To add insult to injury I get to pay $20 a month more for unlimited data and no longer get to tether with Foxfi. Tell me it ain't true....
tbparkey said:
To add insult to injury I get to pay $20 a month more for unlimited data and no longer get to tether with Foxfi. Tell me it ain't true....
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I don't think this is an an issue with Verizon. I believe this is the FoxFi VPN servers are down. This happened a few months ago, and the next day it started working again.
Hope you are right. Time will tell.
It's 8:36PM Pacific Time - 11/20/2015 - Foxfi not working on Verizon Galaxy s5. Did yours start working again?
Booo. I'd rather get beat in the face with a sack full of pissed off kittens than go without my foxfi....I was one of the retards that got a note 4...and bog5 is not my friend.
Do any of you know how to use FoxFi via USB mode or Bluetooth mode to connect PS3, granted that'll be a fix till we all figure out what the deal is.
Note 4, Verizon with Unlimited Data Fox Fi not working for me as of I think today (last time I ran it was a week ago). Bummed, bout to take a road trip with the kids for Thanksgiving and no wifi. What's going on?
I just tried to fire up FoxFi for the first time in a few days and I can't get it to work, either. Also on Verizon with an Unlimited Data Plan. Am I screwed?
Looking around the XDA community, it looks like Foxfi is no longer an option. Without root we are done with free wifi tethering for now. I hope Foxfi can come up with a work around. I am using usb tethering and Pdanet until someone beats this block.
Why is it just to much to pay the $30 for the hot spot? Thats a total of $79 a month for unlimited high speed data, check the cable and phone companies prices they are moving away from unlimited to tiered packages, comcast wants the same amount of money for 150 gigs a month, last month eac of my 5 lines used that apiece.
Foxfi just started working! Hope it continues.
Foxfi has been killed by our carrier Verizon. I believe I have found a work around and need testers. Currently I'm running foxfi on my Verizon OG5, none rooted with unlimited data Plan.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4-verizon/general/foxfi-fixed-og5-rooted-verizon-note4-t3256610
Edit: I heard that foxfi is working again? please confirm!
FoxFi also started working for me, again, around last Wednesday or so. Been working fine ever since. I'm on the road and have been using it as my hotspot for tablet and laptop almost 24/7 since then. No problems.
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I rooted completely, and now am installing wifi tether... but my question is, will this cost me anything? ive looked around but i cant get a definite answer. I dont want to do this and then get a bill with the mobile broadband charge...
Thanks.
Nope. It shouldnt. I don't think there's really any way for Verizon to tell because you're really just using an app that redirects your 3G connection to other computers over WiFi.
This is my 3rd phone that I've had which I've used some sort of hack to get tethering to work. So far after about 5 years I haven't been billed once.
Thanks... i kinda figured that... I remember doing this kind of stuff back in the razr, krzr days and never got caught.. Im suprised they never caught on lol
you have unlimited data, though it really isn't unlimited. If they see you going above like 5gb a month etc ( I think it is usually around 5gb) they will start asking questions so just don't do to much.
Alright Thanks.. Now i have absolutely no remorse for turning down the pre plus with free hotspot... LOL
Yeah I just install 'My Verizon' and monitor my usage throughout the month so I stay around 5gb or under. Haven't had a problem using this method...I only tether to use with my ipad.
Im looking at going from an alltel htc touch pro to a Droid Incredible.
It's my understanding, from the sales person, that
#1 I can't keep my old school alltel phone plan that was grandfathered in with the merger
#2 Id have to get a few things differently with my Verizon plan.
Here's a couple things that came up.... Under my alltel plan I was paying $30 for unlimited data, whether straight through the phone or tethered, or broadcasting wifi through an installed cab.
But now im going to have to pay at least one or maybe 2 monthly charges to tether, and my usage is metered and limited to a certian amount of transfer?
Here's the nuts and bolts of the old alltel plan on the touch pro. About 100/mo with 30 of that being the data plan with no limit on useage. Mycircle.. unlimited text, 500 anytime, free mobile to mobile
So what should I expect from "Verizon" if I try to buy a Droid Inc..?
