Remember a couple of years ago when Apple launched the first iPhone in the US and neglected Australia? Remember how heaps of people couldn’t wait to get their hands on the so-called ‘Jesus-phone’ so bought it on the grey market, then jailbroke it so it would work in Australia? Well, reader Andrew was one of those people, and after some playing around with the new 3.0 OS and downgrading back to the current 2.2 software, he discovered that he suddenly had Vodafone’s visual voicemail working.
The clip above shows that he’s got it working, but for any of you who have the original iPhone handset and a Vodafone SIM card, here’s what Andrew did to get visual voicemail working:
1. I downloaded the iPhone1,1_3.0_7A341_Restore.ipsw.
2. Put my iphone into DFU mode, opened itunes 8.2 (23) and selected the above ipsw.
(It did the normal, installed fine, but was bricked and I only could make emergency calls. The difference was instead of no signal, it had a signal from vodafone au.)
3. Put my iphone back into DFU mode. Opened itunes 8.2 (23) and selected iPhone1,1_2.2_5G77_Restore.ipsw. itunes came up with an error after the install.
4. Opened Pwanage Tool 2.2.1. Using simple mode, iphone, I selected Phone1,1_2.2_5G77_Restore.ipsw. Let it do its business.
5. Put the iphone back into DFU mode. Opened itunes 8.2 (23) and selected iPhone1,1_2.2_5G77_Custom_Restore.ipsw.
6. Had a look around the phone and noticed visual voicemail had shown up.
7. Using Cydia, I installed big boss prefs back on the iphone. I turned edge on then turned data roaming on.
8. I now have visual voicemail.
[Thanks Andrew!]
Mark Giles
Wednesday, June 17, 2009 at 5:15 PMIt’s actually been working for quite a while now, maybe a month. My partner’s 1stgen has been going through normal upgrades and hasn’t required jailbreaking or unlocking again for a long time, and it just magically started working one day.
Johnny
Wednesday, June 17, 2009 at 5:25 PMSoes this use a ton of data on EDGE?
eland27
Wednesday, June 17, 2009 at 5:42 PMVisual Voicemail was turned on last week by Vodafone. Its just a coincidence you used 3.0 mate. I’ve had the 1st Gen since August 2007 with vodafone – no big deal
gyix
Wednesday, June 17, 2009 at 6:08 PMi had it working on my us ipohone and i did nothing to get it
David
Wednesday, June 17, 2009 at 6:38 PMNO NEED TO UPDATE FIRMWARE! You only need 2.2.1 firmware (latest official firmware) and dial 1217 to activate Visual Voicemail. IF you get a message saying that Voicemail service is unavailable you simply need to ring Vodafone (1551) and request them to activate VV.
Easy as that!
tom
Wednesday, June 17, 2009 at 9:14 PMI have original iPhone with latest OS and visual voicemail has been available since the day after vodafone announced it was available. i have no internet plan so it doesnt work but it allows me to call from the voicemail screen…. as for the steps above all i did was upgraded to the latest OS (not 3.0) and quick pwned…. that was it… (quick pwn did automatically install cyndia and installer but i have not used them at all)