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Bypass Tmobile User Agent Sniffer ( Tether )

Found a solution to tmobiles stupid user agent sniffer .
Steps:
1. Get TrevE Mod tether app
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34037922
(you will not get a internet connection using any other tether app while using the VPN app)
2. Get Hotspot Shield VPN
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...id.vpn&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDNd
(was mentioned in earlier post but couldn't get it to work)
3. Start Hotspot Shield VPN and connect
4. Start TrevE Mod Tether app
Problems?
Hotspot Shield does not connect or you get error 1028?
Get Tun.Ko from market and install it
Repeat step 3 and 4
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...1bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5hZWQudHVuLmluc3RhbGxlciJd
I am using Chrome with no user agent switcher and no longer get errors when trying to play youtube videos
Please hit the Thanks Button

What is the Tmobile Useragent?
P.S. none of your links work.

Hmm All links working on my end . This is to bypass T-Mobile up sell with out using a user agent switcher .
Sent from my SGH-T958 using xda premium

I'm on PC and the link go directly with the ... so its invalid
I can't find the first app, but these are the ones I got the proper link for you:
Hotspot: https://play.google.com/store/apps/...SwyLDEsImhvdHNwb3RzaGllbGQuYW5kcm9pZC52cG4iXQ..
tun.Ko
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...1bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5hZWQudHVuLmluc3RhbGxlciJd

Thanks I fixed the links
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Tethering success stories?

Dear xda-developer geniuses:
I got my Nexus 4 from play store and got the T-mobile unlimited 4G plan (no cap), without tethering plan. The phone is rooted with stock 4.2.2
It's my first android device, so I looked all over for ways to tether, but failed to make any of them work properly:
- I use firefox with useragent switcher.
- I've tried Wifi tether rooted app, but only macbook can detect it (under wifi device). Windows and android tablet does not detect it. I've also tried with Hotspot shield and onavo extend app.
- I've tried the TrevE Mod wifi tether app, no luck. (If you got this working, what are your settings)
- I've tried 1-click tether, clockwork tether, foxifi, barnacle, none of them worked for me.
- If I use the Nexus built-in tether function, Windows can connect to it, but it is limited (I've waited 30mins, it stays limited).
Anyone successfully got tethering working on their nexus 4? Please share your method! Thank you!

I use the stock app, and I'm not rooted.
On my Firefox browser, I would have to change the user string to android phone or whatever. It works fine and can torrent okay (some ports are blocked on TMO).

Sfkn2 said:
I use the stock app, and I'm not rooted.
On my Firefox browser, I would have to change the user string to android phone or whatever. It works fine and can torrent okay (some ports are blocked on TMO).
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Thanks for the reply!
Can I ask what is the user string you are using? I'm not sure if the one I use is appropriate: "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.2; en-us; Nexus One Build/FRF91) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1"

chocobread said:
Thanks for the reply!
Can I ask what is the user string you are using? I'm not sure if the one I use is appropriate: "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.2; en-us; Nexus One Build/FRF91) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1"
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I'm on the Android 2.2 string.

i pay for the tethering service from tmobile, since i need to tether about every day. i have no issues tethering my other devices(galaxy nexus, nexus 7, laptop) to my nexus 4. i use the native wireless tether option mostly, but the other apps work fine also.

Hi
chocobread said:
Dear xda-developer geniuses:
I got my Nexus 4 from play store and got the T-mobile unlimited 4G plan (no cap), without tethering plan. The phone is rooted with stock 4.2.2
It's my first android device, so I looked all over for ways to tether, but failed to make any of them work properly:
- I use firefox with useragent switcher.
- I've tried Wifi tether rooted app, but only macbook can detect it (under wifi device). Windows and android tablet does not detect it. I've also tried with Hotspot shield and onavo extend app.
- I've tried the TrevE Mod wifi tether app, no luck. (If you got this working, what are your settings)
- I've tried 1-click tether, clockwork tether, foxifi, barnacle, none of them worked for me.
- If I use the Nexus built-in tether function, Windows can connect to it, but it is limited (I've waited 30mins, it stays limited).
Anyone successfully got tethering working on their nexus 4? Please share your method! Thank you!
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I'm rooted with 4.2.2,I teather my work laptop with windows 7 using the built in wifi hot spot. I surf the net, with Internet Explorer
and I transfer files from my laptop to a ftp server. I also have the same plan from T-mobile.
I don't pay for tethering
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[Q] setting up VPN on NP running ATV 5.1?

