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why root question?not a noob either

ive been coming here for a long time.ive rooted several of my phones using these forums.also ive always seen the benefits of rooting those phones.but since ive purchased my g2x it seems to me that it does every thing you could possibly want from it out of the box.please no flaming because i love this stuff.i just need a good reason to get behind rooting this phone.not just because its addictive.

Allowing you to use apps like
Setcpu
Droidwall
Adfree
SDspeed
Clearcache
Bloatfreezer
Sysctl config
Not to mention it will allow to remove bloat ware.
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My phone functions alot better with it running custom roms ... Currently running fitsnuglys kang ... Whenever I run a stock rom I miss calls and my phone seems possessed ...

Forgot to mention that I also use my phone as my mp3 player and the sound quality coming through my headphones is much better than stock... unbelievable sound.. And yes I'm addicted my wife says I need help and I can't go anywhere near her phone ... lol

swuln said:
Forgot to mention that I also use my phone as my mp3 player and the sound quality coming through my headphones is much better than stock... unbelievable sound.. And yes I'm addicted my wife says I need help and I can't go anywhere near her phone ... lol
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yeah im not allowed to touch my wifes phone either.lol..

fabricatedhero said:
Allowing you to use apps like
Setcpu
Droidwall
Adfree
SDspeed
Clearcache
Bloatfreezer
Sysctl config
Not to mention it will allow to remove bloat ware.
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guess im gonna need to learn what the heck bloat ware and bloat freeze is.

Your battery life and speed can dramatically increase, I'm still a beginner to rooting and all this good stuff so that's the most significant change I saw as of now.

It can be costly when you dont know what your doing but if you.do it right it can save you money(from mobile hotspot) and increase speed
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swuln said:
And yes I'm addicted my wife says I need help and I can't go anywhere near her phone ... lol
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I lol'd
Same here, but I still rooted her Samsung galaxy s 4g.
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Rooted, then can do wifi hot spot. Also froze evil CarHome.
Headphone jack sounds better with other ROMs, really? Really?

I am confused I used my phone as a mobile hotspot all the time before I rooted it comes witht he phone and I was never charged extra for tethering. Now that I am rooted it works the same as before I dont see any difference in that department. So could you guys elaborate on what you are talking about. Yes I am a TMO user

Well for me, rooted or not my hotspot dont work anymore unless i add the feature for 14.99. Sucks, i came from a G2, then next day i received my G2x and hotspot stopped. Called them and they said network has finally detected me using it..
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Well most phones wont let you use the hotspot without paying...actually can u connect.a.device to the internet from hotspot? Cuz on my friends evo 4g you can turn on hotspot but cannot connect to internet with it.
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ltlover21 said:
Well most phones wont let you use the hotspot without paying...actually can u connect.a.device to the internet from hotspot? Cuz on my friends evo 4g you can turn on hotspot but cannot connect to internet with it.
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Yeah, i turn it on and other devices can connect but no Internet access
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Yeah they definatley stopped you well I can mess with my friends evo and see what I can come up with to get around the network but you may have to wait till someone comes up with a new program
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ltlover21 said:
Yeah they definatley stopped you well I can mess with my friends evo and see what I can come up with to get around the network but you may have to wait till someone comes up with a new program
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Well one way is changing nunbers my girl got her g2x couple days after me.. And her hotspot didnt work eirher after changing phones. We had problems with her data that she would browse the internet, then out of nowhere sge gets redirected to web2go.com sating she has no data, and 1.99 charge to continue. We had this issue for 2wks, they didbt know what to do, had 4 replacement phones because thats all they suggested, 2 new sim cards, refreshed the network to many times, factory reset.. I told them it has to be the network because even if she swapped phones with me or tried another problem would follow, i suggested to change number, rep said no, supervisor said that wouldn't help. So he ordered another replacement, monday it came, same thing. Called again, this time demanded her number changed, few minutes later internet worked from there on. Even her hotspot well, working because network hasnt detected the new number.. But hers is working for now..
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Lol yeah unless you try.something new then theyll probably find it again..just try not to.brick your phone cuz that always sucks
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d12unk13astard said:
I lol'd
Same here, but I still rooted her Samsung galaxy s 4g.
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Yea. That was the only thing she let me do and I froze some apps to save her some battery life, also got rid of the fora files for some extra space.. She's tough, she doesn't like change... took me forever to get her to upgrade her PC... The only reason she has the sgs4g is it was a gift... She sees the customizations on my phone and says " why don't I have that ? " and I say. " Let me flash your phone and you will" and shes silent .... So there's a glimpse of hope... maybe the size of a dust particle but its there ...lol..

