Hey everyone, I haven't been following this phone (or any phone for that matter) after getting my Droid Incredible... so I was wondering if tethering (via apps like PdaNet) has been officially disabled/banned on 4g phones?
Thanks
Thanks
Hey everyone, I haven't been following this phone (or any phone for that matter) after getting my Droid Incredible... so I was wondering if tethering (via apps like PdaNet) has been officially disabled/banned on 4g phones?
Thanks
Well I was just assuming since 4G is faster, phone companies would want to block tethering. But I get your point.4G is not really part of the equation.
Gingerbread has certain "fixes" that prevent most apps from functioning other than the VZW app. pdanet is the only one I know of that works besides the official one. Some phones you can reprogram the APN though.
HuH?! My OG Droid has been running Gingerbread forever and I've always been able to tether with it. I can't remember this ever being an issue.
HuH?! My OG Droid has been running Gingerbread forever and I've always been able to tether with it. I can't remember this ever being an issue.
Are you using a ROM? Then Verizon's patches were most likely removed.
Yes. They can look in the packets and determine which is tethered data and which is phone data... hence their sweet little redirect to their Verizon hot-spot sales pitch page when you try to do it.
I have never heard of anyone actually getting spanked for tethering (even though it's a fierce no-no in the terms of contract) but it does cost them bandwidth and they want us paying for it. They've really clamped down hard on it lately. I know I do not want to the first person spanked for tethering and made an example of, even though my tethering has always been few & far between.
MY biggest fear would be termination of my contract. Charges for tethering data would be live with-able since I don't tether THAT much data... but termination would most assuredly end the unlimited data and that would be bad, bad, bad...
(snicker - you're in college - priorities, man, priorities....)
Seriously, plenty of people are tethering - its just that when the fine folks at VZW *cough cough* figured out they could monitor tethering by packet sniffing, it changed the game considerably....
I think that you get a warning at least once, if not twice, about having to pay for the tethering service....
I don't think so, but the problem with that is: as soon as Verizon sees your packets encrypted or whatever, they're gonna KNOW what you're up to. Sort of defeats the purpose. I don't think there's currently a way to disguise tethering data as phone data, any more than it already is.
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