Hi, I want to share a found, I was playing around with my phone this afternoon, I found if you use Ti backup to freeze TetheringProvision4.06.67 on your ATT note 3, the tethering feature will work(before it asked me to call 611), the mobile hotspot app will crash at first then come right back on, the USB tethering works even better, just plug your USB cable into your computer.
I have no tether plan, I have an ATT note 3 rooted, it is running 4.3 with the latest firmware ending BNB4.
Yes this has been discovered and discussed in the other thread I believe.
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so can you get caught by AT&T for doing this? will they simply tell you not to do it again or force you onto a higher priced plan where tethering is allowed?
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so can you get caught by AT&T for doing this? will they simply tell you not to do it again or force you onto a higher priced plan where tethering is allowed?
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I think they can still catch you, especially because this method does nothing to hide the tethered data usage, like PDAnet does.
However I've tethered about ~500mb with a similar method and never got caught before, no warning or anything. If anything they'll warn you, and if you continue they'll probably bump up your plan.
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I think they can still catch you, especially because this method does nothing to hide the tethered data usage, like PDAnet does.
However I've tethered about ~500mb with a similar method and never got caught before, no warning or anything. If anything they'll warn you, and if you continue they'll probably bump up your plan.
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I found WiFi Tether Router on the GP store and it works on the Note 3. The developer is great and was very helpful when I ran into problems. Initially, it did not work on the Note 3 and he refunded me. A couple months later, a buddy told me that the author got it working. So, I bought it and BOOM...it just works.
I would use this with caution. I used foxfi or pdanet(don't remember which one) to tether my note 2 to my macbook air and for about a month this worked(used it very sparingly maybe 300mb out of my unlimited plan). Then one day I get a message saying that since I tether they will change me a to a more suitable plan(att's way of saying **** YOU). In conclusion I lost my $30 unlimited plan(No way of getting this plan back, I talked to att floor manager for over an hour) and now have a $50 5gb thethering plan(they let me downgrade to the 2gb or 3gb plan, but it was not enough data for my use).
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I found WiFi Tether Router on the GP store and it works on the Note 3. The developer is great and was very helpful when I ran into problems. Initially, it did not work on the Note 3 and he refunded me. A couple months later, a buddy told me that the author got it working. So, I bought it and BOOM...it just works.
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Good to hear, I'd still be wary of AT&T finding out. Maybe use a VPN or something. .
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this thread helped me deal with the "invalid sim" problem on my note 3. thanks a lot
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I found WiFi Tether Router on the GP store and it works on the Note 3. The developer is great and was very helpful when I ran into problems. Initially, it did not work on the Note 3 and he refunded me. A couple months later, a buddy told me that the author got it working. So, I bought it and BOOM...it just works.
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I used to use this back on 4.3 before root, but no rom'ed with 4.4. The only issue I ever ran into is ATT throttling me at 5gigs but that wasn't just tethering.
My question is, what firmware are you on?
I've done the same thing and froze the tethering provision. However, the tether menu doesn't show connected devices like yours. Like the allowed devices or the configure. When I hit menu it only shows a help tab.
NVM I reread your post and you are on 4.3. So am i. Anybody know why our menus are different?
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If i use tethering instead of wifi hotspot but the phone is connected to wifi will the device that is usb tethered to my phone use my phone data or the actual wifi from the house
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So will att catch on? I only will use it for Playing world of warcraft for a few hours eevery 3 or 4 days and basic web browsing. A few hours of game play is ONLY about 50mb if even that. But will they catch on? I have the 30 dollar unlimated plan
I got a letter from att a month ago about tethering on my infuse. I'm not sure how they found out since I was running a cooked rom I wouldn't chance it cause they will switch your account to the 4 gig tethering plan
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I got a letter from att a month ago about tethering on my infuse. I'm not sure how they found out since I was running a cooked rom I wouldn't chance it cause they will switch your account to the 4 gig tethering plan
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Will they warn me first?? or will they just switch it?
Im sorry i didn't mean to post in this section i ha to many tabs and didn't see it
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Will they warn me first?? or will they just switch it?
