Commercial use - Connection time outAnnounced

Hi @jacobus,

Thank you for your message. 

Can you please have a look at this article. 

Please fill out the form to send a request.  

Hope this could help and wish you a great day. 

All the best,
Natascha

Hello,
In the last days I got the message "commercial use suspected" and the connections only last 1 min.
How can I solve it?

Hi @nhunguyen,

Thank you for your post. 

If you connect from or to a computer in your company, this is defined as commercial use.

I recommend you to read through this article. If you think, TeamViewer falsely detected commercial use, you can fill out the form in the article to request the resolving of your issue. 

Thank you very much and have a great day.

All the best,
Natascha

Hello, I am writing to ask you to solve my Teamviewer's problem.

I am not a native speaker of English and I am not good at English, so my writing may have a grammar error. So I apologize in advance.

Last time I said in this community that my trial has expired in my teamview.

But the last time my article broke the rules. So I write again.

Let me recap my present situation in this article.

I log in and use my personal account for a very personal purpose in my TeamViewer (**Please do not post TeamViewer IDs.**).

Suddenly, a Teamviewer installed on my laptop said the trial version had expired.

I couldn't help feeling embarrassed.

So I ask this community to solve my problems.

Thank you for reading my unperfect writings so far.

Then I'll finish writing. Bye.

I can't connect with my computers. I always use Teamviewer for private. I had connect with 3-4 computers in my company for personally. Not commercial. Please help me!

I was thinking of something, even if it's somewhat very utopic: we're here lots and lots of free users; what if we could "make" a "virtual corporation"? A corporate License with Unlimited Endpoints (but only 3 concurrent sessions) is "only" 125 euro / month; say we're 250 free users, for each of us that would be 0,50 euros / month. Of course, the price for unlimited sessions (or limited to 1 / 2 per user) would be higher, but we're definitely more than 250 free users... 

I have filled in and sent in a form....not sure how long they take to respond.  Now I have to tell my folks that sorry I cant help them, and now they cant communicate with anyone.  The tablets are their lifeline and when companies behave like this, its rather sickening.

@Akala : for me the page: https://www.teamviewer.com/en/support/commercial-use-suspected/ seems to be working only for one TV ID submitted at once. Moreover, in my attempt to use the version 9 workaround, I've uninstalled 14 and reinstalled 9. So I got new TV IDs. Of course, I'm not sure which is which (which one corresponds to version 9, and which one corresponds to version 14). I've just finished submitting individual requests for all TV IDs, let's see what happens. 

Teamviewer have confirmed my account is a personal one but have not set it to personal and it keeps disconnecting. I cannot contact them. How can this be fixed ?

Yes me to; after 10 years I use teamviewer with friends and relatives now I find myself forced to look for another "free" product. I certainly can not pay for the software as well as giving my friends time.
In the meantime I have seen that with win 10 there is an App including remote control.
but it's a shame because I was used to using teamviewer. I'll make a reason for it

Yeh me too

Only use it once in a blue moon for my 75yr old mother and now this new version is saying i am a commercial entity and have to pay for it?

Also got limited to 3 minutes use.

Not cool

Hello,

after a while d have gone to version 14, I can no longer use the application.

Now I get the message saying that I'm using teamviewer for commercial fine and that I have to use the paid version.

I only use teamviewer to connect to my PCs and my mother's and my fire's, I do not think that's commercial use. How can I find out why this happens?

Thank you,
a greeting

Yes, I do that too - I've given them names too like 'mum's phone' 'mum's paris tablet' etc It makes it easier so I don't need to ask her for the ID and password each time. I think I'm going to fill in another form with all my IDs and her IDs and see if they'll finally fix my account. I'd hate to accidentally undo all this work by missing an ID somewhere. Good luck, I know it's not fun doing all that

@Akala : I don't know if you do like me, but I save all the IDs I connect to (my 2 other PCs, my mum's and my brother's) in my TV account: I've just gone to the TV website, click Login and in the list of managed PCs I went to the properties and noted down the IDs. My issue is that I tried the version 9 workaround, and uninstalling 14 and reinstalling 9 generated new IDs, and of course I don't remember which is which, so I'm to do 9 different demands...

