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I am wondering if someone can explain the details around the carrier restrictions for WP7 Wifi tethering (ICS), specifically for at&t. For instance, will at&t be able to see that we are using ICS mobile hotspot feature and charge extra for it? Also, I realize that the XDA users, being the ingenious bunch that you are, were able to hack the feature onto several phones already.
If we didn't hack the feature, how would this all normally work through the carrier? Is the feature unavailable unless you have a tethering plan or does it show up anyway as part of WP7 regardless?
Thanks!
anyone??
This is just an approximation idea how it (can) work(s):
In registry there is option to select through which profile (and thus APN) it connects. So if your carrier would force different APN that is used for hotspot then yes, it is possible. But you just change in registry the APN name (or profile name) and voila, it flows now all through normal, phone, APN.
Plus there is the possibility to sneak the packets and check what sites are being checked (namely windowsupdate.microsoft.com lol).
I am so glad that I live where I live. 3GB FUP (actually 6GB FUP till end of January, we got double FUP as a gift) for $30/month. And it runs upto 880kB/s . (1,5GB file downloaded with avg of 780kB/s, peak 882kB/s).
thanks for the info! Yeah I have no idea why they charge extra for tethering, makes no sense, especially since most carriers got rid of unlimited plans! Anyway, I agree with you, should be able to change the APN to route everything normally.
j_sous said:
thanks for the info! Yeah I have no idea why they charge extra for tethering, makes no sense, especially since most carriers got rid of unlimited plans! Anyway, I agree with you, should be able to change the APN to route everything normally.
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Why? Because they are greedy bastards, that's why. Same internet, same data, same bits, could have used it as part of your normal data allowance but they charge you extra for it. Greed, pure and simple.
With the Focus, when tethering manually though the USB modem setting (google to find details) it goes through the WAP access point, and it shows up under phone data usage on my account (I have an unlimited data plan through my company). However, I tried using the ICS option and a few weeks later I got a text message from AT&T with the classic tethering data plan warning. I have since turned off ICS and have gone back to the USB modem method.
This is actually one of the reasons I don't want to upgrade to a 2nd gen device unless there is a known way to either use the USB modem feature or redirect the ICS through the WAP access point...
Hey guys.
I'm a proud owner of a nice Samsung Galaxy Note 2 phone.
I'm in the UK, pay monthly with 3 mobile.
I've rooted my phone, but the rom is still the stock one (I'm not exactly an expert and so I don't really want to mess around with it with my noobhands, the phone is costing me loads already).
After a lot of pain and sweat I managed to get USB tethering working through PDANet 3.50 with level 1 tether hiding.
Without ticking the hide option, or using any other app, or using the stock tether options, a second after connecting with my laptop (windows 7), I can't surf the internet, I immediately get redirected to 3's tether block site that tells me off, both on the laptop and the phone.
Question is simple, how to get around this? I mean get wifi tethering work without 3 knowing it.
I tried:
most wifi tethering apps on the market, rooted and nonrooted
the stock wifi tethering options, both wifi and bluetooth
changing the user string in my browser
I'm not on The One Plan, sadly, I would love to be, but I didn't know it's the only one with tethering allowed. And because I'm in a contract, I can't do anything either. 3's tethering addon is more than unreasonable - 5 pounds for 1GB. Ridiculous.
Thanks!
Dan
Edit1: Certain sites trigger the tether block and I have to restart the phone or turn on flight mode for some seconds few seconds after I visit them
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I found that flashing a custom rom and then activating wifi hot spot the tethering worked fine on my plan which was text 500 on 3 with 5 pound Internet add on which didn't allow tethering and got that blocking page before I did the custom rom I just used in the built in tethering no apps
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I found a simple solution that worked for me on Orange UK, might work on other networks too. You will need to create a new APN and copy over all the settings from your default access point (you can't edit the default). Near the bottom of the APN settings there is an option "APN type" - mine was set to "default, supl". Add "dun" to the end of this list e.g. "default, supl, dun" and select this as the default access point.
Hey All,
I just picked up my T-Mobile LG G3 last night and rooted it.
I am trying to use the tethering app like I did on the Nexus 5 but my other devices are not picking it up when I have it enabled on the new phone.
The app say's its enabled and shows the Name and passcode to join it, but again, no other devices that I was using before (ipad for example) see it when I scan for WiFi networks.
Can anyone please help? I use this app when at work and need to get it figured out and up and running again if possible.
Thank you,
Whiteice
Is the Wifi Tether Router app you're using by Fabio Grasso?
