Wifi Hotspot - HTC Amaze 4G

To any Amaze users; Are you able to to use the wifi hotspot without the $15/mo fee? The Sensation has it, and I can use it freely, but it is being exchanged for an Amaze due to dust accumulating under the screen.
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Yes
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hurrpancakes said:
To any Amaze users; Are you able to to use the wifi hotspot without the $15/mo fee? The Sensation has it, and I can use it freely, but it is being exchanged for an Amaze due to dust accumulating under the screen.
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Just like Teo said, yes you can.
Just a matter of changing the APN and deleting another one.
Let me find the thread on that for you.
*Here it is and I believe page 4 has the instructions.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1301104&highlight=wifi+hotspot

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Only for a short time it doesn't look for the apn, T-Mobile knows your using the hot spot and there is an amount that it lets you use before forcing the feature on you, although I've never found how much it is that it lets you use but I can tell you it indicates to us what percentage you have used of what it allows you to. Changing apns might work but only until they decomission some of the older apns and it doesn't work for everybody I seen people get mad because they can't access web because they are using an old apn or because they can't use hot spot for free anymore lol
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Just use a third party app if you get blocked like wireless tether same thing anyways
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when i purchased my amaze the sales lady told me that tmobile will only charge you if they catch you.. then she whispered to me "ive been using it for a long time now and they havnt caught me yet"..
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Lol employees get it free, no they are aware I see it on accounts all day but just use it while you can, they will crack down on it harder soon i assume but u always got third party options anyway
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ill say this man, store reps for the most part aren't very knowledgeable they are trained to sell to average joe, they know nothing about how it works on the back end. Most of them would try to sell you the galaxy S 2 and tell you its totally superior to the amaze. On the back end when you use hot spot it notes your account in 25% increments that you have used a certain allotment of tethering why T-Mobile allows free use of it who knows but its great for customers I just tell people it lets you try it pretty well but will eventually tell you that you have to pay to continue using it we never been told why it lets people use it free for a bit and I've tried looking into it. If at&t ever takes over it will probably change seeing how they are pretty strict about tethering for now enjoy
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ebatr8 said:
Only for a short time it doesn't look for the apn, T-Mobile knows your using the hot spot and there is an amount that it lets you use before forcing the feature on you, although I've never found how much it is that it lets you use but I can tell you it indicates to us what percentage you have used of what it allows you to. Changing apns might work but only until they decomission some of the older apns and it doesn't work for everybody I seen people get mad because they can't access web because they are using an old apn or because they can't use hot spot for free anymore lol
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I think you've mistaken, we don't use a different apn, we just add a new apn with the same apn... the epc one.
we delete the two original apns so it doesn't switch back. There's something extra in the stock APNs that causes the tethering block (someone mentioned it somewhere but i find it easier to just delete and add a new one)
so unless they block the epc one, which is their main one at the moment, then we're free to use it. besides xboarder already has a workaround for it too.
But if you're not rooted and you're on a fresh factory restore, the adding apn method works. ONLY on fresh factory resets though, before you try toggling the wifi tether. this is what a few others and i discovered roughly a month ago

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Epc is the current one that we use at T-Mobile so that would be wrong, they can track which ever one they like point being that it doesn't matter what you do anyone gets free use whether you change it or not, either way being rooted lets you use wireless tether so it doesn't matter. But I've personally seen people get blocked on different apns, I even went as far as having it researched for someone who claimed to not be using what they came back with was interesting.
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good thing i still have my rooted nexus one.. probably use that for hotspot? just gonna share something.. when we moved to our new house i lost my internet.. connected my ps3 to my nexus via hotspot and played call of duty mw2, played it for a couple of hours then tmobile dropped me down to 2G.. talk about large mount of data.. hehe..
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ebatr8 said:
Epc is the current one that we use at T-Mobile so that would be wrong, they can track which ever one they like point being that it doesn't matter what you do anyone gets free use whether you change it or not, either way being rooted lets you use wireless tether so it doesn't matter. But I've personally seen people get blocked on different apns, I even went as far as having it researched for someone who claimed to not be using what they came back with was interesting.
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not exactly sure what you're pointing out is wrong. I'm actually confused about the whole run on sentence lol. Not sure if you realize that they originally block it straight out of the box. You can't use it at all. So no, it isn't free use whether you change it or not for the Amaze. You HAVE to add a new apn if you want to use it on stock.
we've been discussing for a while now so i don't know if you even tried using your wifi hotspot yet for your amaze because this device is not like other devices where you can use it straight out of the box. and yes if you don't add the new apn, it gets blocked after it reaches a certain point.
I understand what you're saying about ppl using all the other available tmobile apns, but we don't need to do that for the amaze. What you're saying relates to ALL devices, so you're making ppl skeptical about wifi hotspot on the amaze. Like the guy before me saying to use his nexus, it would relate to his nexus too.

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ebatr8 said:
Epc is the current one that we use at T-Mobile so that would be wrong, they can track which ever one they like point being that it doesn't matter what you do anyone gets free use whether you change it or not, either way being rooted lets you use wireless tether so it doesn't matter. But I've personally seen people get blocked on different apns, I even went as far as having it researched for someone who claimed to not be using what they came back with was interesting.
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Let's clarify this.
With the release of the Amaze and GS2 they have changed the way tethering is recognized. On previous phones it SHOULD catch you at 200mb (think of it like a preview) and then throw an upsell message. Yes, employees were not caught as they have different permissions but they were supposed to get the upsell as well. With the new phones they WILL get the upsell (trust me, I talk to upset employees every week that got one of the above mentioned phones and now have to pay). Employees do NOT get to tether for free, we are supposed to pay for the $14.99 tether feature like everyone else. If you have an amaze that is not rooted and has not had the apns changed and you can tether, then it is a fluke.
The amaze seems to block this through the apn settings. NOT the apn itself. The original work around was to just delete the apn type field and it would work. Seems to work better if you create a new apn with JUST epc.tmobile.com and delete the old ones. Of course, if you're rooted, most roms have fixes implemented so you don't have to do anything.
With both devices, if left completely alone and without the tether feature, you will get the upsell message immediately. No 200mb "buffer."

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^^ yes finally a support, end thread.