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Fido (or Rogers) and tethering...?

Arkanok

Arkanok

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Those of you on Fido or Rogers and have updated to 3.0, I need your help.

I'm all updated to 3.0 right now (and at work, away from my laptop) and I tried going into the network settings to enable tethering, but when I click on the button that says "Set Up Tethering" I get an error that says that I've gotta contact Fido to enable it, but as far as I know, isn't the option just supposed to be there to turn it on and off?

Either way, I called them up, and they said "You have to contact Apple to get it activated." So it seems as if Fido themselves don't have a clue how to get this working.

Has anybody in Canada using 3.0 (Fido or Rogers) been able to get tethering enabled? (and yes, I've tried that link that is floating around to enable it for people in UK and USA, but Canada isn't in the list so it doesn't work for me)

I've included a screenshot of the error:
 

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Same with me... I got a text from Rogers this morning saying that tethering has been enabled on all data accounts over 1gb.. aka me lol but i get that same screen you do. I'm on hold with tech. support right now, I'll post back if they fix it.
 
johngardiner said:
Same with me... I got a text from Rogers this morning saying that tethering has been enabled on all data accounts over 1gb.. aka me lol but i get that same screen you do. I'm on hold with tech. support right now, I'll post back if they fix it.
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my tethering works fine. on rogers
 
johngardiner said:
Same with me... I got a text from Rogers this morning saying that tethering has been enabled on all data accounts over 1gb.. aka me lol but i get that same screen you do. I'm on hold with tech. support right now, I'll post back if they fix it.
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Ok cool, lemmie know what you find out.
 
A co-worker of mine, who's running the 3.0 GM, said he was pushed an OTA update from fido which enabled MMS and tethering.

Maybe turn your phone off and on? Perhaps that'll grab the update.
 
cellocello said:
A co-worker of mine, who's running the 3.0 GM, said he was pushed an OTA update from fido which enabled MMS and tethering.

Maybe turn your phone off and on? Perhaps that'll grab the update.
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Hmm. I'll give that a shot. Maybe it something though that you get when plugged in to your comp running iTunes? If so, I can't really try till later tonight since I'm at work.
 
Arkanok said:
Hmm. I'll give that a shot. Maybe it something though that you get when plugged in to your comp running iTunes? If so, I can't really try till later tonight since I'm at work.
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Maybe. I'll ask him for some more details.

I'm at work too ... I want to get me some 3.0 lovin' ASAP :eek: haha

EDIT - yeah, he's thinking he got it over iTunes. so you may have to do a proper sync to get everything working.
 
cellocello said:
Maybe. I'll ask him for some more details.

I'm at work too ... I want to get me some 3.0 lovin' ASAP :eek: haha

EDIT - yeah, he's thinking he got it over iTunes. so you may have to do a proper sync to get everything working.
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Ahhh, ok awesome. I guess I'll just have to be patient and wait till I get home to give this a whirl. Thanks for the info!


johngardiner said:
Just called Rogers and the lady there put some free tethering enabler on my account, then i restarted my phone and it works! Fast too! Good luck!
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Really!? Awesome, haha. Ok I guess the lady I spoke to didn't know what she was talking about then. Maybe I'll see if I can get a Fido tech number and call techs directly rather than standard customer support.

Thanks!
 
i just called rogers and was told that the tethering option is on my account, but that it isn't available for use until friday.

i guess i'll wait until then to see if it actually works. they told me that i didn't need to call back to activate it.
 