That's the one I was using on my Nexus 5 without any issues. I also just moved over to the Tmo G3 and can't seem to get any of my devices to pick up the SSID either. The developer says that it does work on the G3 and I also followed the settings laid out by the developer in his devices configuration page but still a no go. I emailed him to see if he may have some suggestions but no word yet. Hopefully he replies with something I/we can try to get this running. It was a great app on all my previous phones. I have faith in this developer, he seems to update his apps fairly regularly.
hoy128 said:
Is the Wifi Tether Router app you're using by Fabio Grasso?
That's the one I was using on my Nexus 5 without any issues. I also just moved over to the Tmo G3 and can't seem to get any of my devices to pick up the SSID either. The developer says that it does work on the G3 and I also followed the settings laid out by the developer in his devices configuration page but still a no go. I emailed him to see if he may have some suggestions but no word yet. Hopefully he replies with something I/we can try to get this running. It was a great app on all my previous phones. I have faith in this developer, he seems to update his apps fairly regularly.
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Yes that is the same app I'm using.
I contacted him and he replied back asking Me to send a log file from within the app. I Did that this morning and waiting For further feedback. If I hear anything I Will report back here.
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Yes that is the same app I'm using.
I contacted him and he replied back asking Me to send a log file from within the app. I Did that this morning and waiting For further feedback. If I hear anything I Will report back here.
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I had the SAME problem with the app with my G3 and I've been back and forth with him via email. I had to try a few methods he gave me but the last one finally did the trick!
Here's his email that had the steps to get it to work below:
strange, yes other users use this app on G3
please try this config
Interface wlan0
Method 2
Channel 1
Encryption wpa2-psk
"No Firmware Reload" <- UNCHECKED
Let me know
Thanks
Fabio
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It works now, because the settings on his site and his emails weren't working, but the above finally did it for me.
But I noticed the the DNS process, /system/bin/dnsmasq, was using on average 40% of my CPU constantly with the app enabled. So I checked the "Use Internal DHCP" in the DHCP settings and the process ended and the CPU use returned to normal.
I had asked in a reply if this app uses IP Tables to mask the hotspot use as mobile use or still shows up as Hotspot with T-Mobile. I wasn't sure if enabling or disabling the Internal DHCP would negate it or not, but he hasn't responded back yet.
Does anyone know if this app does mask it as mobile and not hotspot?
I just came off of Sprint to T-Mobile two days ago and I always used the native hotspot function on my rooted Note 3 that masked it as mobile use.
Hope it works for you guys as well.
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I had the SAME problem with the app with my G3 and I've been back and forth with him via email. I had to try a few methods he gave me but the last one finally did the trick!
Here's his email that had the steps to get it to work below:
It works now, because the settings on his site and his emails weren't working, but the above finally did it for me.
But I noticed the the DNS process, /system/bin/dnsmasq, was using on average 40% of my CPU constantly with the app enabled. So I checked the "Use Internal DHCP" in the DHCP settings and the process ended and the CPU use returned to normal.
I had asked in a reply if this app uses IP Tables to mask the hotspot use as mobile use or still shows up as Hotspot with T-Mobile. I wasn't sure if enabling or disabling the Internal DHCP would negate it or not, but he hasn't responded back yet.
Does anyone know if this app does mask it as mobile and not hotspot?
I just came off of Sprint to T-Mobile two days ago and I always used the native hotspot function on my rooted Note 3 that masked it as mobile use.
Hope it works for you guys as well.
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Just tried those settings and so far it appears to be working.
Thanks you Fabio,
Whiteice
Darn, I wish it was working for me. I found that on Fabio's page and used those settings but they're still not working for me. Also tried to use the internal DHCP option but still no dice. I just sent Fabio my log file, hopefully he finds something that can get me up and running.
Woo hoo...I overlooked the method. Just confirmed the strings above works. Thanks all/Fabio!
JustLok said:
I had the SAME problem with the app with my G3 and I've been back and forth with him via email. I had to try a few methods he gave me but the last one finally did the trick!
Here's his email that had the steps to get it to work below:
It works now, because the settings on his site and his emails weren't working, but the above finally did it for me.
But I noticed the the DNS process, /system/bin/dnsmasq, was using on average 40% of my CPU constantly with the app enabled. So I checked the "Use Internal DHCP" in the DHCP settings and the process ended and the CPU use returned to normal.
I had asked in a reply if this app uses IP Tables to mask the hotspot use as mobile use or still shows up as Hotspot with T-Mobile. I wasn't sure if enabling or disabling the Internal DHCP would negate it or not, but he hasn't responded back yet.
Does anyone know if this app does mask it as mobile and not hotspot?
I just came off of Sprint to T-Mobile two days ago and I always used the native hotspot function on my rooted Note 3 that masked it as mobile use.
Hope it works for you guys as well.
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I can confirm the above settings including the internal DHCP work perfect on my end also!
