Tethering on 3.1.2 is now possible [Archive]

appleguy123

Oct 18, 2009, 07:11 PM

Enjoy!

http://wikee.iphwn.org/howto:random

p0sixninja is packaging the patch so it is easy to install/apply!

Is there anyway to do this if you are already jailbroken? (Without using the pwnage tool.)

terraphantm

Oct 18, 2009, 07:41 PM

Is there anyway to do this if you are already jailbroken? (Without using the pwnage tool.)

you have to do what the post says. Patch the commcenter and upload it to your phone, ensuring that the permissions are properly set.

edit: doesn't work. I patched the commcenter, the hash matched, replaced it, but tethering disappears when you try to actually connect.

scottuf

Oct 18, 2009, 07:51 PM

you have to do what the post says. Patch the commcenter and upload it to your phone, ensuring that the permissions are properly set.

edit: doesn't work. I patched the commcenter, the hash matched, replaced it, but tethering disappears when you try to actually connect.

working great for me, usb and bt. had to reboot the phone after applying the stealthbravo 6.0 ipcc.

make sure you correct the permissions after you put commcenter back onto the phone, not before.

dhlizard

Oct 18, 2009, 08:09 PM

working great for me, usb and bt. had to reboot the phone after applying the stealthbravo 6.0 ipcc.

make sure you correct the permissions after you put commcenter back onto the phone, not before.

OK, I find myself not able to get this to work on my 3G (usually I can bluff my way thru these things)

Can someone break down the method a little bit for a Mac. Feeling pretty Noobie at this point.

I use Terminal and start with entering "bspatch"

Supposedly that puts Mac terminal into bspatch mode.

After that I cannot get anything happening.

terraphantm

Oct 18, 2009, 08:21 PM

I got it to work now. I'm not sure what was wrong before, but I reinstalled the benm profile and it's working great.

scottuf

Oct 18, 2009, 08:21 PM

Feeling pretty Noobie at this point.

You feeling noobie?!?! lol, with all the advice you dish out its about time :D

copy commcenter off of the phone to the same folder as the patch file, then in terminal enter:

bspatch CommCenter CommCenter-hacked CommCenter.patch

it will create a new file "CommCenter-hacked" i renamed the original to "-orig" then took the "-hacked" off. copy the new commcenter back to the phone, then SSH in and fix permissions. apply the ipcc, reboot, and tether should work.

make sure you download the patch for the 3g and not the 3gs.

hope this helps

scottuf

Oct 18, 2009, 08:46 PM

OK, I find myself not able to get this to work on my 3G (usually I can bluff my way thru these things)

this might be your problem - @MuscleNerd "here for the 3G" link pointing to 3GSs

it should be fixed now.

dhlizard

Oct 18, 2009, 10:51 PM

OK, well I think I fried the phone

Won't reboot

Followed the directions, got the correct patch (had the wrong one before)

Modded command to bspatch CommCenter CommCenter-hacked CommCenter3g.patch

Fixed permissions

Well no reboot

Guess I should have quit after the 1st unsuccessful try.

Gotta try and revive the phone, later

Edit: I was lucky, I was able to SSH into the phone, yank out the revised files, 3 reboots and a couple of plug & unplugs to iTunes, I got the phone to start.

Don't know why but my phone absolutely HATES this mod.

Think I will wait a few days and see what happens to others with this.

Revelation78

Oct 18, 2009, 11:43 PM

This is sweet! Got it to work on my 3GS, now I can tether again!

Compile 'em all

Oct 19, 2009, 08:37 AM

No package in Cydia yet?

Revelation78

Oct 19, 2009, 01:40 PM

No for now you have to manually do it, which turned out easier than I expected.

Bassix

Oct 19, 2009, 04:29 PM

I followed the instructions below from Andrew at thebeatmix.blogspot.com, and I have both Bluetooth and USB tethering working fine on my iPhone 3G (16GB) v3.1.2! (Thanks to Andrew for the instructions!)
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Andrew said...

Works a treat on my iphone 3G in UK on O2.

Think some folks confused about where to find CommCenter, its on the iphone at /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreTelephony.frameworks/Support/CommCenter

I used cyberduck to ssh to the phone, copy CommCenter to desktop, downloaded the patch,RENAMED the patch to remove letters 3G then put it on desktop, then in terminal ran

cd Desktop

bspatch CommCenter CommCenter-hacked CommCenter.patch

renamed it and uploaded it back to iphone with cyberduck, and also in cyberduck, right click the new CommCenter, info, and click permissions, set all on except other write.

hope this helps! cheers
October 19, 2009 6:29 AM

slapguts

Oct 19, 2009, 08:04 PM

This rocks.

