Google Now learns even without Wifi on traffic patterns? - Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I'm curious how it learns home/work and traffic patterns if I never have it on Wifi in the car. I usually do, but if my data plan gets used up to much will it still be able to perform without an internet or no?

sevron said:
I'm curious how it learns home/work and traffic patterns if I never have it on Wifi in the car. I usually do, but if my data plan gets used up to much will it still be able to perform without an internet or no?
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My technical knowledge on the issue is limited, but I'm going to guess.
Even if there is no wifi data connection, the device can still see SSIDs broadcast from any wifi networks it comes into contact with. It could log these networks and store them. Then when a data connection is re-established it can figure out where the wifi networks located, and combine that with GPS info, which needs no wifi data connection to work, to figure out your route.
Again, just a guess.

Ah. Well I had no net just now and WiFi was off and it picked up my traffic pattern just fine. So I don't know what to think lol.
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sevron said:
Ah. Well I had no net just now and WiFi was off and it picked up my traffic pattern just fine. So I don't know what to think lol.
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Google sees everything, anywher you are
Seriously though, it probably logs what you do, stores info locally when you're connected (weather, directions, etc.) and then, gives you the info when you need it, and updates once you're connected again.

Kinda makes you a bit concerned for the day machines become self-aware.

sevron said:
Ah. Well I had no net just now and WiFi was off and it picked up my traffic pattern just fine. So I don't know what to think lol.
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Connects before you go and when you arrive. Google maps can tell you how long it takes to go from A to B. Why shouldn't it be able to reverse it?
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johnhaskell said:
Kinda makes you a bit concerned for the day machines become self-aware.
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Are you sure they can't now and just are playing dumb?

It has GPS.

mewantnexus7 said:
It has GPS.
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Never have it on. Waste of power.
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Tethering Sucks

I never use tethering, but my connection is down, so I get setup and this blows. It's so slow, pages just time out and I keep getting intermittent DNS errors.
THIS is what people are all gaga over?
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Are you tethering in an area where Sprint's 3g is slow?
Is there an area where it's not slow?
Btw, I tried wireless and USB tethering. Both sucked
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All depends for me. Obviously it'll vary with area. I only break it out for the chromebook when I absolutely need it.
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HipKat said:
Is there an area where it's not slow?
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Plenty of areas.
Not here, apparently, but then everything here sucks
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It must just be your area. I tether my EVO connection all the time and have no issues. I use it for browsing as well as playing games on xbox live and netflix. It works great.
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Works perfectly fine here.
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It "works" here...but it's something I use in a pinch. I got an overdrive to reduce my hassle factor. Same signal and it's far faster.
maybe im crazy but does wifi hotspot work with 4g? I swear my tethering is pretty damn fast when i turn on 4g...
Are all of yall paying for hotspot or is it the wifi tether and can u post speeds please on 4g
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Hey hipkat...my wireless tether is almost twice as fast as my home WiFi. And my home WiFi is pretty damn fast....Works great for me.
You guys are lucky then, and today, I used USB tethering again, and damned if it didn't kill my WiFi... again.
I get a connection, but nothing will update, browser won't connect, etc. They all say no connection.
I'm not even sure how I fixed it yesterday. I think it just came back "on"
mattykinsx said:
Are you tethering in an area where Sprint's 3g is slow?
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AKA: are you tethering anywhere in the us?
At my house i average 1.5mbps on 3g, and at work where i have 4g i average 7mbps.
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You guys are lucky then, and today, I used USB tethering again, and damned if it didn't kill my WiFi... again.
I get a connection, but nothing will update, browser won't connect, etc. They all say no connection.
I'm not even sure how I fixed it yesterday. I think it just came back "on"
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Are you using Windows 7? I had that problem with my moms computer (running win7) after I setup easytether for her. It didn't want to connect to WiFi. I have had no problems on my pc running Vista.
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At home I average about 4-5mbps down, 1.0-1.5mbps up.
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billbowers said:
Hey hipkat...my wireless tether is almost twice as fast as my home WiFi. And my home WiFi is pretty damn fast....Works great for me.
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LOL
Either you're maxing on 4G or you're 'laxing' on the home internetz. Either way, many of us won't have 4G touching our home service.
As for speeds, and people saying 'it's fine here,' it all depends. Obviously area and coverage is going to dictate speeds. As stated, if Peoria sucks, well it sucks and it will be mirrored in your efforts to tether. You can't tether faster than your available speeds. Naturally.
I can get amazing speeds around campus but around home it's 'meh.' So, naturally, when tethering around school it's usually decent but around here it isn't. Make sense? Thank the good (raptor) lord for the WiFi.
It should be obvious that coverage and native speeds dictate your connection.
Anyone know where I can find tether drivers for XP? I tried the tetherxp.info from android.com but when I try to install them it says its not for my phone. IM using MIUI if it makes a difference.
Also plz no links to tether apps.
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Airrave