As a side note, it also appears that the data usage shows up on my T-Mo account as regular "Internet Access", not Hot Spot usage. Maybe I was looking at it wrong, or maybe my account hasn't fully updated yet, but it looks promising.
Thanks to JustLok for the tips!
Good to know it works. I tried it a few days ago and I didn't get any data, so I uninstalled it. Now that you guys confirm it's working, I might buy it.
I've been trying to get the stock tether to work. Found where to change the APN so that it doesn't use the pcweb one that tracks as hotspot, but I'm running into other issues, some other checks that need to be circumvented. This app is probably using the fast APN since pcweb is only listed deeply in the frameworks-res.apk of the G3 and those should never be used unless this app tries to tether as DUN (which I doubt).
Question, does this app have Tasker integration?
Just to clarify...'No firmware reload' should be checked or unchecked? Cheers!
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Just to clarify...'No firmware reload' should be checked or unchecked? Cheers!
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It would be unchecked, as listed in my post above in regards to the settings and tweaks to get it to work with D851 G3.
Also, been using it for days now and it does mask the tether use as mobile data and NOT as Hotspot data, as orbitalcomp confirmed, even using the internal DHCP server (which I was wondering if it would with the IP Table masking).
As for Tasker integration, I'm not sure what you mean havanahjoe with Tasker, as in the normal App Tasker or an app titled tasker?
I also noticed that my data connection just dies every so often, both on my G3 and my wife's G3. It show a connection with LTE and the data arrow up lit, but no data is moving. Even confirmed with the Internet Speed Meter Lite app that no data was being sent or received. I have to enable Airplane mode and then back off and the data connections becomes live again. I've read several reports of this on XDA too on Tmo G3's. This is either with the tether app or not, Tmo's data connection just stops working and needs to disconnect and reconnect to the tower/antenna to work again.
Finally, when using the widget for this tether app, when first tapping it (after a reboot or so), it does not enable it. You have to wait a little and then tap it again for it to enable. Once you get it to enable and become active, turning it on or off via the widget works on the first tap. It's just the first initial widget use upon a reboot that it takes two taps, about 5 secs apart to actually start up.
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It would be unchecked, as listed in my post above in regards to the settings and tweaks to get it to work with D851 G3.
Also, been using it for days now and it does mask the tether use as mobile data and NOT as Hotspot data, as orbitalcomp confirmed, even using the internal DHCP server (which I was wondering if it would with the IP Table masking).
As for Tasker integration, I'm not sure what you mean havanahjoe with Tasker, as in the normal App Tasker or an app titled tasker?
I also noticed that my data connection just dies every so often, both on my G3 and my wife's G3. It show a connection with LTE and the data arrow up lit, but no data is moving. Even confirmed with the Internet Speed Meter Lite app that no data was being sent or received. I have to enable Airplane mode and then back off and the data connections becomes live again. I've read several reports of this on XDA too on Tmo G3's. This is either with the tether app or not, Tmo's data connection just stops working and needs to disconnect and reconnect to the tower/antenna to work again.
Finally, when using the widget for this tether app, when first tapping it (after a reboot or so), it does not enable it. You have to wait a little and then tap it again for it to enable. Once you get it to enable and become active, turning it on or off via the widget works on the first tap. It's just the first initial widget use upon a reboot that it takes two taps, about 5 secs apart to actually start up.
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Thanks for the update and confirmation of mobile vs. Hotspot..which meets my own experience. FWIW, your settings quote from Fabio simply says "No Firmware Reload" and doesn't state checked or unchecked...which is why I asked. At least I can't see it on Tapatalk. [emoji4]
Sent from my amazing LGG3!
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It would be unchecked, as listed in my post above in regards to the settings and tweaks to get it to work with D851 G3.
Also, been using it for days now and it does mask the tether use as mobile data and NOT as Hotspot data, as orbitalcomp confirmed, even using the internal DHCP server (which I was wondering if it would with the IP Table masking).
As for Tasker integration, I'm not sure what you mean havanahjoe with Tasker, as in the normal App Tasker or an app titled tasker?
I also noticed that my data connection just dies every so often, both on my G3 and my wife's G3. It show a connection with LTE and the data arrow up lit, but no data is moving. Even confirmed with the Internet Speed Meter Lite app that no data was being sent or received. I have to enable Airplane mode and then back off and the data connections becomes live again. I've read several reports of this on XDA too on Tmo G3's. This is either with the tether app or not, Tmo's data connection just stops working and needs to disconnect and reconnect to the tower/antenna to work again.
Finally, when using the widget for this tether app, when first tapping it (after a reboot or so), it does not enable it. You have to wait a little and then tap it again for it to enable. Once you get it to enable and become active, turning it on or off via the widget works on the first tap. It's just the first initial widget use upon a reboot that it takes two taps, about 5 secs apart to actually start up.