namklak said:
Rooted, then can do wifi hot spot. Also froze evil CarHome.
Headphone jack sounds better with other ROMs, really? Really?
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Well that's what I think anyway... I love music and at night I'll put my headphones on to fall asleep and on the stock roms it seems idk kinda muffled, its not as crisp .. I use the earbuds that came with the wife's sgs4g... Bass Is awesome on them .. I crank up some Foo Fighters and I'm in my happy place.. I'm pretty picky about my music quality ... Musics in my genes, both sides of my family are full of musicians .... I'm the only one who can't read sheet music... I'm self taught bass player .. also play a little drums... Idk I can just listen and then play it... My brotherrthe same way but he can read sheet music...

swuln said:
Well that's what I think anyway... I love music and at night I'll put my headphones on to fall asleep and on the stock roms it seems idk kinda muffled, its not as crisp .. I use the earbuds that came with the wife's sgs4g... .
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Sorry to pester, but what ROM/ kernel fixed the "kinda muffled"? Did you use those earbuds on both stock and whatever your are using now? I used to be an audiophile - not that I expect that quality out of the cheap DACs they use in these phones, but free improvement is free, and I like free....

[Q] Tethering without T-mobile knowing

Is it possible to tether (use wifi hotspot) so that T-Mobile won't know that I am tethering? I have the "unlimited" 2GB per month data plan and would really like to tether without paying for the tethering option. Does anyone know if there is a 3rd party app or some other way around them knowing that I am tethering? I know there have been a couple threads about this but none gives a clear answer. Thanks!

ctowne said:
Is it possible to tether (use wifi hotspot) so that T-Mobile won't know that I am tethering? I have the "unlimited" 2GB per month data plan and would really like to tether without paying for the tethering option. Does anyone know if there is a 3rd party app or some other way around them knowing that I am tethering? I know there have been a couple threads about this but none gives a clear answer. Thanks!
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Root and install a ROM then use the built in tethering with the ROM. Carriers won't know you're tethering but it will show them that you're using a lot of data
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creglenn said:
Root and install a ROM then use the built in tethering with the ROM. Carriers won't know you're tethering but it will show them that you're using a lot of data
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This. I tether from time to time and they've never said anything to me or done anything.
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Twice now I have had trouble with tethering with a t mobile website coming up on my computer saying that I need to pay for the tethering option. Reboot phone reboot computer problem solved.
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creglenn said:
Root and install a ROM then use the built in tethering with the ROM. Carriers won't know you're tethering but it will show them that you're using a lot of data
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So I just have to be rooted and that's it? I'm on the stock 2.3.4 LG and it is rooted so I should be all set?
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ctowne said:
So I just have to be rooted and that's it? I'm on the stock 2.3.4 LG and it is rooted so I should be all set?
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I use it all the time. No issues for me.
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Ok thanks guys!

I think they were saying you'd need a custom ROM?
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I actually DID get fully blocked from Tethering back in January. They'd been warning me for 2 months when it happened. I had gone over my cap by quite a bit in December, if that makes a difference... crawling internet was better than no internet! Had received several warnings. Made user agent and other changes in my browser that was supposed to hide the activity, but they DID cut me off. Tethering stopped working completely.
Thankfully that was right at the time they were offering the free tethering add-on if you upgraded to 5gb data from 2gb so I called up and had them add that. I was already at 5gb, but I told them I'd be dropping my data if they didn't give me the tethering... Don't know if that is still offered.

lotherius said:
I actually DID get fully blocked from Tethering back in January. They'd been warning me for 2 months when it happened. I had gone over my cap by quite a bit in December, if that makes a difference... crawling internet was better than no internet! Had received several warnings. Made user agent and other changes in my browser that was supposed to hide the activity, but they DID cut me off. Tethering stopped working completely.
Thankfully that was right at the time they were offering the free tethering add-on if you upgraded to 5gb data from 2gb so I called up and had them add that. I was already at 5gb, but I told them I'd be dropping my data if they didn't give me the tethering... Don't know if that is still offered.
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Its still included with 5gb. I changed mine from 2gb to 5 last month because I'm not around wifi as much these days
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Well I won't use tethering a ton because I'm usually in wifi range. I got a Xoom off of craigslist last week and I don't feel like paying for Verizon 4G LTE so I figured I could attempt to tether with the G2x cuz I'm cheap

