T-Mobile Galaxy S3: free hotspot?

[wally27]

Is there anyway to get fee hotspot with out rooting? I don't want to pay 15$ monthly. Thanks for the help.

 

[vernotzy21]

Re: free hotspot?

Is there anyway to get fee hotspot with out rooting? I don't want to pay 15$ monthly. Thanks for the help.

No you must root their are apps that do it but most custom roms come with hotspots unlocked in the settings

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[Podagrower]

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I'm using one of the free apps to do it without rooting, easy.

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[minnieusa]

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try foxfii. I have it on my droidx as a hotspots and powers up my tablet great

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[myusername]

Re: free hotspot?

Rooting takes five minutes. How to Root T-Mobile Galaxy S3 SGH-T999! - YouTube

Then follow this for free hotspot: How to Get Free Wifi Tether on Rooted T-Mobile Galaxy S3 SGH-T999! - YouTube

 

[jeff_yeom]

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foxfi only works on the droid now

 

[pobs123]

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FoxFi works on Samsung phones, too. I am using it on TMO Galaxy S2. My boss is using it on AT&T Galaxy S3 (9300). Later this week, I will have TMO Galaxy S3 - so will confirm it works on the SGH-T999 too.

 

[anon(631531)]

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Foxfi works on the SGSIII. I have it, and it works great.

P.S. I'm branded with AT&T.

 

[pobs123]

Re: free hotspot?

FoxFi works on Samsung phones, too. I am using it on TMO Galaxy S2. My boss is using it on AT&T Galaxy S3 (9300). Later this week, I will have TMO Galaxy S3 - so will confirm it works on the SGH-T999 too.

Does not seem to work on my SGH-T999, it starts without error but when I try to connect to it from my Android table - it does not connect - and the Wi-Fi connection (on the tablet) reverts back to "Saved" status. When I try to connect to other available W-Fi connections, the tablet connects fine.

 

[wally27]

Re: free hotspot?

I ended up rooting my phone. Took me 3 years to attempt to root my phone. Didn't want to mess my phone up. This was To easy, I have a mac and used this link

How to Root Galaxy S3 on Mac OSX! U.S./Canadian ~ Ultimate Droid - Source for Android Rooting, ROMS, Tricks and more!

The wifi works now. Not sure what else i should do with rooted phone now. I'll post a new link for that

 

[DrKrizzle]

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Which app did you use? Thanks for the post!

 

[dragondotcom]

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My friend has the S3 on ATT and it works with foxfi. But when I try it with Tmobile, never works. And took me 5 minutes to root my phone and install Wifi tether(FREE) and finally it works on Tmobile

 

[DrKrizzle]

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Crap. Rooted, got Wi-Fi tether working, now got the warning from TMo that I need to pay for tethering.

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[ATTBLOWS20011975]

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Foxfi will not work on my GS3 on ATT.... how did you get urs to work?

 

[GTWalling]

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This thread is old. At the time they were on 4.0.4 ICS. There were changes made with 4.1.1 JB and up that kill tethering apps unless rooted.

 

[Jonathan Meade]

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I have the HTC one with sprint I don't want to pay 20 dollars for 2 gigs I've tried foxfi and pdanet and nothing is working and I dontbwant to root my phone yet

 

[xKrNMBoYx]

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I ended up rooting my phone. Took me 3 years to attempt to root my phone. Didn't want to mess my phone up. This was To easy, I have a mac and used this link

How to Root Galaxy S3 on Mac OSX! U.S./Canadian ~ Ultimate Droid - Source for Android Rooting, ROMS, Tricks and more!

The wifi works now. Not sure what else i should do with rooted phone now. I'll post a new link for that

Did you just root the original ROM or did you use something else. You can look at Over/Downclocking, changing brightness below the minimum. The best part is being able to backup your apps and files, and the ability to look at all the file structure.

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[M Campbell]

Re: free hotspot?

Will FoxFi work on my un-rooted, T-Mobile Galaxy S2, ver 4.0.4 SGH-T989?

If so, is it a free app?

If not, what will work? Any free apps?

Thanks

 

[grahamc1965]

Re: free hotspot?

Foxfi and the foxfi key, do you know aptoide ??
use version 2.12.2 . the ones after that are part of pda.net.
You do not have to be rooted , but you do have to allow unknown sources and enable debugging .
If you have the $70 tmo plan, you get 2.5 gb of tethering , if thats not enough, use foxfi. Also, if you tether your laptop, it would be best to get a user changing extension if you use firefox or chrome . That will bypass the 2.5 gb limit . If you tether another android , or tablet to your phone it doesnt go agianst the limit.