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The hiding of the traffic is all about the APN. WiFi Tether Router uses the phone APN (fast.t-mobile.com) and the built-in hotspot uses pcweb.tmobile.com. That's why it's so easy to bypass, as long as WiFi Tether Router can do its thing by doing some iptables, dnsmasq and other Linux magic.
I have seen my LTE connection stop working from time to time. Not while tethering, but I rarely tether for more than 30 minutes at a time. Whenever I lose data, I just do the same, airplane mode on/off and it's back.
Tasker is an automation app. It's great for getting things done automatically. I use tethering in the car so that my dash mounted Nexus 7 can get internet. With Tasker, my hotspot is automatically turned on when I get in the car, and automatically turned off when I turn the car off. There is a method for applications to talk to each other in Android, these messages are called intents. With intents you can tell an app to shut down, to load a specific playlist (Spotify for example), or to enable/disable something. When using the stock Tether app, the system lets you toggle it with intents that Tasker already knows about. WiFi Tether Router has no intents, so there is no way to externally tell it to turn the hotspot on or off. The workaround is to emulate touching the enable/disable button (on the app or the widget). It's kludgy, but it works. It would be much cleaner and reliable if the dev enabled this functionality.
I tried the setting you suggested on the other thread, and by using Internal DHCP and not having WiFi Tether Router use DNSMasq to provide DHCP and DNS services, my battery drain is much more acceptable. I only lost 3% on my drive to work. I usually would lose 10% or more! This setting might be needed for other carriers where you do need to hide your data, but we don't have to worry about this with T-Mo.
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Tasker is an automation app. It's great for getting things done automatically. I use tethering in the car so that my dash mounted Nexus 7 can get internet. With Tasker, my hotspot is automatically turned on when I get in the car, and automatically turned off when I turn the car off. There is a method for applications to talk to each other in Android, these messages are called intents. With intents you can tell an app to shut down, to load a specific playlist (Spotify for example), or to enable/disable something. When using the stock Tether app, the system lets you toggle it with intents that Tasker already knows about. WiFi Tether Router has no intents, so there is no way to externally tell it to turn the hotspot on or off. The workaround is to emulate touching the enable/disable button (on the app or the widget). It's kludgy, but it works. It would be much cleaner and reliable if the dev enabled this functionality.
I tried the setting you suggested on the other thread, and by using Internal DHCP and not having WiFi Tether Router use DNSMasq to provide DHCP and DNS services, my battery drain is much more acceptable. I only lost 3% on my drive to work. I usually would lose 10% or more! This setting might be needed for other carriers where you do need to hide your data, but we don't have to worry about this with T-Mo.
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Thanks for that explanation on Tasker, when I mentioned it to my wife last night, she said she was already using it on her old HTC One M7, so much for me being ahead of the curve. Or on the curve even, I guess. :cyclops:
I have noticed when using the Wifi Tether App, sometimes my laptop won't or can't connect to the hotspot after a while using it. I use it for extended periods of time at work, hours on end even, and my laptop will just disconnect from my SSID and won't connect, despite it being live. The SSID is seen and the laptop tries to connect but then just says it cannot do so.
I need to reboot my laptop for it to connect to it again. I'm not sure if it's the IP lease on my laptop expired or wasn't renewed with the tether app. Unfortunately, I cannot perform an IP renew or release in CMD on my laptop, because it's disconnected and needs a connection to do it! So I can't narrow the error to that function or not.
When I use the native Hotspot with TMo, I didn't have this problem last week when I was using it for three days before getting the Tether app.
Just some experience with it so far, in case anyone else was seeing the same or so.
How the heck did you all get this app to work? I cant change my apn settings to ipv4 like he says too. Data cuts off when I do
after update to lollipop not working
I was trying different settings,
After factory reset T-mobile hotspot is working, but when I tried to run "WiFi Tether Router" even t-mobile hotspot is not working...
Are you guys using d851 with lollipop?
Could somebody post for me correct settings?
Thx
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I was trying different settings,
After factory reset T-mobile hotspot is working, but when I tried to run "WiFi Tether Router" even t-mobile hotspot is not working...
Are you guys using d851 with lollipop?
Could somebody post for me correct settings?
Thx
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This app is broken in g2/g3 lollipop. It will also break built in tmo hotspot app as well and you would have to factory reset to get it working again. I switch back to kitkat just to use this app and also see no benefit in lollipop.. yet..
Can someone please help?
I can't get any of my computers to show the network name for WiFi tether router. I've never had this issue until today. My wife's phones doesn't have a problem, but mine won't show at all
I just switched to unlimited data on my LG G3 and got this app...
It works great with the G3 settings shown on the first page of this thread and on the app website. The speeds are the same on the device as on a client device so that's good...very fast LTE.
