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iPhone Tethering and MMS Hacks Surface

DELLsFan said:
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?
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Because it was better publicity (particularly if they had charged those, admittedly small number of people, using more than 1 GB an arm and a leg or reduced their access speeds).

In my country we have plans with a 100, 250 and 1000 MB cap. I have always stayed below 200 MB, thus I have the 250 MB plan.
 
teknishn said:
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.
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@ teknishn, thank you so much for your continued help. I went through my preferences and enabled a setting to let "users email me" so try that. I tried looking for a way to personal message you but didn't find one (maybe you also have it disabled). Looking forward to hearing from you and thanks again!
 
I got the MMS and tethering to work, but the MMS stopped working after a few hours. Maybe AT&T detected the SIM card was back into my iPhone 3G.
 
zigziggityzoo said:
Mine stopped working overnight....
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That's weird, mine is working just fine. I'm on a tethered computer right now actually. I did notice however that when I log into my AT&T account online, the only Data usage is that of my texting. Oh well, if AT&T tries to pull any **** over on me, I'll just tell them that there is nothing in my contract stating that I cannot tether my iPhone, and that if they want me to stop browsing the web using the only decent form of high speed internet that is available to me (I live in a rural neighborhood) then they need to get off their asses and get some sort of broadband service (excluding their overpriced 5gb capped air card service) out where I live. It's not like I'm downloading gigs of torrents or any sort of P2P, I just find that it is much more comfortable to browse the web on my actual computer while I'm at home.:rolleyes:
 
Braindead360 said:
That's weird, mine is working just fine. I'm on a tethered computer right now actually. I did notice however that when I log into my AT&T account online, the only Data usage is that of my texting. Oh well, if AT&T tries to pull any **** over on me, I'll just tell them that there is nothing in my contract stating that I cannot tether my iPhone, and that if they want me to stop browsing the web using the only decent form of high speed internet that is available to me (I live in a rural neighborhood) then they need to get off their asses and get some sort of broadband service (excluding their overpriced 5gb capped air card service) out where I live. It's not like I'm downloading gigs of torrents or any sort of P2P, I just find that it is much more comfortable to browse the web on my actual computer while I'm at home.:rolleyes:
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Umm tell you the truth THERE IS something in your contract about not tethering. It is in your fine print.

As for the tethering guess what it cost the same as getting the air card as to get that added on to your phone that should tell you something.
 
i have a 3Gs and i dont know how to get mms. i have tethering but no mms. i dont know how to do it help! asap!
 
For those of you that can't get this stuff working right and want to reset everything back to normal settings. If you want to remove the tethering that you got from help.BenM.at and doesn't go away even after a reboot. Go to Settings> General> Network click on the tethering and enable. It will disappear after a few seconds.

To go back to carrier file 4.0, you need to do the same thing you did for loading 5.0

If you download the carrier file with Safari and it opens as 'ATT Bundle' and has that lego looking icon, you need to go to Safari Preferences and uncheck "Open 'safe' files after downloading" then it should download in '.zip' format. Right click file> Get info and remove the '.zip' extension and click 'use .ipcc"
Now it should be ready to use in iTunes
 

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keenan wolf said:
how do i do that? i cant get a clear guide on how to do it.
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Same way I said to install 4.0. Except with this one instead;





To open in iTunes; Option + Click "Check for updates"
Find carrier file 5.0
Install and reboot
 

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AdiGital said:
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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This is excellent news, it sounds like they can't distinguish between the two types of internet usage.

I'm disappointed in O2 for trying to charge 15 quid a month for this, I thought they were better than that. In addition to decent coverage on their mobile network I've read they're one of the better Mac-friendly ISPs.

Lets hope they don't find a way to block this hack, I'll need to use it fairly infrequently (i.e. not enough to pay extra for) and when I do I'll be glad its there.
 
keenan wolf said:
when i optiion click in in itunes it doesnt let me choose the 5.0 file... what should i do. i changed it to .ipcc and i have no clue what else to do.
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Oh. Type this into Terminal.

defaults write com.apple.iTunes carrier-testing -bool TRUE


That will let you see the .ipcc in iTunes
 
aarcarr said:
Same way I said to install 4.0. Except with this one instead;

To open in iTunes; Option + Click "Check for updates"
Find carrier file 5.0
Install and reboot
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I changed the extension. But when I tried to update my 3GS to 5.0, I got "The iPhone xxx could not be updated. An unknown error occurred (0xE8000051). "

And same thing when I try 4.0 :(:(:(:(
 
topology said:
I changed the extension. But when I tried to update my 3GS to 5.0, I got "The iPhone xxx could not be updated. An unknown error occurred (0xE8000051). "

And same thing when I try 4.0 :(:(:(:(
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I dont know if the 3Gs files are the same as 3G files
 
Thanks for all the information here. I went to http://help.benm.at/usa.php and followed the directions, and am tethered over USB without any problems. Haven't tried Bluetooth, but I assume it should work. On speakeasy.net's speedtest, my d/l speed was 2492 kbps, and u/l was 323 kbps.
 
danielcroft said:
Tethering - check
MMS - check
VVM - check

It's like I have the phone I always wanted with the features I always had now.
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Has it stayed like that?

I can only get tethering to work, if I enable VVM it disables tethering after a few seconds.

If that works what method did you use? I have AT&T.
 
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