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that's a blatant lie. stop spreading it. to install anything useful to your phone you have to root it. e.g. try installing tethering or VPN apps when your oper
by gcb 15y ago
that's a blatant lie. stop spreading it.
to install anything useful to your phone you have to root it. e.g. try installing tethering or VPN apps when your operator image denies it.
also, all processes that involve rooting/flashing will involve one step that you remove the firmware locks from the device, allowing a thief to peek at your data at will even if the phone is password protected.
*downvoters, also contribute to the discussion saying how you enable tethering on, say, a thunderbolt bought from at&t. thank you.
- CrazedGeek 15y agoClockworkMod Tether is one of many options: http://www.clockworkmod.com http://www.clockworkmod.com
- gcb 15y agoexactly my point. that requires rooting AND flashing the device
- CrazedGeek 15y agoNo, it doesn't. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.koushikdutta.tether&hl=en https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.koushikdut...
- gcb 15y agoyeah... that's not really tethering.
- fpgeek 15y agoSomeone has already covered tethering, so I'll just emphasize there are plenty of other useful things you can get by enabling "Unknown sources" without rooting: other app stores (Amazon [noted upthread], GetJar, MiKandi, ...) often with their own exclusives, software under development (Swype Beta, Mozilla's Aurora and Nightly, ...) and so on. Separately, if you managed to buy a Thunderbolt from AT&T you have much bigger problems than getting tethering working. The Thunderbolt is a Verizon-specific CDMA/LTE phone that doesn't support any of AT&T's networks (AT&T's LTE is on a different band).
- gcb 15y agoyeah, the thunderbolt wasn't mine :) had no idea which operator locked it. but it was locked beyond hope. and i wasn't saying 'non-google-store-sources-aka-unkown-sources is a bad thing. i was just saying it's not enough to 'do what you want' with your device.