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[Q] Has anyone gotten tethering working? (bypass)

I'm on a grandfathered unlimited data plan, so tethering isn't included. My last rom on my Galaxy Nexus had a tethering bypass check. Anyone know of a way to get around it or am I going to have to look for some sort of root-app?
Thanks for the help. It's been a heck of a night!

FoxFi works.

GrayTheWolf said:
FoxFi works.
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do you have to get the paid version? i tried that before and it only allows certain amount of data per day

abrego47 said:
do you have to get the paid version? i tried that before and it only allows certain amount of data per day
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It does.

GrayTheWolf said:
It does.
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Every time I go to launch it I get a message telling me I need to call 611, am I missing something?

Kraizk said:
Every time I go to launch it I get a message telling me I need to call 611, am I missing something?
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That's weird....

GrayTheWolf said:
That's weird....
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Are you on a tiered plan or unlimited data?

Kraizk said:
Are you on a tiered plan or unlimited data?
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Still have a set 4 GB of data. I got to keep the same plan from my previous phone.

GrayTheWolf said:
Still have a set 4 GB of data. I got to keep the same plan from my previous phone.
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Tethering is typically included by default on capped plans, that is most likely why foxfi works for you

Kraizk said:
Tethering is typically included by default on capped plans, that is most likely why foxfi works for you
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I can't use the built-in tethering, it will charge me if I use it. FoxFi should work regardless what plan you have.

I'm also on an unlimited plan and had issues with FoxFi too - not sure why... it worked for a while - then it would not let my phone use encryption - then I would get the verizon "call 611 message" (though FoxFi would still work, I'd just get a message and have to clear it out/cancel).
If you're rooted check out the OP here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2417226 works like a charm
If you're not on root, you'll prob have to pay for the FoxFi app, but it's like 6.95 I think - way cheaper than any ISP I know of

FoxFi appears to work fine for me. Just had to accept a certificate and put a lock on my phone. Works with no errors. But I noticed some of you stated that it started going crazy after some use down the road.

I'm not sure why my stock app doesn't work when I'm on a shared data plan. Worked on my iPhone5 10 months ago with the same exact plan.

GrayTheWolf said:
I can't use the built-in tethering, it will charge me if I use it. FoxFi should work regardless what plan you have.
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I keep telling you that you need to check that ...
They can't charge you unless you use more than 4 gigs.
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dottat said:
I keep telling you that you need to check that ...
They can't charge you unless you use more than 4 gigs.
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Yeah, you'd think... but I tried stock app, get the call *611. Then, I tried FoxFi (non-paid to see if it would work) and when I go to enable the hotspot it pops up an error for *611 as well. It's saying I'm not subscribed to a hotspot plan essentially. I have a 10gb plan, which was one in the lawsuit a while back when they said you shouldn't distinguish how someone uses their 10gb. They were supposed to open the market up to 3rd party tethering apps (but weren't required to support the tethering through their stock) and I never got it working on my Droid Razr either. I now have an HTC One (kept the same plan, no changes to it) and wasn't able to get FoxFi working on it either.

basschica said:
Yeah, you'd think... but I tried stock app, get the call *611. Then, I tried FoxFi (non-paid to see if it would work) and when I go to enable the hotspot it pops up an error for *611 as well. It's saying I'm not subscribed to a hotspot plan essentially. I have a 10gb plan, which was one in the lawsuit a while back when they said you shouldn't distinguish how someone uses their 10gb. They were supposed to open the market up to 3rd party tethering apps (but weren't required to support the tethering through their stock) and I never got it working on my Droid Razr either. I now have an HTC One (kept the same plan, no changes to it) and wasn't able to get FoxFi working on it either.
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Call them up and see how quick they fix that for ya.
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dottat said:
Call them up and see how quick they fix that for ya.
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Haha yeah, I wouldn't hold my breath.
That being said, I just got OpenGarden working between my phone and my Kindle FIre HD, so I can say that that works, which is more useful than anything else I've tried. A lot of tether is USB based, which isn't helpful on the tablet/Kindle front. I'm shocked/happy that I found a solution that quickly. I know when I tried in the past, even with other providers, that getting a tablet or other computer based device to work was a pain. That being said, they've got a pc/mac client, so I don't doubt that that will work too. I try to avoid hauling my laptop when I travel and for the most part I can unless I know I need to offload a ton of data from memory cards, which is usually the deciding factor. I don't know...maybe I could do usb/otg bridge of some sort to copy between phone / hdd or sd/cf/xd cards to hdd? Usually I've got enough SD or other memory cards for whatever I'm doing to not need to haul the laptop though.