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They need to let you know they are changing your plan before they do so. I have been tethering with my phone for years now and ATT has never said anything to and I think it has to do with the amount of traffic. If they see a huge spike of activity and then they look at where that traffic is coming from and they see that you are connecting to battle net then they will know something is up(i know the traffic is not coming from battle net). What I am trying to say is do it within reason, as my guess is the people that they are catching are using well over 2GB a month.
I hope a mod moves this soon... But I heard of at least one person getting nailed with usage <1GB.
i used to tether my blackberry to my ipod touch forever and att has never said anything, i used to use it on my netbook when i went to school too. this was bluetoothtethering. but im think it has more to do with what a user is doing/amount of traffic they are using etc. as for the <gb guy, that may have been a random check or something else. but tethering to play online gaming you will surely get naildd... so use at your own risk knowing the consequences if they/when they find out
I've been tethering for years. I regularly go over 5gb's and at&t has never said anything. I am grandfathered in on the unlimited tho, and I normally only use it for tethering my tablet which is Android so it probably looks as tho it's just coming from my phone. Oh and occasional tethering to my Xbox when my DSL drops out. Lol.
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I believe it has to do with the internet stack in the phone. Seen an article a while back on this. If you use a cooked rom they will know if it is based on the stock kernal and rom. If you use something like cyanogenmod they shouldn't ever find out. I think I seen this explanation with verizon tethering and how to get around it.
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I believe it has to do with the internet stack in the phone. Seen an article a while back on this. If you use a cooked rom they will know if it is based on the stock kernal and rom. If you use something like cyanogenmod they shouldn't ever find out. I think I seen this explanation with verizon tethering and how to get around it.
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but that wouldnt explain how i could tether with my blackberry to computers and ipods with no ATT wrath, and i know these are android phones but tethering is tethering..right?
How AT&T can find out?
About four months ago I received a txt from AT&T thanking me for enjoying my trial period of tethering for my iPhone and that a tethering package would automatically be on my next bill. The forum I was on (don't remember where) simply stated that all I had to do was go into an AT&T store and demand that I NOT be placed on the tethering plan. I did that and after a quick phone call from the store to a CSR they pulled it off but with a warning. They said that if tethering activity was monitored again that they would add it back and I couldn't remove it (yeah right).
I was using the MyWi app from Cydia that works perfectly. I used it for nearly two years with no issue. However, the PDANet Cydia app has a "Hide Tethering" option in the program that always made me curious. What is it hiding? MyWi doesn't have that option.
I also used a Windows Mobile phone prior to that with ICS installed and regularly tethered to that as well. I think that ROM was a NotaTreoFan ROM most of the time and then Energy.
I would love the option of adding tethering to my SGS2 but I refuse to pay for a tethering plan. I'm still grandfathered into unlimited data.
Thoughts?
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So will att catch on? I only will use it for Playing world of warcraft for a few hours eevery 3 or 4 days and basic web browsing. A few hours of game play is ONLY about 50mb if even that. But will they catch on? I have the 30 dollar unlimated plan
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They shouldn't notice anything. I have used barnacle tether on T-Mobile and sprint. So both sim and cdma for a while now. And so far nothing. I'm pretty sure barnacle tether just uses your mobile network and shows up as nothing more than data usage. Bc when using the built in carrier tethering they see the app in use and send that data back. I check my tether stats and network stats and it just shows up as network use. I think you will be fine
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As many of you know att was busting users tethering. I dont really use it all that often and since all the talk about att catching people tethering, i thought i would never be able to use it ever again, IF i needed too. Some times share with the klids phones if we are mobile. They dont have data.
Ive turned it on a couple times testing. I connected the laptop to it and loaded "a" page. I havent gotton any emails yet, or ever.
I was just wondering, since this is not an att phone, and there is no tether manager, should we be able to tether without getting detected?
I thought for sure there was going to be a topic already here, but theres not???? my search didnt turn up andything!!
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As many of you know att was busting users tethering. I dont really use it all that often and since all the talk about att catching people tethering, i thought i would never be able to use it ever again, IF i needed too. Some times share with the klids phones if we are mobile. They dont have data.
Ive turned it on a couple times testing. I connected the laptop to it and loaded "a" page. I havent gotton any emails yet, or ever.