Huge thanks to the entire iphone hacker community.

vilasgn

Oct 19, 2009, 09:34 PM

I tried this and my Voicemail did not work!

It looks like I needed to fix the APN settings for voicemail.

Anyone knows where to fix that setting as I don't see that setting from the Settings tab.

dhlizard

Oct 19, 2009, 09:56 PM

I tried this and my Voicemail did not work!

It looks like I needed to fix the APN settings for voicemail.

Anyone knows where to fix that setting as I don't see that setting from the Settings tab.

Good luck, I just spent 2 hours "fixing" my phone so everything worked as it did before this hack.

If you installed the Benm (sp) hack, go to Settings/General/Network and there should be a carrier file option near the bottom, open it, then select remove.

Find a copy of the newest carrier settings IPCC (for me it was AT&T 5.6) and download it, click option + update (mac) or shift + update and install it.

Replace the modified CommCenter with the original one (hope you saved a copy)

Reboot the phone.

I even had to do a full reset of all network settings and reboot, several times.

Then calls to AT&T to reset my Visual Voicemail to "new" so I could set it up again like it was new.

vilasgn

Oct 20, 2009, 12:49 AM

I did NOT have to do any of below things except the first one...

I only removed the profile that I installed from Benm and I was back to normal. My VVM works, Phone works and Internet works! No issues!! :D

Not sure what was wrong with your phone.

Good luck, I just spent 2 hours "fixing" my phone so everything worked as it did before this hack.

If you installed the Benm (sp) hack, go to Settings/General/Network and there should be a carrier file option near the bottom, open it, then select remove.

Find a copy of the newest carrier settings IPCC (for me it was AT&T 5.6) and download it, click option + update (mac) or shift + update and install it.

Replace the modified CommCenter with the original one (hope you saved a copy)

Reboot the phone.

I even had to do a full reset of all network settings and reboot, several times.

Then calls to AT&T to reset my Visual Voicemail to "new" so I could set it up again like it was new.

bruinsrme

Oct 20, 2009, 01:11 AM

I installed it and nothing else.

dhlizard

Oct 20, 2009, 08:02 AM

I did NOT have to do any of below things except the first one...

I only removed the profile that I installed from Benm and I was back to normal. My VVM works, Phone works and Internet works! No issues!! :D

Not sure what was wrong with your phone.

I've done this tethering mod twice in 2 days to my phone. Both times it did not like it.

The second time, getting it undone was much worse.

Don't know why my phones dislikes this, but since I really don't require it, I will avoid a 3rd try.

Why these phones do what they do is sometimes a mystery to me. There are also 2 Cydia apps that once installed on my phone, the icons disappear at the next re-spring, so who knows.

thundermustard

Oct 20, 2009, 08:25 AM

Two iPhones (3G and 3GS) both tether great but no visual voicemail.
Uninstalling the Ben hack restores voicemail but of course no tether.

gazzer82

Oct 20, 2009, 08:52 AM

Whoop whoop, so glad this has been hacked, i was really missing this when i upgraded.

SFTP'd using Cyberduck, patched the file on my mac, re-uploaded and ssh'd into to Chmod the file.

Rebooted the phone and i was able to go in and enable tethering. Works perfectly, no BenM hack required!

Very Happy :)

bruinsrme

Oct 20, 2009, 10:59 AM

my vmm stopped working. I forgot to remove the Ben profile. Once removed vvm came back

Dorothy Ann

Oct 20, 2009, 01:13 PM

Sooo....how would I do it with my equip?

doubletap

Oct 20, 2009, 01:36 PM

my vmm stopped working. I forgot to remove the Ben profile. Once removed vvm came back

My VVM disappeared after the hack as well. But i just dialed into my voicemail from the phone, punched in my pin, confirmed there were no voicemails and then pressed * to disconnect.

