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[T-Mobile LG G3] phone crazy:
PrimeTether Mod No longer Working

Hi everyone. Let me start by thanking AutoPrime for all that he has done. I have switched to the Tmobile G3 8551 Android 3 months ago after using Nokia Symbian for last 8 yrs. I needed LTE for tethered internet as my 808 4g was just to slow. Only reason i got Lg G3 was because of this Tethering Mod. I followed all directions and am using 10m. Everything worked fine since December. Been averaging about 25 gigs a month maybe half is tethered with no problem. Im on unlimited plan with 5 gigs for tether. Tmobile app would say 0 mb legal tether used. For some reason today 3-1-15 i noticed that its now showing me how much i have tethered. My billing cycle started on the 26th. I do not remember updating anything. Anyone else having issue? please help.

Thanks
[T-Mobile LG G3] iBowToAndroid:
I too, have ran into issues.

A friend asked me to help him tether his G3, since he knows I'm knowledgeable about phones. He was on 10r. Installed the mod for him. Next day he says his hotspot bucket shows use instead of normal data. Thought there might be an issue so I threw my SIM in a G3 that I had laying around, applied the mod, and uploaded 2 YouTube videos over it. Next day, my usage showed no hotspot usage - it was all normal data. The phone I used was on 10c so I thought that might be the culprit. I flashed him back to 10c and redid the mod, thinking that would solve it for him, but it didn't - same results.

Only differences between us are that he's on the old unlimited plan w/ 3 GB of hotspot and I have the new one with 5 GB. He's also on prepaid and I'm on postpaid.

Any ideas? Anyone successfully using it on prepaid, to eliminate that possibility? Can't see why that would matter...
[T-Mobile LG G3] nickd6237:
Ever since last week i havent been able to use my tether. Ive been using the prime tether. mod flawlessly for months but now it stopped working. Looks like tmobile found me because there website pops up saying that i used my maximum hotspot limit. Any fix for this???
[T-Mobile LG G3] VivaLaCam92:
I can confirm that they're catching onto us. I've been using this mod no issue what so ever pretty much since initial release. just this morning I'm browsing when suddenly my internet drops out and sends me to the tmobile hotspot page. took a look at my data and now it's showing tethering usage.
[T-Mobile LG G3] autoprime:
I may revisit this after official L hits. it seems they can tell people are tethering when using the official hotspot despite mods now... at least for some people. and others are running into issues where IPV4 no longer works if tethering.

I myself have no tethering added to my plan.. the mod still works for me as there's no way for them to say I've used up my tethering data (since I'm not supposed to have any). Funny that those with no hotspot ability are able to bypass it the easiest.

Those having issues... you guys don't have "DUN" in your APN settings do you? (you shouldn't). Other than that.. hard to test this as I do not have a SIM/Plan that allows limited tethering.
[T-Mobile LG G3] nickd6237:
No I don't have DUN in my APN settings.
[T-Mobile LG G3] Fhuron:
I was using the default APN without any of my data showing as tethered for the last couple months, but I just noticed today that I am seeing the last 2 days of tethering. It is not showing activity from over the weekend, or it would be a bit higher. I created a custom APN using the examples from the previous page, including DUN as shown, but it is still tracking tether usage. I am on the Unlimited Postpaid plan (actually 2/$100 unlimited 4G).

Edit- I installed a custom ROM today that included tethering, and based on a few small tests, it appears that my tethering is no longer tracked. This new issue seems to be tied to the tether app built into the stock ROM, as I was running Stock with root only to begin with when my data started to show up.
[T-Mobile LG G3] VivaLaCam92:
No DUN here either.
[T-Mobile LG G3] nickd6237:
What rom did it work on for you? I tried cm11, liquid smooth, and lollipop illusion but no luck.
[T-Mobile LG G3] Fhuron:
I used Blisspop v2.1, but I have an additional update. The test I mentioned yesterday was done using my Nexus 7 tethered to my phone, streaming some video via Netflix. Last night, I had to use the tether again due to the crappy broadband I have at home and had my PC connected for a bit over an hour. Some data was showing up as tether again, but I'm not positive that everything I was doing was reflected, as it seemed like a small amount compared to the amount of use. I was doing some online gaming (WoW addiction) plus Ventrillo, in addition to chrome open doing a few web searches and forums. I will need to test the activities separately to see what is actually being reported.
[T-Mobile LG G3] enzodad:
Im new to this way of tethering. Try this guys follow his instructions...us user agent switcher on browser i set it to ubuntu so it sees it as linux. I tried useing chrome android setting and it worked only for a couple of things. Ubtunu is best option i think as linux and android are same