I was just wondering, since this is not an att phone, and there is no tether manager, should we be able to tether without getting detected?
I thought for sure there was going to be a topic already here, but theres not???? my search didnt turn up andything!!
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I made mine a wireless hotspot for my friends for about an hour and a half like two weeks ago and they didn't say anything to me or kick me off my data plan.
Thank for posting this! I was wondering as well!
They probably won't say anything so long as you keep within your data cap. Going over it and they will likely scold you...
Brian
No issues here...tethering away and remembering not to be a hog. Don't abuse it.
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No issues here...tethering away and remembering not to be a hog. Don't abuse it.
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Thank you!
When I had the HTC Evo I also had the tethering option ($30/month) but, fortunately, my company was picking up 90% of the tab. Now that my Evo is gone and I have a company provided iP4 I can't tether.
I have mixed feeling about tethering as it is a useful tool to have but also very easy to abuse. The problem with the abuse is that it eats into the bandwidth that I need for more casual usage and therefore negatively impacts my usage. I have heard of folks using of 50GB/month and if even a very small fraction of people did that there would be no cellular network that would survive.
When I get the Note I will probably go with the 4GB plan and have tethering. During my time with the Evo I averaged about 600MB/month including tethering, but with the Note I think the data use will go up because it will be far more useful and practical to surf the net and I think I'll probably go over 2GB/month. I will have to see what my data use actually is and if 2GB/month is enough and I can still tether than maybe that will be the way to go.
I don't see the need to try to game the system all that much and am willing to pay for what I use...
Brian
I've tethered with my Dell streak for over a year, never had an issue.
You just have to stay under the radar. Start downloading ISO size files, and you can bet you will get dinged.
I have been tethering illicitly for almost a year, first on my rooted SGS and now my Note, because that's been my only available "broadband" connection where I live (and I only get about 300kbps down even on HSPA 3g... very oversubscribed towers around here).
I got the dreaded warning letter from AT&T a couple months ago, where they politely suggested that I need to upgrade my plan to include tethering...and if I continue tethering, they will eventually do it for me.
That was a few months ago and they haven't done it yet, though I did back off on my data consumption after I got that letter (I stand to lose my unlimited data plan as well as seeing my monthly bill go up by $30).
I suspect that they infer that you're tethering based on your traffic, and that they can't actually tell whether you have tethering enabled on your rooted phone. E.g. if you're doing a lot of bittorrenting and connecting to sites like Windowsupdate.com, those would be pretty big clue that you're running a PC over your connection.
I rarely use my PC any more, and no more bt :-( so I am hoping they will continue to let my occasional small amount of tethering slide. And if they don't, I may just upgrade to a Verizon 4g LTE mifi instead, since that is now available in my area
HTH
I'm on att and with android phones I've been tethering for almost two years with no problem. It included the Nexus one, the galaxy tab, the inspire 4g, the unlocked sgs2 and now the Note. I frequently used the tethering option to connect my galaxy tab 10.1. I average 5GB a month and have never gotten any warning.
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I'm based in the UK so i don't have any useful input, I just find this article interesting. Your guys network operators over in the US sound like nazis. and I thought ours were bad?
I've seen a few networks over here include tethering as a "bolt-on" style upgrade to a price plan, but my question is, how the hell do they know? like with my SGS, tethering is part of the phone, so it was my understanding that they couldn't tell (unless you had anormal traffic - but with phones getting better processors surely that kind of traffic will very soon, if not already, be possible without tethering?)
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I'm on att and with android phones I've been tethering for almost two years with no problem. It included the Nexus one, the galaxy tab, the inspire 4g, the unlocked sgs2 and now the Note. I frequently used the tethering option to connect my galaxy tab 10.1. I average 5GB a month and have never gotten any warning.
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yeah, like I said: I don't think they can actually tell you have tethering enabled, so if the only devices you're connecting to your AP are other phones, they likely will never figure it out. But if you connect a Mac or PC much, watch out.
UPDATE: AT&T finally forced me into their tethering plan. I put my SIM into an old dumb phone, went online and changed the phone model on my acct, and they automatically dropped me back into my old unlimited data plan. Swapped the SIM back into the Note, all better again
We'll see how long it lasts, but since I'm not tethering anymore (just got a Verizon LTE Mifi) I will probably drop my data pan down to the minimum 200mb and save another $15/mo.
