How to Enable Facetime Over 3G on iPhone 4 iOS 5


Submitted by Dan; January 05, 2012
One of the flaws of Apple's FaceTime feature is that you can only call over WiFi, you cannot make FaceTime calls over 3G networks. iPhone Dev Team have found a bug in iOS 5 / 5.0.1 which can enable FaceTime over 3G networks for the iPhone 4. Follow the steps to activate Facetime over 3G on iPhone 4 running iOS 5.0.1 You're required to have a jailbroken iPhone 4 and a File Manager (Such as iFile available from Cydia)
  1. The very step is to jailbreak your iPhone 4 on iOS 5.0.1.
  2. After successfully jailbreaking, Open up Cydia and search for the iFile. Download and install it on your device.
  3. In iFile, Navigate to the following folder, /System/Library/CoreServices/SpringBoard.app/
  4. Open the file "N90AP.plist"
  5. When the file is opened find this text:
    <key>capabilities</key> <dict>
    Below that line, write down this
    <key>3Gevenice</key> <true/>
  6. After writing the code, Save the file and close it. But be sure that you have written the code carefully.
You may do all that for free, or buy My3G from Cydia which will enable all WiFi-Only services/apps to work via 3G networks.



Tags: 3G, Apple, FaceTime, FaceTime over 3G, iPhone 4, Jailbreak, My3G



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# Guest 2012-01-06 06:16

This doesn't work, just tried it on 5.0.1 with iFile. Did it exactly in the same format as the rest of the file, when I make a facetime call it says I need to connect to WiFi still.


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# Guest 2012-02-06 09:43

The reason this doesn't work is because all the people who copy stories from each other for sites like these copied someones tutorial initially that wasn't correct, there is a spelling error. It should be:

 

<key>3Gvenice</key

 

But someone put a 'e' before the 'v'. If you do this "hack" with 3Gvenice, it'll surely work.


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