Mom needs help!! - HTC Inspire 4G

Hey all...sorry but Im in a bit of a time crunch here...My mom is ont the last day of her 30 day trial with ATT and is thinking of upgrading to the Inspire...my question is is once the inspire is rooted does it unlock wired and wireless teather like on my Evo...and if you could point me in the right direction of best rooting method Id be much obliged!

Yes it does, even the stock ROM just needs an apn change. There is a thread a few posts down on how to do this.
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I rooted very simply, as a first-time Android user, using this method, and had no problem at all setting up the tethering. Since the networks are now blocking the tethering apps, you are likely go go though more trouble trying to find one of them than you are in rooting itself.

Awesome...mom and dad both got new inspires. So you will probably see me around here for the next week or so. They are coming to visit this weekend so I've got a week to read up!
Thx for the help!

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Tip for the day: Medium thick guitar pick stashed on your phone's case

.6-. 8 ish mm thick. Takes of the battery cover with ease w/o damage. I got a Speck case; just stash it underneath the phone, and for all those soft boot occasions.
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BTW getting 6-7 Mbps down in East Port butbs...Hee heee giddy....plan on rooting....before I got the phone a month ago now, but stil ahven't pulled the trigger cuz never done it before and my iPhone 3G is dead dead dead (I can be hard on phones and it did last a freaking long time to my suprise...i actually hate apple sinc e the 80's and it the first apple product I ever owned...anyway I digress), so no good backup and I'm cheap and certainly do not want to brick the effin phone...trying to decide which method to use...I have studied them both and watching threads intently...it will happen...got to tether this mofo with 6-7M down to my 'puter and get rid of the effin landline/wifi/internet I hate at 80 a month WITHOUT PAYING AT&T 20 A MONTH FOR THE PRIVLEDGE SINC EA GOT A FREAKING UNLIMITED DATA PLAN ANYWAY...makes no sense...and I'm Gold Star 11 year customer....Great customer service but they kind of sneaky btrds sometimes....
Hack kit worked great for me. Hate to say it but had trouble in windows so i used my mac lol. Worked flawlessly for me. Just a little time consuming. With all the great roms i wont go back to unrooted lol.
I had wifi tethering working stock with the APN trick. Give it a try.
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Thanks for that tip! I am now thinking I will wait to root until after gingerbread OTA. Be sweet if APN mod allows tethering without losing HSDPA. Searching searching...
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Why wait go with the hack kit and do it now its soo easy! Check out the irc channel and they can take you through step by step if you want. Literally seems like 3 buttons.
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Hee hee ur tempting me. Through all the reading I did discover PdaNet...that does take care of the tethering my PC thing rather easily...one more thing to resolve prior to root and that is my headset issue (posted about it another thread so far no insight here or any other online forums). I have email into HTC support...hope its not hardware to where I have to replace the handset ugh.
ST3ALTHPSYCH0 said:
I had wifi tethering working stock with the APN trick. Give it a try.
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That's what I did till I rooted, now my phone is more addicting than ever lol
meiguoguizi said:
Thanks for that tip! I am now thinking I will wait to root until after gingerbread OTA. Be sweet if APN mod allows tethering without losing HSDPA. Searching searching...
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I would root before the ota. Just a tip, if you EVER plan to root in the future, do not take any official updates until they've been looked at. They could very easily block exploits used to root/downgrade/flash roms-kernels-recovery; permanently.
Root your phone, flash a rom, then anything decent that's added to the official ota will be added to roms as well. Win/win if your gonna root anyway.(its not that hard, read a lot - use the hack kit- the easy part is flashing roms/kernels)
Thanks above. Valid and worthy points to consider.
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On my first g2x, living it with barely any problems

Before I got the g2x,i had the hd2,5 in a month, got it replaced with the vibrant the day it came out, loved it, after a few months it acted up on me, got a replacement, rooted it and deleted the bloatware, lol a few months later I dropped it and it then went to hell...camera stored working, wouldn't connect to my computer through usb, then it started messing with my sd card....
I had insurance in it but 130 for a cell that cost me almost the same price wasnt worth it, got me a mytouch 4g, hated it,2 weeks later a g2, hated it, finally got the g2x and I feel in love with it,i was first hesitant about getting it because if the problems I read it had, but after I got it, the only real problem I had was the response time from either using swype or waiting for a web page to open up sometimes...and the bloatware that runs in the background...I'm keeping this cell until the galaxy 2 comes over for tmobile, until then, how can I root my g2x without bricking it and whats the best roms for it? also tell me what problems have you had and what did you do to correct it
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How about reading through the forum?
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Here's a link to information on rooting your g2x:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1039985
Here's one for flashing clockwork recovery via nvflash:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1056847
If any of that information in there confuses you, and you can't figure it out, then keep reading...you will get it.
Then the Android Development section of this forum has all of the roms, kernals, and mods available to try out.
Welcome to the G2X...I hope you love it as much as I do.
Hope this help.
Thank you very much
I appreciate it
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[Q] Samsung Illusion SCH-i110 Rooting / ROMs

