When the Droid X got its Gingerbread update a few months ago, it included this same functionality killer (Why wasn't it a story back then?!) Fortunately, Google is shaking Verizon's hand with one hand while holding a dagger in the other. The newest beta version of their Wireless Tether app defeats Verizon's blocks.
You can find it here:
http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/
Eventually, the tiered pricing plans Verizon and AT&T and their price gouging, profit-mongering and competition-limiting are going to are going to come back and bite them really hard, and I hope guys like these are the culprits:
LightSquared broadband is "the nation's first wholesale-only integrated wireless broadband and satellite network." It's 4G LTE backed up by satellite. Hopefully, this will be the final straw toward a single bill for communications access. No more phone, then internet, then TV, then cell phone, then cell internet bills. Hopefully.
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Yup. The commercials are completely free. For now.
Re: Re: They did this to the Droid X long ago
First of all, most GB ROMs don't have wireless tethering enabled by default. Verizon's "blocks" put a stop to that, if a temporary one. Second,
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/liberty-rom-dx/157745-liberty-2-0-1-stock-apex-cm7-etc-any-rom-liberty-gb.html
Written by yours truly. G'day.
Re: Re: They did this to the Droid X long ago
That's not true at all. It is entirely possible (it was a lot easier with FroYo) to use your Droid X as a tethering device.
Re: Re: They did this to the Droid X long ago
Oops. Thought it was. Either way it's on Google's code server, and I don't see it going anywhere anytime soon. :-D
They did this to the Droid X long ago
When the Droid X got its Gingerbread update a few months ago, it included this same functionality killer (Why wasn't it a story back then?!) Fortunately, Google is shaking Verizon's hand with one hand while holding a dagger in the other. The newest beta version of their Wireless Tether app defeats Verizon's blocks.
You can find it here:
http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/
LightSquared Broadband
Eventually, the tiered pricing plans Verizon and AT&T and their price gouging, profit-mongering and competition-limiting are going to are going to come back and bite them really hard, and I hope guys like these are the culprits:
http://arstechnica.com/telecom/news/2010/07/get-ready-for-lightsquared-broadband-verizon-and-att-not-fans.ars
LightSquared broadband is "the nation's first wholesale-only integrated wireless broadband and satellite network." It's 4G LTE backed up by satellite. Hopefully, this will be the final straw toward a single bill for communications access. No more phone, then internet, then TV, then cell phone, then cell internet bills. Hopefully.