Once I did that I went back into voicemail and was prompted to enter in my PIN. Just like that VVM was back.

dt

hrp783

Oct 22, 2009, 09:59 AM

I tried the last 2 things, that didnt work.

as soon as i remove the Ben profile, tethering disapeared.
VVM works right away,

then when i install ben profile again, VVM gone..

anyone else got any other ideas?

doubletap

Oct 22, 2009, 10:21 AM

There's the mywi method to enable tethering that appears to work and keep everything working.

dt

terraphantm

Oct 22, 2009, 11:02 AM

Try the AT&T 6.0 ipcc; I think it's a modded 5.5/5.6 to enable tethering and APN editing. My VVM seems to be working fine

medicscott

Oct 22, 2009, 11:58 AM

the 6.0 CF is great. my tethering works great, and i can access my CDN

thundermustard

Oct 23, 2009, 07:01 AM

Where can one find the 6.0 carrier file?

Dorothy Ann

Oct 23, 2009, 09:25 AM

Try the AT&T 6.0 ipcc; I think it's a modded 5.5/5.6 to enable tethering and APN editing. My VVM seems to be working fine

Will this work for me with HP? And...I have no idea what ipcc 6.O is or where to find it. Yep I'm green as grass with no high speed Internet where I live and sorely dissappointed about partial Internet on I Phone!

medicscott

Oct 23, 2009, 10:52 AM

http://tinyurl.com/yjxq9s5

thundermustard

Oct 24, 2009, 06:42 AM

lol, point taken, file found.

Jumpie

Oct 24, 2009, 09:05 AM

here's another method (http://limitededitioniphone.com/its-over-tethering-on-iphone-os-3-1-2-is-now-possible-activate-tethering-on-all-iphone-devices-enable-native-mms-on-iphone-2g/)

dhlizard

Oct 24, 2009, 09:17 AM

For those with disappearing VMM with Benm Tethering Config (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=808372)

scirica

Oct 24, 2009, 10:33 AM

here's another method (http://limitededitioniphone.com/its-over-tethering-on-iphone-os-3-1-2-is-now-possible-activate-tethering-on-all-iphone-devices-enable-native-mms-on-iphone-2g/)

dhlizard, did you try this method? Looks like they built a package. Personally, I've already bought MyWi, so I'm not going to risk blowing up my phone are rebuilding like you had to!

pvmacguy

Oct 24, 2009, 11:07 AM

here's another method (http://limitededitioniphone.com/its-over-tethering-on-iphone-os-3-1-2-is-now-possible-activate-tethering-on-all-iphone-devices-enable-native-mms-on-iphone-2g/)

I used this method and it works absolutely flawless. Follow the directions thoroughly and you can't mess up! Attached some pics to show its working.

MacKiddyWiddy

Oct 24, 2009, 11:12 AM

this rocks! thanks man

RobT

Oct 24, 2009, 11:42 AM

I had to run this process twice for some reason but it worked perfectly the second time.

Thanks!

Compile 'em all

Oct 24, 2009, 12:45 PM

It feels good to be running on 3.1.2 with tethering working :cool:

dhlizard

Oct 24, 2009, 12:47 PM

dhlizard, did you try this method? Looks like they built a package. Personally, I've already bought MyWi, so I'm not going to risk blowing up my phone are rebuilding like you had to!

Yea, I tried it, and it does not disrupt VVM, but for whatever reason, my phone just does not like tethering ?????

I can enable tethering, get the popup, but absolutely no tethering happens, don't get the blue tethering indicators in the status bar.

Very crazy ??

terraphantm

Oct 24, 2009, 01:01 PM

Does anyone know if it's possible to get the session-data counter back like mywi has?

NiteQwill

Oct 24, 2009, 01:17 PM

dhlizard, did you try this method? Looks like they built a package. Personally, I've already bought MyWi, so I'm not going to risk blowing up my phone are rebuilding like you had to!

This method worked best. The myWi crashed my phone and resulted in me restoring it.

To add to the sinful repo: If it doesn't work the first time, reset your network settings and reboot. It worked for me then.

BTW: VVM, MMS, and tethering all worked nicely with this repo.

medicscott

Oct 24, 2009, 01:51 PM

Does anyone know if it's possible to get the session-data counter back like mywi has?

are you talking about like keeping tabs on how much data your tx?

pvmacguy

Oct 24, 2009, 02:18 PM

I had to run this process twice for some reason but it worked perfectly the second time.

Thanks!

