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Root Tethering issues on VZA

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CmptrCapone

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i tried a couple things on rooted and tethered vza but, i can only browse websites that i have apps for like gmail, facebook, yahoo, youtube. All outher sites it wont pull up the pages. i tried tether 3.1 beta 11 and 14. i also used superSU and google chrome and ie9 and nothing helped. Any help regarding this would be much appreciated. :confused:
 
I also had that problem on zv9. I figured metro did something block tethering because it just happened one day. Haven't tried since zva, though i suspect its probably still blocked. I'm unrooted btw was using pdanet.
 
yeah tethering is not allowed on MetroPCS network thats why they got LG to release the ZV9 update to remove built in tether.
 
Well i was able to tether on zv9 for a while. Its just as the op said tho i woke up one day and was only able to access certain pages like youtube and yahoo. With no Changes on my end. At least, none that i knew of.
 
just tried to tether on my phone and got nothing. where do you go to change your user agent?
 
Use your phones user agent if you want to know what it is go to play store and do a search user agent and download an app that says ua reader it will tell you the user agent your phone uses for its browser then use that in a user agent changer for your laptop
 
I posted a solution that should work cause i use it for my lg esteem cause MetroPCS has blocked devices other than the phone it self to connect. If you have fire fox download the plugin user agent switcher 0.7.3
 
DONLATINOHEAT said:
I posted a solution that should work cause i use it for my lg esteem cause MetroPCS has blocked devices other than the phone it self to connect. If you have fire fox download the plugin user agent switcher 0.7.3
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Can you show us the steps? Do we do this on the phone itself? I'm trying to get my tablet to connect to my phone.
 
No On the device that your trying to connect to your phone i don't know much about tablets but the user agent if for Firefox computers it's an add-on for the browser I'm at work so i can't do much of anything at the moment
 
This is the user agent switcher i use switcher agent 0.7.3 its a Firefox plugin i know it works with laptops don't know if it will work with other devices just click it a popup box will popup asking which program do you want to use to open it if you don't see Firefox click browse and head to the Firefox folder in c: drive then programs that's where you will find the folder Firefox is in if your using windows
 
Is this the only way to tether with this handset?

I'm not rooted and I saw this app, "ClockworkMod Tether (no root)" at the play store. Has anyone tried it with the LG Connect? Seems to be a fairly new app thats highly rated.
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as DONLATINOHEAT said, i think metro is filtering the user agent string so that anything bu the ones from their phones are rejected. he posted he solution to change user agent for firefox but i found it for chrome. go to the web store in chrome and type in user agent. then download the extension called chrome ua spoofer. it allows u to change your ua on the fly to almost anything. it has automatic setup fro different versions of firefox, internet explorer, android, ipod/iphone, safari, opera, and of course default chrome. you can even set up the extesion to always spoof your ua on certain websites.
 
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