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Root Did Metro do something recently to block tethering?

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drtobaggan

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I was able to use "Wireless Tether" flawlessly, but then I exchanged my phone for a new one and now I can't get it to work at all. The phone is rooted and the app runs and everything looks fine, but no websites come through on my laptop. I tried messing with all the security features but nothing worked.

Anybody have an idea about how to fix this?

Thanks!
 
Thanks for the response! Unfortunately changing to channel 11 didn't work.

Also, I changed the entry to "false" but that also didn't do the trick. I just edited it in notepad, is this right? I have attached mine. (I appended the file with .txt because otherwise it wouldn't upload).
 

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Thanks for the response! Unfortunately changing to channel 11 didn't work.

Also, I changed the entry to "false" but that also didn't do the trick. I just edited it in notepad, is this right? I have attached mine. (I appended the file with .txt because otherwise it wouldn't upload).

Yeah ro.tether.denied=false would be right. Oh also did you change it on your router? The channel I mean

Here the tether app Im using. It works pretty well
https://market.android.com/details?...t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsIm9nLmFuZHJvaWQudGV0aGVyIl0.
 
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You do not need to change your desktop browsers user agent. In fact doing so will cause your browser to display the mobile version of websites. I seriously doubt MetroPCS invested money into deep packet inspection (how they would detect the user agent), as that would likely bankrupt them. Besides, most people change the user agent on their phone to match a desktop browser (mobile sites suck).
 
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