I'm seriously looking into switching all four of my lines over to Verizon now!
Hey y'all just got my note 3 today and was setting it up to my liking. So I found that on my GS3 when I unlocked the bootloader and went with custom roms, the battery life was never the same again. I know this is weird, hell I used to cook winmo 6 roms and every android I've used has had some kind of custom rom but my GS3 would burn through battery like it was it's job once it was unlocked and running custom rom. The GS3 I had that wasn't unlocked/rooted had a ok battery life and was totally fine. Hence I decided that once I got the Note 3 I wasn't going to be unlocking the bootloader on it, root sure but no custom roms. The only problem that pertained to was foxfi -> it worked without a hiccup on my cfw GS3. I can confirm however I'm using my Note 3 on ATT LTE Stock firmware etc and tethering to my laptop RIGHT NOW using the home button trick from the GS4. When the foxfi app tells you to call 611 to get hotspot, just press home and then open foxfi again, the hotspot will still be active and you can connect and monitor your usage.
I won't speak for anyone but my own experience, but for the past 2 months I haven't had home internet because I've been moving between coasts (I'm a physician for the armed forces) and I've been basically living out of extended stay hotels and my phone has been my only source of internet (I have unlimited) so I personally have been using 100-200 gb a month since my initial moving process and have received no such text or email or phone call from att. I'm currently downloading all my updated patient records (about 4gbs) and speeds are a nice and toasty ~42mbps down.
So yeah, your mileage will vary with ATT of course, but just sharing my own personal experiences.
cheers
Doesn't work for me.
Works for me, so far.
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Works for me, so far.
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Which FoxFi are you using? The Free or Paid version?
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Which FoxFi are you using? The Free or Paid version?
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Paid version.
I'm using free and it works for me
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I'm using free and it works for me
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I'll try it again. 1-Click tether was working fine for me on GN1 with root. If the Free doesn't work then I'll root and try that again.
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You would think the opposite is true.
tried it the normal way first, wasnt working then I saw your post. tried it with the home button trick and working fine now! thanks man
Thanks! Seems to be working for me as well w/ the paid version of Fox-Fi.
So you can use this app without ATT upgrading your plan to a tethering plan? I have the unlimited data plan and last year I used a Rom with tethering and I received noticed from ATT that they were going to change my plan. So I have not tethered since, fearful of loosing my "unlimited data" service. Question is do you all have "unlimited" data plans and using FoxFi without AT&T notifying you?
Thanks.
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So you can use this app without ATT upgrading your plan to a tethering plan? I have the unlimited data plan and last year I used a Rom with tethering and I received noticed from ATT that they were going to change my plan. So I have not tethered since, fearful of loosing my "unlimited data" service. Question is do you all have "unlimited" data plans and using FoxFi without AT&T notifying you?
Thanks.
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I've had unlimited data for close to 8 years and I've never paid for tethering
For me and some others in the thread this is working a ok with out tethering plan
just remember, once you activate the wifi and it tells you to call 611 hit the home buttom instead of ok
that'll keep the connection active, hitting ok will kill it.
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I've had unlimited data for close to 8 years and I've never paid for tethering
For me and some others in the thread this is working a ok with out tethering plan
just remember, once you activate the wifi and it tells you to call 611 hit the home buttom instead of ok
that'll keep the connection active, hitting ok will kill it.
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Thanks for the quick response. I've purchased the paid app and l look forward to using it with my laptop. Thanks again.
It didn`t work for me. Just after starting the tethering, a message appears saying "mobile data is not available or invalid SIM". After some research aroud, I decioded to go to root and try removing the Tethering Provision. Downloading Root de La Vega at this moment... I will let you know about my results after that.
Just to clarify: I am not at AT&T. Bought the N900A in the USA but managed to unlock it and now I am using the beast in my local GSM operator in Brazil (Oi).
Cheers
Cabtouch
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It didn`t work for me. Just after starting the tethering, a message appears saying "mobile data is not available or invalid SIM". After some research aroud, I decioded to go to root and try removing the Tethering Provision. Downloading Root de La Vega at this moment... I will let you know about my results after that.
