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Is there any official way to get tethering with unlimited data plan?
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f you buddy
I'm tired of hearing this excuse from everyone stealing apps
jailbreaking is not the same as stealing software
IT IS NOT ILLEGAL TO JAILBREAK YOUR PHONE
It is NOT ILLEGAL to tether your phone
It is ILLEGAL to steal software
read your contract, the worse that can happen is AT&T cancels your contract due to TOS (possibly having to pay ETF)
those people who where "caught tethering and got charged" actually had a tethering plan via isp.cingular.com APN. When you jailbreak your phone you are using the wap.cingular.com APN
Tetherme/MiWi are damn good products, support the developers
You do know that MyWi/Tetherme have no legal protection? They have no copyrights or any rights reserved on their programs. Know more before you say things you have no clue about. Also, **** MyWi for being Rock-based.
Read Bandolier's post. It is NOT ILLEGAL to get MyWi for free and it would be very hard for them to gain/argue for legal protection because of the nature of the program.
And AT&T and Apple make great products with great coverage; support those developers.
That depends on how you define service. I would say the 3G data plan is the service while tethering is a feature. And you can't steal something that comes on your device from the factory i.e. the native built in tethering option.
is it possible to jailbreak, SSH Handylight onto the phone, and then restore to unjailbroken state while keeping handylight on the phone?
Tether me is hack to circumvent the carrier's pay to use screen, not a program created from scratch (I know it uses the data APN to circumvent charges but that's still a change in tethering settings)... It's like removing an alarm tag from a clothes store and leaving the store w/ the stolen merchandise since you could take away the alarm tag or a crack & patch for a game you downloaded from a torrent.
MyWi has no legal grounds to sue anybody for getting their app for free (I bet is not even registered). AT&T didn't have any say in the way the tethering app was created, apple created the app but AT&T decided they wanted to charge an additional price for the tethering ability.
No, since once you are vanilla again you couldn't open the app back into your phone since you did not buy it in the first place. Maybe loading it from a update it would still keep the tethering hack. If it stays in the settings it is still considered a hack that circumvents the pay to use screen so even though you are technically vanilla it still will have chocolate traces (jb) if you are worried about repercussions, just use tether me which enables it and let's you use the data you pay for normally in the tethering mode, so no extra charges to your account and jb will give you many more options and things to do w/ the iphone anyways....
I was expanding more info for what you wrote onlyI'm actually agreeing with you; I'm not sure why you quoted me.
, I should have maybe put the words 'to expand on this' or something at the beginning of the sentence...
because you bought it from the App Store before they removed it, since it is not in the App Store anymore the OP can't buy it, he could get someone who bought it and use their account to put handylight on his though...
would that actually work? you can't associate two accounts with an iphone can you?
The biggest problem with iProxy and NetShare or that other flashlight/tethering app was that you had to set up some weird proxy thing and not all apps worked because they couldn't resolve the DNS and/or route the traffic through the SOCKS proxy.
If anyone has tried Proxifier for the Mac or for Windows, it will resolve almost all of those problems.
http://www.proxifier.com
With Proxifier, I didn't have to set the SOCKS proxy in the Proxies tab anymore. Just run the app, specify the iPhone's proxy settings, and all the other apps - Mail, iChat, Skype, and a bunch more - worked flawlessly from there.
It only seemed to work with version 1.0.1 of iProxy. The new 2.0 build that's geared more for iOS 4 devices - Retina Display and multitasking - cannot seem to talk to either the HTTPS or SOCKS proxy.
Hope this makes your lives a little easier.
What didn't work? I couldn't get my iDisk to sync, probably because it's on a layer under Proxifier's overriding capabilities.
Disclaimer: not affiliated with software or developer.
If anyone has tried Proxifier for the Mac or for Windows, it will resolve almost all of those problems.
http://www.proxifier.com
With Proxifier, I didn't have to set the SOCKS proxy in the Proxies tab anymore. Just run the app, specify the iPhone's proxy settings, and all the other apps - Mail, iChat, Skype, and a bunch more - worked flawlessly from there.
It only seemed to work with version 1.0.1 of iProxy. The new 2.0 build that's geared more for iOS 4 devices - Retina Display and multitasking - cannot seem to talk to either the HTTPS or SOCKS proxy.
Hope this makes your lives a little easier.
What didn't work? I couldn't get my iDisk to sync, probably because it's on a layer under Proxifier's overriding capabilities.
