I just came from Sprint and bypassing their hotspot was so much easier than bypassing a working tether with a limit. Is it possible? I'm having so many issues here. Most solutions seem to rely on Android 4.4.2 binaries.
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I have distant plans to make a non-commercial app for our company phones but I signed up for a dev account primarily to run other people's code. Specifically I wanted to interop-unlock and setup wifi tethering on a few Focuses since I'm sick of waiting for AT&T. We pay for tethering on our lines and a few guys have been using the corded trick from shortly after launch but its clunky.
Anyway, I've unlocked two phones and setup proper tethering and its great. My question is can I unregister those phones and still have tethering working since its been enabled in the OS instead of being an app? Further, I would like to roll out tethering to all of our phones by unlocking, enabling it, and unregistering the phone immediately after. Would there any problems with this plan? Thanks in advance.
Your plan should work. The registration (dev-unlock) is required in order to install the apps that do the provisioning for Internet sharing. Once provisionined, though, it doesn't matter anymore. If you can safely delete the app and the feature keeps working, then you can almost certainly safely de-register the phones and it will keep working.
Just an FYI, this appears to work just fine. I unregistered one of the phones and it can still be used for wifi tethering. I'll update this thread if I learn otherwise as I roll out wifi tethering to all of the Focuses on our account.
So I ran into a bit of a snag... After unlocking and re-locking my 3rd phone I went back to my personal phone to unlock it again because I found some other homebrew things I wanted to try (specifically Advanced Config 1.4)... Unfortunately I'm getting the dreaded 0x64 error when I try to do so. I thought about trying to unlock a virgin phone first but it sounds like the only way I can unlock mine again at this point is to do a full reset on it - but I don't want to do that without making sure that the 3 phone limit isn't the problem (current my app hub shows NO registered devices).
Shouldn't I be able to unlock the same phone again? I didn't click any of the "prevent re-lock" options in the tools I used for the Interop unlock or the tethering setup...
Was just wondering if anyone knew what if any repercussions there would be using the Wifi Hotspot and USB tether app from SVTP (from the Android Market) on a non-rooted Verizon GN. The app works great and was quick to setup but I am interested to know if I will be automatically popped into a Mobile Hotspot plan (which I do not have now) if I use it.
That being said would it make more sense to root my phone to circumvent these potential charges?
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thank you in advance.
Verizon has recently adopted new changes in how it monitors for tethering and when unauthorized tethering is detected it redirects you to a verizon web page on how to order a tethering package. I have heard PDA net still works, you might want to check out Koush's tether app, reported to be undetectable.
I say either way root your phone, then load a custom rom many of them have work arounds for wifi tethering
I'm asking mostly for knowledge- I'm rooted on the e4gt w/ jb goodness. My boss was looking to wifi tether on his wife's phone w/out rooting and he found an app that does it claiming that no root is required. Why have apps traditionally required rooting for this (if this is true and not a false belief of mine) and what is the difference between wifi tethering apps with and w/out root? Thank you.
Those that require root actually tether your wifi, while the no-root apps probably use the phone as a relay between the PC and phonr
I know there is at least 1 method for bypassing T-Mobile tethering restrictions for the Nexus5
For example: This thread ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2512674&page=8 )
However, are there any other simpler methods that don't require rooting your phone?
T-Mobile's unlimited data plan includes unlimited data for the Nexus5, but not for tethering. T-Mobile gives you 2.5GB tethering hotspot for free, so you can use your Nexus5 to tether. But it appears that not even apps like FoxFi help when you've reached your 2.5GB tethering limit.
I used my Nexus7 tethered to my Nexus5 yesterday, and when i went to a chrome webpage on the tablet, it prompted me to upgrade my tethering plan....
I was stunned.........
First) because I didn't know T-Mobile could track tethering on a Nexus5......... and I still dont exactly understand how they track it...
Second) because even if they could somehow track tethering, I assumed that since I was using another android device, they wouldn't even be able to detect the traffic difference between Nexus5 and Nexus7
Third) because FoxFi didn't work !
Are there any methods (similar to FoxFi) that work? or are T-Mobile tethering restrictions unavoidable unless rooted?
Based on my understanding, Google built something into the Nexus 5 that reports tethering back to the carrier. It's unfortunately but certainly understandable as I'm sure the carriers have been asking for it for a while. The reason this breaks FoxFi as well is that FoxFi seems to use the built-in tethering with a hack to mask traffic. Since the built-in tethering is reporting it as tethering to the carrier anyway, masking the traffic doesn't help.
The modification to settings.db appears to disable that reporting with a single value, a setting that is obviously not normally available to the user. Since apps like FoxFi have been able to use the built-in tethering to work around carrier restrictions in the past, I think you will need to see development on a new app (like the old Wireless Tether for Root Users that predates the built-in tethering) to get around the restrictions without modifying system files.
What bothers me more is that my plan includes tethering and I am still hitting the paywall on my Nexus 5.
Any updates to this?
I have the $20 unlimited and unthrottled 4G data add on, it comes with only 2.5GB of tethering, then I get the upsell message.
try this link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2581035
Pretty sure that they check more ways than one. They did ask Google to put in a checker (found in the changelogs for official update) but also they check via the header of the packet of info that passes through their towers. Some have had success with just changing the user agent of their browser, but if you are completely stock then I think you have to edit the framework, the sqlite option, and the browser agent. Might be easier to use a custom rom that doesn't have the framework stuff in it. I don't use Tmo anymore, so can't test this stuff out. When I had my S4 on Tmo, I had to use a VPN, custom wifi tether app, and only then could I tether without being sent to the upsell page (my plan at the time did not even include tethering either).
I've got a question about changing the Dun APN requirement for the native mobile Hotspot. The December update from OTA on galaxy S8+ or generally galaxies I'm not sure how many phone's it affected, but I've been working on a solution to get the native hotspot to work again. So far I've found a way to activate the native hotspot through the build prop/ or using an xposed module. Build prop is the easier choice for those without xposed. But even after activating it, the actual connection gets constant DNS errors in assuming because of the dun requirement that's the only thing i can guess would be doing it. Even so I might be wrong and need to do something else entirely. Either way I'm trying to figure out how to make the dun requirement null through ADB. I'm away how to set the dun requirement to 0 but the problem is any time I activate data or hotspot or turn data off or turn the hotspot off it immediately reactivated dun requirement.
TL;DR I'm trying to find a way to erase the dun requirement from hotspot protocols. Any help would be appreciated.