Lol you guys are making this way too complex for the OP. Just get OpenGarden or Barnacle Tether from the Play Store! Just have to be rooted.

rrroach said:
Lol you guys are making this way too complex for the OP. Just get OpenGarden or Barnacle Tether from the Play Store! Just have to be rooted.
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For some reason the wifi from both of those apps show up on my laptop but not on my xoom tablet. Any thoughts on why that would be?

ctowne said:
For some reason the wifi from both of those apps show up on my laptop but not on my xoom tablet. Any thoughts on why that would be?
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Some devices can't connect to an Ad-Hoc connection (which is what those apps create), like the PS3. Perhaps your tablet is like that too.

Ok thanks. I guess I'll just use the built in tethering app. I was using it yesterday for an hour or so and had no problems.

[Q] Verizon Turning off CDMA

Ok so i'm having an issue, I use my phone to tether as my main internet connection. Before with my x2 i was able to turn off CDMA and use EVDO only. So text wouldn't cut off my tethering date. On this phone i'm in EVDO only mode but i still get text messages :/

I dont think i can get phone calls in evdo only but the text still mess up the internet. This is weird

This phone does data and you can use the phone at the same time. Not sure about it while tethering, shouldn't be a difference though.
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I was under the impression that this feature only works while on 4g is that not the case?
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Always works. Its a qualcomm SoC thing. Rezound and thunderbolt could as well. Kind of silly to jump to conclusions like that without actually seeing if it hurts anything. I've answered phone calls while playing black light online.
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sneakysolidbake said:
Always works. Its a qualcomm SoC thing. Rezound and thunderbolt could as well. Kind of silly to jump to conclusions like that without actually seeing if it hurts anything. I've answered phone calls while playing black light online.
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Its not really silly, with the x2 if you got a text or a phone call you lost internet. Everything i read said it was because of the verizon network. so i figured it was every phone. Just what i read and was told by people on here and verizon.

New to Verizon.. if I understand correctly you're saying this phone can do voice and data? Even on 3g ?
I thought Verizon's network couldn't do that. If the previous statement is correct then can we use the international dialers that have video built into them ?
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screwyluie said:
New to Verizon.. if I understand correctly you're saying this phone can do voice and data? Even on 3g ?
I thought Verizon's network couldn't do that. If the previous statement is correct then can we use the international dialers that have video built into them ?
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I thought the same thing, But i guess that was silly of me to think....... lol Really though idk what samsung did with this phone but on 3g you can do data and voice at the same time. i'm kinda surprised. I know nothing about international dialers

Like I said, its a qualcomm SoC (system on chip) thing. What I'm saying is silly is that you already claimed the txt messages hurt your tethering.
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Tweek900 said:
I thought the same thing, But i guess that was silly of me to think....... lol Really though idk what samsung did with this phone but on 3g you can do data and voice at the same time. i'm kinda surprised. I know nothing about international dialers
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Those of us who started with the thunderbolt and then rezound have had this feature. I love it as i used to have att which was this way.
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nosympathy said:
Those of us who started with the thunderbolt and then rezound have had this feature. I love it as i used to have att which was this way.
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I also came from ATT so this is a nice surprise for me.
as for the dialers, I know there are dialer apps out there (which generally come from non US phones) that have video calling features built into them, is there anyone watching this thread who could tell me if it would be possible to get one and make use of it? and would it require root to replace the dialer app? (I'm guessing it would)
thanks

T-Mobile tethering question on the sensation 4G

Is it possible to use a third party app like the one that my friend used on his sprint ego 4g called tether in other to tether with with his tablet?
Is there an option like this that I can use in order to bypass my T-Mobile hold on my nuts.
Cause I'm paying $120 already I don't wanna pay $10 more bucks for 5gigsin order to tether. I think I'm already paying enough.
Can anyone help me?
Is there a way to circumvent this?
Or I'm a doomed to keep paying this bastards for more internet?
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I know Bruces CM10 ROM has tethering built in and it works fine.

