with my iPhone?
Finally – you talk about this update possibly affecting roaming – is that a permanent problem or is it possible that later updates would fix this issue?
The only things you can manually add are MMS and Data.
The Voicemail button, Xt Logos, Tethering ad a few other bits all need to be done through the carrier bundle.
Personally I recommend you add the settings through the carrier bundle. If you don’t want to have the XT Logo then the second option of just the text XT can be used.
We are working on confirming roaming in all countries. It is my belief that it works, but Telecom have asked me to advise people that it may not. Once it is tested in Europe, if it works, we will remove the warnings. If it doesn’t we will continue to work on a fix for it.
If you want to go back to the Voda settings you just need to swicth your phone off, put your SIM card in and switch back on. All the settings for all official carriers are already stored on the device.
Cheers Dan, I’m currently halfway through reading TWENTY THREE pages of the Geekzone thread (!!).
Is there any “harm” that this update could cause?
And could you please confirm – IF this update “breaks” roaming (which isn’t important to me currently), then are you saying that a future update could fix it? ie. the damage is not permanent?
Finally – so basically installing this lets me “SIM hop” between XT and VF sims just by a simple power cycle?
Cheers.
This will do no harm to your device. I repeat NO HARM
Yes a future update to the bundle could fix the roaming issue (if there is one). But as I say, I don’t think there is an issue. I am 99% sure roaming will work.
It doesn’t cause ‘damage’ and if you ever wanted to remove the bundle, just because you decided you didn’t want it anymore, then you could just do a restore of your iPhone and it will be gone.
It does more than let you just SIM hop, you can do that without the bundle. This adds extras, like the MMS settings, Data Settings, Tethering Settings, XT Logo, Shortcuts to *123/*333/Your Telecom, activates the voicemail button to dial voicemail (without it the button does nothing).
Thanks Dan
One final question before I go to bed. As a new Telecom customer (well soon to be), I don’t know how “Tworld” works. The website says that this is WAP based.
Does it work on the iPhone/does this update set the WAP settings?
Oh and I forgot to add. I’m running 3.0 with jailbreak (PwnageTool) because I wanted to be able to turn data on/off using SBSettings.
Am I good to go with the update or do I need to be aware of anything if I am jailbroken (iPhone 3G).
Thanks.
Only certain parts of Tworld can be accessed on the iPhone. Once you have added the bundle, under Settings–>Phone there is an option for ‘Telecom Services’ and under that you will see an option for ‘Your Telecom 3G’. If you press that it will take you to the your account part of TWorld, ask you to login (with your mobile # and a password you will set when you first go in to it) and will show you your Data, Text and call usage. You can navigate to some other areas whilst there but not much. apparently Telecom are working on enabling more of TWorld through the iPhone.
The iPhone doesn’t do WAP, it does full web browsing. hence why only some parts of TWorld work.
NOTE: This is only available when you are on 3G and doesn’t work over Wi-Fi.
The update works fine with jailbroken devices, but please note: we offer no support for and do not endorse jailbreaking on this site
Thanks Dan,
Just finished reading the 23 pages on GZ. Someone (maybe me) needs to collate all the sum knowledge into a FAQs!!
Hopefully it all goes smoothly when I get my new XT SIM in the mail tomorrow.
P.S. When are you next doing an XT vs. VF3G speed test? It was your results that compelled me to get an XT sim
If you want to do a FAQs we will post them here for you, just send them in an email for us.
Next speed test comparison coming soon. Possibly even tomorrow.
For some reason Shift+Check for update doesn’t always work on Vista, some people report success and others are having issues. I think this is an isolated issue to a few users.
