If you plan to get a tablet, would you get one with a cellular network, or one only suited for wifi?
I think it sounds silly to spend cash for a 'tablet line', but to each their own.
Stories/experiences welcome.
I bought the tab 10.1 wifi only... if I am ever without wifi access (which is rare) I just use my nexus to wifi tether.. saves money and works great
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Ditto
Wifi, if you ever need data access just tether
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i thought the same initially, get a wifi tablet and tether to phone if needed
BUT wifi tether sucks up too much phone battery - and it's such a shame to have an awesome device that you can't use properly
i ended up replacing my TF101 (which was too big for me anyway) with a 3G 7" and got a $5 for 500MB per month sim
I'd rather have my balls chopped off than to buy a carrier tablet. I can see the usefulness for some people that need to be connected all the time but it's just not for me.
I have the GT 10.1 wifi only. I usually have it tethered to my phone. Root > WiFi tether app > win. Screw Verizon, they take a lot of money as it is from me per month. Not giving them extra to add my tablet. Just thank god I still have my unlimited data plan. Cause 4G eats up data like a fat man in a donut shop. I hit 15GB usage the other month.
I bought a unlocked t-mobile galaxy tab 7. rooted and running cm7. i pop in my 30 buck a month prepaid t-mobile sim card when i need to.. works out. but would never sign a contract for a tablet. etc..
chancy319 said:
I'd rather have my balls chopped off than to buy a carrier tablet.
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agreed...fortunately i don't live in a place where carriers control technology...and also, i don't have gonads
Glad that everyone has reached a consensus. Also, can you use USB tether?
I have the 64GB 3rd generation wifi only iPad and I manage fine tethering when I need it. Even if tethering sucked as bad as some people claim, 500Mb is nowhere being enough data for a tablet.
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I tether my WiFi tab using AOKPs built in tethering. I get about 20 mb/s on average over my 4G connection.
My wife even used it when she was out to watch her slingbox with no issues. used about 15GB in 3 days...LOL...gotta love that unlimited..uncapped...4G data.
HeCareth said:
I tether my WiFi tab using AOKPs built in tethering. I get about 20 mb/s on average over my 4G connection.
My wife even used it when she was out to watch her slingbox with no issues. used about 15GB in 3 days...LOL...gotta love that unlimited..uncapped...4G data.
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It's about to come to an end.
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I'm currently out of town for 3 months and I need internet. The place where I live has amazing 4G LTE coverage, 26Mb down and 6Mb up.
There is no Clear coverage or Virgin mobile coverage in the area, so no luck getting one of those plans, it's pretty much a Verizon/AT&T monopoly. And I'm not ready to pay $50 a month for 5GB of data...
Currently i'm still grandfathered into the AT&T Unlimited plan from when I had my iPhone 4, but have since gone though a GS2 and am now on my GS3.
As far as I know LiquidSmooth v2.2 uses Cyanogenmod 10.1 which has a built in tethering app in the settings. I used this app yesterday and it worked flawlessly.
Last year around this time I was caught teathering using my GS2, using the TitaniumBackup freeze glitch, I had in excess of 25GB of downloaded data, so I see where I threw the flag.
Here is my question. What are the chances that I will get caught again? I'm in desperate need of interenet and I would only be using it to play a few online games 3 - 5 hours a day MAX.
Any way I could spoof my Mac address and trick AT&T into thinking I only have one device using the internet? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I'm thinking seriously of getting a refurb'd LTE FIre HD with one big reason in mind: it's a cheap-per-month, contract-free, LTE-enabled AT&T hotspot with a very decent Android tablet built in.
Reverse logic? Yep. But that's why I have a VZW iPad instead of a Transformer Prime.
Anyway...
Has anyone successfully tethered the Fire, while using AT&T LTE, to another device, whether via WiFi or wired? I assume that WiFi would require rooting the device, and wired might as well (don't know if something like PdaNet/FoxFi would work out of the box).
I don't mind rooting/custom ROMs/etc. in order to get LTE tethering working (I have a custom ROM on my original Fire and odwngraded the baseband on my Nexus 4, to give you an idea). But I don't want to be the first one to test this out, only to find out that it's impossible.
So, can anyone clue me in on this?
I want to root my KFHD 8.9 lte without losing the lte part. Is there a program that will allow me to do this?
I've never heard of losing LTE because of root, then again LTE models seem to be fewer and far between from most of the posts I see, but I have never seen mention of the default rooting process breaking LTE.
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Found amazon sells the refurb fire HD LTE for $159.
Besides screen size, how do they fair?
I'm gonna use this on tmo LTE and I know how to install custom Roms.
Yeah, I have the same question. Really tempting and the recent N7 LTE prices were in the same range.
Which ROM would you be using for it? CM11? Does LTE work on the CM roms?
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Found amazon sells the refurb fire HD LTE for $159.
Besides screen size, how do they fair?
I'm gonna use this on tmo LTE and I know how to install custom Roms.
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LTE doesn't work on the Official CM11 ROM for the 8.9. The LiquidSmooth ROM is working on LTE support and the devs have posted nightlies for it, but I have no idea how well it works.
The tablet hardware is still old but still perfectly serviceable, but the locked bootloader has meant the Kindle Fire was always the red-headed stepchild as far as support goes. $159 is a great price, but the Nexus is a far safer choice, especially if you really need the LTE to work.