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[Q] Tether connecting but does not work?

Hello guys, I'm new to the site and I just have 1 question (that I have googled for about 3 hours without success).
I just got my G2X and rooted it via superoneclick as soon as I got it. I am having problems with the wifi tethering and have read that tmobile has filtered tethering on plans without the plan but I refuse to believe that they would be able to filter 3rd party tethering apps. I have tried about 4 different third party apps and the stock program. They always send out a signal but cannot connect to anything (tried on 2 different laptops). Can someone shed some light on what's going on? any help is greatly appreciated.

I noticed to get the built in tether program working for my netbook I had to do an "ipconfig /release" then an "ipconfig /renew" from the command line after wifi had connected.
The wifi tethering program from the google code site worked out of the box but protection wouldn't work, and I had no desire to share my phone to the whole hotel

What do you mean protection doesn't work? Thr set password works fine for me
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I'm getting crazy with the wifi thetering.
yesterday everything was working fine, including protection.
Today is not working. I made 2 reset. I have always error in portable wifi hotspot

Now I'm able to connect the notebook to the wifi tetheting, I'm using Open Garden Wifi Tether.
I'm still not able to connect the blackberry

c19932 said:
What do you mean protection doesn't work? Thr set password works fine for me
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It would show two networks, one protected, one not, the protected one didn't work and anyone could connect to the unprotected one

I pay for tethering on one of my phones (mine) and am trying it now for the 1st time....very fast. Wouldn't connect at first then I let windows do a troubleshoot and it corrected the issue. Seems to work well. I've been having a lot of power failures this year so want to ensure my wife can have internet for her work.
But I think I've read that the providers can't prevent tethering apps from working. Haven't I heard they are preventing the tethering apps from being seen through their Market apps?
They may detect the extra usage though.

Lightning Blue said:
I noticed to get the built in tether program working for my netbook I had to do an "ipconfig /release" then an "ipconfig /renew" from the command line after wifi had connected.
The wifi tethering program from the google code site worked out of the box but protection wouldn't work, and I had no desire to share my phone to the whole hotel
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I was going to ask how to do this but I realized what you meant. It still did nothing for me look at my pic. it connects but I can't browse the web much less download anything. I hope someone can chime in with a solution.
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I am rooted on a custom rom and T-Mobile still doesnt like me thethering

I am currently using the ICS helfire rom on my g2x. Of course i have root access so i have the ability to tether, but t-mobile is stil stopping me.
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When i tether on wifi hot spot or usb tether to my laptop (my friends connect their iPods and phones to them all the time and i never get compaints) it redirects what ever page i want to go on to a T-Mobile page trying to get me to pay for tethering. I can easily get around it with a proxy but sometimes i can't use it. Is there anyway around this?

I wonder if this means T-mobile is finally controlling tethering by packet filtering along with IMEI tracking?

Change user agent string in your browser to android. Both firefox and chrome have extensions for that.
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Read this thread and post there if anything, since it's started already and has some discussion.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1388108
Its only a couple days old only had to scroll down about 10 posts
Guess they are cracking down now. Sucks.
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after seeing these threads I tried to tether just now and its giving me an error when I try and open the wifi tether app...so IDK looks like they may have started to crack down on it

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Change user agent string in your browser to android. Both firefighters and chrome have extensions for that.
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Thank you so much. No more proxies for me

btg0002 said:
after seeing these threads I tried to tether just now and its giving me an error when I try and open the wifi tether app...so IDK looks like they may have started to crack down on it
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They shut me down last week as well, and I was tethering using CM7's built-in hotspot feature. Using a VPN or changing your browser ID will get around it.

I don't get it.. I was able to tether even before I rooted. Not long ago my wife and I went on a vacation, and the rooms didn't have Wi-Fi like we thought. Tethering to my phone really saved us. Did they block it or something?? I haven't tried it since then.

aaCotyaa said:
I don't get it.. I was able to tether even before I rooted. Not long ago my wife and I went on a vacation, and the rooms didn't have Wi-Fi like we thought. Tethering to my phone really saved us. Did they block it or something?? I haven't tried it since then.
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Yes, they seem to have started enforcing their requirement to have a tethering plan sometime in the last week or two.

I have noticed since posting that it is intermittently working....sometimes I can tether and other times I cannot but I never get the t mobile tether screen on my computer I just get an error message on the phone so Idk if I have been caught or not lol
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Interesting.... When I get home in going to try and thether my ipod.. See what's up.
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T-mobile blocks websites when i try to tether :(

I am currently using the ICS helfire rom on my g2x. Of course i have root access so i have the ability to tether, but t-mobile is stil stopping me.
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When i tether on wifi hot spot or usb tether to my laptop (my friends connect their iPods and phones to them all the time and i never get compaints) it redirects what ever page i want to go on to a T-Mobile page trying to get me to pay for tethering. I can easily get around it with a proxy but sometimes i can't use it. Is there anyway around this?

create a new apn called whatever. put the apn in as epc.t-mobile.com and save it. select it as the default and reboot. All is now good.
Or, if it is a sensation, head over to the dev forum and download one of the unlocked tmo specific roms. they work.