Don't use the user agent with the mask icon use the one with the icons for browsers. Ive been streaming twitch all morning flawlessly.
[T-Mobile LG G3] Fhuron:
I had the user agent, had been using in with my Nexus 4 before I starting playing with ROMS on it, which rendered it unnecessary. I had tried it last night as well, but I had the one with the mask. I just changed to the one you recommended and will test it. Set to Chrome on Ubuntu. Thanks for the suggestion.
[T-Mobile LG G3] enzodad:
awesome

Hope it works for you. I tried other ones and made browsers look odd and not work. I downloaded about 20GB today and still going strong. This flash odd awesome just requires little tweek in pc. They rarely do anything about it i had 5s and i installed downloaded tether app then installed free version from cydia which tricked it into working and i averaged 100,000GB a month tether and wife averaged 50,000 tmobile just laughed if they ever ask just say you stream HD videos day on your phone. I'll be downloading about 50GBG in bluray tonight when i go to bed I'll post back and let know if still going
[T-Mobile LG G3] nickd6237:
English please....
[T-Mobile LG G3] enzodad:
worked

Well i downloaded 50GB bluray via tether and still working.

It is english dude follow instructions OP

Then if your running chrome go to extensions and add user agent switcher theres 3 options choos the bottom one....one its installed click its icon by search bar and select chrome for ubtntu and click option to always remeber it. Android and ubuntu are both linux so it works better.

Now that you have done that ylu should have unlimited tether as i do.

Just for heck of it i even made a new apn on phone with ipv4 and im only using stock rooted rom and i have tethered around 100GB in the last 24hrs.

Pretty simple to do this if its to diffacult you shouldnt be trying this.
[T-Mobile LG G3] nickd6237:
OK but how can I make it work with Xbox live?
[T-Mobile LG G3] Semantics:
I can confirm that mine had always worked without fail, and this past week, I tethered out at 3GB and got the upsell page. First time I've ever had this happen on this mod. T-Mobile seems to have sniffed it out.
[T-Mobile LG G3] enzodad:
Try using user agent? Mine did the same till i used one.

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Google it. Not sure people here are devoted too getting things working with xbox.....
[T-Mobile LG G3] jonathann0222:
Has anybody been able to get it to work on ps4
[T-Mobile LG G3] enzodad:
Here's a little proof
[T-Mobile LG G3] Alpha Geek:
I too, as of 3/16/2015 am now increasing on my mobile hotspot usage. BUT! something happened on Sunday night (3/15/2015). (I am thinking it might have been OTA flash. (Not even sure if TMO can pull that off..neither technically nor legally) but what happened was my phone was sitting on my desk next to me while I'm at work, and i noticed that it spontaneously rebooted itself. When it came back up it was in safe mode (i immediately knew because the default wallpaper and it says safe mode in the corner of the screen). So I restarted it again and when it came back. My wallpaper defaulted to original factory, default keyboard was back to lg from Google kb, all widgets on my user screens were gone, and my custom ring tones and alerts were back to factory defaults. So, I manually went back and put all my settings back the way they were because my back up was from over a week ago. Suddenly now i am being tracked on my tethering since Monday. The same thing happen on 3/1/2015, in the EXACT same way. But the difference was i had a fresh twrp full backup So i decided to restore the system, and data, and efs partitions. (Which partition is prime tether is on? I think on efs and system, but not sure.)

Anyway, when I looked at my data usage there was only 19mb hotspot usage showing for 3/1/2015 (should be 0 however which would explain the 1 hour of tethering and digging for answers on Google)

Which leads me to my question for AUTOPRIME (or anyone else that may have the answer or opinion:) could this in any way be an intentional and deliberate effort by TMO to send a targeted ota exploit or flash to disable prime tether specifically? Most likely if that were true they would target the top 10% of data hogs, of which I'm sure I'm one of, with my 35 -50GB/mo average. Plus my huge "look at me" flag of 140Gb for January.

Sorry, post got lengthy but I'm about to go into twrp and reflash prime tether to see if it fixes it. By the way I'm on 10c still. Never upgraded to 10m+.

