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confused sprint free tethering stock 2.1 gone 2.2

this is a short story of my past week saga.
a month ago i got 2 evos. wife and i.
i was sold on the fact that with these phones while one could pay 30 bucks a month for up to 8 on wifi hotspot,
OR!
they could be used for internet sharing over usb for free to one computer.
that is what 3 different sprint reps told me, and i was shocked b.c i thought there was no way to get that but i was clearly told and i asked repeated questions because it seemed like nirvana.
anyway i get the phones and as i am getting teh numbers set up do the dreaded late june OTA update which apears broke a bunch of your roots. bummer.
anyway.
i live in a 4g land and happily for a month on both phones I
turn the 4g radio on,
wait for connection,
connect supplied usb cable to computer with htc sync software installed
connect phone and use usb settings drop down to set the phone to
internet sharing over usb.
with in 30 seconds htc sync had added a network adapter and life was great.
i don't think i ever did it over 3g, however a sprint rep told me after asking "is this free tethering to one computer only on 4g thing?" replyied "i haven't had anyone say they couldn't over 3g but im not sure" but i tried once and i don't think it got working, i think i got error 67.
i thought it was hilarious b.c i assumed most were rooting for the great wifi teather, ?or usb? and it was working as so out of the box.
so after carefully reading the hundred or so posts by all rooting methods, what to do with adb, then the single click, then the single click removal due to messed up 4g stuff... i just kept waiting b.c although im sure i could follow a multistep nand root process, but as the phones worked so well as is, and i wasn't sure if teh 4g radio was sorted out yet in a simple root i just waited to root later.
so this past thursday or so i did on my phone the official over the air update to 2.2
3.26.651.6
and all day i was highly enjoying it. small changes here and there
UNTIL!!!
i went home and did the standard 4g radio on, usb connect, drop down,
hm... internet sharing has been changed to usb teathering....
and i did it, and nothing happened. error 67
so this time i unplugged radio 4g of on, confirmed in menu settings we were go with ip
and phone internet worked
but after plugging in usb and switching to usb teathering and quickly going back to the 4g menu status page i would watch the 4g radio disconnect, start scanning, maybe attempt to connect to sprint, then scann again forever
then dump a error 67.
so.... thats a frustration...
so i call sprint, and they say you need to go to a store to fix the update, yes they know it createdissues. so i go to a store.
they send me to another store, a tech store... they say oh you get error 67?
call sprint tech support they need to clear it up on their end.
so i call and they try it. i do the whole pound pount 32 somthing enter a code
off on
wait.
and still errors and no connecting...
so i call and they say you need to go back to the tech store adn have them put the update on.
i am slightly ticked at this point but totally staying cool.
i am starting to realize that this is an issue. and sprint has no idea.
next morning i do make it back to the store...
and speak with the tech guy
1st telling him the story.
2nd asking before anyother stuff, can we make this simple and restore my phone with thier tools to 2.1
he says basically, ah nope. i can't do anything. i have no tools.
i have no software. on this phone its basically the ota's htc send us.
so bascially spritn wants me to get all the way here,
and all he's going to do is go behind the door
punch around on my phone to make sure im not an idoit, then set the phoen back to factory settings, and make sure 2.2 looks aok.
so knowing this isn't going to solve anything, i let them go anyway so when i talk to sprint again i have followed their suggestions yet, i still have teh issue.
so that's what i do, and after putting contacts back on and using an app to restore most of installed apps. i head back home...
there is now frustration but still maintain my cool, bc after all i live in america, and i will get to eat today. overall life is good.
idea, lets call htc. so i do.
basically this person is slighly tech and proceeds to say,
from what i hear, due to a glitch 2.1 owners have free hotspot.
most likely that got fixed in 2.2
but i held my ground stating that hotspot and usb data sharing are two distinct thigns, and as much as sprint would like to merge and charge, that difference adn stated fact was the selling reason for me on these...
but she confirmed that there is no going back to 2.1
but also left me with a glimmer or hope.
so i called back sprint then sprint tech, then got on the phone waitng for advanced tech support to call me back on the idea that i just need my account provisioned for usb data tethering. which allows a 1 computer to share the data from my plan, and as i have unlimited, its no problem.
the tech tried to do something like that... but got to a point where we changed and confirmed something deep in my phone like either a 3g or 4g mac address was right, but i still had issues, and so he said he woudl have advanced tech call me back b.c they had better tools to assist me.
well that hour call back still hasnt happened and its around 36 hours know.
maybe i get a call monday..
however... at this point i am bugged b.c obviously there is still a 2% change this will get solved by the correct device provisioning,
however i believe now the sprint reps merely didn't know it was a glitch which allowed single person teathering so now if i call, basically all i get is big crocodile tears that say im sorry you were misinformed...
so the hilarious this is i still have the other phone, no way i will update that one, b/.c its our web lifeline now.
and if the other one gets sorted out great.
if not,
i have been waiting in the back, but this time.
im joining the others waiting for the FANTASTIC DEVS to find the exploit to allow nand rooting for the ota and stock shipped 2.2 evos
and i will be in.
it can't come soon enough.
thanks for reading, enjoy your night.
**newcomers like me to xda, please spent a couple hours reading up before you post or ask questions.
you will be shocked how many answers are here.

