i realize there are a lot of apps available to download for rooted devices, and tricks to disabling tethering manager.
my question is concerning the actual data feature that i have on my plan.
i still have the original "unlimited data" package from when i had my iphone 3g. the package is no longer available now, but it's grandfathered in for customers who wish to keep it while upgrading.
for those of us who still have this feature and wish to use mobile ap, do we still have to trick the phone/att by disabling tethering manager, or installing another third party app w/ root?
my device is rooted, but if i can just use the phone's native hotspot tethering without doing all this, it would be nice..
freezing tethering manager should do it.
i have both options and i alternate between them but most of the time i use wireless tether just to be on the safe side.
I'm still on unlimited data plan (thank god! Last month was 12GB) and I couldn't get tethering to work without plan till I flashed Infused ROM. I didn't think about freezing TetheringManager but that probably would work.
Does Infused rom automatically disable the tethering manager? I was able to turn on mobile ap but was afraid to use it. I couldn't remember if it wouldn't work at all with stock rom. I'm not sure if the tethering manager is related to using the mobile hotspot anyway.
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Kmo78 said:
...but was afraid to use it...
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Don't be afraid. We're here for ya!
I'm on infused also. I asked a similar question in his thread and was told that his rom does not include tetheringmanager.. So we should be able to activate mobile ap without any problems.
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I am on my infuse and just tried wireless ap and its telling me i neew tethering on my plan...but i have unlimited data...i have the phone rooted what is the best way to disable that so i can use wireless ap?
I was able to do it with my samsung cap...do i need to install custom rom on my infuse
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I am interested in this as well. Looking to upgrade from my captivate and then get my wife using the captivate and off her WM6 phone.
I would hate to lose tethering even though I rarely need to use it.
i used system app uninstaller from the market found tethering manager and chose to disable it i have since then been able to use the built in hotspot feature on all my roms even stock you jus need root plus system app remover other app will freeze tethermanger also but i found system app remover to be the most user freindly for me i have been using it since my captivate days and have used it on my ispire and now my infuse
Its been repeated many times in many different threads. If you're rooted, you should definitely buy Titanium Backup so you can freeze any system apps you want (ie tethering manager).
If you delete them, you may want them back later, and you'll be on here asking for them. Trust me.
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Hi, I have just received my new Captivate and quickly root my phone using the "Unleash the Beast" tool.
Everything works fine now, except that the tool also remove the "Mobile Video" app, which I actually like. I wonder how I can get it back.
Thanks a lot!
Odin
I've said this before. Unleash the beast is too iphoney for me. I left that scene because I wanted control. Its a great idea, but differing tastes on what defines bloatware cause issues.
I root my phone then use titanium backup to remove the bloat I don't want and keep the bloat I do. I never have use for wifi tether or sideloading. If there's an app I want I use android central sideloader from a computer. To me, the decision to go android was primarily for customization, so unleash the beast wasn't my cup of tea.
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Hi, I have just received my new Captivate and quickly root my phone using the "Unleash the Beast" tool.
Everything works fine now, except that the tool also remove the "Mobile Video" app, which I actually like. I wonder how I can get it back.
Thanks a lot!
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See if this works. Disconnect WiFi if you're on it. This must be done via 3G. Point your browser to: http://cingularvideo.cingular.com
I noticed that if my browser, email, Google Maps, etc. are active while on WiFi, when I disable WiFi to start using 3G again, those programs don't "catch on" right away to that new connectivity. So I almost always have to restart those apps.
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Odin
I've said this before. Unleash the beast is too iphoney for me. I left that scene because I wanted control. Its a great idea, but differing tastes on what defines bloatware cause issues.
I root my phone then use titanium backup to remove the bloat I don't want and keep the bloat I do. I never have use for wifi tether or sideloading. If there's an app I want I use android central sideloader from a computer. To me, the decision to go android was primarily for customization, so unleash the beast wasn't my cup of tea.
