How To Enable Internet Tethering on iPhone After Blackra1n Jailbreak

by Simon Ng on November 9, 2009



Internet Tethering for iPhoneOther than the YouTube, GPS, Wifi problems, some AT&T users reported they lose the Internet Tethering option after jailbreaking with blackra1n. If you haven’t heard of Internet Tethering, it’s a feature on iPhone that lets you share the 3G connection with your laptop (PC or Mac) to connect to the Internet. With tethering, your iPhone acts just like a wireless modem to provide your laptop with Internet connection.

If you find the Internet tethering option is missing after blackra1n jailbreak, try to follow these procedures to bring it back.

1. First, make sure you’re using blackra1n to jailbreak your iPhone. If you haven’t done that, check out this jailbreak guide for details.

2. Next, on your iPhone, launch Safari and point it to http://help.benm.at.

3. Scroll down and tap on “Mobileconfigs”.

benm-mobileconfigs

4. Select your country and then your existing carrier. Say, you’re using AT&T, select “U.S.A.” and “AT&T”.

mobileconfig-att

5. Tap “Install” and then select “Install Now” to confirm the installation of carrier profile.

confirm-install-carrier-profile

6. After installation, restart your iPhone (i.e. Power it off and then start it up again)

7. If everything is fine, go to “Settings” -> “General” -> “Network”. The Internet Tethering option should appear.

tethering-option

When you need to use Internet Tethering, switch the option to ON to enable it.

enable-internet-tethering

As always, leave us comment and let us know if this method works for your carrier.

Note: This is a workaround to enable tethering on your iPhone. Some carriers have intended to disable this option on iPhone. If you have anything uncertain, you may further check out with your carrier.

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1 john November 9, 2009 at 6:15 am

Tried it on 3G with 3.1.2 firmware. Does NOT work. It messed up my ring and sounds. Gotta go back in and reset them.

After turn off & on, when into general > network etc..no display of the option as pictured..
Not working!!!

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2 fgabato November 9, 2009 at 7:17 am

I am having the same problem as John’s. The tethering option in NOT appearing on the network option after i installed my carrier (t-mobile) and i am using a 2G IPhone firmware 3.1.2

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3 r4 ds November 9, 2009 at 6:52 pm

I am waiting for this information that how to enable INTERNET on phone and you provide very detailed data .Thank you for this post it has very useful information.This article contain some meaningful information.please keep posting like this with this useful information

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4 Nat P November 10, 2009 at 6:15 am

I have an iPhone 3GS, followed these instructions, and am not seeing any tethering options in general>network either.

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5 Jagney November 10, 2009 at 6:12 pm

After following the above procedure outlined by Simon, if internet tethering option does not appear, follow this and your problem should be solved.

Settings–> General —> Reset—> Reset Network settings….

Do post here whether this helped u or not…

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6 Nat P November 10, 2009 at 10:14 pm

@Jagney – Nope, that was the first thing that I tried…
From other research around the net, it appears that the latest official AT&T carrier settings update disabled the tethering options in Settings>General>Network in a way that just adding a new carrier settings file doesn’t fix.
We might have to wait until AT&T starts up its official $$$ tethering service and puts out a new carrier settings update that re-enables it…
on the other hand, someone who knows what they are doing/where stuff is on the phone might be able to re-enable it, since it is probably just hidden…

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7 Human November 12, 2009 at 3:58 am

Didi i need blacksn0w to enable tethering? Without it doesnt work for me.

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8 Alicia November 12, 2009 at 4:25 pm

Will this work for 2G? Thanks!

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9 mr_mynk November 16, 2009 at 9:33 pm

sir i use 2g,,
is it possible to perform,
plz tell the procedure…

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10 cf November 20, 2009 at 6:51 am

So now that we installed it and it doesn’t work (USA/ATT), how do we uninstall it?

Thanks,
CF

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