Steven Troughton-Smith a twenty-year-old independent iPhone developer has managed to enabled USB tethering on his iPhone using OS 3.0.
Tethering must have come after I uploaded my custom Carrier Settings file. Awesome!
Haha even the Apple employees are jealous on seeing me with tethering enabled. :-D
I have no idea how I did it. Sorry! I was hacking around with APNs in the Carrier.bundle itcc file
Tethering is enabled using a simple on and off switch. The screenshots below show that you can connect with USB or Bluetooth but Steven has yet to get Bluetooth working.
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amdrew - March 18, 2009 at 10:46pm
it works in europe but u cant trick att u need a thethering plan
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minel - March 18, 2009 at 8:37pm
Erica Sadun has a tutorial on how to get this working :)
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