I originally tried setting the APN to LP4 (from default LP6) as the application directions stated must be done for T-Mobile but found that the network slowed (4G instead of LTE) and became somewhat unreliable. I'm wondering if this is even necessary on the G3 based on what I'm reading here. I switched the APN back to default.
My plan includes 5GB of tethering with unlimited on board so the problem is that how can I tell which data I'm using? My account page only shows unlimited it doesn't show how much of that is used for tethering even when I used the native tether app. I suppose I just have to try and go over and see what happens?
I've got this working on Cloudy 2.5 but the data is being counted as Hotspot data. Other than the settings earlier in the thread is there anything else I need to change so that it doesn't get counted as Hot Spot data?
TIA!
One of the most important things this phone does for me is tethering, and it's done a wonderful job of it until a few days ago when I couldn't get more than 20Kb/s (but it's still good enough to game smoothly on around 100ms ping, and it's also capable of certain browsing, like Google searches). I have net provisioning off in the build.prop file and I'm on T-Mobile's LTE most of the time.
So far I've tried to change my APN to enable dun, and it worked for a few hours but the next time I turned on hotspot it dropped back down. I've been trying to edit settings.db to change the tether_dun_required field to 0 which I have heard works. So far I have not been able to see the file any way I try to access it.
Solutions please?
Hello!
Try to switch APN to ipv4 mode.
By some reason the default t-mobile APN fast.t-mobile.com doesn't have data connectivity if i selected ipv4 only.
So i found that they have other APN epc.tmobile.com and setup it as ipv4 only - this did the trick for me.
I'm on cm13 from 1st day when received the phone early July - had the same issue with tethering speed + frequent loses of data on hotspot (while phone itself had LTE connectivity the same time).
Troubleshooting the tetherinng connetivity issues i did noticed that in case of data loss:
- the private ipv4 interface 192.0.0.4 used for tethering is down in such cases;
Looking in the internet i saw advice to switch to ipv4 only and it fixed both speed and connectivity.
Probably you crossed your hotspot tethering limit. By any chance are you on T-Mobile? If so, the tethering gets automatically throttled once you cross the hotspot cap limit. It is 5GB on an unlimited data plan, in case, if you are on that plan. Try checking with your provider if it is the case.
However, the hotspot llimit gets reset for every billing cycle.
As we all know, Android Pie has been giving quite a few folks problems on the tethering front. And so far, the G7 Power, at least for me, is in that group.
The method I used was USB-less, because this phone charges anytime you plug it into any device, and going through the cable to my computer just wasn't a great option as I'm trying to save this battery that doesn't easily come out.
I used:
VPN Hotspot
VPN Tether
Express VPN
PhCyber Pro
Opened Express VPN first. Then PhCyber Pro. This is because Express VPN does not play nice with VPN Tether but PhyCyber does, and you want to make sure that the tab on Express VPN that says all apps connect through VPN is clicked. Then I turned on Hotspot, making sure to enable the Wifi and the Wlan0. Then I turned on VPN Tether. From that I was able to use the connection.
So far, so good. Hit 20GB with no throttling. Battery goes out in about six hours with continuous usage give or take. Anybody want to test it and see what happens? Or if you have a better method, lay it out - I'm ALL EARS.:good::good:
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As we all know, Android Pie has been giving quite a few folks problems on the tethering front. And so far, the G7 Power, at least for me, is in that group.
The method I used was USB-less, because this phone charges anytime you plug it into any device, and going through the cable to my computer just wasn't a great option as I'm trying to save this battery that doesn't easily come out.
I used:
VPN Hotspot
VPN Tether
Express VPN
PhCyber Pro
Opened Express VPN first. Then PhCyber Pro. This is because Express VPN does not play nice with VPN Tether but PhyCyber does, and you want to make sure that the tab on Express VPN that says all apps connect through VPN is clicked. Then I turned on Hotspot, making sure to enable the Wifi and the Wlan0. Then I turned on VPN Tether. From that I was able to use the connection.
So far, so good. Hit 20GB with no throttling. Battery goes out in about six hours with continuous usage give or take. Anybody want to test it and see what happens? Or if you have a better method, lay it out - I'm ALL EARS.:good::good:
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Since I have a backup laptop , I use pda tether via USB , then share the pda connection via windows 10 hotspot share.
Easy set up first use any wifi connection to activate the local area connection 15. Then turn off the wifi leaving on the windows hotspot, then connect pda USB and go to adapter settings in windows and share the pda connection to the local area connection 15. Bam hotspot for the entire house no throttle no detection from carrier since it's pda USB..
Doing this for months on MetroPCS. I average 79 gigs per month.
