Comments on: Activate tethering on Softbank iPhone http://w00kie.com/2009/06/18/activate-tethering-on-softbank-iphone/ making compressors in Japan Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:28:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Stupod http://w00kie.com/2009/06/18/activate-tethering-on-softbank-iphone/comment-page-8/#comment-37920 Stupod Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:13:51 +0000 http://w00kie.com/?p=598#comment-37920 @ kazbluesky Thanks for the reply. I agree, there aren't many other options. The pin thing really does it for me though. On top of Navicat not being able to pin drop, and needing to use the Maps app to make a contact to use in Navicat, it needs to be a listed marker in the Maps app. You can't add an address to a contact by dropping a pin in the Maps app. So, that means you still need to know the business name or address of the place you want to go to, which in Japan often means knowing how to write the kanji (not likely!) or copying it from a page in Safari. With that in consideration, I think I'd rather just use the Maps app for getting to places, even though it has no voice and traffic stuff, or basic GPS capabilities. Anyway, I'd love to find this app useful, as with any app, but so far it seems like more trouble and less success than the Maps app. If they add pin drops it could all change! @ kazbluesky
Thanks for the reply. I agree, there aren’t many other options. The pin thing really does it for me though.

On top of Navicat not being able to pin drop, and needing to use the Maps app to make a contact to use in Navicat, it needs to be a listed marker in the Maps app. You can’t add an address to a contact by dropping a pin in the Maps app. So, that means you still need to know the business name or address of the place you want to go to, which in Japan often means knowing how to write the kanji (not likely!) or copying it from a page in Safari.

With that in consideration, I think I’d rather just use the Maps app for getting to places, even though it has no voice and traffic stuff, or basic GPS capabilities.

Anyway, I’d love to find this app useful, as with any app, but so far it seems like more trouble and less success than the Maps app. If they add pin drops it could all change!

]]> By: kazbluesky http://w00kie.com/2009/06/18/activate-tethering-on-softbank-iphone/comment-page-7/#comment-37919 kazbluesky Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:52:41 +0000 http://w00kie.com/?p=598#comment-37919 Yup the no pin sucks. BUT what you have to do is search and find where you want to go in google maps save the point as a contact and then when you open Navicat you just imput/use the contact. It hasnt got bells and whistles I grant you, and it is still rough around the edges but it gets me everywhere I want to go IN ENGLISH so I'm happy with it. Try it for a bit longer, maybe you'll still think it's a pile steaming pooh but you just might get to like it - I did. On the other hand if you know of another app that is in English and works in Japan Im interested. Yup the no pin sucks. BUT what you have to do is search and find where you want to go in google maps save the point as a contact and then when you open Navicat you just imput/use the contact.

It hasnt got bells and whistles I grant you, and it is still rough around the edges but it gets me everywhere I want to go IN ENGLISH so I’m happy with it.

Try it for a bit longer, maybe you’ll still think it’s a pile steaming pooh but you just might get to like it – I did.

On the other hand if you know of another app that is in English and works in Japan Im interested.

]]> By: Stupod http://w00kie.com/2009/06/18/activate-tethering-on-softbank-iphone/comment-page-7/#comment-37905 Stupod Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:39:04 +0000 http://w00kie.com/?p=598#comment-37905 @kazbluesky Sorry to say this, cos I was really looking forward to adding a reply thanking you for the tip, but I just tried Navicat and found it to be a pile of awfulness. It can't find a single thing I've searched for, and doesn't allow pin dropping, so it can lead me nowhere. @kazbluesky
Sorry to say this, cos I was really looking forward to adding a reply thanking you for the tip, but I just tried Navicat and found it to be a pile of awfulness. It can’t find a single thing I’ve searched for, and doesn’t allow pin dropping, so it can lead me nowhere.

]]> By: kazbluesky http://w00kie.com/2009/06/18/activate-tethering-on-softbank-iphone/comment-page-7/#comment-37904 kazbluesky Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:16:30 +0000 http://w00kie.com/?p=598#comment-37904 Also, just for those who want to know, if you don't read or speak Japanese and cant understand the native GPS machines (I bought one for 70,000 yen and it's pretty much useless to me) then download Navicat .99cents, it gives you voice directions in English plus a nice detailed map at turns. It's simple and it works. I use it all the time now. 70,000 crap/ 99cents works......whodathunkit? Also, just for those who want to know, if you don’t read or speak Japanese and cant understand the native GPS machines (I bought one for 70,000 yen and it’s pretty much useless to me) then download Navicat .99cents, it gives you voice directions in English plus a nice detailed map at turns. It’s simple and it works. I use it all the time now.

