So finally rooted my T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S2 phone yesterday, installed Easy Tether for USB tethering and Wifi Tether for Wifi tethering. It would work fine, but T-Mobile would eventually catch it and block the connection.
I then did some research and found out that Titanium Backup Pro allows you to freeze or uninstall apps. I did so and uninstalled the tethering manager. Now both USB and Wifi tether work ONLY on https sites. I still get the T-Mobile page asking me to add the tethering plan with T-Mobile on every non https site like google.com, etc.
Any assistance is greatly appreciated.
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megahead34 said:
So finally rooted my T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S2 phone yesterday, installed Easy Tether for USB tethering and Wifi Tether for Wifi tethering. It would work fine, but T-Mobile would eventually catch it and block the connection.
I then did some research and found out that Titanium Backup Pro allows you to freeze or uninstall apps. I did so and uninstalled the tethering manager. Now both USB and Wifi tether work ONLY on https sites. I still get the T-Mobile page asking me to add the tethering plan with T-Mobile on every non https site like google.com, etc.
Any assistance is greatly appreciated.
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are you using the stock rom? if so maybe you should try one of the rom here first.
No I haven't, will that solve the problem? Any recommendations to which ROM to use?
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I just went thru with the root process and my phone is now back on (after a big scare). What is a way that I can see if the root successfully worked? I just tried to hotspot to my computer and it picked up the wifi signal but was local only and would not connect, therefore making me think the root was unsuccessful. I have heard with root on the htc evo that you get the mobile hotspot feature for free. any feedback would be greatly appreciated. thanks a lot
Sprint's mobile hotspot feature will not work for free if you are rooted. You will have to download a wireless tether app to get a free wireless hotspot. Many custom ROMs already include a wireless tether app.
And you probably don't need to start multiple threads with the same issue.
Took the leap 2 days ago and rooted my Samsung Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch using Odin and the Zedomax v3 kernel. Root went fine and after a short minute I was rooted and installing Titanium Backup Pro, ROM Manager Pro and Wireless Tether For Root Users.
Having (free) wifi tethering is a must for me as I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 (wifi version 32GB Grey) and need network access when out abroad and in the car. After installing the app from the market, I promptly opened it up and started tethering with all of the default settings (no encryption, ssid = AndroidTether, access control is disabled). The app shows that tethering is activated with no errors and broadcasting the signal. Now I switch to my SGT10.1 and open up network settings but there is no AndroidTether network seen. I refreshed multiple times and still nothing. So I grabbed a few other wifi devices (laptop, blackberry) and still, no AndroidTether network is seen.
I have checked the in-app Wireless Tether Log and there are no errors or failures. I have tried rebooting the SGSIIE4GT and still have same issues. I flashed back to stock kernel (rooted) and still have the same issues. Then removed root, rooted agin with Odin to Zedomax v3 and still same issues. Went to the distribution page for Wireless Tether and downloaded other beta and prior stable versions of the app and still same issues.
Soooo.... then I thought, maybe the hardware that broadcasts the wifi signal is busted. So I flash back to stock, unroot and go to sprint today. They activated my Sprint Hotspot service and BOOM! Pull out my SGT10.1 and the network is right there. Connect to it and it works just fine.
What is frustrating is my brother bought an SGSIIE4GT as well, we have the same hardware versions and running the same ROM and kernel and he can tether with no problems.
Not sure what could be causing the problems but hope I can get it sorted soon. Would very much appreciate any insight from anyone on new things to try. Anyone even having the same problems?
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My guess it is because the Galaxy Tab doesn't support ad-hoc wifi tethering, which is what the wifi tethering app you're using broadcasts in. Had the same problem when I was trying to use it with my Touchpad. You will need a tethering app that supports infrastructure mode to be able to tether to your tablet.
Fortunately, Necrosan has been able to hack the built in Sprint Hotspot app (that uses infrastructure mode) to get free 3g tethering. That thread is here [HACK] [EG30] Hotspot Hack (3G Only for now)
You will need to be rooted and be using a deodexed EG30 rom, but there a quite a few of those around. I'm using [ACS][Odin]Stock EG30 Deodexed with Root 3.0/Busybox 1.18.4 and it is working great for me. Haven't even had LOS yet.
After you get all this done you should be able to use the Sprint Hotspot app and tether to your Galaxy Tab. Mine has been working great with my Touchpad so far. Hope this helps!
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My brother (as stated above with the same hardware and software) tethers just fine to his SGT10.1 and his iMac....
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To make sure its really broadcasting you should use a laptop or another computer with wifi to look for the SSID. If you see your device then the problem is probably the one stated above. If not, then there is definitely something else wrong
EDIT: just read that you already tried this. Sorry man, don't know what to tell you :/ If the Sprint Hotspot worked then I would just used the hacked version I mentioned previously to avoid paying monthly for it
Thanks for the responses, will give this a go sometime this week. Thanks for your help mate.
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I've found that "Wireless Tether for Root Users" does not work for me on the ET. It acts like it is, but I can never see the SSID.
Try Barnacle Wifi Tether, it is working great for me.
Try this hopefully it works. I am getting my SGII today and this is main reason for rooting...
Does 4g work when you tether?
Dalmus said:
I've found that "Wireless Tether for Root Users" does not work for me on the ET. It acts like it is, but I can never see the SSID.
Try Barnacle Wifi Tether, it is working great for me.
