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[Q] Wireless Tether HELP!!!! PLEASE!!!!

ok i have wi-fi tether on my epic 4g and i get up to 3.68mbps on 4g when browsing the internet and downloading files. HOWEVER when im trying to watch videos for example on hulu.com or southparkstudios.com when the page is contanstly using the internet i only get up to 800kbs 100-300kbps being the regular so the videos buffer like evey 5 to 10 secondds and its so goddamn annoying. is there a problem with my tether??? cuz ive done it on 2.1 and 2.2 custom and stock roms and its all the same result. any help?advise?suggestions?? thank u!!!

betterment66 said:
ok i have wi-fi tether on my epic 4g and i get up to 3.68mbps on 4g when browsing the internet and downloading files. HOWEVER when im trying to watch videos for example on hulu.com or southparkstudios.com when the page is contanstly using the internet i only get up to 800kbs 100-300kbps being the regular so the videos buffer like evey 5 to 10 secondds and its so goddamn annoying. is there a problem with my tether??? cuz ive done it on 2.1 and 2.2 custom and stock roms and its all the same result. any help?advise?suggestions?? thank u!!!
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Did you remove the streaming proxy sprint setup?
Also 4mb/sec? do you have full 4g bars on your phone I'm guessing?

gTen said:
Did you remove the streaming proxy sprint setup?
Also 4mb/sec? do you have full 4g bars on your phone I'm guessing?
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If its that thing where u have 2 set the numbers 2 o and 0.0.0.0 yeah I did, and yeah I get all 3 bars of 4g here in nyc
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Ill have to try hulu.com when I get to the house where I get 4g,,,but I use netflix from work all the time no problem.It does buffer for 2-3mins,but after that its smooth,quality will try to shift to HD when I get a great signal,but I disable HD so I dont get interruptions...Ill get back to you in about 8 hours.
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Okay, thank u so much dude.this is been driving me insane lol
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Ok,well hulu.com is working very smooth on 4g here Now its time for you to trouble shoot,I bet it has somthing to do with syncing.See what you have syncing in the background.

Well I have the gmail, feeds n updates, weather bug, foursquare, facebook, myfitnesspal apps on
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Oh and fring and dictionary.com and then everything else that's always on so idk
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okay im starting 2 think thats its the website bcuz when i use pdanet it shows that the available bandwith its up 2 1.26 mbps but with wifi tether it only shows up 2 1mbps but always buffers every 5 to 10 seconds n with pdanet not as much at all

[Q] Social Networking

How often does the Social Networking app update? I can't find any options to change refresh time. Also there's no manual refresh option...
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I actually uninstalled this app using titanium backup
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inheme said:
I actually uninstalled this app using titanium backup
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That didn't answer my question. I did some self testing and came up with about 2 minutes as the time refresh rate. The app is actually quite useful as you can get all your messages in the Universal Inbox.
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It is useful if u pay for unlimited 3G connection, not my case. So i prefer to download each social network app I use and manually refresh what I want.

inheme said:
It is useful if u pay for unlimited 3G connection, not my case. So i prefer to download each social network app I use and manually refresh what I want.
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Serious? You might not like it, but there are actually people who like Blur. You like it or not, just accept and respect that please.
About the refreshing: I've been looking for it too, but that option isn't anywhere to be found. I've also found the interval for syncing social networking isn't 2 minutes for me... Longer I guess.
Manual syncing is possible, but you have to disable syncing completely for a few seconds and re-enable it. Syncing will start after this.

Not sure if it's of use, but there is the option to only update the Social Networking apps over wifi which can be found in the Data Manager section of Settings.
Cheers,
Steve

StevePritchard said:
Not sure if it's of use, but there is the option to only update the Social Networking apps over wifi which can be found in the Data Manager section of Settings.
Cheers,
Steve
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I;m not worried about sync or data cos my plan has about 250MB a month...I am planning to upgrade to 1GB a month...
just annoyed about refresh issue that's all.

