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[G2 and Desire Z General] amack10:
Oh lol no I think the discussion has moved on to how to use the desktop user agent on ur phone lol miss comunicaation
[G2 and Desire Z General] n1freak:
Tmobile killed my favorite dolphin. earlier I was trying to watch my favorite podcast on live.twit.tv in my dolphin browser and while being interrupted allot I got a text message from tmobile <tethering may be blocked> then another <tethering has been blocked> and then no more dolphin. Tmobile said dolphin wasn't on their list and dolphin was tethering capable.

Dolphin now starts up at offers.t-mobile.com/tethering/upsell.do[/url] I can go to google.com but every link takes me back to offers.t-mobile.com/tethering/upsell.do[/url]

Stock browser in desktop mode works fine I can watch live.twit.tv but I miss the dolphin browser really bad... T-mobile f@*$d up.
[G2 and Desire Z General] glynnman:
Huge thanks

Great news ... I've been blocked for the last 24 hrs ... I dl'd uapicker<sp?> addon for IE8 and changed my UA string to the IEmobile template and whammoo I'm tethering wirelessly and have circumvented TMO's block!

SCO ****in RE!!!!!
[G2 and Desire Z General] DToTheRock:
I just found out that using an ssh tunnel as a socks proxy works because all of you web traffic is sent as encrypted ssh traffic through another machine. If you have ssh installed on the machine that is tethered you should be able to run:

ssh -f -N -D 9999 user@homemachine.com

where homemachine.com is an computer on the internet running an ssh server that you have access to. Then set chrome to use socks proxy localhost:9999 and everything works as normal with the added benefit that all of your traffic is encrypted and sent to your home machine before being sent to the internet so T-Mobile can't see it.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Orite:
Whole day out tethering and no message. Using stock tethering apps and stock browser settings with Chrome

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[G2 and Desire Z General] Chuckmoney:
Since monday I've tethered nearly 750mb of data, without changing user agent or anything. No msg from tmobile, no throttled data, nothing. Just wireless tethering for root users. :D
[G2 and Desire Z General] jloescher2010:
Setting up a VPN on your home computer would also probably work. Just a thought.
[G2 and Desire Z General] bdong:
Been using mobile hotspot for a couple days now with lots of usage. no messages from t-mo, texts or problems...
[G2 and Desire Z General] smirkis:
i purposely have been tethering all morning using the wifi tether app from google, not the built in hotspot toggle. i've downloaded 3 huge movies totaling over 1.5gb and no msg or text or nothing... just pure tethering
[G2 and Desire Z General] mlevin:
Wait, WHAT? That's total BS! They can't do that! I have every right to use any browser of my choosing on my phone without violating the terms of the data plan. There's no reason on Earth I shouldn't be able to use a phone browser to emulate a desktop browser. That shouldn't be any of T-Mobile's concern.

EDIT: OK, I just tried this by switching to 3G (I was on wifi) and launching Dolphin browser and switching to "Desktop" user agent. I was able to browse with no problem. So maybe they are not looking at the user agent after all? Or maybe I need to have a certain volume of data before they notice? I'm on T-Mobile 3G in Cambridge, MA at the moment.
[G2 and Desire Z General] ochlo:
They "blocked" me for using my stock G2 w/ browser user agent "desktop." I changed it back to "android" and it is fine.
[G2 and Desire Z General] amack10:
Is this happeniny to everyone else.

On stock rom I can not use a desktop user agent. Or I get the tethering thing.

On cyan I can use any user agent and tether again
[G2 and Desire Z General] zosX:
You can't legally sign away your rights. Clauses like that don't hold up in court.
[G2 and Desire Z General] ddgarcia05:
So can anyone tell me how to change my useragent on firefox?

