If you didn't want to get jew'd into paying for mobile hotspot/USB tethering on your Android phone, which is no different than simply using mobile data on the phone itself, you could root your device. That was the only reason I used to root my phone. Now it seems a lot of carriers have patched this by forcing the device to check with your carrier if you pay for this feature on your data plan before starting the service.
On stock firmware, if you're not subscribed to mobile hot spot service, it initiates a dialog that prompts you to add it to your data plan. If rooted, it fails to start with an error.
My unlimited data plan now includes mobile hotspot service, but I'm cucked at a lousy 10GB/month.
I'm looking to make a raspberry pi based car infotainment system for music streaming, voice chat, GPS etc and 10GB/month ain't shit when it comes to that kind of stuff. Any ideas how to get around this?
>Now it seems a lot of carriers have patched this by forcing the device to check with your carrier if you pay for this feature on your data plan before starting the service.
Bullshit. I'm running unlimited data hotspot on verizon no problemo and my phone is rooted
Brayden Williams
Paying for hotspot? On what planet do you live?
Jacob Flores
OP here. I've got Sprint.
Yeah it's fucking bullshit
Levi Jenkins
>companies somehow force your to pay for a basic feature of the device Capitalism just keeps getting better.
Camden Lee
>burgers can't use essential features because cucked by corporations >g-government regulation is still bad >muh c-communism Heh
Jose Baker
The fuck are you babbling about?
Landon Brooks
It's not "muh evil capitalism" or government.. It's taking advantage of inept customers unaware that it's the same thing as the phone using mobile data.
Michael Ward
We don't have this limitation in Latvia.
Adam Lee
Hold up. How backdoored your device has to be for your telecom service provider to even be able to charge you for this?
Henry Morales
This bullshit is pretty much exclusive to the US.
Evan Wilson
>have BB10OS >have plan that disallows tethering >tethering's still one of the main uses of my phone and I didn't have to do anything to make it work Feels great to be using the best mobile OS.
Thomas Torres
Move to Latvia. 3rd world Europe has the best mobile data plans in the world. The southsquats has unlimited data and speed for half an onion a month
Joseph Walker
I have no idea what you are talking about. Are you telling me you cannot use your mobile data to broadcast wifi to other devices?
Brody Thompson
I actually had to (reluctantly) unroot my phone because I couldn't send text messages after a certain point because there was no way to update the carrier profile and prl.
Luis Ward
Yes, many plans in the States disallow using your phone as a bridge.
Isaac Perez
OP are you literally unironically saying that Americans pay extra to hotspot thru USB on their phones
JESUS CHRIST HOW KEKED CAN A COUNTRY BE
AMERILARDS ON SUICIDE WATCH, USA IS BANKRUPT AND FINISHED
Benjamin Bennett
DAMAGE CONTROL SO SOON
AMERICUNTS BTFO
Brayden Morris
there are many key words in this thread that leave me to believe we have many offboarders present at this hour
Caleb Mitchell
>not capitalism They're trying to exploit the idiots by making them pay for a completely unnecessary plan. It's capitalism in its purest form and you're a bloody indoctrinated sheep if you think otherwise. >defending corporations Yeah right you should off yourself
Jaxson Anderson
How do they know that you are using it as a bridge? Do they install a special software on your phone for it?
Asher Nelson
AHAHAHAHAHGAHAHAHAHAHGAGHAGJHHAHA
OOIOH SAAAY CAAAN YOUUU SEEEE
Hunter Sanchez
I'd rather pay extra for tethering than put up with obnoxious foreigners like you.
Ryder Harris
But there's no relation between the two
Xavier Bailey
Good goy. Americans keep getting better and better.
David Anderson
>obnoxius foreigners INSTALL GENTOO AHAHAHAH ENJOY YOUR 3rd WORLD HOME BASED ON SLAVERY AND MULTIBILLION CORPORATIONS KEKING THE GOVERNMENT Hey while I’m at it tho could you do something about maybe not pulling out of the environment thing and maybe throw Trump down a set of stairs
Brandon Brown
That is a feature of unchecked capitalism. Of course a company does what it gets away with. In a modern country (western, not USA) social democratic laws protect customers from predatory business practice, especially in service and infrastructure sectors. Wait for the cancellation of net neutrality. You'll be amazed what kind of atrocities in business practice are possible.
Gavin Sanchez
It's just burgers being too dumb to remove carrier spyware because they need plan to pretend they're rich
Cooper Smith
He's not in America. If I wasn't American and getting tethering without paying extra there's a chance he could be in the same country as me, or worse, my neighbor.
Tyler Cooper
>Americans >American technology
Blake Diaz
>he sincerely believes that American citizens are all well-behaved, tidy and intelligent and that 85% of gentoo/frog/loli/OwO/APPLEL/AYYMD/Intel/SUICIDE WATCH-posters are not American Holy shit oh wow I can’t take this my sides are in the seventh plane of torment
Anthony Mitchell
>10GB/month ain't shit when it comes to that kind of stuff.
