I have been using Open Garden WiFi Tether as well as Barnacle WiFi Tether on a rooted Gingerbread Droid2. Recently, I noticed that when I open one of these apps, the built in hotspot app opens as well.
This is a discussion on WiFi tether without root? Within the LG. (one click rooting, awesome!) and Barnacle Wifi Tether (which works for. Verizon (HTC) xv6800. WiFi Tether a Motorola Droid to an. And have barnacle wifi tether. Application requires a subscription to Verizon Wireless 3G Mobile Hotspot.
Once a connection has been established via one of the rooted WiFi apps, the computer using the connection can only get to the Verizon page that says you have to sign up and pay extra. This used to work and now Verizon did some update on their firewall that prevents us from doing the free tethering. I found an app that supposedly works despite Verizon's best attempts at stopping it. People said to download the application from.
I installed this and configured it as stated in a few forums. Droid X users seem to have a work around - Will this work on Droid2? Can Verizon really track when people do this? If so is it only by consumption of b/w? Is there another way to get this working? Sprint is looking better and better every day.
Anyone have any updates on this situation? I still am not able to tether my rooted droid 2 global. I have the wireless tethering version 2.0.7 installed. I have another wifi tether program (WiFi Tether version 3.1-beta6.BETA-VERSION.) and I have Barnacle Wifi Tether version 0.6.7 (evo). I am trying to tether to my Nook Tablet, but I can't get any of these to work now. Every time I try it, my Nook Tablet connects to the wi-fi, but then automatically directs me to the Verizon Mobile Hotspot page which then wants me to pay $20 a month to get it working.
Any help would be great. We already pay for unlimited or a certain amount of access to the internet. I can't understand why we have to pay more to use it the way we want to. If we want to use it all in one day on tethering a laptop or a pad we should be allowed to.
Barnacle Wifi Tether
We may even by more to waist on tethering. What's the difference how we use it if we are paying for it? I use tethering for my pad for school because the phone screen is not large enough for me to read. Still my internet I paid for, I am just transferring it temporarily to MY other machine for a larger image. If I am paying for it why should it matter which of MY machines I use it on? And what about us people who are not verizon customers but customers of someone using verizon towers?
We are technically not using Verizon as a carrier. So why should we pay Verizon for it?