Tethering hack on the iphone breaks Visual Voicemail
When I first enabled the tethering hack on my iPhone running 3.0 via BenM’s help page, Visual Voicemail stopped working. I did not notice this, partly because I don’t get many phonecalls, but mostly because I just wasn’t paying attention. After a while I started getting annoyed that people were calling me and not leaving messages.
During my update to iPhone OS 3.1, after I restored from a modified version of the fresh Apple IPSW image, my phone declared that I had some 20 voicemails or so. Turns out people actually had been leaving me messages, and I just hadn’t been seeing them, since my VVM wasn’t working. Apparently there’s something incompatible in BenM’s carrier settings profile that breaks VVM when tethering is on.
A few days ago, I updated to 3.1.2 and reenabled tethering via a new, more intrusive and in depth hack. Today it occurred to me to test the Visual Voicemail, see if it’s still broken with the new tethering hack on the 3.1.2 jailbreak. Of course it is.
A quick turn on the internet reveals this gem. The instructions on that page led me to check my profile in Settings -> General -> Profile, where I saw that my original BenM profile was still loaded. I loaded the new profile from that page, and all works. Tethering is there, and VVM is there. I’m very pleased. Much thanks to redmondpie and w1kedZ of PeacefulInsanity.com. I note that BenM’s help page does say he’s working on a hack for 3.1.2, but for now, I’m all set.
