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IPCC tethering trick no longer works in iPhone OS 3.1 beta 2

by Sang Tang Jul 14th 2009 at 9:00PM

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.

While iPhone OS 3.0 provides support for tethering, AT&T has yet to officially support it. As a workaround to obtain tethering (as well as MMS for some), some users have modified their carrier files (IPCC). As of 3.1 beta 2, this no longer works.

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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macfoxpro

Does iTunes 9 affect the tethering hack?

September 19 2009 at 10:37 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
dave

Justin, Jon & CHRis... What a bunch oh JREKS!!!!! Betchathinkyouresmart cause you jail broke your iPhone.... Just remember, any idiot can BREAK a thing, it takes a genius to Create a thing. You're all rude, ignorant & stupid adolescents... Grow up. BTW, don't bother responding, I won't be here any longer, but take a clue, learn to be men instead of lil boys. Men treat other men with respect

July 15 2009 at 4:38 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
jrflesch

Has anyone with 3.0 using mbileconfig to thether been charged by ATT?

July 15 2009 at 4:32 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jason

I lost tethering a few weeks back. I went to enable it, and the option disappeared altogether. No amount of restoring the Feb. "AT&T 4.0" IPCC and nor the more recent "AT&T 5.0" IPCC have done anything.

It's very interesting and unfortunate.

July 15 2009 at 1:58 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Jason

Note: I'm not running the 3.1 betas. This is on bog standard 3.0, no jailbreaking.

July 15 2009 at 2:01 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Yuusharo

I had the same issue. It has to do with the phone checking your tether eligibility and it cut you off when it saw you did not. Simple fix.

On your Mac or Windows, look for your specific carrier profile. For the states, it should be something like ATT.ipcc or something like that. Upload that file back into the phone. This should reset your carrier settings back to default.

*RESTART THE IPHONE*

July 15 2009 at 5:32 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
adam

I am a little confused here, does it break the hack for people who installed it on 3.0 and upgrading to 3.1, or, does it just get rid of the loophole so that once upgraded to 3.1, you can no longer perform the hack?

Also, I did the hack through iTunes changing the carrier settings, anyone know if that works in 3.1b2?

July 15 2009 at 1:26 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
B Blakely

In reply to comment #6:

Netshare continues to work fine under OS 3.0 on my new iPhone 3GS. Since Netshare is hackless tethering, I'm hoping it continues to work with 3.1.

July 15 2009 at 1:05 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
bzolkaa

I haven't tried 3.1beta2 yet, but did you try the iTunes hack to force it to upload the ipcc?
exit iTunes,then:
in OSX Terminal: defaults write com.apple.iTunes carrier-testing -bool TRUE
in windows: cd “c:Program FilesiTunes”
iTunes.exe /setPrefInt carrier-testing 1

July 15 2009 at 12:07 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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bzolkaa

And after this iTunes modification, try once more to upload the ipcc file

July 15 2009 at 12:22 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Troy

Teathering DOES work! It has yet to be resolved. If you go to help.benm.at from your iPhone you can install the teathering profile

July 15 2009 at 10:17 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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murrayhenson

Obviously it works on v3.0; that's not the issue. The issue is with 3.1 b2.

July 15 2009 at 11:46 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
murrayhenson

Can any other non-AT&T customers check this? I see at least one Telstra person reports it is broken but I'm curious if this issue (the mobileconfig / http://help.benm.at/help hack) will affect all carriers.

July 15 2009 at 9:25 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
sam

I suspect this is because of the "-2" type-mask no longer cutting it. Someone needs to try an IPCC with a propper tethering type-mask value. Something like 48 for an APN used only for tethering, or 49 for tethering and on-phone internet.

July 14 2009 at 11:43 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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MisterWoofWoof

Nope :( Doesn't work with any type-mask value. :(

July 15 2009 at 2:14 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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