MMS for iPhone 2G and tethering on OS 3.1.2 explained, not for the faint of heart
By Ross Miller 
posted Oct 19th 2009 9:49PM
posted Oct 19th 2009 9:49PM
[Via 9 to 5 Mac]
Read - iPhone 2G MMS
Read - OS 3.1.2 tethering
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omg my files!
OMFG that mans head is a pineapple!!!
And someone took a bite out of it!
Are you ready kids? Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Whoooo lives in a pineapple inside an iPhone?
SpongeJobs SquareMacs
Install the iphone-notes.de source in cydia and you can install this without any of the work.
+1 to SpongeJobs
OMFG. Captain Obvious in comments gets high ranked for being obvious.
Someone tell 'em water is liquid, they'll high rank you, too.
Moobies
idk, there's some serious cleavage going on
My 2G can already MMS.
Well FUCK man.
hahaha Vlad.
Obviously your not on the original iPhone data with AT&T so could careless! Unlocked on T-Mobile or on a family texting plan don't count.
SwirlyMMS anyone? I've been sending SMS on my 2g for like a year now... I'm already BORED of it...
OOPS.. MMS from my 2g, not SMS. I can do that too... Shucks.
It should be said that this stuff is planned to be added as an option later down the road, so no need to rush and brick your phone yourself.
I think by the time apple implement these changes, some iphone users have already jumped ship. (HTC HD2, X3, DROID and etc...)
I was talking about an update to the PwnageTool. Apple can go F*(# themselves for cutting out features.
But... But... I was lead to believe that Apple stuff Just Works - LOL!
True, when you brick your iphone, you poop bricks.
No thanks. I had MMS enabled before and it ate through my battery in no time.
First person with common since in all these posts.
EDGE = Battery Hog.
But Apple is the bad guy cause they want to maintain that battery life in case you want to say, make an emergency call.
"I sent a picture of this guy climbing a tree, he was like 40 feet in the air, but my battery died so I couldn't call 911 when he fell out of it and broke his neck."
OK am I missing something about the re-enabling of tethering? I have 3.1.2 with the Blackrain jailbreak and PDAnet, and I just got back from a long roadtrip this weekend that involved many hours of in-car surfing on a tethered netbook. I certainly don't consider myself anything more than a "casual iPhone jailbreaker". Is the warning off of the "casual iPhone jailbreaker" due to the fact that a jailbreaker doesn't need this patch in order to tether?
they're talking about re-enabling the "official" method of tethering released by apple with 3.0
I agree... PDA Net is so easy, and works very well with minimal effort...why bother with this?
Ha, nice pic engadget.
@Badger_badger_badger
Mushroom, mushroom!!
I try to resist saying anything about your jailbait avatar.
Dammit I said something.
Btw, that person behind the pwnapple is Musclenerd. One of the people on the iPhone Dev team. ;)
Srsly.
Tuck in that stiffy.
No, that's not MuscleNerd... look...
http://www.jeffandersonmusclenerd.com/
So f**kin' what! AT&T won't allow MMS on the 2G iPhone! Over here gettin' my hopes and s**t! Goodbye.
I'm still amazed that the iphone didn't have such a basic, standard feature from day 1
The app MyWi (found in Rock App) actually enables the native tethering capability in 3.1.2. Not sure how they do it, but its super simple to install (and you can actually uninstall the app and keep the USB/BT tethering capability...though I would support compensating the developer for their work)
Really? You need to get a better understanding of Apple's product 'evolution' - start with an 'ideal' model with 'ideal' features, cut several of them out and release the product with the minimum amount of features able to still attract sales, then release minor product updates every so often to keep people "just happy enough." And, if you saw those quarterly numbers from earlier today, it works! ;)
I suspect the problem was the Unix kernel--Nokia has run into this with the N900, too. Here's what I know:
When someone sends you an MMS, you actually get an SMS message with an identifier; then you connect to a server, give it that identifier, and download the MMS. Fine.
The catch is that MMS was defined in the age of WAP. The server you need to connect to is your WAP gateway, which does not accept connections on your regular Internet connection, only on your WAP connection--which is also an IP connection, but runs over the phone network differently, somehow.
This is fine for OSes which were written for phones. The problem Unix-based phones run into is that a Unix kernel assumes that every IP interface will have a separate IP address--and, on the phone network, it can easily turn out that your WAP connection and your Internet connection have the same address.
The Maemo community have apparently got a patch to the Linux kernel which lets it cope with multiple interfaces with the same address, and there's work done or planned to use that to add MMS to Maemo 5. Apple, though, seems to have taken a different approach, because AT&T had to do something special to work with 3.0's MMS support. I suspect they defined their own, more sensible protocol, and AT&T had to update their servers to speak it.
Damn, Musclenerd is FYYYYYYYYYYYNNNNNNEEE
Homeboy is straight JACKED if that's really him. Keep on lifting!
Engadget:
http://iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=5634
Easier.
N41
Without reading into it too much, that site looks like it's for the 3G and 3GS.
Or you can just not go through all that bull to enable tethering, download netshare or pdanet and go to town tethering away....
I use PDANet but it's not nearly as easy to use as the iPhone's native tethering. Unfortunately I can never get voicemail working while using the other tethering hack, so it's PDANet for me, until AT&T gets their act together.
yep, PDAnet can be stubborn, but it does do tethering over wi-fi whereas the native tether is only over USB or bluetooth
LoL... you say "two-bit" like its a username :P The tethering patches were done by MuscleNerd and are "2 byte" + a signature edit patches.
An NHL woman's jersey!! Just what I've always wanted!
What about tethering on the 2G? (I don't have an iPhone, just curious).
And I don't really know a whole lot about ARM code. Is this mix of 16 and 32-bit instructions the Thumb-2 mode mentioned on Wikipedia?
Has anyone used "ActivateMMS2G" in Cydia to make this work?
I haven't used it b/c I have a 3GS, but there are blogs around that seem to say it works with mixed results.
Why is there a picture of a fat man in a vest on the display?
The more I look at that ridiculous man's body (which won't be much more after this post) the more I question his sanity. He looks like a parody.
Massive twat.
followed instructions for enabling internet tethering and it worked just fine. i didn't need a mac to do the bspatch command. if you have a linux box, just install 'bsdiff' which has the bspatch command. added the profile that has tethering and it worked like a charm
Why would you want to patch the CommCenter. Funny that musclenerd would even retweet these - as he knows better then to arm users with something that could easily brick (requiring restore brick) a user's phone. Just install MyWi (it's in Cydia - a Rock app). It's simple and prevents users from risking bricking their phone. Come on MuscleNerd and Engadget - you can do better.
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