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G1 Owners on TMO - Check your MyTmo

All G1 owners... Take a moment to go to http://my.t-mobile.com and login to your account.
The G1 Data plan should have been added to your account effective yesterday. It should have wiped any other messaging and data packages from your services, have a look to insure that this is the case.
For many of us, a data or txt plan has been left on and while T-Mo will most graciously take the charge off, you need to check first.
Do this if your data plan disappears while you are changing things.
satru said:
if you change the model of cellular in your tmobil website, the plan option change to and you can select that you want, the plan option depend of the kind of phone that you have in the up right corner.
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My 300 message thing was still on. I went to remove it and my G1 data plan went away as well. I might now be able to add the old data plan back now but the 300 message addon for $2.99 isn't available anymore, I'd need to add the $4.99 message addon for messages anyways... may as wel try to get the G1 data plan back on. At least I have wifi for now til I get it straightened out...

if you change the model of cellular in your tmobil website, the plan option change too and you can select that you want, the plan option depend of the kind of phone that you have in the up right corner.
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My 300 message thing was still on. I went to remove it and my G1 data plan went away as well. I might now be able to add the old data plan back now but the 300 message addon for $2.99 isn't available anymore, I'd need to add the $4.99 message addon for messages anyways... may as wel try to get the G1 data plan back on. At least I have wifi for now til I get it straightened out...
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Im still on Employee Unlimited Internet Data w/ VPN.

I did get the "your account changes have taken effect" text message this morning, and I still have data service. I'll try to see how long that will last...

Yep I got the txt yesterday, my stuff was still wrong though.
I have to admit though, billing might be off but my service was not interupted. Yay tmo.

I called T-Mobile and they said the G-1 data plan is free until Nov 10th, thats when you start paying for it. Was told this by two customer service folk.

So far the extent of my data service is... I am able to access anything google, but anything beyond, as far as websites, no... and apps that access anything else, no. I do seem to be able to access sites by ssh though. As if everything was firewalled out, but they forgot to firewall port 22.

you will have to pay your service after used it, not before, nothing is free.
donutman said:
I called T-Mobile and they said the G-1 data plan is free until Nov 10th, thats when you start paying for it. Was told this by two customer service folk.
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As of this day I still have my original plan of 1000 text messages, no data plan.

Will the "T-Zone" plan works on Vibrant?

Anyone know?

I've got a friend with tzones who tried his sim in my vibrant and it worked as expected, 3g and all with no settings changes. The only oddity is that with my sim the carrier name is "T-Mobile" and with his the carrier was "T-Mobile|Get More".

If you have grandfathered $5.99 plan it should work, you might need to call CSR to make sure they enable it for android

No, it will not work. I've posted about this already, if you want to go dig up the other thread.
Basically, it will work for about six hours, before T-Mo updates your profile with the IMEI number for the phone. Once they do this, T-Zones access is blocked, and you are told (through annoying pop-ups) to subscribe to the Android plan.
It will work just fine, until they put that block on your account. In sum, 'No'.

Is it possible to get around this restriction ? I'm on the grandfathered tzones plan I do not want to lose it by switching to Android data plan.

There is not a way to work around it. As said above, the system updates with the imei and blocks web access. The pop-ups will continue untill you stop trying or downgrade your phone to a basic handset.
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lqaddict said:
If you have grandfathered $5.99 plan it should work, you might need to call CSR to make sure they enable it for android
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It will not work. You may be lucky and have it work maybe like a day or 2, but you will soon get a notification that you need to upgrade, and your internet will stop working.
good luck.

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 :/

Kazan22 said:
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

ddgarcia05 said:
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.

Unlimited Tether on T-mobile ( must have unlmited data )

Hey guys. This is my first thread. I hope I'm doing everything correct here. This is for T-mobile and I'm not sure if it works on any other carrier. As the title says I've found a way, looking at other forums, to figure out how to get unlimited tether as long as you have unlimited data. I Don't believe you have to have root either. I made a new apn matching the one t-mobile comes with except i changed the apn protocols to IPv4. Then saved it and made it my new default atleast for tethering. After that I installed foxfi. I already had the paid version so I just downloaded the key and the main app. I then turned on foxfi and it also opened up the default hotspot app. I believe the free version has data cap. Not sure about that. Anyways after using for several hours on games like clash of clans, watching videos on youtube, and downloading apps my hotspot data hasnt moved and still says legal tethering. I searched for tether already and didnt see anything in this section of forums. So with all that said I hope this helps someone.

Spyderlotus said:
Hey guys. This is my first thread. I hope I'm doing everything correct here. This is for T-mobile and I'm not sure if it works on any other carrier. As the title says I've found a way, looking at other forums, to figure out how to get unlimited tether as long as you have unlimited data. I Don't believe you have to have root either. I made a new apn matching the one t-mobile comes with except i changed the apn protocols to IPv4. Then saved it and made it my new default atleast for tethering. After that I installed foxfi. I already had the paid version so I just downloaded the key and the main app. I then turned on foxfi and it also opened up the default hotspot app. I believe the free version has data cap. Not sure about that. Anyways after using for several hours on games like clash of clans, watching videos on youtube, and downloading apps my hotspot data hasnt moved and still says legal tethering. I searched for tether already and didnt see anything in this section of forums. So with all that said I hope this helps someone.
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Sorry bro, but once you reach 5gb, you done. This method doesn't work. As of now we have Xposed and thats it.

I'm not these issues
TigerDNA said:
Sorry bro, but once you reach 5gb, you done. This method doesn't work. As of now we have Xposed and thats it.
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Hey Tiger... I'm still using this method and can confirm it still infact does work for me. I'm still at the same amount of hotspot data i was at before. I use my tablet all the time to watch movies and other things on youtube. It hasnt gone up yet. Maybe there is something you did wrong or are not doing correctly?

yes this works but you forgot one thing
i have been doing this for 6 months now and i have used over 100 gb in tethering each month using the foxfi paid version once you have the paid version for foxfi you must download the add on name proxy then enable it and thats all it will hide your wifi tether output and tmobile will think your just using regular internet since i been doing this i have cancelled my internet service through comcast ...if anyone like i will post a pic of my stats and show how much tether i have used this month

thanks
I'm bought to try this out

there is a couple different Foxfi apps which one exactly do I need to download?

CottonCreeper said:
there is a couple different Foxfi apps which one exactly do I need to download?
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There are only 2. The main app and the add on which the previous poster had said. I however quit using it and went to wifi tether router. Not as good in my opinion but it works. Something became broken for me on foxfi. Would start it up and then shut down and occasionally it would use my real tethering data. So i quit using it.

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fire3element said:
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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