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iPhone Tethering and MMS Hacks Surface

Dopeyman said:
That's true.... For the heck of it I went into my voicemail this morning and I had 12 unheard messages!!! And the phone icon didn't report this... Hope to find a fix soon!!
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See my post above.... change apn for visual voicemail to acds.voicemail in settings>general>network>cellular data network then reboot the phone. :cool:
 
Mms?

So I got the simple hack for tethering to work, but have been unsuccessful with the MMS. I put the carrier settings in, and have restarted both the 3G's im messing with but have yet get it to work. Any ideas?
 
orson3g said:
I am running 3.0 on a 3G, installed the modified ipcc file and tethering shows up. However, neither USB nor Bluetooth tethering works. Connect to network is grayed out via Bluetooth, and System Preferences never detects the phone in the Network Preferences. Running a 17" unibody MBP (first version) with OS X 10.5.7 fwiw. Any suggestions or fixes are appreciated. Thanks.

Also have the SDK installed (3.0 version)
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Disable Airport and set Network Pref to Automatic. I hear that works.
 
PRIMECHUCK said:
Does AT&T have legal rights to stop this? Well sure. It seems that most of you defending AT&T and demonizing those wanting to enable tethering and MMS are missing the point tho. iPhone users are already paying a premium price for the phone itself (and gladly because of its innovation as a smartphone) and also paying a premium price for the service plan that has been raised for unknown reasons as no other smartphone plans cost as much as the iPhones. Yet, with all that we still dont get to use our phones like the other smartphones that AT&T sells. Why? There has been no response to this and it seems to me that the customers that have been forced to live by AT&Ts policies are fed up. In the eyes of the law, these hacks are considered at the least violating the AT&T agreement. So I say this. Those of you complaining about this being so wrong need to put down your Starbucks coffee (If it hadnt been for the illegal tea party you would be drinking tea right now) or put down that beer (if it wasnt for the illegal trade of alcohol, prohibition would still be in place). My point is, sometimes to create changes people need to band together and do things that, at the time, would be considered illegal. Just because something is "legal" doesnt necessarily make it "right".

I'm off my soapbox, you guys should probably get off yours now too.
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Well said.
 
Willis said:
It is a Rip off. For as long as I'm able to get round it, I will.

And yes, the Blue Boxes were a nice little international call hack... and what was the company who they were hacking? AT&T :cool:
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Yep, and they were selling them too! No probs from my point of view -- long distance call charges were (and remain) extortionate! AT&T were the enemy back in those days, along with IBM of course.
 
PRIMECHUCK said:
Does AT&T have legal rights to stop this? Well sure. It seems that most of you defending AT&T and demonizing those wanting to enable tethering and MMS are missing the point tho. iPhone users are already paying a premium price for the phone itself (and gladly because of its innovation as a smartphone) and also paying a premium price for the service plan that has been raised for unknown reasons as no other smartphone plans cost as much as the iPhones. Yet, with all that we still dont get to use our phones like the other smartphones that AT&T sells. Why? There has been no response to this and it seems to me that the customers that have been forced to live by AT&Ts policies are fed up. In the eyes of the law, these hacks are considered at the least violating the AT&T agreement. So I say this. Those of you complaining about this being so wrong need to put down your Starbucks coffee (If it hadnt been for the illegal tea party you would be drinking tea right now) or put down that beer (if it wasnt for the illegal trade of alcohol, prohibition would still be in place). My point is, sometimes to create changes people need to band together and do things that, at the time, would be considered illegal. Just because something is "legal" doesnt necessarily make it "right".

I'm off my soapbox, you guys should probably get off yours now too.
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I like how you put this but the fact of the matter is that AT&T is the same as every other carrier. Check out how much Verizon's tethering package are. WOW!! THE SAME! Also, you are misinformed about the cost per month of the iPhone. $30 for the data service. Same as any Blackberry, Windows Mobile, Palm, or any other smartphone AT&T sells.

No one here is forced to live by AT&T's policies. You can take your business elsewhere. But before you do, look at the policies of your alternative, because they aren't so different at all...

Best part is, if it was Verizon here with the iPhone you would hear all of the same things.

People who tether are more of a burden on the network than the average smartphone user. So, the networks have to be improved. That improvement costs money. So the data plans for tethering are higher. This is simple math here, folks.
 
teknishn said:
Just change the Visual Voicemail apn to acds.voicemail in settings>general>network>cellular data network and reboot the phone
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Hi teknishn and other members,

Perhaps I'm missing something (or we are in different countries with different settings) but when I follow settings>general>network there is no "cellular data network" option. Furthermore, where do I input the appropriate MMS settings? Is it also under this option that I cannot see for some reason...

I am in the US and used the AT&T profile from the Engadget method (http://help.benm.at/help.php)

Thanks!
 