Simple way to avoid tethering fees. Root your incredible, and install wireless tether. Verizon can't detect you're tethering or if they can, they don't whine about it.
Thanks!
I always wanted to try that before but instead paid the 30/mo instead. Fear I guess.
I pay $103 a month, 450 minutes and unlimited everything else, so your cost will be about the same.
When you get the incredible, root it, and install the application wireless tether as said. It is the same thing as the mobile hotspot, you just won't get charged by Verizon for using it to tether.
g00s3y said:
I pay $103 a month, 450 minutes and unlimited everything else, so your cost will be about the same.
When you get the incredible, root it, and install the application wireless tether as said. It is the same thing as the mobile hotspot, you just won't get charged by Verizon for using it to tether.
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you can also use PdaNet or EasyTether is you want to to tether via USB..
I just hack my normal 3g tether...
Or you can go into epst and change the thingy from dun.VZW ect to vzw.
Look for the tut on here somewhere its what I do
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I pay $86 a month, 450 minutes and unlimited everything else thatis with a 20 dollar discount
I pay $45 a month for unlimited EVERYTHING at Cricket. Just buy a Dinc somewhere, and use the ROM here at XDA.
Well I pulled the trigger this afternoon and got the Inc.
I kept my old plan.
As she was ringing it up she said a notification popped up that said I would lose my 7pm-7am free calling. Shortly after she was able to add it back on the plan like it always was.
I was surprised with a $50-off during the check-out too! .. and without warning.
It was going to be 249.99+ 100 mail-in rebate+ tax. Ended up being 213 out the door, so I will only end up with 113 in the phone.
It keeps asking to install a system update. Do I keep selecting no and go ahead and root?
Now I just have to get these touch pro contacts into the inc??
hoag50 said:
I pay $86 a month, 450 minutes and unlimited everything else thatis with a 20 dollar discount
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I have the same plan as above. I get the $20 discount from my job.
Unlimited everything w/ 450 Minutes of talk time.
GrahamHill said:
Now I just have to get these touch pro contacts into the inc??
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I connected the TP to wifi and put google's server m.google.com in activesync and allowed it to sync my contacts. Almost immediately all of my contacts were zapped into the new incredible!
Hi I was wondering with the people with the Andriod Preferred Data plan (5 gb for $20 a month). If you guys have hotspot included..I hear some people say that they do but I had it awhile back and remember that it wasnt I'm currently paying 30 for 5gb and tethering which you cant get anymore so just wondering thanks
It used to have hotspot but T-Mobile changed it and took it away and made it a separate plan. If you want hotspot, just download FoxFi from Google Play store. Its free wireless hotspot and you dont need to be rooted to use it.
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It used to have hotspot but T-Mobile changed it and took it away and made it a separate plan. If you want hotspot, just download FoxFi from Google Play store. Its free wireless hotspot and you dont need to be rooted to use it.
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Except it doesn't currently work for wifi tethering, only bluetooth.
gbzbar said:
Except it doesn't currently work for wifi tethering, only bluetooth.
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Thats strange it wors for me. I just used it the other day.
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Thats strange it wors for me. I just used it the other day.
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It will turn on, but a computer (at least a windows PC) can't connect to the network it creates.
Yeah..just got off the phone and switched it to the 20 preferred plan the 1st rep told me it was included when I called in again to add it to another line the 2nd rep told me the line already had it and that hotspot wasnt included..
So yeah looks like i'll be looking for a work around thanks tho guys!
Will give fox fi a shot, I have a bluetooth dongle for my laptop so should work one way or another hopefully!
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Yeah..just got off the phone and switched it to the 20 preferred plan the 1st rep told me it was included when I called in again to add it to another line the 2nd rep told me the line already had it and that hotspot wasnt included..
So yeah looks like i'll be looking for a work around thanks tho guys!
Will give fox fi a shot, I have a bluetooth dongle for my laptop so should work one way or another hopefully!