Disclaimer: not affiliated with software or developer.
Tethering on AT&T using TetherMe or MiWi is stealing and there for illegal.
T-Mobile won't prevent tethering, but you're on your own; T-Mobile doesn't provide support or even proper instructions on how to do this. So if you were talking about T-Mobile then tethering is not currently illegal. (Someone correct me if T-Mobile restricts tethering.)
I agree stealing apps is wrong but if you are promoting tethering on AT&T you are saying it is OK to steal. Like the other poster said if you are going to steal you may as well steal TehterMe or MiWi. Even though the apps can help people legally tether on T-Mobile, I am sure they know people use it to steal from AT&T. I find it comical you support an app whose primary purpose is to steal services.
Let's clarify, people. This is getting out of hand.
Hope that clears things up a bit.
Nobody, especially here, should be promoting piracy, so telling people to pick up a cracked copy of MyWi is subject to banning.
Whether or not you choose to go through the other loopholes, subvert the warranty coverage, violate any ToS, try to fly under the radar, etc., is all up to you and you proceed at your own risk.
- Pirating is illegal.
- Pirating apps on iOS devices currently require jailbreaking.
- Jailbreaking is not illegal.
- Jailbreaking can be a violation of warranty agreement. Apple can deny warranty service if they can prove that the device in question is jailbroken.
- Jailbreaking is currently software-based and can be reversed by means of a full restore.
- Unauthorized tethering is not illegal.
- Unauthorized tethering can be a violation of the Terms of Service with your wireless carrier.
- Unauthorized tethering currently requires jailbreaking.
- Unauthorized tethering by means of pirating a jailbroken app or patch is both illegal and a possible violation of the Terms of Service with your wireless carrier.
- Proxy servicing is not illegal.
- Proxy servicing may or may not be a violation of the Terms of Service with your wireless carrier.
- Proxy servicing does not require jailbreaking. It does require an iTunes-released or developer-compiled app.
Hope that clears things up a bit.
Nobody, especially here, should be promoting piracy, so telling people to pick up a cracked copy of MyWi is subject to banning.
Whether or not you choose to go through the other loopholes, subvert the warranty coverage, violate any ToS, try to fly under the radar, etc., is all up to you and you proceed at your own risk.
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Unauthorized use of certified iPhone applications is illegal, some will call it pirating others simply stealing.
If it is unauthorized and it is a service that one normally pays for then it is stealing. In the world I live in it is illegal to steal a service or product.
Anyone promoting MyWi (an uncertified iPhone program used primarily for stealing services) is promoting theft of services. Telling people to use it (MyWi) is no different then telling people to use cracked apps.
It would be like me standing outside a bank and being a lookout for someone robbing a bank. The law calls it aiding and abetting. Even though I am not committing the actual crime as standing outside the bank is not a crime I will be considered an accomplice to the crime.
Loopholes and flying under the radar dont magically make a subversive act legal. We all can justify the reasons we steal, but it does not make it right. If you steal be prepared to pay the consequences if you get caught.
If the moderators actually ban those who promote cracked apps then they should also ban those who promote stealing AT&T services.
I will commend the OP for asking if there is a legal way to keep unlimited data service and add tethering. Sad to say it currently is not possible; hopefully in the future AT&T will offer a better option to suit his needs.
Unauthorized use of certified iPhone applications is illegal, some will call it pirating others simply stealing.
If it is unauthorized and it is a service that one normally pays for then it is stealing. In the world I live in it is illegal to steal a service or product.
Anyone promoting MyWi (an uncertified iPhone program used primarily for stealing services) is promoting theft of services. Telling people to use it (MyWi) is no different then telling people to use cracked apps.
It would be like me standing outside a bank and being a lookout for someone robbing a bank. The law calls it aiding and abetting. Even though I am not committing the actual crime as standing outside the bank is not a crime I will be considered an accomplice to the crime.
Loopholes and flying under the radar dont magically make a subversive act legal. We all can justify the reasons we steal, but it does not make it right. If you steal be prepared to pay the consequences if you get caught.
If the moderators actually ban those who promote cracked apps then they should also ban those who promote stealing AT&T services.
I will commend the OP for asking if there is a legal way to keep unlimited data service and add tethering. Sad to say it currently is not possible; hopefully in the future AT&T will offer a better option to suit his needs.