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Does 4g work when you tether?
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Barnacle did not work for 4g on my Evo so it may not work now. I believe it only handled 3g
So I upgraded to ICS 4.0 for T-Mobile few days ago. Now I lost the wifi Tethering icons. Tried to recover them from my backup using Titanium Backup, but they are not coming back up.
I went into settings, more, Tethering and mobile hotspot and turned it on...but now it auto redirects me to Tmobile sign up page for Tethering when I try to browse the web.
Any work around this besides re-flashing it with a custom ROM? I already rooted the phone.
Use Titanium Backup to freeze or uninstall the tethering provision .apk (I uninstalled it myself).
Works like a charm. If it still gives you issues, make sure the device that is tethered is not browsing using Chrome.
yeah what he said ^^^
i would suggest backing it up before you uninstall in case you have any problems though.
Happy tethering
When I froze it or uninstall it and go into settings, More, tethering and mobile hotspot, the word "error" appears under the mobile hotspot option. I can't even turn on the mobile hotspot feature without having the tethering provision being turned on. Any other ideas?
Don't use the function on the phone. Freeze tethering provision and then download an app that let's you tether.
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I downloaded wifi tether...an that error out when I turned on tethering....heres the things that its failing on
Loading wifi driver: failed
Setting ad-hoc mode: failed
Setting essid: failed
Setting channel: failed
I have the same exact problem on my phone. I am stock 2.3.6 with root. if anyone has any info on this it would be a great help...
Hey everyone. I'm currently on the T-mobile unlmt 4G data plan and while I have unlimited data (which is awesome) they caught on to my tethering when I tried using Wireless Tether App for a few days.
Are there any tethering apps that don't view the phone as tethering?
What about built-in tethering app?
So did they block ports or what? I always used the built in WiFi hotspot and the android wireless tethering app and never been "caught", to my knowing
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T-Mobile detects the browser UAstring and uses that to "catch" tethering. This means that no matter how you use tethering (apps, w/e), they'll still see that when you point your browser at a page it'll report that it's a "desktop", and T-Mobile will block it. It seems to generally be on a case-by-case and use-by-use basis with T-Mobile. It was always very random for me when they decided to just start redirecting my browser. There's no reason to be using the wireless tether app btw, the built in tethering on the Nexus works just fine, and since it's not a carrier phone they don't have any special hook into the OS for them to "know" you're tethering. All they do is check UAstring.
You can try out a UAstring switcher. Its not the most elegant solution, but it's worked for me in the past. I use this one in Chrome.
I have a T-Mobile Note 3, still using the stock rom but I have rooted it. My question is there any way to wifi tether that does not "verify" tethering status with T-Mobile?
When starting up the built in hot-spot or FoxFi a popup comes up and tethering is verified with T-Mobile.
I know, I know, T-Mobile comes with X amount of free tethering. I have 2.5 gigs of free tethering and I never go over it. However, I'm going to Mexico for two weeks and T-Mobile has unlimited free international data but no tethering. I assume the "verify" step is going to stop me from tethering.
What rooted app will allow wifi tethering for the Note 3 that does no verification with T-Mobile? I've already tried 10 wifi tether apps from the market place and none of them work on the Note 3.
Bumping as I have a similar question. With Jellybean I just froze the provisioning apk and this worked. In Kitkat doing this causes force closes.
I have a Tasker task that turns on the hotspot when my radio connects to my phone via Bluetooth. This works fine if the screen is on, but the point is to have this happen automatically. If I have to take my phone out of my pocket and make sure the screen stays on, I might as well just turn on tethering manually. The task does run as I have verified that the other parts of the task run while the screen is off.
I'm pretty sure that all the info to address this is in a thread that I just bumped a minute or 5 ago.
I figured it out. At least for my situation. I have tethering and I wasn't trying to bypass any limits. I just wanted to enable tethering without the screen being on. I modified the framework-res APK to not call the provisioning APK and froze the Tethering*.apk files.
I tried to attach the file but it is not working. I will try again later.
framework-res.apk
I also added Bluetooth tethering option.
Can you give us the link daneurysm ? Thanks!
jonman364 said:
I figured it out. At least for my situation. I have tethering and I wasn't trying to bypass any limits. I just wanted to enable tethering without the screen being on. I modified the framework-res APK to not call the provisioning APK and froze the Tethering*.apk files.
I tried to attach the file but it is not working. I will try again later.
framework-res.apk
I also added Bluetooth tethering option.
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Thanks a lot for this, I have been trying for over 2 months, reading and going to youtube, but I just could not get it working...
Lorettaa said:
Can you give us the link daneurysm ? Thanks!
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2467193&page=15
Thanks man!
pcm2a said:
I have a T-Mobile Note 3, still using the stock rom but I have rooted it. My question is there any way to wifi tether that does not "verify" tethering status with T-Mobile?
When starting up the built in hot-spot or FoxFi a popup comes up and tethering is verified with T-Mobile.
I know, I know, T-Mobile comes with X amount of free tethering. I have 2.5 gigs of free tethering and I never go over it. However, I'm going to Mexico for two weeks and T-Mobile has unlimited free international data but no tethering. I assume the "verify" step is going to stop me from tethering.
What rooted app will allow wifi tethering for the Note 3 that does no verification with T-Mobile? I've already tried 10 wifi tether apps from the market place and none of them work on the Note 3.
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Thanks a lot.