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I'm trying to run the WiFi hotspot on my Amaze to connect to a tablet. I can get the tablet and Amaze to recognize each other and connect. The tablet shows I'm connected to WiFi, but I can't run anything that needs data on the tablet. I've contacted T-Mobile and they say that everything should work without adding anything else to my plan. The rep I spoke to said it was a known issue with the Amaze, and there were a couple workarounds but she said she wasn't that familiar with the technical aspects of them and didn't want to give me any wrong info. She did tell me about a 3rd party app called WiFi Static that may help, but she wasn't familiar about any of the settings. Do you fine folk have any advice for me?
pantlesspenguin said:
I'm trying to run the WiFi hotspot on my Amaze to connect to a tablet. I can get the tablet and Amaze to recognize each other and connect. The tablet shows I'm connected to WiFi, but I can't run anything that needs data on the tablet. I've contacted T-Mobile and they say that everything should work without adding anything else to my plan. The rep I spoke to said it was a known issue with the Amaze, and there were a couple workarounds but she said she wasn't that familiar with the technical aspects of them and didn't want to give me any wrong info. She did tell me about a 3rd party app called WiFi Static that may help, but she wasn't familiar about any of the settings. Do you fine folk have any advice for me?
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Got root?
Binary100100 said:
Got root?
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Nope. The only thing I used to root for was screen shot abilities and now that's baked in. I haven't even researched about rooting the Amaze.
I'm willing to bet that the tethering your going through is being blocked by the tethering manager as tablets are required to have webconnect instead of smartphone internet data plans. Try downloading apn manager from the market, then open it and look for all t-mobile tethering apn's and delete all apns in regards to t-mobile tethering.
That hopefully should fix it.
You have to add the Tethering data plan. I believe it is an additional $15.
hasoon2000 said:
You have to add the Tethering data plan. I believe it is an additional $15.
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Well he said he had contacted t-mobile. How do they not know that he needs a tethering service for it to work? I know the servie reps aren't that bad.
Create a new APN
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Install This android-wifi-tether
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ClockworkMod Tether
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Binary100100 said:
Well he said he had contacted t-mobile. How do they not know that he needs a tethering service for it to work? I know the servie reps aren't that bad.
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Trust me, they are stupid. I used to work for T-Mobile and they do not know half the things they are supposed to know. Some do, most are idiots though.
hasoon2000 said:
Trust me, they are stupid. I used to work for T-Mobile and they do not know half the things they are supposed to know. Some do, most are idiots though.
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I guess a mentally handicapped monkey would be overqualified for employment then huh.
Binary100100 said:
I guess a mentally handicapped monkey would be overqualified for employment then huh.
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Pretty much. I actually taught them more than they have helped me.
I recently changed over from Verizon to Net10 and have been pretty happy with the results. I went out and picked up two i777's and a SIM card for each. I'm running on AT&T and the service is way faster than my old phone (DINC). I have one slight problem and I've been searching for days on here and loogle... everything on the phone works except for the wifi tethering. It's a really weird issue... sometimes I can get it to work after I reboot the phone, other times I'm not so lucky. My i777 is running JellyBam v4.1 (JB 4.1.2) with Siyah v7.6.9. I know that the newer ROM versions (JB 4.2.1) have wifi tethering issues.(or at least JellyBam v5.1 did - it's documented on their forum) So I flashed back to JB 4.1.2 and I've had the wifi tethering work for me a few times, but more often than not, my laptop/tablet/etc will connect to my phone but with a limited connection - no internet. Everything on the phone looks normal, for example, it pops up with the notification for wifi tethering is now on. And I really don't think its a ROM issue. I was wondering if its an issue with the APN I'm using. Is anyone else on Net10 having issues with wifi tether??? Also I haven't tried using a different tethering app... I would prefer to use the stock tethering app. Sorry if this has been addressed already, I tried searching before I posted. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Not sure I can help too much since I'm not on Net10, but perhaps try switching kernels first. Siyah 5 should work for 4.1.2: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1650948
Also, post your APNs?
stone_ship said:
Not sure I can help too much since I'm not on Net10, but perhaps try switching kernels first. Siyah 5 should work for 4.1.2: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1650948
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Thanks, I'll try siyah 5.