if all your wanting to do is tether to 1 pc through USB, than just get EasyTether.
It works great for me, and I still get 7mbs with 4g turned on while doing a speedtest on my PC. And, you do not need to be rooted to use it.

Yeah, thanks for the reminder, i tried that and pdanet first, but stopped bc i was able to with htc's stock software, and i was told its legit from sprint, but at this point it might be the way to get along till more headway is made, only 10 for the https and would work well as i dont need root. At this point 40 quarters is a better use of my time Still though kinda ticked at sprint, i feel like this has been a mega bait switch. They have been helpful, but they cant fix it.
-owen while xda appin'

Question about USB Tethering

Yea I just got the Tmo Vibrant the other day and I can't get the usb tethering to work. I tried with the pda.net app that came with the phone and had no luck at all. This is a stock phone, it hasn't been rooted or anything. Can someone please tell me what I have to do to get this to work, or point me in the right direction. I been searching for the past 2 days and came up with nothing. I know about wifi hotspot but that looses connection on me after 5min. Im looking for straight usb tethering. Appreciate it.

mattfmartin said:
Yea I just got the Tmo Vibrant the other day and I can't get the usb tethering to work. I tried with the pda.net app that came with the phone and had no luck at all. This is a stock phone, it hasn't been rooted or anything. Can someone please tell me what I have to do to get this to work, or point me in the right direction. I been searching for the past 2 days and came up with nothing. I know about wifi hotspot but that looses connection on me after 5min. Im looking for straight usb tethering. Appreciate it.
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you're in the USA on T-mobile, when you say wi fi tethering but you aren't rooted, what program are you using? Rooting should solve this problem, it is very quick and the instructions are in the sticky thread in this forum.
then install Rom Manager (in same thread as rooting)
then follow instructions here for the Mobile AP software that samsung wrote for the galaxy S.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=760243
as far as I know, this is the most versatile wi-fi tethering program since it doesn't create an ad-hoc network, it is true access point. be sure to use clockwork recovery (available in the rom manager app from the market) to install it since it is a .zip not .apk

I was using the wifi hotsoot on my hd2. That phone is gone now though. It would only hold a connection for a couple of secs though. Im not too sure I want to root my phone though. What I really want to know is, does your phone have to be rooted to be able to access usb tethering.

PDA.net does work fine on your non-rooted phone. Allow the computer side of the installation install the drivers and it will install the phone side too. I used it on my Samsung Moment before I got my Vibrant also. But the rooted path is a much better solution if you want to give it a try. Always plenty of people willing to help here if you have any questions.

Thank you guys for your suggestions. I appreciate it

Do you guys use pda.net or another program. Because correct me if I'm wrong don't you have to pay for pda.net?

I use PDAnet and it is free, but for it to work, you have to install the software on the computer as well and the drivers for the phone. I love PDAnet because when you are browsing the internet on the computer and you get a text, the message will pop up on the screen of the PC and you can reply from there, no need to pick up the phone...

I use easytether. It does the job but I'm not sure if you have to be rooted. I don't think you do.
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A friend uses PDANET on his MyTouch Slide since he doesn't want to root.
I do recommend the rooted method though.
I wirelessly tethered today (home internet went down) for ~1 hour on 3G and it was almost as fast as our internet normally is. Nothing special to install on the computer & it's always ready for you just in case you need it.
You can always unroot later if you don't like it, pretty simple.

All you need is either Behold II USB driver or having Samsung Kies installed and it's 100% free, or just change USB mode to Kies and plug it to Cradlepoint CTR-500 router and you're hooked.

I rooted and used mobile AP (see post 2). This has been, for me, the easiest and most reliable solution.

I'm in the "I've rooted and am using the WiFi mobile Hotspot" application crowd. Honestly, the ability to have the phone become a mobile AP was 80% of the reason I rooted the phone.
My phone seems to continue to receive emails and txts while acting as an AP and while I' haven't tested it I wouldn't be surprised if it still received calls...
worth rooting for imho...

ronin4740 said:
I'm in the "I've rooted and am using the WiFi mobile Hotspot" application crowd. Honestly, the ability to have the phone become a mobile AP was 80% of the reason I rooted the phone.
My phone seems to continue to receive emails and txts while acting as an AP and while I' haven't tested it I wouldn't be surprised if it still received calls...
worth rooting for imho...
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Calls work as well.

