iPhone4

[Blighter]

Has anybody that has upgraded to 4.0 had their tethering enabled?

I was looking through the options to see what has changed and noticed it actually works and doesn't ask me to call O2 anymore! \0/

[leowyatt]

Originally Posted by Garp

Does that mean they're just going to make it so the bars no longer reflect the actual signal strength?

if they don't reflect signal strength are they going to do away with them completely?

[Mark]

That would be a Steve Jobs answer to the problem.

It isn't just the bars - the firmware actually thinks the phone has lost signal completely and disconnects.

[Desmo]

Originally Posted by Blighter

Has anybody that has upgraded to 4.0 had their tethering enabled?

I was looking through the options to see what has changed and noticed it actually works and doesn't ask me to call O2 anymore! \0/

Well I just went in to tehtering and turned it on, turned off the wireless on the laptop and well, here I am

[Blighter]

Originally Posted by Desmo

Well I just went in to tehtering and turned it on, turned off the wireless on the laptop and well, here I am

Reckon O2 have done that as a way of persuading people to go with them? Free tethering?

Now they are imposing 500MB limits it makes sense.

[Mark]

Have O2 removed the tethering charge? I always saw that as a ludicrous money grab given that it wasn't a problem with most other phones. With the new data caps that's one big justification for having that charge flushed down the drain.

PS - as I found out last night, O2's servers severely cripple image quality, so that's one thing to bear in mind if browsing while tethered (unless of course you know of a way to bypass their servers).

[Feek]

I don't have the tethering option even there on my iPhone 4, never mind being enabled. It's just missing.

[lostkat]

Well it looks like my phone's had it. I logged a support call with Apple yesterday and they talked me through several things, concluding with an offer to replace it. Unfortunately, since the phone is water damaged, they won't do it. I didn't tell them it was damaged of course, but when you look down the earphone jack hole there's a little pink line which means it's been wet.

I found out yesterday that my insurance are willing to repair/replace it so I'm sending it off next week. However, due to the problems I'm 95% certain they'll replace. They've already told me they have no 16GB 3GS's in stock, so I will get £350 back... which won't pay for a new iPhone. Pretty pissed off, but there's nothing I can do apart from write to Royal Bank of Scotland (who provide the cover via a third party insurer) and complain. So, it's going to cost me £100 to get a new 16GB 3GS (which they are running out of stock on because they're replacing so many knackered ones due to shoddy IOS 4) or £150 for a iPhone 4. I've dismissed the option of buying a second hand 3GS because you really don't know where they've been.

[Feek]

Part of the reason they're short of 3GSs is because so many people who have had battered handsets have found a reason to get them swapped to nice shiny refurbished ones recently so they can get a better price for them when the sell them to upgrade.

[lostkat]

Originally Posted by Feek

Part of the reason they're short of 3GSs is because so many people who have had battered handsets have found a reason to get them swapped to nice shiny refurbished ones recently so they can get a better price for them when the sell them to upgrade.

Yeah true. Mine is pristine on the outside as it's never come out of its case. I know the water damage isn't to blame for this, but it still messes everything up. Still quite gutted it happened. Never putting my phone in my back pocket again.