Hello guys,
I have a rooted Nexus 4 (CM10.1) and I've been tethering happily for months. Recently I started working from a favorite coffee place that doesn't have WiFi, so I tether there regularly, and today suddenly I was forward to t-mobiles mobile hotspot webpage. No page loaded anymore, everything is blocked, they want me to pay for their mobile hotspot.
I downloaded Android WiFi and followed the instructions here: http://highonandroid.com/android-ap...android-smartphone-or-tablet-universal-guide/. I know that if I spoof my MAC address I might have a chance to tether, but my chromebook doesn't seem to be able to pick up the network. I had this issue before and fixed it with my Evo 3D, but this is a different phone.
so, my question is, what is the right setting for nexus 4 and:
anyone here have experience with this t-mobile blocking, and does it work to go around it?
Please don't preach me about "why don't you just pay," I will be glad to have this discussion with you, but not here.. not the place for it, yes?
thanks!
You can only tether to other android devices without them noticing it
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change the user agent to something not for desktop browsers.
Yes you are correct this is not the place for this discussion.....
But here are some suggestions:
1. Pay for the service you require.
2. Take it up with your Carrier not XDA.
3. Find a new Coffee shop that has free WiFi, the coffee may not be as good as your favorite place but hey the WiFi will be free...
Thanks....
Judge Joseph Dredd said:
Yes you are correct this is not the place for this discussion.....
But here are some suggestions:
1. Pay for the service you require.
2. Take it up with your Carrier not XDA.
3. Find a new Coffee shop that has free WiFi, the coffee may not be as good as your favorite place but hey the WiFi will be free...
Thanks....
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Carriers have been using packet sniffing for months now to determine is some one is tethering or not. If they are then they are fully within their rights to cancel their contract, block it or even charge them for it under the TOS they agreed to. Is this right? That is open for debate. But in the end it is the carriers right. They state how you can and can not use the data and you can either play by their rules or you can change carriers.
Clear your notebook's browser cache and cookies, clear your phone's cache and dalvik, and start using wifi tether more. I also use an app called chrome ua (user agent)...no idea if it does anything, but those tethering pages have never stopped me dead like you (and others) say, and I've been using it for weeks. I was throttled temporarily, but I'm not sure if that was related to tethering or my enormously massive data consumption, since they both happen as a result of one another.
Do as people say, though. Change the user agent, and ime, wifi tether doesn't seem as easy for them to catch on to for some reason. both native wifi and foxfii (pdanet) work great!
I recently received an SMS message from T-Mobile even though I have never tethered. The rep told me that she saw that i had received three messages in the past six months, that my plan allowed tethering, and that she could not figure out why i had received any messages at all. She suggested that the messages might have been triggered by an increase in download traffic. Their monitoring techniques may be at best hit-or-miss.
Well, I talked to tmobile and they informed me I should be allowed to tether as much as I'd like and I shouldn't be blocked. Sounds too good to be true.
The wifi tether app has MAC masking options so I thought it might mask it. Wi it work? Because the app doesn't, not for now.
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use a VPN.
then it will work fine:good:
Any free vpn you know that can work on a Chromebook?
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Ok - I'm a brand new Noobie - so plz forgive the stupid questions and hope I'm in the right section of the Forum for this one.
My background is web application developer and back end integration specialist - I work for a typical big company. I would like to learn about mobile development and especially mobile development with back end server integration applications.
I've been thinking about and application problem: I'm hoping you guys can help me fill out the missing pieces.
I love to fish - I have a fish finder that can capture a down scan image and side imaging. This thing can not only record this info on an SD card, but it can even broadcast this information via a wireless device to other devices in is proximity. So I can get data from the Sonar to a tablet user on the boat - there is an dev kit I could deploy on the tablet to make use of the data. So far so good.
The problem I can't wrap my head around is this: say I want to make this data available to someone standing on the shore - he's too far away from me for my Wi-Fi signal to reach him, but he does have an Android phone. How could I feed the data stream from my Sonar to this shore-bound Android user? Would I:
A) Hook up a phone device to the WiFi network on the boat and have the phone communicate with some remote web server that would then record this data in a DB for the user(s) to poll? OR
B) Connect the Phone to the WiFi network on the boat and have that phone somehow PUSH data to the user on the shore without the web server in the middle ?!
Help me think through this please.
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Wrong forum, wrong question... maybe?
Im using my verizon S5 on t-mobile, I'm rooted and on optimal rom. Okay so Its my first time trying to use my phone as a hotspot for other devices to connect to. I was following some instructions online for how to set it up, seemed like it went well. I had my other devices connect to it, said they were connected and was all good. Then when I tried to get to the Internet on the devices they had no Internet access. Anyone have a good how to guide on this? Thanks alot
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My dad had bought the spice dream uno few months back while still in kitkat version. However after updating to android version 5.1, he is unable to use Whatsapp without using wifi. Even normal texts are not being sent using mobile network. My dad has 3G connection so it isn't a problem of net connection. Please help.
turn off background data restriction in data usage.....
Ayan Uchiha Choudhury said:
My dad had bought the spice dream uno few months back while still in kitkat version. However after updating to android version 5.1, he is unable to use Whatsapp without using wifi. Even normal texts are not being sent using mobile network. My dad has 3G connection so it isn't a problem of net connection. Please help.
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Turn off background data restriction ....
Hope that helped
So, i hope this is an appropriate forum...
I have an att sim for a unlimited plan (tie in to DTV).
Of course they do not allow tethering (usb or hotspot). Now i was not using that particular number so i popped the sim into a Samsung Galaxy (sgh I897).
This is a 3g phone.
I, on a whim, turned on the mobile Hotspot (settings, wifi, mobile ap).
I have been using it for a week to get network on a windows 7 desktop pc.
Email, google docs, watching youtube, editing websites, watching The CW, watching Syfy.
No complaint from at&t.
I wonder if it is because the phone is old and reports in a way that is no longer monitored or maybe because it is 3g and they are not so concerned about that spectrum...
Do you all think it is a matter of time till they figure it out or did I find a loophole?
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You found a loophole there is no way they will be able to see what you used your data on, that would break there privacy policy.
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I tethered like this for years ... probably 10 years or so.
I only got a letter from AT&T this month.
I am wondering whether it has something to do with my new phone/new version of android (HTC One M9 running AOSP Candysix).
I always just tethered with the built in Bluetooth tethering.
As far as I can tell there are only two ways for them to tell:
1. Read the data, specifically headers, which would tell that the traffic is coming from a PC; this should/would be solvable by using a VPN
2. The OS passes on some kind of flag to the carrier. I read that old versions of android would use a separate APN/virtual device for tethering but I can't find this info on my phone (IP rules show, etc.)
any help would be greatly appreciated.