70,000 crap/ 99cents works……whodathunkit?

]]> By: kazbluesky http://w00kie.com/2009/06/18/activate-tethering-on-softbank-iphone/comment-page-7/#comment-37903 kazbluesky Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:06:25 +0000 http://w00kie.com/?p=598#comment-37903 Ytse, I just got this months bill - around 4,000,000 yen (before the rebate). Next month it will probably increase from that as I discovered a few more streaming apps since then. My wife has an iphone too (non-jailbroken)and though she almost never uses hers her charge was actually MORE expensive than mine!! Chocks away I recon........ Ytse,

I just got this months bill – around 4,000,000 yen (before the rebate).

Next month it will probably increase from that as I discovered a few more streaming apps since then.

My wife has an iphone too (non-jailbroken)and though she almost never uses hers her charge was actually MORE expensive than mine!!

Chocks away I recon……..

]]> By: wAsTeD http://w00kie.com/2009/06/18/activate-tethering-on-softbank-iphone/comment-page-7/#comment-37877 wAsTeD Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:23:39 +0000 http://w00kie.com/?p=598#comment-37877 (世界対応ケータイ)can't read kanji but i believe this charge is for ROAMING...they charge so much on roaming even if u answer an incoming call when u are not in japan..there will be additional charge for you... (世界対応ケータイ)can’t read kanji but i believe this charge is for ROAMING…they charge so much on roaming even if u answer an incoming call when u are not in japan..there will be additional charge for you…

]]> By: iphoneuser http://w00kie.com/2009/06/18/activate-tethering-on-softbank-iphone/comment-page-7/#comment-37829 iphoneuser Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:10:30 +0000 http://w00kie.com/?p=598#comment-37829 The パケット（ＰＣダイレクト is always charged, its what it's called I guess... I always see that charge on my online statement, however at the end of the month it's always discounted. Now My questions is WHY IN THE HELL would you do DATA ROAMING on the iPhone when traveling abroad..... ! Softbank charges roughly about 1,200 yen per 1MB... Visiting one website now a days on the iPhone is about 3MB at least ! What were you thinking mate ? ! If your jailbroken and possibly unlocked why not get a SIM card from a local carrier.... and buy their plans... usually when I go back home I buy a $10 SIM card from T-Mobile which gives me 270 free minutes and I Just buy the data plan whihc costs me $1 a day only if I use it... if I don't use I dont pay..... Man.....And I'm pretty sure yo got your billing cycles mixed up ! follow up with Softbank and let us know ! Good luck ! The パケット（ＰＣダイレクト is always charged, its what it’s called I guess… I always see that charge on my online statement, however at the end of the month it’s always discounted. Now My questions is WHY IN THE HELL would you do DATA ROAMING on the iPhone when traveling abroad….. ! Softbank charges roughly about 1,200 yen per 1MB…
Visiting one website now a days on the iPhone is about 3MB at least ! What were you thinking mate ? ! If your jailbroken and possibly unlocked why not get a SIM card from a local carrier…. and buy their plans… usually when I go back home I buy a $10 SIM card from T-Mobile which gives me 270 free minutes and I Just buy the data plan whihc costs me $1 a day only if I use it… if I don’t use I dont pay….. Man…..And I’m pretty sure yo got your billing cycles mixed up ! follow up with Softbank and let us know ! Good luck !

