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Sorry but I haven't seen this question asked anywhere else. Is it possible to simply root the phone and use all of the wonders of root access (ie free tether and the removal of bloat ware) without having to flash a custom rom that may or may not allow my 4g, wifi, and gps to work.
um last i knew u could just root it and use free tether. like opengarden or sumthing from the market. as far a bloatware idk maybe search around the forums for sumthing to flash to it. these guys prolly have sumthing lol
You could root the phone and install a wireless tether app and then use titanium backup pro to freeze bloatware
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That is what I originally did. After a few months though I did install a new ROM.
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Ok I rooted my phone using unrevoked3 with no problems. I was and am able to use the WiFi hotspot for share my internet with other devices over WiFi (no wires) . Now my cousin just got the evo and want to have free WiFi like me and not have to pay Sprint 30 bucks a month for it. His phone is 2.3.3 so unrevoked3 won't work so I tried for the first time revolutionary. I have the Superuser and it is in s-off,,, but when i go to try the sprint WiFi hotspot I get the message that I don't have that on my plan so it doesn't work. It seem to me that it is rooted, so why doesn't this work like it does for me? Do I need to flash a ROM to get it to work or did I goof something up? Please help me out, I spent four hours playing around with this today and reading different threads on rooting the new way,, all for family but feel like I let my cousin down by not getting him what I said I was able to do. So i need to help of some of the brightest techies on the best forum ever!
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Ok I rooted my phone using unrevoked3 with no problems. I was uand am able to use the WiFi hotspot for share my internet with other devices over WiFi (no wires) . Now my cousin just got the evo and want to have free WiFi like me and not have to pay Sprint 30 bucks a month for it. His phone is 2.3.3 so unrevoked3 won't work so I tried for the first time revolutionary. I have the Superuser and it is in s-off,,, but when i go to try the sprint WiFi hotspot I get the message that I don't have that on my plan so it doesn't work. It seem to me that it is rooted, so why doesn't this work like it does for me? Do I need to flash a ROM to get it to work or did I goof something up? Please help me out, I spent four hours playing around with this today and reading different threads on rooting the new way,, all for family but feel like I let my cousin down by not getting him what I said I was able to do. So i need to help of some of the brightest techies on the best forum ever!
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The reason it doesn't work is your trying to use the sprint hotspot you HAVE to flash a Rom to.get the hacked sprint hotspot or you can use a wireless tether app
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just rooted my phone but i cant get any tethering app to work... tried barnacle and "wifi tether for rooot users". i played around with the settings on "wifi tether for rooot users" and i got it to start with no errors with the device set to the s3, but my devices dont see it... am i missing something?!
I am troubleshooting this as well.
Having the same problem, seems like no wi fi tether even with root..
Guess it doesn't work with JB even with the write stuff according to Josh so for now sorry.
Wifi tether isn't working on any of the JB roms for the SIII yet either. It's no surprise that it isn't working on the N2.
wifi tether for root
Was able to get wifi tether for root users to successfully complete all configuration steps when I used the gs3 settings but it still did not appear to be broadcasting a usable wifi network. Hoping someone figures this out soon.
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Was able to get wifi tether for root users to successfully complete all configuration steps when I used the gs3 settings but it still did not appear to be broadcasting a usable wifi network. Hoping someone figures this out soon.
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I had gotten that far before I posted this question. not trying to antagonize you just saying
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any word on hacked hot spots then? iI prefer wfii tether, but anything working would be better. I wonder if it the hack from sg2 can work. won't have mine til Nov 8-19, so iIcan't test.
iI sure hope bb price matches retail price or I'll be returning it and getting it from sprint. 18 mo interstate free is nice, but not if iI gotta pay 150 extra.
no hotspot hacks for a bit. a few spent all day yesterday just getting the 4 in 1 boot option so that should tell everyone its going to be a hard road but the way to think of it is like this. we all have the best phone on the market right now.
there is a way to tether using a rom that has the extended toggles mod by using the hotspots toggle...but there is a catch, you must change your ssid and do a clear data on settings each time you want to tether. It may not be the best method but it'll get you by until the devs come up with something better
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Anyone know which program, since the JB 4.1.1 updated (AT&T SGH-I747) will allow tethering preferably both wifi and usb. I tried this one and can't get it to work with the Samsung S3 profile selected or the Galaxy Nexus GSM profile selected.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...roid.wifi.tether&feature=search_result#?t=W10
Don't think you can unless u root your phone. At&t doesn't allow it.
