T-Mobile USA blocking wifi hotspot - Nexus S General

Been using my Google provided wifi hotspot feature since the n1 including up until about an hour ago when I got the pleasant message on my laptop screen that in order to use my phone as a hotspots I need to pay T-Mobile $15 per month. Anyone else have this happen and are there any known workarounds? Running bugless beast pixel edition.
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How long were you using your hot spot? I quickly browsed a bit on my tablet to see if I'd get a message but didn't. I'm running CM9 on my phone.
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generalagony said:
Been using my Google provided wifi hotspot feature since the n1 including up until about an hour ago when I got the pleasant message on my laptop screen that in order to use my phone as a hotspots I need to pay T-Mobile $15 per month. Anyone else have this happen and are there any known workarounds? Running bugless beast pixel edition.
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2404429,00.asp
From reading the article, I wasn't sure if it would affect all users or just HTC Amaze 4G owners.
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There is a similar post in the HTC One S forum with a fix. Just added a new APN with nothing but epc.tmobile.com in the config and it seems to have fixed the problem......for now anyway.

Just got throttled again with the new apn settings. Looks like it may be time for a clear card.
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Change the name of your wifi hotspot and it should fix it. Worked for me when I got that message.

dnob said:
Change the name of your wifi hotspot and it should fix it. Worked for me when I got that message.
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damn a day late. Called Tmobile and after talking with customer loyalty just ended up paying for it. They did however give it to me for $10 instead of $15 and didn't make me extend my contract. I will probably end up getting a clear card for internet now and calling them back to cancel the hotspot feature. Good to know about your fix though.

happened to me too, running stock rom, i'll try the name change method later

dnob said:
Change the name of your wifi hotspot and it should fix it. Worked for me when I got that message.
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I did this:
1) settings
2) Wireless & Networks
3)Portable Wi-fi hotspot settings
4) Where is says Router name (SSID): I change the original name.
I did not work.
Is that what you meant when you say Change the name of your wifi h.s.? If not I could use a little help. Thanks

Well its now happened to me.
I'm running Mark V ICS ROM with CM9 and used Barnacle... was tethering my laptop then all the sudden I got the txt from T-Mo about adding or be blocked... so I scrambled and try to find device manager to freeze it...buy can't find it anywhere. Now I got a message saying my tethering is blocked.
Does anyone know what system app or process is reporting? Like I said...I froze device manager in other phones and it worked...just can't find it on this one
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changing your settings won't help to work around throttling.
apparently you need to stop using chrome as your browser.
I read somewhere also, that tmobile can't tell you are tethering if you are on a mac.
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{Seems that it is false that tmobile can tell if you are on a mac, but it does appear to be true that tmobile can tell when you tether if you use the wrong browser in the device you are tethering to. So it doesn't matter if you change your settings or you get a different tethering app - just use a safe browser}
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26683698#post26683698
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26242661#post26242661

Still no work around? Its not about the throttling... its about using the hotspots feature and the data we already pay for and something built in ad a feature of the phone.
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it seems that T-Mobile has blocked the use of wifi hotspot
try another app here (via USB)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...wsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5rb3VzaGlrZHV0dGEudGV0aGVyIl0.

I just got the tethering block after I installed Google Chrome on my laptop which was weird so I went back to using internet explorer and I'm not blocked. I gave the Galaxy Nexus running stock 4.0.4.

I'm using AOKP ROM Build 37. I just tethered Wifi Hotspot to my A100 tablet, it's accessing the internet just fine using Boat Browser. Other apps connecting to the internet just fine too. Wonder if only the stock "T-Mobile" ROMs that have the tethering blocked.
I personally think it's unethical for carriers/providers to charge extra for mobile hotspot. After all I'm paying the 2GB or 3GB or 5GB so I should be able to use it.. Hope for a class action suit against the carriers for such unethical practice to gouch more money from the consumers..
Edited: I use ROM Toolbox and change the DNS on the tablet to Google DNS for it to work. The default DNS did not work.

Use Safari in Mac
I am using Nexis One for more than two years and yesterday I go the t-mobile hotspot message. I initially thought maybe I am over 1GB and they are doing this. After reading this thread, I changed the SSID and tried with Chrome on MAC and I still had the error. I tried with Safari on MAC and I can use the hotspot. I am writing this using Nexus one hotspot with Safari on Mac.