There are reports that these two fixes *may* work:
1.Right clicking iTunes.exe, clicking on the compatibility tab and checking the “compatibility enabled” tick box allows you to ‘Shift+Check for update’, however yesterday, when I tried this, it just refused to start iTunes.
or
2. Run iTunes as administrator.
- That means right click ur itunes program icon and press the option ‘run as administrator’
- Typically speaking the option doesn’t appear for shortcuts so open up ur itunes program folder:
Computer > Local Disk C > Program Files > Itunes
Then right click on the file thats named ‘Itunes.exe’; then click ‘run as administrator’
wait for it to load and go through all the notifications, sometimes it says theme has been changed and vista home premium or business etc. looks like vista basic. Don’t worry, now use the shift + restore option.
This will only work once, and then you will have to close iTunes and reopen as administrator
Any other fix?…..Unfortunately at this stage you will need to find someone with either a Mac or XP/Win7 and use their machine.
I have managed this on Vista without having to either of the processes above so as I say it is isolated to a few cases. If anyone else knows the answer please let us know.
Many thanks – read instructions twice as advised and worked a treat – thanks again
I am trying to install XT ipcc on my iphone and after following the pdf instruction 4 times and using the itunes patch included i still cant install it. When holding CMD and pressing check for update it just says my phone is current. i Have tried to find an apple version of the check box for apple as mentioned above for vista but cant find any option like it.
I did my research and what i found is Itunes 8.2.6 disables ipcc updating.
Is there any work around or trick im not finding?
Im using OS X 10.4
Are you pressing ‘CMD’ or ‘Option’? The key you need to be holding is ‘Option’
Yeah so i switched to Apple 4 years ago and now consider myself very well educated in both mac and cough* Windows yet i still get the two buttons mixed up. Needless to say it works well.
Thanks heaps.
Hanging my head in shame.
Glad you sorted it
How do you install bundles?
@newtoiphone – Download the file above for your OS (Mac User or PC User links) It contains all the instructions you need.
Thanks, Dan. I’ve been on the XT network since leaving VF in July – as a prepaid. Couldn’t tether until I downloaded the carrier settings you provided. Works like a dream. Thanks heaps.
What a great site, thankyou for the help, the i phone works perfectly on the XT network, keep up the good work.
Hi All, im confused, i have a new 3gs which i have been using in Australia, Hong Kong, China last week, and did not need to load anything? I’m off to Italy this weekend and are not antispating any issues?@Richard -
Hi. All loaded well when followed the instructions perfectly… however, fixed the answer phone problem but no luck with MMS. Has anyone else had this problem? or is there another fix? Hopefully there is a solution to tethering soon as I am not sure if I should go back to 3.0.1. Cheers though for the hard work with the programme.
@kocama – You can use your iPhone without this bundle on XT and yes it will work anywhere. This bundle just adds some extras. The warning about roaming is only there for caution, but we are pretty sure it is fine and it is more to do with data roaming. We are just waiting on confirmation from the UK that all works fine and then the warnings will be removed.
@eviltori – Have you got 3G switched on? I assume you have otherwise you would have no service.
Have you switched on MMS? When you say it doesn’t work can you elaborate a bit, can you compose the mms and then it fails to send?
Thanks for that, very impressed with the quick reply. Opps, new device and didn’t have MMS on. Now seems to work well if I send it to myself. Some of the people I have sent stuff to can’t get it but I wonder if that is more an issue with their devices. Keep up the good work and keep working on the tethering issue. cheers
How do I remove the carrier bundle, I need to now use this phone with another SIM in Aus
@Woodger – Hi Woodger, you don’t need to remove the carrier bundle to use your iPhone with another carrier. The settings in our bundle are only applied while an XT sim inside your iphone, so you can just remove it and insert your aussie one.
HI there
Having a little problem loading the .ipcc file on. I have undated my itunes and iphone. I am holding down the option button but it just says itunes up to date. How else can i get the file onto the iphone. Can you drag etc??? Im pretty average with comps. When i drag it a warning comes up saying, cannot move file to iphone as it does not play this, or something along those lines. So how do you come up with the option to open the ipcc onto the phone. i have read the instructions many times and just cannot get my head around it.
