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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] shangrila500:
No one has. There was a funny little story a few years back of a guy who was supposedly bragging and talking other people into tethering and 2 VZW goons showed up at his house and strongarmed him into signing a contract stating his phone would be stopped at 4 or 5 gigs a month. At the time though that was when VZW was still offering unlimited, and the story was later admitted to be false so...

I have use wired and wireless tethering on my RAZR MAXX, steam downloads Netflix torrents etc, and got up to around 10 gigs and stopped but seriously if you don't go crazy chances are nothing will happen. If you torrent and they confront you you can say you were downloading the via one of the torrent programs on the market. The only thing I did that I could never really think of an excuse for, if they had ever asked, was steam.

But as with everything YMMV.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Brian Gove:
I've seen someone on verizons unlimited data tether and end up using 90 gigs in one cycle downloading torrents and music. He didn't get a letter or any notification from Verizon telling him to knock it off. Granted that was only one month.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] SMR-DINO313:
I know when I had my droid razr for 5 month straight my data usage was never bellow 120 GB a month . Max was 152 GB. And that was with the hotspot stock hack . ...

Never got no complaint or anything ..

I upgraded my phone last week and it's still showing I'm unlimited my cycle ends in 2 days . If my plan don't change and stays unlimited I'm hotspots the phone again ..

Sent from my LandLine
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] rehpyc:
The hell do you do that you use 150gb a month?

Sent from my SCH-I535
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] najaboy:
Only on tiered plans.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ajthearmo:
The first thing that will happen is you will be flagged in VZW internal database for high data usage. If you keep on getting flagged or are flagged for a high amount ( my guess over 25-30 gbs) when your 6 month average before was lower (idk around 2-3gbs) then your flagged account will prob be investigated my an actual person.

They'll look at your traffic and if your constantly requesting the desktop version of a site or the ps3 verzion they will get suspicious.

I have heard of them taking you off the unlimited since it is for one device and putting you on a shared "tethering" data plan.

Just don't use it as your home internet replacement and make it look like it is your average data usage, better yet gradually increase your usage so it isn't a huge spike
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] kujayhawks77:
I've been using Wifi tether for awhile now now. I have averaged 17.7 gigs for the last 14 months and haven't heard a single peep. When I got my wife's DINC4G this past week the rep was trying to sell the share everything plan then looked at my data usage and said never mind, you don't want to come off unlimited. Didn't mention a word about using too much data.

And I'm not downloading torrents or anything like that. I generally use it to stream Pandora, Hulu, and Netflix to my tablet. All apps I could and do use on my phone, I just prefer the larger screen of my tablet..
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] vaffanculo403:
As one other poster said. It's all about the pages that are sent it from your devices. If they washed to push the subject they could tell that way since the packets that get sent from a regular computer are different than a mobile device. However I feel that you would either need to use an excessive about of data it really piss someone off at VZW for them to even look into it...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] CenFlo:
I've been tethering for years now, no problems.

I'm not a heavy data user when using Wifi tether, so I don't see it as an issue. I use it more for convenience/travel and for backup if my primary Inet connection isn't working.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mrvogel:
This is what I asked about but never got a clear answer last month. I hate to add another question to this thread but kind of goes in line with it. I only tether to my tablet so when they are observing TTL packets can they tell when it is coming from my android tablet tethered vs just phone. I really rarely tether unless I'm traveling so I'm not worried either way, but more curious. I know FoxFi has an addon that uses a proxy that may hide tethering, is this what it addresses. If not I'm wondering why no one has figured a way out to disguise this or mask it. Someone replied that PDAnet disguises tethering but I'm not sure if to this level. Also I haven't used that in a while and not sure if there's a wifi version of it now for tablets. Anyways if anyone has any answers I'd love to hear some insight. Thanks in advanced if you have some input.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] LesismoreTN:
I have the latest build of FoxFi installed. I installed the Add-On because, as you pointed out, it is supposed to mask tethering use. Here was my experience:

When you enable the Proxy, it shows you an IP and Port to plug into your browser. I use FireFox, and configuring it use the IP and Port as instructed caused the connection to be refused. Then, I noticed that my local 127... IP was in the No Proxy Use box (like an exception list.) When I removed it, it connected once. Unfortunately though, I couldn't get it to connect consistently, so I disabled it and just went to automatic proxy. I have an email in to FoxFi to ask about it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] shangrila500:
Pdanet was what I was using on my RAZR MAXX, and like I said previously I never went over that 10gig marker. When you install the app on the computer it gives you the option to choose the level of disguise 1 or 2, 2 was not recommended for some reason. I found a link to a site when I was first testing it out and the site would show you exactly what you were using, what version of android your phone was on, what browser you were using, and a whole lot more. When I put it on level one it showed I was using Windows 7 with Firefox browser and what service packs I had. When I put it on level 2 it showed I was using an iPhone on android 4.04 using safari browser. I have no earthly clue why it showed that instead of showing my RAZR, maybe because it was made for iPhone's?, but running it on level 2 at least made me feel a little more safe even though I knew if someone with a brain looked at what device I was using and what OS it was on they would know something was off. Also Pdanet has wireless tether now and it works somewhat. To be finest though no matter what level I set Pdanet to it always choked my connection down to nothing within 20 minutes. In my opinion it was very unstable just because of those reasons. When I used foxfi with its encryption pack and visited that site it always showed the correct phone, browser, etc. So foxfi seems to be the best. This is just my opinions and opinions are like assholes, but that's what I experienced with both if em.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] AZSALUKI:
There's really no meed for vzn to care. If you're on 3g and you use a lot of data they'll just throttle you to below dial up speeds. By the time most people started getting 4g devices they no longer offered unlimited to mew customers or new data plans. Now with the share everything switches, there's just not that many people on 4g devices with unlimited AND that also tether huge amounts of data. I just don't believe they are concerned with it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] SMR-DINO313:
Um online on ps3. Used to work graveyard shift to I used to tether to my ipad and netflix all night long. Plus that was the only source of Internet I had... I

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That never happened to me... I even once was on the phone with a rep from Verizon I was trying to c if there is anyway to save money on my unlimited everything plan and she was like ur lucky ur on the unlimited data plan... I
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] bond32:
The only way they take people off the unlimited plans is if you upgrade (obviously). When you hear complaints on the internet about how some dude lost his unlimited "randomly" I guarantee you it was because he is a moron and/or allowed them to push him/her into it at the store.

I walked into the verizon store yesterday to move my upgrade to another line then upgrade that line and activate the phone on my line. While the employees were confused and not 100% smart, they were fully willing to work with me once they understood. They thought it was the most amazing thing in the world that I use 30 gb per month and they knew what would happen if they made a mistake and lost that unlimited.

So far I haven't had any issues. Mind you I use it sparingly but just about all tether apps seem to work very well. I also recommend anyone keep a watch on the data usage. While I have zero backing for this, I believe if you were to suddenly use say 50 gb in one day THAT would raise a flag even if you are on a unlimited plan.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] LesismoreTN:
On the 7th, I used Netflix all day, browsed my normal stuff, and listened to Pandora all night. It came to about 3.7 GB