Free tethering experiences

Just trying to get a handle on the current state of free tethering. Using a locked phone with grandfathered unlimited data and nothing else.
So far, every app that allows Wi-Fi hotspot or Bluetooth tethering fails due to a nagging popup error message (attachment #1), the same one that appears when I try to turn on the stock hotspot (attachment #1 actually shows the error popping up on CWM tether, but this is misleading - I had just turned on the stock hotspot to elicit the message is all. Never seen the error when using USB tethering).
Tried FoxFi/PDANet and about 8 other Market apps - no dice.
Only method I've found to work is USB tethering from PDANet to my laptop. Without tethering hidden, it seems to crap out after about 20 seconds on YouTube, but works fine for other stuff.
With the Hide Tether Level 1 option checked on the PC program, PDANet works flawlessly - can stream 1080p with no problems.
However, when I try to share that connection to my tablet over Wi-Fi, either through PDANet's built-in Wi-Fi share or using Connectify, it goes back to crapping out after 20 seconds on Youtube. Lasts longer at lower resolutions but still dies, so this seems to be a cap on the data that a single stream can give. No amount of tether hiding seems to help. Of note - the PDANet phone app's data ticker will keep on going up, so it seems like it's still downloading, but there's a roadblock somewhere. Could possibly be an issue with the tablet, I guess - 2013 Nexus 7. My hunch though is that somehow sharing the connection over Wi-Fi undoes whatever PDANet uses to hide tethering.
I've also tried ClockworkMod Tether for USB tethering, but my laptop won't connect to the internet with it (attachment #2) - this could be a problem with my computer though. Right now all I have to work with is a school laptop with locked-down firewall settings.
Anyone figure out a way to get Wi-Fi or Bluetooth working with no paid hotspot feature?

I also have grandfathered data and no hotspot plan, and I am able to run PDANet properly with no special workarounds whatsoever. The biggest concession I had to make was installing the certificates for FoxFi, and the resulting requirement to have a PIN enabled on my lockscreen.
So I dunno.

Gornul said:
I also have grandfathered data and no hotspot plan, and I am able to run PDANet properly with no special workarounds whatsoever. The biggest concession I had to make was installing the certificates for FoxFi, and the resulting requirement to have a PIN enabled on my lockscreen.
So I dunno.
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Yeah, FoxFi seems to indicate that the certificate is their workaround for this issue - however I was never prompted to install it and there doesn't seem to be a way to force it either. Gonna try a reinstall then a factory reset because I want that certificate bad :good:
Thanks for the heads up!

scarshapedstar said:
Yeah, FoxFi seems to indicate that the certificate is their workaround for this issue - however I was never prompted to install it and there doesn't seem to be a way to force it either. Gonna try a reinstall then a factory reset because I want that certificate bad :good:
Thanks for the heads up!
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NP. The cert definitely works, I tethered several times this weekend. If you prefer not to use a security lock it can be a little annoying to have one forced on you; I just set the timeout to 15 minutes and call it the price of doing business until we can unlock/root/etc.

Gornul said:
NP. The cert definitely works, I tethered several times this weekend. If you prefer not to use a security lock it can be a little annoying to have one forced on you; I just set the timeout to 15 minutes and call it the price of doing business until we can unlock/root/etc.
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Gotta ask though - when did the cert install? Is it related to the "FoxFi Addon"? Just trying to troubleshoot a lil here.

scarshapedstar said:
Gotta ask though - when did the cert install? Is it related to the "FoxFi Addon"? Just trying to troubleshoot a lil here.
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That's what I recall, yes. The cert shows up under my "User Certificates" as being from FixFi.

Gornul said:
That's what I recall, yes. The cert shows up under my "User Certificates" as being from FixFi.
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Bleh. Still not getting any kind of prompt for a cert.
I've read that the prompt happens during some "setup walkthrough" which I've likewise never seen... did you get one?

How did you keep your unlimited data? Verizon yanked mine away

Soul TKR said:
How did you keep your unlimited data? Verizon yanked mine away
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Verizon can only take your unlimited data away if you let them. Refuse to change plans, refuse subsidized upgrades and buy all future phones full-price. You may not have realized what you were doing, but you let them do it at some point.

