| T-Mobile wants me to purchase mobile hotspot service to use Chrome for Android | johnls | 4/24/12 10:56 AM | When using Chrome on T-Mobile's network, I am asked to purchase mobile hotspot/tethering service. T-Mobile support told me that they won't do anything on their end to fix this issue. |
| Re: T-Mobile wants me to purchase mobile hotspot service to use Chrome for Android | JL King | 4/24/12 2:35 PM | Hi johnls, Is this only when you are on T-Mobile's data connection? Does Chrome function correctly while on wi-fi? Please tell me what is listed under Android Settings > About Phone for 1) model number, 2) Android version, and 3) build number so we c |
| Re: T-Mobile wants me to purchase mobile hotspot service to use Chrome for Android | johnls | 4/24/12 2:56 PM | This only happens on T-Mobile's data connection (and this does not happen on wi-fi). HTC Sensation Android 4.0.4 IMM76D |
| Re: T-Mobile wants me to purchase mobile hotspot service to use Chrome for Android | mkslt04 | 4/24/12 5:24 PM | So you're not running an official build of ICS for the Sensation are you? That may be part of the issue. There are compatibility/standards for builds of Android that your rom may not be meeting. |
| Re: T-Mobile wants me to purchase mobile hotspot service to use Chrome for Android | c19932 | 4/26/12 7:28 PM | Im having the same problem as well. I'm pretty sure its not a problem from the rom but something in chrome is changed. I was redirected to the T-Mobile hotspot page every time, but everything works fine when I restored an older version of chrom (the |
| Re: T-Mobile wants me to purchase mobile hotspot service to use Chrome for Android | JL King | 4/27/12 9:17 AM | We think this may be caused by T-Mobile identifying your devices as desktops once "Request desktop site" has been used, even if only once. Can all of you confirm whether or not this issue began only after using Request desktop site? |
| Re: T-Mobile wants me to purchase mobile hotspot service to use Chrome for Android | Cactrot | 4/27/12 11:27 AM | I'm getting this issue too, I know I've used the request desktop site option in the past, but it was a long time ago. It started happening for me today about 30 minutes ago. T-mobile Nexus S running ICS V4.04 |
| Re: T-Mobile wants me to purchase mobile hotspot service to use Chrome for Android | JL King | 4/27/12 2:29 PM | This is a T-Mobile issue that has existed for awhile now, including for users who used the "Request desktop site" feature in the ICS legacy Browser. As a workaround, you can try clearing your app data by going to Android Settings > Apps > Chrome Beta |
| Re: T-Mobile wants me to purchase mobile hotspot service to use Chrome for Android | bryanus | 4/27/12 4:25 PM | Thank JL and I hope you guys get through to them! This issue also just happened to me yesterday. I had some time to kill so I decided to download a new nightly build from Cyanogenmod for my 2 week old Galaxy Nexus. It was about 120MB download, and ha |
| Re: T-Mobile wants me to purchase mobile hotspot service to use Chrome for Android | bryanus | 4/27/12 4:31 PM | Also, wanted to say that un/re-installing and/or clearing data/cache does not resolve this issue. |
| Re: T-Mobile wants me to purchase mobile hotspot service to use Chrome for Android | bryanus | 4/27/12 5:20 PM | @c19932 I tried reverting to an earlier ROM I had backed up that did not have this issue, but I was able to reproduce this issue on my restored (previously working) ROM as well. |
| Re: T-Mobile wants me to purchase mobile hotspot service to use Chrome for Android | martonikaj | 5/1/12 8:41 PM | Its about 99% certain that T-Mobile is simply using UAstring to "block" tethering. Chrome for Android will identify the same way as Chrome for the desktop in many situations, leading T-Mobile to think that you're tethering. Once you've used a conside |
| Re: T-Mobile wants me to purchase mobile hotspot service to use Chrome for Android | jacebenson | 7/18/12 7:32 AM | A way around this is install this ext on chrome; https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/djflhoibgkdhkhhcedjiklpkjnoahfmg/related And then change your user agent to a non-chrome user agent. |
| Re: T-Mobile wants me to purchase mobile hotspot service to use Chrome for Android | kilfisher | 8/7/12 4:51 PM | That won't help us using Chrome for Android. |
| Re: T-Mobile wants me to purchase mobile hotspot service to use Chrome for Android | JL King | 9/18/12 11:28 AM | T-Mobile pushed a fix for this in late August. Is anyone still experiencing this issue in Chrome for Android? |
| Re: T-Mobile wants me to purchase mobile hotspot service to use Chrome for Android | kilfisher | 9/18/12 11:36 AM | That's great! I haven't had this issue personally, since I've been very cautious about my data usage on Chrome for Android just in case they block me again. Maybe now I can ramp up my usage more and will report back if I get redirected again. Thanks |