Battery stays at 100 since it's connected via USB all day. I bought two Moto g7 powers for this reason. The data speeds are perfect in my area. Use H instead of LTE for an average of 6-7 mb download speeds during peak hours 9am to 10pm. Then use LTE during off peak times for speeds of around 30 mb download speeds. The service is so good and reliable I don't pay timewarner aka spectrum no more $$$.
I just keep my Moto g7 power on H all day everyday for the best non throttled data. Lastly use T-Mobile apn and add dun. Some reason using MetroPCS apn I get choppier service when streaming. Using T-Mobile apn I steam all day at 720 p with no buffing. I tested the hotspot devices and they get 720 p steaming with no buffering either. Hope this helps anyone like it helped me.
PS. One last note. Since last Friday my motog7power displays T-Mobile on the drop down menu now. I've change to Tmobile apn on several devices in recent years and this phone is the first one to display T-Mobile although my sim card is MetroPCS. I do have the retail stock rom on June 1st security patch rooted.
Before I would use Xposed and use custom text app to edit the carrier name. I'm glad I don't have to use Xposed anymore for that reason.
Edit now drop down reads metro by T-Mobile. They must be updating towers.
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Not working for me. Can you leave some detailed instructions on how you got pda net to work? I keep getting errors saying pda wasn't made for my device.
Also, cannot change ANY MetroPCS APN settings. Everything is greyed out. Any hopes on that one? Tried making a tmobile one, saved it, it auto deleted.
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Not working for me. Can you leave some detailed instructions on how you got pda net to work? I keep getting errors saying pda wasn't made for my device.
Also, cannot change ANY MetroPCS APN settings. Everything is greyed out. Any hopes on that one? Tried making a tmobile one, saved it, it auto deleted.
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Make sure your on a non branded stock rom. Download the retus or retail firmware from the website linked in the return to stock thread. Fastboot flash the firmware.
You should be able to change apn settings on the retail stock roms.
Let me know if need further assistance.
As far as pda i use foxfi. Paid key version and select activate USB mode. See pic below.
jhjhjhjhjhjh said:
Make sure your on a non branded stock rom. Download the retus or retail firmware from the website linked in the return to stock thread. Fastboot flash the firmware.
You should be able to change apn settings on the retail stock roms.
Let me know if need further assistance.
As far as pda i use foxfi. Paid key version and select activate USB mode. See pic below.
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I'm on the RETUS rom (March 1st). No MetroPCS stock rom. Still not highlighted.
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I'm on the RETUS rom (March 1st). No MetroPCS stock rom. Still not highlighted.
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I'm on Retail.
Weird. Try the updated firmware . June patch. I'm rocking it no problems rooted.
Make sure your sim card isn't in during the flashing of the stock rom. Also wipe your device clean .(factory reset) That's what I did.
PS. My wife is so amazed of the battery, performance and the modifications I did to this phone. She wants a Moto g7 power now and giving up her iPhone 7s plus lol. Said the youtube Vance mod is her favorite. She loves youtube without interruptions...
I must say this phone is a Beast. Highly underrated.
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I'm on Retail.
Weird. Try the updated firmware . June patch. I'm rocking it no problems rooted.
Make sure your sim card isn't in during the flashing of the stock rom. Also wipe your device clean .(factory reset) That's what I did.
PS. My wife is so amazed of the battery, performance and the modifications I did to this phone. She wants a Moto g7 power now and giving up her iPhone 7s plus lol. Said the youtube Vance mod is her favorite. She loves youtube without interruptions...
I must say this phone is a Beast. Highly underrated.
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I've done all you've suggested. I've also deleted /played with the APN.xml file. No dice. It may be because my phone is locked to them - reading more about this apparently Google is locking the APN settings down. There has to be a way to edit them.
Even editing build prop did nothing to ungrey it out.
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I've done all you've suggested. I've also deleted /played with the APN.xml file. No dice. It may be because my phone is locked to them - reading more about this apparently Google is locking the APN settings down. There has to be a way to edit them.
Even editing build prop did nothing to ungrey it out.
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Wow. I'm still locked to metro for another 87 days. As you have seen I can edit my apn. I did this right after I inserted my sim back in. I have no idea now why you can't edit your apn. Both my Moto g7 powers I've edited both apns.
jhjhjhjhjhjh said:
Wow. I'm still locked to metro for another 87 days. As you have seen I can edit my apn. I did this right after I inserted my sim back in. I have no idea now why you can't edit your apn. Both my Moto g7 powers I've edited both apns.
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I've checked both the G7s after flashing and they both are greyed out. I'm going to flash a RETEU rom and see if that corrects the problem.
I've been tinkering with this all day and now I've been "locked" out of even looking at the APN.
jhjhjhjhjhjh said:
Wow. I'm still locked to metro for another 87 days. As you have seen I can edit my apn. I did this right after I inserted my sim back in. I have no idea now why you can't edit your apn. Both my Moto g7 powers I've edited both apns.