250MB... that's quite small ammount. With my plan I have 2GB a month, and I'm using about 700MB out of this

Yeah. I dont download music or videos on my phone. I use my PC for that.
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the reason yours is updating so often is perhaps cuz u have quite a number of friends on ur social networks. what u can do is u can filter which updates you'd like to see from which friends. that could significantly reduce how often your blur updates itself.
another option would be to do what steve suggested....theres an option in settings where it syncs ur social networking over wifi only. that should work
the best option however is to get urself an unlimited data package. 500MB-1GB data allowance would be sufficient, but if ur heavy on skype and other data intensive apps or sights a 2GB package would be recommended.

No more T-Mobile Tethering!!

So I've been using Barnacle to tether to my laptop at work when I get bored. Yesterday I went to login to facebook and Whamo! A TMobile splash page pops ups talking about getting a tethering plan! That's the only page I can access now when I try to tether. Sucks!!! Looks like they finally caught on.
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yeah. People started getting these a few weeks ago. Go ahead and use that search bar.

yeah. People started getting these a few weeks ago. Go ahead and use that search bar.
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Go ahead and EDIT....... Do NOT swear on the forum
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How about you use the built in access point in settings? That still works. Barnacle is garbage.

Sdobron said:
How about you use the built in access point in settings? That still works. Barnacle is garbage.
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If you have a custom ROM (Most of them added this in) you can use the stock Samsung AP:
Settings--> Wireless and Network--> Mobile AP. Then go to settings, set up your SSID and security phrase, check to enable, enjoy.
Been using it sparingly at work when I need to get around the firewall, worked as of about 45 minutes ago.

Stargazer3777 said:
If you have a custom ROM (Most of them added this in) you can use the stock Samsung AP:
Settings--> Wireless and Network--> Mobile AP. Then go to settings, set up your SSID and security phrase, check to enable, enjoy.
Been using it sparingly at work when I need to get around the firewall, worked as of about 45 minutes ago.
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Thanks. I'll try that. I had a feeling there would be a work around.
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I tether my Wi-Fi tab to my Vibrant every day I commute to work, did that this morning as well with no issues using Mobile AP.

more butt hurt:
If ONLY my phone had this capability built into it... o wait. Mobile AP.

s15274n said:
more butt hurt:
If ONLY my phone had this capability built into it... o wait. Mobile AP.
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I knew that AP was built in. Ive just had issues with it not working with my PC... barnacle has always worked perfectly with my setup. No need to be a ****.

djordan79 said:
I knew that AP was built in. Ive just had issues with it not working with my PC... barnacle has always worked perfectly with my setup. No need to be a ****.
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My post wasnt directed at you, more the humor of "butt hurt"
Mobile AP is far superior, not sure why you would have issues with it.

What do you mean?
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s15274n said:
My post wasnt directed at you, more the humor of "butt hurt"
Mobile AP is far superior, not sure why you would have issues with it.
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My bad! And AP isn't working either. Still getting the tmo splash page.
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If ap isnt working.....might be a bad flash
...it works well for me atleast for other people using me as thier wifi hot spot and for my kids wii

djordan79 said:
My bad! And AP isn't working either. Still getting the tmo splash page.
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If you are still getting the splash page its possible that you tether wayy too much and T-Mobile has flagged your account for tethering exorbitantly.
On average how much data do you reckon you tether on a monthly basis? (btw im tethering right now to send this message) I tether roughly 1-2 gig at most per month but its spread out over the course of the month.
If you dont tether that much or that often i would suggest starting fresh with a clean install of another or the same rom, if that still doesnt work it sounds like you are SOL.

shreddintyres said:
If you are still getting the splash page its possible that you tether wayy too much and T-Mobile has flagged your account for tethering exorbitantly.
On average how much data do you reckon you tether on a monthly basis? (btw im tethering right now to send this message) I tether roughly 1-2 gig at most per month but its spread out over the course of the month.
If you dont tether that much or that often i would suggest starting fresh with a clean install of another or the same rom, if that still doesnt work it sounds like you are SOL.
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This.
10 char.