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create a new apn called whatever. put the apn in as epc.t-mobile.com and save it. select it as the default and reboot. All is now good.
Or, if it is a sensation, head over to the dev forum and download one of the unlocked tmo specific roms. they work.
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Sorry,tried searching but couldn't find it. What'san apn and how do I create it on my HTC one s?
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I believe if you use a tether app from the play store tmobile won't detect it. Usually only happens when you use the stock app that is programmed to check If you have tethering package.
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It's happened to me before when I used a tethering app too..however after some research I found an easy workaround to it!
Apparently, this is caused by T-Mobile doing something with Chrome browser which causes some of the packets/strings sent to block it, or something along those lines.. I am not exactly sure how it works, but a solution is to use Mozilla Firefox or an alternate browser - I have been doing this for a while, and it has been working perfectly
Hope I helped!

In the HTC Sensation forum there are now several ROMs that address this and unlock the APN, fixing tethering across the board for any app. Apparently there is a tethering specifier in the default APN. The reason Firefox works is probably due to the user agent string it passes.

Get a text message from Sprint?

So I got a text message from Sprint less than 10 min ago saying I could save battery life by turning ON WiFi is this true?Anyone else received this?
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ive seen this somewhere else though im not sure how valid it is because not only is it searching for wifi, apps are still using your 3g/4g. though i could be wrong on that.
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Yes, Sprint's been pushing wi-fi for some time now. It's all over the online account section of the website. No reason to be concerned.

wmdunn said:
Yes, Sprint's been pushing wi-fi for some time now. It's all over the online account section of the website. No reason to be concerned.
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Just seemed interesting because for the longest time I thought WiFi drained your battery faster
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ebs512 said:
Just seemed interesting because for the longest time I thought WiFi drained your battery faster
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Wifi uses the least power as long as you're actually connected to an access point. If you're not, the wifi radio only wakes up for about 15 seconds every few minutes to scan for networks it's previously been connected to. This is assuming you have wifi set to always stay on (default behavior) instead of turning off while the display is off.
I've hit 3 days on a single charge if I kept the phone on wifi and worked from home. Personally, I leave wifi on, but have Tasker set to disable it when it connects to my car stereo over bluetooth (and re-enable as soon as the stereo disconnects). No point having it on when I'm driving, but I have that setup so that it disconnects from my home router when I get in the car, forcing it to connect to 3G so I can start streaming music.

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Yes, Sprint's been pushing wi-fi for some time now. It's all over the online account section of the website. No reason to be concerned.
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Of course they're pushing it, it saves them money if you use wifi for data. While it does save you battery if you use wifi and have a steady wifi connection I wouldn't put much merit in anything any company pushes.

ebs512 said:
Just seemed interesting because for the longest time I thought WiFi drained your battery faster
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I really don't think Sprint cares about our batteries ... just trying to minimize our data usage on their network.

What about Native Tethering for T-Mobile?

I've seen a bunch of threads on enabling native tethering for VZW/ATT/Sprint, but none for T-Mobile. Any advice on how to enable native tethering for us TMO folks?

I would be very interested as well.
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Go to settings and enable it
Or am I missing something ?

kolyan said:
Go to settings and enable it
Or am I missing something ?
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Looking for a mod to the entitlementservice.apk. they have this mod in this section for att and vzw, but nothing specifically for tmo.

mattyv316 said:
Looking for a mod to the entitlementservice.apk. they have this mod in this section for att and vzw, but nothing specifically for tmo.
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Again I am probably missing something but they need mod because tethering doesn't work. On T-Mobile tethering works with out any mods.....at least on my phone.

kolyan said:
Again I am probably missing something but they need mod because tethering doesn't work. On T-Mobile tethering works with out any mods.....at least on my phone.
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I am guessing because you don't have unlimited data, or you have been grandfathered in from an older data plan (which I was). Tmo switched my plan to unl when I upgraded to my previous phone 2 years ago. I was getting it fine when I was limited to 5gb, but when they "upgraded' my plan the last time, I lost the free hot spot option. For those who fall under this category, we now get greeted with the attached image. There has been similar hot spot blocking on ATT and VZW, but there are also workarounds in this section for them. I cannot find any that work for TMo clients in this scenario. My previous phone was a GS3 running CM 10.2. AOSP ROMs do not have the carrier check, so I was able to use this without issue for the last 2 years. Switching to XT1053 with stock ROM now causes this problem.
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interesting, i recently switched to unlimited data and my tether works fine.
edit: looks like it didnt switch thats why i have tether

What unlimited plan do you have? I have the new one (simple choice i think) and I can tether fine. I've never actually gone beyond the 2.5gb limit, so I don't know if that's why you're getting the message.

I used to be able to tether on non-Kit-Kat on my Nexus 4. I switched to the Moto X running 4.4 and I am now unable to tether. I keep hitting a T-Mobile upsell page.

Kev1000000 said:
I've seen a bunch of threads on enabling native tethering for VZW/ATT/Sprint, but none for T-Mobile. Any advice on how to enable native tethering for us TMO folks?
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Post a link to your framework-res.apk file in my thread; I'll give it i a go.

chaoslimits said:
Post a link to your framework-res.apk file in my thread; I'll give it i a go.
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The T-Mobile framework-res.apk/res/values/arrays.xml doesn't have a value set for the config_mobile_hotspot_provision_app property. I was having trouble building framework-res but your thread provided the solution (deleting values-mcc-310-mnc-1; the other directory you said to delete wasn't in my framework-res). Thanks!
My last hope is the single reference to pcweb under framework-res/res/values-mcc310-mnc260/strings.xml. I swapped it for fast but my first attempt at replacing framework-res.apk failed--I need to recheck my steps and make sure I did the resigning and everything correctly. Hopefully I'll have some more time to do this tonight.