iPad personal hotspot (uk)

I tried it but it didn't work!

Yes , I followed all the instructions and it did nothing! Very Annoying

Hi , used my orange sim (switzerland) of my iPhone4 where the personali hotspot works perfectly in my new ipad3 .

Rebooted, reset networks. But nothing changed not hotspot on my ipad3.

I think That this is an apple issue not from carrier .

I tried this and it didn't work - or so I think. Afterwards I went exploring in the preferences and I found that there was a new APN setting (under Cellular Data) called "Internet Tethering" . I added my regular APN configuration there and suddenly the Personal Hotspot feature appeared. I don't know if this was there all the time or if this was enabled by my meddling with the ipcc files, but there it is. Screenshots showing where the settings are are available here: https://www.icloud.com/journal/#p=03&t=CAEQARoQO-gxzLKvoBnzm4BbbH1R5w==&f=/82J93 X7T25~com~apple~mobileiphoto/Public/0B81E217-884C-449C-81DD-583F8B84AAE4.jb/inde x.json

By the terminology you use I presume you are not uk based or have an imported iPad. I have mobile data rather than cellular data but still this option didn't show. I can't access your images either.

True - I'm not in the UK. However this thread came up when googling for the generic issue so I thought that if nothing else my answer could help future searchers. Anyway, it seems the forum messed up my link; my apologies. This should work: http://bit.ly/GUU8MH

Again, I first followed the instructions in the Gizmodo article, and that may have been what made the settings appear.

I tried a very similar process with my Three UK Sim and it did not work. The process was very similar to that described here but I simply downloaded the latest official carrier IPCC file and did a 'Option-Check For Updates' and selected this IPCC file. The Australian site referenced here *may* have modifed the IPCC files in such a way to make it work (perhaps whilst modifying the carrier logo another setting was changed)?

The frutrating thing is that when you read around this it looks like some Australian carriers actually have issued a 12.1 carrier update recently. It may not have fixed Personal Hotspot but what is the delay with Three?

Unfortunately I cannot get it to work on my non-uk 3 sim.

Did you do a restore?

The guide doesn't mention that you have to, but it has been suggested previously in this thread.

I did not do a restore, merely option-clicked on the restore button to upload the ipcc file after running the command "defaults write com.apple.itunes carrier-testing -bool true" in Terminal. I then did a few syncs and reboots.

yep. Been there, done that 😉 Unfortunately no luck 😟 Maybe it just don't work for all carriers.

For one last try though: Which ipcc file did you use?
Also, in General->About under Carrier, what version do you have after the update? Mine still says 12.0 which I think is wrong, as it (as far as I understand it) should say 12.1 after uploading the ipcc file.

Under General -> About it stil says "Carrier 12.0" under Carrier. None of my ipcc attempts changed this value, which led me to believe that it wasn't the ipcc itself that was the important part, but that the ipcc transfer was just used as a method to get iTunes to communicate the value of the "carrier-testing" parameter. Wild speculation, of course, but we don't have much else at the moment, do we. :-) So while I'll now try to explain all the steps I did, I did initially think that all of this was unnecessary, now I'm not so sure.

I first tried the ipcc called "Telstra_au_OldColor.ipcc". When that didn't work (at least as far as I knew; I didn't know to check the APN settings at the time), I started googling around and eventually found this page: http://www.volkspost.info/carrierbundle_pwn2/ that lets you create a carrier profile yourself, using my local carrier's MCC/MNC (whatever that is), which I found from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Network_Code - my operators MCC is 244 and MNC is 21 so I entered 24421 in the "Supported SIM" field. It gives you a zip file in a format different than the ipcc file. However, the ipcc files turns out to be simple zip files, so I rearranged the content in the file the Carrier Bundle Generator so that it would be arranged the same way as the ipcc file (it took a few tried until iTunes accepted it so at least I know that iTunes doesn't accept any random malformed filed called .ipcc). Specifically, I arranged it so that the content would be like this:

./Payload/Saunalahti.bundle/carrier.plist

./Payload/Saunalahti.bundle/Default_CARRIER_S.png

./Payload/Saunalahti.bundle/FSO_CARRIER_S.png

./Payload/Saunalahti.bundle/Info.plist

Basically I renamed the _custom.bundle directory to match my operator name ("Saunalahti") and put it in a directory called "Payload". I used the "zip" command to create the new package and renamed it to .ipcc, both from the command line because Finder wouldn't agree with me. The commands I used was (assuming I have the "Payload" folder in a folder called "Saunalahti ipcc" under my "Downloads" folder):

cd ~/Downloads/"Saunalahti ipcc" zip -r ../Saunalahti_custom.zip Payload

cd .. mv Saunalahti_custom.zip Saunalahti_custom.ipcc

When that seemingly didn't work I peeked into the Info.plist file and noticed that there was a version number 2.something for CFBundleVersion, so I figured I'd up that to something higher to see if that helped, so I changed it to this:

<key>CFBundleVersion</key>

<string>13</string>

and then went through the process of zipping/renaming the ipcc file again.

Again, I have no idea if this helps, I was just basically just randomly doing things and in hindsight I have no idea which thing worked, especially since the Carrier version in the About screen never changed, even with my own custom ipcc. I figured iOS had simply rejected my own ipcc files as I noticed that the "real" ipcc files were digitally signed (presumably by the operator) and the ones I was creating of course wasn't.

Would be awesome if this could help someone else also, of course, but right now I'm far too uncertain about this whole thing to have any high hopes.

oh. Wow. Thanks for the detailed description. I will work some more on it. Thanks.