Mobile Hotspot Missing from ROM

[chuckh0308]

My apologies if the answer is already here somewhere...I can't find it.

Anyway, I wanted the stock ROM, but rooted and debloated, so I found it and flashed it. Unfortunately, for whatever reason, someone decided to remove the hotspot feature (and YouTube) in the debloat. So now I have no hotspot and it's an important feature for me. Is there a way to get it back without having to flash a different ROM? I' m a little annoyed right now...

I searched the VZW website, google searched...everything. Can't find the answer.

Thanks!

UPDATE! I still had the zip file from the last GB release, so I took the apk file from there and put it in my system/apps folder. Now I have the icon and I can open the application, but it will not allow me to actually turn on the hotspot. In other words, nothing happens when I tap on the box to check it and turn it on. Help? LOL!

Update2: well, I couldn't figure out how to make it work and apparently nobody else knows, so I went ahead and flashed another rooted version of the stock ROM. Thankfully this one had the hotspot left in it, so I'm up and running again!

 

[wildman]

A number of GB roms have issues with stock Hotspot, best to check developers notes before installing, if it works on that rom it would be noted..

 

[paintdrinkingpete]

FWIW, the hotspot works fine for me on BAMF Forever. The actual Verizon Hotspot, not a rooted wifi tether app -- although that does work as well.

 

[chuckh0308]

Yeah, it's not a problem with the hotspot working with a particular ROM really...it's an issue of putting the hotspot back into the ROM once you've removed it. So, in my case, I was using a stock ROM that was debloated, including removing the hotspot. I could not put the hotspot back in and get it to work, but I am now using the same ROM with the hotspot (that had been left in) and it works great.

I did a LOT of research on this and everywhere I looked all I saw were people with the same problem and nobody ever could get the hotspot to work when they tried to add the hotspot apk back into a ROM. No idea why though....