[how-to] internet sharing on ATT branded phones

[bananapeal]

Howdy folks!

I've been feverishly scouring the web and this site for ways around the internet sharing limitation that att puts on its phones. Sadly the xaps and provxmls didn't work well for me but I struck gold on google and I would like to share it with you! in xda post below, skip to registry editing unless you cant see internet sharing as option

long story short as shown here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1233612&highlight=openmarketenabled Thanks sensboston for diggin it up.

do the following registry edits:

Now launch WP7 Root Tools and go to Local Machine -> Comm -> InternetSharing -> Settings and manualy add new value (+val button):
(this is description)>>Value Name: Name, Value Type: String, Value Data: Value ... hit save

Value Name: EntitlementURI, Value Type: String, Value Data: ./Vendor/MSFT/Registry/HKLM/Comm/InternetSharing/Settings/OpenMarketEnabled ... hit save

Value Name: OpenMarketEnabled, Value Type: dword, Value Data: 1 ... hit save

need more info? keep reading. sorry for crap presentation.

The Sasha Kotlyar has a post on his website that shows you the registry settings required (you can use only the first two, or go all the way to fully debrand). http://arktronic.com/weblog/2012-04-14/my-phone-my-rules

Prerequisites:
1. In order to successfully add the registry values you will need to start with mango version 7720 or 7740 and interop-unlock with windowbreak or
visit http://windowsphonehacker.com/windowbreak/ on your non-nokia mobile phone or visit windowsphonehacker.com/articles/the_windowbreak_project-12-23-11 for more info

1a. If you cannot use window break please find another method to interop-unlock. like heathcliff74 xap

2. Install Root tools: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1569832

3. Visit http://arktronic.com/weblog/2012-04-14/my-phone-my-rules

3a. Use Root tools to add the first internet sharing related value in your registry you will have to use "add value" button since it's not there originally!

3b. Use same to EDIT the "entitlement" value

Please make sure you spell everything in your registry correctly!


tested on samsung focus flash. Speedtest.net on pc showed pathetic 500kbps Down and 1mbps Up on "4g".

Good Luck and please show Mr. Kotlyar your gratitude for so clearly and simply showing the settings that need to be changed!
Also thank our window-break and root tools suppliers, jaxbot and Heathcliff74!!

 

[sensboston]

Before reposting some very old hacks with outdated instructions (Shevron unlock isn't available more than year!) and referring to some unknown guys (who is "wonderful Sasha"?), try to search forum first: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1334248&highlight=internet+sharing

All these noobs "wonderful internet finds" have a xda roots.

 

[bananapeal]

Before reposting some very old hacks with outdated instructions (Shevron unlock isn't available more than year!) and referring to some unknown guys (who is "wonderful Sasha"?), try to search forum first: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1334248&highlight=internet+sharing

All these noobs "wonderful internet finds" have a xda roots.

maybe you should revisit the portion of my post specifying how the various provxml and xap packages provided on this site haven't worked for me. I haven't seen those exact registry settings written out explicitly on xda, just long winded instructions for some ultimately useless xap deployment.
I visited the thread you mentioned (as well as others) many times and tried it without success. In perusing the thread I see no mention of the two settings that need be changed in the registry. I do see users reporting issues with their radios and some wondering whether it's undoable. These registry settings look very undoable to me but not that xap deployment.

another search for " internet sharing registry settings" comes up empty .

Simply editing the registry as shown was fairly easy and straightforward and it worked.

I merely hope someone else having a similarly fruitless search will find this useful.

 

[sensboston]

Have you seen this (an year old!) thread? If you unable to find/apply, it doesn't mean the xda instructions are useless

P.S. Your post it's just an another proof: XDA needs more structured, clean and visible FAQ/wiki system.

 

[DZWAY007]

Will these Registry values work with a HTC Titan 2, or is this just for Samsung devices. Please advise. I dont want to brick my phone. Thanks!!

 

[bananapeal]

sensboston, i didn't find that thread. it should be stickied. its much more concise and well organized than what i put up. thanks!

my advice to others, as someone who's only worked on one device to investigate this issue, is that if your device gives you the option to do internet sharing but att denies you this right with a message asking you to call them, then your condition may be cured simply with the registry settings. the fella in sensboston's link has an optima and the registry bit is the same. if your problem is more severe in that there's no internet sharing option, perrhaps you may check out that thread more carefully to see what's applicable to your device.

the regediting parts are the same and this makes me feel safe that it will work across devices. just remember, you edit entitlement value but add the openmarket dword

as a final word, i do love xda and all the work people do to support and develop here. didnt mean to link to / exalt an outsider instead of xda. google did point me in the direction of that site and not the xda post likely because i searched " focus flash internet sharing". sometimes it's hard to know what is device specific and what isn't.

 

[neoriix]

I use a Focus Flash on AT&T
This is the post I followed for use Internet sharing option (Samsung Phones) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1334248

 

[Win7Droid4]

well damn now my phones bricked!

 

[Nettwerk]

What you mean your phone is bricked. What the phone, And what you did before?