Thanks
Also forgot to mention whenever i click on th iphone in the side bar it comes up with a error 9807 saying it cant connect to itunes.
thanks
@henry111 – What OS are you using (OSX, XP, Vista or Win7)?
osx 10.5.8
You have said “it says iTunes is up to date”, do you mean it says iPhone is up to date? I assume when you ran the “Fix-iTunes-8.2″ that you had quit iTunes?
HI
I can do all the fix it ok. Its just when i plug my iphone in, the symbol and iphone comes up at the side but does not have any info come up in the middle. When i click on the iphone the up to date thing and specs do not come up in the middle. instead it say. Unknown error, cannot connect to itunes error 9807.
Therefor the only check update button i can click is by going itunes- check for updates, which i know is not the right one. I have read blogs saying its something to do with the key chain etc. i have run a keychain first aid to no avail.
thanks
You may have to re-install iTunes. Not sure what has happened there. You could do this from someone elses machine if you want. It doesn’t have to be done from the same computer your iTunes library is stored on.
Thanks to user “Roger” we can confirm the bundle works in Europe with no issues.
I have installed the bundle but am still having problems sending mms. I’m running v3.01 with iTunes 9.0.1.
MMS is turned on and I can attach a photo but it will not send.
These are my MMS settings….
APN wap.telecom.co.nz
MMSC https://lsmmc.xtra.co.nz
MMS Proxy 210.55.11.73:8080
MMS Max Message Size 614400
Any ideas????
@nz.craig – You could go to telecom and ask them to reset the mms settings on your sim card. This is what I did and then mms worked fine, sending and receiving.
@nz.craig – Both SMS and MMS support text messaging. If Show Subject Field is enabled in Settings > Messages > MMS > Show Subject Field, you can only send messages after you have typed content in the Body field. Until then, the Send button will be grayed out, and you will be unable to send the message. If you add text to the Subject and Body field you will automatically send via MMS. If you wish to send via SMS, not MMS, either type text in the Body field only, or disable the Show Subject Field option. The following illustrates this relationship:
Subject Field only – Will not send
Body Field only – SMS
Subject Field and Body Field – MMS
Can you check the “Show subject field” setting is switched to off and try again
@Dan – Thanks Dan – I can confirm that “Show subject field” is off.
@bush1e – Thanks – I will try this the next time I pass a store.
OK same thing with being unable to MMS however I seem to have the solution.
I went to telecom and the very helpful lady there didn’t know about resetting the SIM card, however she adjusted my setting (were the same as nz.craig has listed above), to the following.
Settings>> General >> Network >> Cellular Data
APN: internet.telecom.co.nz
Username blank
password blank
MMS
APN: internet.telecom.co.nz
Username blank
password blank
MMSC http://lsmmsc.xtra.co.nz
MMS Proxy 210.55.11.73.8080
MMS message size 614499
How she described it is it seems she only had to put in the internet.telecom.co.nz bit and the rest loaded automatically. At least this way you have all the settings. Have now confirmed this works to vodafone and telecom phones.
Enjoy
@eviltori – Cheers mate. I reset my settings and then entered the APN you list above and, as you say, all the other details simply defaulted. However, I still have had no luck. I’ve rebooted and still nothing.
Aaarghhhh! I give up!
OMG, it worked – I was just about to confirm this post and it worked!! Must have taken a minute or two to update some settings somewhere or other.
Thanks for your help.
Horray. I feel my work here is done. My phone now works exactly as I want except for tethering. Together we can take over the world!
@ahmad –
I had purchased my iPhone directly from the Apple website. In order to get it to work I found this forum and downloaded the carrier bundle and got everything to work except for the “Tworld” feature. I have tried the Telecom store and they them-self along with the help desk were hopeless. But I managed to find the below forum on GeekZone and tried it and it works perfectly fine. So go ahead and try it.
NOTE: This will only work when your iPhone is connected to the Telecom 3G network and NOT via WiFi. This is a FREE service that is provided on Telecom branded handsets.
