EasyTether and MobiHand accounts

We've been receiving many emails from users asking what has happened to their MobiHand accounts and why they cannot generate new codes. We are developers, MobiHand is a reseller, MobiHand has been selling our apps and it is MobiHand who completely deleted users' accounts. Those of you who purchased our apps from MobiHand before September 2011 can email us your new phone's MEID to support(at)mobile-stream(dot)com and get your new codes for free.

Unfortunately, some customers are trying to hit the easiest target and blame us for MobiHand failures. Probably because MobiHand team simply does not respond. That's not good. Again, we are developer, we gave our apps to MobiHand to sell. We have no control over MobiHand website or over users' accounts. By the way, MobiHand purged our developer account as well, without any notice. MobiHand filed for bankruptcy and we, developers, were not even notified by MobiHand team about that. First they did not pay, then they declared bankruptcy purging all the statistics and failing to notify their developers.

People behind MobiHand who misappropriated EasyTether royalties for a year(!): David Schoenbach, Richard Wood, Adriano Chiaretta, Steve Howard, Sebastian Dijmarescu. When they needed money, they simply dipped into their bestselling developer's account. When a lawsuit was coming to an end, they filed for bankruptcy to get away with non-payment and subsequent unauthorized selling.

EasyTether for BlackBerry released

EasyTether for BlackBerry smartphones has been released. You can download it from App World.
Get EasyTether for BlackBerry!

EasyTether Cyber Week Sale - 50% OFF

You can get EasyTether in the Android Market for only $4.99 these days

MobiHand - a huge rip-off

MobiHand Inc., a Californian company, does not pay royalties for EasyTether. They owe me a huge sum of money - $163976

Here is a detailed debt breakdown:
July royatlies: $50,645.70
August royalties: $69,759.51
September royaltes: $43,570.81

The guys at MobiHand admitted the debt and said they were in financial difficulties. But they refused to work out a payment schedule. And later stopped replying to my emails at all.

They still run their business, so they obviously have some money. 

Latest EasyTether updates

EasyTether 1.1.1 update fixes a rare force-close issue on connecting.

EasyTether Linux client 0.7.2 fixes a rare lock-up issue in Linux clients.

EasyTether notification icon

We enabled the protection against the built-in system task killer in the latest update. There is a special API for this in Android 2.0+. This API always implies the icon on the status bar (by Google's intention).

This is a Google API limitation. They made it this way intentionally: if an app is important for the user (and EasyTether is important while it is enabled, otherwise the built-in task killer will stop it unexpectedly), the only way to protect against this is to use this special API.

You can disable the EasyTether service to hide the icon by using the USB checkbox in the application. Use the option select to disable, then uncheck USB when you're not using the app. You will need to re-enable it to be able to connect of course.

EasyTether updated to 1.0

The updated EasyTether 1.0 should fix the "Smartphone side requested connection shutdown" problem.
The updated version can be downloaded for free from Android Market.

As for the notification icon, unfortunately this ongoing notification (well, the underlying
mechanics) is the only way to protect against a very aggressive built-in
task killer (the common reason for connection drops) in the latest
Android OS versions. This feature solved many customers' issues with the "Connection dropped" message.

To remove the icon, slide-down, touch "Select to disable", then uncheck the USB setting in the EasyTether screen. Don't forget to check it again when you'll need the app.