If I continue to GRADUALLY up my usage, I might hit near 100 Gb for the month. We'll see what happens!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] voyageurs60:
SlickShoes - just wanted to verify. Just purchased my S3 - want to use as an occasional hotspot - FoxFi works and I don't have to root... Do I understand this correctly? This was the only reason I was considering to root... Thanks, Dan
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] vaffanculo403:
I've never tried FoxFi but as I understand it you should be good to go with that.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] PureLife90:
As long as you don't upgrade your phone to one of their discount phones that they give you every 2 years, you'll be able to keep your unlimited data. My plan was up 3 months ago, and instead of losing my unlimited data, I went to best buy mobile and I had them add a new line to get this Samsung galaxy s3 for cheap and they transferred that phone to this line allowing me to keep my unlimited data and then they just added a dummy phone on the new line so now I have a better phone and I don't even pay that extra ten for that other line because I pawned it off to my fiances mother so she could have a phone. Just letting everybody know that there is a loop hole to get a new better phone.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Slacker101:
There's a post in the rezound forum about some ass hat who went over one terabyte in a month using torrents and other similar large p2p downloads. He was bragging about how it breaks the data counter and actually rolls it back to zero after nine hundred and ninety nine gigabytes. He deserves a swift punch in the face and then rabid wolverine mauling to the nuts if you ask me. People like him are the ones who ruined unlimited data.

Sent from my tin can using a string.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Brian Gove:
Don't kid yourself. Its all about profits and money making. Why give something away when you can charge people an arm and a leg for it? ALL the phone companies finally realized "Hey, I can start charging per gig once they pass a certain amount, oh wow, I'm going to take everyones' money." They aren't and never were concerned about bandwith of the overall network. They don't really care about that, not like it costs them more if you use their network more.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Slacker101:
The bandwidth crunch is actually a very real issue. People were accelerating their mobile data usage at an unsustainable rate due to a lack of bandwidth. I'm not saying Verizon isn't an ass hole company most of the time, they certainly are. A different solution that could have been negotiated is the use of licensed but unused bandwidth on unused frequencies but the companies which hold them would rather wait until things are dire since obviously as the problem gets worse the value of the bandwidth rises.

Sent from my tin can using a string.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Brian Gove:
If it was a bandwidth issue Verizon wouldn't have waited as long as they did. They held out trying to figure out whether or not the bad pr from limiting bandwidth was worth the money they would make. They were just weighing their options.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ikr:
Wifi tether app... they cant block it anymore do to a court ruling
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jy3ng4:
Exact same for me. Been tethering on the OG Droid and Droid 4 with WiFi Tether fairly consistently since early 2010 - never outrageous use, but sometimes as much as 500 MB in one session.

I've never had any warning or anything from Verizon.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] epagib:
When the government was auctioning off the bandwidth that is currently used for LTE about 4-5 years ago, Verizon and its parent company bought the most. AT&T came in a distant second.

That's why Verizon coverage and service are so much better. As with anything that comes at a cost.

My guess that Verizon has not throttled 4G yet is because they want to push the share-everything-plan right now. Coaxing people (who cant or doesnt want to pay full retail for upgrade) to switch over. Once all the "switching" has matured, I would not be surprised at all to see throttling to occur.

Enjoy it while we can!! :thumbup:

Sent from a SYNERGIZED GalaxySIII
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mrniko81:
verizon can and does charge for tethering, the fcc ruling was ambigious and sometimes poorly interprited by the interwebs...

i have unlimited data, i used to use wifitether, their are ways that big red can "detect" tethering, and i have heard of people being sent warnings when they have started using tethering on a 4g device without paying for the service... however the few people who have said they got warnings also used it as a home internet replacement and blew through 20+ gigs... obscene useage levels always throws off red flags... stay within an "acceptable" amount <10g and u should be fine...

besides they give u a warning tantamount to a cease and desist before they "take further action" which they can do because it is stated in the terms of use that they can charge u for services u are using that u arent paying for...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] 4ktvs:
Bing go, That and they got a new CEO right BEFORE they killed unlimited data the first time.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] h2oburymatt:
I'm grandfathered through Verizon as well and last month used 29 gigs. I torrent, use tor, and haven't heard a peep. You're all set no worries
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] twistedillutions:
Wen i had my droid 1 thats wat i did to power up my bro laptop back wen i had unlimited vzn nver said anything went to the store a rep saw it and jst said kool beans
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] zetsumeikuro:
Lol 1 year old thread necroed.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Deadeye Duck:
They stopped mine...