I had to run it twice as well, but I thought it was something that I had done to mess up the process. Just un-installed the program rebooted installed again and rebooted and everything was fine and fully operational from the pics. :) The method posted above that I used still shows tethering data usage numbers. Pic attached.

medicscott

Oct 24, 2009, 04:00 PM

I had to run it twice as well, but I thought it was something that I had done to mess up the process. Just un-installed the program rebooted installed again and rebooted and everything was fine and fully operational from the pics. :) The method posted above that I used still shows tethering data usage numbers. Pic attached.

whoa..i dont have the tethering data?? how do i get that?

im a 3G 3.0.1 with the 6.0 CF

pvmacguy

Oct 24, 2009, 04:40 PM

I am on 3.1.2 JB with this hack here for tethering. http://limitededitioniphone.com/its-over-tethering-on-iphone-os-3-1-2-is-now-possible-activate-tethering-on-all-iphone-devices-enable-native-mms-on-iphone-2g/

terraphantm

Oct 26, 2009, 12:11 AM

I have the tethering data counter too, but I was wondering if it's possible to set it up like mywi where it shows how much you used during the current session in the top bar.

Diode

Oct 26, 2009, 12:22 PM

I had to run it twice as well, but I thought it was something that I had done to mess up the process. Just un-installed the program rebooted installed again and rebooted and everything was fine and fully operational from the pics. :) The method posted above that I used still shows tethering data usage numbers. Pic attached.

How do you have the carrier logo and the tethering data usage counter on a 3GS?

smattmul

Oct 26, 2009, 03:55 PM

So I take it that all mentioned methods will require jail breaking? How else would you get access to cydia?

medicscott

Oct 26, 2009, 03:59 PM

So I take it that all mentioned methods will require jail breaking? How else would you get access to cydia?

yes. the only way to get cydia is via JB your iphone.

and i have not heard of anyway to tether on att iphone if your not.

smattmul

Oct 26, 2009, 04:38 PM

my next question is obvious. JB has been around for a while, what is the preferred way, pawning...? or Blackrain. Do I need to make a choice or do I just look at the sticky for JB follow directions then when finished complete the tether guide. my FW is 3.02. Thanks for the info!

gadgetdad

Oct 27, 2009, 11:41 AM

here's another method (http://limitededitioniphone.com/its-over-tethering-on-iphone-os-3-1-2-is-now-possible-activate-tethering-on-all-iphone-devices-enable-native-mms-on-iphone-2g/)

I just tried this and now my iphone rebooted to the apple then shuts off after 10 seconds. It will no longer turn on. Guess I will have to restore agaiin.

Sigh....:rolleyes:

medicscott

Oct 27, 2009, 11:47 AM

appleguru1

Oct 28, 2009, 05:28 PM

Use PwnageTool if you don't mind restoring / if your phone is unlocked using ultrasn0w and you want to keep it that way.

Use blackra1n if you already have 3.1.2 installed and don't want to loose anything. Blackra1n leaves your phone as is and just jailbreaks it.

BTW, I wrote up a tutorial for tethering on 3.1.2 a few days ago: http://appleguru.org/iPhoneTethering.html

Easy to follow, lots of pictures, and proper apns.

Bakakage

Oct 28, 2009, 05:38 PM

Truckondo

Oct 28, 2009, 07:32 PM

So does the blue bar with the words with internet tethering words come n when you connect to the iphone with the computer. I installed the package and can turn on internet tethering but I dont get a blue bar, but i havent connected to a computer.

As long as its turned on in the phone and you connect to a computer with iTunes, the blue bar shows up. I'm running Windows 7 x64 with iTunes 9.0.1.8.

BMJT

Oct 29, 2009, 04:29 AM

hexonxonx

Oct 29, 2009, 05:36 AM

Add 'http://cydia.ifoneguide.nl/' to sources, then search for 'Tethering Patch 3GS'. Install, and you should be able to tether.

See http://www.ifoneguide.nl/1129/tethering-patches-for-iphone-3g-and-3gs/

I got it working, extremely easy to do! I'm using a 3G iPhone running 3.1.2 with a GoPhone sim. I used it to post this message via bluetooth tethering.

gadgetdad

Oct 29, 2009, 10:26 AM

Add 'http://cydia.ifoneguide.nl/' to sources, then search for 'Tethering Patch 3GS'. Install, and you should be able to tether.

See http://www.ifoneguide.nl/1129/tethering-patches-for-iphone-3g-and-3gs/

Has any one else got this to work running a 3GS and was blackra!n'd on 3.1.2? When I tried a similar patch Tuesday it hosed my iPhone and I had to restore/rejailbreak.