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[Q] Need some help wifi hotspot???

Hello I have the inspire and am wanting to use the wifi hotspot for my laptop. but when i go to enable it its says Tethering is not enabled...
Is there away i get around from having to spend more money to get it activated, am wanting to keep the stock rom. I havent customized Hopefully someone can help and have detailed instructions. Thanks!!!!!!!

There's a thread to get it working on the stock-unrotted rom, but it appears it's not foolproof.
My suggestion is to root and get on a optimized stocker if you like the original "feel" since those rom's have tethering enebled.
Tx

Sorry for the stupid question but what do you mean by root???

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1033353
Rooting guides etc...
WC

si_blue said:
Sorry for the stupid question but what do you mean by root???
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Rooting - most basic definition is that it gives you access to parts of your phone that you aren't supposed to have so you can do things you aren't supposed to do. For example - free tethering on big bad ATT. Check out the guide posted by Wild Child.
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Here (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=960058) is the thread to enable wifi tether on stock-unrooted. you'll need to roll your own APN

Kind of a newbie question, but I saw people mention here that some roms have tethering enabled.
I'm using Inspired Saga (will probably switch to Inspired Ace soon) and I don't think it enables tethering on its own. Will I have to switch to another rom that has tethering enabled, or is it possible to enable it for any rom you use once you have rooted your phone? Thanks!
Edit: Wait, it totally works now. It definitely didn't before, haha.

[Q] Xoom and tethering, searched the forum but need a little more help

I have a Samsung Epic (2.2, one click root), and from what I have read on this forum, apparently there are some phones where the Xoom and wifi tether don't like each other because of some sort of ad hoc protocol, whatever that means. My Evo was OK to tether, but the Epic/Galaxy no dice.
I downloaded the tether program here as recommended on another thread, but that didn't work either.
So basically I want to be able to wifi tether the Xoom to my Epic phone, the easiest way possible. I would even do a tether via USB cable if that is possible. If not, I think I would rather root the Xoom (if that is what I have to do) because I am more familiar with rooting than playing with ROMs.
Thanks.
Anyway, links, specific reading, or direct advice would be appreciated.

ualdriver said:
I have a Samsung Epic (2.2, one click root), and from what I have read on this forum, apparently there are some phones where the Xoom and wifi tether don't like each other because of some sort of ad hoc protocol, whatever that means. My Evo was OK to tether, but the Epic/Galaxy no dice.
I downloaded the tether program here as recommended on another thread, but that didn't work either.
So basically I want to be able to wifi tether the Xoom to my Epic phone, the easiest way possible. I would even do a tether via USB cable if that is possible. If not, I think I would rather root the Xoom (if that is what I have to do) because I am more familiar with rooting than playing with ROMs.
Thanks.
Anyway, links, specific reading, or direct advice would be appreciated.
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I don't tether, but wanted to respond to you, to get the ball rolling.
Yes, you can usb tether, but I'm not certain about the requirements.
There's also a way to get ad hoc working on the Xoom.
See this thread for a flashable zip file: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1106130
I hope this helps.

okantomi said:
I don't tether, but wanted to respond to you, to get the ball rolling.
Yes, you can usb tether, but I'm not certain about the requirements.
There's also a way to get ad hoc working on the Xoom.
See this thread for a flashable zip file: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1106130
I hope this helps.
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Thanks for the response. I completely missed that thread in my search on this forum.
I haven't really searched for a USB tether option as I didn't think it could be done but now I will search for that too.

[Q] Enable Tethering on AT&T HTC One X

Anyone with the AT&T HTC One X been able to find a way to enable tethering?
I know that Roger users get tethering enabled for free, unfortunately AT&T doesn't give us the same courtesy in the US.
I found this trick listed for enabling Tethering on the Galaxy Nexus that works on non-rooted devices.
"Elixer 2
Pros: Free
Cons: Confusing to setup at first
1. Install Elixer2
2. Install Elixer2 Widgets
The way I think this works is, you need to install Elixer2 to give you tons of tools and information about your device, so that the widgets work correctly.
Elixer2 Widgets gives you widget tools to create widgets for your device.
You can create a "Wi-Fi AP (Hotspot) toggle" widget that turns on Portable Wifi Hotspot. Doing this bypasses the wireless carrier check, and allows you to modify your AP settings to create a Hotspot."
I was curious if anyone knows if the Elixer 2 trick works on the AT&T HTC One X too?
Or perhaps someone else has been able to figure out another way since there isn't a root method available yet for the HTC One X.