So I'm one of those grandfathered, unlimited data customers. But I'm a cheap SOB, so my wife's the only one that has a smart phone. So we go into BestBuy to check out their Verizon phones (because the wife's screen is dying and because they're offering theirs at a lower price then the Verizon store), give them our name & number, ask about retaining our unlimited data plan (because the wife's job requires her to drive around frequently downloading reports remotely to her work desktop). We're told that to avoid the $800 retail price on the phone, we'll need to enter a new, limited data contract. So the wife and I discuss "how much data do you REALLY use?" while we wait (and wait, and wait, and wait for a sales rep). Turns out: she doesn't know, because she's never actually tethered her phone without me being there (which means ONCE in the past 3+ years, which was last weekend for several hours keeping track of NCAA football scores while we were cleaning a relative's house out in the boonies).

Now, we spent a number of minutes with the floor "host" (the one that takes your name and number) asking about tethering (cuz I'm stupid and don't yet realize that Veriz-not doesn't like that with unlimited data plans). Finally, we get tired of waiting and just depart the store thinking we'll capture a few day's worth of data points for data usage then compare the cost of buying the phone retail with the cost of paying for a limited data package. We get home, turn on the MHS, annnnnnnd nothing but a default web-page pop-up from VERIZON saying "Your phone is not set-up for <mobile hot spot usage, I forget the precise words>." (remember, it was working ALL day flawlessly just a week ago).

So I download a new, different app. Turn it on, tether it to our two laptops while we peruse the internet, works great. Go to bed, wake up, reconnect, annnnnnnd nothing but a default web-page pop-up from VERIZON saying "Your phone is not set-up for <mobile hot spot usage>."

You cannot convince me that the rat-bazzturds, once we gave them our phone number and naively asked about keeping our unlimited data plan and tethering, didn't flag our account somehow.http://xdaforums.com/images/smilies/mad.gif
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] android94301:
That sucks, but unfortunately you basically told the Verizon rep you were violating your terms of service, because technically speaking, tethering with unlimited data is forbidden according the the TOS. The good news is that under shared data plans, you can tether I believe. Of course if you tether too much, you will go over your data allowance.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] markdapimp:
Verizon can see your user agent when tethering from your computer

however if its a mobile device they wont notice @ all but a pc they will notice
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jlelectech:
I seriously doubt they care that much. The notice you're getting is one that I've sometimes heard of users getting when trying to use specific tethering apps which may be blocked on the Play Store on certain carriers. Certain apps will send you to that screen. If you root, run an "open" firmware, or otherwise enable the built-in hotspot capability, then you should never have this problem. I have an Inc 2 and use Cyanogenmod and it tends to work quite well this way. I'm still on 3G but exploring options to go to 4G. One thing I have experienced and not seen talk about, is that at times certain devices (via hotspot) or browsers or maybe certain websites, will trigger a repetitive shutdown of the 3G link when using hotspot. I think the carrier does have certain systems in place to flag certain kinds of packets or data in some way and it simply cuts the link. Once it happens it tends to keep happening until the connection is reset or hotspot is disabled. Sometimes after simply resetting the connection or restarting the phone, it will then work fine. Of course I could never 100% nail down the issue, I suppose it's possible my radio was doing something weird but I don't think I ever saw it happen unless hotspotting. Lately I haven't seen this happening or at least haven't noticed it. In the past it could sometimes make the hotspot almost unusable.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] stolo:
CM has tethering built in, works fantastic. I use it regularly, no problems.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] wcravey:
tethering

They allow me to wireless tether on my unlimited plan with no penalty as long as I pay for the tether. I have not done that but will begin because of convenience. I can use PDAnet to USB tether and it does not appear that they can tell with that. I am not an expert so would like input on the chance of getting caught on the USB connection. It is not uncommon for me to use 40+ GB a month.

