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Root Wireless Tether on GB.

One thing I have noticed when I was renaming the bloat is that the 3G Mobile Hotspot that use to be named Mynet.apk is not there anymore, however I still have 3G Mobile Hotspot on my phone and I could not find the apk for it. I wonder if they made a change in this build to try and block this?

Hmm interesting, I hope we can get by that.
 
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One thing I have noticed when I was renaming the bloat is that the 3G Mobile Hotspot that use to be named Mynet.apk is not there anymore, however I still have 3G Mobile Hotspot on my phone and I could not find the apk for it. I wonder if they made a change in this build to try and block this?

I noticed the same thing. I looked long and hard for it with no luck.
 
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Did a blur notification about the use of tethering come up? Did you change any Wireless Tether settings?

I had an icon in my notification bar that wanted me to configure the tether or hotspot. I could not get it to work with a password enabled but once I disabled the password (in security) it worked fine.

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I couldn't get wireless tether to work at all. The verizon app kept taking over. I tried removing the password and everything but I couldn't find the wireless tether connection. my pc would find the verizon hotspot but couldn't connect anyway. I've since sbf'ed and returned to rubix. Tether is a must. If anyone else has some input on this I would appreciate it.
 
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I got the same problems as everyone else has. I tried Wireless Tether and Barnacle. The VZW hotspot seems to take them over and offer me a tethering plan.

I was doing some research for my mother and her Fascinate a while back. One of the leaked builds over there had a VZW 'spy' app buried deep in the code to tell if you were tethering or not. Last I checked, they hadn't solved it yet. I will see if I can find anything that may help us.

Edit: There is an experimental build of Wireless Tether in the Google repository I am going to try that and see what happens.

Edit 2: No dice. Instant link to VZW DUN webpage.
 
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The hotspot is working for me. I had to reset my phone because it was not broadcasting. Then, it showed up on my network list but it wouldn't connect properly. After a minute or so, it connected and here I type. I did use the TBH hotspot patch but I'm not sure if that is making a difference here. As an aside, I did notice that you need to go to att to activate! :D
 
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I didn't want to use that patch just yet. I actually won't need the hotspot for about another week and a half. If I can stay away from the actual app, it would be better (and safer).

I should clarify that I used that a while back. The file description said that this it was a permanent device change. I didn't run the patch to disable so who knows?
 
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