APN
name - net10
APN - wap.tracfone
port - 80
mmsc - http://mmsc.cingular.com
mms proxy - 66.209.11.32
mms port - 80
Good call, I should have posted that before.
Flashed siyah 5 and so far so good. I'll keep testing throughout the day. Thanks for the reply. I feel stupid though, I should have tried that before. Appreciate the help. I'll post up later if anything changes
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I recently changed over from Verizon to Net10 and have been pretty happy with the results. I went out and picked up two i777's and a SIM card for each. I'm running on AT&T and the service is way faster than my old phone (DINC). I have one slight problem and I've been searching for days on here and loogle... everything on the phone works except for the wifi tethering. It's a really weird issue... sometimes I can get it to work after I reboot the phone, other times I'm not so lucky. My i777 is running JellyBam v4.1 (JB 4.1.2) with Siyah v7.6.9. I know that the newer ROM versions (JB 4.2.1) have wifi tethering issues.(or at least JellyBam v5.1 did - it's documented on their forum) So I flashed back to JB 4.1.2 and I've had the wifi tethering work for me a few times, but more often than not, my laptop/tablet/etc will connect to my phone but with a limited connection - no internet. Everything on the phone looks normal, for example, it pops up with the notification for wifi tethering is now on. And I really don't think its a ROM issue. I was wondering if its an issue with the APN I'm using. Is anyone else on Net10 having issues with wifi tether??? Also I haven't tried using a different tethering app... I would prefer to use the stock tethering app. Sorry if this has been addressed already, I tried searching before I posted. Any help is greatly appreciated.
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I have had the same problem with my TMOB galaxy note 2 using a net 10 sim card. I connected to google a couple times on my laptop, but won't go to any other webpages unassociated with google search. What do you suggest?
Warning do not run wifi thether on Net10 AT&T sims
nthneby said:
I have had the same problem with my TMOB galaxy note 2 using a net 10 sim card. I connected to google a couple times on my laptop, but won't go to any other webpages unassociated with google search. What do you suggest?
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My data was disconnected after I tried running my wifi tether on Net10 bring your own phone. I have a rooted Motorola Atrix 4G using a AT&T sim. I was told it was because I used all my data but here is what I wrote them and how responded.
Me,
I had my Net10 phone just over a week and my data was turned off. I know for a fact that I did not use 1.5 gb of data because I have a data usage app on my phone. I think I was disconnected because I tried using a wifi tether app. If that is why I was disconnected then I should be told that and not that I used all my data package. If this is not resolved I will be discontinuing service
Net10,
I checked your account and your data service has been suspended due to violation of sections 6 and 7 of our Terms of Service. Tethering is prohibited and that's the reason why your data has been suspended. Your data will be restored at a reduced speed 24 hours after an Airtime card is added on your Service End Date. To better understand why your data speed has been suspended, please call this hotline number 1-866-793-0474. This is available 24 hours a day/7 days a week. Thanks.
Thank you for your patience, while we respond to your inquiry.
[email protected]
I have a rooted sgh-m919 tmobile variant galaxy s4.
I flashed infamous s4 kernel 3 and rom 2.6.1
I recently switched from tmobile prepaid to net10 at&t sim byop.
I have used the standard wifi tether app and I have the full version of pdanet+
tethering connects to phone with limited connection, no internet.
Would really like a solution to this problem.
inspectergadget said:
I have a rooted sgh-m919 tmobile variant galaxy s4.
I flashed infamous s4 kernel 3 and rom 2.6.1
I recently switched from tmobile prepaid to net10 at&t sim byop.
I have used the standard wifi tether app and I have the full version of pdanet+
tethering connects to phone with limited connection, no internet.
