how to use a non at&ts htc inspire hotspot no rooting needed easy

[dannylm]

been looking for awhile how to enable hotspot on my htc inspire went to straight talk but my phone kept saying contact at&t to enable wifi hotspot. its easy found it online today take the back of yout htc inspire phone take out the sim card click restart on phone put sim card back in don't put cover back on yet when phone is on go to settings enable hot spot turn it on then put cover back on hotspot will stay on and no please call at&t to enable I was able to use my computer using my straight talk hotspot and even used it to play online xbox 360 black ops 2 multiplayer it was super fast

 

[mattmogram]

This did not work for me at all. It still says contact AT&T.

I contacted AT&T and they said they don't know of any setting that should restrict that. They suggested I call HTC to see if there is a software thing they can do to change it. Or contact T-Mobile to see if they have a setting I need to change for it.

I called HTC and they said that hotspot service is locked to the carrier separate from the phone service lock. (I already have the phone unlocked with info from AT&T a long time ago.) Based on that, I don't think T-Mobile can help me. I will try to get an AT&T SIM card and "activate" hotspot that way then see if it will stay on when I switch back to my T-Mobile SIM.

Otherwise, do you know of any other way to make this work because your method of leaving the back off did not work for me.