OK so fair warning this tip requires that you Jailbreak your iPad. Now, Jailbreaking has come a LONG way in the last 3 years, gone are the issues with bricking your phone, no longer do you need to be a propeller head who can SSH and FTP to your phone and hack the command line, now its a simple EXE that you click on your desk top and in 5 seconds your iPad is Jailbroken.
So what? What does Jail breaking get me? Well first off it gets you access to apps that are not allowed in the apple app store, for whatever reason. This is good, and bad as some of those apps probably shouldn't be allowed anywhere but whatever... However if the ONLY thing you get from Jailbreaking your iPad is this tip, then you got your money's worth (heck its free!)
Now with AT&T's recent changes to their Data plans this might be of interest to the rest of you as well as me. Note that all android phones have the ability to be a Wifi hotspot, but not Blackberry. Theory being that BB doesn't want to overwhelm their proprietary network with data traffic, something they learned from AT&T.
Jailbreaking your iPad (or iPod touch for that matter) gives you the ability to tether your iPad to your blackberry... Thanks to the people at Crackberry for this tip!
"Requirements:
- Jailbroken iPad
- Blackberry phone (tested with blackberry storm 9530)
- ibluever: Install from Cydia (you can try the demo for free. if demo works, ensure to uninstall before installing paid release)
- PDAnet: PdaNet -- Use your BlackBerry as a USB Modem (click 'install pdanet 1.30' only *Editors note: This should be run from your Blackberry.)
1. Run ibluever from your iPad
2. Click 'ON' You should be able to see your phone
3. Click on blue arrow of your device to edit the following fields
pin code: 0000 (or any combination of numbers)
dial number: #777 (for verizon wireless)
chat script: default non GPRS (refer to link at bottom for reference as to what options to choose)
Authentication: On
Sniff Mode: Off
Waiting SDP: On
4. Go to your blackberry bluetooth options menu and DISABLE 'dial up networking' and click save
5. Run PDANET from your blackberry device and 'Enable Bluetooth DUN'
6. Open ibluever from your iPad, select your blackberry device and run
7. You should now see two icons on upper right status bar of your iPad
*NOTE*- This will not give you 3G speeds. Bluetooth DUN using PDAnet gives about 50kB/s. Faster than edge, but half as fast as 3G. Thats fine by me, as I won't have to pay for additional data plan to verizon.
- If you are being redirected to verizon website, ensure that 'dial up networking' is disabled in your blackberry bluetooth options.
- For directions on other mobile carriers, please go here for reference."
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