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Kinda my feelings as well. This is my first android phone. Taking it slow. Rooted with just a root. Enabled side load by changing settings.db myself. Installed pre8. Reading all I can. I like to know what I'm doing to the phone. If it messes up, I know what I did to jack it up. I can fix it. If I can't, at least I know what's going on so I can ask an intelligent question. Like you, its what Iwant done, not a pretty installer of someone else's vision.
From a phone on an app
att mobile tv app
Attached is the att mobile video app and the mobile tv app.
I have unlimited data plan through grandfathers option which I don't want to let go of ,so there seems to be no option for tethering.I had a captivate previously but someone liberated it the other day.I bought the Inspire thinking that since it was froyo 2.2 I would be golden for hot spot which is how we get our net access these days and it has been great.I have noticed lots of folks having problems rooting,and those who are able to are losing their sound. Is there an app that will work similar to
" mywi " that the iPhone uses? I sure don't want to give up my unlimited data,is there anything besides a custom Rom I can do,and will rooting allow me to enable the hotspot feature?I have modded all kinds of phones,game,consoles ,and I am comfortable rooting this thing if it will get me running again.Thanks in advance for any answers or suggestions anyone may have. I sure do like this phone,it is way faster at everything than the Captivate and I have only had it a day.thanks,Vegas
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I would say root it and flash android revolution, mainly cause its stock sense and all the features your looking for are enabled after flashing this rom, including the sound thing. Rooting isnt as easy as it was on captivate, but if u follow the video tutorial you shouldnt have any problems. I have never rooted a htc device until i got the inspire, but i managed to get it done the first try with the youtube walkthrough.
So to sum up, root, install CWM, then flash custom rom of your choice. Then enjoy your amazing android device.
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Thank You
I will give it a Shot when I get home from work,Thanks for the Shot of Confidence! Do I need a seperate Micro SD to make a "Gold Card" or can I just save the stuff on the one in it,format and use as Gold Card,when done,format and restore files to my Micro SD? Thanks Again,Vegas
You can use the card that came with it. Like you said, just make sure to back up any files on it.
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You can use the card that came with it. Like you said, just make sure to back up any files on it.
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Have you seen this (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=960058) thread. Multiple users, including myself, have been able to get wifi tethering to work without Root. Simply adding a custom APN unlocks this ability
Previous to adding this APN, when I would launch Wi-Fi Hotspot I was greeted with a message that I do not have a plan that includes tethering. I added the APN and am now able to use this app without any problems. Note: Most of us had to reboot after adding the APN to get wifi tethering to stay on
Wow,that would be awesome,thank you,Vegas
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Anyone with the AT&T HTC One X been able to find a way to enable tethering?
I know that Roger users get tethering enabled for free, unfortunately AT&T doesn't give us the same courtesy in the US.
I found this trick listed for enabling Tethering on the Galaxy Nexus that works on non-rooted devices.
"Elixer 2
Pros: Free
Cons: Confusing to setup at first
1. Install Elixer2
2. Install Elixer2 Widgets
The way I think this works is, you need to install Elixer2 to give you tons of tools and information about your device, so that the widgets work correctly.
Elixer2 Widgets gives you widget tools to create widgets for your device.
You can create a "Wi-Fi AP (Hotspot) toggle" widget that turns on Portable Wifi Hotspot. Doing this bypasses the wireless carrier check, and allows you to modify your AP settings to create a Hotspot."
I was curious if anyone knows if the Elixer 2 trick works on the AT&T HTC One X too?
Or perhaps someone else has been able to figure out another way since there isn't a root method available yet for the HTC One X.
Tasker widget might be able to do this as well.
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bimmerd00d said:
Tasker widget might be able to do this as well.
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Ah, has anyone tried using Elixer 2 or Tasker to enable tethering on an AT&T HOX?
You can tether on any device. Just install the right app or root. However, within a few hours to a few months, att will see and give you a warnign to stop tethring. If you continue, they auto-upgrade you to a tethering line. There is no way to go around it.