I was pretty pissed when I noticed that they did this yesterday with my G2. C'mon T-Mobile, this is an old phone that isn't going to get the bells and whistles of ICS. At least you can let us have this! I'm running stock but am now considering moving to CM7. Does anyone know if WiFi hotspot works, with chrome, using CM7 on t-mobile?
I'm also wondering if it has anything to do with the browser agent. In remember being able to change a browser agent with desktop chrome and Firefox through an addon. Does anyone know how to do that with tablet chrome? I only know how to switch between mobile and desktop but that doesn't appear to make a difference

Well..I got hit about a week ago and was blocked..funny thing...I flashed a new ROM and when I tried it again..I used internet explorer...was blocked....then I tried FireFox and boom. I'm back on
Running a week now on new ROM and using hotspots tethering for my laptop and my wife's iphone. Kids iPod and daughters iphone and still running strong
Odd isn't it?
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Vinsane said:
Well..I got hit about a week ago and was blocked..funny thing...I flashed a new ROM and when I tried it again..I used internet explorer...was blocked....then I tried FireFox and boom. I'm back on
Running a week now on new ROM and using hotspots tethering for my laptop and my wife's iphone. Kids iPod and daughters iphone and still running strong
Odd isn't it?
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Every browser except chrome are working for me on stock. Have you been able to run ICS on something connected to your t-mobile phone, via WiFi hotspot, and use chrome to browse the web? I'm trying to see if a custom ROM restores this capability

I run ICS..but I don't use Chrome
On a side note..I was also running another ICS custom ROM with different kernel when I initially got blocked.
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T-mobile Blocking all forms of Tethering.

