yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[General Questions and Answers] da-pharoah:
sounds like it would work.... I may just try this later tonight... I have 12 days left of tmous throttleing me so lets see whats up...
[General Questions and Answers] shnn2011:
The original post has been updated again.
[General Questions and Answers] Jack.Swindle:
I'm considering getting an HTC One S (friend of mine has 5 upgrades available), are you saying that there's no way to tether unless you have the addon feature? I'm currently on an old Plus plan (no contract, post paid) with a mytouch 4g. I've never been sent to the "buy hotspot" page, so I don't actually know if it's included with my internet plan. I won't get a ICS phone if that means I'll have to switch from my $20 for unlimited (5GB) net.
[General Questions and Answers] Crashdamage:
If you can tether with your current plan (and I don't know if it's included or allowed) then likely (but I'm not certain) you'll be able to as long as you stay grandfathered into it. I say this because T-Mobile has always been very liberal about allowing grandfathering plans. They'be never forced me or anyone I know to change plans. When I got my 1st phone T-Mobile was called Aerial and I had per-second billing. I kept that for years, until I finally had to change because I got a smartphone.

Registered Linux user #266531. Android user since v1.0.
[General Questions and Answers] shnn2011:
I don't remember the SOC code, but if you call 611 and tell the computer prompt you have a contact question, you will be sent to the loyalties department identifying themselves as customer care. If you have 5GB or more data plan they can add free tethering by adding a soc code thats not advertised. All you have to do is ask. Just be aware that it could cutt off any other promo offer you may have on your line. So check first.
[General Questions and Answers] Jack.Swindle:
I called and asked them about it, I only pay $20 for the net currently, they said it would be $15 to add hotspot. Basically it's whatever you pay now + the difference to get you to $35. That's ridiculous. That's almost as much as the internet itself. I refuse to play that for something I use once or twice a month.

The computer prompt wouldn't understand the word "contact". Anything I said to the prompt using the word "contact" assumed I was saying "contract". Did you mean contract?

If someone could post a short version as to why you can't tether to ICS phones I'd appreciate it. Would save me time digging through other threads.
[General Questions and Answers] GorillaPimp:
I can tether just fine with stock rooted ICS. I froze tether provisioning and it worked.
[General Questions and Answers] Jack.Swindle:
Ahh okay, so it still works if your phone is rooted. I usually dont like to void the warranty in the first year. Any other options?
[General Questions and Answers] elliwigy:
Yea other option is pay for it lol
[General Questions and Answers] shnn2011:
Disclaimer: I do recommend the following statements. They are merely a passing thought and should not be taken seriously. What you do with it after you read it is completely your responsibility.

"Yeah you can unroot easily by flashing the stock ROM with Odin.

You can download and decrypt the stock ICS ROM with FUS Downloader."
[General Questions and Answers] Jack.Swindle:
-_-
[General Questions and Answers] shnn2011:
I meant unroot. My auto correct sucked for a second there.
[General Questions and Answers] Jack.Swindle:
Gotcha, thanks.
[General Questions and Answers] shnn2011:
No problem.
[General Questions and Answers] shnn2011:
Is that it, seriously? Everyone says they want to take action, then get bored an run off to do other things?
[General Questions and Answers] lazaro17:
I actually haven't gotten any tethering blocks from T-Mobile in quite a while even on chrome. Maybe T-Mobile realized chrome is the new default browser for android on jellybean?

Also I know Verizon was just ordered to pay a fine and unblock any third party tethering apps they have previously blocked. So it seems like stuff is getting somewhat fixed.
[General Questions and Answers] thebobp:
The Verizon fine was due specifically to conditions attached to newly purchased spectrum (which were, coincidentially, slipped in by Google). It's not a general requirement.

http://rootzwiki.com/news/_/article...ty-by-the-fcc-in-ruling-against-verizon-r1012
[General Questions and Answers] shnn2011:
If we all work together we can make the laws governing communications fair.
[General Questions and Answers] iKoolkid:
I have that router from the first post

Sent from my Jellied out Vibrant sandwich.