The answer is yes. Try Wi-Fi tether from the market. There is a way to set the settings. If you get the app and it's not working, or your having trouble with the settings, P.M. me for the settings. I did have it working well with certain settings. I've found this app works in about 3out of 4 roms. Give it a try. It's simply called Wi-Fi tether. Best wishes
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Thanks for your response bro but would you mind telling me which one of these apps is it?
And yes, if you have some special setting that I might need please let me get them... Just in case you need more info
I'm on
T mobile us
Trully unlimited plan
Rooted, unlocked, s offed
Stock ROM without bloatware
Sensation 4g ICS stock ROM
4.0.3 ICS
Sense 3.6
Like I said I do need the settings, so can you pm them to me or direct me where I can find them ? I will really appreciate all your help bro, and anyone else's.
I attached a pic so you can see what I can see in the market OK I just wanna get the right one or the one that works with my phone.
Thanks in advanced
Peace out
Have q nice day
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beeroge said:
I know Bruces CM10 ROM has tethering built in and it works fine.
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Can you direct me to his cm10 thing or theme? And probably install instructions? And can you tell me if it will be compatible with my phone? Check my other posts for my phone info plz.
Thanks in advanced and have q nice day.
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realsis said:
The answer is yes. Try Wi-Fi tether from the market. There is a way to set the settings. If you get the app and it's not working, or your having trouble with the settings, P.M. me for the settings. I did have it working well with certain settings. I've found this app works in about 3out of 4 roms. Give it a try. It's simply called Wi-Fi tether. Best wishes
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Hi bro sorry i yook do long to answer but ive been sick.
Well the app you sugested kind works and kind of doesnt work. Because i set the settings you suvested but when i activate the hotspot my nexus 10 doesnt find its signal so i dont think it is being broadcasted.
Can you please direct me to the rom you mentioned that has the working hotspot.
Also does anyone knows about a good jellybean rom for the sensation 4g with the working hotspot
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[Q] How to tether without extra charges or root?

Hello All. I've searched the forum and have seen many threads about tethering, but I can't find the answer to my specific question...or maybe I'm blind and am just missing it, in which case, I apologize for posting something that has already been answered.
Anyway, I want to tether with my verizon S3 but of course I don't want to pay extra for data I pay for already, nor do I want to root my device, at least not yet. I've heard many things that verizon can't charge for tethering if you have a tiered plan, but when I try to use the built in mobile hotspot it says I am not subscribed and to call verizon. Am I missing something? Didn't there used to be a built in wifi tethering functionality into android?
More specifically, I want to tether my Nexus 10.

Have you tried clockworkmod tether? Never used it but he does great work and it doesn't require root.

Foxfi from the market.
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bobAbooE said:
Have you tried clockworkmod tether?
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I have not. Does that need root? I assume it is a paid app. As long as the price is reasonable I don't mind. I'd prefer a free app though.

Nopi45 said:
Foxfi from the market.
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I'd prefer to not root my phone right now. Also, I used to use FoxFi on my Bionic, yes I owned one of those, and it worked great. So I tried it on the S3 (no root) and I couldn't get the Nexus 10 to find the tethered wifi network I set up.

neither require root. clockwork does require to install a program on your comp, might not work for you. check out foxfi.

bobAbooE said:
neither require root. clockwork does require to install a program on your comp, might not work for you. check out foxfi.
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Yeah problem with CWM tether is that I don't want it for the computer...want it for the Nexus 10 tablet. And FoxFi's network it creates can't be found by the Nexus 10 for some reason.

Yea Foxfi is no root need bro. Just keep playing with it I have had to mess around a few times with settings but always got it. I my first recommendation is keep security off for your first connection then after you connect try it with security.
I use it on my phone and my wife uses it on here locked down tiger than the Whitehouse razor.
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Nopi45 said:
Yea Foxfi is no root need bro. Just keep playing with it I have had to mess around a few times with settings but always got it. I my first recommendation is keep security off for your first connection then after you connect try it with security.
I use it on my phone and my wife uses it on here locked down tiger than the Whitehouse razor.
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Yeah I realize FoxFi doesn't need root, but it won't connect with the tablet. I read somewhere it doesn't work well with Jelly Bean...

Not sure about JB but it works great on ICS and my VZW GSlll.
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Yeah works fine on the phone itself, but the nexus 10 is on JB so there is my problem I think.

Also - I have proxy disabled.
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Lonepalm said:
Yeah works fine on the phone itself, but the nexus 10 is on JB so there is my problem I think.
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Don't think that should matter. Let me test later and see if I can connect to my Galaxy Nexus on JB.
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