Hmm ok well I guess I better send off another form with all of my mother's IDs, though I never gave them hers last time and they still managed to contact her to ask her about me connecting to her. I wish they'd just talk to me instead, this has been dragging on for weeks now

Actually, I still think you would need to make requests for ALL the possible TV IDs you're connecting to, even if you seldom connect. Otherwise, as soon as you'll connect to a less frequent ID, it'll trigger the warning again and "contaminate" the main TV ID.

I got one too! They actually review the requests, that's conforting. I'm following up with the signed declaration of personal use.

I guess you have to submit one form for your own ID and one for the PC you connect to the most. I hope this works

I was happy that I've just received an email from TV saying that my TV has been reset to free... I said, ok let's give it a try, maybe we're badmouthing here? And of course, it didn't work, as the machines I'm connecting to now trigger the warning! So actually you would need to submit individual "pardon" demands for each and every TV ID you're connecting to (they even say that the reset is not per TV account, but per ID). What a waste of time.... Instead of one demand, I have now 5 to fill... Pathetic.

Yes that was my suspicion too. But as my mother is in another country there's no way I can connect to her unless it's via the net. I'm on a disability pension so there's no way I can afford to buy a commercial licence, and nor should I. I'm only using it for personal use. But you're right, if I could buy it to connect to one account for [The price has been removed as per the community guideline.] I probably would, just to stop the annoyance. And I wish I could connect for 2 minutes but most of the time I get kicked after 10 seconds, I don't even get to look at her screen in that time much less try and translate it and tell her what to do. Plus it's complicated by the fact that she lives in a nursing home in one city but also has a small apartment in Paris, with phones, tablets laptops and computers in both. Maybe that's why they think it's commercial, but that would be their mistake. And I can't correct it if they won't answer me

@tonaz : with the time, I'm more and more convinced that yes it's "subtle" way to vainly try to convert free user to paying customers... but once again, this won't happen UNLESS there is adapted pricing... and let's see what I think so far trigger the warnings:

1) If you open 2 concurrent sessions to 2 different PCs in your local network

2) If you open a session right after having closed the 1st one (to one, then to the 2nd in your network)

3) As soon as you've opened a connection that goes across Internet, then you're a thief your connection will timeout in 2 minutes, and you'll be blocked for 2 minutes.

I think these are examples of things we all do to help ourselves, our family or remote family, but as others have said, we'll have to look for alternatives. If local Microsoft Windows PCs then RDP will do, and if remote the same thing implemented as an application in the most used browser on Earth.

I've filled in the form 2 times already. I'm a great grandmother trying to fix my mother's computer on the other side of the world, I'm the very epitome of non commercial It keeps saying I'll be answered within 7 days but it's now nearly 3 weeks. What's going on? How do you get an answer, or more importantly a solution? They actually contacted my mother but because I can't log in to her computer I don't know if she clicked the right link or did what they asked, and she's just confused and upset that I can't help her. I got her to buy a new laptop a month ago saying I could log in and set it up for her, it's been one nightmare after another. Is there another way to get some actual support or answers to this problem please?

can any moderator help me because i'm at a dead end.

your company thinks that i'm using teamviewer commercially. i have never used it commercially, and all i do with it is help family and friends.

i have submitted the request and even that silly form you have to sign, however each time it comes back saying that you couldn't determine if im using it privately.

i am really really annoyed that this is happening and that teamviewer is accusing me of using it commercially when it couldn't be futher from the truth.

i've really had enough and want some help to stop this.

on a side note, i think this kinda all started happening not long after a update to version 13 or 14.

PLEASE HELP.

Same problem

Only using tw at home  with 4 pcs.

good evening, i have a problem with my free license on android app TeamViewer for Remote Control , in the window when start remote control on my PC the app send the message: you have a commercial license and session end in 5 minutes, but i have free license, how can solve the problem ? thanks.

i find in the community this link support but don't have my ID device.

i use tv only 3 or 4 times a year. pure private to help a older lady of 84 years.

dont understand why this happend.

thinking of leaving tv and find something else to remote control.

not happy 

grts

rob