I was just expolring my Running Services in the Settings/Applications menu and found this service running. I thought AT&T does not allow tethering? Anyone have an idea why this service running?
angryphoton said:
I was just expolring my Running Services in the Settings/Applications menu and found this service running. I thought AT&T does not allow tethering? Anyone have an idea why this service running?
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open your settings, click on wireless and networking.
do you see mobileAP and Tethering?
ATT allows it if you pay them money. Or you can root the phone and remove that one apk and have your tethering for free.
Pirateghost said:
open your settings, click on wireless and networking.
do you see mobileAP and Tethering?
ATT allows it if you pay them money. Or you can root the phone and remove that one apk and have your tethering for free.
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thanks for the info
Pirateghost said:
open your settings, click on wireless and networking.
do you see mobileAP and Tethering?
ATT allows it if you pay them money. Or you can root the phone and remove that one apk and have your tethering for free.
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Or if you have TBU, you can just freeze the tethering app
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Just tethered my notebook via mobile ap wifi hotspot. My data plan is unlimited and I do not have a tethering/mobile hotspot plan, as the settings notes indicate. Perhaps that is included in the unlimited data plan?
Pirateghost said:
open your settings, click on wireless and networking.
do you see mobileAP and Tethering?
ATT allows it if you pay them money. Or you can root the phone and remove that one apk and have your tethering for free.
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which apk do you remove? i just upgraded to the stock 2.2, but I am rooted
PhoebusIII said:
which apk do you remove? i just upgraded to the stock 2.2, but I am rooted
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it's called "Tethering Manager 1.0"
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=968062
or you can rename TetheringManager 0114.apk in /system/app to something like TetheringManager 0114.apk.disable
Thanks...got it
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hbgregg said:
Just tethered my notebook via mobile ap wifi hotspot. My data plan is unlimited and I do not have a tethering/mobile hotspot plan, as the settings notes indicate. Perhaps that is included in the unlimited data plan?
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Nope:
1. Unlimited plan does not include any tethering
2. Tethering data plan is limited to 4GB only and you need pay $45/mo for it.
If you didn't mess with Tethering Manager, you will not be able to connect your laptop to the internet without paying for the tethering plan. That's what Tethering Manager does (to verify that you have paid for tethering).
I just root the phone, erase the tethering Manager, unroot the phone and I still has the tethering available using USG or wireless. My plan is only 2GB.
melvinaury said:
I just root the phone, erase the tethering Manager, unroot the phone and I still has the tethering available using USG or wireless. My plan is only 2GB.
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Duh, Tethering Manager's only job is to verify you paid for tethering plan. If you removed it, you will be able to tethering without pay for the tethering plan.
hbgregg said:
Just tethered my notebook via mobile ap wifi hotspot. My data plan is unlimited and I do not have a tethering/mobile hotspot plan, as the settings notes indicate. Perhaps that is included in the unlimited data plan?
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How did you do that?
kris_usa said:
How did you do that?
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settings>wireless and network>Mobile AP
select Mobile AP
under Mbile AP settings, change the Network SSID (or leave default name) and set the password
open wi-fi connections on your device and select the SSID of your captivate and enter the password
foxbat121 said:
Duh, Tethering Manager's only job is to verify you paid for tethering plan. If you removed it, you will be able to tethering without pay for the tethering plan.
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Im surprised people aren't revolting about tethering plans. Imagine if you had to pay your isp more money to have a 2nd or 3rd computer connect to your router to access the internet at home, people would scream bloody murder, yet in the mobile world its ok?
peachpuff said:
Im surprised people aren't revolting about tethering plans. Imagine if you had to pay your isp more money to have a 2nd or 3rd computer connect to your router to access the internet at home, people would scream bloody murder, yet in the mobile world its ok?
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I guarantee about 99.999999% of people on xda are NOT paying for that service. But, I can see where your coming from.
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peachpuff said:
Im surprised people aren't revolting about tethering plans. Imagine if you had to pay your isp more money to have a 2nd or 3rd computer connect to your router to access the internet at home, people would scream bloody murder, yet in the mobile world its ok?
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Tethering plan is nothing new. If ppl would revole, they's have done it long time ago. The only ppl that paid extra for tethering are probably those paid by company and don't care how much it costs. Work arounds has been there as long as there are tethering on Smartphones. Compared to what text message costs you, tethering charge is little potato. I see a lot ppl have not problem drop $20 to $30 a month for text messaging plan that uses almost no resource (idle bandwidth only) on carrier.
foxbat121 said:
Tethering plan is nothing new. If ppl would revole, they's have done it long time ago. The only ppl that paid extra for tethering are probably those paid by company and don't care how much it costs. Work arounds has been there as long as there are tethering on Smartphones. Compared to what text message costs you, tethering charge is little potato. I see a lot ppl have not problem drop $20 to $30 a month for text messaging plan that uses almost no resource (idle bandwidth only) on carrier.
