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I'm getting lots of text of people with ota 2.2's trying to get hotspot, I keep telling them that they should be able to get free 3g hotspot but that theres no known root method for official ota 2.2 yet to unlock 4g wireless tethering. Is it true or am I giving them bad info?
i am not rooted and have no 3g wifi hotspot at all.
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i am not rooted and have no 3g wifi hotspot at all.
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hmm and your stock 2.2 or 2.1? Its working for me on cm6, in wireless & network settings, under tethering & portable hotspot I check the portable wi-fi hotspot and it turns on
You are giving them bad info
Sprint does not allow 3G Mobile Hotspot without the additional add-on SOC code for $29.99.
I do not get the OP. He asks us if us non-root ota 2.2 users get 3g wifi hotspot but when i post and say i dont he asks what version and ohh i get it and im running cm6.
Duh......You are rooted and have a different rom.
i know i will not get 3g wifi hotspot without sprints add on. my other account has it but my business one does not.
I got 3g hotspot for the first couple months, but I think they were offering it for free.
if you could get it for free on a non-rooted phone why would sprint be charging $30 a month? because you cant.
Before 2.2 I could get 4G mobile hotspot free. 3G did not work.
After 2.2 neither work.
This was expected.
Froyo's built in wifi hotspot works on Cyanogen rom. Used it to download a 600MB coldfusion server install the other day at work since they block executable downloads
Well if you have Cyanogen, you're rooted. If you're rooted, there's any number of ways of doing this.
I *think* the OP's question (reading between the lines) was something like, I heard 2.2 would have native hotspot capability, so is that true in the official Sprint OTA?
If that's what he's asking, the answer is No, as expected. Yes 2.2 has that, but of course Sprint turns it off in their ROM else they couldn't charge for it.
Lemme make this simple:
IT IS NOT FREE.
(For non-rooted, users of the official OTA)
If people are able to use it now, either Sprint's made an error (like they did with 4G tethering when the EVO first launched), or they're going to be hit with a $30 + tax increase on their bill next month.[/thread]
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...
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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.
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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.
Hello,
I've been trying to enable tethering (BT, USB and WIFI) on my new S5 Active with no success. All the methods suggested here on XDA and on google did not work. It could be because this is an AT&T model.
Did anyone successfully did that?
Thanks
(I couldn't find a Galaxy S5 Active thread so I posted this question here)
iBimmer said:
Hello,
I've been trying to enable tethering (BT, USB and WIFI) on my new S5 Active with no success. All the methods suggested here on XDA and on google did not work. It could be because this is an AT&T model.
Did anyone successfully did that?
Thanks
(I couldn't find a Galaxy S5 Active thread so I posted this question here)
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"all the methods" is not really specific enough - you may have missed the one that works.
Either way you will need to be rooted. With the AT&T model, towelroot is the current method.
Once rooted you have two main options - an xposed module (there is one specifically for tethering, and wanam xposed has the entitlement check option as well), or replace the tethering provision apk with a hacked one. If you look over in the at&t forums you will find methods for both. While the xposed method MAY not work for the S5 active, I can't think of any reason why the other method wouldn't. Did you try either of those?
Also, without root, foxfi or clockworkmod tether should work, but they're only partial solutions.
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"all the methods" is not really specific enough - you may have missed the one that works.
Either way you will need to be rooted. With the AT&T model, towelroot is the current method.
Once rooted you have two main options - an xposed module (there is one specifically for tethering, and wanam xposed has the entitlement check option as well), or replace the tethering provision apk with a hacked one. If you look over in the at&t forums you will find methods for both. While the xposed method MAY not work for the S5 active, I can't think of any reason why the other method wouldn't. Did you try either of those?
Also, without root, foxfi or clockworkmod tether should work, but they're only partial solutions.
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I'm not sure of either of those. What I meant "everything" is editing the settings.db.
Yes I tried FoxFi and it cannot tether via BT to my car or to an iPad. This is what I've tried so far.
Can you please elaborate on this wanam xposed method that may work?
Forgot to add, my phone is rooted with towelroot.
Thanks
iBimmer said:
I'm not sure of either of those. What I meant "everything" is editing the settings.db.
Yes I tried FoxFi and it cannot tether via BT to my car or to an iPad. This is what I've tried so far.
Can you please elaborate on this wanam xposed method that may work?
Thanks
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Ah, the settings.db method doesn't work for kitkat I believe.