Just to clarify: I am not at AT&T. Bought the N900A in the USA but managed to unlock it and now I am using the beast in my local GSM operator in Brazil (Oi).
Cheers
Cabtouch
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ahhh that's probably your issue, the tethering provision is assuredly hooked up to the ATT data apn and that'll cause issues when it calls home that specific apn only to find it not available.
yes you're gonna have to root and remove that and then try again, I'd assume if you either removed tethering provisions or edited the file to the proper values you'll have hotspot working soon enough
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. After some research aroud, I decioded to go to root and try removing the Tethering Provision. Downloading Root de La Vega at this moment...
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Try freezing first. That way you don't have to worry about reinstalling it if removing it causes problems.
Just a side note I also use Foxfi add on and run through a proxy just incase. AT&T supposedly sees nothing except that I'm going to a proxy server so I'm told...
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Tethering after root!
V DidDy 210, bigmout and all
I have just rooted and everything went pretty well. Piece of cake following the walk-through in the root thread OP.
As I said above, my intention on rooting was to achieve WIFI Tethering, because my N900A is not being used on AT&T. With root, I could freeze the Tethering Provision with TB and now FoxFI was able to do its work. There is a message stating that "Unfortunatelly, setting has stopped", but you can just ignore it because FoxFI remains activated after that.
Cheers and MANY THANKS for this thread and also of couse to DesignGears who developed the root for the N900A.
Cabtouch
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V DidDy 210, bigmout and all
I have just rooted and everything went pretty well. Piece of cake following the walk-through in the root thread OP.
As I said above, my intention on rooting was to achieve WIFI Tethering, because my N900A is not being used on AT&T. With root, I could freeze the Tethering Provision with TB and now FoxFI was able to do its work. There is a message stating that "Unfortunatelly, setting has stopped", but you can just ignore it because FoxFI remains activated after that.
Cheers and MANY THANKS for this thread and also of couse to DesignGears who developed the root for the N900A.
Cabtouch
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Confirmed here. Rooted, froze tethering provision and when I kick on my elixer widget, there will be a few seconds where the device freezes, then it will give the "settings has stopped" error and tethering kicks on successfully. A little annoying, but I don't use tethering that often, so I can live with it.
Nice job, man. Thanks for being the guinea pig. I just picked up my Note and hour ago and the first thing I did was root it and get this working. Adblock and tether are two things I simply cannot live without.
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Confirmed here. Rooted, froze tethering provision and when I kick on my elixer widget, there will be a few seconds where the device freezes, then it will give the "settings has stopped" error and tethering kicks on successfully. A little annoying, but I don't use tethering that often, so I can live with it.
Nice job, man. Thanks for being the guinea pig. I just picked up my Note and hour ago and the first thing I did was root it and get this working. Adblock and tether are two things I simply cannot live without.
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Adblock and tether are two things I simply cannot live without.
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Me too!
Ok. So I discovered after taking out my three contract with unlimited data that they do not allow tethering. Tthis is an really bad inconvenience for me as I spend time at my friends who does not have home internet.
Anyway I setup a vpn on my router at home which I connect to on my phone, and with the use of clockwork tether, I can tether my phone via usb to the laptop and it works fine. No issues there.
the problems start when I try to tether wirelessly. I get no internet access. If I connect my 3DS to my phone, I can access the eshop and can connect to the nintendo network, but when I try to play online on mario kart for instance, I get disconnected.
Im assuming wifi tethering requires more than just enabling it on my phone, like it does with usb tethering.
Does anyone know how to solve this issue and could they possibly guide me through how to do it?
Cheers.
Are you on the One Plan? If so you should be allowed to tether. I am.
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Im not on the One Plan, no. I didn't realise mobile carriers actually put blocks in place to stop tethering. I had no issues tethering with my Galaxy S2 when I was on T-Mobile, so I never even considered it when I switched to Three and got my Galaxy Note 3.
The only way to tether on 3 is to pay an extra monthly fee with data restrictions or upgrade to the One Plan.
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The only way to tether on 3 is to pay an extra monthly fee with data restrictions or upgrade to the One Plan.