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You can tether on any device. Just install the right app or root. However, within a few hours to a few months, att will see and give you a warnign to stop tethring. If you continue, they auto-upgrade you to a tethering line. There is no way to go around it.
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That is not true that they will eventually detect. I have been using tethering for a while on my iPhone and it hasn't been detected. It all has to do with that you need to make sure to use the right APN.
kevina90 said:
You can tether on any device. Just install the right app or root. However, within a few hours to a few months, att will see and give you a warnign to stop tethring. If you continue, they auto-upgrade you to a tethering line. There is no way to go around it.
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That's what custom ROM's are for. I don't abuse tethering, I do it occasionally and have never received any type of warning from ATT. Proper custom ROM's remove all kinds of traceable software back to the carriers. (e.g. CM9)
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That's what custom ROM's are for. I don't abuse tethering, I do it occasionally and have never received any type of warning from ATT. Proper custom ROM's remove all kinds of traceable software back to the carriers. (e.g. CM9)
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I am very aware that with a custom ROM or even a root app like Wifi Tether that you can easily enable tethering. However, I am trying to find out if there is a solution to get it working if you are not rooted.
Right now there is no custom ROMs or even a root for the AT&T HTC One X so the custom ROMs or even Wifi Tether are not an option. So back to my original question does anyone know if Elixer 2 or Tasker work for enabling tethering on the HTC One X?
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I am very aware that with a custom ROM or even a root app like Wifi Tether that you can easily enable tethering. However, I am trying to find out if there is a solution to get it working if you are not rooted.
Right now there is no custom ROMs or even a root for the AT&T HTC One X so the custom ROMs or even Wifi Tether are not an option. So back to my original question does anyone know if Elixer 2 or Tasker work for enabling tethering on the HTC One X?
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I understood that, sorry for side stepping on the topic. I got caught up answering that there is a way around the carrier knowing about your tethering.
I don't know how much similarity between HTC's tethering code and Samsung's tethering code, I tried your apps mentioned above on my Samsung GS2 running latest AT&T ICS leak and it didn't work. It does bypass the account checking but there is no internet connection from the tethered devices what so ever. The new tethering code for these Samsung devices in ICS leaks are much difficult to bypass now than the ones in GB.
We will know it once we have AT&T HOX in hand.
This is the easiest solution that works on all android devices.
http://code.google.com/p/proxoid/
Proxy server and adb port forwarding ftw
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That is not true that they will eventually detect. I have been using tethering for a while on my iPhone and it hasn't been detected. It all has to do with that you need to make sure to use the right APN.
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I guess its luck of the draw then lol, i tetherd like 300 mb 2 monthes ago and got an att text warning 3 days later.
Just as an update, the Rogers RUU is online now, you can find it in the DEV section. Those who wanna attempt to flash its boot.img and system.img to an AT&T phone, knock yourselves out!
Not saying it's gonna work necessarily...
Easy Tether always worked for me. It uses the Android debugging mode. You need to use USB but whatever. Totally worthwhile (costs about $10 one time fee) and I'm not sure how they would detect this. IF they gave you a hard time you could simply explain that you develop Android apps and that you're not tethering. They may buy that.
When tethering is enabled through the device via normal means, then I think they would know about it...But if you're going through the debugger, I just can't see how they would know.
If they ever did or worse yet, IF any carrier is collecting data about user agents, etc. to see if you're using a desktop browser...Then I think that's a severe privacy concern.
I would hope anyone getting a warning from a carrier would because they have a rooted phone and they have the actual tethering system feature enabled for which the operating system likely sends up some sort of flag to notify the carrier (hence why people are saying it depends on what ROM you're using). OR because of their usage patterns, ie. heavy usage in short periods of time. A phone can only have so many browser tabs open and use so much data in a short period of time. They have this stuff down to a science.
However...If you're tethering to check your e-mail, browse a little, do work, and like me...build web sites and what not from Starbucks (because their free WiFi doesn't allow you to use SSH) then I really can't imagine you'd get an angry letter.