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Don't think you can unless u root your phone. At&t doesn't allow it.
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I'm rooted. That app I referenced specifically says you need a rooted phone. I just don't see the SSID come up on my notebook. I want something that can also tether USB too, as then I don't have to worry about locking down security on the Wifi or draining the phone battery.
What are the options if you root it?
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uplift777 said:
Don't think you can unless u root your phone. At&t doesn't allow it.
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Been searching for an hour now. Tried two other apps. Neither worked. (Neither said root was necessary). Not willing to pay for Foxfi just to see it not work. Elixir 2 people have used but I think this is all pre Jelly Bean, at least for the GSM (AT&T) version of this phone.
Seems maybe we have to wait. All the apps, videos, posts out there seem to be for ICS. Guess this is the downfall when you update within 24 hours of the update being released. Need to let the developers catch up.
I can confirm pdanet works....havent tried foxfi but im sure it does as well considering how similar they work...
Galaxy S III I747
Prior to update I was using FoxFi and it looks like it still works with Jelly Bean but I'm unable to get the Proxy Add-On to work since Jelly Bean.
Do you think I'll get caught tethering if I run FoxFi without the Add-On or does the Add-On only provide a false sense of security and is really not making a difference?
If it makes a difference, I'm on one of the old 2GB plans, not the new shared plans, but not unlimited either. Also, I'm stock, not rooted.
Finally, if you don't think this works, any suggestions that would work in this situation?
Thanks!
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If it makes a difference, I'm on one of the old 2GB plans, not the new shared plans, but not unlimited either. Also, I'm stock, not rooted.
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I was on the old 5GB plan (the one that allowed tethering) and switched to the new shared plan (since I don't do that much data but do call a lot and wanted the unlimited calling (saves me over a hundred bucks a month)) and on these plans they do allow tethering. From what I understand, you will need to have a rooted phone if you want to tether under any other (older) plan..
fmllc said:
I can confirm pdanet works....havent tried foxfi but im sure it does as well considering how similar they work...
Galaxy S III I747
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I guess we should be specific that we are looking for apps that not only work on JB 4.1.1 but also don't require a tethering or shared data plan. So people say an apps works but fail to point out it's because their carrier is okaying the app since they have a qualifying plan. So pdanet works on JB 4.1.1 SGH-I747 without an AT&T tethering or shared data plan?
jazee said:
I guess we should be specific that we are looking for apps that not only work on JB 4.1.1 but also don't require a tethering or shared data plan. So people say an apps works but fail to point out it's because their carrier is okaying the app since they have a qualifying plan. So pdanet works on JB 4.1.1 SGH-I747 without an AT&T tethering or shared data plan?
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No...you should have said "I have no clue what im doing so can you please explain every single detail to me?". WTF does a tethering plan have to do with you being able to tether or not if youre rooted? You need to disable to tethering provision via TB!
Galaxy S III I747
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I just tried that wifi tether app and it works just fine....you obviously hacent disabled the tethering provision...
Galaxy S III I747
Would this meet your needs?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=35072740#post35072740
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No...you should have said "I have no clue what im doing so can you please explain every single detail to me?". WTF does a tethering plan have to do with you being able to tether or not if youre rooted? You need to disable to tethering provision via TB!
Galaxy S III I747
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I just tried that wifi tether app and it works just fine....you obviously hacent disabled the tethering provision...