Thread cleaned. Read the rules people, and keep it friendly or you face the prospect of an infraction leading to a ban.

s15274n said:
My post wasnt directed at you, more the humor of "butt hurt"
Mobile AP is far superior, not sure why you would have issues with it.
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I agree with you about the Mobile AP, it's the best. The people who contribute to this Vibrant Forum are also awesome, the amount you have taught me thank you.
Kept my Vibrant (in soft brick at the moment but will fix it) but got hung up in the moment at a TMO store and bought the SGS 4G. Couldn't let go of the Vibrant so was playing with both. The Vibrant is going to be a hard phone to do better on! Off to return the now unrooted SGS 4G to exchange for a different phone or just return. This Vibrant forum spoiled me and then to see what's going on on the SGS 4G forum is just sad.
Here you are apologizing or explaining yourself which is was really nice, on the SGS 4G forum all they do is blast people. I will being hitting the Thanks button more after my experience over there. Thanks for all you've done to contribute to this forum.

I have read posts of others getting this page randomly using every tether app regardless ie, Mobile AP, Barnacle, wifi tether. Once in a while i might have to reset my settings or turn off/on tethering and it werks again but its just for a bad connection never the "Tmobile tethering plan" page.
I have been capped once before and received the dreaded throttle down txt message. It only affected my tether ability the phones internet really didn't take a hit at all. At least not noticeably. Other than the throttle down (which has nothing to do with Mobile AP werkin and is totally my fault) I personally have not had any issues with it.

Still get the tmo splash page on my laptop at work..... but can get internet just fine at home on my iMac..... both using AP.... weird
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Mobile AP working fine for me...
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Tether to PS3

Trying everything in the market that's free. All of the apps I found claim to be working but my PS3 can't see them.
Anyone else with this problem?

Silent25r said:
Trying everything in the market that's free. All of the apps I found claim to be working but my PS3 can't see them.
Anyone else with this problem?
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Have you tried Barnacle?
Do you BONSAI?

You're not trying to play games online through your phone's connection are you? Cause if so you will fail miserably.

Not sure, but I don't think the PS3 can connect in ad-hoc mode. Are you sure you're using an app that supports infrastructure mode, and is configured to operate that way?
Every one I've ever used has operated in ad-hoc mode...
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kennyglass123 said:
Have you tried Barnacle?
Do you BONSAI?
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I have tried barnacle without success. I did manage to finally get wireless tether working through the default wireless tether app that comes with asc roms.
Now all I have to do is improve my 4g signal strength. Thinking about overclocking a tower or two. ;p

Willieumm said:
You're not trying to play games online through your phone's connection are you? Cause if so you will fail miserably.
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This is so not true If you have 4g. Ive been playing online with a 4g connection without a problem at all.

Willieumm said:
You're not trying to play games online through your phone's connection are you? Cause if so you will fail miserably.
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I use my wii on 3g all the time. No issues.
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So what version of wifi tether are you guys using? And what ROM/kernel?

I tried it before on my ps3 (3g) and it would start the game but right afther it would kick me out LOL. I was just board haha
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I tried on my ps3 but it didn't work
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Barnacle works perfectly on my xbox a little laggish but it works just make sure you keep your phone right next to ure console cause 2 inches away and I lose 1 bar lol
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**HERES HOW TO TETHER YOUR DATA TO YOUR PS3**
First you must tether to your laptop (if you have one). Then what you do is get an ethernet cable (cheap on ebay) and hook it from your laptop to your PS3.
Then you have to share your data from your laptop to your PS3. I can't say exactly how to do it on your laptop cause I don't know what kind you have so you will have to look up how to share your internet connection from your laptop to other devices.
Thats pretty much the short explanation. Look up on youtube "how do i tether to ps3" and you will see exactly what to do. Thats how I figured it out

Anyway to get around T Mobile's tethering monitoring

I am running Juggernaut ROM and used it to tether quite heavily this past few days. I received a text message from T Mobile telling me to sign up for their tethering plan. I think they were monitoring the amount of data usage I was using and I exceeded some limit over a certain time frame. Is there anyway around this? Previously I only tethered for a few hours at most. Thanks.