Thinks 10GB isn't enough to stream music in a car.
Bentley Nelson
I never said that. I'm just saying I'm happy I'm not in whatever country this abhorrent twat is in.
Zachary Adams
>If I wasn’t American and getting fucked in the asshole routinely by the big boys in the corporations he could be my neighbour Now THAT would be the tragedy
Ethan Reyes
To be fair I use tethering and don't pay for it. I was just saying I'd rather pay for it than deal with twats like him.
Justin Price
Ok wow that was fun time to go
Can’t wait for next time to shit on the biggest superpower utopia
Nathaniel Taylor
Hey hey hey hey your problem is your trying to reason with him. You can’t win this.
Are you really this new?
Angel Baker
>It's taking advantage of inept customers unaware that it's the same thing as the phone using mobile data. By charging them extra to use it?
I am pretty sure they have warnings in Android that it uses the mobile data and have had them in there for years. Don't defend this shit.
Logan Diaz
I'm on Sup Forums at 2am, does it sound like I've got better things to do than argue with dimwits?
Josiah Gutierrez
>It's taking advantage of inept customers unaware that it's the same thing as the phone using mobile data
Seems like a decent example of evil capitalism to me.
Jacob Walker
I'm confused myself, but I think he's saying that you can't use your phones WiFi capability to connect to a wireless router and download stuff without incurring fees.
This sounds too stupid to be true, so I must be missing something.
Matthew Bell
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Tyler Powell
OP here. I'm trying to whine about the current state of USB tethering, at least with my carrier. I'm looking for an alternative solution to do what I need to do. Here's an idea I had: >raspberry pi makes requests to the phone >phone fetches webpages >phone sends relevant data back to phone
But here are some problems I ran into: >services like Google Maps that have APIs that can be used in apps aren't exactly useful for displaying turn-by-turn navigation directions to the phone unless I want to practically write your my write my own navigation program >while downloading songs and sending them to the raspberry pi to play offline would work for some things, it wouldn't be useful for music streaming and voice chat services (say I want to voice chat in Discord during a long drive)
Solutions on how to do this? You can't exactly reverse engineer closed source software.
Sebastian Long
*not trying to whine about
Henry Morgan
Sorry, I miss understood you. I don't think I'm familiar enough with ''usb tethering" give advice about it.
Anthony Rodriguez
Mobile hotspot but usb
Blake Diaz
Howdy there. I got around this on Cricket.
Cricket's unlimited lte plan doesn't allow tethering or hotspot at all, and if you enable it, you'll likely have your service cut off. Basically you just add this line to your build.prop located in /system
I would suggest you root your phone and install a custom ROM to get around any other tracking. Basically what this line does is it tells Android not to mark packets pushed through hotspot as forwarded, effectively making all of your traffic look like it's taking place on your phone, and not on a tethered device. I was able to download hundreds of GBs worth of shit on my Cricket, my average was 400GB/month.
net.tethering.noprovisioning=1
Carter Flores
The surest way is to route your tethering traffic through a vpn. I forgot how the app is called but it needed root. Other ways require a bit of trial and error. My carrier detects tethering by looking at TTL of the packets coming from my phone(I just set default TTL on my PC to 65) and also by requests to certain IPs(steam, Windows update servers, most MMOs), which I blocked. Other carriers might be more inventive. Pic related, I pay $5/month for that.
Andrew Thompson
>having to pay for tethering LAND OF THE FREEDUMBS, SAY NO TO NET NEUTRALITY AMIRITE?
Camden Fisher
so much for the "land of the free" lmao
Wyatt Murphy
This is also a thing for britbongs. I pay £30/month for 30gb of data (I got a samsung s7 with this contract with no upfront cost), 2 year cucktract. My logic was "30gb will definitely still be enough in two years". Imagine how fucking ripped off I felt when I was asked to pay an extra £5/month for just ONE FUCKING GIG of tethering. This is with the 3 mobile network.
As for a solution, though. I did find one. There is an app called "PdaNet+" which bypasses it (I have no idea how), however it only works over USB and you need to install some system on the computer/laptop too.
Andrew Kelly
Oh, also, if you need to use a VPN, like I do for work stuff, you have to log into the VPN at home.
Ethan Gutierrez
at phone* jesus christ I can't into typing this morning. Need a cup of tea.
Blake Hill
couldn't you just get more data?
Cameron Anderson
Have you tried foxfi?? just use hide tethering
Landon Gomez
Not OP, but have the same problem. Using foxfi made no different I got the exact same "you must buy tethering etc etc" whenever I tried to load a page.
Jaxon Sanchez
No, I have plenty of data, I just can't use it for tethering.
Thomas Murphy
I forgot its pdanet and you have to use USB
Brayden James
Seriously? I'm on 3 but not currently in the UK, and I could tether just fine I didn't use it for much but I still had it
Evan Perez
Fuck off eurotrash, enjoy your new sandnigger overlords.
