[GUIDE][Edit APN Settings _No Root] Enable Hotspot

[BlueFox721]

**Welcome to the Fox Den!**

This is a short guide for accessing the APN settings to edit, as well as enabling Native Hotspot while you're in there.

This method involves using Shortcut Master Lite to access the APN settings so that it can be edited to add needed settings without using ADB. The steps are as follows:

Step 1 - Download Shortcut Master Lite from the Play Store.
Step 2 - Open Shortcut Master Lite and select the Menu (three vertical dots in the upper right).
Step 3 - Select App Explorer, and then All Apps
Step 4 – Navigate (scroll down) to com.test.LTEfunctionality and select.
Step 5 – Select the first item labled "LTEFunctionalityTest" and select launch.
Step 6 – Scroll down to LTE APN Setting and select.
Step 7 – Select the APN setting to edit or select add to add your own.
Step 8 – After editing or adding APN settings, select menu and save your settings.
Congratulations, you have successfully edited and saved your APN settings.

Enable Native Hotspot​

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Step 10 –Select APN2 LTE internet (Sprint) or your carrier internet APN.
Step 11 - Scroll down to APN type and select.
Step 12 - Add "DUN" to the setting (it should read "default,mms,DUN") without quotations.
Step 13 - Select Menu and save your settings
Congratulations, your device now has Native Hotspot without having to toggle data!​

*I have tested this on Unlocked and Carrier version on Sprint as well as my wife's Sprint S8+. Survives reboot and updates (latest one anyways).

Update : must reapply if you update prl or profile!
Disable automatic updates so that profile updates does not remove!

Please let me know if you have to add anything specifically for other carriers and I will update this post.*

And as always, I cannot be held liable for the damage or malfunction of your device using these files,
you proceed at your own risk and remove my liability by continuing to the downloads portion of this post!

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Downloads:
Shortcut Master Lite

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[rockky]

Can't you just set up a new APN set in settings?

 

[BlueFox721]

Can't you just set up a new APN set in settings?

It is greyed out for many...editing the actual settings, for hotspot, prevent having to toggle data on and off...for one example....no need for adb as well....

 

[jester450]

Does anyone know if this also works for Bluetooth tether?

 

[slickdaddy96]

Similar question since you figured this out. Is there a way to modify the APN2 in a roundabout way like this that bypasses the proxy servers for carriers like sprint since modifying the APN2 directly is out of the question since much is grayed out.

Sent from my SM-N950U using Tapatalk

 

[BlueFox721]

Similar question since you figured this out. Is there a way to modify the APN2 in a roundabout way like this that bypasses the proxy servers for carriers like sprint since modifying the APN2 directly is out of the question since much is grayed out.

My apn2 is not grayed out if I go through the shortcut...

 

[slickdaddy96]

My apn2 is not grayed out if I go through the shortcut...

I'm sorry I mean when I go to the ##3282## menu to get rid of the proxy is not under the APN's. It is under "Data Profile" which when you click on it is all greyed out and can't be modified. That is what I need to be able to edit to bypass proxys and prevent sprint from throttling.

Wondering if there is a shortcut to get to that as well to be able the modfiy those settings.

Edit: sorry that is not where I need to edit. I need to find a Multimedia menu option in the DATA menu which for the Note 8 there isn't one listed. I then need to modify RTST Proxy, HTTPPD Proxy to all 0.0.0.0's

Anyone know where that option or a shortcut to that option is?

Sent from my SM-N950U using Tapatalk

 

[BlueFox721]

I'm sorry I mean when I go to the ##3282## menu to get rid of the proxy is not under the APN's. It is under "Data Profile" which when you click on it is all greyed out and can't be modified. That is what I need to be able to edit to bypass proxys and prevent sprint from throttling.

Wondering if there is a shortcut to get to that as well to be able the modfiy those settings.

Edit: sorry that is not where I need to edit. I need to find a Multimedia menu option in the DATA menu which for the Note 8 there isn't one listed. I then need to modify RTST Proxy, HTTPPD Proxy to all 0.0.0.0's

Anyone know where that option or a shortcut to that option is?

I looked in the ims settings and in other settings and could not find it yet...can you edit after getting your MSL # from Sprint

 

[kosmo42o]

Wow this was easier than adb bypass

 

[poopsoncats]

Does this works for the TMobile version?

Sent from my SM-N950U using XDA-Developers Legacy app

 

[Sun1914]

I am completely new to this process. What should I be editing or adding to the apn?? Edit or add what exactly?

