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potentially, but stock Android tells the carrier it's tethering, and there's no way around it. CM doesn't. http://danielpocock.com/android-betrays-tethering-dat
by dharma1 11y ago
potentially, but stock Android tells the carrier it's tethering, and there's no way around it. CM doesn't. http://danielpocock.com/android-betrays-tethering-data http://danielpocock.com/android-betrays-tethering-data
You can hack around both TTL values and user-agent btw. Deep packet inspection, maybe less so
- dublinben 11y agoI was unable to replicate his results on my Nexus 5 running AOSP. This behavior has possibly changed in newer versions of Android. Also, DPI can be trivially bypassed by running all traffic from your phone through a VPN. All traffic, tethered or not, will be indistinguishable to your carrier.
- dharma1 11y agoOn my Android Moto G, running Android 4, I could not get around my carriers (Three UK) tethering block. CM solved that. VPN would work for DPI true, hassle though.
- dublinben 11y agoAre you running the 'stock' Google-provided ROM, did you try an actual fresh installation? I'm running a clean AOSP ROM, without any kind of CM customizations.