Hello everybody. I recently installed FoxFI for a relatives phone so they could tether over wireless. I am rooted so I do not use FoxFI but I had a question about it's setup. I have searched and searched and for the life of me I cannot find one post that fully explains why I had to install a VPN certificate and add a PIN/lock to my relatives phone. Part of me wonders if this VPN they use isn't used for some nefarious purpose? Does anyone have a reliable source stating HOW foxfi uses this VPN to allow tether? I thought that the FoxFi site would explain it but they seem to have been swallowed up by PDAnet and their knowledgebase is less than perfect. Thanks in advance.
Android 4.3 I bielive has tighter security and foxfi cannot create a new virtual network host so it must create a fake vpn connection to run the traffic through the app where as below android 4.3 it can just make a virtual network
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Android 4.3 I bielive has tighter security and foxfi cannot create a new virtual network host so it must create a fake vpn connection to run the traffic through the app where as below android 4.3 it can just make a virtual network
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Well that would make sense but my family member was running 4.2.1 and still needed the certificate?
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It looks like they (AT&T) removed the option to tether or use my phone as a hot spot! Can someone please help with finding another way around this. I need to use my phone as a modem. My Captivate has been rooted but I dont know wut to do now.
try EasyTether app. you can find it in the market
EasyTether is no longer on market!
I'm looking for the same thing for as close to free as possible. I tried downloading the file off google/android (i can't think if the exact file right nite) but for whatever reason it keeps saying I don't have permission when in reality I'm rooted and have rom manger but running stock everything . Any advise?!?
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If you are rooted, most of the froyo roms have tethering and mobile internet access point with them
Maybe you could try market enabler from the market and make it think you have T-Mobile or something cause att blocks out mostly all tethering apps. I read that works although I have T-Mobile and haven't had anything blocked so I have not tested personally.
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I have Andromeda 2.1 on my Captivate, and so far as I know, it doesn't have a tethering app preinstalled. I'm going to ask and find out, and a few other questions I have, as soon as I get to the 10 post limit! gah...
Anyway, before I installed Andromeda, I was running the stock ROM rooted with wifi tether from the google code page. The app would run, but I could not connect to it (though I was trying on my Tab). Comes to find out that the wifi tether app creates an ad-hoc network, with the Tab won't connect too. I need to get an AP app. Still working on that solution (though I haven't had much time to test it).
Paragon 5.1 ROM has tethering.
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Well, as already said most custom roms have these options built in under Settings > Wireless & Network... But in lieu of flashing an entirely new ROM for one feature, you could simply download barnacle wifi from the market.
In the event that it's not in your market (hadn't heard of carriers being able to remove certain apps from the market) I'm sure you can find the apk (the extension of Android App Installers) via google.
easytether, pdanet, wifi tether for root, native tethering
none of them work. they take you to a page asking you to pay $20 per 1GB.
anyone else having similar issue?
EDIT: after further testing, the block seems to be browser based. I was able to play RIFT via tether. My guess is they are blocking via user-agent string in browser (edit #2: confirmed!)?
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You're right. If you use a user agent switcher add-on/extension with Firefox or Chrome, it'll look like you're on a Android device or Iphone.
I am using FireFox and I downloaded Super User Agent from the addons! What it does is it shows up as a mobile browser instead of a PC browser! They are blocking all PC browser from using their service to tether! After downloading it you can select what you want it to show up as, like Android, iPhone, Opera Mobile and even FireFox! I am using the Firefox 10 option that they have not blocked yet! But I am really still using Firefox 12! Hope this helps you and please spread the word to other C Spire users having this problem!
But now, with the User Agent switch, I can't watch Netflix while tethered. Anyone got that one figured out?
It might be due to the 30 minute video pass per month that they just started.
Nah, the reason that I can't get Netflix to work like that is because the site thinks I'm using a phone and is asking me to add the android or iphone app.
Fixmo Extend
Hi I just signed up here to let you know so far the only tethering app that works that I know of is Fixmo Extend. CSpire has went down hill with this move
PDAnet has an option to hide tethering information and that seems to work for now.
I just installed FoxFi and the FoxFi addon which lets you enable a proxy server on port 8000. It works perfect.
Foxfi nolonger works are there any other apps
not a iphone =)
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Foxfi nolonger works are there any other apps
not a iphone =)
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FoxFi works fine if you're not on jelly bean and you have not updated to the newest version (where they automatically downgraded their free version to a poor trial).
I'm on gingerbread and my version of foxfi won't start hotspot unless you upgrade.
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You can also go into a browsers dev tools and change the user agent to Safari/Firefox 4 or lower/Internet Explorer 6/iOS/Android. Ive gotten this to work with the 4.1 native hot spot on my Galaxy S using Google Chrome and Internet Explorer 9. Also i think it was mentioned but a User agent switcher extention works fine. Right now i use Safari 5 as it gives me a desktop experience. Dev tools are also nice in case you are on another machine and cant download an extension to a browser.
The rom I'm using is Axis =]
Have you tried AnyConnect?
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It's not that.
THe APP Onavo Extend is trying to connect to a VPN.. I click approve and it says
VPN Unavailable. It seems that VPN support for applications isn't available in your version of Android.
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OK so I need to route my tethered data through a VPN, it's not to steal data I don't care about that it's for security purposes. Anyway is there any way to do this I've read multiple articles on reconfiguring the iptables but that doesn't work, I used to use Wi-Fi Tether Router by Fabio Grasso but that doesn't do that anymore either. If anyone has any ideas please...
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Try adguard.. it's adblocking app that creates a local vpn for filtering advt data. Now you can activate mobile tethering and see how it goes. Hope this helps.
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Try adguard.. it's adblocking app that creates a local vpn for filtering advt data. Now you can activate mobile tethering and see how it goes. Hope this helps.
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I can't find it anywhere this adguard. Is it in the Play Store>
I'm not sure that's what I'm looking for though I'm trying to connect to my VPN through something like OpenVPN and have all the data coming from the tether routed through there...
Adguard is banned on Plays tired for obvious reasons. It is available on their site. Google it and you should have their link. No harm trying it.
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i tried it out, it's just a proprietary version of openvpn, but it specifically says it can't tunnel tethered devices. man i'm about to just go back to my htc desire. who wouldve rgought getting a working vpn would be so hard
So I'm looking for an app that allows free wireless tethering for android, on iOS I used to use an app called MyWi from Cydia, everything I've looked up so far for android either requires using a pc with n app like pdanet or doesn't work, I need an app that doesn't let my carrier see that I'm tethering. The way MyWi worked on iOS was, any device that connects would use the same IP address as the phone providing the hotspot and it worked great I used to be able to tether as much as I wanted w/o my hotspot data being used up please help.
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So I'm looking for an app that allows free wireless tethering for android, on iOS I used to use an app called MyWi from Cydia, everything I've looked up so far for android either requires using a pc with n app like pdanet or doesn't work, I need an app that doesn't let my carrier see that I'm tethering. The way MyWi worked on iOS was, any device that connects would use the same IP address as the phone providing the hotspot and it worked great I used to be able to tether as much as I wanted w/o my hotspot data being used up please help.
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Hi, Thanks for using XDA assist.
There is a general forum for android here http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/help where you can try to ask to get expert's help.
Good luck