Tasker widget might be able to do this as well.
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bimmerd00d said:
Tasker widget might be able to do this as well.
Sent from my MB865 using Tapatalk 2
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Ah, has anyone tried using Elixer 2 or Tasker to enable tethering on an AT&T HOX?

You can tether on any device. Just install the right app or root. However, within a few hours to a few months, att will see and give you a warnign to stop tethring. If you continue, they auto-upgrade you to a tethering line. There is no way to go around it.

kevina90 said:
You can tether on any device. Just install the right app or root. However, within a few hours to a few months, att will see and give you a warnign to stop tethring. If you continue, they auto-upgrade you to a tethering line. There is no way to go around it.
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That is not true that they will eventually detect. I have been using tethering for a while on my iPhone and it hasn't been detected. It all has to do with that you need to make sure to use the right APN.

kevina90 said:
You can tether on any device. Just install the right app or root. However, within a few hours to a few months, att will see and give you a warnign to stop tethring. If you continue, they auto-upgrade you to a tethering line. There is no way to go around it.
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That's what custom ROM's are for. I don't abuse tethering, I do it occasionally and have never received any type of warning from ATT. Proper custom ROM's remove all kinds of traceable software back to the carriers. (e.g. CM9)

david_ag said:
That's what custom ROM's are for. I don't abuse tethering, I do it occasionally and have never received any type of warning from ATT. Proper custom ROM's remove all kinds of traceable software back to the carriers. (e.g. CM9)
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I am very aware that with a custom ROM or even a root app like Wifi Tether that you can easily enable tethering. However, I am trying to find out if there is a solution to get it working if you are not rooted.
Right now there is no custom ROMs or even a root for the AT&T HTC One X so the custom ROMs or even Wifi Tether are not an option. So back to my original question does anyone know if Elixer 2 or Tasker work for enabling tethering on the HTC One X?

nephipower said:
I am very aware that with a custom ROM or even a root app like Wifi Tether that you can easily enable tethering. However, I am trying to find out if there is a solution to get it working if you are not rooted.
Right now there is no custom ROMs or even a root for the AT&T HTC One X so the custom ROMs or even Wifi Tether are not an option. So back to my original question does anyone know if Elixer 2 or Tasker work for enabling tethering on the HTC One X?
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I understood that, sorry for side stepping on the topic. I got caught up answering that there is a way around the carrier knowing about your tethering.

I don't know how much similarity between HTC's tethering code and Samsung's tethering code, I tried your apps mentioned above on my Samsung GS2 running latest AT&T ICS leak and it didn't work. It does bypass the account checking but there is no internet connection from the tethered devices what so ever. The new tethering code for these Samsung devices in ICS leaks are much difficult to bypass now than the ones in GB.
We will know it once we have AT&T HOX in hand.

This is the easiest solution that works on all android devices.
http://code.google.com/p/proxoid/
Proxy server and adb port forwarding ftw

nephipower said:
That is not true that they will eventually detect. I have been using tethering for a while on my iPhone and it hasn't been detected. It all has to do with that you need to make sure to use the right APN.
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I guess its luck of the draw then lol, i tetherd like 300 mb 2 monthes ago and got an att text warning 3 days later.

Just as an update, the Rogers RUU is online now, you can find it in the DEV section. Those who wanna attempt to flash its boot.img and system.img to an AT&T phone, knock yourselves out!
Not saying it's gonna work necessarily...