Soul TKR said:
How did you keep your unlimited data? Verizon yanked mine away
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Sad times... according to Verizon I've already racked up 4 gigs somehow in a single day. Sure am glad I didn't believe the salesman who told me I'd never exceeded 2 gigs on 3G - especially since they actually admitted they were lowballing people by a factor of 5. I'd switch carriers, no reason to stay tbh. Unless of course you have another line on the account that's still on unlimited.

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Sad times... according to Verizon I've already racked up 4 gigs somehow in a single day. Sure am glad I didn't believe the salesman who told me I'd never exceeded 2 gigs on 3G - especially since they actually admitted they were lowballing people by a factor of 5. I'd switch carriers, no reason to stay tbh. Unless of course you have another line on the account that's still on unlimited.
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That's exactly case. My wife was able to keep unlimited when she upgraded in January.

We do the upgrade shuffle. Upgraded kids lines to Fort note 2's and kids lost unlimited data, dropped them to 2gb. Poor kids, I know. They are 12 and 9. Verizon let's me restrict them to 2gb so they can't go over.
Then about a month later there was the free dna promotion. Swapped our upgrades to kids lines, got them the dna's. We kept unlimited and everyone got new phones.
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i couldnt get this to work either. every time i reinstall foxfi it says i need to call verizon and sign up for tethering. never prompted for a certificate or anything

I got it to work. After I installed foxfi and the add-on I started the hotspot and it popped up asking to install the certificate. Installed it named it. It wants you to set up the unlock passcode because it connects through vpn. Since I already use a vpn, my password was already set. It activated after a few seconds and I tested it. Works fine.

You can also use upgrades from other phones on your plan to keep your unlimited. I rely heavily on my unlimited data, I use roughly between 300 - 400Gb a month of data. I still have unlimited, and haven't paid full price for a single phone the whole life of my plan.

mracrawford said:
You can also use upgrades from other phones on your plan to keep your unlimited. I rely heavily on my unlimited data, I use roughly between 300 - 400Gb a month of data. I still have unlimited, and haven't paid full price for a single phone the whole life of my plan.
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Are you serious???? Verizon needs to dedicate an entire network to you!

fritzo said:
Are you serious???? Verizon needs to dedicate an entire network to you!
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This is an older picture as evidence, it was just one I already had uploaded to my computer. I use an insane amount of data.. Although, it has been much more of an ordeal using WiFi-Tether on my HTC One. I have to use FoxFi which won't allow me to connect to HBOGo through my AppleTV, so I haven't had streaming video too much.

I also had issues with FoxFi, but thankfully I was one of those lucky bastards who got their bootloader unlocked on day one. From a rooted device, WiFi Tether 3.3-beta2-06102013 works just fine (it will complain when starting the hotspot about an error, but it's an error in setting up "ad-hoc mode" and will work just fine)... it may be worth mentioning that I'm using SuperSU as that's always given me the best luck with WiFi Tether. Outside of that, it's worked flawlessly (tethering for hours without any drops).

mracrawford said:
You can also use upgrades from other phones on your plan to keep your unlimited. I rely heavily on my unlimited data, I use roughly between 300 - 400Gb a month of data. I still have unlimited, and haven't paid full price for a single phone the whole life of my plan.
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Wow....I don't even use that much on my Comcast connection.
Unlimited is unlimited I guess. I just don't see how or why anyone can use that much within reason. :laugh:

calebspronk said:
I also had issues with FoxFi, but thankfully I was one of those lucky bastards who got their bootloader unlocked on day one. From a rooted device, WiFi Tether 3.3-beta2-06102013 works just fine (it will complain when starting the hotspot about an error, but it's an error in setting up "ad-hoc mode" and will work just fine)... it may be worth mentioning that I'm using SuperSU as that's always given me the best luck with WiFi Tether. Outside of that, it's worked flawlessly (tethering for hours without any drops).
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That's great and all, but it doesn't seem to work for some other mobile devices. For example: I cannot tether my One to my Nexus 7 FHD. The Nexus 7 FHD does not see the network. My laptop can see the SSID but shows an adhoc icon next to it. I can connect via the laptop and get internet access. At the end of the day I need a solution that works for all of my devices.
Note: I tried versions 3.3-beta2 and 3.4-experimental

