Dept. of "That Was Awfully Quick": eager devs enable tethering on iPhone 3.0
Update: We've heard from two separate developers (Ari Weinstein and Jake Marsh) that they've put together quick and easy methods for enabling tethering on 3.0 iPhones (an all-in-one tool and a full user guide, respectively). Check out the links for details.When something so appealing as the possibility of wireless Internet access anywhere you go is dangled in front of you, is it any surprise when you reflexively reach for it? After developer Steven Troughton-Smith inadvertently turned on the tethering controls on his upgraded-to-3.0 iPhone, several people made a deliberate effort to enable the feature. Posts on personal blogs and at the MacRumors forums testify to the successful quest, and there's a specific walkthrough posted and a UK-specific IPCC file kicking around.
Of course, it goes without saying that tethering your phone, in the absence of a carrier contract that permits such connectivity, is the sort of thing that may get you in a spot of trouble. Examples of such potential hazards include extremely large data bills, summary termination of your account, or hair on your palms. While jailbroken phones have been tethering for some time with few issues, past performance is no guarantee of future outcomes.
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I enabled "tethering" and my vm went dead had reinstall 3.0.... My VM way more important than tethering right now
March 25 2009 at 7:54 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyHey, if anyone needs on a Developer account just shoot me an email!
Bobby@designgears.com
Has anyone used a sniffer to see if any of the packets are tagged with something to alert that it is tethered data? The hacked tethers don't seem to do this so I wonder if any official stuff via Apple has added this to help carriers?
March 21 2009 at 6:53 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWhy would any consumer or user of an iPhone that isn't a developer (99% of users) care about this at all?
3.0 doesn't come out for monthhhs...
...and TUAW posting all the different ways people are tethering is only going to give Apple more examples of what they need to do to patch the break when 3.0 is finally released.
I'll be writing all about this on my website soon enough http://www.johnthrasher.net
I for one am a staunch advocate for PUBLIC services and like it or not Enron fans universal highspeed untethered Internet is one of the services the governements has to intervene in if not outright own and opperate so every citezen has fair access to a more and more indespesible way of information and communication. If the greedy telecoms can't behave then the will and must be repremanded or nationalized. Neoliberal windbags keep quite and bow your head in shane pondering the state of the worlds economic system.
March 19 2009 at 8:29 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyTo all the folks having trouble tethering with either usb or bluetooth - please notice that you'll need to either install the iPhone 3.0 SDK, OR just the iPhoneSystemComponents.pkg in the Packages folder in the SDK in order to get at least USB tethering to work. This was deducted from the fact that tethering only worked on my dev-boxes... Tethering now working perfectly on my Dell Mini 9 hackintosh...
Oh, and btw, if there are any Danes out there, I have written a custom IPCC profile for TDC / Telmore that will enable tethering...
Cheers, and thanks for the wonderful discovery!
@Kemmey:
Do you mind sending me iphonesystemcomponents.pkg?
I understand that I need it for USB tethering for my Rev. B MBA, since Bluetooth is out of the question. Thanks in advance.
Can you email me the TDC-file for tetehering??? Any luck gettin mms working on TDC.
cheers
David
davidbuch2@me.com
You can find the Canadian versions (Rogers and Fido) on my website.
http://www.adammcnamara.com/CanadianCarriersTetheringPatch.zip
www.twitter.com/adammcnamara
www.twitter.com/CapnCapacitor
As long as you can change the carrier bundle you should get free tethering
March 19 2009 at 5:24 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyGah. Yeah, tethering is cool, but wait till you see how much extra the carriers will want for it. I'm guessing at least $50 per month, and that's with a bandwidth cap.
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