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so ive been tethering for like two months with no issue via my rooted glacier.
just got a text from tmobile..
889: Free T-Mobile Msg: Phone Tethering & Wi-Fi sharing access may be blocked unless you add a Phone Tethering & Wi-Fi Sharing plan available at my.t-mobile.com
should i be worried? can they really cancel it on a rooted phone? what gives.
well they blocked it now.
its just normal web browsing which is odd.
AIM still works, and i can still browse via tor. or manually putting an s to make it https. but that isnt practical for browsing.
any ideas? different browser perhaps? i wonder how they are determining that i am tethering.
ugh, any ideas would be appreciated..how annoying.
I talked to my brother and he said its probably my user agent. So I'm going to get the ref control add on and change it so its sending what my phone sends and see if that works. Ill let y'all know how it works.
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Keep us posted of the user agent change, I'd be curious to know this myself. Data packets should be entirely agnostic to their network unless are they doing deep packet inspection or specifically monitoring non-port 80 traffic, or port 80 traffic with different user agent strings.
Any luck with your attempts?
I Posted this back in Nov. tether workaround
Mrdaviso said:
I Posted this back in Nov. tether workaround
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I've been tethering my myt4g with my streak 7 and havent gotten any message like this.. If I do get it though how would your workaround method work on another android device?
Isn't free tethering still available if you use the android-wifi-tether app? or the one built into CM? I heard you only get charged if you use the stock wifi tethering app
No worries for you, its only looking for desktop user agent strings to block. At home I hotspot to my mt3g from my mt4g and then tether the 3g to the desktop. Its never got a warning yet. Can you believe Sprint might be buying T-mobile out? I'll be canceling that service, again.
graffixnyc said:
I've been tethering my myt4g with my streak 7 and havent gotten any message like this.. If I do get it though how would your workaround method work on another android device?
Isn't free tethering still available if you use the android-wifi-tether app? or the one built into CM? I heard you only get charged if you use the stock wifi tethering app
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No worries for you, its only looking for desktop user agent strings to block. At home I hotspot to my mt3g from my mt4g and then tether the 3g to the desktop. Its never got a warning yet. Can you believe Sprint might be buying T-mobile out? I'll be canceling that service, again.
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The good thing is if this plans out correctly those of us with T-Mobile will be able to exit the contract w/o a ETF. I hate the fact of having to use ATT or BigRed.... Wait a tick. Cincinnati Bell uses the same frequencies @ T-Mobile where i live. So i could use them and keep my phone....
Lmfao, this was the ONLY way SPRINT could get some of their old customers back. Bad part is they are going to lose more than ever. And ruin another company..... run off even more customers and then sue them for cancellation fees. Lmfao all to pay for some dumbass races and yes I think Sprint ruined Nascar too.
Sorry that's my rant....
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Mrdaviso said:
Lmfao, this was the ONLY way SPRINT could get some of their old customers back. Bad part is they are going to lose more than ever. And ruin another company..... run off even more customers and then sue them for cancellation fees. Lmfao all to pay for some dumbass races and yes I think Sprint ruined Nascar too.
Sorry that's my rant....
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NASCAR Being runied has nothing to do with Sprint i was blown to kingdom come before Sprint touched them IMHO.
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It was on a downward spiral no doubt, but Sprint wanted it like Indy. Now there is no competition in the sport I liked it more when they used STOCK cars.... I grew up racing and the sprint cup is a disgrace.
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I can tether too. I never get a message, but I don't ever use the stock app. Seems like a bad idea.
Mrdaviso said:
It was on a downward spiral no doubt, but Sprint wanted it like Indy. Now there is no competition in the sport I liked it more when they used STOCK cars.... I grew up racing and the sprint cup is a disgrace.
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Personally i followed LeMans racing. I followed NASCAR back in the day when i was younger, but heck i'm only 28. I like the various class of cars in LeMans, it brings a new dynamic to racing. I might have car that can do 30-40MPH faster than the next guy but it cannot pass him, it doesn't do any good. I also like grass root dirt tracks, those are a blast to go watch.
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Lmfao, this was the ONLY way SPRINT could get some of their old customers back. Bad part is they are going to lose more than ever. And ruin another company..... run off even more customers and then sue them for cancellation fees. Lmfao all to pay for some dumbass races and yes I think Sprint ruined Nascar too.
Sorry that's my rant....
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Do we know anything would actually change for us?
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I know I'm an ex-sprint customer already...... I know what they treated me like and I will not stay.
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Man I actually like sprint just because of thier anti throttling policies I just got a new computer in January and I've probably downloaded about 25gigs worth of torrents in the past two months using wireless tether and they haven't said a thing to me I had a mytouch before but I only had 2g were I live so I switched to sprint and got a hero and never looked Back and my bill is only about ten$ more.