Galaxy S III I747
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Not everyone on here has been on an Android phone and screwing with it all their lives. For example, what the heck is "TB" ? Don't assume everyone has as much experience as you, just because they are a participant on XDA. And I should also add on that requirement, NO CUSTOM ROM.
So an appropriate answer might be the following:
If you are on JB 4.1.1 and want to tether without a tethering plan from your carrier, and you are on the STOCK ROM. You need to do this, this, this and this. Or just post a frickin link to someone who DID take the time to explain it for the rest of us. Does your solution require rooting, or doesn't it. STATE IT. So future people when they search the forums, they don't find a bunch of misleading, dead-end solutions and/or bickering.
I just came from iPhone and I was a jailbreaker. I'm loving the S3 and Jelly Bean. But on the iPhone, I'd jailbreak (equivalent of rooting on Android), install MyWiFi, and DONE and DONE. It seems this was how it was on ICS with this phone. Now on JB, not so simple. There's dozens of posts on several threads on several forums around the Internet of people no longer getting their tethering app to work since JB upgrade. These are both rooted and non-rooted, but they are all STOCK JB ROMs.
So please, tell us the trick to get a stock JB 4.1.1 ROM SGH-I747 AT&T to tether without the plan. We are all ears!
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Would this meet your needs?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=35072740#post35072740
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Not sure as I've been to busy with my real life outside of XDA to spend hours reading and reading posts.
Bottom line, if there was an app you can just download and install for ICS before that worked, isn't it just a matter of time until someone publishes an app on Google Play (may require rooting, big deal) that does the same without a bunch of workarounds and crap.
Look one post above yours
Install that zip file via CWM(clockworkmodrecovery)....then download TITANIUM BACKUP (TB...you need the pro version...you can download lucky patcher for that) and go in and freeze the tethering provision app. This will allow you to tether without your carrier knowing...kindof...
P.S. ICS was the same protocol. You have to freeze the tethering provision...
Galaxy S III I747
Thank you. I've got Titanium Backup installed now. So should I just use the built-in AT&T tethering app now or is it 'safer' to use something else?
Found it.
Still no love. CW Recovery and Team Epic Root Installed. TB Pro installed. Tethering Provisioning Uninstalled.
Tried to Tethering Apps on Google Play, neither work. "Free USB Tethering App" and "Wifi Tethering for Root" (tried Auto and Samsung S3 profiles). No Dice. Thought there was an native AT&T app but may have uninstalled it with TB when cleaning out bloatware.
SGH-I747 AT&T
Okay, duh, I found the Tether toggle in Advanced Settings. I also found a couple tether apps that don't require root that actually came up on the network, but I get 'Limited' connectivity indication in Windows with no Internet access.
Now get this, whenever I go into Settings > Advanced > Tether if I toggle it on or off or toggle USB sharing on, I get the message "Settings application has stopped working" Some of the tethering apps also "stop working" when I try to run them even though I see the blue tether notification icon in the status bar and I can see the SSID on the network and connect, but it is as if the phones ability to bridge the wifi hotspot it is providing to the 4G Internet connection is broke.
****. Do I need to load Kies and to a stock firmware restore, or is that not even possible not that I have CW recovery installed. I really really didn't want to get into this Android tweaking Hell and now I'm there. Another wasted frickin weekend! Maybe I'll just go back to iPhone. Hopefully the iOS 6 jailbreak is out now (untethered).
Kind of ticked up about being lead down the road that indicated just freezing the tethering provisioning was the solution to all my woes. Maybe it worked for some (are you on JB 4.1.1 with AT&T SGH-I747???) but not me. After a couple more hours of searching and searching, including all sorts of YouTube videos showing using FoxFi, Wifi Tether for Root, etc, and then a lot of recent comments about it nor working. Anyways.....
Soultion is a newer hacked version of Wifi Tether for Rooted user that is not on the Play Store and the apk has to be downloaded directly. Current version is here:
http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=9390195663897100406
YouTube Video on it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztsZH6Xj7A0
What a pain in the ass it took to finally find this. Guess that's the price you pay when you are brand new to Android and an OS update comes out two weeks after you got your phone and you install it the day it comes out. Sigh.
