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haSo much for the android being the savior.. | |
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Re: hawell, this is really a non issue since users can install any app they want as long as they do it themselves. | |
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rmdir
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2009-Mar-31 1:20 pm
Re: haIt's still pretty annoying. I was truly looking forward to the day when I'd be out of my contract with V* later this year, but after researching things like the lack of VOIP last night, and now this, I've pretty much given up on TMO having a desirable product. This smacks too much of the things I've already had to do with my V account. If I'm going to have to hack my phone, there's not much incentive to dump Verizon for a different carrier. | |
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2009-Mar-31 1:35 pm
Re: hasaid by rmdir:It's still pretty annoying. I was truly looking forward to the day when I'd be out of my contract with V* later this year, but after researching things like the lack of VOIP last night, and now this, I've pretty much given up on TMO having a desirable product. This smacks too much of the things I've already had to do with my V account. If I'm going to have to hack my phone, there's not much incentive to dump Verizon for a different carrier. how is going to a website to manually download an apk "hacking your phone"? This aint an iphone, or a VZW stripped-down OS. To get any of those tethering apps, all you need to do is find the installer and download it. | |
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2009-Mar-31 2:09 pm
Re: haI don't mean hacking in the typical sense, I should have said attempting to use it in an unofficially sanctioned way. Instead of being the knight in shining armor, they are turning into another Apple with the IPhone. And they haven't looked at how Apple's hard line hasn't stopped people, it just pisses them off instead. | |
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Re: hasaid by rmdir:I don't mean hacking in the typical sense, I should have said attempting to use it in an unofficially sanctioned way. Instead of being the knight in shining armor, they are turning into another Apple with the IPhone. And they haven't looked at how Apple's hard line hasn't stopped people, it just pisses them off instead. This is NOT an unofficially sanctioned way. Jailbraking an iPhone IS an unofficially sanctioned way but this is completely normal and official. Choose your words wisely as it sometimes results in the spreading of FUD. Adi | |
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Besides, tether it to what? T-mobile's molasses slow data network.
May as well Scotch tape a piece of string and a can to your USB port, I hear the downstream speeds are better... | |
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2009-Mar-31 1:32 pm
Re: haYour right their edge network is very slow. Coming from a t mobile BB user here. I don't tether often but it is a bare when I have to... Usable sorta enjoyable no. | |
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i live in the suburbs and I get about 750 Kbit/s on my g1 and about 300 Kbit/s upstream. its enough for the g1 to work like its supposed to. I keep my phone on edge most of the time anyways (saves on battery life). I have tethered to my laptop when I'm out and don't have wifi access before too. its good enough to do business while comuting too. | |
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My power went out a few days ago when I was planning on working from home. My job is entirely web-centric. I have a laptop, but losing power meant losing my dsl connection. So I tethered my laptop to my G1 (VERY easy) and simply used the EDGE network, and I must say that it was more than sufficient for me to get my work done. Tethering to my TMO phone on EDGE saved my ass. | |
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2009-Mar-31 4:21 pm
Re: haFYI it might be a good idea to pick up a fairly robust UPS for just such a situation. I keep my DSL modem and wireless router behind a UPS and it rand for hours during our last power outage.
