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IPCC tethering trick no longer works in iPhone OS 3.1 beta 2
Torqued over the lack of tethering support from AT&T? Taken matters into your own hands? TUAW has learned that, with the release of iPhone OS 3.1 beta 2, tethering via the IPCC hack no longer works for AT&T customers.
It's not that surprising that Apple would want close this loophole... but it is a little surprising that AT&T has yet to announce a firm date or rate plan for US customers to tether their iPhones.
[It should go without saying, but if you enable tethering on your 3.0 iPhone, you do so at your own risk; AT&T may slam you with a data overage bill or worse.]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
dagamer43 said 9:22PM on 7-14-2009
It's hard to go "over" on an "UNLIMITED" plan. -_-
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Tom said 9:26PM on 7-14-2009
Unlimited is not unlimited. It's usually 5GB among all the US carriers (odd how competition actually means collusion, gotta love it). It's also against the terms of service to tether on an iPhone, so per your contract, they can terminate service or bill you for usage.
Odds are, very few people would run into issues with unauthorized tethering, but someone out there is likely to be burned over it.
Michael Hodges said 10:12AM on 7-15-2009
Texting is a data service too, yet they still charge extra for that.
Greg said 10:19AM on 7-15-2009
Texting is not a data service.
Andrew said 1:52PM on 7-15-2009
True the iPhone plan is unlimited as I hve seen several bills far exceed 5gb without penalty. Though I am not so technical in this matter I do know that Att can tell when excessive usage is coming from a pc browser rather than the iPhone's. $30 pays for unlimited on the iPhone not a different device. That's like buying nosebleeds and sneaking down to courtside.
TBONEZ said 7:20PM on 8-13-2009
I will keep my 3.0 my unlimited data and tether until the 3G cell towers burst in to flames from over use. 3.0 "from my cold dead hand"
Jared said 9:30PM on 7-14-2009
I'm bummed. Used the tethering feature with AT&T all the time. Just updated, and lost the tethering.
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David Hildreth said 9:30PM on 7-14-2009
What's worse? You don't mean....
THEY CAN'T EVER TAKE AWAY MY BIRTHDAY!
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MJZimmer88 said 11:43AM on 7-15-2009
What's worse is if they cut off access to NetShare
BTW: Does anyone know if NetShare will work after an update? I'm tentative to risk fate
Scott Earle said 9:40PM on 7-14-2009
And it's not just you poor people stuck with AT&T that have a problem:
I have a legally unlocked iPhone (bought in Hong Kong), and am using it on a carrier that does not offer an iPhone plan. Now they closed this 'loophole', how am I supposed to get tethering working again?
Any comments/solutions/suggestions/rants welcome.
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nano said 10:05PM on 7-14-2009
You can use a jailbreak app called MiWi but it may not support 2G iPhones. Goole MiWi iPhone.
Scott Earle said 10:17PM on 7-14-2009
My iPhone was bought legally fully unlocked, and I have never jailbroken it since the day I got it.
Given that we already established that it has 3.1 beta 2 on it, I would be interested how you could expect me to want to jailbreak it anyway. It will be *weeks* before 3.1 is jailbroken.
Comment fail.
CHRiS said 1:07AM on 7-15-2009
my god, you speak like jailbreaking it will some how permanently tarnish it. If you want to teather, and play with 3.1 like a little script kiddy, then you'll have to jailbreak it. And BTW, you can jailbreak 3.1 beta 2 just fine. Seems like someone is a little too pampered to be playing in the big boys sandbox.
Scott Earle said 1:15AM on 7-15-2009
Seriously ... I do not want to jailbreak my phone. My phone, my choice.
However, all I was saying was that it's not just the people stuck with a carrier (such as AT&T) who want to charge them for tethering, who are affected by this.
Here in Thailand, the carriers allow us to tether to our hearts' content - but Apple just killed this functionality. I was making the point that my phone was not bought and unlocked, and nor have I done anything to it that Apple would disapprove of. And yet, I have lost functionality, that I had previously.
Too 'pampered'? 'Big boys[sic] sandbox'? Please. You don't know anything about me.
John Michael said 7:40AM on 7-15-2009
Dude, Scott you're such a Pu$$. I can see it now, some girl trying to hook up with you and you saying, "MY DICK! MY CHOICE." But seriously just copy your iBEC and iBSS files and you can jailbreak foreva.
Oh and BTW anyone with a 3G S don't install ToneFX. You will regret it for a long time until they come out with a new version. (1.501 is FUBAR)
Scott Earle said 7:47AM on 7-15-2009
Are you all like 12 on here?
John Michael said 10:08AM on 7-15-2009
Not at all... Im 10
Justin Guest said 11:15AM on 7-15-2009
@Scott You weren't just stating that, you were also flaming nano when he was just trying to help you. And by the way he was right. Show a little appreciation when someone tries to help you next time instead of just flaming them...
And you say you don't want to do anything that Apple wouldn't approve of(jailbreaking) but you were using a hacked IPCC to enable tethering....
Jon said 12:04PM on 7-15-2009
@Scott,
Seriously.. Using a hacked IPCC to enable tethering, and yet you still upgraded to a beta and didn't occur to you that you MIGHT lose your hacked functionality? I guess you got what was coming to you
Avian said 9:43PM on 7-14-2009
Did anyone actually do the research on this article where is the source?
The screenshot is of the Mobileconfig file, not the IPCC, I sincerely doubt they can stop IPCC modifying, but I'm sure they can stop mobileconfigs.
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