10-23-14 FoxFi not working properly, Verizon Note 4

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My Windows computer will connect to my FoxFi Hotspot but it doesn't get any internet. I have tried on window 8 and windows 7 computers.
Funny thing is, FoxFi will connect to and share internet with one of my old Note 2.
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2nd EDIT: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=56397218&postcount=12

your may have to wait for a root. try it with BT and it will probably still work but of course will be slow.
HERE is a thread on it

Its working fine for me. Just tested on windows 7 laptop to make sure. Speedtest 47ms ping 19mbps download and 24mbps upload. Tried amazon and ebay. Im using a note 4 on verizon.

balla48801 said:
Its working fine for me. Just tested on windows 7 laptop to make sure. Speedtest 47ms ping 19mbps download and 24mbps upload. Tried amazon and ebay. Im using a note 4 on verizon.
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Can't be much wrong because My Note 4 FoxFi Hot Spot will share internet with one of my Note 2.
My Note 2 is doing something that my Windows computers is not doing.

It's the SIM card. I put the SIM card in my old Note 2 and now Foxfi wont work right on it.
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Has anybody gotten foxfi to work without having to have a secure lockscreen?

Haven't tried computer but it works with other phones and my iPad mini. Its most likely a firewall or security setting. From what I have read foxfi is less secure since its last update.

HELP !!!!!! Windows 7 says.....
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Haven't tried computer but it works with other phones and my iPad mini. Its most likely a firewall or security setting. From what I have read foxfi is less secure since its last update.
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DHCP is not enabled for "Wireless Network Connection" .
Windows offered to FIX it , then failed to Fix
I got Verizon to reactivate the phone with different SIM card but I still have the same problem.
It may be a problem with the IPv6 address, just a guess.

What's the point of foxfi when the phone has hot spot??

Mark.Y said:
What's the point of foxfi when the phone has hot spot??
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On Verizon FoxFi is free and the regular hotspot is an additional $30 a month.

Problem solved !!!!!
The problem was last week I set up everything on my home network with static IP's . I set it up like that so I would know the IP address of everything on my network.
The solution... I returned TCP/IPv4 back to automatic and FoxFi started working again.
Another thing that made it hard to repair was I'm using Windows 10 Technical Preview and they keep making changes to Windows in real time. For a while I couldn't open the Wi-Fi propertys window on my main computer.
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donroja said:
Has anybody gotten foxfi to work without having to have a secure lockscreen?
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i was searching for a long time and came across this fix. its the only one i have been able to use. i can't remember where i got it, but credit goes to them.
1. Goto google.com/android/devicemanager and login
2. Next click on the lock button for your device.
3. Next enter a new pass and save.
4. Now go to your phone and use the new pass to unlock the phone.
5. Finally, you should now be able to go to your lock screen settings and pick whichever lock option you need.
Hope this helps

Mark.Y said:
What's the point of foxfi when the phone has hot spot??
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If you are using one of the older "unlimited" plans, or even the limited plans before the "more everything" plan, you have to pay an extra $30 to get the system hotspot working. It is one of the many asinine things Verizon does to steal your money. Kind of like charging $3/month for visual voicemail.

I have a grandfathered unlimited data plan an Foxfi work fine on my retail GN4. The only neusence is having to set a pin on the lock screen. I clear credentials after each use to turn off the lock screen.
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i was searching for a long time and came across this fix. its the only one i have been able to use. i can't remember where i got it, but credit goes to them.
1. Goto google.com/android/devicemanager and login
2. Next click on the lock button for your device.
3. Next enter a new pass and save.
4. Now go to your phone and use the new pass to unlock the phone.
5. Finally, you should now be able to go to your lock screen settings and pick whichever lock option you need.
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This worked! THANK YOU.

ericstephani said:
If you are using one of the older "unlimited" plans, or even the limited plans before the "more everything" plan, you have to pay an extra $30 to get the system hotspot working. It is one of the many asinine things Verizon does to steal your money. Kind of like charging $3/month for visual voicemail.
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At least visual voicemail is free now.

@LKINDJS, thank you!! it works

Worked for me as well! Thank you.

how? am i stupid or something...
billinaz said:
At least visual voicemail is free now.
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How is it free now? I'm on the grandfathered unlimited plan, does it apply to me? When I first opened the voicemail app, it said that I would get free visual voicemail for 10 days ( if i remember how many days correctly), did anyone else see that or am I imagining things?
I swear I saw a ten day free limit.