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Ok, I went back and reread carefully the entire conversation. I thought I was supposed to change the MetroPCS settings, that's the part that was greyed out for me. I see you made a separate entry for TMO. I went ahead and did that, but for good measure, can you take a complete screenshot of your settings top to bottom, your previous pic was only the bottom.
I've clicked the button. It still says Metro by TMO, but I'm PDA/FoxFI tethering via USB right now and the speeds are pretty gnarly - I think they could be faster.
It's a fresh RETUS flash BTW.
Articul8Madness said:
Ok, I went back and reread carefully the entire conversation. I thought I was supposed to change the MetroPCS settings, that's the part that was greyed out for me. I see you made a separate entry for TMO. I went ahead and did that, but for good measure, can you take a complete screenshot of your settings top to bottom, your previous pic was only the bottom.
I've clicked the button. It still says Metro by TMO, but I'm PDA/FoxFI tethering via USB right now and the speeds are pretty gnarly - I think they could be faster.
It's a fresh RETUS flash BTW.
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Ok cool.
Here's two pics of the apn settings I use
Data speeds of what I get in my area
H = HighSpeedDataAccess, average around 6mb download and 1.7mb upload during off-peak times.
LTE= Long Term Evolution, average around 44mb download and 38mb upload during off peak times..
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Ok cool.
Here's two pics of the apn settings I use
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Ok. Our data entries match.
I tried PDA NET, the newer foxfi goes straight to the PDA app. I did the USB tether just because my battery was down. Any way to check if its going against my tethering limit? I see where they say how much data I've used, but the hotspot on the phone ain't on.
Also, have you tried the Magisk Tethering App? Its a module that is supposed to do what FoxFi/PDAnet does.
jhjhjhjhjhjh said:
Data speeds of what I get in my area
H = HighSpeedDataAccess, average around 6mb download and 1.7mb upload during off-peak times.
LTE= Long Term Evolution, average around 44mb download and 38mb upload during off peak times..
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My speed test on that site was at noon....
Download 128.68 Mbps
Jitter 11Ms
Ping 103.0 Ms
32.10 Mpbs
Articul8Madness said:
Ok. Our data entries match.
I tried PDA NET, the newer foxfi goes straight to the PDA app. I did the USB tether just because my battery was down. Any way to check if its going against my tethering limit? I see where they say how much data I've used, but the hotspot on the phone ain't on.
Also, have you tried the Magisk Tethering App? Its a module that is supposed to do what FoxFi/PDAnet does.
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The way to check tethering limit is hit #611 on dialer the ivr system will say how much hotspot you ve used in realtime.
Yes I've tried the magisk tether to no avail. I can't get it to function better than the method I use.
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My speed test on that site was at noon....
Download 128.68 Mbps
Jitter 11Ms
Ping 103.0 Ms
32.10 Mpbs
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Great speeds
jhjhjhjhjhjh said:
The way to check tethering limit is hit #611 on dialer the ivr system will say how much hotspot you ve used in realtime.
Yes I've tried the magisk tether to no avail. I can't get it to function better than the method I use.
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Great speeds
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Drinks on me....called 611.."If you have hotspot data, you haven't used ANY OF IT!!!!"
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ADB tethering apps like PdaNet and EasyTether impact performance and reliability for me, so I try to avoid them when possible. Native tether on T-Mobile just requires that your traffic goes through the mobile APN and packets leaving your phone have the standard TTL of 64.
The easiest way is to just use VPN Tether or Tether Hotspot with free local VPN servers like AdClear or Adguard. You can ofc disable the ad blocking features if you want. The downside is that you have to manually enable the routing every time, it's not plug and play. This does bypass the APN and TTL requirements though.
To change the APN you can
1 - create a copy of your APN and add dun to the APN Type
2 - set tether_dun_required 0
3 - edit apns-conf.xml
Modifying the TTL is a bit tougher, standard kernels don't let you use iptables to mangle packets like that. You have to do it on the other device, be it a PC or router or whatever. I recommend an OpenWRT compatible or Asus router if you want to do this. I'm using a Linux dev board running between my phone and router for this atm.
You don't need to flash a different firmware for this to work. Moto is also running standard Android(as opposed to LG or Samsung), so if you want usb tethering as default, all you have to do is set it in the developer settings. You need something like Auto USB Tether for that on non-standard devices.
Edit: Magisk Tether Enabler is just for setting net.tethering.noprovisioning to disable the carrier provisioning check(not needed if your plan supports hotspot) and Xposed XTether is to bypass custom manufacturer tether provisioning apps(not applicable on this device).
Edit 2: If your concerned about charging while using USB tethering, you can use Battery Charge Limit or Advanced Charging Controller to control it.