Ps no I don't have a Droid x I installed a tweaked build that makes it think it's a Droid x lol
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http://www.cnet.com/8301-17918_1-20010423-85.html
http://www.investmentu.com/2011/March/sprint-and-tmobile-telecom-merger.html
http://www.tmonews.com/2011/03/my-t...rgeracquisitionbuyoutsalepurchasetransaction/
Just a few with info on it. (Sorry mods, not to be off topic) I suppose just wait it out and see what happens.
To the OP: Did you find anything further?
Use the Wireless Tether app instead of the stock app. You shouldn't get any warnings/messages. I have 3 different Android phones I use (I switch SIM cards out whenever the phone I'm using currently bores me) and I haven't gotten any warnings/messages yet and I tether to my computer everyday.
The Atrix is going to be selling in my country soon. Thing is the smartphone is the Atrix and not the Atrix 4G.
Im thinking about buying it but i need rooting to install applications outside android market and hdmi out. I wonder if the hacks for doing that on Atrix 4G will work with Atrix.
Whats the difference between 4g version and the regular version?
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Nothing except firmware... Bell doesn't have a sbf yet
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HungryEel said:
Whats the difference between 4g version and the regular version?
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I dont know much, but it might be something cause the name is ME860 instead of MB860. As it might not be as popular as the Atrix 4G i wonder if the hacks for rooting this one will work with the regular one.
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Nothing except firmware... Bell doesn't have a sbf yet
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what is sbf?
I thought we'd all get a nice lol out of this ;-)
http://m.zdnet.com/blog/mobile-news...coming-and-now-they-are-here/2243?tag=nl.e539
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Sprint ftw
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Sprint ftw
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agreed.. more reasons to be on sprint..
Agreed, what's funny though is they can still get the apk online. But I suppose its a small step in their intentions
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treyxazn said:
Agreed, what's funny though is they can still get the apk online. But I suppose its a small step in their intentions
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yeah.. pretty sure that anyone that knows how to root to get tether to work knows where to find the apk.
But according to the article the carriers can differ the use of their own tethering services and the use of tethering that Google wanted to be allowed in Android, basically even if it isn't on the market it's less people using the tethering and makes it easier to pinpoint and cut people off.
A) Sprint will likely follow suit
B) I didn't even know it was available in the market lol.
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AproSamurai said:
But according to the article the carriers can differ the use of their own tethering services and the use of tethering that Google wanted to be allowed in Android, basically even if it isn't on the market it's less people using the tethering and makes it easier to pinpoint and cut people off.
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Hmm I wonder how they would go about doing so, and am curious if they are able to if we have removed carrierIQ?
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A) Sprint will likely follow suit
B) I didn't even know it was available in the market lol.
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Sprint's the only company that hasn't followed in the major two's footsteps so far.
First being encrypted locked boot-loaders. Not one phone has been so encrypted that it's impenetrable. Then second being this. I think Sprint's taking the route of T-Mobile and going to support AOSP to the fullest. Of course, it's wishful thinking but on the other hand, it does appear to be the case...for now.
I would lie to know the source of info in that article stating that they can tell when you are tethering. I don't believe that is true. Data should be data. There was another article out and this was not stated, just the block. That is achieved by the market lkooking for the carrier's signature and not showing certain apps, like Verizon's NFL app to Sprint or At&T.
Sorry for the newbie question, but does anyone know how to remove the carrier IQ? It seems that if that is not there then one cannot be detected tethering.
I am a new EPIC user and rooted my phone using the oneclick method and RFS filesystem. Basically rooted just for tethering my tablets to my phone for occassional net access. So how do I go removing sprint's IQ? TIA!
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Sorry for the newbie question, but does anyone know how to remove the carrier IQ? It seems that if that is not there then one cannot be detected tethering.
I am a new EPIC user and rooted my phone using the oneclick method and RFS filesystem. Basically rooted just for tethering my tablets to my phone for occassional net access. So how do I go removing sprint's IQ? TIA!
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Yup. Put on a ROM that has it removed. Read OPs in development ROMs
I had to post here.
I noticed this, and when I went on the website to install it, it said I couldn't "Carrier blocks the install."
I go on my phone, fire up the market, and it lets me install it from there.
So apparently, T-Mo just wants me to download it from my phone, not from their website.
Whatever, I didn't even know that there was a website for the market till like a week ago. xD
Currently, putting a rom on is the only way to remove it.