Mms

I talked to 2 different ATT reps and they said by the weekend MMS will be available on the iphone with os 3 firmware upgrade. They will send a txt msg to activate.
 
hypnos58 said:
I talked to 2 different ATT reps and they said by the weekend MMS will be available on the iphone with os 3 firmware upgrade. They will send a txt msg to activate.
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By the weekend.. which one? lol. AT&T is as slow as ****. :mad:
 
Someone else's post at AT&T's forums.

"I could go buy a $30 dollar phone from ATT and get picture messaging....just to spite them im gonna get on 3g and download a gig of data"

Does this give anyone any ideas?
 
Jmodamagicmofo said:
Couldn't a 2g phone do this and get mms if a 3g specific firmware was able to be installed on a 2g phone. 2g phones are simply missing the camera icon next to the texting field. Right, or am I missing something bigger here?
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No - the radio in the 3G is different from the radio in the 2G; the 2G radio is not capable of receiving or sending MMS messages... at least according to Apple. I'm pretty sure there is an unauthorized app that will provide MMS functionality to a 2G phone.
 
mrbrown said:
No - the radio in the 3G is different from the radio in the 2G; the 2G radio is not capable of receiving or sending MMS messages... at least according to Apple. I'm pretty sure there is an unauthorized app that will provide MMS functionality to a 2G phone.
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There has been an unauthorized app that does MMS for over a year. SwirlyMMS. Works perfectly fine on 3G.. and I'm thinking i had it working on my original iPhone as well. I can't remember for sure though.
 
mkstevenskm said:
Hi teknishn and other members,

Perhaps I'm missing something (or we are in different countries with different settings) but when I follow settings>general>network there is no "cellular data network" option. Furthermore, where do I input the appropriate MMS settings? Is it also under this option that I cannot see for some reason...

I am in the US and used the AT&T profile from the Engadget method (http://help.benm.at/help.php)

Thanks!
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If you go to setting>general>about scroll down and see if it says AT&T 4.0 or 5.0 for carrier. It sounds to me like you have the wrong ipcc file and it may still say 4.0. Also, not to state the obvious, but after you did things via the engadget method I trust you rebooted the phone.
 
Tethering works, MMS does not, and VVM is down with the 5.0 ipcc file. I changed the VVM settings to "acds.voicemail", which restores VVM, but then tethering disappears once you enable it. Seems like one or the other. Anyone else getting this, and have you found a workaround/fix? Thanks.
 
orson3g said:
Tethering works, MMS does not, and VVM is down with the 5.0 ipcc file. I changed the VVM settings to "acds.voicemail", which restores VVM, but then tethering disappears once you enable it. Seems like one or the other. Anyone else getting this, and have you found a workaround/fix? Thanks.
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I've had the same issue, one or the other.

Similarly, I can't get MMS to work. I spoke to three reps at AT&T and got the same wait until the end of the summer response.

I am on a family plan, with unlimited family text. I put my sim in one picture enabled phone, eventually it could receive calls and texts. However, I couldn't send or receive MMS....even on THAT phone.

Suffice to say I've given up.
 
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orson3g said:
Tethering works, MMS does not, and VVM is down with the 5.0 ipcc file. I changed the VVM settings to "acds.voicemail", which restores VVM, but then tethering disappears once you enable it. Seems like one or the other. Anyone else getting this, and have you found a workaround/fix? Thanks.
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Which IPCC file did you use? My VVM is still working with tethering enabled.
 
Stargaze said:
[seeing as this post has been hijacked by MMS]

Why do you need MMS on a phone that has full access to the internet??

i dont understand this overall cry for hte ability to text message someone a picture that i can email them
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It really bothers me when people say this.
There are obvious reasons for it.
 
AT&T management is a bunch of moronic bone heads...

...that just cannot think out of the box. the telco equivalent of General Motors, with the exception that due to their chummy relationship with the government (read: NSA & friends), ATT manages to make money.

how can they get away with charging me minutes on my iphone pay as you go plan after 4 RINGS, no actual connection! is congress asleep? nope, in the pocket of corporate big wigs...
 
teknishn said:
If you go to setting>general>about scroll down and see if it says AT&T 4.0 or 5.0 for carrier. It sounds to me like you have the wrong ipcc file and it may still say 4.0. Also, not to state the obvious, but after you did things via the engadget method I trust you rebooted the phone.
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Nothing is obvious for me ha, but I did restart the device--no luck. And you are correct, mine says "AT&T 4.0". But where is the 5.0 IPCC?

Just to recover my steps, I just restored the phone and redid the steps with still no luck! Here are my steps:

1) Go to: http://help.benm.at/usa.php
2) Select AT&T
3) Install confirm
4) Hit Done
5) Restart

Still no luck... any ideas? And finally, I don't know how to change the 4.0 to 5.0, are those additional steps?
 
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