*** IMPORTANT NOTE *** these downloads are for windows 64 bit systems and information to this should be posted in this blog. Additionally, if you had a jailbroken iphone, THESE INSTRUCTIONS WILL CAUSE YOU TO LOSE YOUR JAILBREAK. The only way to re-install the jailbreak at this time is to re-install OS 3.0 BETA 5 on top of the OS 3.0 Gold Master…not a good idea.

got a 32bit version of itunes 8.20.10? the 64 bit version doesn’t install for the average user.

Can you post the link for the 32-bit versions of iTunes?

the shift+update only allows me to locale .ipsw files and not .ipcc files. is there a reason for this?

Windows 64BIT only

What about links for itunes 8.20.10 for windows 32 bit?

okay i figured out how to get the carrier update onto my phone, but it doesn’t work anyways. when i try to send an mms it just comes up with an error.

This doesn’t work AT ALL.

Your downloads for different iTunes are the SAME version.

I noticed that the itunes you have linked are for 64 bit version of windows. will it work with x86 (32-bit)?

This is all fine and dandy, and a great guide btw. but what about us 32 bit users. The versions of itunes are all 64 bit. Any one know where to find the 32 bit version. (really the one i cant find is iTunes 8.20.13)

Thanks,

And keep up the good work

This doesn’t appear to work. Shift-Update in iTunes (on Windows) only looks for .ipsw files. It does not accept .ipcc files.

Nice! working well here

tethering is working great but mms is having problems. it gets most of the way sending the picture and then fails. and i get the normal text whenever i receive a picture telling me to go to viewypix.com. what now

Very cool, how do I do this for a MAC?

nevermind i just did some researching and figured it out

I’ve tried doing this, however when I do shift + update, it only allows me to select .ispw files.

What is the issue here?

Apologies, that should be http://help.benm.at (on the iPhone).

Giv me two hours till I get home and host the 32 bit iTunes 8.2.10 that is needed to load .ipcc files. After that you’ll still need an other phone to so the s card swapping method to kick Start mms

BENR’s tip worked for me like a charm! I’m writing this comment via a USB tethered iPhone 3G running OS 3.0!

Okay people, this is how it is. You need iTunes 8.2 Final release (8.20.13) to install the latest 3.0 software (aka final version)

I called apple and they told me that the 3.0 GM that was released for developers is EXACTLY the same as the one that was released to the public yesterday (meaning u don’t need a developer account to use GM)

Anyway, once you get the final 3.0 (7A341) then you HAVE to go back to iTunes 8.20.10 because that was the last version of itunes that allowed you to update the carrier file (ATT_US.ipcc). After that version they stopped letting you do that.

ALL THIS DOES in this tutorial is make the iPhone ABLE to have MMS and tethering. You still have to call ATT and have them enable MMS on your iPhone for developer reasons and unless you get some smart agent they usually do it (even though they aren’t supposed to.. u should have done this before the 3.0 final was released)

It does work, I’ve been doing it now for a full month and 3.0 7A341 doesn’t make it stop working. Enjoy and if the rapidshare link to itunes that is posted above doesn’t work just google the “itunes released with 3.0 beta 4″ (That’s supposedly 8.20.10… idk if it is but it works)

Good Luck~!

Well i happened to get the MMS working on AT&T but i have not tried the tethering yet. I put my sim in a old AT&T phone and made some calls and sent a couple of sms so it could register. Then i put my sim back in my iPhone and i was able to send and receive MMS for a couple minutes or so and then it wouldnt work. So the MMS would only work for a lil after i take out of my old phone. im trying to find a way to keep it working.

So when tethered do you then get charged the tethering charge by your provider, in my case £14.68 a month for 3Gb on O2 UK? Can they tell you’re tethering?

You don’t have to uninstall and go back to an older version of iTunes. I was able to do this on the current version of iTunes…
http://www.ihackintosh.com/2009/06/how-to-enable-carrier-bundle-support-in-itunes-82-in-mac-windows/

Oh Yes I forgot to mention that I used the following settings:

APN: wap.cingular
Username: wap@cingulargprs.com
Password CINGULAR1 (it’s case sensitive)
MMSC: mmsc.cingular.com
MMS Proxy: 066.209.011.032
MMS Max: (blank)
MMS UA: (blank)

i have the options for MMS and Tethering. I even have the cellular data for MMS usage. But I still get red exclamation if i try to send one. I don’t have another phone to swap sim cards. any help would be greatly appreciated.