Alpha Geek
[T-Mobile LG G3] autoprime:
The carrier and oems have the power to do some crazy things... and it's possible something could have been installed to remove tethering from working.. BUT if I had to guess with a little bit of knowledge (because that's all I can do).. I just think it might be coincidental. They could "block" your internet by using the user-agent method which others have mentioned trying to get around just above our posts. I don't see why they wouldn't at least try the user-agent block and instead resort to illegal backdoor/unrequested updates. Possible.. 100%... just doesn't seem likely.

I'm not quite sure how theyre detecting and adding up tethering usage now.. as everything is routed through your normal APN. And since you're on 10C... that proves they didn't react specifically to "primetether" as whatever they need is built in from day 1. It's possible they're tracking everyone's user-agent and just adding up usage that way. Tho that makes me think.. what if someone changed their user-agent on their phone to show as a computer or something? Maybe there's a way to see traffic that just goes through the hotspot.

L is just around the corner.. there are a few ways to go about this on L.. one is more drastic but possibly the best option for people. I have it all ready but.. "coming soon" I suppose :fingers-crossed: As I've mentioned before, it's hard for me to test these things as I don't have ANY allowed tether usage on my plan... no "normal data" and "tether data".. it's just all "normal data" so maybe they aren't able to monitor tethering usage as easily on these accounts?.. idk. All I know is I have no monitored tether usage showing up, no re-directing due to user-agent detection... nothin. Just works.

But ya.. look for options.. or at least changes when L hits. Whether they work 100% for everyone.. who knows.
[T-Mobile LG G3] Alpha Geek:
Yeah, it's kinda scary how much they are empowered over our devices. So I reflashed Prime Tether 10c. Going to monitor usage to see if it's resolved. Looking forward to the L release too. Just saw another post a few minutes ago that said an insider friend of his (tmo store mgr) told him they are going to be pushing it out OTA as 5.1 rather than 5.02 in a couple weeks. But i will only upgrade if i have PT installed and working. And that is all just speculation anyway. Time will tell.

Did have one more question for AutoPrime. If you don't have tethering, just "normal data", how do you not get throttled. The only unlimited data plan that I'm aware of that doesn't throttle you, comes with unlimited 4G LTE & 5gb of tethering for an extra $30. All the others throttle after a gig or two.
[T-Mobile LG G3] jiovaxrs:
Hy a got the $30 tmo plan 4glte unlimited and 5g tether. I usethis on my stock rom and work perfect. If i use cm12 i can flash this and work? And sorry if you answer this question in the pass
[T-Mobile LG G3] Alpha Geek:
update: I reapplied the mod. Now the tethering on the plan has stopped increasing at 1.1 GB. And I have tethered over 10gb since then. So apparently something got overwritten some how. Still thinking that the hard reset had something to do with it. Whether it was TMO or just a random fluke I do not know.

SO THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE SUDDENLY EXPERIENCING THE INCREASE IN TETHER USAGE MAY WANT TO TRY REAPPLYING THE MOD.
[T-Mobile LG G3] autoprime:
little update...

the other day in here I mentioned a possible new solution for Lollipop. The beginnings of that have just started here - http://xdaforums.com/tmobile-lg-g3/development/stock-lg-d851-20b-t3062164

I have posted T-Mobile L boot images as well as a custom stock L rom getting its roots from an unbranded int'l rom. Tethering should be "unlocked" with this rom and about as far away from the holds of T-Mobile as you can get while still using a stock LG rom. Possible drawbacks, no tmo wifi calling or tmo lte calling. Pros, just about everything else.

At this very moment I can only post boot and system images... so for the meantime we have no Lollipop modem so the GSM/LTE radio is going to cut out every 30sec or so until we get a new modem... or someone finds a fix. OTA should be out soon since source was posted today.
[T-Mobile LG G3] Eratrion:
Just want to say I appreciate all your efforts auto. It truly is bringing renewed life to this phone.

You probably saw in the other thread, but I have flashed your latest build. I just recently tested tethering and it appears to be monitored even still. It's been steadily increasing at about the rate I would expect without unlocked tethering.
[T-Mobile LG G3] autoprime:
I'll have to look into it more tho. But there's 100% no T-Mobile stuff in the L-Lollipop #iNb4TMO build I posted.. no TMO CIQ.. no special TMO monitoring files.. nothing. So everything's gotta be happening network-side. But perhaps there's still some way around that.

