Yet another iPhone running in New Zealand
, , October 8th, 2007I am lucky enough to be one of the many New Zealanders using an iPhone. Many have gone before and many more will follow. The first hacked iPhone may belong to John Ballinger of Bluespark Interactive as described at Andrew James Sommervell’s blog.
The Red Ink Scribbles iPhone Review Part II: The Unlocked Phone blog post contains the best instructions I’ve seen to configure the iPhone correctly for New Zealand after it has been unlocked. It contains instructions to:
- Configure GPRS access for Vodafone (not full blown EDGE, just it’s baby sister equivalent)
- Configure the Voicemail button so it dials 707 to access Vodafone voicemail
- Change the phone number formating to suit New Zealand phone numbers. I’ve further updated the
ABPhoneFormats.plistphone number formats to also handle 8 digit prepay phone numbers (the weird ones that look like 021 027xxxxx).
Other changes are also needed so Caller ID matches the locally stored contact phone numbers correctly. The Fix International Caller ID thread at ModMyiPhone contains instructions to fix this.
October 9th, 2007 at 8:53 am
Thanks David for the hat-tip. I’ll give the modmyiphone call ID solution a try tonight.
October 9th, 2007 at 7:11 pm
The “iPhone Review Part II: The Unlocked Phone” link points at the wrong URL - I think you wanted http://redinkscribbles.blogspot.com/2007/09/iphone-review-part-ii-unlocked-phone.html
October 9th, 2007 at 9:42 pm
Simon, thanks. Must have cut and paste the URL from the last page I was looking at.
November 23rd, 2007 at 2:42 pm
So what exactly do I have to do to my phone to make sure the contact shows up when they call etc? Txts now work out who the contact is, but calls don’t. What are the files I need to copy over? Any risk? All my mobile contacts have +64 before them! :) Cheers
November 23rd, 2007 at 4:51 pm
@Rowan
Check out my latest blog post for the Apple iPhone 1.1.1 Update Instructions for New Zealand for further details.
I have been using the XK72 repository to install a package that fixes the Caller ID issue.