PLEASE MOVE BACK TO DEV FORUM:: FIX the stock sprint hotspot app in rooted ROMs

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EDIT: Moderators, please move this back to the DEV forum. It's an outstanding issue that ROM DEVs should know about.

I've noticed that the sprint hotspot app doesnt work in any of the rooted ROMs -- it connects but the computer has no internet access.
I added in the sprint hotspot $30/mo to my account and still didn't work.
I tried it in the stock rom, it works via 3g just fine.

So, got back on the rooted rom and the fix is pretty simple:

adb shell 
su
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o rmnet0 -j MASQUERADE

I just don't know how to fix it permanently so I don't have to do it every reboot. It's gotta be simple. Any ideas?

Originally Posted by npace

I've noticed that the sprint hotspot app doesnt work in any of the rooted ROMs -- it connects but the computer has no internet access.
I added in the sprint hotspot $30/mo to my account and still didn't work.
I tried it in the stock rom, it works via 3g just fine.

So, got back on the rooted rom and the fix is pretty simple:

adb shell 
su
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o rmnet0 -j MASQUERADE

I just don't know how to fix it permanently so I don't have to do it every reboot. It's gotta be simple. Any ideas?

will this work if you don't pay $30/mo?

Mine worked without it.

if you root why pay the $30 instead of using the free wifi router app???

Until sometime in July the hotspot works for free as long as you are on 4G. Some kind of loophole that Sprint isn't really acknowledging.

Yeah, I just got off the phone with Sprint. She said is wasn't the same thing first. The said it wouldn't work if I didn't pay for it. She may be wrong on both counts. They never seem to know what they are talking about. I'll stick to WiFi tether just to be safe.

the 4g hotspot works for me but if i tried turning on the hotspot in a 3g area i get a error code 67. pretty stupid of sprint

This thread is garbage right now. I can't extract a single useful piece of information from it.

What lead you to discover the IP-tables hack?

Does the sprint app still change your apn data?

Does HTC Sync USB tethering work?

What root method are you using?

Does it work without the $30 fee?

Originally Posted by andrew500

This thread is garbage right now. I can't extract a single useful piece of information from it.

What lead you to discover the IP-tables hack?

Andrew,
First, thanks for your great work on the wifi infrastructure mode.

I was just trying to get the stock hotspot app to work on rooted roms for people that do want to pay $30 bucks a month. It connects, DHCP works, I get an IP, but no internet... so that made me thing that masq didn't work properly...

Since this was one of the few things I remember back from ipchains days along with the /etc/ip_forward file containing "1", I simply tried it.
Turns out it fixes my issue.

Does the sprint app still change your apn data?

If it did it before the iptables command, it would be doing it after as well.
This is not a sprint issue -- it's an issue with the ROMs

Does HTC Sync USB tethering work?

I dont know -- I can't get my computer to "see" it

What root method are you using?

Toast's -- never tried the unrevoked.
Also used flipz roms and the android central ones (1.1 and 1.2)

Does it work without the $30 fee?

No. I never implied it does. You should get the Error 67 or whatever if you don't pay but try to tether with 3G.

So I was just hoping someone would have a permanent fix in a future rom.

bump. please move to dev