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adsl3g said:
Ha ha - I would assume it must be disabled! DAMN - gotta go to a meeting now!!! No playing for now!
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swirly is rather unstable i'm afraid.... keeps rebooting my phone when i try to download the mms i sent myself

could not send over 3G (apple's mms client could send over 3G from other locations than where i am right now)

it's starting to look more and more like a freakin vodacom network issue....

apparently some 3G towers can't handle mms, some can...
 
RaptorSA said:
Dude, you rock :D
Now, how do I "replace" the current map? Over SSH?
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Once you've installed the app, browse to the folder on your iPhone and replace the current map with the SA one.

\private\var\mobile\applications\(look for the sygic app)\Sygic Australia & New Zealand.app\map\aus\
 
Retro said:
Once you've installed the app, browse to the folder on your iPhone and replace the current map with the SA one.

\private\var\mobile\applications\(look for the sygic app)\Sygic Australia & New Zealand.app\map\aus\
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*Looks for way to browse iPhone over USB in windows (yes I still hate SSH)*
 
MMS for 3.0 on vodacom

so it's official, it's a vodacom network issue, NOT an iPhone issue

the latest and greatest ipcc correctly configures mms, however, some of the vodacom 3G towers appear to be connected to an MSC that has no channel to the mmsc/mms apn

basically what this means, if you are connected to one of these towers, and your phone's 3G is enabled, your phone will get a notification from the network that tells it there's an mms waiting on the server

here's where the issues start, the phone now continuously tries to activate the mms apn, if and when this works, it tries to connect to the mms gateway, this step fails, it then activates the normal data apn again, waits a few seconds, and starts the process all over again

this continuous apn switching is what interrupts the phones usually stable connection to the 3G network, and results in unstable data connection and dropped voice calls when on 3G

you have one of two options to overcome this

1) disable mms and delete the mms apn on the phone, and install swirlyMMS, swirly will only activate the mms apn once you tap on the mms, i.e, altering the connection state is manual, only when you, the user, asks swirly to do so by opening an mms. swirly is currently unstable, and reboots the phone when downloading an mms through one of these towers on gprs, but, you can always wait until you're somewhere else and try again... this instability is bound to be fixed in a next release though

2) use the existing iphone mms client, when your connection seems unstable, you probably have an mms waiting and you're in one of these areas, so, disable 3G, wait for the mms to deliver and re enable 3G, or disable mms until you move out of the problem area

in the meantime, i suggest reporting the location where your mms over 3G fails to vodacom so they get enough reports to look into the issue, right now they believe there is no issue
 
theron.roland said:
thing is, meebo's probably going to be free :(

does beejive do skype voip calls? or just the text? (i may have asked this before, if i have i apologize)
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Would be awesome if Meebo is free - definitely gonna keep an eye out for that :)

Sorry, no Skype support in BeeJive.
I see that IM+ has support for Skype (I think only for text, not for voice). Their push version has also just been approved on the app strore.
 
hi guys

just checking is it ok to download apps off itunes if youre jailbroken? can they detect anything and upload anything to my phone to brick it?
 
theron.roland said:
MMS for 3.0 on vodacom

so it's official, it's a vodacom network issue, NOT an iPhone issue

the latest and greatest ipcc correctly configures mms, however, some of the vodacom 3G towers appear to be connected to an MSC that has no channel to the mmsc/mms apn

basically what this means, if you are connected to one of these towers, and your phone's 3G is enabled, your phone will get a notification from the network that tells it there's an mms waiting on the server

here's where the issues start, the phone now continuously tries to activate the mms apn, if and when this works, it tries to connect to the mms gateway, this step fails, it then activates the normal data apn again, waits a few seconds, and starts the process all over again

this continuous apn switching is what interrupts the phones usually stable connection to the 3G network, and results in unstable data connection and dropped voice calls when on 3G

you have one of two options to overcome this

1) disable mms and delete the mms apn on the phone, and install swirlyMMS, swirly will only activate the mms apn once you tap on the mms, i.e, altering the connection state is manual, only when you, the user, asks swirly to do so by opening an mms. swirly is currently unstable, and reboots the phone when downloading an mms through one of these towers on gprs, but, you can always wait until you're somewhere else and try again... this instability is bound to be fixed in a next release though

2) use the existing iphone mms client, when your connection seems unstable, you probably have an mms waiting and you're in one of these areas, so, disable 3G, wait for the mms to deliver and re enable 3G, or disable mms until you move out of the problem area

in the meantime, i suggest reporting the location where your mms over 3G fails to vodacom so they get enough reports to look into the issue, right now they believe there is no issue
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Swirly works like bomb for me (not an exploding one) it is sending receiving with or without 3g enabled - and it is like 10times faster in sending the MMS than the native MMS app (the APN switching I presume) - I am very thrilled with it!

Can now just use the normal tethering on the iPhone and disable the MMS in messaging.
 
Cydia and Icy would not work for me when I chose to install both with redsn0w 0.7.2, but after choosing cydia only and upgrade essential when launching Cydia it worked fine, SBsettings froze my phone on install so I had to force a reboot but after that it worked fine.

Just adding my experience.
 
adsl3g said:
Swirly works like bomb for me (not an exploding one) it is sending receiving with or without 3g enabled - and it is like 10times faster in sending the MMS than the native MMS app (the APN switching I presume) - I am very thrilled with it!

Can now just use the normal tethering on the iPhone and disable the MMS in messaging.
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Did your mms over 3G work before? in that case it would work on swirly yes

only downside of swirly, no Vcards (send business card)
 
Retro said:
Once you've installed the app, browse to the folder on your iPhone and replace the current map with the SA one.

\private\var\mobile\applications\(look for the sygic app)\Sygic Australia & New Zealand.app\map\aus\
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PM me link as well PLEASE.....
 
rapidblue said:
Would be awesome if Meebo is free - definitely gonna keep an eye out for that :)

Sorry, no Skype support in BeeJive.
I see that IM+ has support for Skype (I think only for text, not for voice). Their push version has also just been approved on the app strore.
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