I have a Magisk rooted Pixel 2 XL running Android Pie and had no problem editing the buildprop (net.tethering.noprovisioning=true) and adb settings (tether_dun_required 0) to enable the native hotspot and bypass the carrier tether check. Or so I thought...
Yesterday I received a dreaded text message from my carrier (Cricket): "our records indicate you have used your Cricket phone as a 'mobile hotspot' without the Cricket Mobile hotspot feature..." threatening to throttle me due to terms of use violation.
Am I mistaken that the tether_dun_required 0 adb setting disallows the carrier from being able to differentiate between tethered data usage and normal data usage by the device itself? Could this be something that is no longer working as expected in Pie? (I had tethered with this method for a while on Oreo and hadn't received a warning from Cricket until upgrading to Pie. Could be coincidental...)
Any insight is appreciated, thank you.
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I have a Magisk rooted Pixel 2 XL running Android Pie and had no problem editing the buildprop (net.tethering.noprovisioning=true) and adb settings (tether_dun_required 0) to enable the native hotspot and bypass the carrier tether check. Or so I thought...
Yesterday I received a dreaded text message from my carrier (Cricket): "our records indicate you have used your Cricket phone as a 'mobile hotspot' without the Cricket Mobile hotspot feature..." threatening to throttle me due to terms of use violation.
Am I mistaken that the tether_dun_required 0 adb setting disallows the carrier from being able to differentiate between tethered data usage and normal data usage by the device itself? Could this be something that is no longer working as expected in Pie? (I had tethered with this method for a while on Oreo and hadn't received a warning from Cricket until upgrading to Pie. Could be coincidental...)
Any insight is appreciated, thank you.
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Before I joined ProjectFi when I received these I told them to pound sand.
Every conversation I had with them was based on amount of usage, but they could never tell how the data was being consumed.
I wouldnt worry until I was given something in writing, hell even an email.
The carriers have multiple methods of detecting tethering, and there is no way to effectively hide your activity. Where you were caught tethering, I would take the threat seriously. For more details, read this: How can phone companies detect tethering, including a WiFi hotspot?
parakleet said:
Before I joined ProjectFi when I received these I told them to pound sand.
Every conversation I had with them was based on amount of usage, but they could never tell how the data was being consumed.
I wouldnt worry until I was given something in writing, hell even an email.
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I was thinking it may be a bluff based on spiked usage. I haven't nearly hit Cricket's stated throttle point of 22GB, but I would say my typical usage over the last year was maybe 4GB/mo where as this month I'm over 15GB. However, before my Pixel 2 XL I have used FoxFi on an S4 for years without a single peep from Cricket, so the instant warning after using my new Pixel 2 XL gives me pause. I definitely don't want to go back to my antique S4 but I can't be without hotspot capability. Thanks for the reply.
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I was thinking it may be a bluff based on spiked usage. I haven't nearly hit Cricket's stated throttle point of 22GB, but I would say my typical usage over the last year was maybe 4GB/mo where as this month I'm over 15GB. However, before my Pixel 2 XL I have used FoxFi on an S4 for years without a single peep from Cricket, so the instant warning after using my new Pixel 2 XL gives me pause. I definitely don't want to go back to my antique S4 but I can't be without hotspot capability. Thanks for the reply.
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I'll be in a similar situation ( BTW, would you share a guide on how to edit the build.prop mate? I can't find any),
the difference is that I'd lose my GUDP, that's a NO NO. I don't know if I'm destined to keep using my Note 4 and FoxFi...
Any help is greatly appreciated guys.
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I'll be in a similar situation ( BTW, would you share a guide on how to edit the build.prop mate? I can't find any),
the difference is that I'd lose my GUDP, that's a NO NO. I don't know if I'm destined to keep using my Note 4 and FoxFi...
Any help is greatly appreciated guys.
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If you're rooted, install BuildProp Editor and follow these instructions to unblock your native hotspot.
If you aren't yet rooted, this is the best guide I have found.
ON A SIDE NOTE, regarding my original post, I have decided to push on with tethering in spite of the warning text from Cricket. Long story short, this is my 3rd Pixel 2 XL (been searching for "the right one") and in the process of rooting my latest one, I recalled that when restoring the first one back to the stock image to return the device, I had a TYPO in my adb settings to set the DUN requirement to 0. So I am thinking that any tethering I did ON THAT FIRST DEVICE was detectable, and it may have taken Cricket some time to get around to warning me about it. Now, all settings being verified on my keeper 2 XL, I am going to "keep calm and tether on" to see if I am in the clear.