Might not be a bad idea, depending on how often your power goes out. I bought all of it when I was using VoIP to keep my voice communications up during outages. I'm back on POTS now, but I still have the equipment. | |
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2009-Mar-31 5:18 pm
Re: hasaid by N3OGH:FYI it might be a good idea to pick up a fairly robust UPS for just such a situation. I keep my DSL modem and wireless router behind a UPS and it rand for hours during our last power outage. Might not be a bad idea, depending on how often your power goes out. I bought all of it when I was using VoIP to keep my voice communications up during outages. I'm back on POTS now, but I still have the equipment. Good idea. I keep my cable modem & wireless router behind an UPS and that can let me use my laptop for about 3 or 4 hrs with power down. | |
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Re: hasaid by FFH5:Good idea. I keep my cable modem & wireless router behind an UPS and that can let me use my laptop for about 3 or 4 hrs with power down. Not when the cable HFC power injectors' batteries last 0-10 minutes since they are 2 decades old, or were stolen to be used in cars and motorcycles. | |
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2009-Apr-1 7:21 am
Re: hasaid by patcat88:said by FFH5:Good idea. I keep my cable modem & wireless router behind an UPS and that can let me use my laptop for about 3 or 4 hrs with power down. Not when the cable HFC power injectors' batteries last 0-10 minutes since they are 2 decades old, or were stolen to be used in cars and motorcycles. Maybe in your area but not mine... | |
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said by patcat88:said by FFH5:Good idea. I keep my cable modem & wireless router behind an UPS and that can let me use my laptop for about 3 or 4 hrs with power down. Not when the cable HFC power injectors' batteries last 0-10 minutes since they are 2 decades old, or were stolen to be used in cars and motorcycles. During power outages, the cable infrastructure in my area continued to work. | |
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said by N3OGH:FYI it might be a good idea to pick up a fairly robust UPS for just such a situation. I keep my DSL modem and wireless router behind a UPS and it rand for hours during our last power outage. Might not be a bad idea, depending on how often your power goes out. I bought all of it when I was using VoIP to keep my voice communications up during outages. I'm back on POTS now, but I still have the equipment. I've never lived in a town where power outages happen on sunny days with no notice or reason. I may just have to invest in a UPS =\ said by k1ll3rdr4g0n:said by ninjatutle:So much for the android being the savior.. We both know it was only a matter of time. Any service managed by a group of people who believe their sole purpose in life is to line their pockets with your money is bound to be a few "bumps". Yet another win for Windows Mobile, no kill switch, and completely customizable. What else do you need? Are you even reading? There's no kill switch on tethering apps. They're not killing the apps. They're just removing them from the market for violating the TOS. You can install them without the market very easily. Again, this aint the iPhone. You don't need to have root to install apps. You don't need anything special. I have the tethering app sitting on my phone right now. Essentially, this is NO DIFFERENT than installing an app on your winmo phone. You get the executable and install. Period. Is that clear enough? I mean I am all for a open source phone OS, but that is all it should be - if there is money to be made (such as through a "market place") you bet your bottom dollar that the honest customer will be the one to get hurt. We need a third party market place that isn't run by anyone with "interests" with the (I)SP or OS developer for the iPhone, Windows Mobile, and the G1... Again, this aint the iPhone. You don't NEED a marketplace for the G1 to install apps. Find the executable (apk) and install. JUST. LIKE. WINMO. Just like there are websites like getjar for the java files for dumbphones/featurephones, Android has a number of sites like » www.androidfreeware.org/ that have the apks available for download. | |
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2009-Apr-2 1:06 pm
Re: haHave you ever lived in Florida? I used to have power outages on sunny days all the time when the DOT would dig first, look for obstacles second. | |
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If you have t-mobile 3G coverage you wouldn't say that. By the sounds of it, you're probably using EDGE.
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From a business standpoint... I can understand how T-Mobile would want to try to limit people from using their network as a replacement for the cable of DSL ISP.
However, since Android is open-source, these tethering apps are easily available from reputable Market alternatives. | |
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said by ninjatutle:So much for the android being the savior.. We both know it was only a matter of time. Any service managed by a group of people who believe their sole purpose in life is to line their pockets with your money is bound to be a few "bumps". Yet another win for Windows Mobile, no kill switch, and completely customizable. What else do you need? I mean I am all for a open source phone OS, but that is all it should be - if there is money to be made (such as through a "market place") you bet your bottom dollar that the honest customer will be the one to get hurt. We need a third party market place that isn't run by anyone with "interests" with the (I)SP or OS developer for the iPhone, Windows Mobile, and the G1. This way the company can be neutral and they must have the balls to tell the (I)SPs to eff off if they want a piece of software to be removed...simply because its none of their business (even if it violates the TOS - its not the retailer to make sure the customer follows the TOS, its the (I)SP). | |
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wtf tmobile?!wow. and to imagine that I was hoping that android would do well. you can't restrict innovation. if you do you will smother it. jackasses. | |
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Re: wtf tmobile?!it hasnt been said if this was a TMO move or Google. But Google is the ones that are removing the apps from the store. | |
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2009-Mar-31 10:19 pm
Re: wtf tmobile?!ah. good point. i guess that I shouldn't have thought that google was above such a low blow. | |
