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[CLOSED/G2] T-Mobile won't support tethering at launch

So I was checking around to see if T-mobile will support tethering and I found this blog that was written today. No T-Mobile Tethering Support.
Here's what it says if you don't want to click the link:
"As many of you know, stock Android 2.2 supports tethering out of the box. However, the folks over at TmoNews have discovered that while this is the case, the T-Mobile G2 will not support tethering at launch. See T-Mobile's official comment regarding this below:
“T-Mobile does not currently support handset tethering or offer a tethering rate plan. Though tethering and Wi-Fi sharing will not be initially supported on the T-Mobile G2, we know that consumers are interested in these features and we are working to develop a solution to support them in the future.”
While this is disappointing, the good news is that T-Mobile appears to be working on a solution as they know people are very interested in this. Let's hope we all get to tether officially soon.
So folks, do you think this will happen? Do you think G2 owners will ever get the option?"

Root + WiFi Tether will fix that ASAP.

T-Mobile does not support tethering anymore
T-Mobile does not support tethering any phone it is against the terms and conditions of your contract.
That said T-Mobile also does not do take any steps to block tethering, they do not block apps like pda.net or easy tether. Smartphone data speeds will get throttled once you reach 10 Gigs of data usage.

-RotorDemon- said:
Root + WiFi Tether will fix that ASAP.
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Or just root.

atlp99 said:
T-Mobile does not support tethering any phone it is against the terms and conditions of your contract.
That said T-Mobile also does not do take any steps to block tethering, they do not block apps like pda.net or easy tether. Smartphone data speeds will get throttled once you reach 10 Gigs of data usage.
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Then T-Mobile should deploy SWAT team to kill whoever do tethering.

i have seen the settings.apk from the G2 and it had tethering option so it may work but they won't actually provide helpdesk support for it

It probably has the USB tether left in tact, Like most phones do now. The wifi tethering they remove.

Just an FYI: the reason why tmobile doesn't BLOCK tethering is because they *CAN'T*. There is NO WAY FOR THEM TO KNOW that you are tethering or that you have a tethering application installed on your phone.

carrier way of blocking tethering is to block/remove from market

CyanogenMod.
Cyanogen's already got a G2 build ready to go, if I understood one of his recent tweets... we just need actual phones and a root method.

I can't wait lol

i must have missed that tweet, that sounds awesome, we just need to get root on it and we're good to go, ENG build and stock build(root and un-root) just need to get device in hand and try a few things to get root

Has anyone tried to do usb tethering?
By apps or configuring the pc?
Similiar to this thread in the samsung vibrant section:
HOWTO: Tethering in windows 7 (no app needed!)
*I cant post link need mod approval

well my G2 demo does not seem to have the option, although the settings apk from the shipped rom thread had it when i put it on my slide, so no native tether on G2 which is upsetting as hell

PDA NET WIRED tether works on my T-mobile G2 on windows 7 64
does this interest anyone?

Yes thats good that pda app works, thx.
If thats the only way to tether then I have to buy the app.

smthkat789 said:
Yes thats good that pda app works, thx.
If thats the only way to tether then I have to buy the app.
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I'm using the free one just fine.

Tether and Hot Spots will be cooked into a rom and soon as we get some devs in here. No worries.

atlp99 said:
T-Mobile does not support tethering any phone it is against the terms and conditions of your contract.
That said T-Mobile also does not do take any steps to block tethering, they do not block apps like pda.net or easy tether. Smartphone data speeds will get throttled once you reach 10 Gigs of data usage.
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T-mobile may not "officially" support tethering but their tech support was very helpful
when I was having issues tethering my TM506 to my netbook back in 08

I went over 10GB last month and never even had my speed throttled. I moved and used my N1 as a wireless hotspot for about 2 weeks before I got my cable hooked up. I regularly go over 5GB without tethering at all.
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WiFi Tethering...