Again, this is all speculation...I use Sprint and never had an issue. However, come Sunday I will be switching to AT&T for the better looking HTC One X...Oh right and for the working 4G. Despite half the storage space.
Elixir 2/Widgets does not work on my ATT HOX for the mobile AP. I still get the "call 611 to enable tethering" popup.
Has anyone tried Foxfi from the market?
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FoxFi does not support wifi for any HTC phones, only Bluetooth (as stated in-app).
Foxfi keeps giving me some cryptic error message "fail to open bluetooth". Being unable to root / tether and downgrade from 32gb to 16gb (and in actuality 9.96 gb) is really pissing me off...
Edit: Easy Tether works. Just using the free version so far, no issues yet. Will know more extensively in the next few days.
Clockworkmod
I use tether from clockworkmod. cost $4.99 USB only though
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Edit: Easy Tether works. Just using the free version so far, no issues yet. Will know more extensively in the next few days.
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Looking forward to hearing about this, really bugging me that I can't tether (Damn it AT&T).
rooted ATT HTC One X via one click root
download
WiFi Tether version 3.1 beta14
Settings:
- Device Profile: Generic ICS
- Enable Routing Fix
Works Perfect
Ok so i've been looking around here and i've seen people say the best tethering app is WiFi tether. But heres my question, On my x2 i was required to change my radio card settings. Change some numbers around and such. This allowed me to stealth tether, I'm wondering if this WiFi tether app is trackable?
And about rooting, All i'm seeing for vzw rooting is what seems to be flashing the "stock rom" that is rooted and not rooting your current system. So am i going to lose my data and have to start over? And is this something thats being worked on? Because with my x2 it was a 1 click root and it didn't change anything on my phone besides adding the root. My phone stayed on the stock rom with nothing being changed. Just kinda wondering, i haven't taken the time to look threw roms so i'm not sure what i want to run on this phone yet. But tethering is a must for me
Thanks in advance
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Ok so i've been looking around here and i've seen people say the best tethering app is WiFi tether. But heres my question, On my x2 i was required to change my radio card settings. Change some numbers around and such. This allowed me to stealth tether, I'm wondering if this WiFi tether app is trackable?
And about rooting, All i'm seeing for vzw rooting is what seems to be flashing the "stock rom" that is rooted and not rooting your current system. So am i going to lose my data and have to start over? And is this something thats being worked on? Because with my x2 it was a 1 click root and it didn't change anything on my phone besides adding the root. My phone stayed on the stock rom with nothing being changed. Just kinda wondering, i haven't taken the time to look threw roms so i'm not sure what i want to run on this phone yet. But tethering is a must for me
Thanks in advance
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I just installed the rooted stock rom over my default non-rooted install and everything has worked fine with no data loss. I did that mostly because I don't know how to format my phone through Odin. What I did exactly to get root.
As for wifi tether what I did was install the version of the app from the Play Store and then set my phone profile to the Galaxy Nexus. I used the version that was available from the code site in my Thunderbolt before and I have not been "caught" yet. So I would say you're good to go. While I haven't tried it with encryption, I did try to see if my Thunderbolt could connect to my Galaxy S III. It did and after a quick speed test I knew everything was working well (got a 101ms ping with 5mbps down and ~1mbps up).
Tweek900 said:
Ok so i've been looking around here and i've seen people say the best tethering app is WiFi tether. But heres my question, On my x2 i was required to change my radio card settings. Change some numbers around and such. This allowed me to stealth tether, I'm wondering if this WiFi tether app is trackable?
And about rooting, All i'm seeing for vzw rooting is what seems to be flashing the "stock rom" that is rooted and not rooting your current system. So am i going to lose my data and have to start over? And is this something thats being worked on? Because with my x2 it was a 1 click root and it didn't change anything on my phone besides adding the root. My phone stayed on the stock rom with nothing being changed. Just kinda wondering, i haven't taken the time to look threw roms so i'm not sure what i want to run on this phone yet. But tethering is a must for me
Thanks in advance
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No wifi tether is not trackable and flashing a root stock rom in odin wont wipe data. Click link in sig for instructions.
droidstyle said:
No wifi tether is not trackable and flashing a root stock rom in odin wont wipe data. Click link in sig for instructions.
