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Tweaking my Galaxy S5?
I know some of you are pretty tech savvy. Maybe one of you could help me out.
Trying to hack the software in my Samsung Galaxy S5 to enable hotspot or tethering functionality. My wife is going to need a little bit of Internet service for her iPad at an upcoming event and I was hoping to just route it through my phone. Turns out it's not that simple.
Thanks.
You'd need to root and I've heard that it's pretty sketchy with the new Samsung phones. Have you talked to your carrier to find out what the cost would be to add that functionality?
Root it but you could brick it
Who is your carrier
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Already rooted the phone. Just can't figure out where to go from there.
My carrier (Sprint) would be happy to charge me for the service I'm sure. It just goes against my principles to pay twice for the same data. I mean they let me use the data directly from the phone but god forbid I hook up another device through the phone to use the same data I'm paying for anyways.
Install Cyanogenmod (a lot more benefits than just hotspot) and you're good to go.Originally Posted by ray1970
Can a monkey with downsyndrome figure that out? That's about what I feel like trying to do anything software related.
? My GS5 Active (on AT&T) had hotspot/USB tethering enabled natively, no rooting required. What model number are you using? If you pull down your configuration "gear" icon and scroll all the way down to the "About Device" icon, you should be able to see the model number as "SAMSUNG-SM-XXXXX".
You DID click on the gear and scroll down to the "Network Connections", right? There should be an icon labeled "Tethering and Mobile Hotspot". If you can see that, open it and you should have two options. Touch Mobile Hotspot and there's a slider to move from Off to On. You'll have to set it up with a Hotspot name and you probably want to enable a key so only you can use the bandwidth.
The features are there. Unfortunately, my carrier has seen fit to disable them. When you turn them on it disables the data functions of the phone and gives you a message saying you need to pay extra for using the function.
Ah, yes, T-Mobile did that when I migrated from my unlimited data "Android Web" plan to one of their newer plans when I activated a GS4. What they are doing is detecting how the data is being requested and when the headers don't conform to the built-in browser or apps, they assume the data request is coming from off the phone and therefore gets blocked. I believe some of the wizards at XDA have built some apps for rooted phones that will disguise the packet traffic to look like the built-in browser but I haven't looked into that since about 2012 so not current -- and you NEED to be current in that arms race. I have to check my Ting GS4 -- it rides on Sprint but is a backup phone so I don't know if the hotspot feature is disabled or not.
Install a custom recovery and it's really simple.
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