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said by ArrayList:you can't restrict innovation. if you do you will smother it. Yeah, because Apple/AT&T has never attempted to smother apps from their app store. That's hurt the iPhone's popularity quite a bit. Yes you can jail break your iPhone and get it to run what ever you want. But this isn't even at that point. You can still install whatever you want. It's just not on the official app marketplace anymore (for whatever reason). | |
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Re: wtf tmobile?!yea but i can't see average joe/jane figuring out that you can install stuff other than the stuff in the marketplace. i don't know for sure what the long term vision is of Android, but I would like to see it become semi-mainstream (in every aspect). what would be sweet is if someone made an app called the "Black (Android) Market" and hosted all the "banned" apps on there. | |
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Re: wtf tmobile?!said by ArrayList:yea but i can't see average joe/jane figuring out that you can install stuff other than the stuff in the marketplace. Being an average Joe/Jane hasn't stopped many from jailbreaking their iPhones. If they don't possess the skills themselves, they will just ask a friend that does. I just got my G1 yesterday so I took the liberty of installing PDANet for Android on my phone. It took less then 3 minutes start to finish to use my computer tethered and all it took is about a dozen clicks either on my computer or on the phone. If you have trouble doing that, you probably have trouble using the phone to begin with. i don't know for sure what the long term vision is of Android, but I would like to see it become semi-mainstream (in every aspect). what would be sweet is if someone made an app called the "Black (Android) Market" and hosted all the "banned" apps on there. There isn't a huge need for it. Sites I'm sure will pop up, but they will be more like the "shareware" sites for PCs. It won't be just for "banned" apps. The whole deal is analogous to Microsoft having a "Windows Compatible" marketplace where softwhere developers can showcase their wares, but Microsoft gets the final say on if they allow a particular piece of software to be shown. If they don't allow it, it doesn't mean that the developer can't release it, it just means that they can't show it on Microsoft's app website. How many Windows applications do you get directly from your OS provider or a site directly sponsored by that that provider? None. You get Firefox from GetFirefox.com, you get iTunes from Apple, so on and so forth. | |
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Other CarriersI have no idea why they are pulling the tethering apps, but I do want to point out that T-Mobile is no longer the only carrier involved with Android and others may also be exerting their own influences and concerns. | |
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2009-Mar-31 1:59 pm
Re: Other Carrierssaid by AVonGauss:I have no idea why they are pulling the tethering apps, but I do want to point out that T-Mobile is no longer the only carrier involved with Android and others may also be exerting their own influences and concerns. VERY good point. I just checked, and Vodafone, Singtel, o2, TMO, etc ALL have no-tethering clauses in their TOS for phone broadband. | |
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T-Mobile is the only Android carrier (currently) in the US though. | |
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Re: Other CarriersAt this exact moment and time, that is true, but right now there are also non-US carriers. | |
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said by hottboiinnc4:T-Mobile is the only Android carrier (currently) in the US though. The Android Market is open worldwide. So that is irrelevant. | |
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Re: Other Carriersit is open world wide but only one carrier in the United States. So your comment is irrelevant. | |
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DL AppAnyone know of a good tethering app I can download for mine? | |
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hmmm...I guess I'll be sticking with S60 for now. | |
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So much for a open handset.EPIC FAIL. | |
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Hmmm!My guess is T-Mobile asked them to pull it. The data plan on the G1 has no limit (as I recall) or at least they don't enforce a bandwidth usage limit, and it's $39.99 per month. If I buy a data stick for my laptop it's $59.99 per month and 5 GB bandwidth usage limit per month. Now you can see why T-Mobile wouldn't want tethering software on the Android market place. | |
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Re: Hmmm!T-Mobile does have a 10 GB throttle threshold that does apply to the G1. | |
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Google can pull the app remotely.If push comes to shove, Google can remove the app remotely: "Google may discover a product that violates the developer distribution agreement ... in such an instance, Google retains the right to remotely remove those applications from your device at its sole discretion" » tinyurl.com/4ttrq2 | |
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Re: Google can pull the app remotely.The same as their Google Voice's TOS says that nobody can leave you a voice mail on the system. | |
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Wanna Tether Your G1 Follow The Link ;) | |
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technick
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2009-Mar-31 5:39 pm
G1 Tether AppI've been using this application on my phone, haven't had any problems with it. » code.google.com/p/androi ··· -tether/Its for WIFI tethering but does require root. | |
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2009-Mar-31 8:43 pm
gi tetherThey just pulled it from the market, you can still go on google developer page and download the APK to your G! and your good to go.
still running on my phone, works great.
its just to make tmobile happy, but i never understood why they dont allow it, i mean you pay for the data why does it matter if you surf on a bigger screen "laptop". | |
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Nice...Oops! Unlimited 3G without a bandwidth cap for $25 a month on any device within the wifi radius of the phone? (A bunch of the tethering applications turn the device into a 3G hotspot).
Ya, removing them from the market just makes it so that users have use Google's other service (their search engine) to find and download the tethering apps. | |
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2009-Apr-2 12:06 pm
Man!What happened to you Google. U changed man, U used to be cool! | |
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