I will drop T-Mobile for the first carrier that has a non-locked down Android 2.2 phone with comparable specs to the Vibrant that doesn't remove the tethering app and/or charges an arm and a leg for tethering.
I think I'm going to start looking around.
Also, are these phones starting to sell more than they were before? I'm still waiting for a replacement on backorder and it still hasn't even shipped to me yet. It's been a week. Last one shipped the next day (off backorder).
If I have to use this HD2 for another week, I'm killing 8 kittens.

N8ter said:
I will drop T-Mobile for the first carrier that has a non-locked down Android 2.2 phone with comparable specs to the Vibrant that doesn't remove the tethering app and/or charges an arm and a leg for tethering.
I think I'm going to start looking around.
Also, are these phones starting to sell more than they were before? I'm still waiting for a replacement on backorder and it still hasn't even shipped to me yet. It's been a week. Last one shipped the next day (off backorder).
If I have to use this HD2 for another week, I'm killing 8 kittens.
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Did you flash android on the hd2

is there a way to tether without rooting? i read the thread and i am getting mixed responses. everyone says rooting is better but is it possible without a root?

bump, any information i search on google seems outdated

Xda search is like ten times worse.

Kies for usb tether is an easy solution free and doesn't require root access - just look for the various ways to download kies and look for the USB drivers that should be searchable.
I've been using android-wifi-tether (requires root) for wifi tether and it does a good job - might have to check out mobileAP since most seem to have good success with it.

Appreciate it

[Q] Wireless Tether versions

I've been using various versions of wireless tether since my Moment days. I'm currently using pre11 on my Epic right now, but I see it's up to pre15 right now on http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/downloads/list. It's working completely fine for me now, and I'm honestly surprised on how quick the connection is. What is the difference between these different versions anyways?

Mostly added support for other phones,,,and I think pre13 introduced the lock button when tethered,but I dont even se a need for it.
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I just got the RC released a few days ago.
Without making a new thread about it, I'm wondering what I'm doing wrong...
I have never been able to get a computer to connect to the network created by Wireless Tether. Can anyone help?

Pre14 wouldn't work for me. Pre15 works fine.

AndrewZorn said:
I just got the RC released a few days ago.
Without making a new thread about it, I'm wondering what I'm doing wrong...
I have never been able to get a computer to connect to the network created by Wireless Tether. Can anyone help?
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Need a little more detail than that. The network created is AdHoc, have you been able to connect these machinces to other ad hocs?

Not specifically, and I'm aware of the Ad-Hoc...
but one is a literally fresh formatted Win7 and the other is a ChromeOS laptop.
I would think either should be fine.
No luck.

Curious, chrome os cr48?
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Yes, and I even know the freshly-formatted Win7 computer has been on an ad-hoc phone-tether network before.

So I'm not sure why, but the same night I asked this question, I also started getting issues. It seemed to be running perfectly fine, but then when I noticed someone else logging onto my connection (I hadn't encrypted it), I grabbed the both and both gave Access Control to my phone only and then encrypted it. Even since then, even when turning off AC and encrpytion, I can only go an hour or so and then the signal drops. I'm not sure if it's even related to me turning on AC/encryption or what since I don't even remember how long I was running it before someone tried hopping onto my signal. At this point, since 11 has worked, I'm not sure if I should just delete and reinstall it in an effort to erase any of the changes and made and see if that makes it work better, or just go ahead and upgrade to 15.
As for using it, once connected to a 4G connection (1 of 3 lines), I'm actually quite surprised how quickly it works. Sure, I'm not going to be streaming from HULU, but even going to picture intensive threads loaded fairly quickly. Our phones are so badass...I make sure to always remind everyone around me

I couldn't get WirelessTether to work with my CR-48 either. It did work with my wife's Evo however. Frustrating.

