My phone was jailbroken… but re-loaded the stock setting since it was too much time and effort for me….

My VVM stopped working abruptly about two weeks ago and I did not even know it until I started hearing from friends and relatives to “empty” my voicemail because it’s full. I had ZERO voicemail messages, or so I thought, until I actually dialed my voicemail and found out that it was in deed full even though my iphone never notified me that there wre any messages.

I called AT&T 3 times, reset my VM password 4 times, reset the network settings 5 times, I have called Apple once, I have done internet research and read every freaking blog out there. Here is what I did to FINALLY get the VVM back… By the way, my phone is not jailbroken or unlocked and it is a 3G.

I follwed Ponpon9 (above post) directions By doing the following, but you need to do a few extra steps – or at least I did.

I reset the network AGAIN (6th time). Settings > General > Reset > Reset Network Settings.

Then I went to Settings > Geeral (scroll down to bottom) > US ATT > THEN I HIT THE RED REMOVE BUTTON!

My VVM was working again BUT…it was asking me to enter my password (which I tried the 0000 and every other freaking password I could think of) and it did not work.

SO, I dialed 611 and followed the prompts to reset voicemail password (press 1 for “yes I’m calling about this number” > press 3 for voicemail, enter your zip code for security purposes blah blah blah).

I then received a text message with my new temporary password, entered it in to the VVM and VOILA! I’m back!

I am going to post these directins on Apple’s site because they wanted me to drive to the “nearest” store which is 40 miles (one way) away from where I live.

Why can’t they just tell you how to do this?

Hope this helps!

To view profiles tap Settings – General – Profiles – Remove, BenM.at or AT&T USA

Once in the Settings screen, tap General, tap Reset, and then tap Reset Network Settings.

Rocketfish (Best Buy brand) micro USB Bluetooth 2.1 adapter

Windows Vista x64

iPhone 3GS w/ OS 3.0.1

Basically, I went through several cycles in which either Windows could not find my iPhone, or when it did, and I tried to make the network connection, the Internet Tethering toggle disappered from the settings menu. At first I thought in order to get internet tethering available again, I would have to reinstall the hack. Apparently all I had to do was reset the network settings and let the phone reboot. After trying multiple times, I eventually got my computer to tether with the phone through a USB connection. When I accomplished this once more, I set up a fresh Bluetooth pairing (new device discovery) with my iPhone. I then DISABLED (not merely disconnected) my computer’s Local Area Connection with the iPhone and enabled and connected it with the Bluetooth paired phone (Bluetooth Network Connection)…and now it finally worked.

Since I did that earlier tonight, I encountered one time when trying to make the connection again, the tethering toggle disappeared once more. I simply reset the network settings and let it reboot again…and then it worked again.

So it would seem for now that it’s more or less functional, and this proves that Bluetooth tethering IS possible in the context of at least my personal resources.

I’m sorry I can’t give a step-by-step on this, since I’m not myself certain what sets the iPhone off when it comes to tethering. My simplistic epiphany that helped me to ultimate solve my problem was my conclusion that the disappearing of the tethering toggle is probably caused by run-time errors which are native to the nature of the hack and its interaction with the 3.0 platform. Run-time errors such as this are caused when the system encounters conditions it was not programmed to handle. Not “knowing what to do”, the system will simply shut down the program which is causing the unforseen conflict. My realisation of the nature of the problem led me to try different sequences of events in making the connection, and I tried A LOT of them! Eventually, a set of circumstances was apparently palitable to the system and it worked…even though I don’t know WHY.

Basically, this nearly useless rant of mine serves one single moral: if you work at it enough, with creativity you have a good chance of getting the connection to work. This is all I know, and I’m sorry this is all I could provide.

BUT WAIT!…Then, I stumbled onto sinfuliphone.com. I went through all the steps in the forum post at

http://www.sinfuliphone.com/showthread.php?t=53&highlight=mms+tethering

and thus started from scratch. Of particular interest to me was Step 7 which suggested switching the VVM APN from acds.voicemail to acds.voice, saving this, then changing it BACK to acds.voicemail. After doing this, I called my phone with a friend’s and left a message. To my joy, I was alerted immediately and listened to the voice message in VVM.

Another cool thing about the hack on sinfuliphone.com is that it simply sends you to their repository through Cydia so you can just install EVERYTHING as you would a simple app, and it does everything for you. There’s no need for a command prompt, iTunes, changing file extensions, or even hooking your phone up to your computer. Of course, you must have a jailbroken iPhone to do this (but what’s the point of having an iPhone that’s not?).

Thanks to this find I’m now batting 1000. I have WORKING MMS, WORKING tethering, and WORKING VVM.

But, if there’s one thing this whole hassle has taught me, it’s that there doesn’t seem to be one single fix that works for everyone. But I hope this works for you if, like me, you have tried everything else.