I'm struggling to find a VPN app that has visible controls/menus - every one of the apps I've sideloaded can't be configured.
From reading the forums this appears to be something to do with the "3 dots" being removed in the 5.1 update - I've been on 5.1 since the day I set mine up so never had this.
Are there any VPN apps that have the controls on the main screen or are otherwise compatible with NP/5.1?
I'm also looking to switch VPNs so if anyone has a working VPN on 5.1 using a particular client's app, I'd be interested to know which service. Apparently PIA's, which I had hope for because the controls were on the main screen, doesn't work if sideloaded on ATV; not sure whether this was with 5.0 or 5.1 because authors of these posts didn't specify.

mrjezza said:
I'm struggling to find a VPN app that has visible controls/menus - every one of the apps I've sideloaded can't be configured.
From reading the forums this appears to be something to do with the "3 dots" being removed in the 5.1 update - I've been on 5.1 since the day I set mine up so never had this.
Are there any VPN apps that have the controls on the main screen or are otherwise compatible with NP/5.1?
I'm also looking to switch VPNs so if anyone has a working VPN on 5.1 using a particular client's app, I'd be interested to know which service. Apparently PIA's, which I had hope for because the controls were on the main screen, doesn't work if sideloaded on ATV; not sure whether this was with 5.0 or 5.1 because authors of these posts didn't specify.
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I got PIA OpenVPN app working.
#2: http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-player/help/sideloading-openvpn-add-certificate-t3006778
Will only work with the PIA service.

dfl said:
I got PIA OpenVPN app working.
#2: http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-player/help/sideloading-openvpn-add-certificate-t3006778
Will only work with the PIA service.
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Can you access the local network (192.168.x.x) and/or SMB shares while the VPN is active with PIA's app?

Yes. Everything behind your router is local and outbound is tunneled VPN.

dfl said:
Yes. Everything behind your router is local and outbound is tunneled VPN.
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it doesn't seem to be working that way for me. using PIA app and i can't access a web ui running on my desktop pc via sideloaded Chrome or any of my network shares via Kodi
any ideas?

You installed chrome on your nexus player? Make sure your player is connected to your home WiFi with dhcp, dont mess with the DNS. Launch your PIA app from chainfires side load launcher. Put your PIA username / password in and tick the save userinfo then click on connect. You should see on the bottom of your PIA app changing routes and then finally say CONNECTED. Hit your home button to get back to leanback launcher home., you may get a lean has crashed, just hit ok and get back home, PIA is still running in the background. Try launching a youtube video to verify you tunneled through successfully. After that launch Chrome via chainfires side load launcher. Navigate to whatismyip and should say your city and IP are different. Once you had verified go back to home and try to access your files again, if they are not there try and remap them. What are you using to stream home media? I have no issues within Kodi. If you are streaming through something else I'll mimic your setup and see what my results are.

dfl said:
You installed chrome on your nexus player? Make sure your player is connected to your home WiFi with dhcp, dont mess with the DNS. Launch your PIA app from chainfires side load launcher. Put your PIA username / password in and tick the save userinfo then click on connect. You should see on the bottom of your PIA app changing routes and then finally say CONNECTED. Hit your home button to get back to leanback launcher home., you may get a lean has crashed, just hit ok and get back home, PIA is still running in the background. Try launching a youtube video to verify you tunneled through successfully. After that launch Chrome via chainfires side load launcher. Navigate to whatismyip and should say your city and IP are different. Once you had verified go back to home and try to access your files again, if they are not there try and remap them. What are you using to stream home media? I have no issues within Kodi. If you are streaming through something else I'll mimic your setup and see what my results are.
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That's exactly how I've been doing it but its not working.
My setup is NP connected via WIFI using DHCP. Launch PIA app from sideload launcher. Hit connect (details already saved), wait for connected confirmation. I confirmed via whatismyip and ipleak that I have VPN ip (not ISP ip).
I can do anything that involves internet - youtube, web, video streaming, etc.
But nothing local works: I can't access a service running @ http://192.168.1.XX: port via Chrome and I can't use the SMB shortcuts pointing to my NAS configured in Kodi or browse the windows network/workgroup to find the NAS manually (no local network devices show up at all). I haven't tried adding a source using the NAS ip (but I don't see why this would work if the Chrome web service test failed). Both of these things work fine when the VPN is switched off.
Edit: some google research and a brief chat with a relatively clueless tech support person leads me to believe that split tunnelling may not be implemented in the PIA android app.

