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iPhone OS 3.0 Tethering Working on AT&T over Bluetooth on iMac G3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

llj1137075 said:
Make sure your password is in.
Just fixed mine.
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Was very weird - the setting to enter my password in preferences had been removed. It's like it turned off voice mail entirely. But, after some more resets and, strangely enough, removing the SIM and popping it back in, voice mail came back!
 
i'm using a penryn mbp 2.4 and getting the too many connections error

i guess i have a too new bluetooth :[
 
I can't connect for tethering via bluetooth since I have a Unibody MBP which seem to have problems across the board.

I also can't use USB tethering. I just don't get any new network interfaces. I'm told this may be because I haven't installed the SDK yet. Currently downloading and I'll confirm if it makes a difference!
 
Tethering worked instantly for me. Over Bluetooth was a no go though. When I turned tethering on my mac asked me if I wanted to connected to a new network.
 
Hello, me again.

It appears that if you can't use Internet Tethering via USB because no new network devices appear when you plug in your phone, you'll need to install the iPhone 3.0 SDK.

During the installation an 'iPhone System Update' is installed (and you're asked to close iTunes). Immediately after that part of the installation, a new network device will be detected and everything works.

Now to get MMS working... 🙂 I'm on O2-UK, using the IPCC that's doing the rounds. Everything seems to work except MMS messages will not send. I suspect it's because it's not enabled on my account.

Has anybody contacted O2 yet to see if they'll activate MMS messaging on iPhone contracts?
 
The ability to connect a computer (usually a laptop) to your phone so that you can use it's GPRS/Edge/3G connection as your computer's Internet connection.

Handy when out and about!
 
Okay Im back (the guy who wrote the first IPCC)

MMS won't work as carriers have been told by apple the iphone doesnt support MMS, they have disabled it. You can ring them and ask for it to be enabled by this has had mixed results

Thethering will only work if you have iphone SDK installed as it patches both itunes and the system so that tethering can work correctly.

Tim Davies
Timmeh www.twitter.com/timmeh
 
Timmeh said:
Okay Im back (the guy who wrote the first IPCC)

MMS won't work as carriers have been told by apple the iphone doesnt support MMS, they have disabled it. You can ring them and ask for it to be enabled by this has had mixed results

Thethering will only work if you have iphone SDK installed as it patches both itunes and the system so that tethering can work correctly.

Tim Davies
Timmeh www.twitter.com/timmeh
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and it has to be SDK 3.0 by the way 🙂

i can still send MMS, but was told that I should call o2 and tell them my iPhone is broke and that i'm using a n95.. and they should be able to switch mms on fully (or something to that effect)..
 
dalvin200 said:
and it has to be SDK 3.0 by the way 🙂

i can still send MMS, but was told that I should call o2 and tell them my iPhone is broke and that i'm using a n95.. and they should be able to switch mms on fully (or something to that effect)..
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No need to lie...

I'm hearing that people calling O2 on the phone are having mixed results but contacting them from the website seems to work.

I e-mailed them from the website saying I was a registered Apple developer and wished to test the new MMS functionality Apple had provided me with. I asked if they would kindly enable MMS on my account.

I received a response this morning (which seems to be a standard response, as others on the O2 forums had received it) saying that MMS had been enabled. MMS now works fine on my phone.
 
I've had no luck with bluetooth tethering with my Unibody MacBook, but USB tethering is working great. 🙂
 
-Garry- said:
I e-mailed them from the website saying I was a registered Apple developer and wished to test the new MMS functionality Apple had provided me with. I asked if they would kindly enable MMS on my account.

I received a response this morning (which seems to be a standard response, as others on the O2 forums had received it) saying that MMS had been enabled. MMS now works fine on my phone.
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I so tried this approach today.. and received a response within a few hours (impressive!!)... email stated they have now provisioned MMS on my account..

I was already able to send MMS before but just not receive... so after I got the email response from o2, I sent a test MMS to myself and it's been about 30 minutes and not received anything yet...

So whatever the guy has done, from being able to send but not receive, looks like now I'm not able to do either!!!!! 😱

EDIT:
The MMS I sent to myself and another from a friend both arrived approx 3 hours after being sent!! So it looks like it is enabled but just very bad lag sending/receiving!
 
alexnichols said:
Hey, I am having problems getting the USB tethering to work, the option does not show up in network preferences. What do i do?
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You need to install the iPhone 3.0 SDK to get tethering via USB to work. And even then it will show up as another ethernet interface (but will work perfectly)
 
tethering in beta 4 with iTunes 8.2

USB Tethering in beta 4 is working fine with modified ATT IPCC file. MMS appears to be gone now.

I haven't had any luck with bluetooth tethering using my Unibody MBP. I've heard installing the 3.0 SDK can address this, going to give that a shot.
 
gfarrar said:
I haven't had any luck with bluetooth tethering using my Unibody MBP. I've heard installing the 3.0 SDK can address this, going to give that a shot.
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installing the sdk worked on my unibody mb when connecting via usb for tethering... still don't get bluetooth to work... will try it in beta4 though
 
Celluar Data Info AT&T

If visual voicemail is not working (ONLY AT&T) go into cellular data under network and put in these settings...

Cellular Data
APN : wap.cingular
Username : wap@cingulargprs.com
Password : cingular1

Visual Voicemal
APN : acds.voicemail
Username : (leave blank)
Password : (leave blank)

At this moment I have for MMS (but I don't have it working)
APN : wap.cingular
Username : (leave blank)
Password : (leave blank)
MMSC : mmsc.Cingular.com
MMS Proxy : 066.209.011.032
last two are blank.

Hope this helps someone.
 
Eh I spoke to soon, the tethering option totally disappeared from my options and I can no longer get it to show, did AT&T push something to block it?
 
ok people. I am not sure this thread is still alive. BUT, I just got the tethering from the website that lets you pic the country. I have an old powerbook g4 with 10.4.11 and got the iphone and laptop to connect via bluetooth. I hade 80k a sec speed on downloads. reconnected a few times in 2 days. NOW. I just went to connect and I get this error. ..."Failed to open a connection to the network service. Your device may have reached its maximum number of supported network connections."

not sure what i did. nothing ctually. maybe i didnt disconnect before i put my laptop away, not sure. but i cant connect now?
anyone know why are how to fix it....
i tried re pairing, i rebooted. both devices etc...no luck. I keep trying, but hope i get a good result on an answer...
cheers
later
 
WELL. that was pretty stupid of me.... All I had to do ws make sure internet tethering ws on. DOH I had turned it off to save battery life. DOH!!!!
easy fix....hope i can help out some peeps
later
 
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