So, I heard that T-mobile will start charging for WiFi tethering after the OTA, but I have yet to see anything on my phone or account (online) that indicates that they are.
Anyone hear any update on this?

Sprint did the same thing with the Evo. They tease you with it for a while until they get their tethering plan up and running. You get used to it then they take it away unless you pay.
Well I don't know if it's on purpose (probably is) but they will start charging for it soon. But don't worry. It won't come out of nowhere. When they do start charging, it won't happen until you add the tethering plan.
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Hmm. Well, if/when that happens, I guess I'll need to go back to Wireless Tether.
WiFi Hotspot has been very nice, though...

How will they take it away? we now have the app installed. You think the official app will verify with their server before turning on?

Questions, wouldn't hotspot and wireless tether be about the same???
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[Q] Tmo Tethering??

So I've done a search...but does anyone know if there is a way around the "Tethering Plan"? Back when I had my G1 it was too easy to tether without the extra charge. I'm not trying to be cheap but, we already pay for unlimited data. Is there a way to do it that Tmo won't charge me for?

Root + Mobile AP
When I didn't root yet, tethering worked via USB and Samsung Kies for me

I agree - Rooting + Mobile AP is the way to go. Alternately you can Root and install the leaked Froyo from the Dev section which includes the Mobile AP

I use a app called Barnacle its in the Market but you have to be Rooted...

The tethering plan is the right to tether since it is against your contract. It has nothing to do with what app you use. From what I have read it will be very very hard to enforce and tell who is tethering and who is a stream addict.

ntellegence said:
The tethering plan is the right to tether since it is against your contract. It has nothing to do with what app you use. From what I have read it will be very very hard to enforce and tell who is tethering and who is a stream addict.
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Nope. Other carriers have been doing it forevah.
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Foxfi working on unrooted stock ATT Note 3

Hey y'all just got my note 3 today and was setting it up to my liking. So I found that on my GS3 when I unlocked the bootloader and went with custom roms, the battery life was never the same again. I know this is weird, hell I used to cook winmo 6 roms and every android I've used has had some kind of custom rom but my GS3 would burn through battery like it was it's job once it was unlocked and running custom rom. The GS3 I had that wasn't unlocked/rooted had a ok battery life and was totally fine. Hence I decided that once I got the Note 3 I wasn't going to be unlocking the bootloader on it, root sure but no custom roms. The only problem that pertained to was foxfi -> it worked without a hiccup on my cfw GS3. I can confirm however I'm using my Note 3 on ATT LTE Stock firmware etc and tethering to my laptop RIGHT NOW using the home button trick from the GS4. When the foxfi app tells you to call 611 to get hotspot, just press home and then open foxfi again, the hotspot will still be active and you can connect and monitor your usage.
I won't speak for anyone but my own experience, but for the past 2 months I haven't had home internet because I've been moving between coasts (I'm a physician for the armed forces) and I've been basically living out of extended stay hotels and my phone has been my only source of internet (I have unlimited) so I personally have been using 100-200 gb a month since my initial moving process and have received no such text or email or phone call from att. I'm currently downloading all my updated patient records (about 4gbs) and speeds are a nice and toasty ~42mbps down.
So yeah, your mileage will vary with ATT of course, but just sharing my own personal experiences.
cheers

Doesn't work for me.

Works for me, so far.

3_D said:
Works for me, so far.
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Which FoxFi are you using? The Free or Paid version?

indecentspeech said:
Which FoxFi are you using? The Free or Paid version?
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Paid version.

I'm using free and it works for me
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N900A using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

Zwarx said:
I'm using free and it works for me
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N900A using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
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I'll try it again. 1-Click tether was working fine for me on GN1 with root. If the Free doesn't work then I'll root and try that again.

Zwarx said:
I'm using free and it works for me
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N900A using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
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You would think the opposite is true.

tried it the normal way first, wasnt working then I saw your post. tried it with the home button trick and working fine now! thanks man

Thanks! Seems to be working for me as well w/ the paid version of Fox-Fi.