I am going to pay the tether charge for now until this FCC charge settles out. If I turn my thunderbolt on, it still works fine. It is the Note S3 that has the issue. It is rooted but if I go to Kit Kat I will have to return to stock to prevent tripping KNOX. I have been wireless tethering since I first rooted my thunderbolt with no problems.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Avy707:
You could also use Easy tether, then download on the computer a free open source program called virtualwifirouter and create a hotspot from your computer. This is my workaround in lieu of Foxfi.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] vanish57:
Hey, so I got a HOX two days ago through att, and it came with 1.85, so I thought I was in luck, and could get it rooted. I've tried the one click root for 1.85 posted in the dev forums, but whenever I check for updates, it finds the 2.20 update and starts to download it instead of rebooting. I then have to do a factory reset to stop it from trying to get the 2.20 update. Am I doing something wrong?

I also tried to do the manual update, but the SDK doesn't work for me (it automatically closes whenever I try to open it to get the modules I need for the ADB). I tried all the solutions i could find for that problem, and none of them worked for me, so I'd prefer to get the one-click working, if it's possible. Thanks for the help!
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] holtr94:
I have heard the one click has issues now, but I know the manual works. You don't even need the sdk working, just use the version of adb in the one click root folder. You can find a download of fastboot if you search Google.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] vanish57:
Thanks for the quick reply. I tried that before, but the ADB closes as soon as it launches, so that's a no-go for me, unless I can get that problem sorted out. Also, can't you only use fastboot if the device is s-off? I was under the impression that the HOX was shipped s-on from my forum searching, though I have yet to check my device myself
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] holtr94:
How are you launching adb? You can't just click the app itself, you actually have to run it in the command prompt. adb has to work on your computer, otherwise the one click would do nothing.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] vanish57:
Oh man, I don't know how I missed that. Yeah, I was just double clicking to start ADB :/ I think I've got ADB working now, though now I need to charge my phone up before I try to root again. Thanks for all your help, hopefully in a few short hours I'll be back in root-land with a custom rom like I was used to on my HTC aria (liberty)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] TheForceUnleashed:
Linaro CM10 SGT7 Port For Nook Tablet

Don't Sell This, or you will be facing the RATH OF CHRIS!

This ROM was ported from the Kindle Fire's CM10 Linaro SGT7 build. After some lib tweaking for 2 days, it works!

I will update this every single time Chris updates his, or when another CM10 Linaro SGT7 build is released for Kindle Fire (a one with significant changes)

What Works:

Anything that works in Chris's build

Speed in UI increase-some

What doesn't Work

Anything that doesn't work in Chris's build

New Add-ins:

Multiuser support

Edge swipe navigation (can be used to quickly toggle the status bar with a single swipe)

Show/hide statusbar from power menu

Additional launcher settings

New Bootanimation

New Horizontal Phone Mode

I am not responsible for what happens to your Nook if it becomes bricked, or turns into radiation, or explodes. It's on you for choosing to install this. You blame me, Chuck Norris will become disappointed in you.

Instructions:

Go into CWM-TWRP Recovery (Yes, this is a 3.0 kernel port, the first of it's kind)

Backup your previous rom

Wipe Data, Cache, Dalvik

Flash Rom Zip

Install Gapps

Enjoy

Download 0.4:

update0.4-sgt7-acclaim.zip - 148.93 MB

Download 0.3

update0.3-sgt7-cm10-acclaim.zip - 137.02 MB

Download 0.2

update0.2-cm10-sgt7-acclaim.zip - 136.90 MB

Download 0.1

http://goo.im/devs/JohnathanNook/update0.1-cm10-sgt7-acclaim.zip

MD5: 9b01cef25c90845c41360e77705a6c1d

Download 0.0

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?8ffzynve529m1je

Gapps:

http://goo.im/gapps/gapps-jb-20120726-signed.zip

Thanks to:

Chris (for making a build to base from)

Kuzma, Hashcode, Rebellos (for making a kernel for this to work on)

SGT7 developers

This works for 8GB Nooks! If you experience bootloops, try flashing with TWRP.

Link to the base rom (Chris's)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1773362