I am hoping someone here will have mercy on me with my newb dilemma and give it the time for an answer.
I am a recent Galaxy S4 user- only 3 days ago (after 6+ years of jailbreaking every iPhone they've made.) So I am admittedly a bit new to all of this...
My S4 is a on a Sprint carrier, L720...MDC
Day 1: I rooted it, successfully (using Odin and CF-Auto-Root-jfltespr-jfltespr-sphl720.tar)
Later that day I flashed it with TWRP with a Wifi-tether workaround I got from downloadandroidrom.com. Everything I used was quite specifically for my model phone, carrier, modexed, etc... Still, after flashing I ended up in a start-up loop. (would hang at the startup Samsung logo)
Day 2: Things became difficult at this point since I had no more internet access. I needed to go research this at a friends and downloaded the STOCK rom in order to recover. After flashing the Rom I was back in biz! Yay!
...Or so I thought- Seems NOW I have no option in my settings panel for Wifi tether "Hotspot" AT ALL. It is no longer there! How can this be? I have tried flashing to stock and re-rooting, etc a bunch of different things but I cannot get it back. It WAS there because I tried it day one, before rooting, just to see what it would do. It clearly had "Hotspot" with a toggle between the WiFi and Bluetooth toggles.
I tried every app I could find (FoxFi, Easy Tether, etc...) but the phone warns me that "Hotspot not supported"
Day 3: I asked around and browsed all the developer sites for info but could find no answers.
At the end of the day I tried CWM's "Tether" app. THIS WORKED!
So my questions:
ARE there any ROMs I can flash this particular phone with? I can't seem to find ANY that specifically mention my firmware etc... (except the stock)
IS that even important? Can I flash it with Wicked, for instance?
What would YOU try in order to gain a hotspot? (untethered)
Thanks for ANY help or advice you can offer!
Yes you can tether.
Yes you can tether with MDC.
Yes you can tether with just a rooted stock ROM.
Yes there are ROMs that have tethering built in.
First thing you might want to do is spend some time going through the stickies and how-tos. They are very helpful.
Then maybe getting your phone to the latest firmware - MF9 (there are a few stickies and posts about that).
I use crawrj's hotspot mod on my phone (MF9) without issue.
Maybe just try a rooted stock MF9 and then add the hotspot and then go from there.
On the stock ROM, the wifi tether hotspot option will show up only after you allow sprint customization to run. If you installed the stock ROM, and skipped the sprint customization, the wifi tether option won't show up.
Once you get the wifi tether option, you can go to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2256950 to download the appropriate version (MDC/MDL/MF9 - odexed/deodexed) to flash in custom recovery - that will give you the hotspot mod.
If you want to go to stock MF9 (latest version for the Sprint S4), go to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2277480
Thanks!
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On the stock ROM, the wifi tether hotspot option will show up only after you allow sprint customization to run. If you installed the stock ROM, and skipped the sprint customization, the wifi tether option won't show up.]
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I may be asking this prematurely since I am going to read up more on this per your advice, but I am curious about how I was supposed to "allow the customization to run."
I used the Odin installer and it just went through a loading process, more-or-less on it's own. I have reloaded the stock ROM a few times now and I saw no prompts for anything, though I had the Auto-restart option checked so it just restarted and I went from there. Should I not have had the auto restart on? At what point do I allow this customization?
TIA
PS. I was thinking a bit more about it and are you possibly talking about the "updating" to applications that occurs at first startup? 160-something updates as I recall in a blue modal dialog... This happens even after just TWRKing the hotspot zip though, so I am not sure it could be that- but if so, I have never interrupted that. I would be afraid to!
I'm having the same issue as OP, and like him, I don't exactly understand what everyone is saying by the "Sprint customization".. I've flashed multiple times but I never get any prompt from Sprint or anything, just the standard setup for my Google account.
I've tried searching all over about this, but there doesn't seem to be that much on this unfortunately...
PS. I was thinking a bit more about it and are you possibly talking about the "updating" to applications that occurs at first startup? 160-something updates as I recall in a blue modal dialog... This happens even after just TWRKing the hotspot zip though, so I am not sure it could be that- but if so, I have never interrupted that. I would be afraid to!
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Correct a mundo on that. DONT stop that.
I have no idea what the 'sprint custmization' thingy he's talking about. May just the 'updating applications' but I don't know.