Ugh. Got too excited too quick. You can't toggle Wifi back on after shutting down tethering without restarting phone! Guess it's going to be a few more days until some good developers come out with a simple one-app solution without issues. It was WAY easier to get free tethering on the jailbroken iPhone that this. I'm shocked this is so hard right now on Android JB 4.1.1. But I have to remember the OS update just came out.
I'm on an older TMobile business value plan that includes 5GB high speed data, but no tethering. Given the seeming uncertainty of the various root methods at the moment I'm staying completely stock for now. Are there any wifi tethering solutions that will work for me right now? I've tried FoxFi but I always get the T-Mobile upsell page. I'd be happy to pay for any app that actually works.
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I'm on an older TMobile business value plan that includes 5GB high speed data, but no tethering. Given the seeming uncertainty of the various root methods at the moment I'm staying completely stock for now. Are there any wifi tethering solutions that will work for me right now? I've tried FoxFi but I always get the T-Mobile upsell page. I'd be happy to pay for any app that actually works.
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Without root there is no solution for wifi tethering and all the other features
and options people enjoy with their rooted phones.
If all you do is root the phone without flashing any custom roms then
it's really easy to get the phone back to official stock condition just by
opening the supersu app and select option to fully "unroot".
After doing that your phone will be in the exact same condition as it is right now. (unrooted)
Good luck!
Misterjunky said:
Without root there is no solution for wifi tethering and all the other features
and options people enjoy with their rooted phones.
If all you do is root the phone without flashing any custom roms then
it's really easy to get the phone back to official stock condition just by
opening the supersu app and select option to fully "unroot".
After doing that your phone will be in the exact same condition as it is right now. (unrooted)
Good luck!
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I have a question for you then. I have the Sprint Samasung Galaxy Note 2, and I love my roms and root. The main thing I love with root is the ability to wifi tether and use my tablet in my car or where ever. How would I go about getting the new 4.3 OTA coming out on Nov 20th to Sprint, and still have my wifi tether. Can I go back to stock, take the 4.3 OTA and just simply root and turn on wifi tethering? Or is it rom specific or a specific apk? Thanks, I really want the 4.3 official and wifi tethering. Then I would be happy for a while.
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I have a question for you then. I have the Sprint Samasung Galaxy Note 2, and I love my roms and root. The main thing I love with root is the ability to wifi tether and use my tablet in my car or where ever. How would I go about getting the new 4.3 OTA coming out on Nov 20th to Sprint, and still have my wifi tether. Can I go back to stock, take the 4.3 OTA and just simply root and turn on wifi tethering? Or is it rom specific or a specific apk? Thanks, I really want the 4.3 official and wifi tethering. Then I would be happy for a while.
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Wouldn't you ask this in the Sprint Note 3 thread? This is T-Mobile thread.
Pdanet paid version with FoxFi. Do some looking into that
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Ah forget about it. For $5/more per month they added tethering, I'm tired of finding workarounds.
Picked up the Note yesterday, retiring and storing my s4 for emergency use with had Hyperdrive and Tether. Is there a way to bypass the subscription check it runs when you start the tether up? I have unlimited data and use it mostly for tethering since my university's WiFi is awful. I could have sworn there was something you had to set to true and it would bypass the check on other phones. What really drags is we don't have root yet so it makes this quite difficult. Any help is welcome!
Try Foxfi. Works without root. Do a search...topic has been discussed at length.
Thought about using that app, but the free version only gives you so much bandwidth or something like that. I like the idea of just using the stock app. Is this my only option until root and other Roms follow?
I was swapping my SIM back and forth between my rooted note 2 so that I could hotspot, but then I found out foxfi works on the unrooted note 4. I haven't bought the paid version yet, but probably will just for convenience.
Yes...been using paid version for a month, works flawlessly.
Thanks guys!