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iPhone Tethering and MMS Hacks Surface

mkstevenskm said:
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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try network reset, works for me
 
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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See that doesn't make sense to me. If there are unauthorized apps that allow mms for 2g then it's certainly not a radio issue. So, back to my my other thought, does anyone see a problem in installing a 3g specific firmware on my 2g to get functionality for mms software, then use the aforementioned hack?
 
To anyone who is proclaiming how wrong this is, you should all just shut up while your ahead. What's wrong is that AT&T is forcing iPhone customers to pay more than any other smartphone users while giving them less features. And while some of you keep making the point that AT&T charges $60 a month for the air card services and that iPhone owners should pay the same thing if they want to use their phones data on their computers, here is what I say to you. People who pay $60 a month for air cards with 5gb caps are stupid for paying those prices in the first place. The bottom line is this, as long as iPhone owners are not exceeding 5 gigs a month, there should be no penalization for tethering. (And yes I would make the same argument for and other smartphone customer as well.)
 
amazingly, this worked. Then I tried to fix my voicemail by resetting the server name. That worked.

...then I tried to tether again. Nope. It was there one minute, then another it was GONE from my settings. sigh.
 
manu chao said:
When AT&T offered you your 5 GB contract, it did this knowing that one average people would use maybe 200 MB. If they have reason to believe that the average will be much higher, they will start offering much different contracts. Such as lowering the limit to maybe 1 GB and offering higher-cost plans with higher limits.
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All this demonstrates is an overall poor choice in the soft cap. Really, if they have actual evidence most people don't exceed 1GB, then why did they stick with 5GB? Why not 2GB? 3GB?

knewsom said:
And I fully respect their right to do so. I use well under a gig of data a month on my current plan, and even with tethering, I'll use well under a gig a month, and probably closer to the customer average - 3G is painfully slow compared to wifi, which is why I usually use wifi.
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Me too, but I don't respect AT&T's right to do ANYTHING correctly. Especially when it comes to billing.

ZGXtreme said:
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OMG! LOL!
 
teknishn said:
See my post above.... change apn for visual voicemail to acds.voicemail in settings>general>network>cellular data network then reboot the phone. :cool:
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:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

Hey!!! My cellular data network option disappeared!!! And I already re-booted my phone...

But I'm still able to send and receive MMS messages!
 

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mrbrown said:
...the 2G radio is not capable of receiving or sending MMS messages... at least according to Apple.
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That is the biggest load of BS I've ever heard.
The crappy radio in my 4 year old RAZR can do MMS just fine.
The radio in the 2G iPhone is more than capable. Apple just wants you to buy another phone from them.
There is no technical reason why the 2G iPhone doesn't have MMS. It's all about Apple selling more phones... period.
 
Earlier today I tried calling AT&T and having them change from link to send/receive. All three times I failed at getting them to do it. Then I tried the swap with another phone on my family text plan. It was an LG shine. After a half hour of usage and no change on the AT&T site....I still couldn't send a MMS picture message.


So tonight I said.....why don't I just swap it out and leave it around for a couple hours, using it on and off in the LG shine. It kept failing and failing. Until after about two hours.....the picture went through. I sent a few more, and then swapped it back.

BOOM! MMS on the iphone. Perhaps it will switch back by tomorrow? I'll just have to wait and see I guess.
 
Yaboze said:
I used this and Tethering was available but I didn't try it.

http://help.benm.at/usa.php

Anyway, how do you take it off?

I did a restore and it's still in the Network options? :confused:

I also did a Network reset.....still there.
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Do you not see a Profiles menu option under General at the bottom? I'm an iPhone Dev and when I installed the profile off that link (which borked my visual voicemail, btw) it said I had two profiles (the one installed from that link and the other being my provisioning profile)... You can remove it from there if you get the Profiles option... Consequently following the directions here allowed me tethering and visual voicemail:

http://macmegasite.com/node/7173

Though it doesn't show up in Profiles - since it's installed via iTunes.
 
Yaboze said:
I removed the Profile, Tethering is still there.
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Oh, you want to remove it entirely? Krillr I think posted a link to the original IPCC file on page 3 of this thread near the top, though you'll need to futz with iTunes to install it.

I haven't tried that to see if it'd work.
 
Yeah, I tried that. I did a terminal command posted on the recent link that allows 8.2 to update the carrier file. I downloaded that default one (It's an Apple link, too) and Tethering is still there. I'll just leave it off.

I hope it doesn't mess up anything else.

There's tons of blogs and sites like this posting how to turn it on, but nobody is really showing a way to reverse it completely.
 
Everytime I try to send a MMS it fails. It may be because I am on Edge right now. Is a 3G connection required? I have the 16GB 3G iPhone.
 
sbrhwkp3 said:
Because emailing is a pain in the ass. Not everyone has a smart phone to view their email with.

And even if they did, I want to be able to use 1 code (the person's phone number) to send texts, make calls, and send multimedia. I don't feel like collecting every single one of my friends' email addresses.

In the younger generation, email has already become obsolete, except for business.
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Well you do not need your friends email addresses.. If you know what their Cell server is then you already know their email.. See when some one send a text to your email it show their number @vzwpix.com (Verizon one. Every carries have one).. So when you send a email to them using that it goes to their phone as a text. Then they send a text to you but it send it to your email on the iPhone.. I know because I have send pic's to my wife phone that is on Verizon and she has send to my iPhone.. It is not as hard to do as you make it sound.. By added number @vzwpix.com (Other carries have a different one but do have one) in the contact is not that hard.
 
Tethering - check
MMS - check
VVM - check

It's like I have the phone I always wanted with the features I always had now.
 
mkstevenskm said:
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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I can help you get this done in a matter of moments, but Im not doing it in a public forum. I tried to PM you but it doesnt seem to let me for some reason. If you can PM me with IM info or something I can get you rolling.
 
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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Just a question about the 5.0 carrier file... There is a 5.0 file on these forums that I've tried to load a few times now. Each time it appears to load - I don't get any errors but every time I go into the settings it still shows carrier 4.0. Is there anything special I have to do?? Any tips? Thanks!
 
@TheKrillr - I know tethering this way doesn't work right now for 2G iPhones, because the IPCC files are for 3G phones, but do you think there is anyway to get it to? that is to make an ipcc for the Original iPhone (2G/EDGE).

BTW, I could care less about MMS personally, but I fully support all you people that want it :)

Finally, I'm glad a bunch of people said this but I have to say it too. I pay AT&T for "unlimited data", which I accept isn't really unlimited. Totally deceptive advertising and I wish someone would take them to court on it, but whatever I knew going in it was really a soft cap. However that is a VOLUME cap, not a bandwidth cap. Please tell me you actually know the difference. To the point however, how much of that volume I use and what I do with it is my business.

Now that said, all I really want to tether for is that when I'm at the airport I can check send/receive email from my laptop without paying through the nose for airport WiFi...

Now if AT&T wants to offer an "unlimited" tethering plan with a higher volume cap then I'll consider the value of such a plan. For $60/Month though I'm going to want 7Mbps and the abilty to use it 24/7 from home to replace my DSL line (ie. download streaming video and torrents 24/7)
 
On-line usage check.

I did the trick yesterday and tested it with my laptop. Today I looked at my O2 UK online account. Usage shows new apn sessions (they changed it with OS 3.0 form mobile.o2.co.uk to idata.o2.co.uk) since yesterday. The costs of all of them is ZERO.
 
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