Hello, stranger!
It’s been a while, but Apple have just released iPhone OS 3.1.3 which purports to fix inaccurate battery level reporting for the 3GS (let’s hope this means our batteries are actually doing better than we think and not worse) and some other minor bug fixes. We’ll let you know in an update to this post if there is any impact to the carrier bundles, so if you’re with anyone but Vodafone you might want to hold off running the update just for now. We’re updating our iPhones now and checking all facets of the bundle. We’ve heard that tethering should work again but we’ll let you know! Stay tuned!
[UPDATED @06/02 14:30 ] – Tethering now available with our new bundles. Click here to read more
HUGE thanks to user Plamsaglows for providing us with the stock files, without whom we would not have been able to do the testing and HUGE thanks to DBMandrake for providing the solution
Tethering is back!
We can also confirm that blackr1n and redsn0w are broken with this update as it has patched usb comms exploit, so please don’t update if you are Jailbroken.
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To get Tethering working right now, you must RESTORE (not update) your phone to 3.1.3 and DO NOT install the carrier file. You should have the normal scrolling TelecomNZ up the top. Tethering will now work.
Our current carrier bundles will work but Tethering will not be available.
We are waiting on a kind owner of an iPhone 3G who could Jailbreak and provide us with the necessary files from inside the device to update our carrier bundles to work. We will keep you updated.
(Mak has made 156 comments)
Great news… a good day! I’m guessing that if we restore and then manually add the details above we also need to manually configure the MMS settings and voicemail number? I can follow your manual settings here, but just need to remember the keys to reprogram the voicemail button. Thanks.
(smw has made 10 comments)
Mak wrote:
Mak you are in Dunedin no? If you I could no doubt cough up my 3g for half a day or so.
(Plamsaglows has made 7 comments)
I am indeed in Dunedin! Although, I wouldn’t really feel comfortable holding onto such an expensive device. I’d feel horrible if anything happened to it. I also have school just starting now. Either myself, Dan or Steve could walk you through the process over IM/MSN/IRC/E-mail.
redsn0w is on the fly and quite simple to run
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(Mak has made 156 comments)
@ Mak:
Yeh sweet as just email me on my registered email addy and we can work something out.
(Plamsaglows has made 46 comments)
FYI the code to enable voicemail button (*5005*86*xxxx#) does not work, unless they changed that in 3.1.3 as well.
(Dan has made 388 comments)
So what does that mean? Voicemail isn’t managed by the native phone app?
(Mak has made 156 comments)
Yep – I agree. Cannot manually program the Voicemail number here either – although tethering worked a treat!@ Dan:
(smw has made 10 comments)
Email sent mak.
(Plamsaglows has made 46 comments)
Thanks just replying now. However, I’d hold off until we hear word about this Voicemail issue.
Is the voicemail number able to be set in the carrier bundle once we get it going?
(Mak has made 156 comments)
Yes…. The voicemail number is set by the carrier bundle and only by the carrier bundle. You used to be able to type in the code above and it would enable the button but ever since 3.1 (i think) it stopped working and you can now only manage it via the bundle.
(Dan has made 388 comments)
@ smw:
The option may still be there but are you certain it is working? Sometimes the option remians until you try to actually use it. I am just in the middle of a restore (takes a long time on a pretty full 32GB) so I can’t test.
If it does work then brilliant, but I would still like to update the bundles.
(Dan has made 388 comments)
@ Mak:
Haha, ironic how this site doesn’t endorse jailbreaking (for the record I no longer see the need/jailbreak my phone) requires jailbreaking to create a non-jailbreaking carrier bundle
(ahmad has made 71 comments)
@ benh:
Have you installed a custom Vodafone bundle?
(Dan has made 388 comments)
@dan, I had the custom Vodafone bundle installed but when back to standard carrier to give tethering a try
(benh has made 29 comments)
@ benh:
Did you enter the apn into the tethering field under “Settings>>General>>Network>>Cellular Data”? When you say you did have it installed what did you do to uninstall?
(Dan has made 388 comments)
@ Dan: I did a restore….. Sooo I can use the custom vodafone bundle & enter the apn?
(benh has made 29 comments)
No. You should be restored, with no custom bundle installed. Then you enter the APN manually.
After restoring to 3.1.3, if you restore your settings from a backup to get your stuff back on it, it will just reinstall the custom carrier bundle. You need to set it up as a new phone.
(Dan has made 388 comments)
@ Dan: is there a link to the factory settings?
(benh has made 29 comments)
Not sure what you mean. The only way to get back to Factory Settings and remove a custom carrier bundle is to restore by hitting the restore button in iTunes. Once you have done that it will ask you if you want to set up your iPhone from a backup or set it up as a new phone. Select set up as new and you are done.
(Dan has made 388 comments)