But for non-branded phones I am told it will eat in to your data plan.
http://www.geekzone.co.nz/NealR/6767
@alopes – Hi alopes — glad to hear you’re enjoying your iPhone with our carrier bundle, but I’m not sure why you needed the above link to access TWorld — our carrier bundle actually includes a bookmark for TWorld and Your Telecom and puts them in Safari for you. It also creates a link to Your Telecom via settings –> phone –> Telecom NZ Services.
@Steve –
Thank you for that. I would like to know if the “Telecom NZ Services” button in the iPhone can it be changed to something like “Telecom TWorld” it would be of great help or would that be too much to ask.
With regards to using the “Telecom NZ Services” button will it eat into my data for the month or is if FREE as provided by telecom. Please advise?
Data used by visiting TWorld or Your Telecom on your iPhone is charged at the normal data rates (unfortunately).
Loving the site!
Having an issue with the XT carrier setup thou. Cross fingers that you can help. I think I have done everything in your PDF but when it come to firing up itunes what ever I do I can not get the pop up box to pop up when I press “shift” on my keyboard and the “check for update button”. It tells me I have the latest version of itunes and would I like to update to 3.1.2 (I push cancel to this because I dont). Im NOT using vista but XP with service pack two. Since I cant go any further I’m now a bit lost. I’ve tried reinstalling itunes but that didnt help. Any suggestions?? Regards C.
Dont worry, I got it
Thanks again for a great site!
C.
I’m so confused!! help!
I’m not too good with these sorts of things!
so i can get it all sorted until it gets to the part where i have to press update while holding control… then it doesnt come up with the option to change it to iPhone carrier configuration files… is this because in the step before when i click run for the batch file, when i click that run the black box flashes up the disappears again…
any help would be muchly appreciated
Thanks
Stacey
hi Stacey
sounds as if you are doing what I was doing. You need to open itunes and then synced your iphone. On the left hand side click the line that has come up with the name of your iphone under “devices”.
Under “Version” you will see “update”. While holding down the shift key click update and the magic box will appear. try that. C.
hmmm i can get to that point and get the box up but its the drop down option i dont get which is the next step after getting the box up im just stumped…
( I dont have it in front of me so im going off memory)
When the box pops up (at the bottom) there is a drop down menu which give you two options. Change it to the other option (it shows you this on the PDF instructions). Then hit browse and go to where you extracted the XT bundle carrier files. Go into this this folder until you come across the file that you need. There are only a couple of folders to look in so it takes 5 seconds.
C.
yeah i get to that point where the drop down menu is there but i dont have the other option to select like theres only the one option there and thats the default one i cant select another one to change to… its too weird… might just have to take it into the telecom store and get them to do it for me, i just am no good with this technology (was hoping it wouldnt be so difficult
)
@Stacey – Hi Stacey, are you on Vista or XP? If you are running Vista you will need to use a PC with XP installed. For some reason Vista doesn’t like this and therefore you can’t change the option to ipcc file type in the pop up box. If you do what you have done from XP it will work. If you are using XP then it may be that iTunes is still running?? if so then you need to make sure iTunes is fully closed down before running the .bat file
Hi will the 3.1 firm ware update still allow me to install the xt carrier bundle, and if I do install it will it still enable, Data ,MMS, Voicemail Button and Update Taskbar Logo.
As I was running the carrier bundle then down loaded the3.1.2 update wile I was in the US, came home got of the plane and had trouble with data. So I did a factory reset and now have none of the cool functions I had when was running the XT carrier bundle. Any help greatly appreciated.
Mark
@cabbage – You can install the bundles on any version, however anything over firmware 3.0 and you will lose the ability to use tethering.
Hi I currently am running Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit and I get up the the “hold shift and click check for update” button and then it pops open the folder but I cannot change the file type to ipcc as stated in the instructions page. Help would be much appreciated. I have the latest iTunes and iPhone updates. Cheers
@sven007 – As per comment above “If you are running Vista you will need to use a PC with XP installed. For some reason Vista doesn’t like this and therefore you can’t change the option to ipcc file type in the pop up box.”
