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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 was playing around with settings tonight and discovered Settings -> More Settings (under Data) -> tethering. Checked it, paired my phone and my Win7 PC, initiated an "access point" connection from the PC, and suddenly I was browsing while using my phone as an access point. Granted it was 3G speeds, but it did work.
Does this work for me because I have mobile hotspot, or is this a feature that shouldn't be working, or does it work for everyone? I'm not rooted, using the latest software update (with multiview). I can't even remember far enough back to when a carrier would have ever simply allowed bluetooth tethering, not even Sprint. It's a nice feature to have since WiFi radios usually wear batteries down faster.
hausman said:
I was playing around with settings tonight and discovered Settings -> More Settings (under Data) -> tethering. Checked it, paired my phone and my Win7 PC, initiated an "access point" connection from the PC, and suddenly I was browsing while using my phone as an access point. Granted it was 3G speeds, but it did work.
Does this work for me because I have mobile hotspot, or is this a feature that shouldn't be working, or does it work for everyone? I'm not rooted, using the latest software update (with multiview). I can't even remember far enough back to when a carrier would have ever simply allowed bluetooth tethering, not even Sprint. It's a nice feature to have since WiFi radios usually wear batteries down faster.
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this will work for anyone the only thing differnet for people subscribing to hotspot and those who dont is the ability to wirelessly tether with hotspot. hopefully soon we anyone rooted at least will be able to use free wifi thether
Interesting, thanks. I'm still surprised Sprint would allow this considering they offer unlimited data.
That's weird. I just tried this and I got an error 67, registration failed. Maybe they "fixed" it in the software update.
cruton said:
That's weird. I just tried this and I got an error 67, registration failed. Maybe they "fixed" it in the software update.
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Are using a Galaxy Note 2 on Sprint? Your image tag says you're on AT&T.
Sprint has unlimited data on the phone data only. They have separate plans for hotspots.
2GB @ $19.99
6GB @ $49.99
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I wasn't talking about hotspot. I was talking about Bluetooth tethering, and asking if it requires hotspot to work, because with unlimited data you could tether with bluetooth and theoretically have unlimited internet on your PC through your phone.
Can you tether via wifi? There is a wifi tethering app. You can find on xda or PM me and I will email it to you or post a dropbox link.
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My question has nothing to do with WiFi tethering.
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Does this work for me because I have mobile hotspot.
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Now that we have root and customer recovery, has anyone been able to get free wifi tethering with the TMobile Galaxy Note 3?
I tried different settings with the wifi tether app on the play store but cant get it to start up without errors.
Anyone have any input?
You get 2.5 gigs free from tmo on the native hot spot. Have you tried that?
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LaloHigh said:
You get 2.5 gigs free from tmo on the native hot spot. Have you tried that?
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Yeah, I burned through that already. I had a iPhone 5S that I had free tethering mod on and currently at 52GB on data on TMobile and my 2.5GB is also already used up lol.
Now on Note 3, currently looking for a way to enable free wifi tethering since my Comcast connection is currently turned off.
I have the Wifi Thering app but dont know which settings work for the Note 3.
I may have to wait until the custom roms are cooked up with unlocked tethering baked in.
Try using a VPN? Worked for me on the S4.
DKYang said:
Try using a VPN? Worked for me on the S4.
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VPN slows the bandwidth down tremendously. I have LTE pulling in at 30Mbps using VPN will lower the speed down to less then 1Mbps.
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VPN slows the bandwidth down tremendously. I have LTE pulling in at 30Mbps using VPN will lower the speed down to less then 1Mbps.
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There is a guide that worked for the S4 about editing customer.xml under /system/csc prolly same way on the Note 3. I'll be extracting the system partition soon. if i have time i will make the mods for you and post it.
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There is a guide that worked for the S4 about editing customer.xml under /system/csc prolly same way on the Note 3. I'll be extracting the system partition soon. if i have time i will make the mods for you and post it.
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Awe man that would be excellent! Looking forward to it. In the mean time im tethering using the user agent chager for my web browser on PC, but looking forward to a full tethering solution for my PS3 ect....
hypersonicx said:
Awe man that would be excellent! Looking forward to it. In the mean time im tethering using the user agent chager for my web browser on PC, but looking forward to a full tethering solution for my PS3 ect....