I was just using PDANet on my friend's laptop and I got two texts from T-Mobile saying the following: "Free T-Mobile Msg: Phone Tethering & Wi-Fi Sharing access has been blocked. Please add a Phone Tethering & Wi-Fi Sharing plan available at my.t-mobile.com"
Now I ignored it until the browser sent me to a signup page. I've tried WiFi Tether, Bluetooth, and Barnacle and it blocks each one. Anyone else get this?
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using wireless tether right now... no problems...
maybe they'll end up sending me a text.
I don't have my laptop with me, so I can't test this myself. But if it's true, the Nexus One forums are about to A-SPLODE. You'll be able to hear it from space...
ryaninc said:
I don't have my laptop with me, so I can't test this myself. But if it's true, the Nexus One forums are about to A-SPLODE. You'll be able to hear it from space...
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A-SPLODE!! Lmfao just made my day!
But yeah... if this is true then all I can do is throw the f-bomb around because I rely heavily on tethering and no way in hell am I going to pay for a service I've been using for free...
No problems with Wireless Tether on my G1...and I tether a ton. I was up to 7gb last month :/
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I was just using PDANet on my friend's laptop and I got two texts from T-Mobile saying the following: "Free T-Mobile Msg: Phone Tethering & Wi-Fi Sharing access has been blocked. Please add a Phone Tethering & Wi-Fi Sharing plan available at my.t-mobile.com"
Now I ignored it until the browser sent me to a signup page. I've tried WiFi Tether, Bluetooth, and Barnacle and it blocks each one. Anyone else get this?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=840423
Not just you.
That would suck. Would this apply to USB tethering as well, or just WiFi?
PDANet IS usb tethering.
:O
oh... and someone at the Vibrant forums is having the same issue... which is why I'm here.
:X
I am tethering from my G2 (USB tether) to post this message. It works fine, though TMO might be rolling this block out.
Edit: I am posting this via Wifi tether, so that seems to be working for me currently.
I just checked PDANet and WiFi hotspot and they both worked, so I guess they're "rolling" this out.
Makes me wonder...some of us never got the OTA rollout. I wonder if perhaps I'll never get this rollout either.
I think they can affect PDANet and Easytether since they are market apps. Wireless Tether for Android and Wired Tether for Android aren't market apps so im pretty sure those are beyond T-Mobile's grip.
Might have something to do with the G2 not being rooted and trying to tether. I think after its rooted it should work without a problem. At least thats what a tmo rep told me.
When I read all this on the xda app, i went ahead and hooked up to wifi tether. thats how i'm writing this msg. I am rooted and do have the largest plan tmo offers which includes the unlimited data. idk. we shall see. oh yea, no tmo msg as of yet.
I'm unrooted and used wifi tether this morning for 3 hours with no problems. I just don't understand how they can detect us using it.
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johnbibbs said:
I'm unrooted and used wifi tether this morning for 3 hours with no problems. I just don't understand how they can detect us using it.
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There are various techniques they could use to do this; if we know exactly what they're doing, we can probably bypass it.
Probably one of the simplest techniques would be user agent sniffing; if they see desktop user agents from the same device, they'd know something funky was going on.
I'd be interested to know whether the OP can work around this situation by changing his user agent string on his desktop browser. I'd also be interested to know whether the phone browser continues to work properly even after he's been caught, and if so, whether changing the user agent string on the phone causes it to report the block message as well.
Another test for whether they're sniffing user agents is to try to make an ssl connection instead of http from the desktop browser. Assuming that the phone browser still works, SSL on the desktop browser should also still work, if all they're doing is user agent sniffing.
In an HD2 thread one guy was saying that he was downloaded a movie to his phone, but wasn't tethering when he got the text. Perhaps they're determining by the amount of data used in a specific amount of time. If that's the case it supports the theory of TMO seeing all data as data.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=840360
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In an HD2 thread one guy was saying that he was downloaded a movie to his phone, but wasn't tethering when he got the text. Perhaps they're determining by the amount of data used in a specific amount of time. If that's the case it supports the theory of TMO seeing all data as data.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=840360
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That's actually good, then. If they're using such a naive detection method, it's sure to result in a ton of false positives from people legitimately using a lot of data with their phones, and consumer complaints should result in them disabling it before too long.
If this works like any of T-Mobile's other services then they prorate the add-ons so you can add it when you need it, then cancel it when you don't and you would only pay a fraction of that $15. I do this with the hotspot feature all the time - enable it for a trip when I'll spend a lot of time in a hotel (or airports, etc.) where they offer wireless and then cancel it at the end of the trip and I pay less than a single day of wifi at a major hotel.
(disclosure - I snatched this post off the T-mobile.com forum but I was going to say the same thing!)
I need to confirm this "add it when you need it". Not good for everybody but for those of us that need tethering a few times a month it's not so bad, 50 cents for one day. Tried via the chat on T-Mobile.com to confirm this but they are useless!
When I first applied the OTA and started playing with the built in tethering, I noticed some log entries from DataConnectionTracker whenever I turned tethering on or off. When I enabled temp root with Visionary and tried using the stand alone Wireless and Wired tether for root apps, these entries did not appear.
I haven't had time to play with it much, but it might be useful to run logcat with a filter for only DataConnectionTracker activity while trying a variety of tethering techniques under root and non-root circumstances.
Of course the experience reported by the HD2 user does not line up with this theory, but there may be multiple things going on. If T-Mo really is blocking based on data volume, it will completely blow up on them as people start intentionally doing data intensive things without tethering.
I sure as hell hope they don't do this to the grandfathered plans... cause if they do, I'm gonna go on a *****-storm.
Edit: I'm tethering on the WiFi hotspot app and I didn't get any notice. Everything is as it has been since I've had this app. If not, I have Wireless Tether for Root Users. I refuse to pay $15 extra bucks a month when I paid for an unlimited plan a couple of years back.

What will be my best option for wifi tethering on the Nexus 4?