There its also the factor of how much data is used - generally, a tethered device like a computer or game console would use more data than the phone by itself. If Sprint sees an unusual amount of data being downloaded, they might be able to consider that proof enough (just speculation, I'm not an expert but it is plausible)
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i think sprint cares just a little less because their data plans are truly unlimited. my phone is my only source of internet. i use it to download movies and games and everything else. i use about 9-30Gb of data a month. and 've been doing it for over a year. no one has terminated my contract or throttled my data speeds or anything. they put up with it as long as i pay my bill.
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B) I didn't even know it was available in the market lol.
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use a search engine to find something about app and planet on the net to find an 'alternative market' for things like this 'pulled and/or blocked' wifi tethering app
Lol shame on u, shaaaammee on u lol
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Lol shame on u, shaaaammee on u lol
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<looks around> What ??? It's a 'suggestion'
(contribution to the Android Community I say )
I use so much data and tethering is a small amount. I wonder if they track based on browser?
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hi i received this txt from sprint
SprintFreeMsg: Welcome to Total Equipment Protection. Click http://tepdl.com to download Protection App for extra features with your service at no added cost.
am rooted i dont want to install this cuz they will know all my software details and what i have. can you help with this. should i install sprint rom to install the app they asking me to install. and unroot the phone. or just leave it like that
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badjerzeeboy said:
hi i received this txt from sprint
SprintFreeMsg: Welcome to Total Equipment Protection. Click http://tepdl.com to download Protection App for extra features with your service at no added cost.
am rooted i dont want to install this cuz they will know all my software details and what i have. can you help with this. should i install sprint rom to install the app they asking me to install. and unroot the phone. or just leave it like that
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If you don't want to install it.... don't. Sprint isn't demanding you install it.
I'm not really sure what this app dose or offers other than back up your phone and track it if it's lost or stolen. But there are a few really good apps in the market to do that for you anyway.
As for unrooting your eVo just to install a free application from Sprint..... your call, It's not needed.
Just for kicks in tried to download and install it on my eVo. Sprints server doesn't even see my eVo as a supported model. I'm running Decks 2.3.4 rom
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cool thank you for ur answer.
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I have it installed and it's been fine for me. I used to have wavesecure but after forgetting to reinstall it a few roms ago I stopped caring about it.
Also, check out Cerberus, it does just about everything the Sprint app does... You can track your phone via web or text message, sound alarms, remote wipe etc.... You can even have it take a picture and send it back to you so you can see who is using your phone. I think it's like a one time €2.99 fee, or about $5. If you're still nervous about the Sprint app or don't want to pay the monthly fees for similar apps it's the way to go.
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I'd be very wary of this app, here's why:
1. Whois entry uses Domains by Proxy, would Sprint do that? Probably not...
check out who.godaddy.com/whois.aspx?domain=tepdl.com for the WHOIS
2. A quick search of "tepdl.com" on the sprint.com site yields only results from the community BB, you'd think Sprint would have some "official" links to that site if it were real. There are some really distressing results, here's a quote from one
"I just bought a LG LS970 and downloaded a protection app through Sprint that was LINK:tepdl.com. Once downloaded, it took all my contacts and wiped them out. Can anyone tell me how to get them back onto my phone and if this was truly from Sprint? It was sent from them so I it was. Please help me." (LINK:community.sprint.com/baw/message/575630?tstart=0)
I think it's a phishing app.
Now that the NFL season is right around the corner, anyone get the NFL Mobile App to run on a Xoom?
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I have loaded it and it installs fine then it says not supported for this device
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Bummer..
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Same here, I wish we could get a version like we did with netflix.
It would be an easy sell for sure if it was available.
any hackers find a way to trick the app?
There is a new 2011 NFL app for tablet on the market...works great...
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that's not the one the OP is after. He is looking for the Verizon NFL mobile app that provides the Thursday/Sunday night games and RedZone...
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that's not the one the OP is after. He is looking for the Verizon NFL mobile app that provides the Thursday/Sunday night games and RedZone...
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I tried to install the Verizon NFL mobile app from my bionic, it installed, but would not open with an error.. Content not supported on this device....well I tried...
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Carriers Suck!
Sucks, this got hacked previously to run on any device. Seems someone with skills could get past a device model check, even if the app still does a network check. I'm so sick of carriers and media providers being so stingy with their content! Ugh!
Geaux Saints
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Sucks, this got hacked previously to run on any device. Seems someone with skills could get past a device model check, even if the app still does a network check. I'm so sick of carriers and media providers being so stingy with their content! Ugh!
Geaux Saints
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I'm sure Verizon paid the NFL a pretty penny for this exclusive content. Red Zone channel is epic though and wish I could watch it on the xoom...
NFL Sunday ticket for tablets ...DTV works great...redzone and all
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