I have scoured the Internet for information regarding any custom work for this phone.
I stumbled upon samsungillusionforum dot com, which is a dead forum with ancient posts and near zero activity. It seems to be an alias to samsungfascinateforum dot com. Why anybody would set a forum up in this manner is beyond me.
Last month I bought the Verizon Wireless Samsung Illusion SCH-i110. I waited around a month to see if anybody would post any information regarding rooting/ROMs for this phone to no avail.
I plan on trying SuperOneClick to root the phone, but as for Custom ROMS I don't know what is out there.
I would appreciate any and all information anybody has regarding ongoing customization work for the Verizon Wireless Samsung Illusion SCH-i110 running Android 2.3.5.
Thanks for taking the time to read this.
I too have been looking to see if i can find a way to root this phone...i like the phone, nice and responsive and just a good midrange phone, however i do want to get root access for wifi tethering.... I have tried superoneclick, doomlord, z4, gingerbreak, and universal androot all to no avail... if anyone has success getting this rooted please share the knowledge and it'd be highly appreciated....
I am in the same boat here... My girlfriend recently picked one up and hates all the VZW apps that are installed and we want to remove them and tweak the system a bit. I have scoured through the interwebs for close to 2 weeks trying to find anything that can root this phone. Unfortunately, anything out there as far as I can tell does not work... Can anybody please help with this?
yes please im in the same shape as yall i got a couple darts modded and now i have the gnex and it is great but if i cant find anything soon maybe this one will not majically work and need to trade for a differatnt model.......ive also tries every method th OP origanilly posted............sux new toy no mod
Same here. Starting to think no one will ever root this phone. It boggles the mind that there is an unrootable android phone on the market. :-(
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I was an idiot to suggest to my wife she get this phone from Verizon - I just assumed it was going to be a quick root for this cheap phone and I'd get all that Verizon crap off of it and it'd run great...
Looks like it ain't never going to happen.
did you try ZergRush? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1296916
It's not that it's unrootable, it's just no one spends time rooting/modding prepaid phones... I'd be willing to work on it but I would need a tester, someone who can use ADB
I personally have tried everything including ADB to root this device. It isn't a prepaid phone. It is a contract phone through VZW
Just wondering if anyone has tried getting root by using Unlock Root from unlockroot dot com?
I am also interested in any progress on this phone.
I have the straight talk version S720C Samsung Proclaim which runs on Verizon service.
I assume that once a root for the paid Verizion is working that it should work as well on the Proclaim?
I got this for my daughter and being able to wifi teather would be great
I have tried every method to root this device. None have worked. Zergrush, unlock root, super one click, doomlord, z4root, manually, and a few other methods... Have the devs stopped working with one click root programs?
graydiggy said:
I have tried every method to root this device. None have worked. Zergrush, unlock root, super one click, doomlord, z4root, manually, and a few other methods... Have the devs stopped working with one click root programs?
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I'm sooooo glad I took that device back and *****ed enough to have them hook me up with LG Lucid for free
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i got the st s720c series and have come up empty handed on any even attempts to root the phone. anyone have any luck yet? thank you.
pffft, you all just dont ask, or dont ask the right ppl one!!! lol
got mine rooted with help from asking the right people
Ok so you log in, brag, but dont share?
Why waste time if you cant pass on some info.
Anyone that is actually willing to point us in the right direction?
jcmarx said:
Ok so you log in, brag, but dont share?
Why waste time if you cant pass on some info.
Anyone that is actually willing to point us in the right direction?
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the info will be posted up in due time, when the exploited is published and a way for the majority to install it is done.
Was just cute the word 'unrootable' was used is all lol.
And no I was not the one who rooted it.
http://webchat.irondust.net/?channels=hitsquad
anyone wanna test a kernel?
That is kind of a rude thing to do. At least post some info.
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That is kind of a rude thing to do. At least post some info.
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You're right, I should not had said a word....
Shabby did post some info, check with him n step up n test or stay quiet
dj posted what he could, he has root, took the guy 5min or less to do it once he had access to dj's phone.
I dont have any info to pass along, except more info details and a easy way for you all to get root is coming.