Easy Tether always worked for me. It uses the Android debugging mode. You need to use USB but whatever. Totally worthwhile (costs about $10 one time fee) and I'm not sure how they would detect this. IF they gave you a hard time you could simply explain that you develop Android apps and that you're not tethering. They may buy that.
When tethering is enabled through the device via normal means, then I think they would know about it...But if you're going through the debugger, I just can't see how they would know.
If they ever did or worse yet, IF any carrier is collecting data about user agents, etc. to see if you're using a desktop browser...Then I think that's a severe privacy concern.
I would hope anyone getting a warning from a carrier would because they have a rooted phone and they have the actual tethering system feature enabled for which the operating system likely sends up some sort of flag to notify the carrier (hence why people are saying it depends on what ROM you're using). OR because of their usage patterns, ie. heavy usage in short periods of time. A phone can only have so many browser tabs open and use so much data in a short period of time. They have this stuff down to a science.
However...If you're tethering to check your e-mail, browse a little, do work, and like me...build web sites and what not from Starbucks (because their free WiFi doesn't allow you to use SSH) then I really can't imagine you'd get an angry letter.
Again, this is all speculation...I use Sprint and never had an issue. However, come Sunday I will be switching to AT&T for the better looking HTC One X...Oh right and for the working 4G. Despite half the storage space.

Elixir 2/Widgets does not work on my ATT HOX for the mobile AP. I still get the "call 611 to enable tethering" popup.

Has anyone tried Foxfi from the market?
Sent from my HTC One X using XDA

FoxFi does not support wifi for any HTC phones, only Bluetooth (as stated in-app).

Foxfi keeps giving me some cryptic error message "fail to open bluetooth". Being unable to root / tether and downgrade from 32gb to 16gb (and in actuality 9.96 gb) is really pissing me off...
Edit: Easy Tether works. Just using the free version so far, no issues yet. Will know more extensively in the next few days.

Clockworkmod
I use tether from clockworkmod. cost $4.99 USB only though

yourbuddypal said:
Edit: Easy Tether works. Just using the free version so far, no issues yet. Will know more extensively in the next few days.
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Looking forward to hearing about this, really bugging me that I can't tether (Damn it AT&T).

rooted ATT HTC One X via one click root
download
WiFi Tether version 3.1 beta14
Settings:
- Device Profile: Generic ICS
- Enable Routing Fix
Works Perfect

[Q] Verizon Tethering/rooting

Ok so i've been looking around here and i've seen people say the best tethering app is WiFi tether. But heres my question, On my x2 i was required to change my radio card settings. Change some numbers around and such. This allowed me to stealth tether, I'm wondering if this WiFi tether app is trackable?
And about rooting, All i'm seeing for vzw rooting is what seems to be flashing the "stock rom" that is rooted and not rooting your current system. So am i going to lose my data and have to start over? And is this something thats being worked on? Because with my x2 it was a 1 click root and it didn't change anything on my phone besides adding the root. My phone stayed on the stock rom with nothing being changed. Just kinda wondering, i haven't taken the time to look threw roms so i'm not sure what i want to run on this phone yet. But tethering is a must for me
Thanks in advance

Tweek900 said:
Ok so i've been looking around here and i've seen people say the best tethering app is WiFi tether. But heres my question, On my x2 i was required to change my radio card settings. Change some numbers around and such. This allowed me to stealth tether, I'm wondering if this WiFi tether app is trackable?
And about rooting, All i'm seeing for vzw rooting is what seems to be flashing the "stock rom" that is rooted and not rooting your current system. So am i going to lose my data and have to start over? And is this something thats being worked on? Because with my x2 it was a 1 click root and it didn't change anything on my phone besides adding the root. My phone stayed on the stock rom with nothing being changed. Just kinda wondering, i haven't taken the time to look threw roms so i'm not sure what i want to run on this phone yet. But tethering is a must for me
Thanks in advance
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I just installed the rooted stock rom over my default non-rooted install and everything has worked fine with no data loss. I did that mostly because I don't know how to format my phone through Odin. What I did exactly to get root.
As for wifi tether what I did was install the version of the app from the Play Store and then set my phone profile to the Galaxy Nexus. I used the version that was available from the code site in my Thunderbolt before and I have not been "caught" yet. So I would say you're good to go. While I haven't tried it with encryption, I did try to see if my Thunderbolt could connect to my Galaxy S III. It did and after a quick speed test I knew everything was working well (got a 101ms ping with 5mbps down and ~1mbps up).