Is there an better why of doing this so that i don't have to change user agents?
[G2 and Desire Z General] :
ok so i got message from tmobile

i just moved to a new place and dont have wifi at my house yet . i had my g2 on my tmobile monthly flex pay (bought g2 outrite and bought sim and paid bill up front) last week i sighned up for a post paid acct and got the mt4g last nite i got a text from tmobile saying i have reached 5gb of data and my speeds will be slowed down . so i called tmobile and said i use my phone for lots of streaming and surfing did not say anything bout tether and they assured me that i will not incour any overages and my data speeds will be slowed down . i have never had this problem on my flex pay acct . i used 15 gb of data one month and tmobile never said anything and my bill was the normal 92$ for the flex pay unlimited . so i called tmobile back and said that why this problem on post paid and not pre paid (flex pay) and they didnt have a answer . so i have been tehring beetween both phones and both plans g2 flex pay and mt4g post paid and have not noticed a difference in speed according to speedtest .net im just wondering if this gonna affect me at all on my bill even tho the rep said that us with 4g smart phones pay for truly unlimited data so well see ill keep checking my bill and usage online. oh ya and im using the built in wireless hotspot feature on both phones cm6 g2 and stock rooted mt4g .
[G2 and Desire Z General] lencialoo:
tethering again

I have been reading posts here....I was blocked and rerouted to the tmo page for the new tethering options last week. I have an unrooted Sansung Vibrant and was using Easytether after Sansung Kies stopped working (OTA update messed that up I think). Last week when I got the message I was using Google Chrome...after reading the posts here I decided to use my IE8 with add-ons disabled....did not change registery UA String (that was my next step) but I logged in this am using Easytether and having IE8 with the add-ons disabled is allowing me to post this via my Samsung Vibrant....not sure what this means but as long as it works I'm not going to do anything different. BTW, I only use tether via my USB and am not a heavy user, email, facebook (mobile FB misses alot) and news pages, etc. I occasionally watch videos. Not sure if this helps anyone or not....:D

PS Thanks to this forum and everyone posting solutions here, I really have learned alot....I'm new to mobile but used to be pretty good on desktop PCs when I worked for a big IT firm.....

Have a great day!
[G2 and Desire Z General] znanoDA:
i got the tethering message and i dont even have a data plan wtf
[G2 and Desire Z General] androidtoy09:
Hahaha now that is funny lol
[G2 and Desire Z General] vikramdhani:
well what app are you guys using for wifi tether because this app http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/ is not working for me at all forget about tmobile blocking me :)
[G2 and Desire Z General] smirkis:
wifi tether works fine, if u read how to use it sometimes it requires you to authenticate users to allow access.
[G2 and Desire Z General] vikramdhani:
where can i read about it because right now i am using the open network and it is not giving the internet access. i have tried it with my laptop,ipod Touch and iPad but no luck
[G2 and Desire Z General] misconcepti0n:
Wifi tether app is broken in baconbits updated kernel for trackpad wake. Not sure what kernel you are running, but this app seems to be broken in some of them.
[G2 and Desire Z General] wondermixx:
wow, ive been tethering like crazy for a while already since this is my only source of web for now, ive been even playing black ops on my ps3 lmao and doing all kinds of stuff online and i havent gotten that message, and it doesnt seem it has gotten slower yet, i wonder whats goin on.... *knocks on wood*
[G2 and Desire Z General] davidemartindale:
I have not gotten any warning or ban at all. I went to CM rc2 within an hour of purchase so I have no idea of anything on stock. I have been tethering for quite sometime now using wifi tether for root as well as froyo usb and froyo wifi. Well over 100mb for sure with absolutely no protections in place.

On to the reason I'm actually posting. I was playing with user agent strings after reading this thread, and thought I would share something.

Changing the user agent in Chrome with:

in the target field changes the UA to get me mobile versions buuuuuuut... Changing the UA with:

gives much MUCH more useful mobile versions.

I'm guessing that one is kind of a generic android user agent while the other is the user agent reported by the stock browser under CM rc2. With the generic, I was getting a lot of text based mobile sites. With the specific, I was getting "smart phone type" mobile sites.

Doesn't help with the problem, I know, but it does make for a more tolerable experience when forced to browse websites in mobile form on the PC.
[G2 and Desire Z General] zosX:
I am on flex pay too and I haven't been affected. Downloaded a few hundred megs the other day in fact. When I got this plan I specifically asked about caps and was told that imy plan had none and that it was pretty much unlimited. I don't think I've gotten near 10gb, but I can easily break 5bg and have never been kicked down to edge. I guess YMMV and that it is also possible that they run their system differently in different places.
[G2 and Desire Z General] smthkat789:
Argh, I've been having problems with the android wireless tether from code google site.

I havent been able to get a solid connection since tues 11/30.

I though it was my pc and I reinstalled drivers checked network connections and wireless, all ok.

