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Enable Tethering and MMS on iPhone 3G S, iPhone 3G

Submitted by Michael Johnston on June 19, 2009 - 11:23am.
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So that super easy "hack" to enable tethering on the 3G we posted totally works on the 3G S. Simply open this link on your iPhone 3G S (same link we posted before) and install the profile. Boom, tethering!

Of course many have asked about enabling MMS and there's a solution for that too! The only caveat is that it requires a bit of actual work on your part. You'll need to tweak an iTunes preference file and a GSM phone with MMS capabilities. Aaron Krill has all the details on enabling MMS + tethering on both iPhones, so check that out and be sure to let us know the results!

Submitted by Stephen007 on June 19, 2009 - 12:21pm.
From TFA...
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UPDATE: seems like im pissing AT&T off. they've handed down instructions to AT&T agents to NOT enable MMS for anyone who has recently switched their device from an iPhone to something else. the penalty for employees who do not obey these new guidelines is immediate termination of employment. sounds... interesting to me.
That almost makes me more interseted.

Sounds good - BUT

Submitted by ghp2006 on June 19, 2009 - 12:46pm.
Isn't Media net required by AT&T in order to use MMS?

HELP!!!

Submitted by homrb on June 19, 2009 - 12:49pm.
1. It worked but when I try to turn it on, it says "please contact AT&T". Whats wrong?
2. Even after deleting all profiles, the visual voicemail still doesnt work.
PLEASE HELP!!!

Submitted by NewGuy on June 19, 2009 - 12:58pm.
That makes little sense. Still I just did the tether. I have to say it work brilliantly.

Micheal I take back everything I have said about your Twitter.

Submitted by ZenTigerpaw on June 19, 2009 - 1:13pm.
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Originally Posted by homrb View Post
1. It worked but when I try to turn it on, it says "please contact AT&T". Whats wrong?
2. Even after deleting all profiles, the visual voicemail still doesnt work.
PLEASE HELP!!!
I think you should contact AT&T.

Submitted by RossGGG on June 19, 2009 - 1:17pm.
I've had MMS and tethering working with my phone with the developer and GM builds of 3.0 for awhile now. MMS is tricky because it has to be enabled on your account. I have a family plan with family messaging, so it was already enabled to make it available to the other phones on the account and as a side effect it worked on my iPhone as well. It seems AT&T has fixed this loophole now though, because MMS messages are no longer sending from my iPhone

Worked for me yesterday

Submitted by yetirich on June 19, 2009 - 1:17pm.
I did this "hack" yesterday and tested it last night. Tethering worked great.

As a bonus, I now have the camera icon within my text message window also. I have not yet had a chance to test this out but it appears that MMS works with this from this link:

http://www.krillr.com/blog/3DPQHBZ3/...-yes-im-on-att

Submitted by NewGuy on June 19, 2009 - 1:30pm.
I take it all back. Tethering worked...but VVM crapped out. Sadly I value VVM. Office gave me an AirCard from ATT already anyhow so until I have to return it tethering is a "nice to have'...but I want it.

My plan is to load the file whenever I need it then delete when done.


Still love you Micheal. LOL

Submitted by thuggedout on June 19, 2009 - 2:10pm.
I called AT&T a couple a months back and ask them to enable my MMS and the reason I gave them is because I use another phone to send mms from since I can't send them from my iPhone and the lady did it for me.

What about syncing to iTunes

Submitted by slugger59874 on June 19, 2009 - 2:15pm.
I've got tethering to work. If I sync to iTunes, will it brick my iPhone 3G?

Submitted by NewGuy on June 19, 2009 - 2:24pm.
No. At least mine didn't.

Submitted by ghp2006 on June 19, 2009 - 2:46pm.
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Originally Posted by ghp2006 View Post
Isn't Media net required by AT&T in order to use MMS?
Well - I'll answer myself.
NO!

I did exactly as stated in the write-up (3G running 3.0)
It took about 1 hour for the AT&T system to make the adjustments.