[Q] tethering and my htc and att?

Hello, can someone help me with something. I rooted my htc inspire a few months back. I did not change the room just left it as is. I am now trying to tethering my accer a500 to my htc inspire. I have tried the hot spot and also tried to hook cable to tablet from phone. when i try hot spot it turns on then turns off says i need to call att.
I am wondering do i have to flash phone with a differnet rom inorder to use those functions. or is their a way around the issue. Sorry for my lack of knowing lol. i am looking but I have not found a newbie guid covering this. I am asuming i do need to flash phone with custom rom but wanted to make sure.
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I guess should of added more info. I have rooted my phone a long while back. I did not flash a custom Rom to my phone. I am running the Rom the phone came with just rooted. Thanks again for any help someone will be able to give. I am still reading the fourms just guess not understanding. From what I am getting if I want hot spot to work or tethering to work I need to flash my phone with a custom Rom.
a 30second search of putting 'free tether htc inspire' into google would have given you the answer you need. This has been asked over and over and over. You are technically breaching your agreement and if you get caught that is on you. Here is a link in the market for a simple to use app. Next time please search before making threads.
https://market.android.com/details?...EwOSwiY29tLm1zdHJlYW0uZWFzeXRldGhlcl9iZXRhIl0.
ok
Lol sorry but you really think I didn't do that like a month ago. Really I have read and re-read every topic even close to covering this topic. One topic saying yes you can the next saying it didn't work. Figured would find someone nice enough to say yes you can do it, and here is the topic area to look. Thank you for the link
Update, followed your link and it went no were. Google free tethering again and came up with the same thing. Someone saying they have a way to make it work. Then a bunch of posts after that with people saying it worked for a bit but not now. I'm just looking to see if it can be done, what has and has not worked and if I am right and I need a custom Rom.
I use EasyTether Pro, don't know if its safe, but I have been using it for almost 2 years on 2 different phones, and haven't been stuck with a higher bill yet
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I tether my HP Touchpad about an hour a day and have never got hit with the email from AT&T.
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thanks for the info
Was wondering do you guys use the cable, or set up a WiFi way. I don't plan on doing any downloading I use a program that looks up info for me on the net. Maybe some Facebook on the night ****. Once again thanks for the help with this very cool.
I dont have to DD an app to use hotspot because my dev built it in, which most roms do... but if you must stick with your stock rom... (thumbs down)
I used "open garden" wifi tether on a few different phones requiring that functionality. Its one of the best out there IMHO
P.S. If you like the stock feel and stability? of your stock rom, but are ready to open your phone up to a brand new life...
My suggestion for a jump off point(ROM) is 'COREDROID'! I dont rock it anymore, but it was imo the best, next very close runner up would be 'AndroidRevolution'...
Both of those have built in hotspot, plus a WAYYY faster UI than stock. Just My Opinion. good luck!
I have never tried to tether using stock rom, however almost all custom roms I have used have the ability to tether. Maybe try a custom rom, I like IceColdSandwich v 4.2. Good luck!
Thank u very much that was what I was really looking for. I will start looking for custom Rom that might work for me. I really need to learn how to back up the Rom I have so I can save it so I can flash it back to phone if need be. Thanks again all for all the help with this.
Start by looking for a recovery like "cwm recovery"... within the Inspire forums. Follow the directions exactly and read them ALL first, then reread them before flashing. Once youve achieved a recovery, you'll have opened yourself up to try ROMS i.e.Try coredroid for a few days then perform a backup of coredroid, then flash AR and run that for a few days.
As it seems in your OP, youre kinda used to a stock ROM and both of those are based on stock, with enhancements, and bloatware removed... MUCH FASTER and responsive.
So just start with one thing at a time - Recovery Time!!!
p.s. once youve installed your recovery, you should backup your current config before going to the next step - ROM!!! Practice good backup skills, and you'll limit your headaches considerably.
hello, thank you all for your replies. I am really wanting to move up to custom roms. Prob is I do not know how to back up my current rom, and how to check it to make sure its good. I am looking for the info and what app to use to get the best back up file. i want to be sure I know how to back up and also how to go back to the back up if need be before I move forward. If someone knows of a guide to do that stuff or has any good information could you pm me please. thanks a bunch for the help.
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hello, thank you all for your replies. I am really wanting to move up to custom roms. Prob is I do not know how to back up my current rom, and how to check it to make sure its good. I am looking for the info and what app to use to get the best back up file. i want to be sure I know how to back up and also how to go back to the back up if need be before I move forward. If someone knows of a guide to do that stuff or has any good information could you pm me please. thanks a bunch for the help.
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as for backup between ROMs the two major ones are Titanium Backup and MyBackup
Darunion said:
a 30second search of putting 'free tether htc inspire' into google would have given you the answer you need. This has been asked over and over and over. You are technically breaching your agreement and if you get caught that is on you. Here is a link in the market for a simple to use app. Next time please search before making threads.
https://market.android.com/details?...EwOSwiY29tLm1zdHJlYW0uZWFzeXRldGhlcl9iZXRhIl0.
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I used the EasyTether app a few times around last Christmas. Today I got the email from AT&T about tethering. So I guess now we can't use EasyTether?
I went to my local store yesterday and had a rep examine my phone to be sure there was no way I could tether. She noted it in my account. Today I got a txt msg saying I was tethering. So I called the 866 number in the msg and the phone rep told me they can now tell any time a computer or any other device is plugged into the phone and any time a tethering app is used. So according to her logic, we can't even use our computers to charge our phones.
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I went to my local store yesterday and had a rep examine my phone to be sure there was no way I could tether. She noted it in my account. Today I got a txt msg saying I was tethering. So I called the 866 number in the msg and the phone rep told me they can now tell any time a computer or any other device is plugged into the phone and any time a tethering app is used. So according to her logic, we can't even use our computers to charge our phones.
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no, she means they can detect the tethering. not the connection itself. u can still charge and xfer files and sync lol
Darunion said:
no, she means they can detect the tethering. not the connection itself. u can still charge and xfer files and sync lol
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*I* know that. But she apparently doesn't. She told me that ANY time ANYTHING is plugged into the phone now counts as tethering. Even if NO apps are being used. I know better than to believe that lol.
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Sucks for EasyTether and PDANet users
This seems a good place to ask. Of course, the ref with whom I spoke claims that their system is flawless, but is there anyone here who kows AT&Ts systems that can speak as to the reliability of their inspection system?
The reason I ask, I was informed that "the data connection from your phone was opened to another device several times within the past 2 months." I used it once, I'm afraid that something looks like tethering to their system, and I'll end up with a more expensive capped plan rather than my unlimited plan (truth is that I've only gone over 3 GB once of which I'm aware, I just don't like the concept of caps.... or more cost).
I finaly put a custom rom on my phone and was able to hotspot and tether my phone to my laptop. Only used it to load one page of xda just to see if it worked or not. I never got a text meassage or phone call or anything. I also use a bunch of bandwidth on a daily bases. e-mail, web games and such. I had to re-lock my phone sending it to htc to get repaired, when i get it back it will be re rooted and custom rom and tethered again. Will let you know what happens then. lol
They will constantly improve the system. the more people that find ways around it the more they will invest in closing the holes. they didnt used to have the ability to see but more and more is pointing to packet inspection and TTL's on them to see if theres another device behind the phone. it's not just an apn setting anymore. it's best either to not tether and breach contract or just pay the $15 a month and use it. Getting around it now, could change next week or a month or tomorrow. companies will do what they can to protect their services from being taken advantage of, and with the number of users that are stealing tethering data, that is a considerable cost. do i think its fair that i need to pay $15 to connect my pc to phone for just a picture here and there, no, but the consumer always wants everything for free.

