hello all
its been awhile since i've been on here but thought i'd start a thread since others may be having my same issue.
i'm on tmobile and still have the super awesome T-Zones Unlimited Web, $5.99/mo data plan.
i have not purchased any phones from tmobile in the last 3 years (all have been unlocks or off carrier unlocked: iphone 3gs, nexus one, bb from att, etc).
this last few weeks i bought an unsubsidized HTC HD7 from tmobile and got full 3G data without any problems. i returned the HTC HD7 last week and in turn got another unsubsidized Tmobile G2. the first day i was able to get on the web fine, however the 2nd day i was not able to get any data services to work on it; only wifi worked.
popped my sim back into my nexus one and got my usual 2mbs speeds and access to android market. put it back in G2, no internet and getting tzones unavailable upsell page. just mentioning service is down.
anyone else having problems specifically w/their G2 on Tzones? all of my other non tmobile devices work fine. are they IMEI blocking our devices??
thanks all!
btw, i am rooted and also am now running the modaco custom rom
have u tried changing the apns in the connection settings page?
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apns
yup, tried the usual suspects. internet2.voicestream.com, internet3.voicestream.com, wap.voicestream.com.
same results, but again ONLY on my G2. nexus one and iPhone are fine. ??
tmobile knows you have a g2 based on the IMEI, they will force you to pay for a android data plan.
You have no way around it with a tmobile android device. The best you are going to get is the $20 preferred android plan.
thats what i was thinking. i wonder if i bought one off of ebay would it matter? if not, i'm prob going to return it since i still get full 3G on my nexus one and tethering for the $5.99 /mo
best bet probably to stick with nexus
The HD7 didn't have an issue with the data plan?
Did you switch the phone listed on your account? also you could try spoofing the user agent on the browser...
JCopernicus said:
The HD7 didn't have an issue with the data plan?
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Yeah, only the android phones have this issue. Switching the phone model listed on my account remedied that
sino8r said:
Yeah, only the android phones have this issue. Switching the phone model listed on my account remedied that
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You're using a g2 with a tzone or $10 data plan?
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You're using a g2 with a tzone or $10 data plan?
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Unforntuately it was removed a stupid rep removed it after being grandfathered in. but... I had it working on my MTS. I would get the same error about switching plans on browser and I would change my pphone model and it would disappear. i'm currently on a $20 data plan w/ messaging ($5 bucks cheaper/got it after *****ing about the stupid rep removing my old data plan without permission) for android but it might be worth to try switching models. it worked for me 4 months ago...
Yes, the HTC HD7 got full 3G data on tzones ($5.99/mo) w/o any problems. seems like android phones sold by tmobile won't work and in turn they upsell you an 'android' data plan when i know for a fact that tzones works just fine w/android (ie my nexus one purchased unlocked from google).
i tried changing my phone type in my account to unlisted but had no luck. my nexus one and iphone 3gs were fine w/the epc.tmobile.com apn and have not had any issues. imo it seems like imei blocking since they have the full database of imeis for their own G2s where my nexus one was direct from google and iphone was at&t and not compatible 3G.
i probably should have set my phone type to unlisted and let it stay as that for a day but figured it prob wouldn't work anyways and i wanted to return phone in the 14day timeframe. loved the phone and may get one online and see if that matters (not tied to my line, imei wise and prev account may have had proper plan so option is turned on for device; speculating on last bit).
any other T-Zones success / fail stories w/the G2??
i just ended up returning my G2.
I tried it when the G1 came out. I used an iphone forever and didn't wanna upgrade from the tzones hack lol. in the end, tmobile has the cheapest rates possible. I had to leave the tzones behind after 4 years of it never failing, due to android
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They DO have a list of IMEI's that they go by.
No matter where you get your G2 from, if you don't have a android plan you will get the update message and have to get a android plan. Non tmobile android phones and all windows mobile smartphones have always worked with the tzones plan, for some reason tmobile doesn't care enough about WM to enforce it, and they really can't imei filter on non tmobile android devices. This has been discussed to death over the years on howardforums.
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makes sense w/imeis. just wanted to confirm that others had similar experience. glad i got my unlocked nexus one from google
that phone sure has held its own this whole year! G2 is nice though. if i could have used on my tzones i would have kept it too! (had it rooted, custom modaco rom on it and all)
Just pay stop been cheap. Lol
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hehe, with the way i go through unlocked phones, i have to be cheap somewhere. ended up with a Galaxy Tab instead and using the Nexus One as main phone.
