VZW has an interest in maintaining the fiction that if you return a rooted phone to the VZW store under warranty that they will send the black helicopters to break down your door at night and drag you away kicking and screaming, simply because they figure if your grownup enough to root your phone your grownup enough to support it yourself.

As for tethering that’s another support sinkhole.  When GrandMaw Kettle who is paying the $20 a month tether fee has her grandkids over to play their Xbox and they can’t get it to associate with her phone, so they can online game, that’s at least an hour support call right there that easily eats up that $20 a month support fee.  Or better yet the call from high-power-salesdroid at a customer site who loses a half million dollar deal because his $20 a month tethering demo failed at a critical point, and who by gawd is going to call up and chew the head off somebody, he’s not going to be happy until he’s called back about 10 times and abused every support person within an inch of their life.

I support an ISP and if I had a dollar for every time I play stupid and pretend I don’t know anything about wireless I’d be rich – some of the questions people ask are literally unbelievable.  They want to know why they can’t turn on their laptop out in the middle of a soccer field and get their wireless in their house that’s 10 miles away, they want to know why they can’t get on the base unit in the duplex next door which has a concrete cinderblock firewall in between them, you name it.  VZW knows exactly what those people are like and they probably break even on their support costs and the tethering fees.

The only reason VZW throws up a few roadblocks to tethering is that they don’t want all the n00b’s tethering without paying a support fee, because it’s those n00bs who are costing them money.  Trust me VZW knows how to make a phone that can’t be tethered, just implement the radio software in a burned ROM instead of an EEPROM and the only way your gonna tether that puppy is by unsoldering and replacing a surface mount memory chip.  Course it would be non-upgradable and thus more expensive but it ain’t impossible.

Read between the lines, kid, there’s a reason rooting is difficult but not impossible.  Too scary for you, fine, get out of the kitchen, stay out of the big boys way.

running wifi tether wifi_tether_v3_1-beta11.apk  found here : http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/downloads/list

Then I kept getting the verizon webpage after changing all the wifi tether settings dns phone type etc.

So I went to this page http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1182940

followed all the instructions but for : I selected CDMA 1x (MSM 7500) w/ Android

That didn’t work with the droid 2 so i had to select like in the picture I selected CDMA 1X (QSC 60×5)

Then it worked like a charm

Good luck

tethering will not work for me, I tried both of those device profiles and they didnt work.
Idk what to do from here :/ are there any other ways to get past it?