iPhone 3.0

[Jason]

While waiting for my cousin to show up to work on his house, I decided to get to working on rebuilding my iPhone after the 3.0 jailbreak became available last night.

I've got to rebuild a lot of my custom sounds and interfaces, but I first wanted to get tethering AND mms working. I'm miffed at AT&T that they don't *officially* support these, even though we pay for them.

SO....with a little trickery (does not require jailbreak) I'm happy to say I have both tethering and MMS working!!!

Any of you guys with iPhones who want to do this, PM me and I can help.

[Jon Liu]

Very nice, Jason! I just did the "update" myself. Although, I am not on AT&T... shhh :)

I'd love to have MMS... Does it work with the original iPhone or is it just the 3G and 3G S iPhone?

[neuronbob]

The MMS hack works with both the 3G and 3GS. I've read about the MMS hack (the one I'm most interested in) but it apparently requires another non-iPhone phone on AT&T to work fully.

But WOW, I am enjoying the cut and paste, and search functions. About fracking time!

[Jon Liu]

AMEN to that one! Cut and Paste should've been there from the get-go.

[Jason]

Don't know about the 3GS, or the 1st gen iphone. I'm running a 16 gb 3G.

Also, I don't know if there's a way to get it working on other carriers.

NB,
That's the way I got MMS working.....first you enable .ipcc updates on itunes. Then you download a modified carrier bundle and update the carrier settings on the phone in itunes. (this also enables tethering) Put your sim in another gsm phone (preferably another AT&T phone) and make a few calls. Then log into your AT&T account. Change to another messaging plan that's NOT an iphone plan.

At this point, I sent and received a couple mms's to make sure it was working. Then put the sim back in the iphone and restart the phone. BAMM!!

[Jon Liu]

Ahhh, bummer. I am still stuck on the 1st gen iPhone. I tried to convince the wife to let me get the new iPhone 3GS, but no luck on that front... Especially since we are not on AT&T right now, it made the decision especially easy for her. She really doesn't want to switch carriers.

[Jason]

Ahhh, bummer. I am still stuck on the 1st gen iPhone. I tried to convince the wife to let me get the new iPhone 3GS, but no luck on that front... Especially since we are not on AT&T right now, it made the decision especially easy for her. She really doesn't want to switch carriers.

Trust me...AT&T sux. Well, I guess they're OK...but come on, they've known about the mms issue since March. Totally unacceptable that I had to *trick* their system into allowing it.

I drop calls almost everyday, and I'm blanketed in 3G.

As soon as Verizon or someone else picks up the iphone, I'm gone.....

[Jon Liu]

If only T-Mobile had some good phones. More specifically, if only had the iPhone....

[Jason]

If only T-Mobile had some good phones. More specifically, if only had the iPhone....

I hear ya....

I don't think the iphone will go anywhere until 2011. Apple bought out Arm, which makes the processor for the iphone, amongst others. I recently read that Arm will have dual core processors available nest year:crazy:

I'm tempted to get the 3GS, but for now I'm holding off.

[Jon Liu]

Yeah, if I had the 3G iphone I probably wouldn't really be as interested in getting the 3GS, but since I am still on the 2G iPhone, I really could use the upgrade in processor speed and storage size. Both my wife and I only have 8GB and that's really not enough for us... I've got tons of music and I am always running out of room.

[Jason]

Yeah, if I had the 3G iphone I probably wouldn't really be as interested in getting the 3GS, but since I am still on the 2G iPhone, I really could use the upgrade in processor speed and storage size. Both my wife and I only have 8GB and that's really not enough for us... I've got tons of music and I am always running out of room.

The 32 gb would be sweet. I could put my entire itunes library on it....

Really what I'm waiting for is the TomTom app/kit. That is going to be really cool.....

[Jon Liu]

I agree. Even though the iPhone had GPS built into it, it wasn't fully complete and didn't ever replace the dashboard nav units. I think the TomTom kit will do just that. That was another reason why I wanted to upgrade! :)

[Jason]

Well, it seems I jumped the gun a little fast....

While the mms feature was working (as is evident from the pic I posted) apparently effin AT&T has figured out some way to block it, dammit.

I just tried to send a few picks, and I get a red exclamation mark next to the message saying it failed to send. I will try to do some research to see what's going on, but my guess is they know about the work around and are blocking it....I have absolutely no idea why. Instead of blocking us, why don't they figure out a way to get it working?!?!?!?!?!?

[Jon Liu]

Maybe it overloads their network by not having it go the conventional way? I have no clue...

That's a bummer.

[Jason]

Maybe it overloads their network by not having it go the conventional way? I have no clue...

That's a bummer.

i HIGHLY doubt it. MMS has been around since the first camera phone. The iphone is set up to compress the pics to a suitable size for mms. This is just pure laziness/lack of preparation/poor planning/whatever the f*** you want to call it from AT&T.

I'm on hold right now to complain. I know it won't do squat, but if enough of us complain, maybe they'll wake up and smell the coffee.

In the meantime, I'm googling and on all the mac hacking forums trying to figure out another work around.