[Completed] I'm a noob to flashing and rooting, please help! Thanks in advance!

Good afternoon,
My name is JJ and my phone or service has taken a dump.
I have the Unlimited Plan with MetroPCS and its paid. I was on the phone today for an hour (on another device) and they have no idea what seems to be the problem. I live in great coverage zone. I have been having troubles connecting to the mobile network as well as getting, receiving both calls and texts. When I am connected to WiFi I am fine..ish. I set up apn settings a few times, most recent today with MetroPCS. My IMEI is good, paid in full phone which is a SM-G925T-ZDETMB (Galaxy s6 edge orginally from T-Mobile)
Took it to the store and they looked at me like I am a monkey. :silly:
I need my phone for work and can't afford to get another one. It seems to be in great working order other wise. I figure I might as well flash it and root it and make it mine or something. I downloaded ODIN and got freaked out because I have no clue what I am doing.
Be cool to flash it or root it with Nougat. Is that possible?
So I was hoping for a step by step guide here.
My service and phone worked great until about two weeks ago,..now its as intermittent and flipp flopped as Trump and his hair and policies. Thanks again in advance. Looking forward to a speedy reply. I got nothing else going on.
Well ,,
Mate post ur question on ur phone forum , here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/tmobile-galaxy-s6-edge/help
Thank you for using XDA Assist ,,
Sorry
Will do, thanks.

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