I've never owned a Nexus device before. On my current T-Mo GSII I just use the built-in T-Mobile tethering app. What's my best option for the N4? The 'Wifi Tether' app?
hfuizo said:
I've never owned a Nexus device before. On my current T-Mo GSII I just use the built-in T-Mobile tethering app. What's my best option for the N4? The 'Wifi Tether' app?
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All Nexus 4s will have tethering built in, its in the settings.
hfuizo said:
I've never owned a Nexus device before. On my current T-Mo GSII I just use the built-in T-Mobile tethering app. What's my best option for the N4? The 'Wifi Tether' app?
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Its built into Stock Android anyway. You will have no problems!
So no root required to enjoy the built-in tethering?
hfuizo said:
So no root required to enjoy the built-in tethering?
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Nope!
Just enable it in settings and you are good to go!
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Nope!
Just enable it in settings and you are good to go!
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And if I use it T-Mobile may or may not harass me about it?
It will be the same as if you tethered on your GS2
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hfuizo said:
And if I use it T-Mobile may or may not harass me about it?
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That depends on T-Mobile, if they actively monitor and block tethering then they might harass you. If tethering is included in your plan then it should just be exactly the same as when you used the T-Mobile tethering app.
StuMcBill said:
That depends on T-Mobile, if they actively monitor and block tethering then they might harass you. If tethering is included in your plan then it should just be exactly the same as when you used the T-Mobile tethering app.
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I tether a little bit when I am on the road (don't wanna pay $10 just to use the airport wifi for an hour). they have never harassed me. If you plan to use it as your primary Internet source at home though....
T-mobile does actively monitor tethering, but rarely they can actually catch you. I noticed if I tether to my iPod touch or iPad, then I can use it no problem, but if it is a PC, then it is a hit or miss - depending on the type of request you do, they'll shut you out within 5-10 minutes, sometimes not at all. All you do it turn of tethering and turn it back on!
It's reported that T-Mobile sniffs User Agent strings and if it detects a laptop/desktop browser (Internet Explorer or Chrome, but apparently not Firefox), it redirects you to their web page asking you to sign up for tethering. Other network use (email, SSH, etc.) is apparently unhindered.
Well I am in the UK, so I don't know if T-Mobile UK monitors it in the same way?
On most of the T-Mobile UK tariffs tethering is included anyway (I think).
Unless you are on a Sim-Only plan like mine, but I have tethered my Nexus 7 many times and have had no problems / charges.
They won't catch you if all you do is tether to another mobile device (tablet or phone). A PC is a different story, as they usually result in a massive spike in your data usage.
t mobile does monitor for tethering...what i do is use the change user extension in chrome and change it to a android nexus 7....before i would get t mobile shutting me down and i would have to reconnect...after, i havent had any issues (this is PC tethering fyi)
yup. tmobile does active sniffing.
i got flagged and the upsell pages got worse and worse! lol
i need to use explorer for my business so i was getting the upsell messages all the time.
I hope WiFi tether for root works.
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predation said:
yup. tmobile does active sniffing.
i got flagged and the upsell pages got worse and worse! lol
i need to use explorer for my business so i was getting the upsell messages all the time.
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i too once had to use IE for work..now i can use Chrome
since you use IE for work, i am assuming they are on IE 8, not 9; if you are on IE 8 and have admin privileges, you can change the user agent for IE also http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/18450/change-the-user-agent-string-in-internet-explorer-8/
try using the iphone user agent or something that isnt PC based...hopefully it will work!
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And if I use it T-Mobile may or may not harass me about it?
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I currently tether using a rooted Samsung Vibrant on T-Mobile, so that I can get internet when I otherwise can't like on road trips, etc. I just wouldn't abuse it and go overboard. They have never reprimanded me as my usual data usage is pretty low. Be reasonable and don't use it as your primary internet source like downloading giant files.
Check your APN settings and use this thread as a guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1963380
Don't use a PC to access you phone internet.
And don't download big file. I use my tf700 and WiFi tethering from my phone on mobile network. Never have a problem, my friend work on mobile, he say as long as you are not using a PC and download big file, its fine to use tethering without being charged. Internet browsing is ok. That's I like mobile, I am using their 30 5GB prepaid plan, much better than att **** 15bucks 250MB plan. And ATT will come up any mean to charge you more.

HTC1 and Media Link - Tethering Required!