I’ve done everything that i can to make this work… i got and updated the ATT ipcc, called ATT and they even changed my setting to REGULAR MESSAGING… i have the 3.0 update.. i’m running out of options.. please help me. thanks a million

I’m not seeing the ATT_US.ipcc when I hit Shift + Update. Anyway to get around this? I looked at the help and I can’t find it.

lemme try doing it all over from scratch again.

Have you actually tried that – I did and it didn’t work it still gave me iPhone messaging as the only options.

Update on AT&T: apparently they’ve issued a memo telling everyone not to enable mms even if you are a developer. How the he’ll can AT&T operate like this? How do they expect us developers to test applications ready for when they finally throw the switch on mms?

Anyway – follow the above how-to, but change the phone yourself to a nokia or something you can buy with a sim card – call AT&T and tell them you are using an old phone to be able to send mms but your iPhone for your email and web browsing. Can they check to see if there are any blocks on the account to stop you sending mms. Make sure they change to regular messaging.

Walked a friend through this – I can now confirm that the above method works. She had to call to get regular messaging and then had to put her sim card into a non iPhone cell and send an mms.

I followed Jonesy’s steps and MMS worked but then it stopped working after about a day.

I have the exclamation points again.

I followed Sean’s steps and MMS works for about a day then stops. I have to go through the entire process again.

Is there anyway to stop AT&T from disabling MMS after about a day?

Yeah, mine worked for about 2 days, hen stopped. I am sorry guys, I figured that if I hadnt gotten them by day 2 that it was working. But yeah, now my messaging doesnt even show the option to send a pic anymore.

What is the disadvantage of this? Can this mess up your phone / warranty or get charged extra by ATT for tethering?

Anyone had problems?

iTunes work around to let you install the ipcc file.

“C:\Program Files\iTunes\iTunes.exe” /setPrefInt carrier-testing 1

Run the command from a shell. (CMD from the start)
Boot your iTunes (Any version)
Shift Left Click on UPGRADE
select ipcc
find file
install
Enjoy!

I have a family plan with my Iphone on it. I used this method to enable the mms and tethering. I didnt have to switch out my sim card and the mms started working in about 3 days. It worked for like 5 days and now has stopped. I rebooted the phone and now have lost the mms and tethering. Reinstalled the ATT_US.ipcc file onto the phone but the tethering and mms still will not show up. Anyone else have this problem? Any solutions?

Ok I have Internet tethering but no mms, I copyed the settings from the site but I have no place to paste them. I looked in settings/general/network and there is no cell data choice. I have 3.0. What do I do?

I got it. 100% We will see if it sticks. I have vvm, picture/video msg, and tether. Also I am doing this on a 3gs, I will be attempting to do it to friends 2g and 3g.

This is what I did.
First, thru cydia install “apn editing”
Then on your iphone browser go to “help.benm.at/help.php”
Scroll down and right under the “Tethering and Internet settings” header click the download next to mobile config, scroll to bottom and choose “u.s.a” then in that menu choose att. You just enabled tethering. Works great.

download the att_usa file at
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=J84S5YPV

Install via the shift+click check for update, change file type in bottom right to look for the ipcc in the file you saved the download. No reboot necessary yet. You should now have the “Cellular Network” option and tethering option in Settings>General>Networks. DO NOT CHANGE THE SETTINGS!

Reboot

When it starts back up your msg should have a camera icon, and also allow email address in the “to” feild.

Call yourself from another phone and leave a message, VVM should be good. If not google the vvm settings for your area and replace the settings in the vvm field in cellular data.

Here’s the kicker, you do have to have another phone on att available to put your sim in. Change the phone in your profile on ATT website to match the phone you are using, even if it’s your buddies. Tool around on internet send some mms. This will make the phone stick on your att profile…well at least for now. I am going on an hour so far, longer then my last attempt via other ways. Put the sim back in the iphone. You should be good to go. It does send kind of slow…don’t freak out. The send bar goes all the way to the end and stops short. That pissed me off at first because it happened to me and got that red icon of msg death on other programming attempts. But it goes through.

