Help Sprint S7

[deedoe]

I installed foxfi on my Samsung S7, works fine as hotspot but sprint is aware of the data used, any suggestions on how to fix this?

 

[chanchan05]

Foxfi doesn't give you free internet. It only gets you hotspots without having to pay extra. It's impossible for Sprint to not know that you are getting their data. They know your account asked for that data even before it reaches your phone.

 

[deedoe]

I have the unlimited everything plan on the phone, when the "hot spot" reached 3 gigs they added more data for a charge. I thought the idea was to use the phone as a hot spot for the unlimited data? Perhaps I was mistaken

 

[chanchan05]

Ah. Must have changed. I don't use FoxFi anymore. Your question appears to be different from the usual tether for free questions we get here. Lol.

 

[mikedt]

AFAIK FoxFi is used to enable tethering on devices where the carrier has disabled it completely. Trying to get unlimited tethering rather than limited to 3GB, is a different issue I think, which isn't what FoxFi is for.

I guess there's something low-level system that tells the carrier, what data packets are used by just the phone, which is unlimited, and what data packets are being used by the hotspot service, and is limited. There's been some discussion about this recently in the Three UK Tethering thread. Thing with Sprint from what I understand, is that Sprint phones are locked so that all data goes through Sprint's proxy servers And so might be impossible to fool their system.