Thanks Hitman, I've noticed the settings however are in the networking thing, dunno if that's cause of the tethering profile "hack" or not.. As an aside.. where's the setting to enable the percentage thing for battery life?
I just installed that, and it makes no difference. Thinking back, I've never paired the two; I remember being told that Apple limit the iPhone to bluetooth earpieces and the like, and that actually it cannot be done, which would explain why another Apple product would be so reluctant. Anyone got any ideas why bluetooth won't work? [EDIT]Hurrah, it's fixed! Ignore my previous annoyance, it works perfectly, both with wires and via bluetooth. This almost negates my not-even-arrived-yet 3G dongle...[/EDIT]
All you Europeans and your fancy tethering... Here in the US you see, we have one lonely carrier for the iPhone (that has suspiciously close to the same initials as a Star Wars Imperial Walker). So, even though the iPhone hardware supports it (and MMS, though honestly, IMHO email works better for media transfer), and other hardware on our network supports it, our carrier won't let us child-like iPhone customers use it The update though, is pretty much epic win. Copy/paste works well in text as we have seen, but I was even able to cope/paste an image from Safari and place it in an email. Spotlight is better than I expected, the voice recorder works in the background (and saves as AAC files, so they are small) and syncs to iTunes.
shomann, that site enables tethering on AT&T too. plenty of users in the forum thread linked are AT&T customers.
That's what I did worked a treat! Gave me great satisfaction knowing what o2 were wanting to charge me. And it saves me pulling out my iPhone sim and putting into my usb dongle. 3.0 is so far impressing me I keep finding new features. I like that I now have the ability to edit contacts without going into the contacts app. The voice memo feature might come in useful. Notes syncing is great for me as I use to record info on the move. Though the font they use in mail for the notes is so terrible its almost unreadable!
hey Gordy: you can change the font used for notes in Mail in the preference pane under 'fonts & colours'. as for the font in the iphone, googling has shown an app for jailbroken phones called 'fontswap' which i am fairly sure will allow you to swap the marker felt font for something a little less gaudy. (er... hahah, gaudy Gordy)
Installed it on the other halves phone. Gotta say the sending calendar invites directly from the phone via exchange is wonderful and by far and away one of my favourite changes. With those Configs GOO do you know if its O2 contract or O2 vertigo that should be used as having checked the existing APN's etc for browsing mine has the vertigo details in it.
Dunno - I just used the O2 contract one, as I'm on an O2 contract. TBH, I don't know what Vertigo is (apart from a fear of heights and a Hithcock film ) Give it a whirl.
I think it's disgusting that I am expected to pay £5.99 for this update considering it does barely anything for me.
More info on the tracibility of tethering: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=724260 So there you go. Like I said, don't go using the tether to download torrents of [insert popular Movies here] and you'll be fine. Also: MMS now working - Yay! (not that I use it, TBH)
You have to install an app that uses push as far as I am aware. I have tap tap revenge 2 installed and it shows the push notification menu within settings
PAYG Tethering instructions? http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=719110&highlight=jasonhoughton
SMS seems slightly snappier than it used to. Not tried tethering yet, though. Will probably get more of a chance when the lappy gets here >.>
Hmmm. O2 not happy: http://www.techradar.com/news/phone...we-ll-disconnect-free-iphone-tetherers-609253 But as the article points out, how will they know? The only time I'd use tethering would be to browse the net on my laptop, so I have a bigger screen. It's going to use that same amount of data looking at Bit or any website on my phone as it does on the laptop...
I may have accidentally spoken to ofcom. Paying for unlimited data should not mean we need bolt-ons to use tethering. Sorry, O2, but no. That is not how customers like to be treated.
I can understand their worry about tethering. It could for some people completely replace their internet provider, but mainly it will be people downloading films/music/tv etc etc. What I don't get is why they don't just put a bandwidth cap on the tethering functionality. Ie, unlimited on the phone. 3gb limit for tethering. I would be happy with that.
I installed the UK O2 Contract profile last night, but today there's that vertigo one too... Only thing that's not working currently is MMS, but I got a text earlier to the effect of "We're sorry MMS isn't active on your phone, we're working on it" Should I keep with what I have, or switch to vertigo? And a bump for the percentage thing for battery life?