You should probably go read up about xposed if you don't know about it already, but briefly, you need to be root to install the xposed framework.
Then, once xposed is installed and active, you choose different modules to install. wanam xposed is one specific one that has a lot of tweaks for Samsung in it. If you browse around the settings there is one that is to disable the entitlement check.
xposed is not for everyone, because modules can cause weird behavior on your phone (for example mine was giving me the battery cover popup often when unlocking my screen, not just when rebooting, and even more weird is the occasional speakerphone enabling without it really being enabled, or automatically enabled when the phone is not against my ear). But I have to admit, some of those modules are darned useful.
Anyway there are a couple good threads about tethering over in the AT&T GS5 forums.
The wanam module I installed has only one setting related to tethering and it's enabled.
I was asking specifically about the S5 ACTIVE model since it's AT$T proprietary and I have a feeling that has something to do with it.
Ah well, I guess I have to wait someone to figure this one out.
Thanks
T-mobile Xposed & Xtether worked for me
But only for 1 night... I watched a movie, went ta sleep. Woke up the next morning & it never worked again. Lets me enable the hotspot still & connect but doest lrt me online with any devices. Somene told mr to try Ua agent switcher for chrome, but that didnt seem to work ether... smh. Looking for other options asap.
The only way I was able to get tethering to work on my S5 Active was to use Foxfi's USB method.
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But only for 1 night... I watched a movie, went ta sleep. Woke up the next morning & it never worked again. Lets me enable the hotspot still & connect but doest lrt me online with any devices. Somene told mr to try Ua agent switcher for chrome, but that didnt seem to work ether... smh. Looking for other options asap.
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I tried FoxFi too, but my main thing is to share my phone's connection to my car. FoxFi can't do that because it needs special software installed on the receiving station and obviously you can't do that on a car.
I was using my iPhone jailbroken with TetherMe. Question is if such software exists for Android.
Replace the tethering provision apk with a hacked one works on the galaxy S5 Active, at least on mine it did. You will still get the warning but after it goes away tethering starts up fine, all tethering works, wifi, usb and bluetooth.
Quick video on my S5 active using unlimited att data plan, I also found a way to get around the att throttling of the unlimited data plan about 5 months ago, I will admit, it will be very easy for att to stop or correct, so I will selfishly keep to myself as I know it would be abused but will say it requires no root.:good:
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http://youtu.be/2jAZOWzXZjE
mexican-bum said:
Replace the tethering provision apk with a hacked one works on the galaxy S5 Active, at least on mine it did. You will still get the warning but after it goes away tethering starts up fine, all tethering works, wifi, usb and bluetooth.
Quick video on my S5 active using unlimited att data plan, I also found a way to get around the att throttling of the unlimited data plan about 5 months ago, I will admit, it will be very easy for att to stop or correct, so I will selfishly keep to myself as I know it would be abused but will say it requires no root.:good:
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http://youtu.be/2jAZOWzXZjE
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Can you elaborate more on the bluetooth part? I don't care about WiFi or USB tethering, they work right out the box. Bluetooth is what's been bugging me because my car needs that to display traffic and other info on the navigation screen.
What I saw from your video is that you have USB and WiFi tethering option (as I do) but NO bluetooth.
Can you confirm BT works too without having to install 3rd party software on the client side? If yes, can you share that apk?
Thanks
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Can you elaborate more on the bluetooth part? I don't care about WiFi or USB tethering, they work right out the box. Bluetooth is what's been bugging me because my car needs that to display traffic and other info on the navigation screen.
What I saw from your video is that you have USB and WiFi tethering option (as I do) but NO bluetooth.
Can you confirm BT works too without having to install 3rd party software on the client side? If yes, can you share that apk?
Thanks
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Well I may have not explained well, this is really for people who have unlimited data or a plan that doesn't natively allow tethering. Also while usb and wifi tethering that is built in works, since there is no native bluetooth you must use third party software, foxfi I can verify works via DUN but is slow, just need to install foxfi, and create a dial up network, probably won't work with what your wanting since I believe you need a PAN network.
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Well I may have not explained well, this is really for people who have unlimited data or a plan that doesn't natively allow tethering. Also while usb and wifi tethering that is built in works, since there is no native bluetooth you must use third party software, foxfi I can verify works via DUN but is slow, just need to install foxfi, and create a dial up network, probably won't work with what your wanting since I believe you need a PAN network.