The way the "L-Lollipop #iNb4TMO" tethering is unlocked... you could have no tethering added to your plan and there would be no pop-up or any sort of block asking you to sign up... and no redirect or DNS tricks... which was a step better than my PrimeTether mod for some. It also now works over IPV6.. where PrimeTether only worked on IPV4. BUT....... for those who are allowed tethering... just limited.. it seems this still won't get around it. TMO must be monitoring user-agent still... which is done on the network side thru the APN... so I don't see any way around that.. other than to spoof the user-agent on the devices tethered to your G3. I guess that's why tethering shows up on CM now too (for those of you on limited tethering plans).

Maybe encryption is going to be needed or something... I'll keep thinking....
[T-Mobile LG G3] Eratrion:
I definitely want to say it is user agent. I've had another Android phone connected that does not seem to increase the hotspot allotment. Laptop is another story. Even tried spoofing chrome on the computer to look like another Android phone by chrome extensions but had no luck.
[T-Mobile LG G3] autoprime:
Next time you need to use the hotspot... try using a VPN. Or have you tried this? It seems this is the way to go for those who still get tracked by T-Mobile.
[T-Mobile LG G3] Eratrion:
Have not yet tried this. To be honest, I have no idea how to go about setting it up! Certainly willing to try though.
[T-Mobile LG G3] Fhuron:
Something I noticed earlier today... Of all the phones currently in use on T-Mobile, the G3 is the only one people are reporting having this recent issue with. Does that strike anyone else as odd? If it was something t-mo was doing on the back end to catch tethered packets, shouldn't this be more widespread? :confused:
[T-Mobile LG G3] Eratrion:
It's a no go with the VPN it seems. Tried a few on the laptop and it is still tracking the data. Tried it the reverse by using a vpn client on the phone and it just blocked all traffic from the hotspot.

Edit: used an old backup and went back to kitkat. Reapplied prime tether afterwards just to test. I tethered a good 300mb and it doesn't appear to have increased at all (no user agent switching, no fancy mods with computer). T-Mobile is tracking native android tethering it seems.
[T-Mobile LG G3] jiovaxrs:
hy guys is my service not working after flash this. is only me are is poor considence
[T-Mobile LG G3] Alpha Geek:
FYI: as i have mentioned a few posts ago, after reapplying the patch/mod from twrp recovery, it appears to be working again like it used to. (I am on a plan that includes some tethering running 10C ROM and i have never switched my user agent from my tethered PCs) So would it make any sense that they are selectively monitoring accounts? I'm not quite sure how to explain this one tbh...

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jiovaxrs, this is ONLY for LG G3 (LG-D851).
[T-Mobile LG G3] Eratrion:
No, it doesn't make sense. I was trying to suss out the issue with the lollipop build that auto posted. Data accumulates with that, but with the prime tether mod and stock it does not. I'd prefer auto's build of lollipop, but tethering is a bit of a deal breaker.
[T-Mobile LG G3] Fhuron:
I need the tether as well, so it looks like it's back to KK for a bit til this gets figured out. I still find it strange that this only seems to be happening to the G3.

Restoring my stock nandroid now. Any recommendations for a KK Rom? Most look like they haven't been updated in awhile due to dev work on LP (nothing wrong with that at all).
[T-Mobile LG G3] prp2:
Krowley's SR Remix 3.5. Thing runs beautifully.
[T-Mobile LG G3] Fhuron:
Thanks for the advice, will check it out.

As an update, Since going back to my Nandroid, which probably already had Prime tether installed, I have used over 200MB of data, with no additional increase in Tether activity. I'm using the stock APN, modified to IPv4, and my PC has been logged into an Online game for 2+ hours (making sure I don't still have signal issues after going back to my stock Nandroid after the LP attempts, and also checking the forums here, browsing Pic threads on the the reddit main page, and Youtube Video reviews of aquarium lighting ( money-pit of a hobby).

So far, so good.

I still think it's something in the LP biuld for our phone that's causing the tether issue, not something network side.
[T-Mobile LG G3] phone crazy:
Hi guys. Running stock s/w with prime tether on 10m. Last month tethering started to add up but noticed over the month that ipad tether was not picked up and also not all data with laptop was. My plan reset this morning and strange thing is that i have not tethered anythingn yet it shows 45 mb tethering. Can anyone confirm that reapply the prime tether is working.

thanks
[T-Mobile LG G3] autoprime:
there's literally nothing in my L build outside of the APN that has anything to do with T-Mobile. What the L build and what this mod do achieve the same end goal... there's one difference in the end... well 2 if you count android version. I'd suspect if PrimeTether is working again (for the being monitored) it's due to requiring IPV4... where the LP build is using IPV6. Perhaps those of you being monitored on L could make a new APN using IPV4 only and tether on that instead of the default IPV6 APN. I'm not being monitored so I can't test any of this.
[T-Mobile LG G3] Fhuron:
I tried that on both your Rom and Cloudy, made new APN's (granted based on the settings posted much earlier in this thred, maybe around the 10m timeframe) and made sure they were on IPv4, still picking up the tethering. What I also found odd, when tethering was on, not only was the dat used being reflected, but the actual Mobile data counter didn't budge at all, it was like it was working the reverse of how we want it to.

