So far for the last few days I've been getting use of my hotspot without the data being reflected on the TMobile website as hotspot data. All data I use reflects as regular unlimited data. The issue I've run across so far is when traveling, it can revert back to original settings when changing towers, but only sometimes. At home on the same tower, no issues so far.
I did a couple of things to get unlimited hotspot. First I downloaded TTL Editor and set value on all interfaces to 65. Then I added a new APN with the settings in the screenshot. As soon as I saved it, all the regular TMobile APN's disappeared and only the one I added stayed. I have downloaded about 5gb of data through hotspot and so far no hotspot data showing up.
I have a TMobile OnePlus 6t on the TMobile network, converted to international. I hope this works for you. Please don't forget, changing towers SOMETIMES reverts back to old APN. I got back by rebooting and the APN I created showed up again. Also I don't know if everything I did is needed, I stopped when I realized hotspot data was being counted as regular data.
As far as speeds go, I get about 40 Mbs vs the 50-60 I normally get.
You must be rooted to do this.
hey i know its been many months since you posted this but i hope you and others see that this worked for me, i will explain what i did and what i had observed.
i have gave my self a crash course in basically everything, but still have no idea what is going on but it works
i have a international one plus 6t, just got it used tuesday of this week, it is model a6010, os 9.017. 8GB ram 128GB rom etc etc.
i am rooted, using magisk and its manager.
i flashed the two posted zips that were supposed to enable tether and another called tether unlimited, anyways they did nothing for me that i can see, it doesnt mean they didnt set something up to work later.
i created a new apn using the official built in way that anyone can do without root, i used your exact settings but like i said it all meant nothing to me
then i went to my pc and ran a speed test, sure enough i got 30mbps down, i rebooted my phone and turned hotspot back on and ran speed test on pc, i got 45mbps or so, so its still working.
i shut off the phone completely and restarted it and tested the speeds on the pc and it still is working
i went into phone official apn settings and saw my "test" apn was still there and still the only one listed.
i went to my xbox, connected to op6t hotpot and of course it needed an update, but the download went fast 25mbps, i know as i added a network speed utltity that shows me the internet speeds atm in status bar.
as a test, i changed ttl in the ttl editor app to 128 on the phone and rebooted and tada i lost the fast speeds at the xbox. the xbox now apears as a windows pc, its download speeds were back down to 600kbps and 60ms ping.
i changed ttl back to 65 on the phones ttl editor app and rebooted and tada the speeds shot back up to 25mbps.
i edited ttl on all my pcs about a year ago when i first started to use tmobile so they are set to show ttl as 65 and when they hit the phone and then leave it drops to 64 which is what tmobile expects if you aren tethering, so the pcs still get full speed on this hotspot,
as another test, i chose one pc and deleted that ttl entry so it would fall back to default and i still had the ttl editor disabled and tada now this pc connected a 400kbps lol
with ttl editor off i did another test on a pc with ttl changed to 65 and sure enough still getting 30mbps.
my point is that ttl is part of the equation here, as you cant edit ttl on many devices such as unrooted anroid phones and perhaps many rooted phones, tablets smart tvs dvrs etc etc but with the ttl editor you dont have to worry about it. apparently the fact that ttl editing works on our phone is a blessing as finding info on this ttl topic and which phones support has been scarce, i do understand a bit about the ttl as i have been reading up on that for a last week, and about a year ago when i first switched to tmobile. i read that you could edit ttl on this phone which is why i bought it.
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i also used the ttl edititor app and i set it up just like you said.
what i do worry about is why my hotspot data is showing up as ....well hotspot data and not regular phone data. i have unlimited tmobile hotspot but at 600kbps you may as well not have said hotspot and this apn thing worked.
i do have a question: what exactly was different? i should have took screen shots and why was it so easy to do and all these other folks are having a hard time getting this to work? any ideas? oh and btw is it still working for you?
random bit of trivia the old faithful "wifi tether router" doesnt work on this phone. it seems like he never made it compatible with 9.0 and he stopped updating it back in late 2018 i think, i was planning on using this app to hide the source of data and then use ttl to mask the packers, but it appears maybe dont need to hide the source? all my hotspot data is showing up as hotspot data. this does concern me, also i have a straight talk line and phone and if i can get this op6t to mask everything about the hotspot i will probably pick another one up just for my straight talk line and let the first op6t on tmobile be my internet for the house
. I can currently do this with my OP6t running with OOS 9.0.3 unrooted, but not the OOS 10.