Tweek900 said:
Ok so i've been looking around here and i've seen people say the best tethering app is WiFi tether. But heres my question, On my x2 i was required to change my radio card settings. Change some numbers around and such. This allowed me to stealth tether, I'm wondering if this WiFi tether app is trackable?
And about rooting, All i'm seeing for vzw rooting is what seems to be flashing the "stock rom" that is rooted and not rooting your current system. So am i going to lose my data and have to start over? And is this something thats being worked on? Because with my x2 it was a 1 click root and it didn't change anything on my phone besides adding the root. My phone stayed on the stock rom with nothing being changed. Just kinda wondering, i haven't taken the time to look threw roms so i'm not sure what i want to run on this phone yet. But tethering is a must for me
Thanks in advance
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No wifi tether is not trackable and flashing a root stock rom in odin wont wipe data. Click link in sig for instructions.

droidstyle said:
No wifi tether is not trackable and flashing a root stock rom in odin wont wipe data. Click link in sig for instructions.
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ok sounds good. So then one more thing i guess. If the wifi tether isn't trackable how do they "catch" people doing it? is it downloading speeds or what? because if they have no real way i'm just going to use my tether on my x2 to download the needed files for rooting the s3 lol
*edit*
also is there an irc channel for the verizon phone and such? and i saw something about "not tripping the flash counter" what does that mean? lol

ok so rooting is done all looks good. Hoping the stealth of this tethering is good lol. Now to wait for a good rom

Can use stock hotspot app
You can also use the stock hotspot app.
Folks have been reporting that if you use a 3rd party launcher widget like this one Tether Widget the the stock hotspot apps works without checking to see if your paying for the "feature".
I've tested this my self and it works fine.

-SmithTech- said:
You can also use the stock hotspot app.
Folks have been reporting that if you use a 3rd party launcher widget like this one Tether Widget the the stock hotspot apps works without checking to see if your paying for the "feature".
I've tested this my self and it works fine.
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nothing against this, and i will look into it, but i'm looking for stealth tethering. This is my home internet, so i'm using a good 20gigs a month

Ok so new issue, i can not turn off cmda, i am in evdo only mode but i still get text messages and that cuts off my data for tethering while it receives :/ anyone know what to do?

Tethering on Vodafone(India)

Hi,
I got a silly problem with my Skyrocket. i am using it in India currently and my Data package allows me to Tether. but since the Skyrocket goes through AT&T it wont let me tether. I was wondering if there is a work around for this or if there is any good tethering app that doesnt need Root or any software installed on the PC.
Thank you

djteotancolis said:
Hi,
I got a silly problem with my Skyrocket. i am using it in India currently and my Data package allows me to Tether. but since the Skyrocket goes through AT&T it wont let me tether. I was wondering if there is a work around for this or if there is any good tethering app that doesnt need Root or any software installed on the PC.
Thank you
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Hello!
Please describe the state of your device in detail. Rom, Radio, any mods etc. Put it in your signature if you don't want to type it every time you post.
Once that is done, always search first. "insert question keyword here"+xda @ google or use XDA's own search. Use keywords in your search. This question is not new and has been answered multiple times before.
Depending on what rom you're on these might be of use:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2256725&highlight=tethering
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2271603&highlight=tethering
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1528884&highlight=tethering
I haven't tested any of the above solutions and I know nothing about them, I just used search. Reply in those threads if you want more info.
Personally I avoid AT&T roms like the plague. Because of the limitations (like the one you're encountering) and because of the bloatware/adware that come with AT&T roms. I recommend EMBRYO or Rogers roms if you want a TouchWiz/stock-based environment.