Ive read a few posts here after doing some searching and im a little confused as to how it works. is it possible to tether on a completely stock/unrooted SGIII on through sprints network? ive read a post stating something along the lines of it voiding a warranty, some other people saying it will immediately kick you off of 3g, and others stating you need to download a 3rd part app like foxfi for it to work. can someone shed some light on me as to tether with sprint's network and the SGIII? any help would be greatly appreciated.
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I am currently running latest bonsai rom and am looking at swapping to acs rom 1.0.2. I keep reading about using the sprint hotspot app for wifi tether. Does this enable sprint to bill for tethering? Can't really afford it if it does. Can't search too well due to pc being down and xda app is hard to search on so sorry if repeat topic.
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The Sprint Hotspot app is Sprint's service. You pay $30/month to turn your phone into a wifi hotspot so that other devices can use your internet connection. Wifi tether does the same thing, except it's free. Sprint does not like that.
On a sidebar, AT&T is aware that customers with jailbroken Iphones are doing this (using a wifi tether service) and have sent notices to the users saying that they will automatically be signed up for AT&T's service package if they do not stop by March 30 (or somewhere close to that date). I wouldn't be surprised if Sprint followed suit.
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The Sprint Hotspot app is Sprint's service. You pay $30/month to turn your phone into a wifi hotspot so that other devices can use your internet connection. Wifi tether does the same thing, except it's free. Sprint does not like that.
On a sidebar, AT&T is aware that customers with jailbroken Iphones are doing this (using a wifi tether service) and have sent notices to the users saying that they will automatically be signed up for AT&T's service package if they do not stop by March 30 (or somewhere close to that date). I wouldn't be surprised if Sprint followed suit.
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Is there a way for a carrier to prove it one way or the other? I know that our phones are supposed to be more data intensive anyway.
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Is there a way for a carrier to prove it one way or the other? I know that our phones are supposed to be more data intensive anyway.
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Of course. Any Internet connection that's not explicitly encrypted is easily sniffable. I think most providers pay attention to the HTTP user-agent string which give away your browser and OS version, but that's often faked on phones anyways to get "desktop" versions of websites in a mobile browser (and thus, if you get a notice and not tethering, worth complaining over).
But if you play WoW, or stream Netflix, or do something over a tethered connection that can't be done on the phone itself, that's another giveaway.
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Is there a way for a carrier to prove it one way or the other? I know that our phones are supposed to be more data intensive anyway.
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Yeah, it's really easy for a carrier to pinpoint an exact user and see how much data he/she is using and how he/she is using it (i.e. 3g, 4g, wifi). Additionally, it is easy for them to spot users that have hacked into their hotspot service. I probably wouldn't worry about it until I got a threatening letter from Sprint though.
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The Sprint Hotspot app is Sprint's service. You pay $30/month to turn your phone into a wifi hotspot so that other devices can use your internet connection. Wifi tether does the same thing, except it's free. Sprint does not like that.
On a sidebar, AT&T is aware that customers with jailbroken Iphones are doing this (using a wifi tether service) and have sent notices to the users saying that they will automatically be signed up for AT&T's service package if they do not stop by March 30 (or somewhere close to that date). I wouldn't be surprised if Sprint followed suit.
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Sprint seems to be a bit more relaxed towards it, just like tmobile is until att buys them out. I don't think sprint would do it as anymore than a warning. Tethering on sprint phones has been around for many years back to an old sanyo brick I had. They had tethering plans back then but didn't enforce them. They would help you get around the tethering bill on national phone support. They also have free apps like pdanet that allow you to tether in the marketplace without root so the whole thing with android is you don't need to "jailbreak" your device to tether free. Before I rooted and romed my epic, hero, evo I always used pdanet and never had issues so for them to step on androids toes would take more balls then simply saying the only way on an iphone is to break in and make it do this.
TL;DR. Iphone and android are different things in all ways.
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Hey, all. I recently got a notification that I'd receive an invite to Republic Wireless next week. For anyone who doesn't know what this is, it's the best thing that has happened to me:
http://republicwireless.com/
The only issue is, the only phone they have for it right now is some crappy LG Android phone. Startup Fee is also $200, as you need to buy their phone. I was wondering...I will obviously need to port the 3g/MMS settings over to my Epic, along with other things...but what else would I need to do? I assume they have their own software to use Wifi for calls, but I really haven't heard about anyone looking into this. I mean...$20 a month for unlimited everything when within WiFi, and outside of wifi you have a soft limit using Sprint's towers (depends on how much you use within wifi). Verizon and Sprint charge rape, so I'd like to get away from them as soon as possible.
Edit: Just thought about it. Will have to get the PRL from the phone. It's the LG Optimus. It probably wont be a big deal to get it. Since it's an Android phone...do you guys think I could get the package that allows wifi calling somehow from the phone? All speculation until I actually get it, of course.
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Hey, all. I recently got a notification that I'd receive an invite to Republic Wireless next week. For anyone who doesn't know what this is, it's the best thing that has happened to me:
The only issue is, the only phone they have for it right now is some crappy LG Android phone. Startup Fee is also $200, as you need to buy their phone. I was wondering...I will obviously need to port the 3g/MMS settings over to my Epic, along with other things...but what else would I need to do? I assume they have their own software to use Wifi for calls, but I really haven't heard about anyone looking into this. I mean...$20 a month for unlimited everything when within WiFi, and outside of wifi you have a soft limit using Sprint's towers (depends on how much you use within wifi). Verizon and Sprint charge rape, so I'd like to get away from them as soon as possible.