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Even if you are disabling Tethering on your phone, which I do because I don't use my phone that way, you want to uninstall/freeze or otherwise disable the Tethering Manager. I found that on my phone, the Tethering Manager was starting and force-closing (twice!) every time I booted the phone and every time I plugged in or unplugged the USB cable. EVEN with Tethering disabled in my phone settings.
I think in almost all circumstances, you want to disable the tethering manager.
So, when I had my mytouch slide 3g I had it loaded with cm7 and could tether up to the 5gb throttling cap without having to worry about the service fee for wifi hotspot - however I was using the wifi tether for aosp app, not the built in. Is it the same with the 4g? Since I just got my phone this week, I'm still picking my rom (liking virtuosity), but wanted to know if I could go ahead and use the built-in wifi tethering without having to pay the service fee, or is there another option? Thanks!
eclipsed450 said:
So, when I had my mytouch slide 3g I had it loaded with cm7 and could tether up to the 5gb throttling cap without having to worry about the service fee for wifi hotspot - however I was using the wifi tether for aosp app, not the built in. Is it the same with the 4g? Since I just got my phone this week, I'm still picking my rom (liking virtuosity), but wanted to know if I could go ahead and use the built-in wifi tethering without having to pay the service fee, or is there another option? Thanks!
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Use Barnacle.
Barnacle works well from my touchpad, but not at all for laptop. Thoughts?? Also, so, you're saying I shouldn't use the rom wifi tether app??
Bueller????
eclipsed450 said:
Barnacle works well from my touchpad, but not at all for laptop. Thoughts?? Also, so, you're saying I shouldn't use the rom wifi tether app??
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I've had problems with that tether app on my G2. Barnacle's just easier to use and lets you control who has access to your data connection.
I just got this phone and I have no tether plan but the built in tether plan worked fine. Is tethering free with this phone?
rasstar said:
I just got this phone and I have no tether plan but the built in tether plan worked fine. Is tethering free with this phone?
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It uses your data plan, whatever that is. On t-mobile, iirc (on at&t now ), they don't charge you to enable tethering. On AT&T they do charge you to enable tethering.
Regardless of provider, your tethering uses your data plan, and hence if you have a 3G cap/month, and you use 3G of tethering, you are capped on your data plan, and will probably get throttled.
Not necessarily true....t-mobile now offers true unlimited data plans....such as the "value plan" in which is the plan I'm on.
Although your not suppose to tether on but there is easy enough ways around that.
Shortbus-Driver said:
Not necessarily true....t-mobile now offers true unlimited data plans....such as the "value plan" in which is the plan I'm on.
Although your not suppose to tether on but there is easy enough ways around that.
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This is correct.
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I do have the unlimited plan and the built in tether app works fine .
What apps work for tethering on the VRBLJ1 leak? Foxfi? Wifi Tether? Any special settings I need? I do not have a tethering plan with Verizon. Foxfi has been working great on ICS.
I don't have a tethering plan either but since the courts ruled that company's cannot force tethering plans but just use your already paid data connection.. i understand that the leak stops the attempt to tether by Verizon but.....by using a switch such as Fattin it uses native hotspot with no problems.. i have uninstalled WiFi tether and use a switch instead.. hit txs
You're partially right about the ruling. VZW can't prevent you from tethering on capped data plans, but the FCC ruling doesn't apply to unlimited plans.
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takota6 said:
I don't have a tethering plan either but since the courts ruled that company's cannot force tethering plans but just use your already paid data connection.. i understand that the leak stops the attempt to tether by Verizon but.....by using a switch such as Fattin it uses native hotspot with no problems.. i have uninstalled WiFi tether and use a switch instead.. hit txs
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So all I do is install the fattin hotspot toggle widget and activate that and I can tether?
lexluthor said:
So all I do is install the fattin hotspot toggle widget and activate that and I can tether?
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Yes. The devs are working to get Android wifi tether working again also.
Edit: Hit as I was typing response. :laugh:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=34037922&postcount=1
Just wonder if this app is running on tmobile carrier.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.snclab.wifitetherrouter&hl=en_US&referrer=utm_source%3Dgoogle%26utm_medium%3Dorganic%26utm_term%3Dwifi+tether+router+apk&pcampaignid=APPU_1_84kgW5W_FY7zzgLHj6qYCA
There is no need to, T-Mobile includes hotspot usage on their plans. Just use the built in hotspot.
geoff5093 said:
There is no need to, T-Mobile includes hotspot usage on their plans. Just use the built in hotspot.
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I have granfather plan and hoyspot is not included, that's why I am asking.
Thank you
I'm grandfathered in with unlimited data but no Hotspot. I've been using the built in tether and it's using my mobile data.
That being said if you still want to know about that app, I'll buy and try it.