Rooting android, a taboo subject?

[goofy328]

If you're talking about unlimited tethering, that is going to be difficult. Cricket does not allow tethering on the unlimited plan. GoPhone offers tethering without limitation, meaning that you can continue to share 2G data as a wireless hotspot (as slow as that is) even after you've passed 6 GB of LTE and shared that. If the phone has internet, you can run a hotspot. On any smartphone.

Cricket also wants $10 a month, and a compatible phone, which means that Cricket still sells phones that cannot adequately work as a hotspot.

So with Cricket, you're looking into using an app to enable tethering on a device in which the hotspot is not supported, or, you're looking into using an app to enable tethering on a device in which the plan does not support using the device as a hotspot.

Open Garden does this by sharing the internet connection via Bluetooth and WiFi direct. Normally, Bluetooth and WiFi direct can only be used to transfer data from one device to another. Open Garden allows you to retrofit that functionality, and share the internet connection. There is no cost, and no root is required.

I've never had a device where Bluetooth and WiFi Direct were disabled for data transfers. The issue you may have with Open Garden, is that you'll need to provide the computer the ability to use the internet over Bluetooth and WiFi Direct. Some devices already have this ability baked in. Those that do not, can use Open Garden to use the connection that is created, via Bluetooth or WiFi Direct, by the other device with that app installed.

So you'll basically need Open Garden installed and available on all computers involved. And yes, Cricket does have data that is unlimited, but slowed down considerably, from what AT&T offers on post paid. You might have better luck with MetroPCS and Boost. Or GoPhone.

But again, if you want to get past throttling limits, you'll need a VPN on top of something like Open Garden, and then a way to prevent one from interfering with the other. The VPN allows an unlimited LTE connection into the cell phone, and Open Garden uses an alternate method to share that connection. And also remember just how slow Bluetooth is; even slower than 2G Edge. And WiFi Direct is going to be faster than LTE, at 250 Mbps, depending on the device.

[goofy328]

Rooting is not a taboo subject; we just feel as though there should be no reason why we should have to do it to gain complete control over our devices. We also understand that, without those limitations on place, there would be no reason to purchase more expensive devices. Also keep in mind that the handicapping that occurs with cell phones often prevents people that know enough to be dangerous from destroying their devices. It is more of a point of contention among power users than anything else.

[stanley-88888888]

i have unlimited on sprint. everyone else on my family plan share 1 gb (it last less than a day) before getting throttled. i leave my wifi hotspot on. we all run cyanogenmod.