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same thing seems to be happening to me, i have been using a Htc touch pro 2 for about 1 YEAR, i got initially a "Pay By the Month" plan in early 2010, it was:
- $40 Even More Plus™ 500 Talk with FlexPay®
- $10 Unlimited Web for Phones with FlexPay
It wouldnt work with my touch pro 2, but then i discovered that you can put an APN (internet2.voicestream.com) to get it working, i did that and set that i was using a Motorola razr in the my tmobile account, and it did work, then i stop paying the monthly charge to see if i would still have the internet working, and surpisingly it kept working, so for a whole year i used the internet.. in the month of december i noticed that my internet speed got faster all the suden, from downloading at 26 kbps to 120 kbps so i thought, wow this is so cool, and decided to buy the G2, they just delivered to my house yesterday ( Jan 21 2011 ) i got it because they had a promotion of get a 2 year contract with tmobile and get g2 for free ( promotion that only lasted 2-3 days), and so as soon as it arrived i put my sim card of the touch pro 2 to the G2, did set the apn, it worked, but after 3-4 hours, it stopped working, it shows "Subscription Upsell Required" but if i put the sim card back to the Touch pro 2 the internet works.
i have not done anything as far as Rooting Flashing Unlcoking to my G2, but as you guys were saying it may have to do with the IMEI :/
does anybody have a solution?
atomiq said:
20 some days after this
same thing seems to be happening to me, i have been using a Htc touch pro 2 for about 1 YEAR, i got initially a "Pay By the Month" plan in early 2010, it was:
- $40 Even More Plus™ 500 Talk with FlexPay®
- $10 Unlimited Web for Phones with FlexPay
It wouldnt work with my touch pro 2, but then i discovered that you can put an APN (internet2.voicestream.com) to get it working, i did that and set that i was using a Motorola razr in the my tmobile account, and it did work, then i stop paying the monthly charge to see if i would still have the internet working, and surpisingly it kept working, so for a whole year i used the internet.. in the month of december i noticed that my internet speed got faster all the suden, from downloading at 26 kbps to 120 kbps so i thought, wow this is so cool, and decided to buy the G2, they just delivered to my house yesterday ( Jan 21 2011 ) i got it because they had a promotion of get a 2 year contract with tmobile and get g2 for free ( promotion that only lasted 2-3 days), and so as soon as it arrived i put my sim card of the touch pro 2 to the G2, did set the apn, it worked, but after 3-4 hours, it stopped working, it shows "Subscription Upsell Required" but if i put the sim card back to the Touch pro 2 the internet works.
i have not done anything as far as Rooting Flashing Unlcoking to my G2, but as you guys were saying it may have to do with the IMEI :/
does anybody have a solution?
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Its the imei. They trace it to match an android device and you must have the android data plan to get internet working. There is no workaround unfortunately...
How about Editing the Imei of the phone, i've seen some threads about it, but it's illegal isnt?
i'm willing to take tha chance :}
where to go?
I can confirm that this app gives the Razr M Wifi HotSpot/Tether with no root and no VZW tethering on the account...
You have to change the device profile to Samsung ICS though. I connected my Kindle Fire with no issues and it requires infrastructure mode for Wifi connections.
Not responsible for how you decide to use this...
This is a 2 day trial and then $10 one time purchase
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.svtechpartners.wifihotspotdemo
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I've read in an artical a while ago. Verizion has to let everyone have free tether because of a chunk of spectrum they bought that came with strings attached, and then the FTC was "No Verizon, you can't charge them twice for the same amount of data"
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I've read in an artical a while ago. Verizion has to let everyone have free tether because of a chunk of spectrum they bought that came with strings attached, and then the FTC was "No Verizon, you can't charge them twice for the same amount of data"
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57...ns-fcc-tethering-settlement-means-to-you-faq/
Given that most people that upgrade phones also renew their contract, verizon knows that tethering means more money for them since all the new plan have data packages that are not unlimited.
Verizon no longer cares.
If you're on the new share everything plans, you can tether with the native app anyway.
I would also like to confirm this working. seems odd with the samsung part but it works
My phone is on a corporate plan with 2GB data. I can't get either program mentioned here to work. Other device can't get IP address. Sees the phone just fine in both cases.