Took about 5 minutes, and i will be getting my air rave, free in about 3 days. Anyone have any experiences to share??
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Yes, overall its very handy. If it ever starts to mess up, unplug it for 60 seconds, then plug it back in.
I am Z.
Expect text messages to keept repeating themselves (generally outgoing) and call drops when starting a call on the Airrave then moving out of it's range.
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I have no text probs as mentioned, but I do have trouble with latentcy. When I'm torrenting, even though I have my airave attached as an arm of the network rather than running all the traffic through it, I get a hard 3 second delay both hearing voice and them hearing m only while torrenting.
If I have any weird trouble with the phone, like delay, not getting calls, or not hearing the other end of the line, I do unplug my airave.
I've been to the sprint store twice. For weird voice clarity issues that turned out to be the airave.
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adamdelozier said:
Took about 5 minutes, and i will be getting my air rave, free in about 3 days. Anyone have any experiences to share??
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Yea, prepare to be thoroughly annoyed. Get ready for random times where you cannot call land lines but can call mobile phones. Sometimes text messaging will be all messed up. You will probably notice weird problems if you flash roms a lot that no one else is reporting. It has to do with the airrave. Also you will lose calls/data if you move out of airrave coverage.
Overall, its a neat gadget but RIDICULOUSLY annoying sometimes.
just forget about the air rave and enable Google voice integration and turn on airplane mode and then you can call and text over wifi using the Google voice app.
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They can be a bit of a pain if you have slow internet. Just don't use it as a router like they say in the manual. Hang it off of your network. I love mine as I had no reception in my bedroom of my apartment. Saved my ass and I didn't have to pay for it.
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marcusant said:
just forget about the air rave and enable Google voice integration and turn on airplane mode and then you can call and text over wifi using the Google voice app.
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Thanks everyone foe the replies. I always appreciate everyone's feedback out here. I use Google voice now to eliminate the whole sprint vvm issues on CM, but I guess I didn't realize I could make my calls over wifi, although it makes sense that I would be able too?! How would I set that up? I couldn't find any options for it...
Edit: additional question...is it a fairly easy transition going in and out of wifi, to receive calls on normal service when I leave my wifi area?
I am in a great sprint reception area, but my house is like a giant signal shield!
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Eins7ein said:
They can be a bit of a pain if you have slow internet. Just don't use it as a router like they say in the manual. Hang it off of your network. I love mine as I had no reception in my bedroom of my apartment. Saved my ass and I didn't have to pay for it.
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This ^^^^^^^^^^^^. It does work pretty well but it seems whenever they update the software they neglect to send a reset signal nor inform you o the update. So there may be random times when you will not get calls because they go diret to voicemail or you won't be able to dial out without resetting the Airave. This has been only 4 times in 2 years so that is not bad. Your 3G speeds will be awesome though...about 1.5Mbs consistently.
I haven't had any of the reported problems with ours. We have it connected to our ATT uverse wireless router.
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Your 3G speeds will be awesome though...about 1.5Mbs consistently.
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Thats because it's using your Internet to get out... Just bottlenecks your connection really - better off staying on WiFi.
Personally, for all the issues mentioned in this thread I sent mine back. It did more harm than good. Wound up ditching Sprint altogether at the end of the day anyway.