If you clear the dalvik cache, which the updater script for the hotspot mod does, or do it manually, you will always see that 'updating applications...' that is the system building the dalvik.
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Correct a mundo on that. DONT stop that.
I have no idea what the 'sprint custmization' thingy he's talking about. May just the 'updating applications' but I don't know.
If you clear the dalvik cache, which the updater script for the hotspot mod does, or do it manually, you will always see that 'updating applications...' that is the system building the dalvik.
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Our issue isn't getting crawrj's mod to work, it's that there is literally no "Hotspot" button in our settings menu. I'm using Sac's custom ROM right now and the selection is missing for me as well. I had it for my old MF9 stock version, so I have no idea where it went...
From the few people who've had this same issue, it's what jj14 said about needing to let Sprint run their "customization", but I'm never being prompted by Sprint to let anything install on my phone after various resets, so I'm quite lost...
Such a frustrating roadblock, got the mod and everything, just literally can't "turn it on". Because, well... The button. Isn't there. :/
None of the standard apps i used on the GN2 work either.
chosenhobo said:
Our issue isn't getting crawrj's mod to work, it's that there is literally no "Hotspot" button in our settings menu. I'm using Sac's custom ROM right now and the selection is missing for me as well. I had it for my old MF9 stock version, so I have no idea where it went...
From the few people who've had this same issue, it's what jj14 said about needing to let Sprint run their "customization", but I'm never being prompted by Sprint to let anything install on my phone after various resets, so I'm quite lost...
Such a frustrating roadblock, got the mod and everything, just literally can't "turn it on". Because, well... The button. Isn't there. :/
None of the standard apps i used on the GN2 work either.
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Our issue isn't getting crawrj's mod to work, it's that there is literally no "Hotspot" button in our settings menu. I'm using Sac's custom ROM right now and the selection is missing for me as well. I had it for my old MF9 stock version, so I have no idea where it went...
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Much of that issue discussed in crawj's thread and in a few others.
Though I don't have hotspot in my dropdown/menu/status bar I DO have it in the System Settings>Connections>Hotspot.
All I have to do is turn it on and it works (and of course I can then adjust any settings.).
I did try some of the things suggested (like adjusting stuff in the dbase(s) tables) in the follow-up posts to get it to show in the drop down, but never got that. Again just a VERY minor thing for me. As long as I can actually USE the tether/hotspot I'm good.
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All right sport, don't know what else to tell. Have fun with that.
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octojofo said:
I may be asking this prematurely since I am going to read up more on this per your advice, but I am curious about how I was supposed to "allow the customization to run."
I used the Odin installer and it just went through a loading process, more-or-less on it's own. I have reloaded the stock ROM a few times now and I saw no prompts for anything, though I had the Auto-restart option checked so it just restarted and I went from there. Should I not have had the auto restart on? At what point do I allow this customization?
TIA
PS. I was thinking a bit more about it and are you possibly talking about the "updating" to applications that occurs at first startup? 160-something updates as I recall in a blue modal dialog... This happens even after just TWRKing the hotspot zip though, so I am not sure it could be that- but if so, I have never interrupted that. I would be afraid to!
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Sorry about the delay in responding - was out of town.
When you flash the stock ROM, after the reboot, the phone does one update from Sprint. I'm told that this is the one that loads Sprint's bloat (sprint zone, sprint ID etc), along with the activation, and it is during this update, that the hotspot feature is made available on the phone.
(and I'm not referring to the Updating applications" message - that is just the android OS rebuilding the cache.
On a related note, I found this link - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=44779759 - you can try this out to see if this helps.
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Our issue isn't getting crawrj's mod to work, it's that there is literally no "Hotspot" button in our settings menu. I'm using Sac's custom ROM right now and the selection is missing for me as well. I had it for my old MF9 stock version, so I have no idea where it went...
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I'm pretty sure that Sprint's customization process doesn't run on most custom ROMs - the hotspot feature should be built into the custom ROM directly - if it is missing, you may want to reach out the developer and ask for suggestions/workarounds.
Having issues encrypting system now that phone is rooted it just reboots without enabling no matter if i try fast or normal version now that rooted.
I have recently got safestrap setup and i was wondering which rom is closest to stock but has system encryption working .
