The iTweakiOS team has been pretty busy over the past few months. Not only have they released hacked carrier bundles for all four of the top wireless carriers in the US to improve network performance, but they’ve also managed to add HD voice and other features as well.
And this weekend they introduced a new project that, they claim, will enable free hotspot tethering on your iOS deviceâ€"no jailbreak required. In fact, all you need is a GSM iPhone or iPad running on iOS 6 (or 7), a desktop computer, and the ability to follow a few simple steps…
Joe from iTweakiOS [1] explains the hack:
“So you want free hotspot on your iPhone or iPad but don’t have a jailbroken device, huh? Well, I come with good news for a lot of you today. Many of you may remember a story I put out awhile back talking about how CommCenter blocks edited carrier.plist files and I may have found a work aroun to get things like personal hotspot enabled. Well, I’ve found the solution, but first, let’s talk about why CommCenter blocks plist editing. This happens because of the very thing we’re doing right now, which i suspect will likely be patched quickly by iOS 7 GM release time.
People were enabling tethering by modifying the original carrier.plist files and this stopped entirely when Apple implemented signatures into the carrier.plist files and creating what we all know as CommCenter which is the process that checks these signatures. So, the challenge was finding a way to enable hotspot without CommCenter checks and verifications. After months of research and digging, I’ve finally found a genuine workaround to enable this great feature and its quite simple, really.â€
As usual, the workaround explained above comes with a significant asterisk. Things can get a bit sticky when you start editing .plist files, so we recommend that you backup your device before attempting this. Also note that the exploit used for the mod will likely be fixed soon.
Those wanting to try out the hack can find step-by-step directions by clicking here. The author of the tutorial claims that the method has only been confirmed to work on T-Mobile, and he recommends that you have an unlimited data plan, as gigabytes can add up rather quickly. [2]
Admittedly, we haven’t tried this out ourselves yet. But given the fact that readers have generally seen success with the hacked carrier bundles previously released by this group, we have no reason to believe that the outcome with this mod would be any different.
Let us know if it works for you in the comments below!
Links
- ^ iTweakiOS (www.itweakios.com)
- ^ clicking here (www.itweakios.com)
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