Cheers
Dan
Hey Dan
Thanks for that. Now got to find a friend with Windows XP lol. Cheers
Hi Dan thanks for the info re the carrier bundle, I have re installed it on my I phone since I had problems with receiving data after the 3.1 firmware update. Every thing seems to be working well except I don’t seem to be able to activate MSM messaging , I have looked in the settings on the phone but don’t seem to be able to activate msm messaging. Any Idea on how to activate MSM.
I am now running 3.1.2 on the Phone.
Great site Regards Mark
Hi Cabbage, Check out the settings I used (post dated 1st October) as that fixed the problem re MMS for my phone and at least one other person.
That worked a treat , I did try installing the changes to the apn settings last night but stuffed up two digits . Re entered the changes today, powered down the phone turned it on again and all is good MMS is back camera icon and all.
Thanks for the help, what would we do without a website like this.
Fist off I’d just like to say love the site.
I have installed the carrier bundle on my iphone with no problems and straight away noticed the updated taskbar logo I then tried the voicemail button with success there also.
Since getting my iphone I have been unable to send or receive mms messages. MMS is turned on in my settings but when I try send a photo a red exclamation mark comes up that says “Your message was not sent. Tap “Try Again” to send this message”.
I have tried adjusting the settings as suggested by eviltori but still had no success.
Do you have sufficient credit? Perhaps it is an issue at Telecom. Call 123 and say MMS/PXT is not working and to check your account.
Hi Mak;
I can confirm I have credit available as I’m on account.
I have previously spoken to telecom and they got me to adjust the settings as per eviltori’s instructions but still nothing
Go to: Settings -> General -> Reset -> Reset Network Settings.
The phone will turn off (go black, Apple logo) and turn back on. NOW, reboot the phone (hold down sleep/wake and home until you get the slider to power off). Start up by holding down the sleep/wake button for a few seconds.
If that doesn’t work, you could restore your phone (to the latest firmware). It might work, no guarantees.
If you have another XT sim available or you could obtain (friend, family etc), try using that to send one. That would isolate whether it’s the phone or Telecom.
Hi,
Tried to install Telecom_nz.ipcc on iPhone 3.1.2 and the dialog box won’t allow me to select a file with extension .ipcc It *only* allows .ipsw files.
I tried to fake it out by renaming the file as Telecom_nz.ipsw, but it was no fool. I got a “incompatible firmware” error message.
Is there a new carrier bundle for 3.1.2?
No new carrier bundle needed, this one works with 3.1.2. A couple of questions:
1. Are you using Vista? If yes then see this comment
2. If not have you followed the instructions in the PDF?
Thanks Dan…I figured it out…and all is working now.
FWIW, I am running XP.
For the benefit of other readers, the batch file will not execute properly if iTunes is already running. Shut it down, run the batch file then re-launch iTunes.
Glad you sorted it, FYI the instructions do say to close iTunes. I guess it doesn’t explicitly say “make sure iTunes is not running” but hopefully that and your comment will stop others having that issue.
I earlier had installed the TELECOM carrier bundle on my iphone via my PC and all worked brilliant (Except tethering) on 3.1.2. I then decided to upgrade my PC to with the NEW iMac and was having problems trying to get my iPhone to sync it. So i had to do a hard reset as per the advice from the Apple care. So i re-installed the TELECOM carrier bundle on the iPhone via the imac and it works just as well. Most of the people here are installing the carrier bundle via a PC on their iphone. So for those that have own the iMac and the iPhone, i thought i might as well give my 2 cents.
I am running iTunes 9 on Windows XP and 3.1.2 on my iPhone 3G and would like would like to install an appropriate Telecom XT carrier bundle. Tried the bundle above but didn’t work (as advised because of iTunes 9) Any suggestions?
The fix-bundle above has a fix for iTunes, the Carrier Bundles and a guide, at what point are you having issues with it??
Also above it says “Please note these files DO work with iTunes 9.”