I have also applied TTL 64 using TTL Editor as an additional protection measure. Tough to say whether it's truly effective, but it's an added measure none the less.
nobaddreams said:
If you're rooted, install BuildProp Editor and follow these instructions to unblock your native hotspot.
If you aren't yet rooted, this is the best guide I have found.
ON A SIDE NOTE, regarding my original post, I have decided to push on with tethering in spite of the warning text from Cricket. Long story short, this is my 3rd Pixel 2 XL (been searching for "the right one") and in the process of rooting my latest one, I recalled that when restoring the first one back to the stock image to return the device, I had a TYPO in my adb settings to set the DUN requirement to 0. So I am thinking that any tethering I did ON THAT FIRST DEVICE was detectable, and it may have taken Cricket some time to get around to warning me about it. Now, all settings being verified on my keeper 2 XL, I am going to "keep calm and tether on" to see if I am in the clear.
I have also applied TTL 64 using TTL Editor as an additional protection measure. Tough to say whether it's truly effective, but it's an added measure none the less.
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You know what, I was thinking... Maybe using a VPN could help? This might be a good chance to find out. Do you have a VPN account? BTW, thanks for the help. I'll go try it today. I've been looking for this for weeks.
nobaddreams said:
I have a Magisk rooted Pixel 2 XL running Android Pie and had no problem editing the buildprop (net.tethering.noprovisioning=true) and adb settings (tether_dun_required 0) to enable the native hotspot and bypass the carrier tether check. Or so I thought...
Yesterday I received a dreaded text message from my carrier (Cricket): "our records indicate you have used your Cricket phone as a 'mobile hotspot' without the Cricket Mobile hotspot feature..." threatening to throttle me due to terms of use violation.
Am I mistaken that the tether_dun_required 0 adb setting disallows the carrier from being able to differentiate between tethered data usage and normal data usage by the device itself? Could this be something that is no longer working as expected in Pie? (I had tethered with this method for a while on Oreo and hadn't received a warning from Cricket until upgrading to Pie. Could be coincidental...)
Any insight is appreciated, thank you.
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I've had cricket for about 4 years, always use the buildprop trick for hotspots, bluetooth tethering, and usb tethering and have never received a message like this. That being said, I have the 2.5gb plan so I throttle much sooner than you. If they aren't bluffing, its likely I haven't received a warning just because I have so little LTE data.
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You know what, I was thinking... Maybe using a VPN could help? This might be a good chance to find out. Do you have a VPN account? BTW, thanks for the help. I'll go try it today. I've been looking for this for weeks.
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I am considering using a VPN. Have you done this with success? I have no experience with VPNs but I am thinking they are becoming more of a good idea...
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I am considering using a VPN. Have you done this with success? I have no experience with VPNs but I am thinking they are becoming more of a good idea...
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I'd like to try it as soon as I can enable tethering. I hope I'm not too dumb not to understand the steps.
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I am considering using a VPN. Have you done this with success? I have no experience with VPNs but I am thinking they are becoming more of a good idea...
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I'm sorry, it's been almost three weeks but I'm too stupid to be able to figure this out. Just can't find any answer/help in this forum anymore. What happened to this place?
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I'm sorry, it's been almost three weeks but I'm too stupid to be able to figure this out. Just can't find any answer/help in this forum anymore. What happened to this place?
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I'd like to know too. I asked this a couple weeks ago. No response
If you're rooted with magisk, there's a module for tethering.
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If you're rooted with magisk, there's a module for tethering.
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Do you know what it's called?
Are you using magisk? If so, go into the downloads and search tethering. It'll pop up.
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Are you using magisk? If so, go into the downloads and search tethering. It'll pop up.
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Which one?