Try and let me know if it worked. Also, make sure you take out all other APN profiles you have attempted to use and only run with the one from help.benm and the att_us from mega upload.

I will post back occasionally with status

I would like to let you know i am a few hours in and still working. The network has refreshed and my phone went back to the iphone on att profile and it STILL WORKS!

WOW. someone is bitter it doesn’t work for him. dude, it CAN work if you get it right, and you have a little lady luckon your side. Mine is working now, PERFECTLY fine. it took some time, it took a few tries, but i have to say, it works just fine. So, people reading this, keep trying, you might get it, you might have to wait for it. best of luck to you!

well i downloaded the att_us.bundle on my MAC and when i do the alt+upgrade , the att_us.bundle is greyed out. Now what do i do??
when i find the bundle in finder on my mac, and try to open it, i get an error saying there is no default program to open this file???

You can skip DLing the past iTunes and still do the IPCC file from your current iTunes. As stated by Malmond24 but there is a catch for some of you users. It does work but…
“C:\Program Files (x86)\….” might be the slight change you will have to make while using this trick in your command prompt.

“C:\Program Files\iTunes\iTunes.exe” /setPrefInt carrier-testing 1

Run the command from a shell. (CMD from the start)
Boot your iTunes (Any version)
Shift Left Click on UPGRADE
select ipcc
find file
install
Enjoy!

OK sorry people this only works for a lucky few tried it on 4 iphone 3g same exact settings and worked on 2 out of 4 if swirly mms settings work for you then this may work :( dont know whats the detrmining factor back to the drawing board but try my settings anyway good luck

I have tried all methods. Tethering works either with help.benm.at or the ITunes 8.20.10 / AT&T ipcc 5.0 Carrier update methods described above. I would be careful about what you tether to. I corrupted the ethernet settings on my fathers computer when attempting to tether and had to do an OEM restore. As for MMS, I’ve tried it all. It worked initially for a day then failed. Since then I can get it working for about 5 minutes with the SIM swap method, but then it fails. I have unlimited general messaging enabled with AT&T. Just tell them you sometimes switch phones for battery life reasons or additional features on your other phone and don’t accept no for an answer. The only thing I do not have that other successes have reported is the family plan which may prevent reversion once MMS is successfully setup. If anyone can speak to this phenomenon and help me out, I would appreciated it. Thanks and good luck.

E-mail me if ya want info, I got it to work.. promise…

Out of curiousity I called ATT and the techs told me that the end of THIS month that they will be done with their “updates” and MMS will be ofically supported..

AND THIS GUY IS A DUMBASS AND DOES NOT KNOW WHAT HE IS TALKING ABOUT..
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Written By Alanon July 7th, 2009Here’s the deal, all you all are doing is wasting your time trying to get the MMS enabled on your 3G iPhone using the 3.0 OS. It will not work! It doesn’t matter if you removed your sim card from your iPhone and put it in another type of AT&T phone then do all this downloading of stuff and then return the sim card to the iPhone…. It will not work REGARDLESS!!! These people who have posted info on how to enable the MMS feature are lying to you and they have no idea of what they’re talking about. My IT co-workers have done everything to get the MMS feature working but there is no way to do so. Also, when you downloaded the latest itunes and upgraded the OS to 3.0 you’ve basically locked your phone and itunes. There is NO WAY to “rollback” your itunes version nor is there a way to “rollback” your OS on the phone. You’re stuck! You’re at the mercy of AT&T now. And no matter how many times you call AT&T and tell them you’re a developer they will NOT flip some magical switch so you can get MMS on your iPhone. In short, quit trying to enable the MMS because it will not work until AT&T releases its carrier update.
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http://www.filehippo.com/download_itunes_32/

there’s a 32 bit version… hope that helped(:

How the hell do I stop getting messages about this. I commented a long time ago about how to get it working and now the messages just keep popping up. What’s even more odd is I don’t see my post up there. Closest to my post I see is what a Sean had said. I was just a bit more detailed about it when I wrote up my comment.

I have a family plan and keep losing the ability to received the viewmymessage.com. Talked to apple today and they said MMS will be activated on Sept. 25th. At least I hope it will be!

I updated the carrier settings, and it looks like I can send MMS…but I get 3/4 of the way through sending the message and it quits sending.