Dan – started again, FOLLOWED THE INSTRUCTIONS and it worked. Simple really. Thanks for providng the support.
Hi Dan, worked like a dream once I placed the zip file on my OSX desktop then opened it. Had to manually enter the mms setting but today is a happy day 083210
Cheers
Shane
Hi There. just got a 3Gs at the weekend. loaded the telecom bundle. works great, except for e-mail, contacts and calendar. when i set up my work server account it conected fine and downloaded but keep coming up with connection error. took about 3 hours to bring in all my emails and contacts and apointments. now only half of my apointments are there and it only brings in e-mails sometimes. comes up with connection error. is it a setting on the phone or on my works server. ???? thanks
I have low speakerphone volume (at the receivers end), since switching to XT. Seems the microphone now does not increase sensitivity when in speakerphone mode, so people can barely hear me now. The mic is clean, and works fine when not on speakerphone. Saw another iPhone user on XT with the same problem. Changing back to the Voda SIM did not cure the problem. any ideas? -Bill
Hi Dan. All installed and have the logo and MMS is running but not the answer phone key and when I try to use safari I get the message “Could not activate cellular data network”. I’m on a new body Mac Pro and have a iphone 3GS. Tried the patch twice, same result. Any thoughts? Tim
@bottler – if you’ve got the logo and MMS is working it sounds like the patch has been applied correctly. Our guess is the other issues might be Telecom-related – i.e. that something isn’t setup right at their end. If you dial your own mobile number from your mobile, do you get your voicemail? Also do you have another XT mobile you could put your SIM in to see if you can access data from there? If not then give Telecom a ring. It could be that for whatever reason they haven’t enabled these services properly for you.
Thanks heaps. Will chase it up. Tim
All sorted. It was an issue with settings. Thanks. Tim
Does XT have a prepay plan for iPhone?
Message 4 chomancho1: Yes you can use your iPhone on prepay. When i got my iphone i tried to use the pre-pay and it was NOT worth having it. Especially what what all the iphone it is capable of doing.
So my recommendation is if you are not a heavy user then sign up to the Combo plan which is under $15/month and if you will get 20min free talk time (Remember on the XT Network you are billed per the second, unlike on the old network you would be billed per the minute) Besides the Combo plan does not lock you in into a fixed contract. Then add the $12/m data plan. Good luck with your decision.
I’m on XT prepaid and I find it fine. The good thing is you can use what you want when you want it. Unless your phone usage matches a plan perfectly then I would go prepaid.
I have Non-stop TXT addon for $12/month and I usually have the data 120MB but I have that disabled for this month since I won’t be out of WiFi range for long.
Good luck with your decision. Prepaid details for XT can be found on their website.
Hi there
Thanks for this great information, sorry to sound retarded but i’m seriously not a computer person, i tried to follow the instructions, watched the vid step by step and red all the forum but still can’t sort my problem.
when i try to open the C:\Program Files\itunes\fix-itunes.bat, i get an error saying windows cannot find it, it asks me to check the spelling even though i just moved the file from the zip file and clicked on it. I have quite an old version of XP (2002) would that be causing the problem?
thanks for your help
Thanks for such a handy website and all the good work!!
I’ve just installed the XT Carrier bundle and everything seems to be working smoothly, but I cannot see an option to send an MMS! Have I done something wrong? I use a 3GS 32 GB phone and installed it via Windows XP.
To send an MMS you open the message app and there should be a little camera icon next to the text input area. If you tap on that you will be able to choose whether to take a picture or use an existing.
Thanks Dan, I don’t seem to have the little camera icon next to the text input area. Wonder whether I installed it wrong. I followed the video instructions on YouTube. Should I re-install?
Under Settings>>Messages have you switched on “MMS Messaging” and switched off “show Subject Field”?
Thanks for that Dan. Everything got sorted once I re-booted the phone ( I did not realise that you had to hold the button down firmly for a bit!- novice novice novice!!). You run an amazing service and if no one else has done so, allow me to offer you the title of The Kiwi iPhone Messiah!!!! Cheers.