Luke Rodriguez
Do you really have bandwidth to spare on such shitposting?
Jackson Foster
Damn right, i'm not some 3rd world or ozzie with cucked internet.
Ian Reed
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Brandon Gray
America is the overlord of the world, we have all the nukes, you eurotards have none.
Hunter Baker
See
Juan Wilson
Read the comic again.
Joseph Baker
Don't buy a phone with carrier malware on it next time retard. Tethering is a part of stock android and works fine out of the box on my phone.
Ryan Cox
Ah yes. This is exactly what I am using :) I just wish there was a wireless equivalent, since I don't always have a cable on me (batteries last long enough that it's usually not a concern) and wireless would just be more convenient.
James Thomas
I've had numerous problems doing this on my new phone, that I got at the same time as this contract. I simply cannot root my s7. I have installed cyanogen mod on every phone I've ever had except this one, because I simply cannot get that shit to work on this new phone. Every tutorial leaves me with a non-booting phone, at which point I just have to flash the original firmware back (which took me hours of panicked googling, incredibly slow russian download times and other absolute cold-sweat inducing panic, to find)
I have a theory that this is something to do with it being a british variant of the phone. Unlike EVERY FUCKING phone I've ever had before this, they have this extremely weird system that has different numbers and versions and shit for different countries. Litterally, all memes aside, trying to root this piece of shit phone has bought me to fucking tears. Which is a shame, because in terms of the hardware, it's a really nice phone. And were I not someone who cared about rooting, I would even say it's a good phone.
If anyone has any golden nuggets of information, that be wonderful. but honestly I gave up hope months ago.
James Gutierrez
What model s7 do you have
William White
SM-G930F
Blake Gonzalez
i dont know why but my tethering doesnt coutn as tethering i have unlimited 4g and 10gb tethering i use tethering a lot and it never goes down
>tfw bottled water manufacturers are taking advantage of inept customers You're describing supply and demand.
Camden Miller
Huh.. whadayaknow. This might be worth a try..
Leo Gutierrez
is the "layer" so to speak, that speaks to Odin, is that replaced by TWRP. If I fuck up the twrp install (which usually I wouldn't be worried about, but this phone has killed all my confidence with anything like this) would I still be able to put the old software back on with odin.
William Cox
>the consumer is a lazy retard that refuses yo educate himself causing corporations to do whatever they want >Daddy government, please protect me!
Ayden Phillips
Even Verizon doesn't make you pay for hotspot.
Juan Collins
I think it's more of a thing on NVMOs
Ryan Cook
This Makes no sense. What's wrong with wifi?
Hunter Bennett
>paying for mobile hotspot/USB tethering on your Android phone lol wtf are you talking about
Carter Taylor
Put all your music on a 256 GB USB drive and connect a 4G modem to your rPi so it will use its own SIM card
Elijah Hall
I'm on AT&T and my wifi and USB hotspot features are free on my Galaxy S6. Sounds like you got a cucked carrier.
Luke Campbell
Sure if you want to brick your device...
Colton Wright
No wonder the US are not relevant anymore and pajeets are stealing your jobs, you have literally shit in your brains. Everytime I learn something new about your shithole is about some cuckery the gvt has set in place for companies to milk tons of money from ITS OWN citizens. This is truly pitiful and your national pride is laughable. Stop putting flags everywhere and start fighting for your rights. >inb4 muh europoors bla bla ble Fix your shit first then you can talk about the others.
Nice damage control mato. Be careful next time you go outside, you may die from an unexpected mass-shooting from one of your fellow citizen.
Aaron Moore
This, I've never had this problem, I've only owned carrier unlocked devices not contract garbage.
Ayden Cooper
>unexpected Not really anymore eh?
Kevin Foster
>Capitalism just keeps getting better.
>g-government regulation is still bad
>It's not "muh evil capitalism" or government.
>It's capitalism in its purest form
>That is a feature of unchecked capitalism.
>Seems like a decent example of evil capitalism to me.
>Daddy government, please protect me!
Jesus you guys are idiots, it's government regulation that lets this shit happen in the first place - in specific: The regulation-caused telecommunications local monopolies granted by the government of the US to various companies.
The reason we don't have to deal with this shit in Europe is exactly because there's no government-forced monopolies in telecom* so they all have to compete on the free market by having good prices and services instead of just resting on the backs of their internet-serfs.
*claim varies by state.
>OP are you literally unironically saying that Americans pay extra to hotspot thru USB on their phones >JESUS CHRIST HOW KEKED CAN A COUNTRY BE >AMERILARDS ON SUICIDE WATCH, USA IS BANKRUPT AND FINISHED
This guy, however, gets it right. USA is a finished country. It used to be great, but corporate interests have choked the market with more and more regulations to make sure nobody can start new companies to compete with them. Prepare for complete global irrelevancy by 2077.