Mine works fine. I didnt know anout the lock screen gig though. That worked to. Thank god. Ive been trying to get rid of my lock screen pass for a while. Just never really looked it up though.

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How is it free now? I'm on the grandfathered unlimited plan, does it apply to me? When I first opened the voicemail app, it said that I would get free visual voicemail for 10 days ( if i remember how many days correctly), did anyone else see that or am I imagining things?
I swear I saw a ten day free limit.
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Visual Voicemail has two teirs now. Basic is Free. Premium is $3. The phone will automatically put you on the free trial for premium. As soon as it did that, I logged into MyVerizon, and just changed it to basic for free.
I think the difference is that premium will change your voicemail into text; basic will not write it to text, but you can listen to the recording. Also i think premium has a bigger mailbox.

Is There anyway at all to use Tether w/o Root?

I've just switched to at&t from verizon owning a nice g3 with root and everything.... And just did a deal with at&t and have found out that it can not be rooted.
So is it possible in anyway to get the tethering app to work at least? If not I'm thinking about going back to verizon because every phone I looked at so far online that's with at&t is locked down and I just can't deal wit that no matter how beautiful the phone looks idc I want root or at least for the time being wifi tethering...
My phone's on the 5.1.1

AngelRyu said:
I've just switched to at&t from verizon owning a nice g3 with root and everything.... And just did a deal with at&t and have found out that it can not be rooted.
So is it possible in anyway to get the tethering app to work at least? If not I'm thinking about going back to verizon because every phone I looked at so far online that's with at&t is locked down and I just can't deal wit that no matter how beautiful the phone looks idc I want root or at least for the time being wifi tethering...
My phone's on the 5.1.1
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You don't need root to tether, just go into phone setting and turn on hotspot. Once phone see what your trying to connect to, it will show up as a connection point on item being connected like a laptop. You would then connect to phone like a modem and use the password the phone gives you. You will be then sharing the phones data.

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You don't need root to tether, just go into phone setting and turn on hotspot. Once phone see what your trying to connect to, it will show up as a connection point on item being connected like a laptop. You would then connect to phone like a modem and use the password the phone gives you. You will be then sharing the phones data.
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I know it took me awhile to reply back but I was hoping someone would replied for me lol....
I'm on unlimited I don't have that option. Hint why I need tether without root so I can bypass it... But thanks for trying.

I dont have unlimited but i have 32g of monthly data.
its under setting>connections>mobile_hotspot_and_tethering
you should not have to replace a modded tether.apk(whatever the name was) like what you have mention on the other thread.
could it be that att purposely gave you the one without that apk, just because you have unlimited data?

fuzmik said:
I dont have unlimited but i have 32g of monthly data.
its under setting>connections>mobile_hotspot_and_tethering
you should not have to replace a modded tether.apk(whatever the name was) like what you have mention on the other thread.
could it be that att purposely gave you the one without that apk, just because you have unlimited data?
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Hi, If you don't have unlimited then that's why. They make unlimited users pay for their hotspot....

Unlocked phone... why is my Tethering not unlocked as well?

I've tried the network signal refresher route used with the original pixels, but it isn't working for me. Does anyone know how to get tethering working on a brand new Pixel 2 xl? I'm ok with rooting if it comes to that... but pretty much I just want to get back to the same functionality I had with my Oneplus One.

there are tethering apps you can use, or if you can wait for root (soon I hope) you can edit the build.prop to disable the tethering provision check.

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there are tethering apps you can use, or if you can wait for root (soon I hope) you can edit the build.prop to disable the tethering provision check.
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Do you have a tethering app you recommend? Last time I used one there was a ton of chaff in the app store.

uofirob said:
Do you have a tethering app you recommend? Last time I used one there was a ton of chaff in the app store.
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Unfortunately I do not, I don't really use tethering all that often so I'm just waiting for root right now

The ones I've tried, haven't been able to get around the limitation. If anyone has one that works, let me know!

what service do you have? T-Mo tethering working fine for me but i know i need a ROM to tether on cricket

Call ATT and add your IMIE to the phone number you are using.
I have an unlocked P2 XL and I had to call them, give them the IMEI(VZW lets you do it yourself online), the girl on the phone entered it, I rebooted and now it works properly.
Only thing I need to figure out now, is how to get WiFi calling to work.