So you can use this app without ATT upgrading your plan to a tethering plan? I have the unlimited data plan and last year I used a Rom with tethering and I received noticed from ATT that they were going to change my plan. So I have not tethered since, fearful of loosing my "unlimited data" service. Question is do you all have "unlimited" data plans and using FoxFi without AT&T notifying you?
Thanks.

rrambert said:
So you can use this app without ATT upgrading your plan to a tethering plan? I have the unlimited data plan and last year I used a Rom with tethering and I received noticed from ATT that they were going to change my plan. So I have not tethered since, fearful of loosing my "unlimited data" service. Question is do you all have "unlimited" data plans and using FoxFi without AT&T notifying you?
Thanks.
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I've had unlimited data for close to 8 years and I've never paid for tethering
For me and some others in the thread this is working a ok with out tethering plan
just remember, once you activate the wifi and it tells you to call 611 hit the home buttom instead of ok
that'll keep the connection active, hitting ok will kill it.

V DidDy 210 said:
I've had unlimited data for close to 8 years and I've never paid for tethering
For me and some others in the thread this is working a ok with out tethering plan
just remember, once you activate the wifi and it tells you to call 611 hit the home buttom instead of ok
that'll keep the connection active, hitting ok will kill it.
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Thanks for the quick response. I've purchased the paid app and l look forward to using it with my laptop. Thanks again.

It didn`t work for me. Just after starting the tethering, a message appears saying "mobile data is not available or invalid SIM". After some research aroud, I decioded to go to root and try removing the Tethering Provision. Downloading Root de La Vega at this moment... I will let you know about my results after that.
Just to clarify: I am not at AT&T. Bought the N900A in the USA but managed to unlock it and now I am using the beast in my local GSM operator in Brazil (Oi).
Cheers
Cabtouch

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It didn`t work for me. Just after starting the tethering, a message appears saying "mobile data is not available or invalid SIM". After some research aroud, I decioded to go to root and try removing the Tethering Provision. Downloading Root de La Vega at this moment... I will let you know about my results after that.
Just to clarify: I am not at AT&T. Bought the N900A in the USA but managed to unlock it and now I am using the beast in my local GSM operator in Brazil (Oi).
Cheers
Cabtouch
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ahhh that's probably your issue, the tethering provision is assuredly hooked up to the ATT data apn and that'll cause issues when it calls home that specific apn only to find it not available.
yes you're gonna have to root and remove that and then try again, I'd assume if you either removed tethering provisions or edited the file to the proper values you'll have hotspot working soon enough

cabtouch said:
. After some research aroud, I decioded to go to root and try removing the Tethering Provision. Downloading Root de La Vega at this moment...
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Try freezing first. That way you don't have to worry about reinstalling it if removing it causes problems.

Just a side note I also use Foxfi add on and run through a proxy just incase. AT&T supposedly sees nothing except that I'm going to a proxy server so I'm told...
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Tethering after root!
V DidDy 210, bigmout and all
I have just rooted and everything went pretty well. Piece of cake following the walk-through in the root thread OP.
As I said above, my intention on rooting was to achieve WIFI Tethering, because my N900A is not being used on AT&T. With root, I could freeze the Tethering Provision with TB and now FoxFI was able to do its work. There is a message stating that "Unfortunatelly, setting has stopped", but you can just ignore it because FoxFI remains activated after that.
Cheers and MANY THANKS for this thread and also of couse to DesignGears who developed the root for the N900A.
Cabtouch

cabtouch said:
V DidDy 210, bigmout and all
I have just rooted and everything went pretty well. Piece of cake following the walk-through in the root thread OP.
As I said above, my intention on rooting was to achieve WIFI Tethering, because my N900A is not being used on AT&T. With root, I could freeze the Tethering Provision with TB and now FoxFI was able to do its work. There is a message stating that "Unfortunatelly, setting has stopped", but you can just ignore it because FoxFI remains activated after that.
Cheers and MANY THANKS for this thread and also of couse to DesignGears who developed the root for the N900A.
Cabtouch
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Confirmed here. Rooted, froze tethering provision and when I kick on my elixer widget, there will be a few seconds where the device freezes, then it will give the "settings has stopped" error and tethering kicks on successfully. A little annoying, but I don't use tethering that often, so I can live with it.
Nice job, man. Thanks for being the guinea pig. I just picked up my Note and hour ago and the first thing I did was root it and get this working. Adblock and tether are two things I simply cannot live without.