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Well like I said, I can tether no problem when im connected to my VPN, it's just wifi tethering that im still having problems with. I refuse to pay an extra £5 a month for a measly 1GB of tethering data, its absolutely scandelous, and Three won't upgrade me to the One Plan until my contract expires, which isnt for another 23 months. So this is what im stuck with.
There must be a way to tether via wifi while connected to a vpn.
Sorry mate, i cant really help. I'm surprised they won't allow you to upgrade though. After all, it means more money for them.
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I'm surprised they won't allow you to upgrade though. After all, it means more money for them.
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Yeah, I kinda expected it though. A number of people have reported the same thing, not just from Three either.
Anyone have any solutions?
I read something about changing iptables or something using a terminal, but I have no idea how to go about this. If someone could explain, that would be great?
am on ultimate 500 plan and I use hotspot
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Thats what I'm on. All you can eat data with 500 mins. They block it for me
what u been downloading? torrent
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Has anyone figured out the best way to enable the wifi tethering capability?
I know on the s4, all the roms came out with this feature, it seems the s5 is still not rooted yet, what is everyone using, exploit or app?
this has been posted, but the best way to accomplish this right now without root is with FoxFi ( paid as far as i know and use now ) .. then USB or Bluetooth tether. you can then while tethered activate "wifi share" for your wifi devices. ..... if there is another method please someone post it!
verizon s5 are not allowed to do it..
Wow, what in the world is going on here...
Verizon may have made their last move. I just bought my phone with new 2 year contract, can i return and cancel my contract within a certain time period or am I inevitably effed?
I can not and will not put up with anymore of big Red's nazi ways, I am paying for a service and at the price im paying more than justifies my using of said service in any and every way that i want. If this does not get resolved soon, its a deal breaker for me and verizon. Not that it will make any difference...
and I hate that it would essentially make me move to a lesser carrier with less coverage and internet speed, but big red is starting to do that guv'mint thinking and i dont like where this is headed.
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this has been posted, but the best way to accomplish this right now without root is with FoxFi ( paid as far as i know and use now ) .. then USB or Bluetooth tether. you can then while tethered activate "wifi share" for your wifi devices. ..... if there is another method please someone post it!
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donkey poo!!!
I require a real wifi tether, usb and bluetooth are too restrictive and time consuming.
I hope a few of the more experienced devs can chime in on whether this is something to wait for or just return/sell the device immediately?
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Wow, what in the world is going on here...
Verizon may have made their last move. I just bought my phone with new 2 year contract, can i return and cancel my contract within a certain time period or am I inevitably effed?
I can not and will not put up with anymore of big Red's nazi ways, I am paying for a service and at the price im paying more than justifies my using of said service in any and every way that i want. If this does not get resolved soon, its a deal breaker for me and verizon. Not that it will make any difference...
and I hate that it would essentially make me move to a lesser carrier with less coverage and internet speed, but big red is starting to do that guv'mint thinking and i dont like where this is headed.
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If you have one of their new plans which I'm assuming you do since you upgraded, you absolutely can use native hotspot. I ran it yesterday. You have to turn it on via settings instead of the traditional way of tapping the Wi-Fi app.
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tpike said:
If you have one of their new plans which I'm assuming you do since you upgraded, you absolutely can use native hotspot. I ran it yesterday. You have to turn it on via settings instead of the traditional way of tapping the Wi-Fi app.
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I upgraded, and paid full price for it....
kprice8 said:
I upgraded, and paid full price for it....
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Did you try the method 2 posts up?
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No. For the reason of having unlimited data.
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I gave up the unlimited data plan and went with the Share Everything with 6gb of data. I did an analysis of my data usage for the past year and found that I never used more than 2gb a month. The unlimited talk and text is more important to me than unlimited data. Although I use the web quite a bit on the phone, I use wifi at home and at work, so it limits my 4G data usage substantially.
Verizon will eventually find a way to eliminate unlimited data altogether, or with some of the new Internet legislation being pushed throttle the bandwidth to the point that it's useless.
I don't understand what people are doing to use 30gb a month or higher unless you are using the plan as your home ISP service connecting multiple devices, or streaming movies all day long.
mike163 said:
I gave up the unlimited data plan and went with the Share Everything with 6gb of data. I did an analysis of my data usage for the past year and found that I never used more than 2gb a month. The unlimited talk and text is more important to me than unlimited data. Although I use the web quite a bit on the phone, I use wifi at home and at work, so it limits my 4G data usage substantially.