To the guy thats torrenting (sorry forgot who said that) the Airrave is opening an IPSEC tunnel back to a Sprint server. If you QoS the IPSEC traffic (UDP 500 and/or 4500 depending on how your set up) and rate limit your torrent traffic to about 90% of your max bandwidth you'll probably clean up the voice a bit. Might be worth checking the CPU utilization in your router too to make sure that's not causing some of the latency.
In general, for people that can't get it working at all behind their existing networks, make sure you have IPSEC passthrough enabled (some routers may call it NAT-T or something like that). Some older/cheaper routers won't support IPSEC passthrough at all, but those are few and far between these days.
marcusant said:
just forget about the air rave and enable Google voice integration and turn on airplane mode and then you can call and text over wifi using the Google voice app.
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I can text but it doesn't give me options for calling, weird.
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Mine works flawlessly
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xjayman said:
Mine works flawlessly
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If you're on a voice call via the airrave and leave your house, does it hand the call off to the real cell network?
insanity213 said:
If you're on a voice call via the airrave and leave your house, does it hand the call off to the real cell network?
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No it disconnects
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vampyrex13 said:
Expect text messages to keept repeating themselves (generally outgoing) and call drops when starting a call on the Airrave then moving out of it's range.
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muyoso said:
Yea, prepare to be thoroughly annoyed. Get ready for random times where you cannot call land lines but can call mobile phones. Sometimes text messaging will be all messed up. You will probably notice weird problems if you flash roms a lot that no one else is reporting. It has to do with the airrave. Also you will lose calls/data if you move out of airrave coverage.
Overall, its a neat gadget but RIDICULOUSLY annoying sometimes.
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Eins7ein said:
They can be a bit of a pain if you have slow internet. Just don't use it as a router like they say in the manual. Hang it off of your network. I love mine as I had no reception in my bedroom of my apartment. Saved my ass and I didn't have to pay for it.
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All of the above! Especially with the text message issue. When I first got it I was texting the wife she was home it repeated everything I said over 30 times each LOL. I think it was Kenny that mentioned to unplug the airrave then plug it back in. The worst part is having NO signal and your battery dies.
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No it disconnects
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Mine hands off rather well. Didn't used to be the case though.
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I've liked having mine. I put it on the 2d floor and get 5-6 bars on each floor and about 4-5 in the basement. No issues except, every once in a while it goes off line (maybe an update IDK), and you have to unplug and replug it back to reset it. I notice this when I start getting only 2-3 bars upstairs and 2 downstairs.
I hate my Airave.....
I am on the second one. It is hooked up to 10MB internet service & still cuts out during phone calls & has a noticable delay between the two halves of the coversation. My Vonage phone works great plugged into the same router as the Airave. Now I just leave it unplugged full time, I really need to send it back I guess. It's not costing anything so no harm done.
Also more than half the time it does not connect to my wife's stock Evo Shift.
For me this unit is a waste of space.
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I hate my Airave.....
I am on the second one. It is hooked up to 10MB internet service & still cuts out during phone calls & has a noticable delay between the two halves of the coversation. My Vonage phone works great plugged into the same router as the Airave. Now I just leave it unplugged full time, I really need to send it back I guess. It's not costing anything so no harm done.
Also more than half the time it does not connect to my wife's stock Evo Shift.
For me this unit is a waste of space.
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Pretty sure you pay slightly higher tax or fees due to the airave.
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Anyone else experiencing slow download speeds?