CLUE: Look for an email from AT&T stating that you made changes to the NON-iPhone. When you see that email, put the SIM back into the iPhone turn it on and you have MMS!

F'n AMAZING

Thank you
ajm

Submitted by NewGuy on June 19, 2009 - 3:02pm.
alrgiht so where is this MMS hack? there are so many in the forums....

Submitted by Beast on June 19, 2009 - 4:28pm.
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alrgiht so where is this MMS hack? there are so many in the forums....
Did you not read the link?

Submitted by Josito on June 19, 2009 - 6:18pm.
Well I have AT&T Followed the instructions exactly, and I now have MMS working I have had the Tethering for a couple of days now since the original hack that only addressed Tethering, I also have the Family messaging plan so i did not have to mess with my features setting on ATT's site. I guess I should also add that I had originally called ATT on the 17th when 3.0 was released (even though I had the GM installed before that) and told them that I was told by a rep to call back on that day to have MMS activated, rep. said ok

Submitted by homrb on June 19, 2009 - 8:28pm.
This is kinda a stupid question but when you do this hack will AT&T charge you on the bill?

Submitted by NewGuy on June 19, 2009 - 8:30pm.
Yeah sorry. Had slot of windows open trying to get tether and vvm at the same time

Submitted by back2thebeatof84 on June 20, 2009 - 1:26pm.
I put my SIM in a crappy old Nokia flip phone to do the MMS.

I'm on a family plan with the family messaging which brings MMS, video, and SMS messaging. I tried this method in this post and it didn't work for me because ATTwireless didn't recognize the model of phone i was using so I changed it myself to the crappy Nokia 6126 or whatever.

I called AT&T and they said they needed to change the IMEI from my iPhone to the Nokia's to get MMS working. I then asked if this new IMEI switch or whatever would work back on my iphone and they said that iPhone's MMS is disabled until next month.

I don't know if they "fixed" this little hack or whatever, but i'm getting confused.

I DO have the little camera next to the text box though, so at least I have a little improvement.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Submitted by back2thebeatof84 on June 20, 2009 - 1:34pm.
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Originally Posted by back2thebeatof84 View Post
I put my SIM in a crappy old Nokia flip phone to do the MMS.

I'm on a family plan with the family messaging which brings MMS, video, and SMS messaging. I tried this method in this post and it didn't work for me because ATTwireless didn't recognize the model of phone i was using so I changed it myself to the crappy Nokia 6126 or whatever.

I called AT&T and they said they needed to change the IMEI from my iPhone to the Nokia's to get MMS working. I then asked if this new IMEI switch or whatever would work back on my iphone and they said that iPhone's MMS is disabled until next month.

I don't know if they "fixed" this little hack or whatever, but i'm getting confused.

I DO have the little camera next to the text box though, so at least I have a little improvement.

Anyone have any suggestions?
So, I figured it out. What I did was I went into the features, removed my "Unlimited Family Messaging" from the plan, submitted it, then just went back in and added it again.

Surprisely enough, it worked. This is awesome haha.

Submitted by NewGuy on June 20, 2009 - 2:36pm.
Well none of these hacks work for me...rather they work to varying degrees. I have even restored. restarted. and every other re you can think of.

ahh...well. No joy.

Found a fix to the visual voicemail

Submitted by yetirich on June 20, 2009 - 10:17pm.
Found this over at wired.com

This will turn on your visual voicemail again. My original info in the APN field was wap.cingular.

This hack appears to disable Visual Voicemail. However, there’s a way to bring it back: On your iPhone, go to Settings > General > Network > Cellular Data Network. Under “Visual Voicemail,” there’s a field called APN. Enter this text in that field: acds.voicemail

Worked for me so hope it works for you also....

Submitted by Kevin Dunahee on June 21, 2009 - 2:33am.
For those that have gotten the tethering working. Check your usage in the MyWireless app from AT&T. I'd be curious to find out if any of you have something called "Overage Pay-Per-Use" under the minutes tab, which would seem to be a relatively smaller integer. I have two iPhones on my account and the number seems to coincide with the number of times I have initiated the tethering. It doesn't show data used or anything, just what appears to be the number of times you have tethered.