mrjezza said:
That's exactly how I've been doing it but its not working.
My setup is NP connected via WIFI using DHCP. Launch PIA app from sideload launcher. Hit connect (details already saved), wait for connected confirmation. I confirmed via whatismyip and ipleak that I have VPN ip (not ISP ip).
I can do anything that involves internet - youtube, web, video streaming, etc.
But nothing local works: I can't access a service running @ http://192.168.1.XX: port via Chrome and I can't use the SMB shortcuts pointing to my NAS configured in Kodi or browse the windows network/workgroup to find the NAS manually (no local network devices show up at all). I haven't tried adding a source using the NAS ip (but I don't see why this would work if the Chrome web service test failed). Both of these things work fine when the VPN is switched off.
Edit: some google research and a brief chat with a relatively clueless tech support person leads me to believe that split tunnelling may not be implemented in the PIA android app.
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Man i feel like an idiot. I been watching stuff off an external drive plugged in via OTG. I thought that share was on my server. I am sorry to have been misleading. I really spaced on that.
My bad,
DFL

dfl said:
Man i feel like an idiot. I been watching stuff off an external drive plugged in via OTG. I thought that share was on my server. I am sorry to have been misleading. I really spaced on that.
My bad,
DFL
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all good, i'm glad someone was getting involved at least
i think there are at least a couple of vpn apps that support split tunnelling, but until there is a way to use menus on apps that aren't designed for the android tv leanback launcher, i don't think there is a way to have it work on a stock-rom nexus player

I would like to get that figured out too. I know on my RPI2 there was a workaround of sorts to get PIA working and has split tunnelling. Curious if the same method install would work with a few tweaks, though that will only VPN in Kodi. Ill mess around tonight if i get some time. let me know what you find.

i've posted in a group run by a dev of one of the popular vpn apps so hopefully we can get a 5.1+ compatible version soon (he said it worked in his android tv emulator but i suspect it was running 5.0 and the missing 3 dots wasn't an issue)

mrjezza said:
i've posted in a group run by a dev of one of the popular vpn apps so hopefully we can get a 5.1+ compatible version soon (he said it worked in his android tv emulator but i suspect it was running 5.0 and the missing 3 dots wasn't an issue)
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not a promising conversation, i get the impression the dev is not willing to do the work needed to have the gui operational on 5.1+ android tv

dfl said:
I got PIA OpenVPN app working.
#2: http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-player/help/sideloading-openvpn-add-certificate-t3006778
Will only work with the PIA service.
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are you able to access PIA app's settings? I have the app installed and running but unlike on my mobile phone there is no settings which I wanted to enable connect on boot.

No, i havent been able to access the apps settings. I connect and leave on for a few days then ill reconnect.

Adblock

Is there any way to adblock youtube on the Shield?
Thanks!

Buy Youtube Red?
I'm sorry that's unhelpful. I'm guessing you're rooted and have tried an updated hosts file?