So I tried easytether it worked for a like 30 minutes then it wouldnt connect to any site not even google. I keep on trying to get android wireless tether working from IE8 and diagnose network connections in windows. Once it repairs the connection it works for 30-60 minutes then it disconnects. I tried firefox and opera and those dont work until I repair it using IE diagnostics.

I updated the wireless tether to 2.0.5 pre 14 and still the same.

I'm not getting any tmob block webpage, just getting cut offline altogether.

My yahoo emails dont show images either just like on the g2, so I think that tmob is blocking desktop browsers?

Any ideas of what to do or anyone else have same problem?
[G2 and Desire Z General] zosX:
Sounds more like network issues. Usually you just get a splash page on your browser if reports are correct. Did this problem go away? Did you try rebooting your phone as well as perhaps and older wifi teather? I am on 2.03 and it works decently, though I haven't tethered in about a week.
[G2 and Desire Z General] urfavoritemazn:
i've been using wireless tethering since i got my g2. hopefully i dont get this phantom text /:
[G2 and Desire Z General] icolorado303:
I have been tethering also since I just got my g2 today, just wondering what I should do with the chrome browser on a Mac since I saw people messing with the desktop user or whatever
[G2 and Desire Z General] jaredy:
After whole tread, does anyone know if the tethering has been watched at Nexus one or HTC Desired Z beside G2?
[G2 and Desire Z General] RockyTheLegacy:
New SIM?

For all the people the got the text from TMO saying tethering is blocked, are you guys using a previous SIM card or the new SIM that came with your G2? Also are you guys on Flex Pay or regular post-paid accounts?
[G2 and Desire Z General] witeboy07:
i never gotten any type of blockage,ive been on that unlimited android web plan since the longest.prepaid
[G2 and Desire Z General] LGS1231:
I think it's pretty dumb that they're throwing a $14.99 plan for us to wirelessly tether. Sure, they're trying to make money but they already have a 5gb cap on our UNLIMITED data plan which we do PAY $30 dollars for it already.

I find the wireless tether feature very handy and would be extremely disappointed if they cut me off and make me pay $15/month just to be able to use it.
[G2 and Desire Z General] memphis10:
i am on a flex plan as well with the t-zones data, just recently have been blocked. to get around this i have just changed the user agent strings on the desktop browsers to that of mobile devices. so far so good! i am still able to browse & download without any problems.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Max):
Anyone ever tried Hotspot Shield free solution???

http://hotspotshield.com/
[G2 and Desire Z General] TheMod'sPolice:
Yeah, pretty well
[G2 and Desire Z General] cowboyintx:
I bought the g2 2 weeks ago..it is running 2.2 on it..it has wifi hot spot and teathing built in..t mobile doesnt know if you use that..a rep told me about it and he used all the time:d
[G2 and Desire Z General] Tread70:
I found a user agent switcher for Firefox add-on and changed my user agent to IE8 and I now have my tethering back.I downloaded it with my G2 and transfered to my desktop, opened up firefox add on window and dragged and dropped the file into the window to install.

google: chrispederick user agent

Tread
[G2 and Desire Z General] NinjaBlack:
I recieved the two messages yesterday and was blocked as well. i have an old gf unlimited plan and have never seen the messages before. It is pobably worth noting that I was downloading gigs worth of data while tethered and had probably never pulled that much down at one time since I have been a customer. (2002) I was installing windows updates, streaming netflixing and downloading some adobe files when I was cut off.

Also, I have been tethering the entire day today as I usualy do and have not recieved any of the messages again. I'm posting this tethered to my old T- mobile hd2. The hd7 didn't have the tether option out of the box so I hung onto the hd2...

Also worth noting that I was using my older HP laptop that I want to hand down to a fmily member but my normal laptop runs windows 7
[G2 and Desire Z General] martonikaj:
Are you just getting a webpage redirect? This just happened to me yesterday for the first time since I became a customer in January...
[G2 and Desire Z General] NinjaBlack:
NO I recieved 2 'wap push' messages on my hd2 that said, "Free T-Mobile message: Phone tethering and wi-fi sharing access may be blocked unless you add a phone tethering and wi-fi sharing plan available here.

http://offers.t-mobile.com/tethering/upsel.do?source=50SMS"

The second one said;

"Free T-Mobile message: Phone tethering and wi-fi sharing has been blocked. Please add a phone tethering and wi-fi sharing plan available here.

http://offers.t-mobile.com/tethering/upsel.do?source=100SMS"

I was downloading the windows vista sp1 for an old computer I'm giving away. I'm convinced the system is monitoring megabytes. ie. 50SMS and the 100SMS... :confused: 50 mb and 100 mb makes sense to me.

