Originally Posted by saintsdx

I see so its only when upgrading and yet you have the opportunity to buy the phone outright and maintain the data plan. But who wants to pay full price for a new phone?

I as well buy my phones so I'm not tied down at any given time. $600 seems expensive, but if you stick back $25 a month you can buy the new phone out right every 2 years (same as waiting for the upgrade)

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Anyone have a free usb tether option that works and allows secured websites? Wifi tethers drain battery in no time.

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Originally Posted by casey225

Anyone have a free usb tether option that works and allows secured websites? Wifi tethers drain battery in no time.

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Not a free one, but I paid one. If you can't spend $10 for the app, you don't really need tethering.

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Guess what? USB tethering on the Bionic works out of the box...no entitlement checks or any other blocks. It loads an RNDIS driver in Windows when you select the USB Tether option in the Wireless Networks menu and shares the data connection with the PC.

No exploits, mods or third party software required.

Originally Posted by Nero's

Stock rooted de-bloated... Can someone point me in the direction of what my tethering options are for Bionic?


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If your already rooted, you can use SQ lite Editor.apk to edit the settings database on line 147 to disable the entitlement check. you can then turn on the WIFI tether and connect any device via WIFI

I use FoxFi from the market and it works great. I set up WPA encryption with a password. Then link to it with any wireless computer same as a wireless router. It has been very dependable for me.
I think most tether apps will drain the battery pretty fast. I usually plug my phone into the charger when tethering. I have the extended battery.

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foxfi odd a big one everyone has stayed to use claiming to not require root but I almost everyone its rooted here so couldn't tell you. I use theb latest free wifi tether app by muller, lemuns, and whoever else the other guy is. 100% free. I wifi tether some but not often. I would use foxfi fit xbox live but where I live I switch between roaming and not, dropping my signal

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From what the article says is when you upgrade from 3g to 4g you will loose your unlimited data and be switched to a tiered data plan, so the question really is what if you are already on a 4g unlimited data plan what exactly is changing besides your phone when you upgrade? Nothing

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Originally Posted by Mejud

What he said! Bionic is a fairly unique phone in that it can DO wifi tether without any sort of app (I think it's line 147...something...something...)

OK, here it is:
Settings Storage (the one with the picture of the hammer and wrench)
settings.db
settings
line 147 (entitlement check) edit the value from "1" to "0", reboot, and it will no longer tattle to Verizon when you turn on your wifi hotspot

That's probably the ONLY thing of note I'll ever do to the phone, aside from freezing 800 unwanted apps

After i edited line 147 i tried going back into it and editing again but it's pulling up an error saying it can't open up the database? Is this a Read/write permissions issue?

Originally Posted by cbrown245

From what the article says is when you upgrade from 3g to 4g you will loose your unlimited data and be switched to a tiered data plan, so the question really is what if you are already on a 4g unlimited data plan what exactly is changing besides your phone when you upgrade? Nothing

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See here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...php?p=27309458

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