tethering enabled on my Softbank iPhone! Yes!
Finally iPhone OS 3.0 arrived, and to be honest, it wasn’t that big bang everybody was talking about. Just some fireworks combined with a proper copy&paste (which most of the phones already had), and the horizontal keyboard for writing emails. Of course, if you get to grab one of those iPhone 3G S you’d find a 3 megapixel and video capabilities, I really don’t understand why they didn’t enabled it for mine!
But! here we go with the good new, thanks to an angel who appeared to be in the form of w00kie post and entry called Activate tethering on Softbank iPhone. There I found how to enable tethering for my softbank iPhone and share softbank’s 3G with my netbook thru the USB or the bluetooth! and all without even jailbreaking!! Thethering is initially blocked by most of the operators that sell iPhone due to its obvious bandwidth costs. But anyway, it’s too simple to be true:
- Download the file softbank_jp.ipcc.
- Execute the command “C:\Program Files\iTunes\iTunes.exe /setPrefInt carrier-testing 1″ from a DOS command window if you have a PC (my case) or “defaults write com.apple.iTunes carrier-testing -bool TRUE” from a terminal if you use Mac (not my case).
- Plug your iPhone thru the USB and start iTunes.
- Shit + click over the button “check update” you’ve probably been click during the last days.
- Select the file you download before. It will update some carrier stuff and…
voila! go to settings>general>network and you’ll your brand new “tethering”.
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