September 4, 201411 yr Reet my dad is getting an IPAD having never been on the internet in his life. he want's it for browsing and watching youtube videos etc he doesn't want to get broadband line fitted what's the best way to get him connected to the internet? Is the only way a dongle? and if so what's the best deal? or is there another way? cheers
September 4, 201411 yr Author get one with 3g like your phone http://store.apple.com/uk/product/FD794B/A I see presumably a 3G contract is needed then? and its just like a mobile phone contract? Cheers
September 4, 201411 yr alternatively if hes got a decent smart phone, wifi to the phone and use the phones 3g might be cheaper if i was him i'd get bb
September 4, 201411 yr Author alternatively if hes got a decent smart phone, wifi to the phone and use the phones 3g might be cheaper if i was him i'd get bb he's not even got a phone line in his place and a mobile from 10 years ago its a car crash waiting to happen as he's genuinely never been on a computer in his life. he's still using teletext to check his coupon results but i'm confident i can teach him to use livescore.com/futbol24 to check them and give him my login for sky go if he gets bored and doesn't like it he can sell the ipad but don't want him tied into any phone line/bband contracts.
September 4, 201411 yr Garrpy, maybe buy him a second hand iPad first, see how he gets on with that before buying a new one
September 4, 201411 yr mrs got a brand new ipad 4 for 269 off ebay recently still in the film n everything but no 3g so no good to garpo
September 6, 201411 yr http://www.groupon.co.uk/deals/national-deal/gg-photodirect-44-151/44299714 That's wi-fi only, not 3g I know, because I bought the daughter one from there a month ago. Oh, and it took three weeks to arrive.
November 18, 201411 yr Author Reet So he got the ipad and a broadband line. As I said, he's never been on a computer in his life so it's been hard work teaching him how to use it over the phone. Anyway just about got him using youtube and he's like a kid at christmas. The next stage was to get him to download skygo and watch all the sport and movies he wanted with my login. Turns out his bird took the ipad to daughters to take photos of grandchild and whilst there daughters bloke installed something called jailbroke?? So he could 'watch all the 'free sport and films he wanted'. Now when he tries to login to skygo he gets a message saying 'skygo can't be used on a jailbroke device' He struggles with google, never mind this shit. I told him to tell the dickhead to uninstall it and to fuck off being a pikey. The guy says he doesn't know how to get rid, i mean ffs. It's impossible for me to do over the phone when i don't even know what it is, so i have two questions. 1) can this be removed or is his brand new ipad now 'chipped' for life? 2) if it can be removed, can he go into apple, explain what's happened and get them to remove it? Cheers
November 18, 201411 yr No and no. Jailbreaking is like chipping or modding in layman's terms. Can't be reversed and the warranty is now void. Edited November 18, 201411 yr by Traf
November 18, 201411 yr Author what a fucking cunt just what i needed never met the cunt but i get the impression he's some dole dossing anything for nowt twat so there fuck all chance of him replacing it
November 18, 201411 yr Can you not plug it in to a laptop and perform a system update thus deleting the shite he's added.
November 18, 201411 yr Author Settings->General->Reset->Erase all content and settings or something? aye, looks like its possible according to this - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_jailbreaking what a ball ache this is going to be over the phone but at least it looks like it can be done
November 18, 201411 yr It might not be too hard to be honest, having thought about it. Back it up to icloud or itunes Reset to factory defaults and then download your saved backup. That should probably do it.
November 18, 201411 yr aye, looks like its possible according to this - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_jailbreaking what a ball ache this is going to be over the phone but at least it looks like it can be done stop being a peasant and head back and fix it
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