Can you put your SIM Card in the slot before activating and then activate the iPhone
Yes you can
Thanks
I switched to XT on my iPhone 3 months ago but have been suffering from random data access. I did the carrier bundle but have only been able to access data for 1 week out of 4 so far until today.
The fix was to actually switch the phone completely off and restart. I usually only swicth to airplane mode at night and use on WiFi in many locations so have still been able to access data much of the time.
However there is 1 strange feature I have noted with voicemail. Sometimes the voicemail won’t access with the correct pin numnber even though that shows on the screen.
It seems to be a time / tone error. If the number is clicked for more than a fraction of a second it counts it as a double click even though it clearly shows the correct number on the screen.
Wondering if others have noticed this?
@JasonK – if that happens again, I would have your mobile looked at by a repair agent. That does not sound normal. With regards to voicemail PIN, that has been discussed around the site quite a lot. Best thing to do is to disable the PIN from inside the options in the mailbox itself — after all, if you’ve got your iPhone secured do you need the extra layer of security of a voicemail PIN too?
Does it make any difference about changing your iphone to XT if you get it from the apple online store?
No none at all
Thanks
Have just installed the bundle and everything is working great.
Just 1 question though. When it comes do updating do I have to put a vodafone sim card back in or will it update with my telecom xt sim card in. Beforehand I had to put the vodafone one back in.
Cheers
No, you should just leave everything as is and update.
Awesome thanks.. Great website to by the way..
Hi, thanx for this-I’ve added the file to my phone, is there anyway of knowing it will work before I put the SIM card in??
No there isn’t but it doesn’t make any difference whether you have the SIM card in or not when you apply it. When you put the SIM card in, if you used the XT logo version then you will know it worked as you will have the logo. If it reads Telecom then it hasn’t worked. Chances are it worked.
Thanx for your time-can’t wait to use it in NZ
Folks,
Having just completed the XT carrier bundle installation I’m pleased to say that it all worked easily, but may I make the following observations as feedback:
1) the .zip file doesn’t extract cleanly as it has multiple instances of the same file name (‘pc-itunes-fix’ and ‘_MACOSX’ as both file and as a folder) – so using the PDF instructions to ‘extract the zip to your desktop’ gave duplicate file name errors, but I notice the video instructions drag the needed files individually (and thus extract one at a time without striking this issue with duplicate names)
2) the PDF says ’simply restart your phone’ but the logo and voicemail button were up and working without a restart (so is a restart necessary?)
Thanks heaps for all the help and info on the site – it’s great.
It is always good practice to reboot a device after a fairly major update has been applied. You probably don’t need to but yeah, above.
hi ya i have installed the xt bundle but still cant send any mms i have the right settings, what else can i do to get it sorted?? my iphone is jail broken would that cause it not to work in some way
Are you able to press the send button but it then fails or can you not press the send button at all?
If you can press the send button but it fails please try this:
Go to Settings>> General >> Network >> Cellular Data
and under MMS Change the APN to: internet.telecom.co.nz
If it won’t allow you to press the send button then please check that under ‘Settings >> Messages’ you shave witched on “MMS Messaging” and switched off “show Subject Field”?
Hi, What a fantastic site. Having bought an Iphone for hubby through Apple I thought I’d be trying to unraval overseas advice to try to make the thing work but thanks to your site have managed to get through most of the issues without too much problem! Firstly, fyi, I have a machine running Vista and had no problems running the shift update instruction, although it took an age for the Iphone summary screen to appear in Itunes. I thought I had done something wrong but it eventually appeared! The phone now seems to work fine but the contacts are empty. There are definatly 100’s of contacts on the card as I can view them when card is in my Nokia. Any clues? Thanks!