Transfering files from computer to nexus question

Well I wound up having to go to Dunkin Donuts in order to get a wifi that would work with this thing. I got passed the wifi screen and into the main screens so at least now I can turn it on and such without the wifi.
This is my first android tablet (in fact first tablet) and I'm not sure I like it. I have no idea how to do squat on this thing as there are no basic directions. I can figure stuff out, but without the wifi, I'm cut off from a lot of the stuff. I tried to download the book on the gplay site for the nexus, but it seems I can only read it with a connection to wifi.
I have several pdf files I would like to transfer over (books actually I'd like to read) so do I just hook this up to the computer and copy the files over? Do they go to a folder? Or just hang out on the drive? I'm not even sure which app I would use to read them. Until I can get the wifi fixed, I can not download anything else unless I go to burger king or something. (sigh).
And if anyone can help with the wifi issue, I would be great full. If not, I guess I will return this thing, but I don't want to get a replacement to have the same thing happen again. I see I"m not the only one with the issue. I just don't know what to do.
Thank you everyone
Chefman

Samsung unlock screen pin

Dear Friends,
I want to avoid explaining the whole story behind why I try do unlock the Samsung s10 screen lock - no crime behind. In short: my best friend died and his family ask me to unlock the phone for them. I'm a total noob which is related to rooting phones, modify etc. As I know the phone is not rooted, no knowledge if mtp was enabled, USB Debugging I'm pretty sure also was disabled.
I tried to use " Pattern Password Disable zip " to run from sd-card but no luck. I do not want do factory default as they would like to access the data on the phone. I attach some info from the recovery mode.
Much appreciated for any advice how to proceed to unlock the screen.

If the phone is completely stock (no twrp, no usb debug etc) I'm pretty sure there is no way to disable the lockscreen PIN

S5Mini. said:
If the phone is completely stock (no twrp, no usb debug etc) I'm pretty sure there is no way to disable the lockscreen PIN
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USB debug is off, twrp also not. Is there at least a chance to get the data back ? Nothing can be installed via the sd-card ?

k3raa said:
USB debug is off, twrp also not. Is there at least a chance to get the data back ? Nothing can be installed via the sd-card ?
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Unfortunately i dont think so and without enabling debugging its gonna make everything way tricky. Let do some searching just remember without root or custom recovery its most luckly a dead end. a screen lock is meant to everything in untill unlocked but dont lose hope Ill be replying to soon with results

k3raa said:
USB debug is off, twrp also not. Is there at least a chance to get the data back ? Nothing can be installed via the sd-card ?
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No. You can try to just turn it on and connect it to the PC via USB and check if the phone grants his memory access to the PC. But I highly doubt since it needs authorization and to do so you must unlock it. I'm sorry but I think you are probably screwed. If there's a way to disable the screen unlock it's an Android's security bug so it is gonna be extremely tricky/hard to exploit and very very few people might know that. Android has reached a really good level of security so you probably won't be able to get any data back.

Sh*** thats not good
what about those adds for 30-40$ for an app which can unlock screen without data loss ? Scam ?

k3raa said:
Sh*** thats not good
what about those adds for 30-40$ for an app which can unlock screen without data loss ? Scam ?
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They will probably ask you to have USB Debug enabled and such, so it is not gonna work, sorry.

Do you have an access to the samsung account and the password of it ?
You have the ability to unlock the phone from the Samsung Account from your pc but you have to log in for that

KeTuRr74 said:
Do you have an access to the samsung account and the password of it ?
You have the ability to unlock the phone from the Samsung Account from your pc but you have to log in for that
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No I don't.
Then only thing what I have is wi-fi connectivity between router and the locked phone, enabled nic.

My take, Friend, is if someone wanted others to have access they wouldn't have password protected it or would have put on an unlocked medium.
This thread creeps me out to put it politely.

blackhawk said:
My take, Friend, is if someone wanted others to have access they wouldn't have password protected it or would have put on an unlocked medium.
This thread creeps me out to put it politely.
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yes true. But friend died and family want desperate access to it.
Im thinking if phone is on the same wifi - I can generate an apk file in metasploit. Question how to put it on the phone without user interaction ?? hmm
any suggestions

also he was not so clever to enable usb deb. or any custom recovery. so I try my best to get access to it.
so let's not speak about moral behavior - but please help me finding a solution.
thanks.

k3raa said:
also he was not so clever to enable usb deb. or any custom recovery. so I try my best to get access to it.
so let's not speak about moral behavior - but please help me finding a solution.
thanks.
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Greetings. While I offer my condolences regarding your friend, I'm afraid I can not allow this discussion to continue as per XDA Rule #6:
6. Do not post or request warez.
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If a piece of software requires you to pay to use it, then pay for it. We do not accept warez nor do we permit members to request, post, promote or describe ways in which warez, cracks, serial codes or other means of avoiding payment, can be obtained or used. This is a site of developers, i.e. the sort of people who create such software. When you cheat a software developer, you cheat us as a community.
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I truly hope you find a solution, through possibly contacting Samsung, or a local phone repair shop in your area. Again my condolences to you and your friends family, and wish you peace and solace in the upcoming days.
Best regards: Badger50
Thread closed.