Would really like a solution to this problem.
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You have T-Mobile Galaxy S4 and you're asking for a solution to your problem in the AT&T Galaxy S2 forum?
Re read my post.
My phone is unlocked.
I am using at&t sim.
As a matter of fact I switched to at&t gophone today.
Net10 at&t is strictly limited to 1.5gb data, so I'm using gophone smartphone $60 plan, which gives you 2gb, plus you can buy more data at $10 per 1GB
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My data was disconnected after I tried running my wifi tether on Net10 bring your own phone. I have a rooted Motorola Atrix 4G using a AT&T sim. I was told it was because I used all my data but here is what I wrote them and how responded.
Me,
I had my Net10 phone just over a week and my data was turned off. I know for a fact that I did not use 1.5 gb of data because I have a data usage app on my phone. I think I was disconnected because I tried using a wifi tether app. If that is why I was disconnected then I should be told that and not that I used all my data package. If this is not resolved I will be discontinuing service
Net10,
I checked your account and your data service has been suspended due to violation of sections 6 and 7 of our Terms of Service. Tethering is prohibited and that's the reason why your data has been suspended. Your data will be restored at a reduced speed 24 hours after an Airtime card is added on your Service End Date. To better understand why your data speed has been suspended, please call this hotline number 1-866-793-0474. This is available 24 hours a day/7 days a week. Thanks.
Thank you for your patience, while we respond to your inquiry.
[email protected]
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Hello! Let me begin by saying that if just up and buy an Android NET10 phone from a retail outlet, hotspot and tethering are disabled by the carrier and are 'carrier-locked', so this solution may not work for you. This reply is for BYOP users and others with an 'unlocked' phone. (There ARE Net10 ONLINE retailers who sell unlocked phones under the BYOP program.)
The fact that AT&T/NET10 found out you were tethering (and why the OP can't connect) may be because you're trying to tether a Windows PC by means of an Android phone. Windows IP packets have a time-to-live (TTL) of 128ms by default, while Linux and Android packets have a TTL of 64ms. That TTL difference, to them, constitutes a dead giveaway that you're tethering. I guess their network detects this condition, and either alerts them to you, denies you the tethered connection, or both. As for PDANet, CWM Tether (that reminds me - I need my $5 back), and other such utilities, I guess the latest Android versions broke them all.
Try tethering on a Linux Live CD. Dollars to pig pills (doughnuts) says that both of you can now tether without detection or problems. Why? Because for all they know, they'll think you're just using data on the phone....
By stumbling onto this nugget on my own, I now realize how I tethered without any grief for YEARS on Verizon by using a Windows Mobile 3G phone and Windows boxes. I never heard a single word from them about it.
Why did they never catch on? I discovered that it was because of the fact that WM and Windows IP packets have the same TTL. Again, they had no idea that I was tethering instead of surfing the Web on the phone. Same thing with AT&T and the others, I suppose...
Fortunately, a registry hack will change the default TTL on a Windoze box to 64ms - the same as Linux or an Android phone. Here's the URL describing the hack: http://www.pctools.com/guides/registry/detail/885/
My phone ain't a Samsung, so I guess this'll work for any Android phone. This worked like a champ to solve my own dilemma, but, as a disclaimer, YMMV.
You're welcome...
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I am on Straight Talk with this phone and I have been running the TrevE Mod WiFi tether and PDAnet tether app on all my phones and they work fine...This is my only GSM phone and both tethering apps show that there is a connection but no internet access....and yes I have and internet connection on my phone.
With the TrevE WiFi tether it says on my laptop that it is "connected" with great signal strength but no "internet access".
On PDAnet, I tether using USB and it says its connected but when I open my browser and type something in it tell me "cannot find the server"
If anyone else is using Straight Talk and can tether with this device please let me know how you did it..
My device is Rooted with Elegancia Rom.
