{"id":10871,"date":"2013-11-26T01:12:31","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T09:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37prime.wordpress.com\/?p=10871"},"modified":"2013-11-26T01:12:31","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T09:12:31","slug":"does-android-kitkat-detect-unauthorized-tethering-on-t-mobile-usa-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2013\/11\/26\/does-android-kitkat-detect-unauthorized-tethering-on-t-mobile-usa-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Android KitKat Detect Unauthorized Tethering on T-Mobile USA Network?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a few Nexus 4 and Nexus 5 users, Android KitKat now detects unauthorized Tethering on T-Mobile USA network.<\/p>\n<p>A colleague of ours noticed that after upgrading to Android KitKat on a Nexus 4, Tethering &amp; portable hotspot no longer works. Devices connected to the Wi-Fi hotspot are redirected to T-Mobile login page.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Android Kit Kat Tethering Carrier Login\" src=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Android-Kit-Kat-Tethering-Carrier-Login.png\" width=\"900\" height=\"572\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When an iPhone is connected to the Wi-Fi Hotspot from a Nexus 4 running Android KitKat, options to &#8220;Auto-join&#8221; and &#8220;Auto-login&#8221; appears.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_2063\" src=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_2063.png\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The iPhone then tries to connect to a T-Mobile login page, but the page never loads.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_2066\" src=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_2066.png\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We then use a Nexus 5 which came with Android KitKat pre-installed to create a wi-Fi hotspot. The result was the same, it forces connected devices to log in.<\/p>\n<p>Another colleague of ours still has a Nexus 4 running Android Jelly Bean 4.3. The Nexus 4 is connected to T-Mobile USA network and without tethering plan. Devices connected the Wi-Fi hotspot created by the Android Jelly Bean-running Nexus 4 were not asked to log in.<\/p>\n<p>We then inserted a working AT&amp;T micro-SIM card into the Nexus 4 with Android KitKat. We had no issues using tethering through this phone.<\/p>\n<p>At this point, it seems that Google has added codes in Android KitKat that detect unauthorized tethering. So far, it only affects Nexus phones (4 and 5) on T-Mobile USA network. We purchased the Nexus 4 and Nexus 5 from Google Play SIM-free and unlocked.<\/p>\n<p>Is it possible that Google has added this &#8220;feature&#8221; to appease T-Mobile?<\/p>\n<p>After all, Google has partnered up with T-Mobile (and Sprint) to sell Nexus 5.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Google Nexus 5 T-Mobile Sprint\" src=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Google-Nexus-5-T-Mobile-Sprint.jpg\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We recommend users to wait from upgrading to Android KitKat on their Nexus 4.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a few Nexus 4 and Nexus 5 users, Android KitKat now detects unauthorized Tethering on T-Mobile USA network. A colleague of ours noticed that after upgrading to Android KitKat on a Nexus 4, Tethering &amp; portable hotspot no longer works. Devices connected to the Wi-Fi hotspot are redirected to T-Mobile login page. When &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2013\/11\/26\/does-android-kitkat-detect-unauthorized-tethering-on-t-mobile-usa-network\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Does Android KitKat Detect Unauthorized Tethering on T-Mobile USA Network?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[338,2162,2163,2316,2875,936,2918],"class_list":["post-10871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-android-kitkat","tag-nexus-4","tag-nexus-5","tag-phones","tag-t-mobile","tag-tech","tag-tethering"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcNtU-2Pl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}