I'm not confused in the least bit. You come to Dali and activate this phone without a phonebook SIM and I'll give you $500 USD.
Put up or shut up!
Here's why your solution (the part that's correct) won't work ... it has the new bootrom. But then, you would know that since it was bought this summer. ;)
DO YOU KNOW WHERE TO BUY A PHONEBOOK SIM CARD IN KUNMING CHINA?
Tiger,
No one got their head bitten off.
Posting erroneous information should be confronted, and will be by me. You do what you want in your own threads.
You see that bucko has corrected his error.
And you also see that NO ONE has posted anything at all to do with what I asked: "Does anyone know where I can buy this card, or another one that will work to activate iPhone 4.0.1?" (Maybe I should have inserted the word "locally" after buy.) Though rbusch did post a taobao guess, as he said, he doesn't even know if it is the correct one, if it will work, or if the seller is reputable. Yes, of course the seller will say it is, or whatever you want to hear. However, many are the people who have been ripped off buying from taobao. ;)
The problem is that the iPhone needs to be activated. There is only ONE WAY to activate an iPhone, and that requires a SIM.
The title of the thread is "phonebook sim card for iPhone", and I wrote all that information in the first post in hopes of discouraging erroneous guesses. It rarely works, and didn't this time either.
I'm not some Bubba without a clue ... my background with technology goes back over a couple of decades, and I have daily (even right now) contact with the iPhone hackers such as semaphore (Firmware Umbrella thefirmwareumbrella.blogspot.com/ ), Sherif Hashim ( twitter.com/sherif_hashim ), BigBoss ( thebigboss.org/ ), and others. I'm also the HCL maintainer for the largest Linux help site on the internet, code, and work with software source daily.
If I needed help upgrading the firmware, that is what I would have asked. What laotou, bucko, and rbusch said does not work. In the words of the guys mentioned in the above paragraph, "these people are all guessing."
When you consult me about your issues, or bring your unusable computer to me for repair, I don't guess without any background or knowledge. Would you like to pay for that? You can get it for free on Yi Er Yi Da Jie every day. ;)
Tiger, it seems as if you need to read it again, as you've misunderstood. Don't let your emotions get in the way of technical discussions, eh?
To the site manager: can you add code tags to this interface?
No, it shouldn't be a micro-sim.
The preponderance of people guessing who have no clue amazes me.
Hope people don't pay you for incorrect advice rbusch.
Thanks, rbusch. My Chinese friends will order for me from Taobao for no charge. For years they tell me not to use Taobao myself, because it is too easy to get "ripped off". They have ordered minor things up to > 8,000元 Lenovo laptops.
One friend said this one:
item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=6977169135
Sure sounds correct after reading it.
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Dali government opens 'gay bar' on World AIDS Day
发布者Typical lack of advanced planning here. Gay sex spreads HIV/AIDS, so they want to open a public bar to help them find each other better. Not very smart.
Kunming addresses taxi shift change troubles
发布者Wish we'd known this a couple of weeks ago. We arrived in Kunming on August 10th and left on August 18th. We stayed in the Bai Huo Da Lou area, and we were refused plenty of times between 6:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. — very unashamedly.
Wish I'd read this article before then ... maybe we could have gotten some better results. Of course, in a city where the vast majority of people disobey the law unless the police are standing in front of them (and some don't obey then), no one should expect it to change UNLESS it's enforced. Fat chance of that, eh?
Kunming is still just as backwards as when we arrived in 2002 ... only now there are twice the number of people! No more taxis; but more cars, and entirely too many 2-wheeled vehicles! The rudeness of drivers in Kunming, especially the electric bike and motorcycle drivers, is astounding — absolutely unbelievable!
We heard from Chinese people even before moving that "Kunming is a big village" — now we know first hand.
Getting away: Driving to Luang Prabang
发布者We must leave China to fulfill our Visa requirement by Aug. 18. We've driven to HeKou and walked across to Vietnam before. The Vietnam Visa cost 600 yuan iirc. (We'd pay for same day at the consulate in KM because we live in Dali, and that's cheaper than the cost of extra nights in KM to get a Visa not 'same day'.)
Does anyone know the cost of the Laos Visa for Americans at their border? Is this drive better/quicker than going to Vietnam? I've also heard that a new road has opened to Vietnam since our last trip (2006). Don't know whether that is true or not, either. It would be nice to see Xishuangbanna anyway.