I heard that Verizon will be charging to use the mobile hotspot for now on after April 15. I'm wondering if anyone knows a loop hole and to continue to use the hotspot without being charged.. Any info will help thnx
Root it and use wireless tether
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I'm confused. I understand that Sprint charges extra to allow customers to enable tethering via their cell phones. And I understand that many rooted phones can have apps installed and/or enabled to allow tethering without any extra charge. (Please correct me if any of that is inaccurate.)
So what happens when I turn on the wifi hotspot on my new phone? Will it fail because I don't have a "tethering" option on my plan? Will it work, but add $30 to my monthly bill? Or will something else happen.
Same with the USB tethering? How does that work? And get billed?
This 3vo is the first phone I've had that offered these options.
You can use USB tethering without paying the $30/month fee. That's just for WiFi tethering. If you try to use the WiFi hotspot, it simply will just not work. You will not be charged.
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Both wired and wireless tethering fail with the message to contact Sprint to upgrade your plan.
What about pdanet? I haven't had time to try it out yet.
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No, I'm not happy to see you, that's a Shooter in my pocket.
I was told the usb tethering would be free but when i try it it tells me its not included on my acct
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Pdanet works just fine
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Pdanet works just fine
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Excellent. Thanks.
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3vo. That is all that needs be said.
Thanks alot pdanet worked awesome!
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This app is cheap and works great check it out here Also you CAN tether a wifi connection for free but not using mobile connection.
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I found when you try to use either wireless or wired tethering build into the software, you get that error message and it also shuts down the 3g signal. You can still form an adhoc network wirelessly but no internet.
I'm looking for a Rom that unlocks the built in tethering. I just found Virusrom to do a good job. Any other roms you can recommend that just unlock the built in tethering functions?
Hi, I have a stupid question about tethering... I have always used wireless tether for root from the market, but I have Ken's Alien rom, and im wondering since it has tethering, can I just use the mobile hotpot feature without fear of AT&T finding out and charging me?
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How easy is this question? Doesn't anyone know haha
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Well i have read then at&t can generally find out but it is easier to be caught with an iphone I should know because I used to have an iphone 4 flash a c a tricks I say using an app which state that I can hide tethering.
Other ways of hiding your tethering include not using it for a long session
Thought I was caught using tethering on the iphone I still haven't been notified on my atrix
But the common consensus is that there is no real way to hide your tethering from at&t unless they really have a reason to look into your account
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Use Barnacle.............it works fine and is safer than using the APN for tethering.
http://szym.net/barnacle/
<edit> I prefer WiFi Tether, but it doesn't appear to work with 2.3.4............at least not for me.
<edit 2> Just realized WiFi Tether has been updated: http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/downloads/list.
This works with me now. You will get an access control error, but ignore that and you will be fine. Verified working on my laptop here at work. Got 3.5Mbps down and 1Mbps up which is usual dl/ul speed for me at work.
Yeah, wifi tether for root is working flawlessly, but it would be nice to just use mobile hotspot from the phone haha.
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Mobile hotspot worked for me. I did the sqlite edit and clicked on the mobile hotspot app and played around with netflix on my 3DS. I had at&t send me a text of my data usage and it still says unlimited. I would imagine if it didn't work they would have changed me over to a 4gb plan.
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I did the entitlement check change and use the mobile hotspot which works great. Haven't had at&t say anything to me even when I used custom apn method before.
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I obviously don't have 4g in my house, I turn on hotspot and the phone says the xbox us connected, but the xbox won't connect to live.. Any help? Phones not rooted I'm using the built in hotspot, is that extra charge?
Yeah if you are stock not rooted you need to pay for it.
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Geez, so I guess they shouldn't call my plan"everything unlimited" is there a way to tether using wireless n?
Wife just got new 3d from Sprint as replacement and wants to use it to tether.. Are there any ways to get it to tether without rooting? If not what's the easiest way just to root so she can tether. It came with the new ics update. Thanks in advance for any information
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You have built in wifi tether app
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You options are to pay sprint to use the built-in tether, or root and use Wifi Tether.
You can use clockwork tether without rooting but it will cost you $5 for the app and it only works through USB,
I was using the tethering thing and now I got a letter from sprint wanting to terminate my account do to not obeying my contract, I think they only found is because I did a profile or prl update. Before that nothing and I was using it for months, so advice to you all, don't update your profile or prl .keep you all updated when I speak to them on monday
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From what I hear you can use WiFi tether app without them knowing about it as long as you don't use their native tethering which of course would have to hacked.
I forgot what i did on my lg motion to bypass the tethering service from metro... I am rooted and tried pdanet, foxfi, barnacle, but my iphone that im trying to get the hotspot activated on never lets me get online without upgrading to the service...
Bump?? Anyone?
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This might work for you, I haven't personally tried it but I know what you're after, I use PDAnet to USB tether but if I try to do wireless tethering I get sent to a webpage that blocks me :crying:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2201062