Tethering without jailbreak? is it possible?

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lith-ium

macrumors newbie

Original poster

• Dec 7, 2009

• #1

hey everyone!

i have a question...
i've got a friend who refuses to jailbreak his iPhone (for a couple of reasonable reasons) but wants to tether his internet connection. he's done that in 3.0, but once he upgraded to 3.1.2 (or 3.1 in particular) he wasnt able to do so anymore. any ways to do some tethering without jailbreaking the phone? 😕

thx in advance!😀

 

Applejuiced

macrumors Westmere

• Dec 7, 2009

• #2

No, with 3.1.2 Apple plugged the hole that made that possible in previous firmware. Only way to do it is if you jailbreak.

 

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lith-ium

macrumors newbie

Original poster

• Dec 7, 2009

• #3

too bad -_-
may it be possible in the future somehow? 🙁

 

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The General

macrumors 601

• Dec 7, 2009

• #4

lith-ium said:

too bad -_-
may it be possible in the future somehow? 🙁

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yeah, in the future AT&T will probably have a tethering option

but it's highly unlikely that hacked tethering will be possible without jailbreaking ever again.

 

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daflake

macrumors 6502a

• Dec 7, 2009

• #5

He could roll back to 3.0.1 which is what I did. MMS works and tethering does as well.

 

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The General

macrumors 601

• Dec 7, 2009

• #6

daflake said:

He could roll back to 3.0.1 which is what I did. MMS works and tethering does as well.

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depends on what phone he has. if he has a 3GS, he can only downgrade if he got his 3.0/3.0.1 SHSH thingy on file with cydia

 

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daflake

macrumors 6502a

• Dec 7, 2009

• #7

The General said:

depends on what phone he has. if he has a 3GS, he can only downgrade if he got his 3.0/3.0.1 SHSH thingy on file with cydia

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True, thanks for adding that. 😉 It has been a long day.