1. root
http://forum.xda-developers.com/shield-tv/general/shield-android-tv-rooted-t3123197
http://forum.xda-developers.com/shi...l-windroid-universal-android-toolkit-t3291266
http://forum.xda-developers.com/shield-tv/development/rom-nvidia-factory-stock-rooted-roms-t3249508
2. Xposed
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3034811
3. Adblock
http://repo.xposed.info/module/ma.wanam.youtubeadaway
For all the other ads: https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=adaway&fdid=org.adaway

does not work for me other ads are blocked but youtube still shows ads
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check out my new Android game https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pgviews.kobesadventure

If you are on WiFi and have another Android device,get WiFi Adblocker and install it on the other device,and if successful,it changes your DNS numbers to the servers used to block the ads.
After that,manually put in those DNS numbers into your connection on the Shield TV and it should now work for blocking ads in browsers,apps,and even YouTube if you use an older version or the old modded YouTube version.
I blame Lollipop on the issue where the WiFi AdBlocker fails to change your DNS for blocking ads because it worked fine on the FireTV GEN1 with JellyBean.

retroben said:
If you are on WiFi and have another Android device,get WiFi Adblocker and install it on the other device,and if successful,it changes your DNS numbers to the servers used to block the ads.
After that,manually put in those DNS numbers into your connection on the Shield TV and it should now work for blocking ads in browsers,apps,and even YouTube if you use an older version or the old modded YouTube version.
I blame Lollipop on the issue where the WiFi AdBlocker fails to change your DNS for blocking ads because it worked fine on the FireTV GEN1 with JellyBean.
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I'm interested in this because I don't want to root with an update imminent. Is there a link to the youtube version that works with wifi adblocker? Thanks.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1529715
I use the inverted one since black is perfect on a television at night,I can't stand ES File Explorer's design because of being solid white and blindingly bright as a result,they should make an option for a dark interface skin.

retroben said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1529715
I use the inverted one since black is perfect on a television at night,I can't stand ES File Explorer's design because of being solid white and blindingly bright as a result,they should make an option for a dark interface skin.
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Does that work well on the shield tv? The thread hasn't been updated in 3 years, and seems like it's a mod of the original YouTube, not YouTube for Android TV (which is what runs on our shields)

It works really well on mine,but has limits due to login issues,but works simply for watching videos,though not at 60fps.

retroben said:
It works really well on mine,but has limits due to login issues,but works simply for watching videos,though not at 60fps.
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I couldnt get it to work with my remote, and I'd rather not use a mouse. Did you have to do anything to get the remote to work?

Sorry,I didn't get a remote,I use my Logitech K400r keyboard with trackpad to control it.
If Google would freaking give back the controller touchpad access,you could use that.
I like this method of control because I don't have a PC of my own,let alone one that could support 1080P video,that's how crappy the family PC runs from old and weak specs.

sideload ad away.

happydish said:
I couldnt get it to work with my remote, and I'd rather not use a mouse. Did you have to do anything to get the remote to work?
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just re-add the device, mine did the same

Sorry to bump an old thread, but it appears the YouTube app on shield tv has been changed to the same style on as other set top boxes now. Ad blocking has never worked on the old YouTube app on shield tv, but I'm curious if anyone has tried it on this new app. It's the same style as on the fire tv, which adblocking works for me.
I would try myself, but I am currently on a free trial of YouTube red, so I'm not getting any ads right now, so haven't had a chance to test it.

VPN on Fire TV

Can anyone elaborate on how to set up a VPN on their Fire TV box/stick? Particularly with Kodi? Tweaking the router is not an option, as apparently Comcast frowns on such endeavors.

Following link was posted in another thread and may help you...
http://www.amazon.com/review/R29NVVQD7RRLIG

Hey, thanks for the link, jbl0ggs! I'll give this a shot tonight.

This didnt work for me on my fire stick , first hurdle was it said it was incompatible with my system but I downloaded it from the link at bottom of page,
It does say its connected but my ip doesnt change ,so I tried changing dns servers to that of pia but still not working,
I use a dd-wrt router with openvpn installed but just wanted to try this out

check the google play store for vpn apps.

kayiman74 said:
check the google play store for vpn apps.
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When I went on to Amazon.com to look for VPN apps for my Fire TV, it displays little red Xs next to my device name, indicating that all the VPN apps I found were not compatible with my Fire TV.
Might I have better luck trying straight out of the Fire TV? Is there a specific VPN app that stands out for the Fire TV?

It worked on my fire phone in the first time but on fire tv stick got an error about imagen does not support openvpn service api.
I hope it will work on the comming update.