If you just want to tether in general, I use wifi_tether_v3_3-beta2 and it works fine with straight talk. But I'm not doing usb tether so can't say how it works for that. At any rate, maybe give it a look and see if it helps.
gokun said:
If you just want to tether in general, I use wifi_tether_v3_3-beta2 and it works fine with straight talk. But I'm not doing usb tether so can't say how it works for that. At any rate, maybe give it a look and see if it helps.
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I have that app, its configured into my Rom (Elegancia). Can you tell me the settings you have because I connect to my computer and the computer says connected but the small window at the bottom right hand corner on the computer that shows your wifi connections says "connected" but no internet access...I thought it was my computer at first so I tried tethering another phone to the HTC and same thing, no internet access. Please help me if you can.
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I have that app, its configured into my Rom (Elegancia). Can you tell me the settings you have because I connect to my computer and the computer says connected but the small window at the bottom right hand corner on the computer that shows your wifi connections says "connected" but no internet access...I thought it was my computer at first so I tried tethering another phone to the HTC and same thing, no internet access. Please help me if you can.
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Honestly, I'm just using the default settings so I can't be much help there. sorry.
gokun said:
Honestly, I'm just using the default settings so I can't be much help there. sorry.
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Would you mind telling me what phone you are using on Straight Talk and if it was originally an At&t phone or a ST phone.
devo3d said:
Would you mind telling me what phone you are using on Straight Talk and if it was originally an At&t phone or a ST phone.
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HTC One X+ AT&T Branded. Running a deodexed stock rom.
gokun said:
HTC One X+ AT&T Branded. Running a deodexed stock rom.
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I'm running Elegancia Rom, in your opinion would that have anything to do with it, I don't think so myself. I'd like to run something by you and ask for your feedback on it....I got the unlock code for my phone from At&t and they said when I put the ST sim card in it I would be prompted to put in the code but that never happened, I never had to put in the code, I just put in the card and it worked....I asked ST and they said if I had internet on the phone it was unlocked...Do you think that might have something to do with it or maybe even the new sim cards they have, I wonder if getting to old ST sim card from Ebay might get around the block...
BTW, thanks for entertaining my questions.
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I'm running Elegancia Rom, in your opinion would that have anything to do with it, I don't think so myself. I'd like to run something by you and ask for your feedback on it....I got the unlock code for my phone from At&t and they said when I put the ST sim card in it I would be prompted to put in the code but that never happened, I never had to put in the code, I just put in the card and it worked....I asked ST and they said if I had internet on the phone it was unlocked...Do you think that might have something to do with it or maybe even the new sim cards they have, I wonder if getting to old ST sim card from Ebay might get around the block...
BTW, thanks for entertaining my questions.
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From what I understand, Elegancia should already have the fix to make the tethering work built in, plus he's been pretty thorough about testing and maintaining the rom so I wouldn't think that's the issue unless it's marked on his known issues list. For the sim question, I've found that the sims from straight talk are somehow branded, so if you put an at&t st sim in an at&t phone it doesn't actually need to be unlocked because the phone thinks it's an at&t sim(at any rate back when I was on T-Mobile that was how it worked for me). So my first guess would be that it's not unlocked and that's why you never saw the code request. I would not think that had anything to do with it unless you were on a stock rom. The stock rom will tell you to dial 611 and upgrade you data or something like that, but again, elegancia is supposed to have already patched that is my understanding. And technically I guess it is working, it just isn't working correctly. That's why you have tethering, but no net access...this may be a silly question, but did you configure the new connection properly on your pc? I know on mine(win7 64bit) it asked me again if it was a home/work/public network and I had to choose home,etc again before it worked(otherwise it gave me the same issue you're getting). You probably already checked that, but thought it might be worth mentioning just in case.
