[Q] Wifi tether will foxfi work

[pospower]

I have unlimited data and tether my s3 all the time. My fear is with this phone with a locked boot. And no root. Will apps like foxfi work?

 

[spyderman09]

As far as I know, foxfi doesn't work on Jelly Bean. It's not a root limitation - they haven't updated it to work with JB, and actually advise against upgrading to JB if you wanna keep using in in their app description on the Play store

Sent from my SCH-I535 using xda premium

 

[kimdoocheol]

I wouldn't tether with unlimited data unless you are forking over the $20/month for this service. A lot of people who used tether apps on iPhone got kicked off their unlimited data plans to shared data plans due to "abuse of network usage."

 

[geoff5093]

I wouldn't tether with unlimited data unless you are forking over the $20/month for this service. A lot of people who used tether apps on iPhone got kicked off their unlimited data plans to shared data plans due to "abuse of network usage."

I've never had that issue, just don't go overboard.

 

[kimdoocheol]

I've never had that issue, just don't go overboard.

I wouldn't risk my unlimited data over $20 a month extra, but to each his own. If I can keep unlimited for as long as i'm on this plan, that would be great as that seems to be a dying benefit. Getting kicked back to 2gb/month for the same cost is a kick to the balls. People have gotten notes from VZW from just tethering.

Of course, if you just tether whilst on 4g this isn't an issue.

 

[spyderman09]

Maybe I've been lucky, but I've never gotten so much as a courtesy letter. My secret was to build up to my 7GB a month by going 2GB, 4GB, then 5.5GB the months prior. But, to be honest, it just depends on my laptop travel use. As long as you don't go from 1 GB/month to 10, you should be okay.

 

[Legacy2385]

As far as I know, foxfi doesn't work on Jelly Bean. It's not a root limitation - they haven't updated it to work with JB, and actually advise against upgrading to JB if you wanna keep using in in their app description on the Play store

Sent from my SCH-I535 using xda premium

I'm not sure what the app description says in the Play Store but it works for me with my GNex running JB. That's my $.02

 

[spyderman09]

I'm not sure what the app description says in the Play Store but it works for me with my GNex running JB. That's my $.02

That's good news! Thanks for updating. I'm hoping they did something and just forgot to update the app description. Can't wait to test it out.

Sent from my SCH-I535 using xda premium

 

[geoff5093]

I'm not sure what the app description says in the Play Store but it works for me with my GNex running JB. That's my $.02

Do you have a tethering or share everything plan? If so then it will work, but not for people without that plan.

 

[IamPro]

Do you have a tethering or share everything plan? If so then it will work, but not for people without that plan.

I can confirm the wifi-tether does work for a non-rooted GNex running Jelly Bean on Verizon, the usb tether does not and I get a message to contact Verizon if I want to activate it lol (I do not get this message at all when I use the wifi-tether, there is a problem with FoxFi where it only lets u use 10min even if u paid for it so hopefully they fix that)

 

[geoff5093]

I can confirm the wifi-tether does work for a non-rooted GNex running Jelly Bean on Verizon, the usb tether does not and I get a message to contact Verizon if I want to activate it lol (I do not get this message at all when I use the wifi-tether, there is a problem with FoxFi where it only lets u use 10min even if u paid for it so hopefully they fix that)

The Note 2 and GNex are different phones though, so it's not really a fair test.

 

[Bosgarage57]

I use anywhere from 5-10 gb on my phone, and 5-15 gb tethering. Havent had an issue in 2 years.

 

[kimdoocheol]

I use anywhere from 5-10 gb on my phone, and 5-15 gb tethering. Havent had an issue in 2 years.

Depends on the phone. They really clamped down on this with iPhones. I know some people who got booted down to tiered plans because they were cited as abusing the network.