The one I'm using is called tethering enabler, by stangri.
vpn should work, but it is tricky to get the vpn to pass through to the wifi hotspot.
there is a seperate app to get it to work. its possible they could notice the vpn usage (unless you try obfuscated servers) but i dont know how hardcore they are going to be about this
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vpn should work, but it is tricky to get the vpn to pass through to the wifi hotspot.
there is a seperate app to get it to work. its possible they could notice the vpn usage (unless you try obfuscated servers) but i dont know how hardcore they are going to be about this
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VPN automatically counts as tethering even if your not tethering and gets throttled.
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I've been looking through every forum and cannot find a viable solution. TTL editor doesn't seem to make a difference. Changing build prop doesn't work. WiFi tether router is a bust. And when I even turn on my VPN before I even try to tether I am throttled.
That being said, I have made progress. In no pro but I understand a little... I have just stated tinkering with "netguard" and tweeking settings then turned on "VPN Hotspot" S it's seems like in getting throttled less than normal. I'm still not happy but it's an improvement.
Anybody found a solution for that? :-(
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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.
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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!
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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That's what I recall, yes. The cert shows up under my "User Certificates" as being from FixFi.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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).
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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:
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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
So I use my phone to tether a fair amount, and VZW allows for me to use 10gb of data through tethering. I haven't surpassed that amount as of yet thanks to some new wifi connections at work and such, but I was curious....
Is there a way to hide whether my phone is "tethering" or simply just using data? Meaning can I tether to my phone and have it appear to VZW that I am just using that data watching videos or whatever on my phone?
I have a Google Store Pixel XL so it's not the VZW version, but I do not have it rooted as of yet as I'm trying to see if I need to. I had a 6P before this and I rooted almost the entire time, but I'm hoping to avoid doing it if I can with my Pixel. Thanks!!
Pretty positive if you Bypass or disable the provisioning check then the carrier cant keep track of how much data your hotspot uses, because they dont even know youre using it. Go check the themes, apps, and mods section for the provisioning bypass.
alternatively, you can try adding "net.tethering.noprovisioning=true" to your build.prop and restarting.
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Pretty positive if you Bypass or disable the provisioning check then the carrier cant keep track of how much data your hotspot uses, because they dont even know youre using it. Go check the themes, apps, and mods section for the provisioning bypass.
alternatively, you can try adding "net.tethering.noprovisioning=true" to your build.prop and restarting.
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Thanks, I'll check it out
Actually they can tell if you use the hotspot. I got an email that said I exceeded the 15 gig limit and now I am throttle to .5 now.
Was wondering if the androidAP hotspot can be downloaded. I am rooted
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In my research, they have been able to track because of the device that's connecting to the network.
Ill see if I can find the reddit thread on it
Edit.... The ttl the tethered device sends is how they track now... i don't know if it applies to all carriers, but i suspect that's the cause
https://www.reddit.com/r/hacking/comments/54a7dd/bypassing_tmobiles_tethering_data_capthrottling/
That's the question. Anyone received and confirmed working? More specifically google store unlocked on Verizon with grandfathered unlimited? Although to benefit others any service work without subscription check? If there is a subscription check does old non root methods from first generation work to bypass?
Does not work for me, did subscription check, making a post about it right now looking for solution
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Does not work for me, did subscription check, making a post about it right now looking for solution
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Thank you. Getting mine tomorrow and if haven't heard anything else was going to try the old methods that worked with first gen.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=74223555&postcount=5
Someone claimed that they did the full setup of the phone without the sim in out of the box, then popped it in and it doesn't check. There are rumblings of this working on the Nexus 6 forum as well.
Anyone figured this out yet? I can't tether and it's becoming a deal breaker for me
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https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=74223555&postcount=5
Someone claimed that they did the full setup of the phone without the sim in out of the box, then popped it in and it doesn't check. There are rumblings of this working on the Nexus 6 forum as well.
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My hotspot doesn't work, I did have the sim in on the initial boot up, but I did multiple wipes and set ups without sim and it never worked, there is another longer thread on here with a lot of people trying things
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My hotspot doesn't work, I did have the sim in on the initial boot up, but I did multiple wipes and set ups without sim and it never worked, there is another longer thread on here with a lot of people trying things
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I suspect it will be similar to what I did on my N6. Had to wait for root in order to modify a system configuration file in order to turn the HotSpot on...
Also grandfathered with verizon unlimited with google unlocked. Waiting on that root for hotspot or a hotspot fix....
Anyone come up with anything? Getting desperate...
