Okay so I am little bit of a geek and have the constant struggle of form over function with the former winning up to now with my iPhone 3GS and the absolutely atrocious service provided by AT&T. Lets not go into that, we all know and we put up with it until Verizon gets a go. STILL no tethering from AT&T despite nearly every other telecommunications provider partnered with Apple in the world giving their customers tethering as a customer would expect.

Fear not, sitting with a friend of mine, @jonmyers over a nice glass of wine, I glanced down and saw that beautiful blue bar across the top of the screen of his iPhone 3GS. His bar was a tad different from the normal tethering bar.

Oh yes, it gets better.

Not only was he jailbroken using Spirit and tethered, his 3GS was also serving as a mini WiFi hotspot for up to 5 people. MyWi is an app that tethers and turns you into a hotspot for you and upto 4 of your friends.

Naturally I could not wait to get home and try this for myself as Jon insisted the Spirit app took literally seconds to jailbreak his phone and was the easiest jailbreak yet.

I had to see for myself. He was right, so here’s how I did it.

First off, I am simply telling you what I did. That is it. This is not a tutorial, nor a guide nor is it anything else other than me telling you what I did last night in the space of three minutes with some software, a cable, my iPhone 3GS, my MacBook and an internet connection. I will provide links to lots of help and where you can tether your iPad so fear not.

What you will need:

1. iPhone 3GS
2. iPhone USB cable (same one you use to sync to iTunes)
3. Laptop or PC – I used a MacBook
4. Downloaded copy of the Spirit App – download from here
5. iTunes 9 or later

So first you are going to jailbreak your iPhone. to do this, follow this simple but very clear tutorial:

This tutorial is courtesy of The iPhone Download Blog – Great site for this tutorial and lots of help

Step 1: Download a copy of the spirit app to somewhere you can find it on your laptop/desktop

Step 2: Make sure you have at least version 9 of iTunes.

Step 3: Back up your iPhone, iTouch or iPad in iTunes, just in case something goes wrong.

Step 4: Launch Spirit.

Step 5: Click “Jailbreak”.

Step 6: Wait just a few seconds until you see this image:

Step 7: Your iPhone will reboot and you should have the Cydia icon on your springboard.

Once you have done that, find the Cydia app on your iPhone and open it up. At the bottom right there is a search icon, click on that and search for “Rock”. You are looking for “Rock 2.52.3″ app. when you find it, follow the prompts and install to your iPhone.

You will now see the icon for the Rock app, open it up and search for MyFi. Follow the prompts and install it.

The app is a trial version and I would say given the functionality of the tethering AND the mini WiFi Hotspot, I am going to send the developer some cash.

And that is it. Time from start to finish – less than 3 minutes.

Here are some links to help if you need it.

• Spirit Download Page
• iPhone Download Blog jailbreak tutorial
• MyFi - Great tutorial to install from Cydia along with how to configure MyFi
• How to install the cracked version of MyFi
• If things go wrong with Spirit

Last but not least, here is a video tutorial on jailbreaking an iPad, iPhone or iPod touch.

Have fun!

@tonywhelan