I'm having a WTF moment.
Got my preorder One last Thursday and have been having trouble getting it to connect to the Media Link HD dongle.
First, it seems to connect and pass through image to the TV but I get a message saying something like "be sure the TV is properly configured". Then, I get other messages saying that WiFi Hotspot needs to be enabled and to go to the AT&T website, or dial 611.
After over a half hour with a service rep, I was told that the Media Link requires a WiFi hotspot, which in turn requires that Tethering be provisioned on the account... for another $20 per month for a 5gig plan. Suffice to say I told the supervisor I was eventually passed along to that the practice of incentivizing customers to preorder and stay with the company by offering a free dongle only to be trapped into spending more money every month to use it is a tactic worthy of Tony Soprano.
The part that confuses the hell out of me is that if the Media Link and phone both connect through my WiFi router, why would Tethering/Hotspot to connect to the AT&T data network even be necessary?
So, anyone else have this problem and a workaround?
BillTheCat said:
I'm having a WTF moment.
Got my preorder One last Thursday and have been having trouble getting it to connect to the Media Link HD dongle.
First, it seems to connect and pass through image to the TV but I get a message saying something like "be sure the TV is properly configured". Then, I get other messages saying that WiFi Hotspot needs to be enabled and to go to the AT&T website, or dial 611.
After over a half hour with a service rep, I was told that the Media Link requires a WiFi hotspot, which in turn requires that Tethering be provisioned on the account... for another $20 per month for a 5gig plan. Suffice to say I told the supervisor I was eventually passed along to that the practice of incentivizing customers to preorder and stay with the company by offering a free dongle only to be trapped into spending more money every month to use it is a tactic worthy of Tony Soprano.
The part that confuses the hell out of me is that if the Media Link and phone both connect through my WiFi router, why would Tethering/Hotspot to connect to the AT&T data network even be necessary?
So, anyone else have this problem and a workaround?
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i'm pretty sure there is no need for tethering. look more closely at your configuration and see if there's anything wonky going on there, first
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i'm pretty sure there is no need for tethering. look more closely at your configuration and see if there's anything wonky going on there, first
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Like? Not even sure where to begin. The phone connects to my router just fine, so that's not it. This is a real head-scratcher.
Have you tried changing out of game mode? If its not that they are forcing you to use hotspot to spend more on monthly charges ergo why it was free. Or one more possibility its just a mistake in the software and they will fix it in a future update. I'm glad I don't have att. I hope for the best you don't have to use your own data, just to use the media link
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Have you tried changing out of game mode?
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Whoa. Game mode? What's that?
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Not sure I don't have the phone yet. But that's what some other guy said he did to be able to see something on a TV. He did use a mhl cable though. So I don't know for sure if that will apply to you.
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No, you definitely do not need tethering / hotspot on your account. I use the Media Link HD with my One (AT&T version) without any issues and I don't have tethering on my account.
Make sure the firmware on your MediaLink is up to date and both it and your One are correctly connected to your WiFi hotspot. Also, be aware that any complex security settings on your hotspot could give you trouble.
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The firmware version of my adapter is 5.19.103.1 with no unusual settings on my router, which is an older Liksys - the blue one with the dual antennas.
The dongle recognizes my network name and my One connects for a second until a dialog on the phone reports that hotspot is required and to go to the AT&T website or call 611.
I have never applied "unusual" settings in the router other than naming the network, broadcasting SSID and applying WEP.
Any help is appreciated.
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I have tethering on my plan but I did notice that the flash wouldn't work while it was connected to my MediaLink. It gave an error message saying that flash isn't supported while hotspot is enabled.
would also like to know how to get around this hotspot error.. I've tried different security settings on my wireless router; what I haven't tried is using NO security to see if that helps. will try this now and update post!
edit: even no security on my wireless router doesn't change anything.. hrmm
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edit: even no security on my wireless router doesn't change anything.. hrmm
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Yeah, this is getting wierder by the moment.
Likewise I tried disabling security on the router with no results.
I just installed a tethering app which requires root (suggesting to me that it works around any block at&t put on the ROM), started the link and it disabled tethering in favor of WiFi.
