Sometime during the late evening hours last night, Apple released iPhone OS 3.0 beta 5 for developers. Surprisingly, instead of the usual two week beta release, beta 5 was only released eight days after beta 4, possibly indicating that Apple may be putting the pedal to the floor to get the iPhone OS polished and ready for the WWDC.
At this time, the only known changes in beta 5 are the addition of parental controls, the blocking of editing the iPhone’s carrier file (no more tethering), and also the blocking of MMS on AT&T. Could all of this be at AT&T’s request? It is all speculation at this point.
Stay tuned for a follow up post highlighting any new changes along with more in-depth coverage on the already known changes.
As always, developers can download the newest release at Apple’s iPhone dev center.
If you have the ipcc file on the phone before you update, then the settings are still there so its all ok.
good tip thanks!
I’ts not beta 5.0 thats blocking the ipcc its itunes 8.2 pr thats stopping it so the phone still supports it just not itunes
technically yes, however since beta 5 also requires the new seed of 8.2 pre-release, you can combine the two to say that beta 5 is blocking custom carrier updates
after many hours i have updated the ipcc file to work with beta 5. if you want it then email me at redhookbrewha@gmail.com with ipcc file in the subject line