R4fo said:
It worked on my fire phone in the first time but on fire tv stick got an error about imagen does not support openvpn service api.
I hope it will work on the comming update.
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I'm actually using Fire OS 5.0.3 (532008220)
thought that might be the problem

Petesky said:
I'm actually using Fire OS 5.0.3 (532008220)
thought that might be the problem
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you right, that is the problem, that os on that hardware does not have vpn files. Since there is no software root for a firetvstick I'll just assume The OP did not do the hardware root to put them their. Perhaps using a router with a vpn built in will solve the problem. Otherwise look here if and when your device gets rooted.
https://vpntips.com/fire-tv-vpn-install/
but until then here is your vpn solution
https://vpntips.com/how-to-unblock-any-digital-media-player/

My fire phone is not rooted and openvpn for android found in http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BBVPKUW (free version) worked but not on fire tv stick v1.

R4fo said:
My fire phone is not rooted and openvpn for android found in http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BBVPKUW (free version) worked but not on fire tv stick v1.
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Yes, an android phone is not a ftvstick or box. Putting a vpn in the ftv line of products is not what amazon wants to do from a business model as they have arrangements to only send content to geographic regions they have licenses to distribute such content to. Natively running the vpn client on the device without root is most likely not going to happen and don't hold your breath for an update to allow it. I have been known to be wrong before, but I'm willing to place a pretty solid bet on this one. cheers.

Hi
I'm the co-developer of VPNicity which is a Kodi add-on/VPN service so I want to make that disclosure first.
We've been doing some testing on the Amazon Fire TV2 and our add-on is working fine.
FYI: The add-on uses our 'Control' app which allows our python code (in Kodi) to communicate with the OpenVPN for Android app to make the connections, so as well as installing the Kodi Add-on, these 2 apks need to be sideloaded.
We are going to test a bit more but our code as it stands seems to work fine, at least on the Fire TV box. We haven't tested a stick.
For example, I'm in London and I connected to Netflix in Brazil to test some content. I had no issue streaming a Brazilian movie in HD via the FTV box connected to my Sony TV.
EDIT: The test was done on a Fire TV - Fire OS 5.0.5

Just thought I would share that we have confirmed on another thread in the development section that the Private Internet Access apk works on the Fire TV 2 box without Google Play services. I hope this helps.
Fire tv vpn
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=65179614
Fire tv vpn
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My Fire TV Stick got updated to the FireOS 5.
Openvpn for Android is connected to my VPN but nothing is being routed to it.
Is this a common issue with lollipop? Any fix for it?
Thanks
Edit: Tested on Fire Tv 1sr Gen FireOS 5 and is working fine. So the routing problem is only on the Fire TV Stick .

R4fo said:
My Fire TV Stick got updated to the FireOS 5.
Openvpn for Android is connected to my VPN but nothing is being routed to it.
Is this a common issue with lollipop? Any fix for it?
Thanks
Edit: Tested on Fire Tv 1sr Gen FireOS 5 and is working fine. So the routing problem is only on the Fire TV Stick .
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Same here. I have 5.2.6.1 installed on my FTVS2 and while all the VPNs I tried come up nicely, nothing is routed through the VPN. I think they removed the permissions to change network routing but 3rs party apps at some point in time.
At the moment it seems, there is no way to sucessfully use *any* VPN service on a fully updated FTVS2.

tnbt23 said:
Same here. I have 5.2.6.1 installed on my FTVS2 and while all the VPNs I tried come up nicely, nothing is routed through the VPN. I think they removed the permissions to change network routing but 3rs party apps at some point in time.
At the moment it seems, there is no way to sucessfully use *any* VPN service on a fully updated FTVS2.
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Will be testing this on a new FTVS2 this week. Never heard of VPN's being blocked on FTV devices. I know the FTVS1 was missing some VPN related stuff but that was from FireOS 3 I think.
Will post back what I find. For now I would recommend you guys to uninstall & reinstall your VPN App(s) to try to see if that helps.

I have the Pia vpn apk side loaded on my stock ftvs2. Need to have a different remote to set it up though. I am assuming it is working Netflix won't let me connect when it is running. I installed Pia back in October 2016 when I got it not sure if that makes a difference.