Any updates or suggestions to allow for tether?
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Any updates or suggestions to allow for tether?
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Unlock bootloader then root with Magisk.
Wireless tether is working for me using Magisk tether module. Used to do the build.prop edit manually but the module does it for you so.
I have a Verizon device, can't root still is my understanding?
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I have a Verizon device, can't root still is my understanding?
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That's correct.
Forget my reply anyway as it doesn't work. The hotspot will turn on but no data transfers to connected device. Looking for how to get this working now.
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Unlock bootloader then root with Magisk.
Wireless tether is working for me using Magisk tether module. Used to do the build.prop edit manually but the module does it for you so.
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I have an unlocked Google edition one. Will it work?
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That's the question. Anyone received and confirmed working? More specifically google store unlocked on Verizon with grandfathered unlimited? Although to benefit others any service work without subscription check? If there is a subscription check does old non root methods from first generation work to bypass?
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doesnt help you guys on verizon, but since you did ask for other services that worked without check..
i just signed up for tmobile for the pixel2 $325 rebate promo and on this new TMobile ONE plan, unlimited everything.. tethering works, straight out of the box. i turned on hotspot, gave it a password, and connected right away with my laptop and was able to browse internet and watched a quick youtube vid.
anyone figure out how to bypass the lock on adding 'dun' to apn settings yet?
I use ClockworkMod Tether app. It works by usb but it works well.
See this thread: tethering on T-Mobile
"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers
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Unlock bootloader then root with Magisk.
Wireless tether is working for me using Magisk tether module. Used to do the build.prop edit manually but the module does it for you so.
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How are you or speeds with that?
It works on mine, not rooted, with the new unlimited. Before they changed it again, though. Glad I got it when I did! I use it for my old Nexus 6 which is now a dedicated music and GPS for my SUV. Can't clarify on grandfathered.
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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
The old dun APN doesn't work because google now allows carriers to block it, i ran settings put global tether_dun_required 0 as superuser, and got no result...
net.tethering.noprovisioning=true give DNS probe No Internet on the connected device
XDA451 said:
The old dun APN doesn't work because google now allows carriers to block it, i ran settings put global tether_dun_required 0 as superuser, and got no result...
net.tethering.noprovisioning=true give DNS probe No Internet on the connected device
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Yep, same thing on Sprint. I tried all the old tricks and nada. No data would pass. Then after days of trying everything I found this.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/pixel-2/how-to/how-to-disable-carrier-tether-check-t3701836
It works on Sprint so. It's a long process but it worked. Since I a am already rooted I only did the bind Carrier Entitlement section.
Hope it works for every carrier that needs it.
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Yep, same thing on Sprint. I tried all the old tricks and nada. No data would pass. Then after days of trying everything I found this.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/pixel-2/how-to/how-to-disable-carrier-tether-check-t3701836
It works on Sprint so. It's a long process but it worked. Since I a am already rooted I only did the bind Carrier Entitlement section.
Hope it works for every carrier that needs it.
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Nope, Didn't work.
XDA451 said:
The old dun APN doesn't work because google now allows carriers to block it, i ran settings put global tether_dun_required 0 as superuser, and got no result...
net.tethering.noprovisioning=true give DNS probe No Internet on the connected device
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Just a question here but why do you need it? Tmob gives unlimited tethering in the plans now.
yeah, if you have the tmobile ONE plan.. just turn on hotspot, set up a password and have another device connect..
no root needed.. no special edits or anything, it just works now..
have you tried the magisk module "tethering enabler" ?
dadoc04 said:
have you tried the magisk module "tethering enabler" ?
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Still throttled to half megabit.
xlr8shun said:
yeah, if you have the tmobile ONE plan.. just turn on hotspot, set up a password and have another device connect..
no root needed.. no special edits or anything, it just works now..
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I'm talking about unlimited on the ONE plus plan, you get 10GB's before throttled to 3G speed. I'm throttled now and I want to bypass it.
Worked for me.
But I am dealing with some throttling issues? Like If I speed test getting like 80^ 25v. But go to stream a movie. Slowww... and then went to torrent on laptop getting like 60kbs download. I saw something about changing the APN might help the torrenting but doesn't allow apn changes on Pixel 2 XL.
and on a small note I do have ONE Plus plan. and about 300 mb in so far.