The fact that it is listed under "Overage Pay-Per-Use" is a little scary. I really have no idea what the number means, but I have a feeling the tethering is being logged.

Or it could be something else entirely...

Submitted by NewGuy on June 21, 2009 - 6:32am.
@yetrich that option doesn't appear for me and now I no longer have the profile option and tethering "permenant" with loss of VVM. nice.

@kevin. no i don't see that and i have used tethering twice for about an hour each if not more

Submitted by jesses7893 on June 21, 2009 - 3:56pm.
It worked for me. I sent a few mms and recieved a few also. Then i just tried again like 20 mins later. AT&T IS A BIT*H and disabled it already. IT WORKED FINE FOR THE FEW MINS THEY LET IT WORK. Y CANT WE HAVE IT ALREADY!!

Submitted by thuggedout on June 21, 2009 - 10:21pm.
Will this same tweak work for the First Generation iPhone?

Submitted by Kevin Dunahee on June 21, 2009 - 11:53pm.
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Will this same tweak work for the First Generation iPhone?
Yeah, I'm 99% sure it would for tethering. It's just an OS profile that it should load just fine.

However, I'm 99% sure that the first generation phone cannot use MMS due to some kind of hardware restrictions. At least according to Apple, but that always sounded kind of bogus to me.

Submitted by richcarl32 on June 23, 2009 - 5:34pm.
how do i tether after the profile is installed?

Submitted by bboyredcel on June 24, 2009 - 3:09pm.
I really wonder how AT&T is blocking it.

I called about 10 times and each of the representatives checked all of their systems to make extra sure that I was provisioned correctly and that there was no MMS Opt out feature on my account.

They must have programming that detects an iPhone IMEI and blocks it from sending MMS's. Im gonna switch my SIM into a non-iPhone in a little bit to check and see if its that or if they're blocking it if you have the iPhone Data Plan on there.


Has anyone gotten an iPhone to work with a regular MediaNet plan?

Submitted by Josito on June 24, 2009 - 5:25pm.
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Originally Posted by bboyredcel View Post
I really wonder how AT&T is blocking it.

I called about 10 times and each of the representatives checked all of their systems to make extra sure that I was provisioned correctly and that there was no MMS Opt out feature on my account.

They must have programming that detects an iPhone IMEI and blocks it from sending MMS's. Im gonna switch my SIM into a non-iPhone in a little bit to check and see if its that or if they're blocking it if you have the iPhone Data Plan on there.


Has anyone gotten an iPhone to work with a regular MediaNet plan?
All you should have to do is swap the sim card make a couple of calls wait until the phone that u are using (not the Iphone) registers @ my att account for that number if you have more than one line, and then swap sims again turn on the iphone go to messages make sure mms is activated and you are done.

Submitted by Josito on June 24, 2009 - 5:28pm.
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Originally Posted by richcarl32 View Post
how do i tether after the profile is installed?
make sure tethering is on, Settings>General>Network. turn it on and then hook your phone up by usb to the computer.(computer will do the rest)

Tethering 2 - MMS 1

Submitted by iphone-tethered on June 24, 2009 - 5:47pm.
I was able to get tethering to work on both of my phones iPhone 3G (on a family account), but can only do MMS messaging on one phone. On both phones the MMS is an available option and the settings are identical under the Messages settings and Network Settings. The account was set up incorrectly by ATT and they put us under unlimited texting ($30 per month) instead of unlimited iPhone texting ($20 per month). The phone that is working is the main number on the Family plan, but other than that I cannot find any differneces. I used the following site to enable tethering and mms, but for some reason texting doesn't work on the second line.

Anyone have any ideas? Tethering works fine on both.

Thanks.

http://mrnasty.org/2009/06/iphone-3-...tes-tethering/

Submitted by feelyou on September 4, 2009 - 5:34pm.
I find a tutorial to enable mms on iphone 3g on this site:
http://www.messiphone.com/mobile-sec...-iphone3G.html
My question is that I can the same steps for Oragne