Palm Pre data tethering is a go, Sprint be damned
By Nilay Patel 
posted June 15th 2009 2:46PM
posted June 15th 2009 2:46PM
posted June 15th 2009 2:46PM
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Pooned!
OH Snoop!
Haha... when there's a will, there's gonna be a way; like it or not =D
I just tried this on my pre and it actually worked! Hopefully them make it a bit easier because its kinda a paint to go through all those steps each time.
Yeah, I hate when I get it all over my clothes and it doesn't come off.
thats what she said
I don't know why they always warn about usage. I know that I have been tethering my iPhone for almost a year now and use it all the time. I have never had a single overcharge from ATT... Why would it matter if if browsing on the phone or watchign youtube on the phone vs my laptop. It takes the same ammount of bandwidth either way. Considering its piping through the iPhone anyways they can't tell a difference between the traffic.
Finally, took long enough.
...
In 6 months you're going to hear a conversation that goes like this
Guy 1: "What iPhone is that?"
Guy 2: "This isn't the iPhone THIS is the Palm Pre!"
Guy 1: "I've never heard of the Palm Pre."
Guy 2: "That's because the iPhone 3GS came out before anyone heard of the Pre"
Guy 1: "Do you like it"
Guy 2:"ehh, I would rather have the 3GS but I bought into the hype that everyone was making about the Pre"
Guy 1: "Isn't that what you did with the Blackberry Storm too?"
Guy 2:"Don't remind me"
@murmermer: it wasn't funny the first time.
@ mur
Well, I actually thought both were quite compelling, and decided that I'd rather keep $720 in my pocket over the two year contract as opposed to getting raped by ATT. I'll use that to buy a nice 42" HDTV on black friday, TYVM
waiting for caps on bandwidth..hehe
Done and done.
now hack it and install a full sized keyboard.
I'm sold. Now I need to find one. ASAP.
all of the stores i called gave me the waiting list answer. when I told them that I was switching from verizon, the answer changed from waiting list to " come in and we'll have one ready for you"
I'm switching from AT&T. I'm sure they'll be accommodating. Where did you find it...Sprint store or 3rd party?
I got the waiting list answer on monday afternoon and Tuesday morning they call me telling me they got them in stock ready to pick up. Three of them to boot :D
Hopefully they're just keeping an eye on the Pré accounts.
I still occasionally use my hacked 755p for casual tethering to the lappy.
Doubt they are watching to closely or at least AT&T isn't. I have been tethering on the $30 personal PDA data plan for over a year without issue on a Tilt. $60 PDA person + tethering plan be DAMNED!
Please. No acute accent on Pre.
Thanks.
Yeah, that would make it a "Pray" instead of the "Pree" that it is, coincidentally making you look like a tool.
or 'Prey' even
Silly Americans with their silly networks and silly cheap high end phones...wait.
Woooord.
LULZ!
So sad. My phone does right now tethering, yep, not Pre :)
But hope that Pre will come in my lifetime to Europe, WOHOOO!
...how old are you exactly?
...sorry for his English not first language.
Too old, damn booze, excuse me->
@OneLove
That's right sir. Well noticed.
Coming to Europe sooner than you think: http://bit.ly/ecQ44
ok, i didnt do the hack but was able to pair up with my laptop and received the error message on the phone but the tethering is working, i'm writing this while tethered....WTF?
I'm waiting for the, "Whoops, that was WiFi, n/m."
no wifi, made sure to turn airport off first
You sure you're using a Pre?
Yes, it is a pre!!! I know, suprised me too...it worked the other day no problem, only thing different today was the error message on the phone and then i refreshed the browser and it worked....i didnt do anything!!!
Need irrefutable video evidence please...
Put the bong away. Drink some water. Eat some Cheetos.
yup I just did this with my laptop and pre....not that extraneous way either just a simple bluetooth connection and I'm in there.
the mandatory update should fix that
You should be able to clone your NAI to the data profile's NAI settings using QPST...if you have the MSL of the phone Sprint.
Oh well, Nilay! Why? Why did you use expressions like Palm "forbidding" and "threatening to shut down" PreDevWiki (see first post)? Palm "politely cautioned them" not to discuss tethering publicly or it might get Sprint to complain, in which case PALM would be forced to do something .... see: no discussion, no complain, Palm won't do anything, keeping one (or both) eye shut .... they aren't "pretty aggro for a company that needs to court all the developer support it can" .... So why does Nilay twist the facts as if Palm was aggro, forbidding and threatening? And if anything tethering gets shut down ... Palm thought by cautioning people to keep a low profile users could benefit from tethering despite Sprints objections ... well thanks ENGADGET for contributing however small part to make it EVEN more public ... Good job, Nilay! Don't want Palm users to have tethering, don't we?
It's a neat hack and all, but I definitely wouldn't use this in anything other than an emergency, since you have to reconfigure every internet application you want to use to use the SOCKS proxy.
Hopefully there will be a cleaner solution soon, tethering can be nice during long train rides and that sort of thing.
Actually, if you're using a Mac you can set the SOCKS proxy under the Network Settings (if you're using a network connection) so all the traffic is routed through there. Did that when I set up a SOCKS proxy through SSH to my desktop at home, worked fine.
"This is our world now... the world of the electron and the switch, the
beauty of the baud. We make use of a service already existing without paying
for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons, and
you call us criminals. We explore... and you call us criminals. We seek
after knowledge... and you call us criminals. We exist without skin color,
without nationality, without religious bias... and you call us criminals."
Let's hope that sprint just enables tethering on their own. No fees etc.. I've been able to tether with my touch diamond since i got it and can't understand how this is any different. Not to mention all the phones that can use PDAnet. If Sprint had free tethering they'd be getting tons new subscribers..
AMAZING! Now someone, PLEASE make a Palm Pre tethering app that uses Ad-Hoc (with an SSID and Encryption key you can set on the fly from the phone) and a SHCP server... PLEASE!
Kudos to whoever did this though. :-D
"We've got a feeling Sprint's watching Pre accounts with an eagle eye.We've got a feeling Sprint's watching Pre accounts with an eagle eye."
Right, just like Sprint has been watching WM accounts since it's 100x easier to hack it for tethering than the Pre...
hehehe, silly american carriers, they give you unlimited data transfer, but they don't allow it to be used for tethering :)