greyhulk said:
Confirmed here. Rooted, froze tethering provision and when I kick on my elixer widget, there will be a few seconds where the device freezes, then it will give the "settings has stopped" error and tethering kicks on successfully. A little annoying, but I don't use tethering that often, so I can live with it.
Nice job, man. Thanks for being the guinea pig. I just picked up my Note and hour ago and the first thing I did was root it and get this working. Adblock and tether are two things I simply cannot live without.
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Adblock and tether are two things I simply cannot live without.
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Me too!

Before I buy...

So I'm thinking of getting the Verizon HTC 10. Can anyone confirm if SunShine can s-off the current firmware verzion that the HTC 10 is shipped with? Perhaps if they have time to comment, maybe @jcase or @beaups could chime in? Thanks!

pastorbennett said:
So I'm thinking of getting the Verizon HTC 10. Can anyone confirm if SunShine can s-off the current firmware verzion that the HTC 10 is shipped with? Perhaps if they have time to comment, maybe @jcase or @beaups could chime in? Thanks!
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All currently shipping versions of the Verizon 10 are compatible with sunshine.

beaups said:
All currently shipping versions of the Verizon 10 are compatible with sunshine.
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Thanks! That's all I needed to hear. With being on a grandfathered unlimited data plan and living in an area where the only other option for a high speed ISP is satellite service, I need to be rooted to use wifi tethering for my primary ISP.

pastorbennett said:
Thanks! That's all I needed to hear. With being on a grandfathered unlimited data plan and living in an area where the only other option for a high speed ISP is satellite service, I need to be rooted to use wifi tethering for my primary ISP.
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FWIW, some phones no longer check your plan before allowing tether. I'm not certain if this applies to the 10, but my mom just got a Moto G4 Plus and while I was setting it up I decided to check just for fun and it allowed her to do hotspot and the like. Also on unlimited data from Verizon btw.

Native Tethering
pastorbennett said:
Thanks! That's all I needed to hear. With being on a grandfathered unlimited data plan and living in an area where the only other option for a high speed ISP is satellite service, I need to be rooted to use wifi tethering for my primary ISP.
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Many of the rooted ROMs have tethering already activated. If you self-root stock and stay that way, there's a text edit you need to make to get tethering to work perfectly without a third-party app.
See the link here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/verizon-htc-10/help/vzw-hotspot-setupunlocked-htc10-version-t3380588
I used to use third-part app WiFi Tether, but the native tether is much faster to load and unload.
FYI, I'm using the unlocked 10 converted to Verizon via the XDA guide and am loving it. I have all the Verizon features and no issues whatsoever ... and didn't have to send off my phone to get it s-off or rooted.

hunteditor said:
Many of the rooted ROMs have tethering already activated. If you self-root stock and stay that way, there's a text edit you need to make to get tethering to work perfectly without a third-party app.
See the link here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/verizon-htc-10/help/vzw-hotspot-setupunlocked-htc10-version-t3380588
I used to use third-part app WiFi Tether, but the native tether is much faster to load and unload.
FYI, I'm using the unlocked 10 converted to Verizon via the XDA guide and am loving it. I have all the Verizon features and no issues whatsoever ... and didn't have to send off my phone to get it s-off or rooted.
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Thanks for that. I had looked at a thread that was a little less detailed, and only mentioned editing one line in default.xml. I'll probably put together a flashable zip like I did for my Moto Droid Turbo.