Another option is to use Termux to start an SSH server with DropBear (easy passwd login) and connect using ssh's built in SOCKS forwarding.
On your pc run:
ssh -D localhost:1234 [email protected] -p 8022
Replace user with either root or the termux username (like u0_a230) and phoneip with your phone's local ip. It'll work if you're connected to a router/hotspot without an internet connection, for instance use your pc to make the hotspot or run a wifi direct hotspot like in pdanet, just as long as your two devices can communicate with each other.
After you've established your ssh connection just set up a socks proxy on the pc through localhost port 1234 and you're good to go! I use macos and the proxy settings are right there in network settings but I'm pretty sure Windows and Linux both allow you to do it natively as well.
Don't need a VPN and doesn't count as hotspot usage.
To put the ssh instance in the background add -f -N to the command.
I have been abusing T-Mobile's tethering restrictions from day one, typically through MVNO's such as MetroPCS or SimpleMobile. Used to be able to change a browsers user-agent string on a pc to that of a mobile browser, then it was running an ssh server on the phone to run SSH dynamic port forwarding as a SOCKS proxy , and finally there's the TTL trick, which works now and has lasted the longest yet. You change the ttl (on the device you want to tether to) from 64 to 65. Most Unix style systems, this a one-liner on the ol shell prompt for example: echo 65 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_default_ttl I have no idea how to do this on Windows, but I understand it's possible. Lately ipv6 has been a problem, the solution is to disable ipv6 in your APNs(ALL OF THEM) to fix the APN with DUN I use this after disabling selinux temporarily until change is made.....
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https://forum.xda-developers.com/pixel-xl/help/android-8-1-how-to-edit-cellular-apn-t3697425
There is also a way to DROP ipv6 packets via ip6tables, which I will get down on this device after I get a handle on this A/B slot sh** we get to deal with(I just bricked the thing and got it back with blank-flash) APN/TTL thing is working for me, also it's not device specific. I have a script I put together on the E5 Play(working on the g7 power as well) that repeats xfinitywifi(or any other wifi) as a softap/hotspot to other devices without a MAC address registered on xfinity, no cellular connection at all. Could come in handy as this specific tethering trick evolves, I have an arsenal of other resources as well. Please don't hesitate to ask if you think I could help in any way...
ipv6 DROP info, what became of droidwall if i'm not mistaken. AFWALL has a feature that reduces to a small script left in Magisk's service.d directory.
https://github.com/ukanth/afwall/wiki/CustomScripts
example:
# Deny IPv6 only connections
$IP6TABLES -P INPUT DROP
$IP6TABLES -P FORWARD DROP
$IP6TABLES -P OUTPUT DROP
mrbox23 said:
I have been abusing T-Mobile's tethering restrictions from day one, typically through MVNO's such as MetroPCS or SimpleMobile. Used to be able to change a browsers user-agent string on a pc to that of a mobile browser, then it was running an ssh server on the phone to run SSH dynamic port forwarding as a SOCKS proxy , and finally there's the TTL trick, which works now and has lasted the longest yet. You change the ttl (on the device you want to tether to) from 64 to 65. Most Unix style systems, this a one-liner on the ol shell prompt for example: echo 65 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_default_ttl I have no idea how to do this on Windows, but I understand it's possible. Lately ipv6 has been a problem, the solution is to disable ipv6 in your APNs(ALL OF THEM) to fix the APN with DUN I use this after disabling selinux temporarily until change is made.....
Post #8
https://forum.xda-developers.com/pixel-xl/help/android-8-1-how-to-edit-cellular-apn-t3697425
There is also a way to DROP ipv6 packets via ip6tables, which I will get down on this device after I get a handle on this A/B slot sh** we get to deal with(I just bricked the thing and got it back with blank-flash) APN/TTL thing is working for me, also it's not device specific. I have a script I put together on the E5 Play(working on the g7 power as well) that repeats xfinitywifi(or any other wifi) as a softap/hotspot to other devices without a MAC address registered on xfinity, no cellular connection at all. Could come in handy as this specific tethering trick evolves, I have an arsenal of other resources as well. Please don't hesitate to ask if you think I could help in any way...
ipv6 DROP info, what became of droidwall if i'm not mistaken. AFWALL has a feature that reduces to a small script left in Magisk's service.d directory.
https://github.com/ukanth/afwall/wiki/CustomScripts
example:
# Deny IPv6 only connections
$IP6TABLES -P INPUT DROP
$IP6TABLES -P FORWARD DROP
$IP6TABLES -P OUTPUT DROP
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What's the script you use to use your Moto to repeat xfinitywifi? There's about a thousand of those hotspots near my house and I've been looking for a way to use them. I was registering for the free one hour trial every hour for a while but that got exhausting real quick.