No, I am not being paid to promote this application in any way by its developers in case you are wondering. Personally, I have searched high and low for a reliable tethering app, and the one that I keep coming back to is FoxFi. I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say you’re going with option B. Ignore it, and keep reading on, because it’s probably something you would not be interested in doing anyway. click the little grey link above to find out or B. If you have no idea what the word “root” refers to, you can either A. To top it off, it’s even more exciting when you don’t have to root your phone to use it.
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Ready…Set…Take #2 (This is my 2nd time around writing this post, because I fell asleep in the middle of writing it the first time and for some reason it never autosaved) Can you say FRUSTRATING!?! Anyway, I’m hoping I can do my original justice, so here goes nothing.įor a small endangered species of smartphone users (those with unlimited data), coming across a free wi-fi tethering app that actually works is like finding the Holy Grail of smartphone apps. Somewhere between those extremes is a not publicly defined line that you shouldn't cross.UPDATE: If you have already been using FoxFi/PDANet+, and it stopped working after you upgraded your phone, please click here.
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Personally I've had no problem setting up a mobile hotspot on my old Palm Pre so my daughter could download an e-book before a flight and send a few messages to friends, but I wouldn't keep a torrent running on a laptop. However Sprint really wants to retain customers so they are likely only going to ban someone if there is obvious/egregious abuse. And yes, with deep packet inspection they can tell that the ultimate destination of a data packet is not the phone (unless your doing some sort of VPN tunneling). OBVIOUSLY rooting your phone doesn't get your MEID banned, and ROOTED users can WIFI hotspot all they want (because AGAIN, it's a function of the phone, NOT a function the providers give you)Technically it is a violation of the users contract which is a violation of civil (not criminal) law. Think about it.if they could do this, they would be banning people who root their phones off the network, and the incentive to root a phone would be non-existent. So.what you're saying.is you should pay for data that you already paid for, TWICE? OBVIOUSLY rooting your phone doesn't get your MEID banned, and ROOTED users can WIFI hotspot all they want (because AGAIN, it's a function of the phone, NOT a function the providers give you)
If it was "illegal" then it don't you think developers who make custom ROMS and rooted users would be getting knocked off and banned with their devices for having ROOTED devices? This isn't something that Sprint incorporates into the phone, GOOGLE->ANDROID incorporates this function.the providers just put a provisional access on it to get more money from subs. I doubt seriously it's in the terms of service.they just provision you to use a function of the phone that is ALREADY A FUNCTION OF THE PHONE. The only way I know of to legally run a hotspot app on the GS3 is to subscribe to Sprint's add-on hotspot service.So.what you're saying.is you should pay for data that you already paid for, TWICE? FYI, unauthorized tethering is a violation of Sprint's standard contract.