]]> By: Ytse http://w00kie.com/2009/06/18/activate-tethering-on-softbank-iphone/comment-page-7/#comment-37821 Ytse Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:57:29 +0000 http://w00kie.com/?p=598#comment-37821 I don't think that charge has anything to do with being caught tethering. If you log into your account on the Softbank website, go to 各種変更手続き, and then 契約内容照会 (contract details reference), you'll see that 世界対応ケータイ　is just one of many "option services" that probably all iPhone users have. Personally I am enrolled in Ｓ!ベーシックパック(ｉ)(I think all iPhone users have this), 世界対応ケータイ (worldwide compatible phone), 請求書オプション 郵送 (option to have bill mailed to me), and 発信者番号通知 (show caller number/caller ID). That has got to be your roaming charge for using 3g overseas. Here's the website for 世界対応ケータイ for more info: http://mb.softbank.jp/mb/international/ I don’t think that charge has anything to do with being caught tethering.
If you log into your account on the Softbank website, go to 各種変更手続き, and then 契約内容照会 (contract details reference), you’ll see that 世界対応ケータイ　is just one of many “option services” that probably all iPhone users have. Personally I am enrolled in Ｓ!ベーシックパック(ｉ)(I think all iPhone users have this), 世界対応ケータイ (worldwide compatible phone), 請求書オプション 郵送 (option to have bill mailed to me), and 発信者番号通知 (show caller number/caller ID).

That has got to be your roaming charge for using 3g overseas. Here’s the website for 世界対応ケータイ for more info: http://mb.softbank.jp/mb/international/

]]> By: kalium http://w00kie.com/2009/06/18/activate-tethering-on-softbank-iphone/comment-page-7/#comment-37819 kalium Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:24:58 +0000 http://w00kie.com/?p=598#comment-37819 hi guys. I think I've been charged for tethering. On this month's bill my sky soaring data consumption was discounted as usual, but I see I have an extra fee called: 通信料　世界対応ケータイ（パケット（ＰＣダイレクト）） for 21,664 yen I in fact left Japan on December 19 and roamed a bit and then again when I was coming back on January 12 I did a bit of roaming. This seems to be related to roaming as the word sekai is written there and it's the same I got in my previous bill (in which I paid around 20 thousand yen as well, but back then I was sure it was roaming. The current bill began counting from Jan 17 and by that date I am pretty sure I was in Japan and not overseas doing any roaming). I don't get it now because all my roaming feels should have been paid by now and I am getting this. I have the slight suspicion that tethering is responsible for this. Does anyone have any similar experience? By the way, I roamed through MyWi, sometimes just wirelessly and other times through usb. Now I decided to begin using PDAnet as I feel it may be safer. I suspect tethering somehow uses a different AP, not the same used by the Iphone when it is navigating on its own. hi guys. I think I’ve been charged for tethering. On this month’s bill my sky soaring data consumption was discounted as usual, but I see I have an extra fee called:
通信料　世界対応ケータイ（パケット（ＰＣダイレクト）） for
21,664 yen

I in fact left Japan on December 19 and roamed a bit and then again when I was coming back on January 12 I did a bit of roaming. This seems to be related to roaming as the word sekai is written there and it’s the same I got in my previous bill (in which I paid around 20 thousand yen as well, but back then I was sure it was roaming. The current bill began counting from Jan 17 and by that date I am pretty sure I was in Japan and not overseas doing any roaming).
I don’t get it now because all my roaming feels should have been paid by now and I am getting this. I have the slight suspicion that tethering is responsible for this.
Does anyone have any similar experience?
By the way, I roamed through MyWi, sometimes just wirelessly and other times through usb. Now I decided to begin using PDAnet as I feel it may be safer. I suspect tethering somehow uses a different AP, not the same used by the Iphone when it is navigating on its own.

]]> By: iphoneuser http://w00kie.com/2009/06/18/activate-tethering-on-softbank-iphone/comment-page-7/#comment-37788 iphoneuser Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:45:39 +0000 http://w00kie.com/?p=598#comment-37788 I will tether my iphones connection by using MyWi which turns my iPhone into a wifi hotspot. I have a macbook becasue I do my work on it, the iphone is very handy for checking my emails and staying in touch but cannot do my work on it..... I have 13 inch MBP , but its still a pain in the ass to carry i around..... With the iPad everything will be much more convinient.... I will tether my iphones connection by using MyWi which turns my iPhone into a wifi hotspot. I have a macbook becasue I do my work on it, the iphone is very handy for checking my emails and staying in touch but cannot do my work on it….. I have 13 inch MBP , but its still a pain in the ass to carry i around….. With the iPad everything will be much more convinient….

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