So me and both of my friend had trouble loading a YouTube video, it was so slow and kept pausing. We both have the Nexus 4 and were on wifi by the way. So we tried using another friends S III and it loaded the video fine. When I ran a side by side speed test he got a 19 mbs download and I could only pull 2. Is this happening to anyone else?
Edit: we were on the same wifi
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Did you try turning off Wi-Fi optimization in settings?
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outz said:
Did you try turning off Wi-Fi optimization in settings?
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No I kept it on but earlier in the day I was getting perfectly good speeds. Like sometimes my speed is fine and then sometimes it's slow.
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Ngo93 said:
So me and both of my friend had trouble loading a YouTube video, it was so slow and kept pausing. We both have the Nexus 4 and were on wifi by the way. So we tried using another friends S III and it loaded the video fine. When I ran a side by side speed test he got a 19 mbs download and I could only pull 2. Is this happening to anyone else?
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Me too I just switched from vzw iPhone 5 and I have T-Mobile now.... I cant even download my apps from the market and I have to get hot spot from my girls i5
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It obviously shouldn't be that way. Since this is wifi, try a mix of different networks. Lord knows, this wouldn't be the first phone with wifi issues with certain network security types right out of the gate (or wifi problems in general).
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Ajfink said:
It obviously shouldn't be that way. Since this is wifi, try a mix of different networks. Lord knows, this wouldn't be the first phone with wifi issues with certain network security types right out of the gate (or wifi problems in general).
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Yeah I switched to another network and it went fast again. Was just wondering if anyone knew the cause of the sudden slowdowns though.
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On T Mo, I have had it flip from H+ to 3G but all in all in my speed test without changing anything APN wise I consistently get around 16mbps down. You tube and such flies (HQ) and even on wifi on Xfinitys basic package on a G band router I have no issues at all with wifi and YouTube in HD. Sorry, I'm no help but I haven't had an issue.
Oh my bad, I forgot to mentioned that we were on the same WiFi.
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Yeah I have that problem on my WiFi as wells slow speeds. Have to switch to hspa to download apps, rediculous
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I've also had this on WIFI, thought it was my router, may have to play with router settings a bit to see what's happening.
Its only really noticeable when I try to play a youtube video, although had it other times too.
Also switching to mobile data for youtube as its faster!
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I've also had this on WIFI, thought it was my router, may have to play with router settings a bit to see what's happening.
Its only really noticeable when I try to play a youtube video, although had it other times too.
Update!!! I figured it out its googles servers they are overloaded this is what makes me think that. Play store loads slow as well as YouTube! Not our phones!
Also switching to mobile data for youtube as its faster!
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I think something is wrong with our WiFi radios. Might need an update. Its happening to a lot of us.
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I'm seeing this issue as well and it's occurring on 2 completely different wireless networks: at home and in the office. I've tried tweaking wifi settings on both my Nexus 4 and on my router at home but nothing has fixed the slow wifi speeds. And none of my other Android devices are experiencing this issue (Nexus 7, Galaxy Nexus, Motorola Xoom).
I called Google Play support just now and they didn't have any info to offer on whether or not this is a known issue, they just asked if I'd tried restarting my phone and/or done a factory reset. After I verified that I'd already done both things and neither action resolved the issue they said I could exchange the phone, so that's what I decided to do.
If this problem is indeed being caused by faulty hardware in the phone, hopefully the replacement phone will be in a better state and work properly. <crosses fingers>
It's the router that needs to be updated, not the phones. Obviously if you're is broken though that is irrelevant.
Can't say why that is, but I read a thread awhile back detailing it, I will try and locate it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=34260682&postcount=25
Seemonsters said:
It's the router that needs to be updated, not the phones. Obviously if you're is broken though that is irrelevant.
Can't say why that is, but I read a thread awhile back detailing it, I will try and locate it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=34260682&postcount=25
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That makes no sense seeing as everything else works fine on my Wi-Fi
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i did the same thing. as it was mentioned, turned on and off "data" " data roaming" and "2g" after that Kaboom! went from 3-7mpbs to 12-15mpbs
remydlc said:
i did the same thing. as it was mentioned, turned on and off "data" " data roaming" and "2g" after that Kaboom! went from 3-7mpbs to 12-15mpbs
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So you just unchecked and checked?
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remydlc said:
i did the same thing. as it was mentioned, turned on and off "data" " data roaming" and "2g" after that Kaboom! went from 3-7mpbs to 12-15mpbs
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horr1blek1tten said:
So you just unchecked and checked?
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I think remydlc is referring to download speed over a cellular data connection, and not WiFi (which is what this thread's topic is really about). At least that's the way I read it...
Is this related... I have noticed compared to my old S2 and iPad my nexus has fewer bars and the signal can drop if held in the left hand. The connection speed can be much less too.
Not good.
could it possibly be trying multiple networks? I have a dual band 5 and 2.4 but they have different ssids - my initial set up was to the 5 ghz but when the google restore happened it populated my 2.4 ssid and pw. I found I had to "forget" all my configured access points and just set up my 5 ghz one and everything was smoking
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could it possibly be trying multiple networks? I have a dual band 5 and 2.4 but they have different ssids - my initial set up was to the 5 ghz but when the google restore happened it populated my 2.4 ssid and pw. I found I had to "forget" all my configured access points and just set up my 5 ghz one and everything was smoking
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I don't think this is causing the issue (at least for my phone). I've had the slow WiFi speeds on 2 completely different networks, with one being the campus network of the university I work at. Also, I've tried using my Nexus 4 on 2 different routers at home, one of which can do both 2.4/5.0 ghz and when I tried manually setting the phone to just use either the 2.4 ghz or the 5.0 ghz network it made no difference; the phone's WiFi speed was still very slow.
I'm feeling pretty convinced at this point that it's something faulty with the phone. I pretty much tore down and rebuilt my home network yesterday and tried all different types of settings to test the result on my Nexus 4 and nothing made the WiFi speed any better on the phone.

