Australian users who have managed to get iPhone 3.0 installed are reporting on Twitter and forums that the MMS features are working with all the major carriers (so clearly I got that wrong), but note that Optus is indeed blocking tethering, saying this has to be enabled (and charged for) before it works. How’s 3.0 working for you? Share in the comments.
iPhone 3.0 In Australia: MMS Good, Tethering Iffy
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26 responses to “iPhone 3.0 In Australia: MMS Good, Tethering Iffy”
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Romana ChallansActually, the upgrade is fine and dandy for me. As an owner of an unlocked iphone, with the 3 network, i needed to add details for MMS and tethering, but both work a treat, thanks to this site :
http://andrew.harrison.org/notes/3-tethering-and-mms/ -
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James Hunter
The only problem i have had was waiting 2 hours for the download and I got a network timeout message earlier today. However know it is working fine, I guess it was just the massive traffic on the servers..
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Nathan Greenway
MMS working fine with mine and I’m on Optus. Haven’t tried tethering yet. Any one have any news about visual voicemail on Optus?
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JedHey,
my mms come from a number such as 61XXXXXXXXX
it will not show the person’s name that it came from.
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NickJed, i have the same problem, MMS coming through as a 61####### number. Annoying because it doesn’t go straight into the conversation with that person.
As for tethering, it’s telling me to contact Optus.
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SteveI have noticed the same thing. Phone calls come in without the Aus country code, and if I initiate an SMS session it records the contact name correctly, but if I receive SMS or MMS from someone on my contact list, the phone whacks the country code infront of it, and then has no idea that it is a contact already on my list! Argh!
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MattNJed, Nick and Steve… I’ve just purchased a 3GS and don’t have this problem. Although, this bug was on my 3G running iPhone OS 3.0.
Try running a full fresh restore (don’t restore any backups)… this may fix your issue.
I started using my 3GS fresh, without importing my 3G backup.
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MattN
Something else which might fix the MMS name issue…
Backup your Contacts to Outlook or Address Book, delete them from your iPhone, then re-import them.
That way, the iPhone re-generates your phonebook… which may be the underlying issue here.Version 3.0 *might* contain hidden data in the phonebook, which helps link contact names to the new MMS feature. Re-generating the phonebook *should* add this hidden data to your contacts.
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Mitchell Pollardi did mostly the same thing as Romana, but with telstra. Works a treat.
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robotmms & tethering working perfectly on virgin—and it’s all included! whoop whoop!
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decktethering on Virgin !!
I dont get why it doesnt work on mine. Weird, it looks like I am connected to optus (optus on the top instead of Virgin) and when I want to activate tethering, it asks me to call optus 🙁
Weird
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ZahidHey, Im with 3, I dont have an option to attach pic to my msg, dont know ahts wrong, why am i not getting the option to my iphone
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MatthewCheck out whirlpool for optus+tethering config file.
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1219715&p=10
I am using my Optus 3G iPhone running the new OS 3.0 WITHOUT jail braking and its working fine.
http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/1636/iphonewithtetheringoptu.jpg
🙂
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Tom RiordanI think the best part of the update its stopped thinking that i am writing “ducking” all the time.
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speedyI’m with Virgin Mobile (OPTUS network) and I’m posting this after turning on ‘Tethering’ – so it is clearly working for me. There was absolutely no setup at all – simply turn on tethering on iPhone and device was shown under XP, receved IP address – and I’m up!
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Matthewhave you also forgotten about a huge feature with 3.0 – A2DP – you all cried about not having it at release, and here it is!
works great btw – i have a JVC head unit in my car, two modes – either phone or audio!
btw – people with the tethering config file off WP, be careful that using the yesinternet AP doesn’t screw up your existing data.
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Josh C@Jed – I’ve just been doing the work around of adding the 61* number to the person’s contact as their Pager. It’s a work around, but it shows the name instead of the number…
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Alex Rodriguez
hi just updated to 3.0 0n my iphone but mms msgs keep failing, i put my number in, do you put it in as
+610401xxxxxx
610401xxxxxx
0401xxxxxxtried them all but still fails
any ideas?
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Phil CampbellSafari crashing regularly on gmail for me now. Never did before 3.0. Anyone else?
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KJJust been calling telstra as mms photo’s not coming through. Support telling me that it’s common throughout the world…. mmm not quite sure about that one
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Michael Drozdowski
I’m with Optus…
MMS worked straight away, tethering didn’t. I did end up using a special file that I found on a website (Thanks twitter!) and boom, tethering is enabled… and working! shame about the 3g coverage in my home area.
Interesting to see what developments come out about this tethering business, I know I’m quite annoyed that I’ll have to pay extra to (legally) use the data in my cap that I never use to its full (500mb)
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Nathan Bandy
i have an iphone 3g running 3.0 jail broken with firmware 3.0(7a341) my mms used to work untill i installed somthing on cydia now no mms?? wats going on i live in australia im with vodafone any ideas? plz help
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CameronI am on vodafone australia and I want MMS but when i install the config. I still cant send or recieve MMS its always says message failed.
I have had 3g taken off my phone does that make a difference?
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SRPHave a jail-broken iPhone 3G using 3.0.1 (as 3.0 didn’t work either) from the UK. Had been using a Telstra sim card in the phone & MMS kinda worked. Have just changed to a Vodafone sim & now can’t seem to use MMS at all.
The Vodafone iPhone website states you must send yourself an MMS message to activate it, but none of mine will go through. Went to have a look at the Cellular Data Network settings to make sure they were correct, but they are no longer present in the Network settings………….
Anyone know what’s going on & how I might be able to resolve this?
Thanks,
Steve
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