Anyway to become a mobile Hotspot?

sebastianraven said:

I had my last phone work well with FoxiFi when I needed to use my tablet in the wild. Now, it appears KitKat (I believe) has this feature locked out. Any work aroinds here, rooted or not? I'm not brave enough to mess with SQL tables without knowing which one to change.

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sebastianraven said:

Maybe I should clarify a bit. Verizon charges to use hotspot. FoxiFi got around that issue. The WiFi tether app doesn't actually do anything other than access Hotspot.

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lucky_strike33 said:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2699200

go to that link and look at method #2.

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must.sayim said:

What if a person doesn't have unlimited data? Should he pay...
And what if he is overseas and he is using a GSM carrier

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must.sayim said:

What if a person doesn't have unlimited data? Should he pay...
And what if he is overseas and he is using a GSM carrier

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sfreemanoh said:

If you're not on an unlimited plan, tethering isn't any extra. It's only an additional fee if you're still on unlimited (because Verizon sucks). Unless if you haven't changed your plan since they put that policy in place...and if you haven't, well, do so.

If you're overseas on a GSM carrier, why would you be using a Verizon device? Especially since the Dev Edition is available and can be S-OFF'd easily.

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sfreemanoh said:

If you're not on an unlimited plan, tethering isn't any extra. It's only an additional fee if you're still on unlimited (because Verizon sucks). Unless if you haven't changed your plan since they put that policy in place...and if you haven't, well, do so.

If you're overseas on a GSM carrier, why would you be using a Verizon device? Especially since the Dev Edition is available and can be S-OFF'd easily.

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TheBiles said:

Mobile hotspot absolutely does cost extra on Verizon, even if you have a data-limited plan.

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l7777 said:

Try again
http://www.verizonwireless.com/wcms/consumer/shop/shop-data-plans/more-everything.html

Right there it states you can use your phone as a hotspot. This changed a while back.

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TheBiles said:

That's only for the "More Everything" plans. It costs extra for everyone else either as an add-on or a more expensive data tier.


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sfreemanoh said:

From what I understood, unless if you're still on a grandfathered plan of any type (maybe specifically unlimited data grandfathered, I'm not sure), wifi tethering is supposed to be free. Unless if you have proof otherwise, I'm going to stick with my belief.

That being said, I still have unlimited data, and I'm only going to give it up when they pry it out of my cold, dead fingers, so regardless of their actual policies, it doesn't affect me. Besides, now that we have S-Off and full root, free tethering should be relatively simple once someone figures out how to do it, if it hasn't already been solved.

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TheBiles said:

My "proof" is that it wouldn't let me enable the hotspot on my phone with my 10GB/month plan. You have to upgrade to their new plans for the free tethering.


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