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[General Questions and Answers] shnn2011:
Did you mod it yet?
[General Questions and Answers] 5318008:
Found a Lifehacker post about the Verizon/FCC tethering app settlement. It talks a little about how it might affect other carriers' tethering policies and whatnot.

http://lifehacker.com/5933152/the-right-to-tether-what-the-verizonfcc-settlement-means-to-you
[General Questions and Answers] Euler MD:
So why doesn't T-Mobile allow tethering with it's Unlimited plan? What is the worst that can happen?
[General Questions and Answers] shnn2011:
Maybe they don't want you using it.
[General Questions and Answers] thebobp:
It's the same thing over and over again: company offers "unlimited" plan they can't really provide, gets hammered, goes after a certain demographic (tetherers) rather than, say, the demographic using 100gb of data.

It's like saying, "we don't want criminals in our establishment, and poor people tend to commit more crimes, so we'll just ban poor people".
[General Questions and Answers] TJBunch1228:
Wish there was a way to get my ps3 to work with my tether. Any tablet or computer I use works fine, but it recognizes the ps3 and redirects me.
[General Questions and Answers] shnn2011:
A vpn should fix that.
[General Questions and Answers] MandoH:
I have been tethering for some time now watching movies on laptop and now recently after using chrome on cell, tmobile has blocked me form tethering.... Damn!!.. Guna stop using chrome and see if i can get it back!... Or try some of your steps.... Thanks
[General Questions and Answers] drewkj09:
Can't find tethering provisions . Jk3
[General Questions and Answers] MandoH:
Use TB. To find it
[General Questions and Answers] tomprc:
What happened recently? I cannot use IE, Firefox, Chrome, IE-64bit to tether. All of my desktop browsers give the infamous up-sale message. It was not like this before.
[General Questions and Answers] TJBunch1228:
Same here. No clue what happened but my wife using a One S and me on a gnex both started experiencing the same thing at the same time a couple weeks ago. Doesn't matter if we use stock tethering or FoxFi, nothing works. Aaarrrgh.
[General Questions and Answers] shnn2011:
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I think I figured out t-mobiles new trick.

I think you guys are being routed through another apn t-mobile puts on the ROM.

I don't think this apn shows.up in your configuration file.

Custom ROM programmers should remove it and replace it with the original one.

If I remember correctly, pcweb.tmobile.com rather than epc.tmobile.com.

I am almost certain this is causing the DNA redirect.

When you click teether. I'm pretty sure it switches the apns.

Once again. A frivolous endeavor on t mobiles part. It can be easily subverted.

A vpn should still work too.

I don't recommend anyone violate their tos. This is just for educational purposes.

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[General Questions and Answers] da-pharoah:
That's a negative. I changed mine to pcweb and got the attached image screen...

Edit:

From my understanding it has to do with how T-Mobile servers recognize your tethered device. If your tethering to an android device they can't tell the difference... but if your tethering to your PC or a non android device, they will catch it and try to make money off of u.
[General Questions and Answers] shnn2011:
No the pcweb son is hidden and can be changed if you edit the files in your ROM.

I have seen people have issues removing the pcweb apn. It is still there hidden.

It will creep up at night when you tether and get you.
[General Questions and Answers] tomprc:
Which file is that?
[General Questions and Answers] shnn2011:
Read the update at the bottom of my original post.
[General Questions and Answers] ejdavis:
First. .. Love the Rom... I'm coming from Note1, and I was actually gonna stop my rooting addition. .. This is flawless. .. Also, I read the other thread, but I am still confused if Tethering is a go or not and if so, what to use?

Wrong forum. ... Sorry
[General Questions and Answers] darxider:
i have read all 14 pages but am still confused about whether a simple work-around exists to this problem. i have a

T-Mobile-branded

HTC One S on a prepaid plan from TMoUS ($30/month, 100 minutes, unlimited data (5GB of 4G)). not rooted, not modded...as stock as it could be.

last night i tried the Mobile HotSpot feature for the first time (which didn't work!). i then found this thread and followed one of the instructions to make a new APN (epc.tmobile.com). the thing is an APN already exists with that address (called T-Mobile Data) but is locked and cannot be edited. once i saved the new APN, i could select it and then could connect to my phone from my laptop. i purposefully kept the phone on the APN page to see what happens when i try to access the internet on my PC; lo and behold, the APN would switch automatically from my self-made one to the default and locked T-Mobile one and i was being redirected to the T-Mobile website (the page would not load in Firefox at all but the address bar was showing a t-mobile.com address, and it would load in Internet Explorer but the Log In button was not working and i could not log into my account).

i finally gave up and downloaded Foxit from Google Play and made a new access point. with that, i could connect to my phone but still could not load any webpage in Firefox. interestingly, i could download a patch to a video game from my stand-alone game client (speeds were super fast, from 950KB/sec to 1.5MB/sec - about 3 to 5 times faster than my AT&T DSL - and i downloaded about 900MB of data).

so my question is whether i can do anything about T-Mobile's messing with my data usage? my preference is not to use a 3rd-party application on the phone and not to root the phone. if it's not possible, is Foxit my only workaround? and if so, why couldn't i access any webpage but could download from a stand-alone game client?

thanks a lot :)
[General Questions and Answers] shnn2011:
Awesome question. First off you will have to use a this party app I'd you don't want to root your phone.

Secondly, what you are experiencing is T-shirt mobile eavesdropping on your communications and sniffing out the user agent string in your Web browser.

there are plenty of plugins to change the user agent sting of your browser. You have to select one that is not being blocked.

Imagine what else T-shirt mobile can be eavesdropping on in the hands if the wrong person. That's why a VPN is an important tool.

Please be advised that I do not recommend that you violate your T.O.S. agreement. And you may need to root anyway if your having APN issues.
[General Questions and Answers] benjmiester:
Has anybody mentioned PDAnet yet? I use an app called PDAnet by Junefabrics which you will have to download on the pc and then put on phone or search for it on google in the phone's browser and download as an unsigned app. Once you get it on both pc and phone you will need to go to the program's settings and then 'hide tether usage' and select level 1. level 2 works too but it will return pages in mobile format so I advise not using that one. This method works just fine for me. I'm using it right now to post this :D

Also, it worked for me even before I rooted!
[General Questions and Answers] shnn2011:
The Team Infamous website is up. It is a work in progress, but if you want further information we well post it there.

http://www.infamousdevelopers.com
[General Questions and Answers] pizzadragon:
tethering to tablet

I was wondering if anyone knew if modifying the useragentstring in the chrome browser would work for a tablet device, or whether i'd need to modify it at all? i recently got a nexus 10 (awesome btw!!) and the chrome browser should pull up mobile sites anyway... I haven't had a chance to test it out (gonna try it over the long weekend, i'll post what i find out) but just curious if anyone's tried it with an N7 or N10 recently.
[General Questions and Answers] Max Xman:
I tether my Galaxy S2 to my Samsung Galaxy Tab and my other android phone and never had any problems. As long as their tethering detection sees you using an android browser, they won't know that you're tethering or at least that has been my experience so far.
[General Questions and Answers] darxider:
thanks for replying to my question. yes, i might end up rooting the phone (i just don't like being locked out of the devices i've paid for); probably i should head to htcdev.com to unlock the bootloader first, right? it's just that my phone is not listed there! in fact, is there a comprehensive guide here that you can point me to in order to find all the necessary steps to unlock the bootloader / root the phone? much appreciated :)
[General Questions and Answers] Cynagen:
Just checking in to share my experiences.

So I switched from the 5GB of 4G to the Unlimited 4G plan (didn't know I lost tethering), and shortly thereafter, a firmware update to my router went south, WAY south (router would not boot). I attempted to tether, and while using IRC and Pandora on my desktop computer, all was fine and dandy, until I used Chrome to download the new 90mb complete firmware (not update, complete system reflash). Blam, data cut off, friendly text from T-Mo. Had to sit through the entire download via mobile browser, transfer the file to my PC so I could reflash my router finally. Afterwards, I made sure to set up the VPN tunnel as well as I suspected they were snooping into the UA, sure enough, no problems except for extremely throttled bandwidth after the first few megs transferred.

Funny thing was, everything in this thread, ran right through my head as soon as I ran into the problem (before I even knew this thread existed mind you), even the same ultimate solution, however, I am advising now, that they may be throttling encrypted traffic (VPNs & more commonly torrenting).
[General Questions and Answers] shnn2011:
So they are snooping on more than just the UAString????? And denying people encrypted traffic???????? Even just through the phone????????? Encrypted traffic is ENCRYPTED,,, how do they know its not from the phone????? Did they just say screw off to customer's privacy????????????

Sounds like a call for the development of encrypted protocol obfuscation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[General Questions and Answers] Cynagen:
They may view VPN as only a means to get around tethering, however it does have legal uses such as mine described below, which is why it greatly disturbs me that they would employ these practices so blatantly.

Right now I only see the data being severely throttled. My VPN endpoint is 5mbps, however, with loss for encryption, I should get no less than ~4mbps. I DO get 4mbps no problem for the first couple megs, then it just gets throttled down so hard that it's useless, the only things I can transfer after that point are internal web services (like PBX, NAS, and router control panels). I can't transfer files, I can't do anything that requires high speed (like an RDP session), even though I should be getting 4mbps without a problem. I turn off the VPN, and RDP on my public port works perfectly, I rarely drop to less than 10mbps practically anywhere I normally go. I just find it very disturbing that they would throttle the bandwidth on an encrypted connection so hard you can only do web and email, what if I was a lawyer who needed to pull a 45-page PDF of all the legal documents in a case I'm working, but the files are at the office and can only be accessed by VPN or being on site? I'm screwed at that point, and with my being in IT, it's almost the same situation; Sometimes, I need access to secure data and proprietary files (programs I've written myself) located only on my systems, what am I supposed to do? Pick up my customer's equipment and haul it back to my office every time I need to work on it? I have an android phone and unlimited data for a reason damnit!

Here's the current situation in a nutshell:

T-Mobile average data throughput to my phone: ~16mbps

My VPN tunnel max throughput: 5mbps (Business line, no restrictions)

Standing on the platform waiting for my train to the office in the morning: Without VPN, ~12mbps; With VPN, ~3.7mbps for long enough to transfer a couple MB of data, then <1mbps until I kill the VPN connection for at least a minute and reconnect, then ~3.7mbps without issue once more until it's throttled down again.

The amount of data T-Mobile appears to let pass through is enough to get a Speedtest.net test started on VPN, but almost never finish because they throttle it before the download test completes causing it to fail miserably. Force closing the Speedtest.net app and reopening, I can get the test started again, but viola, less than 1mbps transfer.

I do plan on contacting T-Mobile at some point to address this matter, the VPN tunnel is generated directly from my phone, no tethering, nothing fishy, I just can't open all my sensitive services (like my PBX, NAS, and entire network) to the world. This is extremely disappointing for any professional seeking to use these services, though I would still recommend T-Mo to normal everyday users.
[General Questions and Answers] b-ri:
There is an app in the Chrome store called UA Spoofer which allows you to continue using tethering on your rooted phone once you set it up (Even without the tethering plan...I have the unlimited 4g plan). I just set the UA string in the extension to "ANDROID -> Android 4.1 - Nexus 7". Works like a charm, and the speeds are amazing ;).
[General Questions and Answers] shnn2011:
If what you are theorizing is true, then it may very well have both severe civil and criminal implications for the executives at t-mobile. This may be considered eavesdropping, and or even illegal wiretapping.
[General Questions and Answers] Cynagen:
After further research, it appears the radio on my phone was making a huge difference. I have managed to actually get data through now (the radio I was using was horrible for my area). Since switching radios on my phone, my service has dramatically improved and my VPN tunnel got a significant bandwidth upgrade. (Now average 2.2mbps) VPN tunnel is still viable!
[General Questions and Answers] shnn2011:
That is a relief to hear. Thanks for keeping us posted.
[General Questions and Answers] Cynagen:
To clarify, they were not snooping my VPN traffic AFAIK, (it's encrypted after all), however they CAN detect that it's encrypted and if they so choose to be d-bags about it, throttle that type of traffic overall. I've seen it happen before with corporate networks as well as certain other carriers unless you're paying for a "business" account which is just an overpriced regular user account anyways with cellular carriers. Anywhos, I'm happy to report my VPN is pretty stable with the new radio, I switched my SGH-T989 radio out for the SGH-T879 (Galaxy Note) radio. It increased my bandwidth up to 20mbit in most locations I was getting 16mbit, the VPN doesn't drop below 1mbit now. I will test the VPN out and report back using it with USB tethering to ensure they are not snooping encrypted traffic, since if they are, THEN they're in a world of hell legally.
[General Questions and Answers] shnn2011:
It has been reported that T-Mobile is eaves dropping and denying sites and services such as YouTube.

