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How to connect iPhone’s 3G connection to your laptop and browse

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This works on Jailbroken iPhone 3G. So if you don’t want to unlock your iPhone, please don’t try this. I got these instructions from Macrumors. It originally comes from the geeks at cre.ations.net. So here it goes:

Warning - your iPhone is against the iPhone data plan terms. AT&T could slap you with huge fees if you overuse this. I recommend only using it during emergencies.

  • Step 1: Jailbreak your iPhone - Windows users click here for instructions and Mac users - click here
  • Step 2: Install 3Proxy and Terminal
    During the jailbreak, Cydia should have appeared on one of your app pages. Use it and let Cydia load and self-update. Then head to Install, All Packages, then find MobileTerminal and 3Proxy (3Proxy is at the bottom). Install both and hit your Home button. Your phone will restart and you’ll see Terminal installed on your home screen. 3Proxy isn’t a GUI app and as such won’t have an icon.
  • Step 3: Create an ad-hoc Wifi network using your laptop
    Using whatever wireless software suite you have, create an ad-hoc network. On a Mac it’s in the Airport menu, under “Create network…”. Name it something inconspicuous. I called mine “baladoux”.
    On your iPhone, join the ad-hoc network.
  • Step 4: Find your iPhone’s IP address
    Then, hit the blue arrow next to it, and wait for your IP address to show up. Memorize (or write down) this IP address. You will need it later.
  • Step 5: Open Terminal and run the proxy program
    Simple enough. Open Terminal, type “socks” and hit return. Nothing will appear to happen, but the SOCKS server will be running. You can hit the home button to push Terminal to the background (remember to terminate it later, by switching back to Terminal and holding the Home button until it closes).
  • Step 6: Open Safari on the iPhone and open a web page
    Any page will do. This step is important. The page will take a while to load. When Safari realizes it can’t get to the Internet using the ad-hoc Wifi, it will do some internal magic to switch back to 3G for Internet while still on your ad-hoc network. That lets the proxy do its thing.
  • Step 7: Configure your browser
  • In Firefox, head to Preferences, and under Advanced, Network, hit Settings. Then, fill in the iPhone’s IP address (which you memorized earlier) into the SOCKS Host field, and put 1080 as the port number. Make sure all other proxy fields are blank and/or 0. Then, since the proxy doesn’t forward DNS, you will also have to change an advanced option in Firefox. In the Firefox URL bar, enter “about:config” and hit Enter.
    In Filter, type “socks” and then double-click “network.proxy.socks_remote_dns” to make its value “true”.
    That should be all you need! Firefox should be able to browse the Internet through your iPhone’s 3G connection.

[For complete coverage on your iPhone3G and visual steps - go to cre.ations.net]

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iPhone 1.1.3 jailbreak released

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This is news. Man, just a few days back Apple launched 1.1.3 firmware and within no time cre.ations.net has released an confirmed jailbreak to unlock for 1.1.3. Here is how its done. Thanks to for this:

STATEMENT OF RISK

As all upgrades are risky, this one is doubly so. You may have to restore your phone using iTunes and start again if it fails. Make sure to back up first!

Let’s continue

This jailbreak, like the 1.1.2 jailbreak, comes as an upgrade. This means you need to have a 1.1.1 or 1.1.2 jailbroken phone already, before you can begin.

Update - unlocked phones appear to remain unlocked and work properly after the update, according to scattered reports.

MAC VERSION - Download the 1.1.3 package maker and open it, then run Run_This. Read carefully, press Enter when necessary, and the image will be uploaded to your phone.

Here’s how you do it:
- Start with a 1.1.1 or 1.1.2 jailbroken phone with Installer.app installed.
- Plug in your phone via USB to your computer.
- Download, extract, and run iBrickr Special 1.1.3 jailbreak edition (ibrickr.exe in the archive).
- iBrickr will determine what firmware you are running on your phone and make sure you can run the update.
- iBrickr will then guide you through the process of obtaining and modifying the 1.1.3 firmware (make sure to read everything thoroughly).
- iBrickr will upload the new firmware image to your phone. Note that this only puts the file on your phone and does not modify it at all, yet.
- When iBrickr finishes (should take about 10 minutes), it will tell you to go to Installer and install the “1.1.3 soft upgrade” package. Do that.
- When the installer finishes (this should take another 10-15 minutes), your phone should reboot with a fresh activated 1.1.3 firmware.

Via - cre.ations.net

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