I'm on Rogers original $30/6GB plan and I am posting this via Bluetooth tethering from my iMac. :) No hassle, like everything else with Macs "it just works". I cannot emphasize enough just how happy this makes me -- I live in a rural area with no hope of broadband and my only internet connection was a 28.8k dial-up (33.6k on a good day!). Now thru my (fringe) Edge connection I'm actually seeing 3-5X my previous dialup speeds! I'm downloading at 18.5Kbps vs 4.0Kbps before and I'm as happy as I could be!!!
 
briank911 said:
i just called rogers and was told that the tethering option is on my account, but that it isn't available for use until friday.

i guess i'll wait until then to see if it actually works. they told me that i didn't need to call back to activate it.
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I'm also getting the call rogers message so I did, twice. Last night I was told that I needed to do some troubleshooting on my phone and would have to call from a second line. This morning I called from work and was told that Tethering will not be activated until the 19th (Friday). It looks like some people have it working, while others do not. They confirmed that I have the correct data plan and that tethering is on my account and it's just a matter of waiting until Friday... congrats to those that have it working though!
 
Now having said that, after reseting my phone several times (both by holding the buttons until I get the "slide to turn off" and by just holding until it resets) as well as going into and out of airplane mode a ton of times, I was finally greating with an accessible menu to set-up tethering and not the "Set-up tethering button" followed by "call rogers to activate". So perhaps it's just a matter of resetting your phone and hoping for the best despite Rogers saying it's not active until tomorrow.
I have my laptop with me but can't get a chance to actually try to set it up to confirm if it actually works or if I'm just able to get to the set-up screens now. It looks liek a bunch of other people have it working so I'm sure it's fine.
Good luck to everyone else!
 
Seems to be some mixed results here, I have a bit of an update on my situation now, however.

I've called Fido twice (once to a normal customer service rep and once to a tech rep) and both of them told me the same thing, "We're not activating it till Friday the 19th."

Late last night, my friend updated to 3.0 and tried the tethering thing. His had the "Set up tethering" button followed by the error "Contact fido to enable tethering", then 5 min later he went back into the network menu and suddenly the "On/Off" switch was available!

Perplexed, I immediately I grabbed my iPhone and checked it out, I got the error like before, only right after I dismissed the error message, I saw the "On/Off" switch!

So basically, I didn't get any kind of "carrier update", nor did I call Fido just prior to seeing the switch become active, but it is now.

Finally, this makes me happy!
 
so can anyone confirm the most recent version of the fido carrier file? Is it 4.0 or 5.0. I think I'm on 4.0 and missing the update but I haven't been able to confirm with anyone. I can't seem to get any updates from it because I was on the GM released to developers earlier, so clicking update just says you have the most recent version of everything cause I'm already on 3.0. I can tether, but I was on the GM prior to the actual update and I could also send MMS just fine, now I can't. I have an MMS plan as well.
 
mumbino said:
so can anyone confirm the most recent version of the fido carrier file? Is it 4.0 or 5.0. I think I'm on 4.0 and missing the update but I haven't been able to confirm with anyone. I can't seem to get any updates from it because I was on the GM released to developers earlier, so clicking update just says you have the most recent version of everything cause I'm already on 3.0. I can tether, but I was on the GM prior to the actual update and I could also send MMS just fine, now I can't. I have an MMS plan as well.
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Check your About screen under Settings->General->About

For me, Carrier reads: fido 4.1

What does yours say?

I was able to tether yesterday via blutooth and USB. After initially receiving the error message.
 
I can't speak for Fido, but I'd imagine its the same number. I have Carrier: Rogers 5.0 and tethering and MMS work perfectly without needing to call them.
 
Hutch1 said:
Mine is Rogers 4.1 and it tethers no problem.
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Did you successfully get a carrier update? I tried getting an update after upgrading at work but I was not sure if it applied correctly.

PS. I'm tethering over USB as I type this. :D
 
aristotle said:
Did you successfully get a carrier update? I tried getting an update after upgrading at work but I was not sure if it applied correctly.

PS. I'm tethering over USB as I type this. :D
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It said carrier update, don't know what it was before so I assume I got the update.

Never received any error messages either.
 
Hutch1 said:
It said carrier update, don't know what it was before so I assume I got the update.

Never received any error messages either.
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Ok, cool, so I assume that I got the update too. I updated at work yesterday and got an error in iTunes for windows when I tried to apply the update and it appeared to freeze after a while.
 
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