[Mod] Enable Wifi Tethering (Recovery Flashable)

Pure+ · Apr 27, 2014

This mod will enable the Native Tethering on your AT&T HTC M8. All credit for the creation of this mod goes to Miller_Kid for his excellent work.

The purpose of this mod is for those of us (myself included) to be able to stay on our stock rom and still be able to enjoy a feature that is, by default blocked by the carrier, without flashing any custom rom.

Requirements
1- Custom Recovery

Install
1- Download the ZIP (Below)
2- Place on internal or external memory (user preference)
3- Flash in recovery
4- Wipe Dalvik/Cache
5- Profit!

Download
(click mod name to download)
WiFiHS Zip

Pure+ · Apr 27, 2014

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Johnny424 · Apr 30, 2014

Is everyone having issue with WiFi tethering on stock? I connect no problem, although I don't ever tether

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Pure+ · Apr 30, 2014

Johnny424 said:
Is everyone having issue with WiFi tethering on stock? I connect no problem, although I don't ever tether

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If you don't have a plan that supports tethering, because AT&T only allows the feature on certain data plans, you won't be able to get it.

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jjbusa · Apr 30, 2014

Do you need soff? Cause I tried it now and it force closes my setting app when trying to turn on and I'm s_on

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Pure+ · Apr 30, 2014

jjbusa said:
Do you need soff? Cause I tried it now and it force closes my setting app when trying to turn on and I'm s_on

Sent from my HTC One_M8 using xda premium

No you don't. I am 100% stock other than being rooted w/ TWRP and it worked and continues to work flawlessly for me. Did you make sure to wipe cache's?

jjbusa · May 1, 2014

Yea weird I dl wifi tether router n good to go. Paid n worth it
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Pure+ · May 1, 2014

jjbusa said:
Yea weird I dl wifi tether router n good to go. Paid n worth it
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Sorry it didn't work for you. I personally flashed it multiple times across several different M8's and never had anything of that sort happen through all the tests.

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sameer1807 · May 1, 2014

Thanks

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paullu · May 1, 2014

Pure+ said:
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hi I want to know If I got att unlocked version of m8
and I use it on tmobile company can I flash this to make wifi tethering?

Pure+ · May 1, 2014

paullu said:
hi I want to know If I got att unlocked version of m8
and I use it on tmobile company can I flash this to make wifi tethering?

No I do not. I can't verify that this will work on anything besides an AT&T M8. But you are welcome to try. Just make a nandroid backup before you flash it.

Sent from my HTC M8

krakerx · May 9, 2014

jjbusa said:
Do you need soff? Cause I tried it now and it force closes my setting app when trying to turn on and I'm s_on

Sent from my HTC One_M8 using xda premium

Did you ever get it figured out? I just flashed the fix, and my settings page force closes as well.

I'm on AT&T stock, rooted, Dev unlocked, with CarrierIQ mod

jjbusa · May 9, 2014

krakerx said:
Did you ever get it figured out? I just flashed the fix, and my settings page force closes as well.

I'm on AT&T stock, rooted, Dev unlocked, with CarrierIQ mod

No I just downloaded wifi tether router works like a charm. Reboots after first setup but then works every time

krakerx · May 9, 2014

Turns out by freezing Mobile Hotspot and the WiFi Hotspot widget in Titanium Backup caused my FCs. Once defrosted, I was able to get back into the HotSpot settings, and able to connect via my tablet.

Thanks OP for the upload!

Pure+ · May 9, 2014

krakerx said:
Turns out by freezing Mobile Hotspot and the WiFi Hotspot widget in Titanium Backup caused my FCs. Once defrosted, I was able to get back into the HotSpot settings, and able to connect via my tablet.

Thanks OP for the upload!

Glad you figured it out. And hopefully you solve will help others.

Sent from my nV:M8

volcalstone · Jun 10, 2014

I want to try this mod but I have THE question, will AT&T detect that I'm tethering on my unlimited data plan? Cause they don't play nice when it comes to this at all. Thanks.

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Pure+ · Jun 10, 2014

volcalstone said:
I want to try this mod but I have THE question, will AT&T detect that I'm tethering on my unlimited data plan? Cause they don't play nice when it comes to this at all. Thanks.

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All this does is remove the limitation that's built into the system of the device. It does not change anything other than a string of code on the device itself. I can't guarantee AT&T will not figure it out, but if you are smart about it they'll never know. I use tethering every once in a while when my home wifi is struggling. I mainly tether to my iPad mini for streaming YouTube, but occasionally other things like movies and downloading games as well. AT&T never caught on to me. Sadly my dad took it upon himself to change our entire families data plan so he save a measly $5 a person. I told him I'd give him the damn $25 a month but oh well.... Maybe I'll just tether more and we'll go over our data usage and then he'll have to switch it. I've already confirmed with a friend at AT&T that I can have mine back dated and re-activated.

Anyway, enough of being sidetracked, to make a long explanation short.... You won't get caught because of this mod. You'd only get caught of you way way way over use this mod.

redpoint73 · Jun 10, 2014

volcalstone said:
I want to try this mod but I have THE question, will AT&T detect that I'm tethering on my unlimited data plan? Cause they don't play nice when it comes to this at all. Thanks.

Agree with all in the above response to this question. Also, AT&T's method of detection is network based. There is nothing I have seen that on the phone side (mod, etc) that can prevent this.

If your behavior is discrete, and usage is low and only occasional, you will not be caught. Tether large amounts of data, and you will almost certainly be caught.

Pure+ · Jun 10, 2014

redpoint73 said:
Agree with all in the above response to this question. Also, AT&T's method of detection is network based. There is nothing I have seen that on the phone side (mod, etc) that can prevent this.

If your behavior is discrete, and usage is low and only occasional, you will not be caught. Tether large amounts of data, and you will almost certainly be caught.

Agreed on all but the large amounts of data. I would agree with this when on computer and full websites, but like on the iPad or other tablet that use mobile websites rather than full sized I believe your safe because their detection would see that it's a mobile format and therefore not arouse suspicion (If that makes sense)...

Sent from my vR:M8

redpoint73 · Jun 10, 2014

Pure+ said:
Agreed on all but the large amounts of data. I would agree with this when on computer and full websites, but like on the iPad or other tablet that use mobile websites rather than full sized I believe your safe because their detection would see that it's a mobile format and therefore not arouse suspicion (If that makes sense)...

Its unlikely they are looking at webpages and whether they were mobile format or not. The data packets are tagged as tethered, it doesn't matter whether you were viewing mobile pages or not (and that isn't going to conceal the tethering). At least that what folks here that are smarter than me have stated. If true, that means that AT&T can detect any tethering, they just choose not to enforce with zero tolerance (possibly because its simply not practical), but rather to use some additional parameters to decide whether a person is going to receive the "warning" email and subsequently have a tethering plan added to their account.

Nobody here knows for sure what parameters AT&T uses to trigger the "warning" email (and probably not info that AT&T is going to volunteer). But volume of tethered data has been reasonably speculated. I'm surprised to hear that you were able stream YouTube, other movies, and downloads, without getting caught. Could be you were just lucky; or you are in fact correct that tethered data volume is not the key indicator. Nobody except folks at AT&T know for sure.

My advice is still to keep tethered usage to a minimum, in order to stay of their radar.

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