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Oh this method still requires the UA switcher. Nothing will bypass that part since its done on T-Mobile's servers. I thought you were automatically getting redirected to T-Mobile upsell page even with the UA switcher.
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Oh this method still requires the UA switcher. Nothing will bypass that part since its done on T-Mobile's servers. I thought you were automatically getting redirected to T-Mobile upsell page even with the UA switcher.
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Changing my UA works fine. I was thinking there was a hack or work around so that the HotSpot would work perfect on any device. PS3 and XBox ect...
I hear you man I use 10 gigs a day, just use UA switcher set to Safari on chrome and you can tether to your heart's desire. All websites look normal with that setting and Netflix won't give you the download app for mobile message lol. There hasn't been a wifi tether fix for quite some time regardless of the phone as far as I know, its a common request in most forums regardless of device or carrier. Anyway like I said I tether 10 gigs a day using T-Mobile hotspot with no throttling either but according to them they do throttle regular data unless your on the highest data/tether plan. So if you keep the lowest tether plan you can get unlimited tethering with UA switcher or hopefully with a workaround eventually but your data will be throttled at some point for all data unless you bump up your plan.
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elesbb said:
There is a guide that worked for the S4 about editing customer.xml under /system/csc prolly same way on the Note 3. I'll be extracting the system partition soon. if i have time i will make the mods for you and post it.
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Waiting on this too
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I'm currently not on any tethering plans. I'm rooted but otherwise stock. When I turn tethering on and using a User Agent Spoofer on my PC try to access the web, I get the upsell page. Am I doing something wrong? Also there are several UA spoofers for Chrome. Can someone tell me which one they're using that actually works please? Perhaps you can reference the developer's name, etc.
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I'm currently not on any tethering plans. I'm rooted but otherwise stock. When I turn tethering on and using a User Agent Spoofer on my PC try to access the web, I get the upsell page. Am I doing something wrong? Also there are several UA spoofers for Chrome. Can someone tell me which one they're using that actually works please? Perhaps you can reference the developer's name, etc.
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Sorry I assumed you had tethering since the Simple Choice plan comes with 500mb included in the 50 dollar plan. Then you could simply use UA Spoofer on Chrome, if your on some sort of prepaid thing without any tethering included then I have no clue except use Pda Net for now.
why not just buy the easytether app?
That way it will use your data rather than hotspot
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Sorry I assumed you had tethering since the Simple Choice plan comes with 500mb included in the 50 dollar plan. Then you could simply use UA Spoofer on Chrome, if your on some sort of prepaid thing without any tethering included then I have no clue except use Pda Net for now.
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I'm on a business plan with 100% unlimited everything (no data throttling, etc.) Am I supposed to be getting some free tethering with mine?!
XooLoo said:
I'm on a business plan with 100% unlimited everything (no data throttling, etc.) Am I supposed to be getting some free tethering with mine?!
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Here is the quote from T-Mobile site for business account:
"Besides unlimited talk, text, and web, your Simple Choice for Business plan includes up to 500 MB of high-speed data. But if you need more, you can add extra data to any line. All data plans are unlimited while on T-Mobile’s network." "Add 2 GB to your included 500 MB of high-speed data. Smartphone Mobile HotSpot included. Speeds slowed after 2.5 GB."
Call them up and have them activate it on your phone, I had to call for my kid's iPhone but mine was working out of the box.
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thinkjoey said:
why not just buy the easytether app?
That way it will use your data rather than hotspot
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When you spoof it uses your regular data, personally I have the paid App Klink Red Edition but it stopped working when I switched to T-Mobile. No need to pay a few dollars for an app when you can do it free but Pda-Net works great and it is cheap enough, still it uses spoofing as well just from in the app and not at the browser end, I'm pretty sure all the tethering apps make it look like your using data from your device.
Anyone get VPN working? Mine stops routing when I connect.
I start the Hotspot tethering app first and then start PIA VPN app.
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I set up tethering the other day. I dont burn through data like some of you, but im curious about the limit. Is that 2.5gig limit tied to the 2.5gig lte (then hspa drop) data plan limit? Or is it just a 2.5gigs of tethering regardless of your plan and then no more tethering for the month? Furthermore, when you exceed that amount, im taking it from these posts that the tethering app stops accepting connections and you're not just dropped to the hspa network? I dont think ill hit that limit, i only use tethering for remote access when im on call and out and about. But it would be good to know for sure.