The users agent string is one thing, but monitoring websites and services is illegal, isn't it?
[General Questions and Answers] Max Xman:
That could explain why I was unable to play any videos the last time that I tethered my phone and tried to watch YouTube. I did use the browser agent changer and all the other websites worked fine.
[General Questions and Answers] shnn2011:
That's it; That that means they are probably illegally snooping on us.
[General Questions and Answers] nickmcminn60:
Tethering A Problem of the past

I Seem to have no Problems Tethering as you can see.....Hell im wriying this now while tethering. With enough smarts and understanding of the Android Environment anything can be acheived. I can Tether on Windows, Linux, on ANY Browser:

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*Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G on the "Truly Unlimited Plan"*​
[General Questions and Answers] shnn2011:
That's great. I'm glad that people have the knowledge to do what they feel is right.

The main concern is whether or not this massive multi 1,000,000 dollar company is stepping outside of the bounds of the law.

Another issue is that if this company is stepping outside of the bounds of the law, then I think that most people would assume that's it is not accidental especially with a plethora of experts at their disposal.

Just because they are a massive corporation does not give them a free pass to eavesdrop and or monitor peoples communications especially when no regard is given to our system of checks and balances.
[General Questions and Answers] cpsbossman:
Missing the overall point

It is UNLAWFUL to intercept any traffic according the current reading of law governing not only wireless signal, but also the internet. No person, company, corporation or entity, may subvert any state or federal law, nor may they enter into an agreement to subvert such law(s). Read the 119 laws governing the use of wireless data (radio signal) and internet privacy laws. There is NO wiggle room! The providers, unless authorized by law enforcement (and a judges authorization) are NOT allowed to sniff ANYTHING! It is the law! There are no caveats to explore, question or debate on this subject. I have read all 7 documents, I have spoken to My attorney twice and questioned both My senator and My congressman, both replied swifty, that the contracts are null & void. You cannot enter into any contract that breaks the law or causes another to break the law. Again...there is no wiggle room! Secondly mobile websites are designed at best "very poorly" imho! I am 50, have terrible vision and not only prefer desktop site, but I demand it. Recently T-mobile decided to block both My hd2 with wp7 from desktop webpage usage (no tethering involved) and again when using My new Samsung GS-3. I took it for one day, filed a lawsuit, which was answered in 3 days. They have attempted to settle for a hefty sum, plus rewards for My discreetness moving forward. I have declined their most generous offer, and fully intend on engaging them to the senate floor if need be! In addition, My attorney feels it incumbent upon this case to disclose as much information to all forms of media as quickly as possible (to avoid the impending request for a gag order). This will not end pretty for T-mobile nor any of the providers as a whole! It simply makes sense to pursue this to ground. It makes NO sense to keep advising people to look at a TOS that is fully unlawful and causes both parties to enter into an illegal contract, which technically is...non-binding. Perhaps before We respond and come out in force on the side of the provider...We should consider what the law states and the consistent erosion of Our rights as consumers and Americans! I will stand down for the moment...