Sent from my SM-N950U using Tapatalk

 

[BlueFox721]

I am completely new to this process. What should I be editing or adding to the apn?? Edit or add what exactly?

Step 12 in OP

 

[kosmo42o]

Tried to do same for note 5 but can't find the LTE test string

 

[b3y0ndd34th]

This doesn't seem to work for the Verizon version. When I click on the launch button for the "LTE APN Setting", nothing happens.

Any idea how to get past this?

 

[BlueFox721]

This doesn't seem to work for the Verizon version. When I click on the launch button for the "LTE APN Setting", nothing happens.

Any idea how to get past this?

Sorry, I don't have access to a Verizon phone...you might find a test feature in the settings...

did you try the adb method? That method works but you have to disable the Verizon hotspot app and toggle the data on a and off when using the hotspot...

Alternatively you can try ##3282# and select edit and then enter your MSL # (can get it from your carrier)...

 

[b3y0ndd34th]

Sorry, I don't have access to a Verizon phone...you might find a test feature in the settings...

did you try the adb method? That method works but you have to disable the Verizon hotspot app and toggle the data on a and off when using the hotspot...

Alternatively you can try ##3282# and select edit and then enter your MSL # (can get it from your carrier)...

##3282# does nothing on my verizon phone, it doesn't open a hidden menu. I will play with some of the other menus see if I can't get in.

I have tried using the Disabler method to disable the apps, that doesn't seem to work. I followed the instructions for ADB but when I turn of mobile data it just complains it doesn't turn on the Hotspot.

I have tried the "Bad wi-fi" password method which also doesn't work because when I enable my hotspot it immediately disables my Wi-Fi before I can disable it manually.

I have tried leaving mobile data on, turning on the hotspot and before I can turn mobile data off, the app is already complaining about my lack of a subscription.


It seems to me like Verizon is serious LOL!

 

[ssuraj83]

Thank you OP.
Works for me.

 

[raptors2k]

**Welcome to the Fox Den!**

This is a short guide for accessing the APN settings to edit, as well as enabling Native Hotspot while you're in there.

This method involves using Shortcut Master Lite to access the APN settings so that it can be edited to add needed settings without using ADB. The steps are as follows:

Step 1 - Download Shortcut Master Lite from the Play Store.
Step 2 - Open Shortcut Master Lite and select the Menu (three vertical dots in the upper right).
Step 3 - Select App Explorer, and then All Apps
Step 4 – Navigate (scroll down) to com.test.LTEfunctionality and select.
Step 5 – Select the first item labled "LTEFunctionalityTest" and select launch.
Step 6 – Scroll down to LTE APN Setting and select.
Step 7 – Select the APN setting to edit or select add to add your own.
Step 8 – After editing or adding APN settings, select menu and save your settings.
Congratulations, you have successfully edited and saved your APN settings.

Enable Native Hotspot​

​

Step 10 –Select APN2 LTE internet (Sprint) or your carrier internet APN.
Step 11 - Scroll down to APN type and select.
Step 12 - Add "DUN" to the setting (it should read "default,mms,DUN") without quotations.
Step 13 - Select Menu and save your settings
Congratulations, your device now has Native Hotspot without having to toggle data!​

*I have tested this on Unlocked and Carrier version on Sprint as well as my wife's Sprint S8+. Survives reboot and updates (latest one anyways).

Update : must reapply if you update prl or profile!

Please let me know if you have to add anything specifically for other carriers and I will update this post.*

And as always, I cannot be held liable for the damage or malfunction of your device using these files,
you proceed at your own risk and remove my liability by continuing to the downloads portion of this post!

*********************************************************************

Downloads:
Shortcut Master Lite

*********************************************************************

Hit Thanks, If I Helped You!

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Wow,

I"m speechless. it works with out root. Do I need to VPN block this, or Sprint Won't even noticed?.
many many many thanks to you. And pm me if u need donation to keep up the great work you guys do here.
Now I have an unlock s8+ with all features. Man I just wish i had order the carrier note 8 instead of the unlock.

thanks again..

 

[BlueFox721]

Wow,

I"m speechless. it works with out root. Do I need to VPN block this, or Sprint Won't even noticed?.
many many many thanks to you. And pm me if u need donation to keep up the great work you guys do here.
Now I have an unlock s8+ with all features. Man I just wish i had order the carrier note 8 instead of the unlock.

thanks again..

No VPN...carriers can't tell the different between shared data and host data...it is just data...

If unlocked is flashed with carrier Firmware it is as if it were carrier phone...even OTA updates come from Sprint...

 

[Cizzurp215]

Dude! Amazing! Thank you soooo much!