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3.1 breaks tethering
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Tethering seems okay (without testing)
All the functionality is still there in the settings. Haven't tested the tethering yet.
(Rogers 3G, on to 3.1)
All the functionality is still there in the settings. Haven't tested the tethering yet.
(Rogers 3G, on to 3.1)
Would you mind testing it out? From what I hear it's only after you try to use it that it's functionality is revealed as crippled... I'm hesitant to upgrade because I know I'll need tethering in the very near future.
If you need tethering, do not update to 3.1 under any circumstances. Read all over the website, they see the ability on 3.1 but once they activate it, it literally disappears in front of their eyes. I put a lot of work into downgrading to 3.0.1 because for us 3G users, 3.1 was pointless, it was really updates for the 3GS and apple and AT$T trying to block jailbreaking and hacking their phones. I believe from this point on (meaning 3.1 and on) we will have to pay for the tethering option. I'm not willing to pay $30 for it when I can just do it for free.
Nobody I know has got it to work, there is an odd post earlier in this thread where one person said they upgraded and the Benm hacks still works but that person made only 1 post ever so I think that was misinformation on his part.
Just don't upgrade dude. I've heard nothing on the internet about people having a work around yet.
Yes!
Yes it is still working. I am on 3.1 on a 3GS with the 6GB plan. Just used it yesterday all day and it's working pretty well.
Yes it is still working. I am on 3.1 on a 3GS with the 6GB plan. Just used it yesterday all day and it's working pretty well.
Tethering seems okay (now with testing)
To confirm recent reports from some other Rogers users, tethering on 3.1 still works. This message was sent from a tethered MacBook Pro.
To confirm recent reports from some other Rogers users, tethering on 3.1 still works. This message was sent from a tethered MacBook Pro.
No problem. And it's Ma'am, not sir. :>
Interestingly, my home office can be a dead zone for Edge or 3G. Neither were active at the time. So Rogers tethering doesn't depend on them, but the connection was painfully slow.
I can't say for Rogers, but here in Spain with movistar, tethering is allowed for free, however it uses a different APN from that of the iphone.
This causes two things:
1) The tethering option takes 10 seconds or so to work because hte iphone has to establish a new connection to the tethering apn
2) the speed of that apn is pathetic.. always limited to 128k on my own experience.
So with 3.0 and 3.0.1 I had a custom ipcc that used the same apn for tethering and normal data. I barely use tethering however, maybe once a month at the airport.
I'm trying to find an ipcc form the 3.1 firmware but I guess until we see a jailbroken filesystem we won't have a peek at the inners of the new ipcc structure.
Not yet, no. Ben M. claims he's working on one, hope he pulls it off. His last hack worked perfectly.
Mad Mac Maniac
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netshare FTW!!!
Haha, I agree. Glad I got it while I could. Difficult to use as hell, though.
I don't. I was worried that Apple just arbitrarily disabled the service for all devices. It wouldn't be the first time that I, as a Rogers customer (who pays for said services), have had to suffer without features because of either Apple or AT&T.
Mad Mac Maniac
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Haha yeah I know. I only used it twice (for fun) but now I'm going to actually need to start using it. for 3 months... Yes that would happen RIGHT after tethering was broken...
But now I need to try to relearn netshare... but still it's good to have
Rogers
Thought I'd chime in with some signal (non-noise).
I have an iPhone 3G on Rogers. I had firmware 3.0 jailbreak, then upgraded to 3.1 jailbreak (which resulted in the phone feature not working), went back to 3.0 stock, then itunes upgraded to 3.1 stock, then reapplied 3.1 jailbroken.
Everything appears to be fine now, been using it for a week. Just realized today that tethering, while available in the menus, and is activated when I connect USB or Bluetooth (ie: the blue bar at the top "Tethering"), but absolutely no data can go through.
Free version of PDAnet does route data properly, so it really is the tethering that is railing, even though appears to be active.
Now a friend of mine, with the exact same setup (but his upgrade sequence was directly 3.0JB -> 3.1 -> 3.1JB), also with iPhone 3G on Rogers, reports fine tethering.
No idea what my problem is though, but it does appear Rogers clients will not have a tehering broken "in normal scenarios".
Thought I'd chime in with some signal (non-noise).
I have an iPhone 3G on Rogers. I had firmware 3.0 jailbreak, then upgraded to 3.1 jailbreak (which resulted in the phone feature not working), went back to 3.0 stock, then itunes upgraded to 3.1 stock, then reapplied 3.1 jailbroken.
Everything appears to be fine now, been using it for a week. Just realized today that tethering, while available in the menus, and is activated when I connect USB or Bluetooth (ie: the blue bar at the top "Tethering"), but absolutely no data can go through.
Free version of PDAnet does route data properly, so it really is the tethering that is railing, even though appears to be active.
Now a friend of mine, with the exact same setup (but his upgrade sequence was directly 3.0JB -> 3.1 -> 3.1JB), also with iPhone 3G on Rogers, reports fine tethering.
No idea what my problem is though, but it does appear Rogers clients will not have a tehering broken "in normal scenarios".
I have not upgraded to iPhone OS 3.1. But on the BenM site, there appears to be a procedure to downgrade. You may want to take a look at it.
Hope this helps.