Hello, I just got my 'Note 3'(T-Mobile) and I'm trying to figure out the correct settings to use Wifi(root). Please someone help.
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Hello, I just got my 'Note 3'(T-Mobile) and I'm trying to figure out the correct settings to use Wifi(root). Please someone help.
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It won't work. Only way is to use a UA spoofer for no slowdown or hide your vpn which will slow down data. Used to root right away just to use his wifi tether but heck I don't think that method has worked in months.
This is one of my biggest problem ATM. I need tether. Been using Wifi Tether TrevE Mod on GS3 and it work great. Keep posting we need a solution for this.
So I'm on the only one with this problem. .. I'm using Darthstalker ROM which has unrestricted native tethering. The only sites that work are Google and YouTube only works the rest just doesn't load or I get the "Oops!*Google*Chrome could not connect to___" message. Sigh....
Someone recommend to switch from lte to 4g-3g-E connection, but that didn't work for me.
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So I'm on the only one with this problem. .. I'm using Darthstalker ROM which has unrestricted native tethering. The only sites that work are Google and YouTube only works the rest just doesn't load or I get the "Oops!*Google*Chrome could not connect to___" message. Sigh....
Someone recommend to switch from lte to 4g-3g-E connection, but that didn't work for me.
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I mentioned this twice yesterday that after I flashed Darthstalker I could only visit a couple of websites whereas before I could go anywhere. I tried everything but had to go back to stock. You can have unlimited tethering using one of two methods, either just use native tethering and use UA Spoofer extension with chrome browser set to Safari or pay for PDA Net and set it to level 1 hiding usage.
If you decide to pay for PDA Net then you can stay with Darthstalker rom, go ahead and try it out for free before you buy it. Remember if you go the spoofer way then websites will not see you as Chrome, doesn't affect me at all since they format correctly and Netflix works. Unlimited tethering either way. I have paid app Klink Red Edition which did this for me with previous phones but it stopped working fyi.
Im currently using the US spoofer on the google chrome on my desktop, but there has to be a way to get full tether unlock with out throtling from TMobile.
I use to do it all the time and tether my PS3 and XBOX 360 back when I had Sprint and back when they had WiMax 4G on there phones.
TMobile must have some technology on there end that throttles on the server side so the hacking cant be done on the device end it sounds like.
Thanks everyone for the effort, I guess it's time just to suck it up and face the facts thar TreVe mod is a no-go on the Note 3. I'm just going to stick to using the US spoofer.
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It won't work. Only way is to use a UA spoofer for no slowdown or hide your vpn which will slow down data. Used to root right away just to use his wifi tether but heck I don't think that method has worked in months.
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Why are so many people asking for tethering stuff? Doesn't tmobile allow tethering? At least they do for me. They also seem to allow me to go WAY over the 2.5gb of 4g. I have never gotten throttled...ever. And I usually hit ~5gb a month. I love tmobile
I'll be getting a tmobile note 3 on tomorrow. Do I need to root in order to enable tethering (using the spoofer) or can I just activate the native tethering app (without rooting) and then set the spoofer in chrome. Right now, I have tethering on my Note 2 but it involved me having to root the phone and then using trevmod wifi tether. Even then, I still have to set up the spoof in Chrome.
I'm on stock but rooted ROM. Don't TrevE mod set up on mine yet, but you folks saying you can just use a UA Spoofer, are you talking about with TrevE mod or just the native hotspot? I tried the stock tethering using Chrome User Agent Spoofer, but still I got the up sell page... which is why I'm confused...
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I'll be getting a tmobile note 3 on tomorrow. Do I need to root in order to enable tethering (using the spoofer) or can I just activate the native tethering app (without rooting) and then set the spoofer in chrome. Right now, I have tethering on my Note 2 but it involved me having to root the phone and then using trevmod wifi tether. Even then, I still have to set up the spoof in Chrome.
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You don't need root.
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Why are so many people asking for tethering stuff? Doesn't tmobile allow tethering? At least they do for me. They also seem to allow me to go WAY over the 2.5gb of 4g. I have never gotten throttled...ever. And I usually hit ~5gb a month. I love tmobile
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Your right they are great, they don't charge for roaming or going over your tethering limit but only state they may throttle data. Thing is they can throttle your regular data non tethered unless your on the truly 100% unlimited data, I use 100's of gigs a month the majority tethered so its people like me that are more likely to get throttled lol.