Looks like one of us is going to be on the phone with AT&T and/or HTC this week. I already have about 45 minutes invested with an appointment for Wednesday to discuss the tethering issue. Where I'm concerned, how I use my monthly bandwidth allotment is my business and they have no right to dictate limits to what I pay for within the confines of my plan.
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BillTheCat said:
Yeah, this is getting wierder by the moment.
Likewise I tried disabling security on the router with no results.
I just installed a tethering app which requires root (suggesting to me that it works around any block at&t put on the ROM), started the link and it disabled tethering in favor of WiFi.
Looks like one of us is going to be on the phone with AT&T and/or HTC this week. I already have about 45 minutes invested with an appointment for Wednesday to discuss the tethering issue. Where I'm concerned, how I use my monthly bandwidth allotment is my business and they have no right to dictate limits to what I pay for within the confines of my plan.
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Have you tried putting the phone in airplane mode and then just turning on WiFi? I wonder if its just because the Media Link sees the hotspot on the device as an option, even though it isn't enabled or activated.
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Have you tried putting the phone in airplane mode and then just turning on WiFi? I wonder if its just because the Media Link sees the hotspot on the device as an option, even though it isn't enabled or activated.
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Have the same issue, and putting the phone in airplane enables me to connect it with my tv but only for about 20 seconds. After that, the phone will
tell me that there's something wrong with usb tethering setup thus kills the connection. So technically, connecting the media link with the phone
triggers tethering on the phone, either usb or mobile data which are somehow blocked by atnt.
With regards to gaming mode, it's a mode on my tv that draws in extra frames to smooth things out, only it had a hard time working mostly lag.
As for the media link I doubt I'll need one, as my tv is a D8000 so runs wireless anyway.
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Any New news on this guys? The Media link i have is a glorified paper weight for now... As far as i am aware this only happens on the At&t one..My Bro will be getting the t-mo One tommorow if it works on his ONE I will just probably give hime the media link.. what a waste *sigh...
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Any New news on this guys? The Media link i have is a glorified paper weight for now... As far as i am aware this only happens on the At&t one..My Bro will be getting the t-mo One tommorow if it works on his ONE I will just probably give hime the media link.. what a waste *sigh...
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AT&T shot themselves in the foot ( and screwed the rest of us) by trying so desperately to charge us for tethering.
Assuming we are SOL on this unless using a custom rom?
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Assuming we are SOL on this unless using a custom rom?
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Pretty much for the moment. I tried flashing M7's ROM and it worked fine. Seems AT&T has blocked the WAP/Tethering function in either the kernel, radio, or the ROM. So, the solution would seem to be:
1) Find a ROM you can live with and flash it.
2) Find a Kernel (or radio, if that's what it is) that works with the stock AT&T ROM and flash it.
3) Wait for AT&T to get their heads out of their asses to realize that they're screwing their customers who have peripherals like the Media Link which connect via WAP and fix it in an OTA update.
Rumor has it that there's a 1.29 update out there somewhere. Let's see what happens. In the meantime, those of us who are in this boat should call AT&T's technical support and give them an earful for pushing disfunctional equipment on us. There's plenty of advertising hype from both AT&T and HTC about how cool the phone is, but nothing in the advertising literature that says how they crippled the phone.
I'm in the same boat here. There is another thread about this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2242737
If I can't figure out a router configuration that fixes it, I may experiment with "rooting" and then trying to kill the com.htc.tetheringguard app. I'd definately rather have it work through my wireless router like it should, but not if I've got to leave the network open/unsecured!
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I may experiment with "rooting" and then trying to kill the com.htc.tetheringguard app. I'd definately rather have it work through my wireless router like it should, but not if I've got to leave the network open/unsecured!
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I am rooted, froze that app (along with all the other AT&T bloatware) with Titanium and it still doesn't work - no link action, no tethering, either.
Frankly, I'm pissed. I understand why they inhibit tethering, especially for those of us who are on unlimited data plans. There are always guys that will abuse it. But this phone came that way from the factory, which means that even those who are on 2G plans are screwed. In either case, if I'm paying for data, it's up to me to decide how fast I want to use it, the same way as if I were to pay for a tank of gas in my car, it's not up to Exxon to tell me I can't drive on the highway.
I was supposed to have received a call back today from the AT&T supervisor to discuss options, but (surprise!) no call. Looks like I'll be having a word or two with them tomorrow - and I have half a mind to demand a full credit on the purchase price of the phone for the amount of time I've spent jerking around with them about this.

