Root [Verizon] "Free" data?

litz59 · Jul 18, 2014

For now I guess this is just food for thought.

Verizon offers unlimited talk and text with tiered data.

The question: Is there a way of tricking the phone into using the data meant for messaging to surf the web or download content. All the while having your phone think it is just sending and receiving messages? Obviously this would have to be done on a rooted device.

Please comment and share ideas. Thank you.

ocnbrze · Jul 18, 2014

well i do not have your device....but i do have a note 3 that is rooted and i have ever heard of anything that you are asking about.

now just a warning....this topic is not illegal and is fine to discuss here in AF, but what you are talking about will violate your TOS and you could get the boot if you are discovered.

i know in the htc evo days there was a way to hop onto verizon towers and not have to pay for it by switching to verizon's prl's.....i'm not sure if this can be done on the s5 or not......it might even depend on networks as well. not sure if it is only on cdma phones or what.

who is your provider?

litz59 · Jul 18, 2014

I am with Verizon.
I am coming from Boost Mobile where I am used to unlimited data. I switched because I was looking for better call quality and newer phones.
I mean the real question is how can a service provider offer unlimited text which uses data and then limit data usage. I do understand that texting uses only a fraction of the data. So what would they do if you were to constantly text pictures or video back and forth?

ocnbrze · Jul 18, 2014

well i'm on sprint and i have unlimited data......but i have been looking at my data consumption and it is always 1g to 1.5g of data i use every month and i use my note 3 pretty heavily.

and under my usage on sprints website under data it does list mms data so i would assume that you are being charged for mms under data.

so i understand what you are trying to say, but this is part of what you signed up for when you switched to verizon. you might have better coverage, but you will be the extra price for it as well.

mikedt · Aug 4, 2014

litz59 said:
I am with Verizon.
I am coming from Boost Mobile where I am used to unlimited data. I switched because I was looking for better call quality and newer phones.
I mean the real question is how can a service provider offer unlimited text which uses data and then limit data usage. I do understand that texting uses only a fraction of the data. So what would they do if you were to constantly text pictures or video back and forth?

SMS(text) uses a form of data, but it's not the same data that's used for the internet, e.g. GPRS, EDGE, HSDPA, EV-DO, LTE. It's a different protocol completely. You can send and receive SMS without having a data connection at all. SMS is a feature of the original GSM system, long before the advent of mobile internet and data connections.

You've also got MMS picture and video messages, which do use a data connection, but it's not the internet, the carrier is handling it themselves, and often bill MMS separate from internet data.

Prepaidguy9081 · Aug 4, 2014

Probably not, but you could...run a dial up connection on your unlimited talk part of the plan.

However, I do not kbow of any main carrier or mnvo carrier (cricket, boosr) that you will not violate the tos agreement by doing this.

Down side you would haft to pay for dial up.

Up side, this would probably be less obvious than using the sms "tunnel". However, a phone call over 2 hours will probably raise a red flag, just like using over 2gb in a day would.

smith058 · Aug 10, 2014

I moved your thread to "Verizon's all things root" section

messenger13 · Aug 30, 2014

litz59 said:
The question: Is there a way of tricking the phone into using the data meant for messaging to surf the web or download content.

The question has been answered, I suppose, but I thought I'd answer it in layman's terms.

The data packets that carry your texts use the voice portion of your service. These data packets are VERY small. Even if one could "trick their device" into using these packets for web traffic, it would be painfully slow, IF even usable at all. (Remember 56k dial-up modems? Probably slower than that.) :eek:

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