Safest way to tether without a plan on T Mo?

Id like to tether on the Nexus 4 rarely, but it might use a chunk of data. Is there a way to do so without them detecting it? I know a lot of people frown upon asking these questions, but id like to know
Thank you!
Haha! It probably is going to be very difficult without actually hacking into their servers. And once you are caught I doubt the trouble you would get if you get caught will be fun. So in short, maybe if you are a 1337 h4x0r.
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Haha! It probably is going to be very difficult without actually hacking into their servers. And once you are caught I doubt the trouble you would get if you get caught will be fun. So in short, maybe if you are a 1337 h4x0r.
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So the tethering apps cant spoof the traffic to look like its mobile?
They detect you by sniffing for your browser "User Agent".
1) Use an encrypted VPN tunnel as your default gateway.
2) Use HTTPS URL's
3) Change your browser User Agent
Are 3 ideas that come to mind.
Easy? I'd you enable wireless hotspot under data, it works great! I use it sometimes, never had issues. I had a family emergency last week and my mom literally had to fly to Russia same day we found something out. Long story short I ended up driving to her house and helping her with everything. She had to unlock her iPhone 5 on sprint so that she could get a Sim over there temporarily.
Reset the iPhone and we had to leave to the airport. Since I cloud doesn't do anything over mobile network, I had to make my nexus into a hotspot while we drove, besides tmo is like 100x faster than sprint. Anyway, all was well, at the the end of the day my data usage shows 2gb worth of data, no problems.
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Vpnbook.com if you're lazy
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I really don't think T-mobile cares as much as you are thinking. I use my phone to tether to my xbox and tablet quite a lot since my wifi sucks, and they haven't said anything. I think it might be that they don't monitor prepaid plans as closely, but what's the worst that could happen?
Without a data plan or without a tethering plan? There are ways to tether without a tethering plan such as VPN.
What if I connected my phone to my home VPN and funneled all traffic through there?
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yesterday i found new galaxy s3 ))))))))
If you don't overdo it, T-Mobile won't bug you.
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yesterday i found new galaxy s3 ))))))))
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T-mobile can tell that I am tethering?

