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 .
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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 what happens if you set up wifi tethering and start using it without a tethering plan?
Do they know automatically or do they attempt to guess based on increases in data usage?
This would be using the menu options available to you under Network settings in STOCK (not rooted).
there no tethering plan with t-mobile you can wifi tether all you want. But if they do see that you're hitting your cap quickly lets say in a 3 month period. they'll text you if you want to upgrade.
when I was picking up my mt4gs, I overheard a rep trying to sell people an additional tethering plan. is that for unlimited tethering? I wanted to walk up to them and tell them I have been tethering since the G1 without any additional plan... the only real issue is getting throttled, but most months I don't hit the data cap.
pmcqueen said:
when I was picking up my mt4gs, I overheard a rep trying to sell people an additional tethering plan. is that for unlimited tethering? I wanted to walk up to them and tell them I have been tethering since the G1 without any additional plan... the only real issue is getting throttled, but most months I don't hit the data cap.
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Well the rep that sold me my MT4GS said that they don't throttle automatically. He had one customer use 200+GB before he was throttled. Apparently it's hit or miss anyway and he basically talked me into a lower data rate because of it.
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If you attempt to tether or do wi-fi sharing on any T-mobile phone that is capable of it one of four things will happen.. Either
A) it will fail...
B) Any browsing attempt will re-direct you to T-mobile.com
C) You will automatically get directed to a page that prompts you to call Customer care to add the $14.99/month Tethering and Wi-Fi sharing feature
D) It will allow you to browse a certain amount and then give you the above page.
The feature has to be on the account for tethering to work long term.. Even if you get away with it for a short time, eventually they will catch you and shut you off until you add the feature. The $14.99/month allows you to share whatever data is on your phone (2GB, 5GB, 10GB) with the phone and Tethering... SO... If you have the 5GB data plan, you get 5GB to share between tethering and your regular phone data usage, then speeds get slowed down to approx 100kbps after that until the bill cycle resets.
Like i told you before there is no tethering plan for t-mobile. My gf tether her phone with her iPad all the time. Nothing had happen so far.
Say that now, but I am guaranteeing you that T-mobile will catch up with her eventually.. There IS a tethering plan and you can call T-mobile and and verify that whenever you want.
Brock6949 said:
Say that now, but I am guaranteeing you that T-mobile will catch up with her eventually.. There IS a tethering plan and you can call T-mobile and and verify that whenever you want.
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I've been tethering since 2008 without a plan.
perhaps it has something to do with new data plans? I've had a grandfathered data plan for years.
pmcqueen said:
I've been tethering since 2008 without a plan.
perhaps it has something to do with new data plans? I've had a grandfathered data plan for years.
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Same and I have a grandfathered unlimited data plan that comes with unlimited texts for only $35. Been tethering forever.
I think he's just making it up. hahaha
A grandfathered plan may be the reason you are still able to tether, but I will tell you that I am a T-mobile employee who works in the phone as modem department and there IS a tethering plan that t-mobile does charge for... Infact, go to t-mobile's website and search for "Tethering" and then look at all of the official documents for tethering with different devices and they will all mention the tethering and wi-fi sharing feature.
Brock6949 said:
A grandfathered plan may be the reason you are still able to tether, but I will tell you that I am a T-mobile employee who works in the phone as modem department and there IS a tethering plan that t-mobile does charge for... Infact, go to t-mobile's website and search for "Tethering" and then look at all of the official documents for tethering with different devices and they will all mention the tethering and wi-fi sharing feature.
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I tethered my Touch Pro 2 a few times after they introduced tethering and nothing ever became...
rorytmeadows said:
I tethered my Touch Pro 2 a few times after they introduced tethering and nothing ever became...
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A few times may not have been enough for you to get the message... There is a preset threshold you have to meet or exceed to get the message about the tethering plan.. THey have not told any of us what that threshold is (for obvious reasons)
and even if you don't get the message right away, at some point our system will flag the account... Trust me, I field these calls 5 days a week.
Brock6949 said:
A few times may not have been enough for you to get the message... There is a preset threshold you have to meet or exceed to get the message about the tethering plan.. THey have not told any of us what that threshold is (for obvious reasons)
and even if you don't get the message right away, at some point our system will flag the account... Trust me, I field these calls 5 days a week.
