I checked my usage on the app and it says it's still using the hotspot
The usage in your device WILL report your usage to YOU, but either check tmo's website or if you use the my account app (i don't cuz I'm concerned it'll send my data) you can check there and see if your usage is registering on tmo's servers, then you'll have an idea of what they are and aren't detecting. Fyi, tmo has some kind of post usage auditing that's catching tether usage after the fact and kicking out notices to folks they catch, me along them. I literally had to add another line as they bumped my original back to 2gb a month and refused to change it to anything unlimited. But i haven't had any issues since. I clean wiped my device and put the new sim in and it's been perfect since then.
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Also, everyone should know, the people at Tmo's risk management department aren't stupid. And their logging and diagnostics are phenomenal. They even had notes in their system about the owner of my old line publicizing the tethering exploit using fiddler4 on the xda forum! They literally matched up the server logs with my posts and were able to surmise which xda user i was, then followed me, and 48hrs after i posted the updated information i was kicked off unlimited...and this is with only averaging about 250gb/mo of data usage smh
Because trust and believe I've never been stupid enough to call up and say, hey guys, I'm rooted and using modified **** and additional systems to beat the **** outta your tether provisioning smh lol
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The rep literally said to me, so you use the xda developers forum as rx8driver? Because you or someone using your device's connection is using that website as that user and publicly explaining how to circumvent their network's tether provisioning, and since this violates the T&C's of the contract and my amount of data usage (320gb last month) put me in the top 1% of usage volume that they were totally within their rights to restrict me to metered plans only, and the only reason they don't apply it to the whole account instead of just my line is because my wife is the actual primary line, so since it only happened on a sub account they can't, but she said if they could they would smh and, of course, he being right meant i could only be mad and hang up cuz i didn't have any argument left. Smh lol BUSTED smh.....