I was not on a web page, I was using windows update so I wasn't redirected.

And I have also been tethering all day today and yesterday with zero issues...

Are you streaming or something @martonikaj?
[G2 and Desire Z General] blackknightavalon:
I've been using Barnacle for months and I haven't seen this message.
[G2 and Desire Z General] jaydog69:
I did see somewhere that t-mobile is going to start requiring a tethering plan
[G2 and Desire Z General] JLS16:
What is the user agent and where/how do I change it. New to Android (rehabilitated CrackBerry user :-) ) I keep getting the message offers.t-mobile.com/tethering/upsell.do on my iPad 2 using Safari...
[G2 and Desire Z General] Stargazer418:
The user agent tells the website what browser you're using. On an iPad, you would have to jailbreak to be able to change it.
[G2 and Desire Z General] JLS16:
T-Mo Tethering.

@stargazer, thanks. Ok so I tried installing the Atomic browser on my iPad 2, which has some user agent options, but no Android option. Did however try the WAP option, and that did not work either with the Atomic browser. I do not get the T-Mo website any longer, but it also goes nowhere.

So I depart AT&T because of their restrictive Tethering practices, just to get sucked into the same BS by T-Mobile! Nice.
[G2 and Desire Z General] bradley_e_smith:
How I get around the user agent

So I tether my laptop off the G2, and this is what I did (your mileage will vary). I loaded firefox on my G2 and went to www.whatismybrowser.com which shows you the full user agent string (down at the bottom of the page). I then had firefox on my laptop and loaded the free change user agent plugin and made a 'mobile' profile that had the G2 string in it. When tethering I use the mobile profile and when not I use the regular profile. I would guess you should be able to do something similar with the ipad.

good luck.
[G2 and Desire Z General] compekid:
I just got an Amaze 4G last week.

and when i tried the stock wifi hotspot i got this tmo page

offers.t-mobile.com/tethering/upsell.do?source=pcweb

before that i was using usb tethering with mytouch3g at about 2,300mb/day.

i can still tether with mytouch3g just fine,

but i can't wifi tether with amaze!!! :(

when i tried to switch up the user agent, it still doesnt work

i made a chrome short cut with the user-agent android, it didnt work .

then i changed the user-agent for my firefox,

it gives me the tmobile tether plan page.

i tried to change the user agent on dolphin on my phone to desktop agent, it works fine.

also tried using internet on phone while the laptop is connected showing the tethering page. the internet works on the phone too.

i have a unrooted, stock amaze 4g, currently located in southern california.

is there any other work around???

this is seriously bugging me out.

Edit:

I just activated my sim that came with the phone,

now its giving me the tether page when i set dolphin to desktop agent to "some" of the sites.

and i tried to wifi tether to mytouch3g, the same no tether message appears.

Info on my devices

HTC Amaze : stock everything, not rooted or anything. Wifi tether BANNED. haven't tried the usb tether.

Mytouch 3g: rooted with ginger yoshi 1.5 rom, USB tether works before and after the sim card switch, dont have wifi tether on the phone.

Second Edit:

i tried the solution on the other thread "Wi-Fi tethering - Amaze"

in the other posts people suggested to delete the original T-mobile apn, but i can't find a way to delete it, so i just changed the name of the original t-mobile apn, and erased the bottom entry on the t-mo apn.

it seems to work for wifi tethering with mytouch.

haven't tried it on laptops yet.
[G2 and Desire Z General] bogdan5844:
Semi-offtopic question - how does T-Mobile "know" if you're tethering or accessing the internet via your phone, apart from checking the user agent?

If that is the only way, couldn't you change your browser's UA string?

Also, if it's something embedded in the ROM, flashing a new one (CM?) would allow tethering again, right?

