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If you have an iPhone on O2 Pay and Go – this is the tariff you should be on!

by MLT on October 27, 2009 in Uncategorized with No comments

I have just finished my one year free O2 Web & Wi-Fi Bolt On this month.

I received a text from O2 to say from now on I will be charged £10 per month for the Web & Wi-Fi Bolt On (I knew it was coming and would I be able to justify it?).
I sent an email to the O2 support team stating that I did not want the Wi-Fi element (why would I need it as I have 3G access) which dropped the price down to £7.50 per month with 200MB of data access.
So basically I would need to top up by £17.50 per month to give me 300 free texts and O2 would take out £7.50 from my balance for the Web Bolt On – that’s not too bad but I could still feel the burn from £90 per year.

Then I discovered that O2 have a Pay and Go tariff called Text and Web

If you opt in for this tariff before 16th November 2009, you receive the following free allowance:

  • £10 – £14 gets unlimited UK texts.
  • £15 – £29 gets unlimited UK texts and unlimited Web (500MB) (That’s the puppy!).

If you opt in for this tariff after 17th November 2009, you receive the following free allowance:

  • £10 – £14.99 gets 300 UK Texts
  • £15 – £29.99 gets 500 UK Texts and Unlimited Web.
  • £30 or more gets Unlimited UK Texts and Unlimited Web.

So I dropped the bolt on and changed tariff to Text and Web.
Now I can top up by £15 per month and get more data access (500MB rather than 200MB – fair usage applies) and unlimited texts (12000 texts rather than 300 texts) plus I get all of the £15 to spend on calls – Bargain!

iPhone White Screen of Death

by MLT on October 23, 2009 in Uncategorized with No comments

I was shall we say testing the network setting on my iPhone when I was hit by the White Screen of Death which is basically when you look at your iPhone and think that’s an expensive torch!

This is a solution from many sources found online:

First step is to hard reset the iPhone by holding down the home & power button at the same time for approx 10 seconds.
The next step was not reported online so may not be that common. When I powered back up got stuck with the Apple logo so to resolve this I connected the phone to the charger and switched off then on again.
Final stage may not be necessary to all as the next problem experienced was when I attempted to open a downloaded application (contacts, settings, clock etc. unaffected). The selected application would open then close straight away. To resolve this I downloaded a small free app on the iPhone from the App Store.

Not going be messing again soon (well until the next version of tethering is out!!)