I know you removed all of the tmobile stuff, Cloudy left some in. Could it be something in the LP image that we have that works on this phone itself?
[T-Mobile LG G3] Eratrion:
This is exactly what I had experienced. I even made a new APN with IPv4 with no luck. The counter still went up exactly as yours did. Also, I'd suspect the reason why the regular data was no longer going up was due to an accurate account of hotspot data. For whatever reason, prime tether seems to be the only thing that works. Even aosp roms seem to be having the issue, so I really don't think it is anything in auto's l build. Maybe however T-Mobile handles it's provisioning through their app/shortcut implementation is slightly different than stock android and prime tether manages to prevent that. Or maybe it is just a different way lollipop handles tethering. I'm probably grasping at straws with that though.
[T-Mobile LG G3] autoprime:
updating my LP build later tonight... new kernel and some other things.. chance it'll fix tethering. keep eye out.. and if anyone can test and report back that'd be great. I'd test myself but... not monitored ;)
[T-Mobile LG G3] NewZJ:
I'm monitored, and maxed. I'll let you know
[T-Mobile LG G3] Fhuron:
I'll be looking for your results, although I think I just got Krawley's SR Remix just the way I want it... decisions...:good:
[T-Mobile LG G3] BoredKender:
I'll test out (or try to) for ya mate
[T-Mobile LG G3] NewZJ:
Negative. New build doesn't fix tethering.

I tried the default ip6, and I made an ip4 access point, neither worked.

I did a dirty flash. It caused issues.
[T-Mobile LG G3] gamepr:
I went back to carbon ROM with 10c modem and ,although I was pretty close to my legal 3gb tethering, I kept on tethering and for some reason the T-Mobile website has no mention of tethering. It just reports all data as unlimited high speed....

I don't get it.
[T-Mobile LG G3] Fhuron:
The website doesn't seem to differentiate between the types of data. I have to use the T-Mobile app on my phone and view detailed usage.
[T-Mobile LG G3] Swizzle82:
Are you bringing your prime mod to 20b? I know it's included in your custom build but for the stock build maybe too?
[T-Mobile LG G3] gamepr:
Shortly after I wrote that msg I got the T-Mobile page notify me that I had exceeded my data allowance. It seems to be fine if i tether with a phone.

So I think m going to have to get a tablet.
[T-Mobile LG G3] yanowman:
GOT A QUESTION I DESPERATELY NEED ANSWERING..

currently using Autoprimes ROM... the 20b stock System (one with wifi calling..not unimoprh)

Could someone PLEASE enlighten me as to what prime tether to flash to this?

Trying to get WiFi calling AND tether hack...
[T-Mobile LG G3] Eratrion:
Currently, I don't believe there is a version for stock t-mobile lollipop.
[T-Mobile LG G3] yanowman:
In one version of autoprimes "custom" stock based lollipop it has his prime tether hack baked in... So I'm pretty sure they are compatible. Unless he's using a version not yet available to the masses?
[T-Mobile LG G3] movielover76:
He may have had to play with it considerably to get it working in his 20B rom, that's my guess

Also I think that's based on Vanilla LG G3 rom, not the t-mobile specific rom.
[T-Mobile LG G3] Swizzle82:
Has not been released seperately yet..
[T-Mobile LG G3] aleks_:
Waiting for that tether mod for 20b as well but my thinking is that he is waiting for the official Tmo rollout to see what is different and if any changes are needed so that he can make a version that works for it.
[T-Mobile LG G3] yanowman:
Has auto prime had any ETA OR announcement on a release for lollipop based roms
[T-Mobile LG G3] autoprime:
nope, no eta. I'll get to it... eventually. :good:
[T-Mobile LG G3] smallyetzon:
Successfully flashed this amazing rom on my D851 working 100% and rooted!! Thanks looking forward for more great things
[T-Mobile LG G3] yanowman:
Worddddddddd