[Q] t-mobile blocks tethering, forwards to their hotspot webpage

Hello guys,
I have a rooted Nexus 4 (CM10.1) and I've been tethering happily for months. Recently I started working from a favorite coffee place that doesn't have WiFi, so I tether there regularly, and today suddenly I was forward to t-mobiles mobile hotspot webpage. No page loaded anymore, everything is blocked, they want me to pay for their mobile hotspot.
I downloaded Android WiFi and followed the instructions here: http://highonandroid.com/android-ap...android-smartphone-or-tablet-universal-guide/. I know that if I spoof my MAC address I might have a chance to tether, but my chromebook doesn't seem to be able to pick up the network. I had this issue before and fixed it with my Evo 3D, but this is a different phone.
so, my question is, what is the right setting for nexus 4 and:
anyone here have experience with this t-mobile blocking, and does it work to go around it?
Please don't preach me about "why don't you just pay," I will be glad to have this discussion with you, but not here.. not the place for it, yes?
thanks!
You can only tether to other android devices without them noticing it
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change the user agent to something not for desktop browsers.
Yes you are correct this is not the place for this discussion.....
But here are some suggestions:
1. Pay for the service you require.
2. Take it up with your Carrier not XDA.
3. Find a new Coffee shop that has free WiFi, the coffee may not be as good as your favorite place but hey the WiFi will be free...
Thanks....
Judge Joseph Dredd said:
Yes you are correct this is not the place for this discussion.....
But here are some suggestions:
1. Pay for the service you require.
2. Take it up with your Carrier not XDA.
3. Find a new Coffee shop that has free WiFi, the coffee may not be as good as your favorite place but hey the WiFi will be free...
Thanks....
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Carriers have been using packet sniffing for months now to determine is some one is tethering or not. If they are then they are fully within their rights to cancel their contract, block it or even charge them for it under the TOS they agreed to. Is this right? That is open for debate. But in the end it is the carriers right. They state how you can and can not use the data and you can either play by their rules or you can change carriers.
Clear your notebook's browser cache and cookies, clear your phone's cache and dalvik, and start using wifi tether more. I also use an app called chrome ua (user agent)...no idea if it does anything, but those tethering pages have never stopped me dead like you (and others) say, and I've been using it for weeks. I was throttled temporarily, but I'm not sure if that was related to tethering or my enormously massive data consumption, since they both happen as a result of one another.
Do as people say, though. Change the user agent, and ime, wifi tether doesn't seem as easy for them to catch on to for some reason. both native wifi and foxfii (pdanet) work great!
I recently received an SMS message from T-Mobile even though I have never tethered. The rep told me that she saw that i had received three messages in the past six months, that my plan allowed tethering, and that she could not figure out why i had received any messages at all. She suggested that the messages might have been triggered by an increase in download traffic. Their monitoring techniques may be at best hit-or-miss.
Well, I talked to tmobile and they informed me I should be allowed to tether as much as I'd like and I shouldn't be blocked. Sounds too good to be true.
The wifi tether app has MAC masking options so I thought it might mask it. Wi it work? Because the app doesn't, not for now.
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use a VPN.
then it will work fine:good:
Any free vpn you know that can work on a Chromebook?
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[Q] Is Sprint Firewalled--Or Are There On-board Switches I can Deselect Security

Sprint Galaxy 4S
I use Sprint's Hotspot on my unrooted phone to view a Java operated stock market viewer on my laptop (Yahoo Market Tracker). The program worked fine until I switched from Galaxy 2s to 4s. The program runs fine through cable broadband wi-fi at home on two laptops. I have identical laptop security settings for the home wifi and the Sprint HotSpot. There has always been enough bandwith to run the program from hotspot before. Sprint will not help me with the problem, and refuses to tell me what the issue is. Is it likely to be security settings on the phone itself?
If so, any help accessing and changing these setting would be greatly appreciated.
Do you PAY for Sprint's hotspot service?
Yes
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mikeran said:
Yes
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Cool. If you are paying for the HotSot service, on an unrooted/unmodifed device, Sprint IS responsible for your service(s) or lack of.
Only issue I would see would be that your laptop is blocking something from the tether/hotspot. Do you have a third party firewall/AV blocking something? Maybe try disabling it for a moment and see if that works.
You may need to add specific DNS to your laptop (to get around Sprints) like Googles (8.8.8.8). But since Sprint and Yahoo are friendly I don't know if that would make a difference.
Good luck.
Thanks!
This should give me more leverage in negotiating with sprint. On the laptop (windows 8.1), the security settings are identical for the hotspot and my home broadband wifi (and I have tried with all security off). Since the program ran fine under the hotspot on galaxy s2, I was thinking something was blocking the program within the S4 itself such as a router setting or some other obnoxious ware Sprint puts on the phone.
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