Personal computing discussed
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Flying Fox wrote:Nexus phones should not be modded by the carrier. Does the stock hotspotting feature not work?
southrncomfortjm wrote:Straight Talk wants me using as little data as possible seeing as they rent their space from AT&T, so it makes sense they'd stop tethering and hotspotting.
LASR wrote:Sure. But how do they stop tethering? Maybe there is something in the technology that I am not aware of. I would assume that tethered data looks the same as data coming directly from the phone.
Forge wrote:Forget "roms", just flash the stock Google image back on there. Problem solved.
southrncomfortjm wrote:Forge wrote:Forget "roms", just flash the stock Google image back on there. Problem solved.
I am running stock straight from Google.
southrncomfortjm wrote:Yes, but when I hit it, it says error. It worked the first time I tried it, but then stopped.
slowriot wrote:southrncomfortjm wrote:Yes, but when I hit it, it says error. It worked the first time I tried it, but then stopped.
Seriously, all it says is "error"?
Forge wrote:So in short, TL; DR - If you're toggling tethering and immediately getting an unclear error message, someone who isn't you is doing something on your phone to block it. That's not a carrier block via radio, that's software tampering.
StuffMaster wrote:Forge wrote:So in short, TL; DR - If you're toggling tethering and immediately getting an unclear error message, someone who isn't you is doing something on your phone to block it. That's not a carrier block via radio, that's software tampering.
Except if it's carrier-side...
StuffMaster wrote:Except if it's carrier-side...
southrncomfortjm wrote:Based on Forge's description, it seems like ST altered my phone somehow. Going to get around to wiping the phone, loading Fox Fi and seeing what happens. If ST never detects the tethering, then it may never get the chance to alter my phone. Thanks for the great explanation.
Captain Ned wrote:southrncomfortjm wrote:Based on Forge's description, it seems like ST altered my phone somehow. Going to get around to wiping the phone, loading Fox Fi and seeing what happens. If ST never detects the tethering, then it may never get the chance to alter my phone. Thanks for the great explanation.
Rooting will help there (I think) in that you should be able to block carrier OTA updates. They're not supposed to do this to Nexus devices (part of the reason Verizon won't sell them or let them on the network; the transmission band issue is easily fixed), but they might have rolled the dice and done it anyways.
Flying Fox wrote:Yes, but definition Nexus phones are required by Google to be untouched by anyone other than stock ROMs.
Since the bootloader is unlocked though, all bets are off now.