Technically, pdanet does beat the system, but V is aware of it and it doesn't affect their bottom line really, so they let it slide. There are people on the forum who use > 5 gigs of bandwith a month on rooted phones and V hasn't said boo to them, so ymmv.
Ash On 10/19/2010 1:19 PM, Brandon Stout wrote: > On 10/19/2010 01:00 PM, Ashley Oviatt wrote: >> Oh, one thing about the X though, it is a battery hog. I don't >> leave on any of the wireless stuff except 3g, which is not easy to >> turn off, but I need to charge it daily, sometimes twice daily if I >> turn on GPS, bluetooth, and wifi. >> >> Ash >> >> On 10/19/2010 12:54 PM, Ashley Oviatt wrote: >>> I have the droid X and it is awesome. Does so much stuff that I >>> never knew I needed. >>> >>> You can root it pretty easily, but I haven't done it yet, because >>> I'm kinda nervous that Big red V might come down on rooters. >>> >>> Your only choices for tethering are to root the phone, or use >>> pdanet for corded or btooth if you don't want to root your phone, >>> or pay the $ to V every month for cordless hotspot. >>> >>> There is a really active forum at http://www.droidforums.net/ >>> They can help you, and have sticky posts about this very topic. >>> >>> Ash > Thank you Ashley. That's a cool forum that'll keep me busy for a > while now. Sounds like pdanet is a good choice since it'll keep the > battery charged and I can get what I want without having to beat the > system, or at least it looks that way. > _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