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Hotspots is included in the 5gb plan I just added mine 2weeks ago and its been working ....so unless **** changed in two weeks its included
Sent from my SGH-T999 using xda premium
evo9mrjr said:
Hotspots is included in the 5gb plan I just added mine 2weeks ago and its been working ....so unless **** changed in two weeks its included
Sent from my SGH-T999 using xda premium
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Do you have the $35 5gb plan or the $20 Preferred Android plan? The current $35 5gb plan includes hotspot. The $20 plan does not. I had the $35 plan for a few days because I got my phone at Best Buy Mobile which doesn't have access to grandfathered items. Wifi tethering worked. A few days later I called to get my $20 Preferred Android plan and lost wifi tethering once they switched it.
Confirmed this is how it works.
My Galaxy SIII is AT&T branded however it's on Straight Talk. I have it on their $45 a month 'unlimited' everything plan. The reason I say 'unlimited' is because well right now I'm down in Destin, Florida on a week long vacation. And it was a 12 hour ride from Tennessee. So I decided to do wifi tethering the whole way down with my laptop. I mean, 12 hour car ride. What else am I going to do?
I believe it's also worth mentioning that I'm on CyanogenMod 10 which is how I'm able to enable the built in wifi tethering.
I didn't use more than 300 MB. But they've limited me to 2G data. They might as well put me on a dialup connection, at least it would be faster and more reliable.
Now T Mobile has a cheaper pre paid plan. $30 a month for unlimited text and data, 100 minutes of talk time. Which is fine because I almost never use my phone for talking on.
The only thing is I need to have my phone unlocked to use their SIM cards.
Wouldn't this one work?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2176719
danvee said:
Wouldn't this one work?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2176719
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Yea but I think I might need to restore my stock rom.
Good thing I kept a backup of it.
IDK.
Nothing to lose in trying, especially since you can revert back..
i, I am new here, a friend at work told me to sign up here, that xda is the best place to go for Android help.
I have an ATT branded Note 3 that I had unlocked and have been running on tmo's truly unlimited plan the last 2 years. I would turn on the old ATT hotspot which wasn't counting against my "tethered data limit" so my 8 yo daughter and 10yo son can watch tv on their ipads and play games all month long while I use my laptop on the internet.
I can NOT afford Uverse anymore, they turned off our service and I had to give them back their equipment, (cause their price got outrageously high).
Tuesday night something changed and they could see my tethered data usage.
I shut things down at 5g of my allowed 7g, then paid for and installed wifi tether app.
I turned it on and it tethered perfectly, nice and fast, but did Not mask the tethering.
I tried but clearly have settings wrong I'm sure. (the apn thing is probably wrong, (IPv4 is grayed out).
I am desperate to get this sorted asap or our family is screwed as I have come to depend on the unlimited data I have been paying for the last 2 years.
PLZ Help me, I cannot afford a seperate internet plan in my home -
Jenny :angel:
I am running a stock rom on a rooted jellybean OS.
I don't care what I need to do, I just need to do it, thx
Jenny28 said:
i, I am new here, a friend at work told me to sign up here, that xda is the best place to go for Android help.
I have an ATT branded Note 3 that I had unlocked and have been running on tmo's truly unlimited plan the last 2 years. I would turn on the old ATT hotspot which wasn't counting against my "tethered data limit" so my 8 yo daughter and 10yo son can watch tv on their ipads and play games all month long while I use my laptop on the internet.
I can NOT afford Uverse anymore, they turned off our service and I had to give them back their equipment, (cause their price got outrageously high).
Tuesday night something changed and they could see my tethered data usage.
I shut things down at 5g of my allowed 7g, then paid for and installed wifi tether app.
I turned it on and it tethered perfectly, nice and fast, but did Not mask the tethering.
I tried but clearly have settings wrong I'm sure. (the apn thing is probably wrong, (IPv4 is grayed out).
I am desperate to get this sorted asap or our family is screwed as I have come to depend on the unlimited data I have been paying for the last 2 years.
PLZ Help me, I cannot afford a seperate internet plan in my home -
Jenny :angel:
I am running a stock rom on a rooted jellybean OS.
I don't care what I need to do, I just need to do it, thx
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No one is willing to help me?
no settings suggestions
no custom rom suggestions
nothing? :crying::crying: