UPDATE: The link provided to get access to Hotspot Shield has stopped working, as they claim they no longer support iPhone, BUT it does in fact still work for the iPhone and iPad, you just need to know the details yourself. Please follow this link to get the details for setting up Hotspot Shield on your iPhone
Pandora Radio is by far the most popular internet radio app for your iDevice.. the only problem is, due to the FCC and copyright law, if you are not in the USA you cannot use the app, which leaves us Canadians (and other nations) hanging when it comes to some good internet radio apps.
For the past year I’ve been using TuneIn radio which is pretty decent, but it’s no where near what Pandora is. TuneIn is simply a place that holds all the radio stations across canada who stream to the web, and allows you to listen to them.
So last night I decided it was time to play around and get Pandora working. There are always ways to get these “US only” apps and websites working in Canada, and the way to do that is to set up a proxy server, which blocks the website from reading your local IP address.
Step in HotSpot Shield. I’ve been using hotspot shield for years on my Mac, so that I can use HULU to watch TV shows.. well now you can bring it to your iDevice as well.
Step 1: Download Pandora to your iDevice. You cannot do this through the Canadian store, so you will need to create a new iTunes account using a USA address. For instructions on how to do this check out: http://www.iphoneincanada.ca/tips-tricks/how-to-open-a-us-itunes-account-without-credit-card/
If you have a jailbroken iPhone, you can simply go to Installous (available in Cydia) and download Pandora.
Step 2: Set up a VPN on your iDevice.
Turn off WiFi. Then find the VPN settings in
Settings -> General -> Network -> VPN -> Add VPN Configuration:
Visit Hotspot Shield’s iPhone page here. Then click “Get Account ID”. This will then reload the page and give you all the information you need for your VPN.
Select the IPSec tab/pane
Description: HotspotShield
Server: 68.68.107.101
Account: [enter info after clicking Get Account ID]
Password: [enter info after clicking Get Account ID]
Use Certificate: OFF
Group Name: hss
Secret: hss
2. Save the settings and hit the “HOME” button to quit. Make sure to turn Wi-Fi back “ON”.
3. To activate Hotspot Shield on your iPhone, the VPN setting needs to be turned on.
Settings –> VPN –> ON (tip, if you are jailbroken and have SBSettings, there is a VPN toggle)
Once you’ve turned on the VPN open pandora, and enjoy! When the VPN is on, you can turn your wifi back on if you want, and listen to Pandora over wifi, but it will also block the IP if you are on 3g, so you can listen in the car as well!
Enjoy
Works great! Cheers!
Excellent! Thank You!
This is absolutely great!!
I can listen to pandora radio again!
The only problem is that the VPN disconnects when my iPhone goes into auto-lock
Then I need to close Pandora, turn on the VPN, open Pandora, turn on Wi-Fi.
I would be doing that almost every five minutes..
Any solution to force the VPN to stay on?
thanks!
thats really strange.. mine stays on until I turn it off.. even if I auto lock.. I don’t know what to tell you, but you’ve got me intrigued..
just turn off auto-lock
settings > general > auto-lock and select never
Great recommendation man! Thanks a lot!
hey i downloaded pandora from the US itunes, and did the vpn but when i go to launch pandora it just keeps seraching and then i think eventually times out and says i cannot connect. please help
doesn’t work anymore
Im working on finding a way to fix it.. will update here if I find something
which username/password do we need to input?
it gives you one..
go here: https://hotspotshield.com/clientless/iphone/get_started.php like the instructions say
whoops…this is in response to Cwiliam77
i just tried this and it works perfectly fine. im traveling from alaska to kansas city and i am spending five days in canada. i was going insane without my pandora…lol
Is there a way to do this on my apple computer?
http://hotspotshield.com/
short answer is yes.. download hotspot shield for mac.. i havent actually tried it from a mac, but I don’t see why it wouldn’t work..
Tried to connect VPN on I phone 4 and says server not responding
don’t know what to tell you.. my guess is you did something wrong in the directions.. it works fine, so follow the directions and make sure you type everything exactly as shown
Hi Chris.
Tried following the directions,
But when I went to https://hotspotshield.com/clientless/iphone/get_started.php the computer returned the illustrious ’404 NOT FOUND’ any suggestions?
Thank you.
try this.. http://chrisburke.ca/2011/08/16/hotspot-shield-for-iphone-does-work/