Selling Expectations

*** Update: Now with all five iPhone Carriers ***

Long time no blog;
In the time since my last post, Apple have gone from iPhone 3.0 beta 2 right up to the Gold Master, and the 3.1 beta has been set upon developers.

They’ve also blocked the ability to upload your own custom carrier bundles through iTunes, probably as now carriers are attempting to charge for what should be free (Optus – charging $10 just so you can use your own data through tethering?!), and other carriers that don’t support it at all (Yes Telstra, I’m looking at you – why are you not supporting tethering; haven’t you worked out how you too can charge us customers extra for tethering, when it’s included for free on pretty much every other handset you sell?!).

The bundle from my last post was also using settings that weren’t quite confirmed that they did what they were supposed to do, especially in reference to the ‘type-mask’ options.

I’ve jailbroken my iPhone 3G, extracted and modified the bundle included, to enable tethering, set up MMS properly (full resolution photos anyone?) and properly configuring Group SMS.
Previously if you attempted to send a SMS message to a group of people, it would instead be sent as a MMS, at MMS rates. Not good.
This new bundle also conforms to the official bundles avaliable for iPhone OS 3 (unneeded/redundant settings have been removed, like EnableMMSCEditing).

All data (iPhone data and tethering) goes through the telstra.iph APN, and MMS goes through telstra.mms.

You can find the carrier bundle here: Telstra_au.ipcc.

For users of other carriers
I have also updated the carrier bundles for Three, Optus, Vodafone and Virgin, to fix the group SMS bug, and also make sure they are compliant with the 3.0 final release with redundant settings (from the betas) removed. They also all have tethering enabled with the default APN set. You can check this in Settings > General > Network > Cellular Data Network (it’ll be the top entry).

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Three_au.ipcc. (Also includes custom ‘3′ carrier logo)
Optus_au.ipcc. (Uses ‘yesinternet’ APN for data+tethering instead of ‘connect’ – no need to pay an extra $10 to tether using your existing data!)
Vodafone_au.ipcc
VirginMobile_au.ipcc

** VIRGIN & OPTUS USERS **
As Virgin and Optus use the same SIM cards, you can only apply one bundle of settings; you cannot apply both, and the most recent bundle will be the settings used. Sorry!

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To apply the carrier bundle to your iPhone, plug it into your computer, and go to the summary tab of your iPhone in iTunes. Option-Click ‘Check for Update’ (Shift-Click if you’re on Windows) and browse to the Telstra_au.ipcc file you downloaded above.
After that’s done, reboot your iPhone to ensure the settings have taken effect.
If you’d like to check to make sure that they have been applied, on your iPhone browse to Settings > General > About, and check the carrier. It should have a version of 4.5.

Enabling custom carrier file uploading in iTunes 8.2:

For OS X users, paste or type the following into Terminal, and then restart iTunes:
defaults write com.apple.iTunes carrier-testing -bool TRUE

For Windows users, please paste these into ‘Run’ (Press WinKey + R while on the desktop:
32bit –
"C:\Program Files\iTunes\iTunes.exe" /setPrefInt carrier-testing 1

64bit –
"C:\Program Files (x86)\iTunes\iTunes.exe" /setPrefInt carrier-testing 1

If you’re having issues, have any requests/comments/etc, just leave a comment below
Cheers!

Hi folks! Long time no blog – been pretty busy with life (school, etc) so I’ll try and get back into the blogging rhythm. :)

Competition’s over; Congratulations @BennyLing! :-)

For being part of Microsoft’s ‘Albany’ test team, they originally planned to reward their testers with a year’s free subscription to the final ‘Equipt’ product. However, as it included ‘OneCare‘ in it’s subscription which has since been cancelled, they’ve decided to reward us with a free retail copy of Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007!. (Valued at $149.95)
As I already have a TechNet subscription (which includes MS Office), I have no use for this retail copy. Rather than letting it go to waste; I’ve decided to give it away!
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iPhoneApps.ru has managed to beat the dev team to publicially releasing a jailbreak for the iPhone OS 3 beta software – I tried the Windows version of QuickPWN, and extracted the Bundles as well as Icy from it, so that Mac users can use them too. :-)

http://stuff.bgiles.net/iphone3
However, I have NOT been able to verify that they do, indeed work with the Mac OS versions of QuickPwn and PwnageTool.

Icy is included in the Cydia.tar.gz file; I have not been able to install or verify that Cydia does indeed work on OS3. At the very least, you’ll have a copy of the IV Key, etc to fiddle with.

I accept no responsibility for any data loss, etc, yada yada yada. If anything happens, you’re on your own. ;-)
If you have no idea what on earth a bundle file is, you probably will want to wait for the Dev Team’s official release.

Enjoy. :-)

Windows user? Use their release; QuickPWN-30-beta2.zip

UPDATES:
OpenSSH isn’t working; I’m getting;

dyld: Symbol not found: _login
Referenced from: /usr/sbin/sshd
Expected in: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib

Read on to enable support for tethering and MMS with Telstra:

UPDATE: Please check out the newer file, available here: Telstra Carrier Bundle Update

So unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard that Apple previewed their upcoming iPhone OS, version 3. They’re finally made the iPhone comparable to a $60 Nokia again :P, with things like;
* MMS
* Tethering
* Copy + Paste
* A2DP (Stereo Bluetooth)
and more
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The standard emails that Twitter sends you when you get a new follower are pretty basic. They don’t tell you a whole lot more than, well, you’ve got a new follower.

Twimailer, yet another Twitter startup, wants to help you sort the spammers from the real-life people.

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