So in other words, it can't detect any nearby Bluetooth devices no matter how long it tries to discover? If there's no nearby Bluetooth devices, then yes you'll see that screen/wordings. My 3GS works fine on both 3.0.1 and 3.1. Do you have any issues with WIFI signal strength? Reason is because they should share the same patch antenna. Both works on the 2.4GHz spectrum. If there's a antenna positioning problem within the device, both should be affected.

Have you done a network setting reset? Maybe that will help. All else fail, send it in.

Yeah, thats true. To use 'something' via Bluetooth, you need to pair the 'Bluetooth equipped iPhone' with a 'Bluetooth equipped something' to work. The fact that when you turned it on and you see 'searching' and 'discoverable' means it is working alright. Just that it has not found 'something' because there are presumably no bluetooth compliant devices nearby.

To understand more about bluetooth usage and operations, do a search or read it at Wiki.

If you're a new convert into Maxis, they provide you a limited number of SMS (in hundreds or thousands). You could use that to transfer all your sms over to the new iPhone. You can put a friend's SIM card into the iPhone no problem because iPhone save messages into phone memory. When you're done, just switch SIM. Then do a backup with iTunes.

Impossible. If that day ever comes, remind me to buy Apple stocks.

If I am not mistaken, if you already have the iPhone OS v3.01 and already unlocked, you can opt to download the iPhone OS v3.1 software only update (without baseband firmware). Then you can selectively restore to that. Then you can still JB it.

But its a matter of time before they can find another hole. Judging by the time 3.1 is released and yet today still no news from devteams, guess its a little bit harder this time.

So in other words, you have no data plans included over your voice plan right? If that is the case,

1. Yes, you're subject to the usual data/price rate. The Value Plus Plan has 'Pay As You Use' so you're paying the expensive rates. If I am not mistaken, surfing over the WAP Portal is free of charge until you go outside of that Portal. This is applicable to all phones operating within Maxis network.

2. In my case, I can't even use more than 100MB of data per month. I'm always logged into IM, FB and some light surfing, rarely Youtube. Guess 250MB is enough for myself. But I would recommend 500MB just in case.

Yes, iPhone 3GS from Maxis need not worry anything about these changes because it is officially an unlocked unit. This is because of a newly updated baseband firmware. However, I am not sure if we can still JB. Probably wait for a permanent solution to be released.

Maybe one of your application installed in the phone is accessing the internet without your knowledge. Some free apps have advertisement tied in and these advertisement component pull data off the net. Also the email application could have been push enabled resulting it to check for new emails every few moments.

You can disable the email app from automatically checking for new emails by disabling an email account or by setting it to manual retrieval. You should also disable push notifications (if you have any) because it will pull data from the internet. Accessing the weather app will pull data from internet so you may want to restrict usage. The same goes for Google Maps and all apps that rely on data from remote places.

There's a more permanent solution. Check the stickies because there's a procedure to complete turn off remote data access. But I am not sure if it still applies for newer OS version. Turning 3G off is not sufficient as it will fall back to EDGE and I don't think the 1st generation iPhone is 3G capable anyway.

In the end, you will have a phone that is pretty much only a phone. The iPhone pulls data from the internet to present you information on the go. Thats what makes it an interesting device. But still you can enjoy the countless applications, etc. You can still use WIFI to download them or sync them through iTunes.

I think most areas are now EDGE at least. GPRS or 2G GSM are far and between. If you move into an area where the base towers are at least EDGE or 3G, you will get disconnected if you disable both. Maybe this is the case?

First lets go through the basics:

1. When you have activated WIFI, are you connected to any WIFI access point/router?
2. If you are connected to any of them, how sure are you that the access point/router is connected to the internet?
3. If the WIFI access point/router belongs to you and you're sure that you have internet service, then are you able to surf the internet?
4. So the only problem is streaming videos on Youtube app? OK, then do you have other PCs connected to the same WIFI access point/router? Are those PC able to stream from Youtube? If the answer is no, then you may need to checkout your router firewall settings. If yes, then you have an issue with the iPhone OS's connectivity.

Guess you need to do a network setting reset? For your information, I always had problem with streaming Youtube over my home WIFI which is connected to Streamyx. I googled and found issues from iPhone OS's connectivity all the way to the WIFI chipset which is sucky. My youtube videos will always timeout or slow to a crawl. Watching from PC however is ok even though it is slow.

Then one fine day, I switched to Digi Broadband and is using the same router. No settings touched. And voila! I can stream at super fast speeds. ISP related or not? I don't know. But Digi Broadband works for me.

Probably Maxis has a different network than Celcom's. Maxis still has a lot of areas that are only 2G only. Thats the only thing I can think of.

So what you're saying is that you're connected to your college's WIFI? The fact that your phone and your friend's phone cannot access Youtube suggests that it could have been 'blocked'. Are you able to access Youtube from a laptop that is connected to the same WIFI? If your laptop cannot access it, then your college could have banned Youtube. Simple as that.

The fact that your phone can access everything via 3G means there's nothing wrong with your phone. You can test this hypothesis further by connecting to another WIFI which you're sure is connected to the internet with full administrator access (meaning not blocked). If it works, then it should validate the hypothesis.

Yeah, I think those 3rd party compatible ones will do. Just get a good quality one. Of course if the price is near the original one, then it makes no difference.

Yeah, surfing is indeed a lot faster. However, at times the WIFI connection would not respond even though it is connected. At times it would drop off and then reconnect. Maybe it is my router. However there's a lot of such complaints over the Apple iPhone forum.

Actually I am suspecting it has something to do with my router because I don't have this problem when connecting to other WIFI. However, I don't use them long enough to see this a potential problem.

Technically Apple only encourage tethering with Maxis only because it is their official service provider in Malaysia. It is only exclusive to Maxis. I am not so sure but I think we can patch this up with ipcc file uploading. If you plan to use other service provider.

We can't because Apple stopped signing iPhone OS v3.0.1 so we no longer can do a restore. However, I read about some guy who's trying to mirror Apple's signing server. Try google about it.