Thanks in advance not too many roms out sadly yet for this device and verizon atm
so may have to try them all and see which works trial and error but would like to save myself some time and/or if anyone knows a work around to make this work i would be much appreciated just want android system encryption working with rooted stock ideally so if i can fix that without needing a rom all the better
Hey guys.
Ive got only 1 goal for this otherwise unused phone, and thats to spoof, mainly pokemon and the likes. Spare me the lecture on ethics please as I have my reasoning.
The question is quite simple, whats the best and easiest ROM etc to spoof properly ? Ive done my homework, I'm comfortable in flashing anything for any reason. Theres just so much spread information besides just going back to mm 6.0. Theres so much custom stuff with mixed results, i kinda wanna save myself the trouble if someone else already went through it, just cant see the forest for the trees.
Theres another thing im wondering about related to the same.
My Mate 10 lite, ive been wanting to spoof on that as well. But I couldnt get it to work properly with magisk and safetynet. After reflashing stock rom and going through trial and error, Ive managed to make it work.
I wiped and flashed the stock rom from this thread ( Seemed to save me some hassle with what i was doing ): https://forum.xda-developers.com/ma...pilation-firmware-flasheables-huawei-t3761483
-Huawei Mate 10 Lite-RNE-L21C432B130
Thing is, I was trying to move the spoofing app as system app, wich ive tried before, but it wouldnt show without root.
However, for some reason, Ive done another wipe, flashed, put it as system app, and now its there, with no root, and not triggering safetynet. I have to add I havent specifically tested it yet, but Im for sure unrooted, and pogo and the likes run without problems whatsoever. How is this possible ? I wasnt able to have the app working as system app without root before but it is now for some reason. I just want to know why. Cannot replicate this on my p9.
Best regards,
After all of my modifications are done I cant hear any sound from in or outgoing calls. This happened with my last phone & i cant remember what fixed it, does anyone have any idea what would cause that? Im having to completely redo my phone from scratch because i cannot find a fix & i would like to know what im doing to cause this. Anyone else experiencing the same problem or have an idea oh what it is? I really kind of hate this phone, I love the hardware but the software is bullsh** I can make a backup but its pointless because the phone wont boot afterwards.
You could list what ROM, and what mods you are using?
Im running a custom ROM and a couple magisk modules, no issues. Generally it would be besylt practice to flash things one at a time to figure out what is causing your problem.
Im using Xtended Xploited rom with edexposed using gravity box. I Think it might be happening when I start my personal debloating but not 100% sure. Ive got a few more tweaks in system settings & setting up gravity box left to do & i can still call out thank god. Twrp backups are pointless they never work, It finishes successfully but I get a bootloop everytime unless i format the data prior to rebooting after restore finishes so experimenting is kind of scary. Ive had to reflash this phone from scratch countless times trying different mods like the partition resizer didnt work of course. I just know Ive had this problem on a different phone thought it might be a thing somebody could identify.
What rom are you using? Ive tried all the roms & only Xtended has all the features I like except for smartbar, I love smartbar & dont understand why it doesnt come with any of the 6t roms.
OhioYJ said:
You could list what ROM, and what mods you are using?
Im running a custom ROM and a couple magisk modules, no issues. Generally it would be besylt practice to flash things one at a time to figure out what is causing your problem.
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I recently destroyed my front glass by dropping my phone. I decided to repair it and while im at it also make the back glass clear as well as remove some of the plastic covers. However now as soon as i unlock the phone or the displays dimms out it crashes. Im running the stock MIUI and never had such problems before.
I've made a short video to show whats happening, but im not allowed to post a youtube link....
youtu(.)be/8sY4U2h9S0o just remove the parentheses from the link
While the logical conclusion would be that i broke something physical while working on the phone, i am suprised that it only crashes when unlocked.
I have not yet tried to wipe the phone data because i would like to avoid the extra works which comes with it.
If somebody has an idea what fix i could try please let me know because i am quit puzzled as to whats going on.
Thanks in advanced,
Jonas
I had the same issue in a custom rom (msm xtended) i fixed it by flashing a zip that removes your fingerprint and pin or schema (u can do it with twrp just follow this link)
https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/software-hacking/remove-lockscreen-recovery-t3530008
Oh and if u don't have a custom recovery the only way is to format data but i guess it wouldnt remove your lockscreen files and will keep asking for the same fp and pin