T-Mobile user here.
1. Buy a VPN
2. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ardadem.vpntethering&hl=en
3. Enable hotspot, run VPN Tether, and you're good!
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Just a question here but why do you need it? Tmob gives unlimited tethering in the plans now.
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xlr8shun said:
yeah, if you have the tmobile ONE plan.. just turn on hotspot, set up a password and have another device connect..
no root needed.. no special edits or anything, it just works now..
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T-mobile caps tethering speed at 500kbps.
XDA451 said:
The old dun APN doesn't work because google now allows carriers to block it, i ran settings put global tether_dun_required 0 as superuser, and got no result...
net.tethering.noprovisioning=true give DNS probe No Internet on the connected device
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Change the T-Mobile APN protocol to "IPV4" (not IPV6 or IPV4/IPV6) after editing build.prop and setting tether_dun_required 0. That should do it.
Still working with February patch?
ryanbin said:
Change the T-Mobile APN protocol to "IPV4" (not IPV6 or IPV4/IPV6) after editing build.prop and setting tether_dun_required 0. That should do it.
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Can anyone else confirm if this method works currently with February security update? I haven't tried yet but going to very soon as I also have TMobile and would love to bypass tether checking.
It seems to be working
dubt17 said:
T-Mobile user here.
1. Buy a VPN
2. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ardadem.vpntethering&hl=en
3. Enable hotspot, run VPN Tether, and you're good!
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Right now using the default T-Mobile APN (no dun) on Android 7.0 and getting LTE speeds. Personally I use NordVPN and I love it.
I would test on Oreo but LOS on the Exynos S7 has som RIL issues at the moment it seems.
KevTheGuy said:
Right now using the default T-Mobile APN (no dun) on Android 7.0 and getting LTE speeds. Personally I use NordVPN and I love it.
I would test on Oreo but LOS on the Exynos S7 has som RIL issues at the moment it seems.
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So I was using the Tether mod zip and notice as of the past few weeks ive only been getting half a megabit...
This suggestion did work well, but is there any other way to do this without the extra apps? Something built n2 a rom?
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j2gifted said:
So I was using the Tether mod zip and notice as of the past few weeks ive only been getting half a megabit...
This suggestion did work well, but is there any other way to do this without the extra apps? Something built n2 a rom?
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I only know of VPN Tether app, which requires root, and PDANet+ also works. I don't think there's a ROM with a feature to bypass Tethering throttling, sorry man.
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I only know of VPN Tether app, which requires root, and PDANet+ also works. I don't think there's a ROM with a feature to bypass Tethering throttling, sorry man.
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I miss the good ol days when tethering was easy lol. Is there a thread on PDAnet?
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j2gifted said:
I miss the good ol days when tethering was easy lol. Is there a thread on PDAnet?
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I didn't find an official one but anyway here is the playstore link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pdanet&hl=en_US
I think the free version limits you to 5GB every time you connect, or something like that. I bought the paid key which is like $8, but no limits, so that's pretty cool, but kinda expensive lol.
I tried it this morning omw to work, and I didn't see much of a difference in speed. May have been the area I was in.
In still on the Galaxy S6 Edge and was considering getting a new phone to get around this... But based on what I'm reading, the limitation is the same with all phones? I may as well just throw an Oreo rom GS6e since it's still solid.. right?
Did you try the other workaround with the VPN tether app? That worked pretty well for me.
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Not sure how it works for T-Mobile, but I know that Three in the UK detect tethering using the TTL. The way I understand it is the mobile operator looks at the TTL of packets going through the network. Windows default TTL is 128 hops, android is 64. Therefore any packets with a TTL of more than 64 hops is from a tethered device. However, it's possible to change this in windows, just set the TTL to 65, so that after the hop to your phone it's down to 64 and looks like a regular packet coming from your phone.
YMMV and it depends how your mobile operator, but whenever I tether my laptop it doesn't use any of my tethered data allowance.
To change TTL on windows, you just need to create a registry key <Insert usual 'messing with your registry is a bad idea if you don't know what you're doing' text>. Go to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters
Create a new DWORD (32-bit) called 'DefaultTTL' and set its value to 65, then restart for good luck. If you want to undo this, you can either just change the value to 128 or delete the key.