I'm from Romania, carriers here don't have "rules" against tethering, but you may never know. :p
[G2 and Desire Z General] juanshop:
This is weird I've been tethering all this week and I got up to 5 gigs. They just slowed me down, but they haven't mess with my tethering... uh... odd.
[G2 and Desire Z General] compekid:
According to the other threads this has been happening to mainly amaze and sii users
[G2 and Desire Z General] exitStrategy:
G2, here. Using Cyanogen7 with its onboard 802.11 tether, MacBook Pro. Tethering along juuuuuust fine. Weird.
[G2 and Desire Z General] amp:
Been tethered for several months now and I can say that I haven't had a single problem from magenta, like it's supposed to be anyways, its our data. On august something went wrong from their part of management that I went over 30GB of data without any throttling at full speed, and not a single note of attention! One day we will have true unlimited data in the future... or not.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Mistic67:
I used USB tethering until mid November, when I moved into my new apt. I just tried using the tethering & got the 2 text messages from tmo about activating tethering. My HD2 is stock. Any apps or other method to get around this? Tmo screwing us over like this is a croc! I pay enough for my plan on 3 phones already!
[G2 and Desire Z General] nifterific:
Download the easyteather app. Follow the install set up it brings up and you're good to go. Works for me on my g2 and Droid 3, with the fall back of being wired. Don't know about wireless teather.
[G2 and Desire Z General] amazinglarry311:
Easiest way to avoid tethering is use firefox and spoof your browser to use the sane user agent string as your phone:

Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.3.3; en-us; HTC Vision Build/FRF91) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1

That one works for me.
[G2 and Desire Z General] shnn2011:
Please look at my post regarding T-mobile tethering

I'm pretty sure I know what T-Mobile did.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=26649587#post26649587
[G2 and Desire Z General] Fludizz:
My ISP also prohibits thethering... However, to avoid them detecting it I use VPN tunnels. Whenever thethering is activated, I also activate an OpenVPN connection on the phone. All traffic send from/through the device is encrypted with AES256 (yes battery drain!) and sent to my home VPN server and then on to the internet. Good luck detecting the tethering now ;)
[G2 and Desire Z General] KyraOfFire:
Nice one! Will it work if the VPN set up is on the tethered device instead?

Thanks,
[Android Apps and Games] wxrjack:
Thanks for all the interest and comments! Esp. thanks jpsiemer for the translation and introduce our browser to XDA community.

We just added official English language support in our browser.

- English translation

- Adjustment of Top sites

- Remove certain feature not ready for English version

- Add user agent support (in Settings->Advanced->Web page)

PLEASE UNINSTALL OLD VERSION BEFORE INSTALL THIS BROWSER.

Keep your comments coming. Also, if you are willing to help us translate to other languages. See attached xml file.

We will try to address issues you find before put it into Google market.

Thanks all!!! Have fun!!!

Language package available now. Thanks!!! Please help us on other languages!!!

Spanish： fridlack

Dutch： Kees Kluskens

French： RESCOFFI4

German x3202

Hungarian sempi601

Polish pl_laszlo
[Android Apps and Games] Café King:
Thank you. Will take it for a test drive :D

/CK
[Android Apps and Games] fridlack:
Yay!! great work m8! i will send you the spanish translation as soon as i get it

Thanks so much for your support!

Best regards!
[Android Apps and Games] METHOD1911:
This may sound stupid but do we dl both
[Android Apps and Games] khaytsus:
What battery issues are there? While using the app? While not using the app? If the latter, be very sure you know what you're talking about :)
[Android Apps and Games] cheerio123:
If you want to translate into another language then download the zip as well.
[Android Apps and Games] fridlack:
Here is the Spanish translation, hope everything is ok! Thanks to MOITESPERA

Best regards
[Android Apps and Games] obarbosa:
I tried it and found some little problems for the moment :

- menu->settings : need translation at the bottom tabs

- using bandwidth mode (settings), when I load a new web page I see chinese words

- visiting Google.com, Google says that there is a security problem with my browser witch send automatically requests. Then I must type some characters and confirm that I'm not a robot !!!
[Android Apps and Games] fridlack:
Google is working fine here...

And seens like the png are still in chinesse, the lock rotation screen is in chinese too.

Hope you will fix it in next release

Best regards
[Android Apps and Games] le_lutin:
Do you mean the word "Lock" when the screen rotates? That is in English for me.

Thanks wxrjack for making this. It's without doubt the best browser available in my opinion.