Edit: Just thought about it. Will have to get the PRL from the phone. It's the LG Optimus. It probably wont be a big deal to get it. Since it's an Android phone...do you guys think I could get the package that allows wifi calling somehow from the phone? All speculation until I actually get it, of course.
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The LG Optimus probably has something similar to the Sprint's Connections Optimizer pre-installed to prefer Wi-Fi over 3G, so I imagine you could root the Optimus and copy from /system/app/ and try to install it on your Epic. Would Wi-Fi calling be integrated into the dialer somehow? You'd have to do some poking around to see how they integrated VoIP into the phone.
To make your Epic work properly, you would need to do what many Boost/Virgin users have already done to flash their phones to a different carrier. Copy MEID and the usual NAM programming including MMS gateway, data usernames and passwords, HDR auth keys, etc.
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Another XDA user made a dump of the Republic's Optimus, so you can have a look.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1460996
It's interesting to see Republic using a modified version of CyanogenMod 7.
By the time you sign up for the service this summer there will be a second phone option. It is expected to be a much better option than the Optimus. I'll probably be jumping on the new phone unless it is ridiculous $$$ (currently have RW).
Look how much time has past and the best phone is a Dumb Motorola Defy with only one band and the next phone is a Defy Dual band. I think they have an amazing idea but the must make a way to port a sprint phone and download and app tha flashes the phone to there service. But i heard you can tether so it the cheapest wireless hotspot with true unlimited internet. Not sure if its 4G or 3G ?
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Look how much time has past and the best phone is a Dumb Motorola Defy with only one band and the next phone is a Defy Dual band. I think they have an amazing idea but the must make a way to port a sprint phone and download and app tha flashes the phone to there service. But i heard you can tether so it the cheapest wireless hotspot with true unlimited internet. Not sure if its 4G or 3G ?
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Uh, you can't tether. Your "limits" are based on how much you actually use the phone. If you just eat up your data and don't use wifi, they'll drop you. I got the Motorola Defy, found out it was SIGNIFICANTLY worse than even my Samsung Epic (e.g. I could not text because I had no cell signal and texts are not done through wifi), and dropped them like a bad habit. I love the idea. The follow-through is terrible.
Anyone have any progress on this? I have an Epic Touch 4G and would like to use it with Republic. I'm sure I could get one of their phones as a donor and put the meid in the ET4G (already did this successfuly with Virgin and another Sprint MNVO I can't remember atm) and then have it working on their network. The difference here is we would need the part of the software that handles the automatic switch from wifi to phone calling. Is it some modified voip software? I have wifi calling on my ET4G with Grooveip or Talkatone but they both have lag. Unusable.
This is not the Epic Touch forum. You might want to ask there.
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Well I'm still curious if anyone has done this with an epic 4G then. Whatever progress is made with that phone, I could apply to mine.
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Hey All,
Just wondering if anyone has succesfully traded an EVO LTE for a Galaxy SIII in store. Im plagued by LTE drops and the signal on the Evo not working properly. If you were able to convince the Sprint Corporate stores to swap out your phone, please drop some advice. Thanks!
There's another thread about this, all u need to do is replicate the lte problem for the rep and they will exchange it for you.
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Not sure what string of words to search for, can you drop a link? Ive seen people ask whether or not they should do it, not really with stories on how to do it though.
Buried towards the end of this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2001667 are a few posts by ppl who got to switch due to the lte connectivity issues. They just went in to corporate store rep checked lte connection against other devices and swapped em for sgs3 no question asked
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So First off, I'm digging t mobile. It's better than verizon bending me over on a gig of data. I'd like to use the wifi calling option, but I can't enable "advanced calling". There's similar threads where people have issues activating it when they actually have the feature through Verizon, I fear that I'm going to have even more difficulty now with the fact I'm on the t-mobile network. Has anyone had luck with this?
Also, I think I posted this in the wrong section. Please excuse me.
Hey good Android people,
After searching for this topic for an hour I couldn't find anyone with the same problem so I figured I should make a new thread.
I just got a used, unlocked AT&T Galaxy Note 4 N910A running Android 6.0.1. I put in my T Mobile sim and get call and text but no 4g/LTE or mms. Of note, I have my wife's phone in my hand, the exact same version, and she's got lightening fast 4g LTE.
I went in and changed the APN to what TMobile recommends and confirmed it is exactly what my wife's phone is running. I also ran LTE discovery, rebooted the phone and all I continue to get is the "E" icon with up and down arrows. I also keep getting a text from 94183571 that says, "Sorry, this service is not available." Whatever that means.
Please tell me there's a fix, it took forever to find a phone in such good shape. Thanks guys.
Matt from Philly
Can anyone help? I'm desperate!
im in the same boat. i have no explanation but im seriously dying to know as well.
i too have the galaxy note 4 unlocked from att with which i am using tmobile service. i have the exact same issues with blotchy signals and bogus service including the infamous texts from 94183571 which mean absolutely nothing to me besides the fact that they appear out of nowhere at any time. i dont even have to be touching or using my phone at all and i get these messages. who sends them and why? what service is it that they are referring to? how is it that my phone is trying to use a service when its not being used by me at all? how do i stop it? what triggers it in the first place? can anybody offer even a vague or a comically incorrect answer that would point me in the right direction hopefully? if you have any information, please by all means, step forward. it will be greatly appreciated. thank you.