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What UA Spoofer plugin do you use in Chrome? There are several and I think I may not be using a good one. I constantly get the upsell page...
XooLoo said:
I'm on stock but rooted ROM. Don't TrevE mod set up on mine yet, but you folks saying you can just use a UA Spoofer, are you talking about with TrevE mod or just the native hotspot? I tried the stock tethering using Chrome User Agent Spoofer, but still I got the up sell page... which is why I'm confused...
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Native hotspot plus UA Spoofer in Chrome or try Pda Net trial. Some times you need to play around a little with the spoof settings using different spoofs until you stop seeing the upsell. As long as you have a plan that includes the free 500mb tethering otherwise your native app may not be live, in that case try PdaNet. I'm on a simple choice family plan with two lines and I upgraded my data to truly unlimited for $20 more a month to avoid any throttling issues. The last time I got TrevE to work it was so slow it became unuseable, this was back on my S4. I believe it has problems on most devices for a couple of months now on at least Sprint and T-Mobile that I know of.
My daughter can make a wifi hotspot with her iPhone 5 and she uses her laptop with the spoofer no problems, my laptop won't connect to hotspot so I am tethering via usb on my Note 3 but I think its a problem with my laptop antenna or something. Still we are both tethering day and night since our phones are our only internet connections at home, we don't have cable since we stream Netflix and I download my favorite shows and movies.
Anyone get VPN working? Mine stops routing when I connect.
Sadly, the built in tether does not work if you are on the $30 prepaid plan. Any advice?
ajolly said:
Sadly, the built in tether does not work if you are on the $30 prepaid plan. Any advice?
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It may now: http://www.androidcentral.com/t-mob...plans-domestic-data-roaming-also-now-included
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It may now: http://www.androidcentral.com/t-mob...plans-domestic-data-roaming-also-now-included
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Sadly, that's for a different plan. I'm on the prepaid, $30 a month, 5gig of 4g data, unlimited 3g data, 100 minutes, unlimited text messages.
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Hi. I have the $30 prepaid plan (100min talk, 5GB data and unlimited text) I should be able to get 100Mb data via mobile hot spot but it does not seem to work properly. I am able to connect a device via hot spot but that's it. No data is transmitted. My account says I have used 0 of my hot spot data. Any ideas? Thanks!
EDIT: I just came back from my local Tmoble store and the salesperson there told me that there is no tethering allowed with my current plan. I would need to pay $15 extra per month and the tethering data would come off my 5GB data. That sound right? I guess that is still not too bad as a regular plan is $60 per month instead of the $45 I would now have to pay. Any thoughts?
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Hi. I have the $30 prepaid plan (100min talk, 5GB data and unlimited text) I should be able to get 100Mb data via mobile hot spot but it does not seem to work properly. I am able to connect a device via hot spot but that's it. No data is transmitted. My account says I have used 0 of my hot spot data. Any ideas? Thanks!
EDIT: I just came back from my local Tmoble store and the salesperson there told me that there is no tethering allowed with my current plan. I would need to pay $15 extra per month and the tethering data would come off my 5GB data. That sound right? I guess that is still not too bad as a regular plan is $60 per month instead of the $45 I would now have to pay. Any thoughts?
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I used the tethering add-on for $15 quite a while back, and it took data from the 5gb. There doesn't seem to be any special allotment on the $30 plan like there is for other plans. I also was never able to gain access the 100mb that I had read comes with the plan for free. All tethering does seem to be blocked on this particular plan until you either add the $15 add-on option, or you root and install a 3rd party program that will enable tethering.
I am coming over to T-Mobile from Verizon. I had unlimited data and am getting the same here. My only question is, can I use an app like FoxFi to tether without throttling?
I understand that I'm getting 2.5GB of tethering off the bat. But if I choose to tether more than that on a given month (which I probably won't, but I'd still like to know), can I use Foxfi and not get throttled?
