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Root No more Tether????

BikeBuilders

BikeBuilders

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I rooted my phone a couple of months ago, and installed a few things to allow me to tether wifi.... It has all worked fine up until the day before yesterday. I noticed my phone shut off, and rebooted itself out of nowhere. Then after that, I am not able to tether.

When trying to use wifi, my browser on whatever I am using (ipad, laptop, etc) opens to a page saying that "Wireless Tether services are currently not available with MetroPCS".

I also noticed that my keyboard looks different on the phone. So metro pcs must have sent out some update to my phone, although it is still running the same Android 2.3.4....... So I am not sure what happened, but how do I get my Tether ability back?



Thanks
 
It sounds like MetroPCS updated your phone to close the tethering loophole. Sprint did that to Optimus S users several months ago. Fortunately, the word quickly spread and many of us refused the update (which, by the way, wasn't an Android OS version upgrade).

If you're rooted, I would think you'd have some options, but I think you might get a better response if you aksed the question in your phone-specific forum, rather than in the generic "applications" forum.

Good luck!
 
As far as I know, it is still rooted. The WirelessTether app goes through the motions, says it has been granted SuperUser permissions, and the phone begins t broadcast the tether signal...... But when I try to use the internet (on ipad, laptop, etc) it takes my browser to this page saying "Wireless Tethering not currently available with MetroPCS". Or something to that effect. How can I know for sure if my phone is still rooted?
 
download Wi-Fi tether in market...if u aren't already using it... activate tether and open settings of application... change the channel to any other channel and you are good to go...or rewrite your build prop to false instead of true
 
you could try modifying your build.prop

there is a line in there that ends in tether.denied=true

change true to false and reboot

this worked for me
 
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