Enable tethering shortcut found - iPhone 3.0 is Live!

Cleve Nettles
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June 17, 2009
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Update: IF you've updated to 3.1 (naughty!) - there is now a way to get your iPhone to tether to AT&T.

 

iPhone 3.0 is live! so we are going to repost our tethering tutorial with some big improvements.  You now don't have to do any downgrading or torrenting.    Seems you can just run a little command in terminal (Make sure you are on OS 3.0 on a 3G iPhone and iTunes 8.2):

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

After that, the steps become a lot more simple. 

1. Download this file (for AT&T) and mount the disk image (thanks Gizmodo) for other carriers, try here.

2. Option-click on "restore" in your iTunes with your iPhone attached.  Browse to the opened disk image file and hit OK.  It will update phone settings for a few seconds.

3. You have tethering.  Now go into your iPhone/settings/general/network/Internet Tethering and turn it on.

Boom - 3 steps to tethering...

Oh, and how to you like cut and paste and spotlight search?

 

Comments (206)

j76nyc (not verified) | June 17, 2009 - 11:16am

you just have to dial your voicemail for it to register again with network

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 17, 2009 - 11:20am

This tethering tutorial, same as the last one, still doesn't enable tethering on the original 2G iPhone. Is this 3G specific? You should mention that.

New (not verified) | June 18, 2009 - 12:14pm

what are you talking about? It says it right at the top 3G only!

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 18, 2009 - 3:20pm

it doesnt say that r u blind?

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 19, 2009 - 10:36am

Sure it does:

"Seems you can just run a little command in terminal (Make sure you are on OS 3.0 on a 3G iPhone and iTunes 8.2):"

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 23, 2009 - 2:40pm

"(Make sure you are on OS 3.0 on a 3G iPhone and iTunes 8.2):"

Feel Better?

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 18, 2009 - 3:20pm

it doesnt say that r u blind?

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 23, 2009 - 2:44pm

Oh you must have missed the fine print. This fix does not work for idiots, only normal iphone users.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 17, 2009 - 11:22am

how do i mount the disk image

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 17, 2009 - 12:39pm

...You should NOT be messing with this update which will break aspects of your phones functionality (e.g. voicemail).

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 18, 2009 - 2:58pm

if your on a mac, double click it

if your on windows, your sol

mac ftw~

Anon (not verified) | June 17, 2009 - 11:24am

Broken Voicemail is a known issue - http://www.myappleguide.com/blogs/iphone-world/2280/how-tether-iphone-3g...

9to5Mac Nub (not verified) | June 17, 2009 - 11:27am

Just done my iPhone on o2 found the carrier file on a different site, did as the tutorial said except mounted the carrier file which i wanted to use. Works great, can o2 crack down on me? who knows?

jay (not verified) | June 18, 2009 - 11:07am

hi please let me know where you got the o2 carrier settings for tethering

macman365 (not verified) | June 17, 2009 - 11:35am

The file in the disk image appears to be for AT&T only (ATT_US.ipcc). Where can I get a similar file for O2 in the UK?

Justin (not verified) | June 17, 2009 - 11:38am

I got tethering to work! Now just to wonder if AT&T is going to charge more for it while I use it...

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 17, 2009 - 11:40am

Any update on how to fix the voicemail?

Sam in North Cakalakey (not verified) | June 17, 2009 - 12:51pm

That's what I had to do to get it to work. I have a slew of iPhones here and first time I had to do that was this week. Very odd but AT&T support fixed the issue by setting up "provisioning" on the phones accounts.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 17, 2009 - 11:20pm

settings>general>network>cell data> under Visual Voicemail
under APN
type acds.voicemail
there ya go

eNut (not verified) | June 18, 2009 - 8:46am

That fixed it for me.

Reference here for verification http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=649045

Rich (not verified) | June 17, 2009 - 11:42am

Now that tethering works like a charm, how do you go about getting MMS to work on 3.0 with AT&T

pskennedySOS | June 17, 2009 - 11:45am

Is there a possibility that this will brick the phone?

 

Will it void any contracts?

 

Thanks.

 

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 17, 2009 - 11:47am

Please mention that this does not work on old-fangled 2G phones. It did break my voicemail though. Any ideas on how t get it back? What do you mean "dial your voicemail?"

zitping (not verified) | June 17, 2009 - 11:54am

It works beautifully once it's set up. I'm worried about how this may affect my billing, though. Will I be able to update when the new version comes out?

Andres (not verified) | June 17, 2009 - 11:56am

I hate this cause now my voicemail doesnt work. And no, redialing 1 doesnt help.

brandon (not verified) | June 17, 2009 - 11:58am

Doesnt work with iTunes 8.2, only the beta. You can't select the ipcc file from the restore option with the 8.2 final release.

ollllllld newwwwwwwwwwwsssssssssss hahaha

dorkboy (not verified) | June 17, 2009 - 12:11pm

Wrong, I just did it with 8.2 final release and it worked fine.

kevykev (not verified) | June 19, 2009 - 5:45am

I seem to be having the same problem. You know of any work arounds?

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 17, 2009 - 12:10pm

Read post #400, I just tried it and it instantly fixed my voicemail. Still no tethering though on 2G.

http://www.modmyi.com/forums/t/565871-guide-mms-tethering-working-t-3-0-...

ben (not verified) | June 17, 2009 - 12:29pm

Ok heres how you fix your voice mail-
1. Connect the phone to itunes and option click restore
2. Navigate to your user name->Library->iTunes->iPhone Carrier Support
3. Select the file contained within "iPhone Carrier Support" and proceed
You now have your voicemail working again