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Call ATT and add your IMIE to the phone number you are using.
I have an unlocked P2 XL and I had to call them, give them the IMEI(VZW lets you do it yourself online), the girl on the phone entered it, I rebooted and now it works properly.
Only thing I need to figure out now, is how to get WiFi calling to work.
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What you talking about?? Adding imei in their system. I put in Verizon sim in phone and get phone service. What does hotspot or tether have to do with this??

Tethering wasn’t working for me on att until I added my imei to my account. Maybe because I am on an unlimited plan...

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Tethering wasn’t working for me on att until I added my imei to my account. Maybe because I am on an unlimited plan...
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Is hotspot part of your plan as well?

I think so. We have an Unlimited plan, but we get 10gb of tethering included... my OnePlus 3 had tethering built in that bypassed the plan and tethered Unlimited whether they wanted me to or not.

I'm on cricket, I'm not paying $10/month for tethering I've been able to do for over 3 years when I was on my Oneplus One.

Has anyone else been able to get tethering to work through an app? This is going to be annoying if I need to travel for work. I may have to bring my onePlus one along just for tethering...

uofirob said:
Has anyone else been able to get tethering to work through an app? This is going to be annoying if I need to travel for work. I may have to bring my onePlus one along just for tethering...
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Doesn't work. You need to wait for root

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Doesn't work. You need to wait for root
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Thanks! I wish root would appear faster! I thought since it was Google's phone, the images would be out already.

I guess I don't understand why it isn't tethering.
If you are not on an Unlimited data plan, it should just work, without root. It's illegal for carriers to block tethering when you are on a tiered data plan. The FCC slapped the carriers down and determined that if you pay for 15GB, then it doesn't matter how you use it, you can tether.
If you are on an Unlimited plan, make sure that tethering is included and give AT&T your IMEI and have them add it to your account, have them enable tethering and whatever other features you want, reboot your phone, and it will work.
I literally just went through this with them, and tethering works on my AT&T Unlimited data plan, right through the stock tethering feature... no app, and no root.

If you are trying to tether a laptop you can checkout PdaNet+ in the appstore. Will allow you to tether over USB (preferred) or Bluetooth (painfully slow). I havent found an app that enables wifi tethering without rooting and editing system files as others have mentioned.

I had the same issue on Sprint, and while I get 10GB of tethering included in my "unlimited" plan, it did not work. Once I called Sprint, they did something on their end and the provisioning check worked.

chris11882 said:
I had the same issue on Sprint, and while I get 10GB of tethering included in my "unlimited" plan, it did not work. Once I called Sprint, they did something on their end and the provisioning check worked.
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Exactly, you just have to get someone on the phone who knows what they are doing, and get them to add your IMEI to your account to provision the tethering, and then it will work. Many of us have done it.
Rather than wait for root and hope that you can then hack it to get tethering, just pick up the phone and get someone knowledgeable to fix it.

lets put this in a simple way, most carriers DO NOT want you tethering without paying for it. if you are paying for it, then they would normally have an app that does this. if you are trying to do the sneaky "my carrier doesn't need to know how i use my data" way buy editing build.prob and maybe the tethering_dun change, then tell me, why would this be enabled be default. the carriers cant make their extra buck from the same data, so they forbid it. that simple. unlocked phone, does not refer to the carrier restrictions.
this is even more funny when you think people bought the verizon version and complain about a phone not being unlockable, did NOONE learn from the galaxy nexus (for only 3 months before taken off the nexus project) hell. i could not raise my middle finger high enough when i left verizon.
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SquireSCA said:
Rather than wait for root and hope that you can then hack it to get tethering, just pick up the phone and get someone knowledgeable to fix it.
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a better thing to say is READ, READ, READ some more. then before you root, READ.
i dont want to sound like an elitist, but this is not something that a person that doesnt not understand the restrictions, the list of edits sometimes needing to be made, and how even with these edits, tethering is still detectable by the traffic. its not like the carrier will not wonder why your android phone is pinging the windows update servers.
the last thing a novice user should have, is a rooted phone. this is why i forbid root on my mother's phone (someone that tampered with the NAT setting on our business router). and still debate on it on my wife's phone.
the whole autoroot thing, and rom toolboxes should not be used by anyone that doesn't know how to do it manually. if you dont know what the -w option is when restoring to stock, you should not be using a toolbox.