How if fixed my 3GS/Gophone Data access problem - no jailbreak

I had been having the hardest time getting anything to work on my iPhone 3Gs once I put it on a prepaid gophone plan. Nothing that was written online seemed to be up to date at all and it really started ticking me off when people started saying it wasn't possible. FIRST let me tell you what I did and what I shouldn't have done, please read the whole thing before completing any of the steps:


1) I bought a cheap phone from att's "gophone" section.

2) I activated the sim card via the gophone. bad idea but fixable , once you activate a sim its "locked" to that phone so I should have activated it after I inserted it in my iPhone.

If you did it the way I did and need to fix it:
Call 611 from the gophone, tell them you meant to put the new sim in your old gphone and you need to have the sim reset so that you can have that phone number on your previous phone. (i told them I had an old samsung phone I wanted to continue to use - idk how they would feel about me putting it in my iphone) they did this in a matter of 5 (or less) minutes for me with no trouble.



3) I added minutes, I initially had chosen the $50 unlimited plan. wrong choice again

Any smart phone cannot be on an unlimited plan (so says att - haven't found a way around that yet unless you buy a "smartphone" like the at&t fusion which I don't know if that falls under the category of "smartphone" anyway), it has to have a "data package"

What you need to do is choose a plan that suits your talk and text needs and add a data package after that. I chose the $25/month plan for 250 minutes and unlimited text. I think their biggest data package is $25/month for 1 gig of data. You can add more if you want to if you use that up before the month is over. For me I actually have just been using the $5/month for 50megabits and refilling as I need simply because its cheaper since I'm around a wifi connection 90% of the time.



4) And finally to make all this work, go to www.unlockit.co.nz from your iPhone on a wifi connection, press continue from the welcome screen, click custom APN, your carrier is going to be toward the bottom I spent countless time, all wasted, selecting other At&t options, the one you want is AT&T (PAYG) . Install the new APN, turn your iPhone off or put it in airplane mode for a few seconds and bring it back. Turn off your wifi and after that you should have a working data plan assuming you purchased one. If this doesnt work go under your settings, go under general, go under reset and "reset network settings".



Hope this helped anyone having the same problem I was