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From what I understand, Elegancia should already have the fix to make the tethering work built in, plus he's been pretty thorough about testing and maintaining the rom so I wouldn't think that's the issue unless it's marked on his known issues list. For the sim question, I've found that the sims from straight talk are somehow branded, so if you put an at&t st sim in an at&t phone it doesn't actually need to be unlocked because the phone thinks it's an at&t sim(at any rate back when I was on T-Mobile that was how it worked for me). So my first guess would be that it's not unlocked and that's why you never saw the code request. I would not think that had anything to do with it unless you were on a stock rom. The stock rom will tell you to dial 611 and upgrade you data or something like that, but again, elegancia is supposed to have already patched that is my understanding. And technically I guess it is working, it just isn't working correctly. That's why you have tethering, but no net access...this may be a silly question, but did you configure the new connection properly on your pc? I know on mine(win7 64bit) it asked me again if it was a home/work/public network and I had to choose home,etc again before it worked(otherwise it gave me the same issue you're getting). You probably already checked that, but thought it might be worth mentioning just in case.
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Thats some great feedback, thanks....I did choose Home when it asked about the network. I will try taking out my ST sim and calling At&t about the unlock again. I have the code but I will see if they can unlock it themselves....Man I hope I get this working, I'd love to be able to tether with 4g...
devo3d said:
Thats some great feedback, thanks....I did choose Home when it asked about the network. I will try taking out my ST sim and calling At&t about the unlock again. I have the code but I will see if they can unlock it themselves....Man I hope I get this working, I'd love to be able to tether with 4g...
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As far as I know you have to enter that code and they can't do it remotely...but they might know a way to force the unlock code to come up or something. Never hurts to try
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As far as I know you have to enter that code and they can't do it remotely...but they might know a way to force the unlock code to come up or something. Never hurts to try
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Att sent me to ST and ST sent me to Att...lol
When I got the unlock code and put the ST sim card in, it never asked me to put in the unlock code, it just went straight into programing ST.
I don't know if it was the flashed rom, maybe I should have used the stock rom. I will try a device reset to see if it will go back to Att settings and push a stock rom and reinstall the ST sim and see what happens. :crying:
When you got the unlock code from At&t and put the ST sim in, did you get a window to input the unlock code?
Please tell me how you unlocked your device. I never got an unlock window. Plz message me with details if you need to....thanks..
devo3d said:
Att sent me to ST and ST sent me to Att...lol
When I got the unlock code and put the ST sim card in, it never asked me to put in the unlock code, it just went straight into programing ST.
I don't know if it was the flashed rom, maybe I should have used the stock rom. I will try a device reset to see if it will go back to Att settings and push a stock rom and reinstall the ST sim and see what happens. :crying:
When you got the unlock code from At&t and put the ST sim in, did you get a window to input the unlock code?
Please tell me how you unlocked your device. I never got an unlock window. Plz message me with details if you need to....thanks..
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Well, I went a slightly different route. I buy all my phones myself and have for a long time, so I got mine off ebay long before at&t was even willing to give out the codes on it. So I paid an online place to get my code and send it to me. Once I got it I inserted a TMobile sim into the phone and it asked me for the unlock code, which I then entered. I know on some phones there is a numerical code you can enter in the dialer to bring up the sim unlock option, but I don't recall what it is...
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Well, I went a slightly different route. I buy all my phones myself and have for a long time, so I got mine off ebay long before at&t was even willing to give out the codes on it. So I paid an online place to get my code and send it to me. Once I got it I inserted a TMobile sim into the phone and it asked me for the unlock code, which I then entered. I know on some phones there is a numerical code you can enter in the dialer to bring up the sim unlock option, but I don't recall what it is...
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I was thinking about getting one of those "original" ST sim cards but decided to go with the ones they offer on their site. I read that if the sim doesn't have the unlock code script built in it won't ask for one and since its "At&t compatable I bet thats what they did). I guess I'll try and get one of the original ones....great, more money...LOL. Thanks for the info.
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I was thinking about getting one of those "original" ST sim cards but decided to go with the ones they offer on their site. I read that if the sim doesn't have the unlock code script built in it won't ask for one and since its "At&t compatable I bet thats what they did). I guess I'll try and get one of the original ones....great, more money...LOL. Thanks for the info.