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So how can they tell that it's tethering data vs. data from the phone? Especially since I can set my browser to desktop mode. Well, I'm too lazy to do it but if tethering ever goes to court, service providers will lose.
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There is no way to tell between tethering and phone data... it's all lumped together... even when you add the tethering feature (if the system makes you) you get your data shared with your cell data usage so on a non grandfathered rate plan you get 2gb,5gb, or 10gb to share between tethering and phone data usage.
Brock6949 said:
There is no way to tell between tethering and phone data... it's all lumped together... even when you add the tethering feature (if the system makes you) you get your data shared with your cell data usage so on a non grandfathered rate plan you get 2gb,5gb, or 10gb to share between tethering and phone data usage.
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So tethering won't get caught...
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HTTP traffic is TCP which means it's encoded in ASCII which makes it really easy to scan what goes over the line. In those HTTP headers they can check what the user-agent is as well as the time-to-live setting on each packet which will be different from a windows desktop connection.
However it's possible to mask this. I could in theory make an SSH connection from the phone to an SSH server I have on the internet and tunnel all my tethering through that. It would be very difficult to prove tethering at that point because it would be masked behind the phone's connection to a server.
That all being said. In real world usage I might only tether once or twice a month in what basically amounts to not much more bandwidth usage then normal.
Also. The telecom providers are very backhanded about tethering. We made tethering possible before they knew what the **** tethering even meant. I've been doing this since before most people understood what it means to tether. And I signed up for my unlimited plan back when unlimited meant unlimited. So uh..... T-mo can go **** itself if they expect me to pay extra. lol.
-my 2 cents
Akujin said:
We made tethering possible before they knew what the **** tethering even meant. I've been doing this since before most people understood what it means to tether. And I signed up for my unlimited plan back when unlimited meant unlimited. So uh..... T-mo can go **** itself if they expect me to pay extra. lol.
-my 2 cents
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YES!
Tethered on my MDA before I even used the word!
Theoretically based on some of the statements here of how PC band with flows, I should be able to tether my Acer A500 tablet without any problems or discovery.
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any clue if i'd get flagged if i used a 3rd party tether app while paying for hotspot? i prefer the info all the other tethering options give - throughput, bandwidth, etc. though i do wish infrastructure worked better on the 3rd party apps.
I highly doubt it.
I highly doubt you'd get flagged even if you weren't paying for tethering, for that matter.
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I use PDA Net to wired tether my mac all the time and haven't had any issues. Yes I have the $30 unlimited tether plan.
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I don't think so unless you're retarded and pulling in huge numbers like 50+gigs a month, that'd look suspicious especially when it shows it's phone data
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anoninja118 said:
I don't think so unless you're retarded and pulling in huge numbers like 50+gigs a month, that'd look suspicious especially when it shows it's phone data
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What is the data cap if you do pay the extra $30 per month to tether? This is for the grandfathered unlimited data plan.
yeah, how does anyone claim a cap on unlimited when they now have actual data tiers of which none that I'm subscribed to. I'll continue using 3rd party tethering and see if I get called out.
I stream Netflix to my tablets to and from work and use up around 500MB per day.
mrxhack said:
What is the data cap if you do pay the extra $30 per month to tether? This is for the grandfathered unlimited data plan.
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well there are two kinds of tethering now, wireless (mobile hotspot) and via usb... there is no unlimited plan to wirelessly tether afaik, now that doesn't stop anyone from tethering anyway if they have unlimited data... technically verizon doesn't like it and can cap you or block data for you altogether, but the way I see it is if you're paying a premium for unlimited data then tether away lol
blazing through on my VZ Droid Charge 4G
Right now I'm on the 2.5g data plan. I wanted to use and or tether past that but don't want to spend a world. Is there an apps that can do that? I heard FoxFi can but so far it's eating my data. I kinda miss Sprint Unlimited data
micrapple said:
Right now I'm on the 2.5g data plan. I wanted to use and or tether past that but don't want to spend a world. Is there an apps that can do that? I heard FoxFi can but so far it's eating my data. I kinda miss Sprint Unlimited data
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Wireless tether router is working miracles. They made it compatible and its amazing. Doesnt increase your tethering data at all. It cost a few bucks though
pda net will work if you use usb tethering, i have been using it for the past two months with no issues.
Can the tethering (free tethering) be done w/out rooting the phone?
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.