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ok sounds good. So then one more thing i guess. If the wifi tether isn't trackable how do they "catch" people doing it? is it downloading speeds or what? because if they have no real way i'm just going to use my tether on my x2 to download the needed files for rooting the s3 lol
*edit*
also is there an irc channel for the verizon phone and such? and i saw something about "not tripping the flash counter" what does that mean? lol
ok so rooting is done all looks good. Hoping the stealth of this tethering is good lol. Now to wait for a good rom
Can use stock hotspot app
You can also use the stock hotspot app.
Folks have been reporting that if you use a 3rd party launcher widget like this one Tether Widget the the stock hotspot apps works without checking to see if your paying for the "feature".
I've tested this my self and it works fine.
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You can also use the stock hotspot app.
Folks have been reporting that if you use a 3rd party launcher widget like this one Tether Widget the the stock hotspot apps works without checking to see if your paying for the "feature".
I've tested this my self and it works fine.
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nothing against this, and i will look into it, but i'm looking for stealth tethering. This is my home internet, so i'm using a good 20gigs a month
Ok so new issue, i can not turn off cmda, i am in evdo only mode but i still get text messages and that cuts off my data for tethering while it receives :/ anyone know what to do?
I bought my wife a Nexus 7 knowing it was a wifi only device. She wants to use her phone as a mobile hotspot. Come to find out I have to pay an extra $20 per month for the 5GB plan in order to get the mobile hotspot. BS! I saw that I could freeze tetheringmanager.apk and that would unlock the grayed out tethering option on the phone. TB unpaid version doesnt allow freeaing so I just decided to delete it. Only problem is.....now when I try to turn on the mobile hotspot on her phone the phone freezes and I have to reboot it. I know I can use foxfi, but that just keeps saying obtaining IP address and never really connects, even with pdanet tablet installed and running on the N7. Can someone please pull the tetheringmanager.apk from their phone and post it here so I can fix it the correct way, maybe, if it actually works. Doubt it will cause nothing comes easy! Please and thank you!
First off, you should really have the TB Property version. Just buy it, it's not very expensive. Next, whether or not freezing the APK will work depends on your version of Android. If you're on 2.3.5, it'll work. If you're on 4.0+ then it won't. For ICS/JB there is a slightly more complicated procedure (which you can find by searching the threads) or you can just flash a ROM with Secure Tethering already enabled (this is what I recommend).
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I bought my wife a Nexus 7 knowing it was a wifi only device. She wants to use her phone as a mobile hotspot. Come to find out I have to pay an extra $20 per month for the 5GB plan in order to get the mobile hotspot. BS! I saw that I could freeze tetheringmanager.apk and that would unlock the grayed out tethering option on the phone. TB unpaid version doesnt allow freeaing so I just decided to delete it. Only problem is.....now when I try to turn on the mobile hotspot on her phone the phone freezes and I have to reboot it. I know I can use foxfi, but that just keeps saying obtaining IP address and never really connects, even with pdanet tablet installed and running on the N7. Can someone please pull the tetheringmanager.apk from their phone and post it here so I can fix it the correct way, maybe, if it actually works. Doubt it will cause nothing comes easy! Please and thank you!
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TetheringManager.apk is attached.
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First off, you should really have the TB Property version. Just buy it, it's not very expensive. Next, whether or not freezing the APK will work depends on your version of Android. If you're on 2.3.5, it'll work. If you're on 4.0+ then it won't. For ICS/JB there is a slightly more complicated procedure (which you can find by searching the threads) or you can just flash a ROM with Secure Tethering already enabled (this is what I recommend).
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Thanks for the info, I have searched the web for endless hours looking for ways to do this. The method I am trying to use is the most common and most recommended. My wife wont let me ROM her phone, took me forever to get her to let me root it. My phone has the tethering ability and I love it!