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UPDATE: I used a Verizon sim for a sec and got the unlock notice to unlock my phone. I got it unlocked and thought that would fix my tethering problems but it didn't. I just don't know what else to do...HELP
My guess is you have the LTE tfdata SIM and that is why tethering does not work. Tethering connects but you get the "no internet access".
gokun , your tethering works but what SIM card do u have and what's ur apn setting? Tfdata or att.mvno?
I posted a reply to this thread and it appears to be gone. Did I do something wrong?
If it helps, I have Straight Talk and am using a jailbroken iPhone, running MyWi 5.5. Tethering worked fine up until a couple months ago, at which point I could connect to the Phone just fine via WiFi, but not access internet.
Found out that MyWi uses Google's DNS server (8.8.8.8), and apparently Straight Talk is blocking the connection. If you I access websites using IP address, then it works fine.
Might be something to experiment with and see if the software can provide a work-around.
I also have the same problem. Running an unlocked and rooted galaxy s2 and treve mod. Worked great with tmobile, switched over to straight talk and it immediately stopped working.
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If it helps, I have Straight Talk and am using a jailbroken iPhone, running MyWi 5.5. Tethering worked fine up until a couple months ago, at which point I could connect to the Phone just fine via WiFi, but not access internet.
Found out that MyWi uses Google's DNS server (8.8.8.8), and apparently Straight Talk is blocking the connection. If you I access websites using IP address, then it works fine.
Might be something to experiment with and see if the software can provide a work-around.
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johnnylingo, that was my problem. Thanks for posting the solution. Straight Talk is blocking DNS server 8.8.8.8.
Changing the DNS server from 8.8.8.8 to "only" 8.8.4.4 worked for me.
Hi.
A long time back I had a vz note3 that I used with tmobile and there was a simple thing to do to fix it so when I activated hotspot it didn't look at vz servers but looked at tmobile for the authentication and it would work.
Well I'm in that similar boat again. Now I got an att v10 and I'm on tmobile. It's obviously unlocked but it getting that error where I guess it's contacting AT&T servers for the authentication check for my hotspot.
Anyone know how I can fix this? Foxfi don't work either. Also yes I do have mobile broadband on my tmobile acct.
Thanks
Was your Note 3 rooted? I would think you might be limited with your presently unrootable AT&T V10? Good luck tho, I hope you can find a solution. Have you tried all the third party tethering apps?
Being a new member, I'm limited on where I can post. Hope I'm in the right area I found this site and it looks like someone here would be the most likely to give some insight to my question.
I've been through several "rugged" smartphones in the last few years. They all have held up to their claims of being rugged but fail on the least likely areas. I'm now looking at the Kyocera Duraforce. I need a GSM phone for my area. I can get a new one reasonably priced but I sure do like the hotspot feature when it's called for. I'm on an unlimited plan from my local provider. It looks like the unlocked ones from AT&T are designed to not allow the hotspot to work on any other network other than AT&T.
So my question is if anyone has found a way to make this possible on an unlocked Duraforce phone? My last phone died the other day and my wife is nagging that I NEED A PHONE. I was late picking up our youngest at the bus stop the other day Hope someone could offer a potential solution? I'm a techie by trade, but I admit Android is a mystery to me.
I used the PdaNet+ app available on the Google Play store to get around the hotspot restriction on my AT&T Duraforce E6560 so I could use it as a hotspot on the Telus network in Canada. You can try the app for free, but costs US$10 to remove the trial restrictions.
PdaNet+ can enable USB tethering and/or create a Wi-Fi Direct hotspot on the phone. You have to install a small app on your computer to connect to the hotspot or USB. So it wouldn't provide a hotspot for a TV or game console unless you could set up a proxy on the device.
I haven't tried the USB tethering, but the hotspot works fine with my Windows 10 laptop.