No way around it
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Google how to change the user agent on your internet browser. The T-mobile upsell page only shows up when it detects you're using a desktop browser via the user agent. Try tethering to a tablet or Google Chrome with the user agent set to Firefox and it works fine even after they send you the message saying your tethering is blocked.
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sffish said:
I am running Juggernaut ROM and used it to tether quite heavily this past few days. I received a text message from T Mobile telling me to sign up for their tethering plan. I think they were monitoring the amount of data usage I was using and I exceeded some limit over a certain time frame. Is there anyway around this? Previously I only tethered for a few hours at most. Thanks.
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Use the wifi tether root app I've been using it since day one and never got in trouble
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Wow i tether for 2 months my PC my xbox and everything and tmobile said nothing ;D

so what, they cannot prove it, I used to tether 5gb a month with horrible Sprint and got a few notices as well.

fastfed said:
so what, they cannot prove it, I used to tether 5gb a month with horrible Sprint and got a few notices as well.
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They can prove it actually they can see the mac address of every device on their network and they know if a device using their network isn't a phone or isn't one of their phones
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The quick workaround for the tether monitor upsell is to use a VPN... You can use a free service (I use VPN Reactor) or a paid service (such as StrongVPN).
To find and setup VPN Reactor, use HTTPS://www.google.com to perform a search... VPN Reactor is a secure (HTTPS) site and the upsell notice will not appear (which you might have noticed when checking any other secure site, such as GMail).
I hope this helps those looking for a solution to the tether upsell notice.

Idk if this is possible but using cm9 and aokp I have had no problems with tethering, and from what I have been reading perhaps aosp derivative roms don't have this issue?
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No problems here using the native tethering app.......haven't had any messages or run ins with the upsell page. BTW I'm using FIREFOX on my laptop with some add-ons.

I opened titanium backup and froze "tethering manager" and now I can tether for free.
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schquigly said:
I opened titanium backup and froze "tethering manager" and now I can tether for free.
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They still know you're doing it.

I got this same text message from TMobile, even though they recommended getting a tethering plan I didn't and they said I wouldn't be able to tether anymore.
To this day I'm still tethering, so I don't believe they can do anything to stop the tethering if you are on a custom ROM.
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thatkidfades said:
I got this same text message from TMobile, even though they recommended getting a tethering plan I didn't and they said I wouldn't be able to tether anymore.
To this day I'm still tethering, so I don't believe they can do anything to stop the tethering if you are on a custom ROM.
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I dunno what they can do about it. Maybe charge you? Maybe shut down your data completely? Who knows

Wow I had just rooted my cousins phone and came across this issue as he got two text messages briefly after tethering.

download Logging Test App and the pro key off the market, gets rid of CIQ in juggs and not to mention makes the phone run like its ass is on fire... just be sure to run threw everything, and try not to brick yourself.... and if you don't backup and loose your os.. i just might die laughing
after running this i no longer got thoes nasty " we know your tethering " texts
Edit: i forgot to post the link lol http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=17612559

schquigly said:
I opened titanium backup and froze "tethering manager" and now I can tether for free.
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No, you cant. Freezing that does not somehow hide your tethering data usage
BTW TMo will be stopping free tethering with ICS: http://support.t-mobile.com/thread/25504?start=0&tstart=0
http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/0...e-tethering-if-you-ever-had-it-to-begin-with/
http://androidcommunity.com/t-mobiles-free-tethering-ends-with-ics-upgrades-20120515/

blackangst said:
No, you cant. Freezing that does not somehow hide your tethering data usage
BTW TMo will be stopping free tethering with ICS: http://support.t-mobile.com/thread/25504?start=0&tstart=0
http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/0...e-tethering-if-you-ever-had-it-to-begin-with/
http://androidcommunity.com/t-mobiles-free-tethering-ends-with-ics-upgrades-20120515/
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yeah, you've got to get rid of tethering manager completely.... in other words find a rom that doesn't need it!

TMo can stop you from tethering if they want to, It's just a balance of the expected revenue gain and the likely backlash. If a nasty message accomplishes one without the other, it's a no brainer.

If you are rooted on a custom rom from the development section most likely you shouldn't receive any messages. That doesn't mean they aren't tracking your data. You will be throttled to 60kbs when you've reached the limit. For most people that's 2 or 5 gigs of data. There used to be a work around for the throttle but it's been patched.
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