From what I have seen tmo will still see it as tethering. You can try to spoof your browser to be seen as an android device, but that kinda defeats the issue as website will revert to their mobile counter part. But then again sk e people have had success with the spoofing of browsers. Your other option is to use a vpn as tmo will not be able to read the packets being sent so then no need to spoof the browser. But if you are tethering to an ipad/iphone, android tablet/phone then you can tether till your hearts desire without any issue. I tethered my transformer tablet for about 20GB (netflix at work, they have no wifi there) without any issues.
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From what I have seen tmo will still see it as tethering. You can try to spoof your browser to be seen as an android device, but that kinda defeats the issue as website will revert to their mobile counter part. But then again sk e people have had success with the spoofing of browsers. Your other option is to use a vpn as tmo will not be able to read the packets being sent so then no need to spoof the browser. But if you are tethering to an ipad/iphone, android tablet/phone then you can tether till your hearts desire without any issue. I tethered my transformer tablet for about 20GB (netflix at work, they have no wifi there) without any issues.
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I am coming over to T-Mobile from Verizon. I had unlimited data and am getting the same here. My only question is, can I use an app like FoxFi to tether without throttling?
I understand that I'm getting 2.5GB of tethering off the bat. But if I choose to tether more than that on a given month (which I probably won't, but I'd still like to know), can I use Foxfi and not get throttled?
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i use FoxFi and use usb tethering and t-mobile doesnt see any tethering activity just normal activity if it were just using my phone normally.
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i use FoxFi and use usb tethering and t-mobile doesnt see any tethering activity just normal activity if it were just using my phone normally.
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Ok, cool. I used FoxFi on my Verizon Note 3 without any problems. Have you used it in wifi mode?
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i use FoxFi and use usb tethering and t-mobile doesnt see any tethering activity just normal activity if it were just using my phone normally.
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Yes you can use usb mode and hide tether usage but if you use wifi mode tmobile will be able to tell. There is no way to hide it without vpn or browser spoofing if you use wifi tethering.
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Ok, cool. I used FoxFi on my Verizon Note 3 without any problems. Have you used it in wifi mode?
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as in normal wifi hotspot? if so i just use standard t-mobile app for that but it does work it just activates t-mobile hotspot so why run 2 applications lol.
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Yes you can use usb mode and hide tether usage but if you use wifi mode tmobile will be able to tell. There is no way to hide it without vpn or browser spoofing if you use wifi tethering.
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again no, because i used more than 2.5GB and even under my T-MO account it shows no MHS usage.
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as in normal wifi hotspot? if so i just use standard t-mobile app for that but it does work it just activates t-mobile hotspot so why run 2 applications lol.
again no, because i used more than 2.5GB and even under my T-MO account it shows no MHS usage.
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Not sure if you have 4G unlimited or not, but I do. On the unlimited 4g (not capped 4g then Edge afterwards) they will not let you go past the 2.5 GB hotspot usage. If you have a limit of highspeed data then you have to spoof or vpn. Look at all the threads in the note 2 and note 3 threads about tethering. All of them with unlimited 4g data are having to spoof or vpn to use it as a hotspot. It works for a little while without spoofing or vpn then all of a sudden they get the upsale page. That's with any method they say is suppose to be a work around.
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Not sure if you have 4G unlimited or not, but I do. On the unlimited 4g (not capped 4g then Edge afterwards) they will not let you go past the 2.5 GB hotspot usage. If you have a limit of highspeed data then you have to spoof or vpn. Look at all the threads in the note 2 and note 3 threads about tethering. All of them with unlimited 4g data are having to spoof or vpn to use it as a hotspot. It works for a little while without spoofing or vpn then all of a sudden they get the upsale page. That's with any method they say is suppose to be a work around.
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no i have the truly unlimited i use more than 30GBs a month
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no i have the truly unlimited i use more than 30GBs a month
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I guess you are one of the lucky one's. Numbers dont lie. Like I said look in the note 2 &3 forums at all the tethering threads. The majority of people cannot tether to their laptops and pcs without spoofing otherwise they get the upsale page. I myself tried all the "fixes" and it works for a few minutes then the upsale page pops up. I tried with both wifi tether for root users and foxfi. My android tablet on the other hand needs no spoofing or vpn just because tmobile sees it as a mobile device and so just sees mobile data. Like I said lucky you and the other few in your position, but for the majority of us yeah spoofing or vpn to a laptop or desktop is needed to keep tmobile from blocking tethering after the initial 2.5 GB is used.
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