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FoxFi does not work. It's the first app I've tried. It needs a proprietary client software installed on the receiving station. Useless for me.
On the plan, I'm not worried about that, I've been tethering my iPhone 5 forever with no problems so far.
Now that you mentioned I need a bluetooth PAN, I installed a PAN module but it says /system/bin/pand could not be found on your phone.
It's a new thing to look for. If I can find a pand that works on S5, I have a feeling I'll be in business.
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Ya DUN requires nothing installed on the client but isn't the preferred way now a days but does work. But in your case it would be useless.
Can anybody with a Sprint/Verizon or Unlocked Galaxy S5 check and see if there's a file named pand in /system/bin? And if yes, can you please share it? I think only AT$T's versions don't have it
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My cell carrier Cricket Wireless recently merged with AIO wireless and switched from CDMA to GSM. I was given to March to get a new phone because my Galaxy S3 would not work on their network anymore since they switched to GSM.
Since they merged companies they also came out with all new wireless plans.. I was on the old plan which included tethering..
But I just got a OnePlus One since I needed to buy a GSM phone and had to switch to one of their new plans.. The thing is none of their new plans offer tethering, which is a huge step backwards if you ask me.. If they offered tethering still I would gladly pay for it but they just completely screwed us.. THe made us all buy new phones and gimped our plans and stripped tethering out of them.
My OnePlus One will let me tether since its Cyanogenmod even though my plan of course doesn't have tethering anymore . BUT I am concerned that my carrier will find out I am using my Data for tethering..
Like I said if they still offered tethering I would pay for the plan that would include it but they completely stripped it out of all the plans. I need tethering for work so I'm not happy about it.
I Can use Wifi or Bluetooth tethering and it works but Does anyone know how I can protect myself from my carrier finding out that my data is being used for tethering? I've heard of Foxfi but I can already tether I don't need an app to let me tether I just need something to hide the fact I am. I know it has an addon for wifi tethering using a Proxy is this the best way for me to go? Should I get Foxfi and use Wifi Tethering and the addons Proxy option?
Or is there another way?
Thanks.
you can try switching user agent , google it but it usually doesn't work anymore, carriers knew it too
you may create a vpn tunnel but to avoid detection you'll have to operate the vpn from your phone not your laptop so there would be no way they could tell between the two sources of data, all of your traffic must use the same tunnel.
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you can try switching user agent , google it but it usually doesn't work anymore, carriers knew it too
you may create a vpn tunnel but to avoid detection you'll have to operate the vpn from your phone not your laptop so there would be no way they could tell between the two sources of data, all of your traffic must use the same tunnel.
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So maybe installing something on my phone to connect to VPN Book or some other free VPN would suffice? and then tethering my laptop with blueooth. ? Thanks.
I have a Oneplus one on Cricket also, and tether with foxfi, been doing so for about a month with maybe 1-2gb of tethering usage. No problems at all here, got foxfi because I was on Sprint, and I needed it then for sure, as my phone was a sprint phone. Foxfi has an option to hide your tethering usage, and I do use that, but IDK what it actually does.
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I searched around before deciding to make a new thread. Did not see anything specific to what I had a question about, unless it is buried deep in another thread.
Is there a suggested de-bloat list for the Verizon Note 3 running on the OB6 Lollipop firmware? For NON-ROOTED phones.
What I have turned off so far has not caused any issues seen yet.
I would like to make sure that the packages that track data usage are turned off, as well as any apps that report back to Verizon.
Would greatly appreciate if someone could post even a partial list to get this started.
I would also like to add that I am using the free version of FoxFi and tether is working!
You install FoxFi, then when you try to check the start tether box for the first time, it will make you setup a lock screen pin/pattern. After that it will install a certificate.
Once you have that done, when you try to enable tether again, it pops up a message that will take you to the Default built in tether. Once you click to enable that, tether starts working.
Here is something odd I noticed.
You can go back into the FoxFi app once you are tethered and working, then turn off tether WITHIN the FoxFi app. The default hotspot app remains enabled and continues to work.
Anyone else notice this? Also wondering if the FoxFi data limit is still imposed after you turn the tether off in its app.
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Unless you are on a grandfathered unlimited data plan, Verizon's Hotspot should already be usable even without WiFi. Last I saw...all Verizon tiered data plans included hotspot.
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