Verizon will eventually find a way to eliminate unlimited data altogether, or with some of the new Internet legislation being pushed throttle the bandwidth to the point that it's useless.
I don't understand what people are doing to use 30gb a month or higher unless you are using the plan as your home ISP service connecting multiple devices, or streaming movies all day long.
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I have Verizon Home Fusion for home internet and I do not have wifi at work. Largest amount of data I can subscribe to per month is 30GB/month, for my home. I'm too far off the road for cable, DSL, and I didn't want Satellite (which still has limits).
I'm grandfathered into unlimited. I use about 30 GB a month tethering, mostly updates for the XBOX One, downloading stuff from the usenet, streaming Netflix or HBO Go to my iPad when I'm at my camper, which is in the woods.
I hope you have an understanding now of how someone can use 30 GB per month.
On an average month, prior to acquiring my GS5, I was using about 45gb of data. That's web surfing, PC and Xbox 360 gaming, and streaming videos. On HEAVY months, I was up around 75gb of data used. My lightest month to date of data usage was 29gb of data. No way in heck I am giving up my unlimited when I have no home landline internet.. This IS my salvation.
Well in response to the OP and to others who may be confused, WIFI tether (as well as bluetooth and usb) is built in and available as long as you have the share everything plan. Until we get root there will be no native wifi hack. I've been told a talented dev has an s5 in hand, i bet it wont be too long until root is achieved, after which native hacks will be forthcoming
It takes time, has anyone here had the s4 before the s5? Do you recommend me to get the s4 or s5? I'm looking to upgrade but I have to pay full price for the phone because I use about 100 gb every month, the only two things that make me doubt is that wifi tether is not posible yet and since I eat my fingernails I can't open the usb with my fingers on the S5 lmao
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It takes time, has anyone here had the s4 before the s5? Do you recommend me to get the s4 or s5? I'm looking to upgrade but I have to pay full price for the phone because I use about 100 gb every month, the only two things that make me doubt is that wifi tether is not posible yet and since I eat my fingernails I can't open the usb with my fingers on the S5 lmao
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On that note, (heh) if you wanted to, and I wanted to, but was talked out of by a dumb BBY mobile rep, was getting the Note 3 which is rootable.
tpike said:
Well in response to the OP and to others who may be confused, WIFI tether (as well as bluetooth and usb) is built in and available as long as you have the share everything plan. Until we get root there will be no native wifi hack. I've been told a talented dev has an s5 in hand, i bet it wont be too long until root is achieved, after which native hacks will be forthcoming
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Thanks for your reply but I need to activate on the unlimited plan and although when I'm home I don't use that much but when traveling it sure is much cheaper than paying 7-20 bucks a day for WiFi access in some places.... not having root is no good in this particular case especially because I rely on it for work and has never been an issue until now. And giving more money to Verizon is not an options unlimited is already 125 per month
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kprice8 said:
On that note, (heh) if you wanted to, and I wanted to, but was talked out of by a dumb BBY mobile rep, was getting the Note 3 which is rootable.
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I'm currently still using my n3 cause it's rooted and running my rom. It's got Wi-Fi tether hacked as do most roms.
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What I would do if I were you. Put your 4G SIM card back in your old device until root becomes available. That way you have the Wifi Tether and can use your Unlimited data. And at the same time you can use your S5 for all your apps and such. But use the old device for calling and texting. Just my suggestion. You are lucky, I would never give up that unlimited plan. And these devs are extremely clever you'll have Wifi Tethering on your S5 in no time.
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What I would do if I were you. Put your 4G SIM card back in your old device until root becomes available. That way you have the Wifi Tether and can use your Unlimited data. And at the same time you can use your S5 for all your apps and such. But use the old device for calling and texting. Just my suggestion. You are lucky, I would never give up that unlimited plan. And these devs are extremely clever you'll have Wifi Tethering on your S5 in no time.
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Not an option. Took BestBuy up on their trade in offer. Didn't consider this at the time. But for the future, now I will know better...