Crikey, actually found the import sim contacts button! Duh!!! lol Thnx
Im heading off on a long long well deserved holiday overseas. I have heard of horror stories of people with iPhones being charged huge data charges when they come back from their holidays. In fact there is an article in the todays NZHerald. I would like to know what are the settings that i need to do on my iPhone so that i do not get these charges. When i’m overseas all i want my iphone to be able to do is send & receive calls and send & receive SMS messages. Thank you in advance.
You just need to go into Settings >> General >> Network >> Data Roaming…. and make sure it switched to off. I would also make sure that ‘Push’ is switched off and that your emails are set to fetch manually, or just disable them while you are away.
That story is ridiculous. Firstly, I searched Google for “data roaming charges xt” the top (unsponsored) link goes to the Telecom Roaming page which gives you all the details of the pricing.
Secondly he knew about the data roaming switch and continued to use it.
If he chose not to check the pricing and then to use it then that’s his own fault.
The “Data Roaming Switch” defaults to ‘Off’ so he would have had to switch it on. He used 42MB in the 10 days he was away (based on $343 divided by $8 per MB) which is roughly 4MB a day and in my experience is average for iPhone users.
EVERYONE who owns an iPhone knows that the iPhone uses data all the time, even when your not using it.
See link above to the Telecom page, it’s pretty clear to me!
The NZHerald should be ashamed at running that story. It has had no proper research done and is just another attack at the big bad Telecom who, no matter what, for some people will never be able to do anything right.
@ Dan (nzbullet):
Thanks for your input. It was well worth it.
Hi there,
I am still having problems sending an MMS. It comes up with the message send failure and has the little red ‘!’ icon beside the text and picture. I have double and triple checked my settings but am still having no luck.
Thanks
@ Searly: Can you try this:
Go to Settings>> General >> Network >> Cellular Data
and under MMS Change the APN to: internet.telecom.co.nz
Hi there,
Ive done that and these are my current settings:
MMS:
APN internet.telecom.co.nz
Username blank
Password blank
MMSC http://Ismmsc.xtra.co.nz
MMS Proxy 210.55.11.73:8080
MMS Max Message Size 614499
MMS UA Prof URL blank
thanks
MMSC http://Ismmsc.xtra.co.nz
That should be an l not an I
Thank you, but it still isnt working…
Have you checked with Telecom that your SIM card is set up correctly? I would suggest this is your next step. Let us know how you get on.
That idiot who took his phone to Australia deserves what he got. It’s a SMARTPHONE and it’s not going to stop what it’s doing just because you don’t directly tell it to.
Hi there,
Amazing site you guys have set up!
I’ve had my iPhone about a month now, and installed the XT carrier bundle from day 1. It works pretty well, but I’m wondering if anyone else is having crash/freeze issues with their phone as a result of using this carrier bundle? It may be unrelated, but my phone will crash or freeze up at least once an hour when using almost anything (Safari and Email especially). Is this a phone issue more than a carrier bundle issue?
Many thanks for your help!
@ whatarethey: That definitely isn’t a side-effect of the carrier bundle that you’re experiencing there. Try a reboot, if that doesn’t solve it try a restore (after which you’ll need to reinstall our bundle) and if that doesn’t solve it give Apple a call.
Try as I might, I cannot get itunes to display the “open file” dialog box when I hold the shift key down while I click on “Check for Updates” – it just does the conventional “This version of the iphone software is the current version”. Yes, I really am holding down the shift key when I click on “Check for Update”. I am using itunes version 9. What the heck am I doing wrong? I have followed the instructions religiously.
@ Ken Leech:
Open Start Menu>Run
paste the following in:
“%ProgramFiles%\iTunes\iTunes.exe” /setPrefInt carrier-testing 1
make sure iTunes is closed first
Hi Dan,
How do I ut the XT Logo on my iPhone 3GS ? The one with the time on it and slide bar for unlock picture. I’ve updated the new patch Ive just read about today as required, but dont understand how to do the XT Pixture Logo
Kind Regards
Kevin
Curly are you talking about the wallpaper? Do a search for XT wallpaper on this site and you’ll find the post.