[OT] ish Orange APN. iPhone related
Good service award.
We have 2 first gen iPhones unlocked on Orange PAYG sims. I was
struggling to get them to access the Orange gprs data service. They both
work fine as telephones but there is a requirement for my wife to
occasionally get MeMail when away from the home wifi net.
There are plenty of references to various cell providers APN's on the
net including Orange, but they do vary in detail and I was trying all of
them without success yesterday.
In desparation I phoned Orange. In India. And got the usual reading from
a script. He wanted to know what phone so they could send a text message
which would automatically set up the phone. When I told the guy it was
an iPhone I got the usual you can't do that response. Plus he wanted to
know where I bought it. I refused to tell him. He went away to consult,
came back and told me to contact Apple.
I got a bit shirty and told him to stop reading from a script and just
give me the generic APN settings for any phone. He said there weren't
any so I told him he obviously couldn't help me and rang off.
2 minutes later he called me back, apologised and gave me the APN
settings and told me how to input them into a first gen iPhone. (I knew
that anyway but let him talk me through it).
I wonder if they get a lot of calls like mine.
If anyone's interested the APN is orangeinternet and the user and
password are blank.
Crucially though, after putting in these settings you have to reboot the
phone to make it work, which I didn't know about and have never seen
mentioned anywhere else on the net.
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date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:01:51 +0100
author: (ray)
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