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To add insult to injury I get to pay $20 a month more for unlimited data and no longer get to tether with Foxfi. Tell me it ain't true....
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To add insult to injury I get to pay $20 a month more for unlimited data and no longer get to tether with Foxfi. Tell me it ain't true....
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I don't think this is an an issue with Verizon. I believe this is the FoxFi VPN servers are down. This happened a few months ago, and the next day it started working again.
Hope you are right. Time will tell.
It's 8:36PM Pacific Time - 11/20/2015 - Foxfi not working on Verizon Galaxy s5. Did yours start working again?
Booo. I'd rather get beat in the face with a sack full of pissed off kittens than go without my foxfi....I was one of the retards that got a note 4...and bog5 is not my friend.
Do any of you know how to use FoxFi via USB mode or Bluetooth mode to connect PS3, granted that'll be a fix till we all figure out what the deal is.
Note 4, Verizon with Unlimited Data Fox Fi not working for me as of I think today (last time I ran it was a week ago). Bummed, bout to take a road trip with the kids for Thanksgiving and no wifi. What's going on?
I just tried to fire up FoxFi for the first time in a few days and I can't get it to work, either. Also on Verizon with an Unlimited Data Plan. Am I screwed?
Looking around the XDA community, it looks like Foxfi is no longer an option. Without root we are done with free wifi tethering for now. I hope Foxfi can come up with a work around. I am using usb tethering and Pdanet until someone beats this block.
Why is it just to much to pay the $30 for the hot spot? Thats a total of $79 a month for unlimited high speed data, check the cable and phone companies prices they are moving away from unlimited to tiered packages, comcast wants the same amount of money for 150 gigs a month, last month eac of my 5 lines used that apiece.
Foxfi just started working! Hope it continues.
Foxfi has been killed by our carrier Verizon. I believe I have found a work around and need testers. Currently I'm running foxfi on my Verizon OG5, none rooted with unlimited data Plan.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4-verizon/general/foxfi-fixed-og5-rooted-verizon-note4-t3256610
Edit: I heard that foxfi is working again? please confirm!
FoxFi also started working for me, again, around last Wednesday or so. Been working fine ever since. I'm on the road and have been using it as my hotspot for tablet and laptop almost 24/7 since then. No problems.
Hello all,
I tether with my phone via hotspot to my tablet about 5 times a month. Mainly when I am on the road to answer emails and the like with a device that I have a keyboard with. I have noticed that with the newer version of software for this phone, I can bypass the the check on my device but it gets throttled down to 128 kbps. I can work on email with this but it is very slow. Does anyone know a way around this at all?
I know people won't be happy and this doesn't seem like something people like anymore, but it is something I do need on rare occasion. I don't even use over 4gb a month on my plan even when I had the unlimited method before. On my plan which I have 4 devices for about 120 a month with unlimited data on mine (since I do stream a lot to the phone) I don't have the option to add tethering service to my plan. They want me to go to the new plans but then I will need to pay over 50 a month more for other services I do not use and I can not afford that. Any help or guidance you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
Hi guys,
I am still on rooted pixel 3 with enabled tethering on old Verizon Unlimited plan. Time flies and I think it is time to upgrade my phone. I am thinking about 6 PRO maybe later this year if there are some good discounts with 7 coming up in a few month.
Is there a way to enable hot spot tether from 6 PRO without rooting the phone or it's still the only way to bypass hotspot tethering check from cell provider? Being able to use hotspot on my old plan is the only thing I really care about at this point.
It's been a while and I am sure a lot has changed.
Thanks.
EvergreenExpert said:
Hi guys,
I am still on rooted pixel 3 with enabled tethering on old Verizon Unlimited plan. Time flies and I think it is time to upgrade my phone. I am thinking about 6 PRO maybe later this year if there are some good discounts with 7 coming up in a few month.
Is there a way to enable hot spot tether from 6 PRO without rooting the phone or it's still the only way to bypass hotspot tethering check from cell provider? Being able to use hotspot on my old plan is the only thing I really care about at this point.
It's been a while and I am sure a lot has changed.
Thanks.
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It's been a few years but PDAnet worked pretty well for me on an old Verizon unlimited plan. Random disconnects but overall it was pretty handy and the "hide tethering" option seemed to do just that. Bandwidth wasn't great though.
I've since switched to Visible, hotspot/tethering is included and stable but it's throttled @ 4Mbs for me.
Good luck!