Got a text message that I have been blocked from using wifi tether. On a fully unlimited plan with t-mobile. I realize that normally you have to pay for wifi tether, but I am on CM10.1 so I didn't think they would be able to tell? I had Verizon in the past with wifi tether on my Galaxy Nexus and used it a lot without a problem. Is t-mobile more strict or what?
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Got a text message that I have been blocked from using wifi tether. On a fully unlimited plan with t-mobile. I realize that normally you have to pay for wifi tether, but I am on CM10.1 so I didn't think they would be able to tell? I had Verizon in the past with wifi tether on my Galaxy Nexus and used it a lot without a problem. Is t-mobile more strict or what?
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I've tethered plenty of times on Tmobile with no issues, don't even bother to change the useragent on my browser when I do. Sounds like you've been doing it either very frequently or using excessive bandwidth and they caught on to you. Knowing it's a service they charge extra for you coulda been more careful .
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I've tethered plenty of times on Tmobile with no issues, don't even bother to change the useragent on my browser when I do. Sounds like you've been doing it either very frequently or using excessive bandwidth and they caught on to you. Knowing it's a service they charge extra for you coulda been more careful .
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That's kinda crazy! I just checked my bill and I used 5 gigs last month and 1.6 so far this billing cycle. Doesnt seem to extreme to me!
How much of that usage was tethering?
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jtseidner said:
Got a text message that I have been blocked from using wifi tether. On a fully unlimited plan with t-mobile. I realize that normally you have to pay for wifi tether, but I am on CM10.1 so I didn't think they would be able to tell? I had Verizon in the past with wifi tether on my Galaxy Nexus and used it a lot without a problem. Is t-mobile more strict or what?
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Oh yeah they can tell. I got a push text (not a normal one) on my cm10.1 yelling at me about tethering, only after 30 seconds of viewing a webpage. I was able to use my hidemyass vpn and not a peep.
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How much of that usage was tethering?
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According to Data Usage in Settings (I assume it is all reported under Tethering and portable hot spot? Or does it also report as browser?):
This month: 140MB
Last month: 334MB
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According to Data Usage in Settings (I assume it is all reported under Tethering and portable hot spot? Or does it also report as browser?):
This month: 140MB
Last month: 334MB
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I'm wondering with the 500mb of tethering included with unlimited if they are going to be doing good less random checks. Have you thought about switching to or making sure your on the new plan?
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I'm wondering with the 500mb of tethering included with unlimited if they are going to be doing good less random checks. Have you thought about switching to or making sure your on the new plan?
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I just signed a 2 year contract so I dont think I can change plans I signed to get the free nexus 4 promo
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I just signed a 2 year contract so I dont think I can change plans I signed to get the free nexus 4 promo
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Use a vpn tmobile packet sniffs your browsers user agent so say chrome for Windows pops up on their tower that's how they find out
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Change your browser's "User Agent" (addon/plugin) to android or some other mobile device. That way, Tmo will think you're using data on your mobile and you won't get flagged for hotspot tethering.
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Change your browser's "User Agent" (addon/plugin) to android or some other mobile device. That way, Tmo will think you're using data on your mobile and you won't get flagged for hotspot tethering.
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Thanks guys, I've installed an add on to Chrome on my desktop and changed by user agent to Chrome/Nexus 4. Tested it out on a wired connection and most web sites seem to be going to the mobile version, so I think it is working.
However, it looks like as I was experimenting trying to get around the block, they have completely disabled tether all together. Got another text that said wifi tether was been blocked. I can connect, but before I was at least getting a t-moble splash page. Now I get no internet connection at all. Hopefully they re-enable in a few days or by next billing cycle.
Are you using an app to tether or built in method
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BrianDigital said:
Are you using an app to tether or built in method
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I tried both WiFi tether apk and built in
Does anyone know if Koush's tether app gets around this?
And what about using a VPN, is that a solid solution?
nak1017 said:
Does anyone know if Koush's tether app gets around this?
And what about using a VPN, is that a solid solution?
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It should be or it could be my luck, my idea is. If tmobile can't see your packets then they can't tell what you're doing
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