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Key Words: Straight Talk, ST, AT&T, Tethering, Unlock, Root, Android 4.1.1, Atrix, SQLite Editor, Titanium Backup, Speed Test, Mobile Hotspot, APN Backup & Restore,
Phone in this example: Motorola Atrix HD (dual core with 4.1.1) $100
Goal: Get Straight Talk working, Get Tethering Working
Problems and solutions:
Straight Talk is a service sold by Walmart. Flat $45/month for unlimited minutes, text, and data (to some degree). No contracts, no way for them to screw you. It is the only way to roll.
First you have to figure out which carrier has the best service in your area. Here it is AT&T - 4G even way out in the mountains. In Livermore it was T-Mobile. THis is the first and most important thing to find out.
Go to Straight Talk and get a Sim set up to run on either AT&T or T-Mobile. It is like $10 bucks
Get the appropriate phone - for AT&T make sure you buy a phone on Craigs List that was an AT&T phone... NOT some other supplier... because they all use different frequencies and although an AT&T sim will work in a T-Mobile phone, you will only get shit 2G speeds and poor service
Search terms for CL: ATT 4G, AT&T 4G, 4G, ATT, AT&T
Assuming AT&T
So you get your sim from straight talk
You get your AT&T phone from Craigs LIst with 4G
You reset the phone
You do a one click unlock (search your phones name - if needed)
You do a one click root
Now you are big pimping
Here are the other tools you MUST HAVE to be a gangster
Go to the market place (google Play - we are talking Arduino only here)
APN Backup & Restore
(Allows you to delete stock APN's that cause problems)
SQLite Editor
(An ABSOLUTE MUST!!!! This is what allows you to change all the factory flags on the phone. Three most important are:
dun_apn_changable 0 (set it to 1)
Scroll down to Settings and Storage (hammer and wrench)
settings.db
settings
Change: entitlement_check from 1 to 0
This is SUPER SUPER SUPER Awesome
Entitlement check is the shit flag that says your tethering wont work without subscription!... by turning this off you can now tether with or without a tether plan!
Ok - I am all over the place... but if you are trying to solve this problem the answers are here.... just take my key words and search
Another program you MUST HAVE
Titanium Backup Pro
You need this to be able to change the APN program to a system program. Android versions 4.10 and above no longer allow 3rd party apps to change APN settings! (Shitty move gooogle)... so the work around is to convert your 3rd party ap to system and then you can make changes.
Ok - 30,000 foot view
Got your phone and all that shit
Want to get it working
Unlock it
Root it
download: Titanium Backup, sql editor, apn editor
use Titanium to convert apn to system ap
use apn editor to delete all your apn's
create a new apn - fill it up with the PROPER SETTINGS (which is a half days searching worst case... not all are the same and some work better than others)
Oh YEA!
You have to download a program called Tweakker
Super important... dont skip this step....
This program will spit out the APN that are best for your phone. I used it and my speeds went up by 50% with much less lag on setting change.
It will give you settings for Internet, MMS... I just combined them
APN Type: default,mms,dun,*
When you try to do that your phone will probably tell you that you cant edit the dun
that is when you use the sql editor to change the
dun_apn_changable 1
ah... see?
default,* is for your internet
mms is for your picture text messages
dun is for tethering... NO DUN NO TETHER
You read me here?
If you have done a bunch of hacks, got tethering working (by changing entitlement to 0) but your computer connects but with no internet.... YOU NEED AN APN WITH TYPE DUN
Now...
you could make one... you may notice that the first time you run the tether it makes up a new APN. Edit it if you can to Straight Talk - I could not - so I deleted all of htem and made my own
This is just a bunch of critical information - if you need it you will understand
yea... so...
unlock
root
download programs
turn off entitlement
turn on dun editing
delete all the apn
get new apn with prog above
enter new apn info
ALWAYS POWER CYCLE
ALWAYS BE PATIENT... sometimes changes take 10 minutes or an hour to take... SERIOUSLY... I did a speed test a few minutes ago after FINALLY getting tethering working
ping 160ms
Down 750kb
Up 100kb
10 min later
ping 159ms
Down 5Mb
Up 1Mb
Yea boy... that is what I am talking about
Straight Talk is locking up accounts now... so get a phone app that will limit you to about 2GB of stream. Dont be an idiot and watch porno or torrent with that bandwidth... save it for when you need it!
Yea man... Android keeps getting more and more complicated and the aftermarket hackers keep getting more and more sophisticated
Best thing I learned: LEARN HOW TO SQL EDIT YOUR PHONE.... way better than uploading a fresh rom. almost all of those roms suck in some way or another. Just use the stock rom, use Titanium to freeze or delete all the bloat ware, use sql to re-enable all the controls you had before they turned them off, and go big pimping.
I just went back and read that - sounds like a crazy person... haha... but I am leaving it. The only shitting thing a person can do is search the forums and TAKE without at least trying to GIVE BACK. Above is a boiling down of a full 8 hours of intense internet searching I did to solve a series of increasingly more complicated hurtles that were between me and tethering high speed internet.
Now it is working.... I hope this helps one person - if it does then SWEET.
Two of the aps are pay: You need to pay for the SQL editor $3... Best money I ever spent. You also need the more expensive Titanium version to convert the APN editor to System.
Yea - some will say just load a custom ROM... in my experience a few of these roms are awesome and many of them SUCK. They are slow, features do not work, they are buggy, etc. If your stock rom jams then just hack it... SQL editing is the key. It is FRIGGING EASY.
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Phone in this example: Motorola Atrix HD (dual core with 4.1.1) $100
Goal: Get Straight Talk working, Get Tethering Working
Problems and solutions:
Straight Talk is a service sold by Walmart. Flat $45/month for unlimited minutes, text, and data (to some degree). No contracts, no way for them to screw you. It is the only way to roll.
First you have to figure out which carrier has the best service in your area. Here it is AT&T - 4G even way out in the mountains. In Livermore it was T-Mobile. THis is the first and most important thing to find out.
Go to Straight Talk and get a Sim set up to run on either AT&T or T-Mobile. It is like $10 bucks
Get the appropriate phone - for AT&T make sure you buy a phone on Craigs List that was an AT&T phone... NOT some other supplier... because they all use different frequencies and although an AT&T sim will work in a T-Mobile phone, you will only get shit 2G speeds and poor service
Search terms for CL: ATT 4G, AT&T 4G, 4G, ATT, AT&T
Assuming AT&T
So you get your sim from straight talk
You get your AT&T phone from Craigs LIst with 4G
You reset the phone
You do a one click unlock (search your phones name - if needed)
You do a one click root
Now you are big pimping
Here are the other tools you MUST HAVE to be a gangster
Go to the market place (google Play - we are talking Arduino only here)
APN Backup & Restore
(Allows you to delete stock APN's that cause problems)
SQLite Editor
(An ABSOLUTE MUST!!!! This is what allows you to change all the factory flags on the phone. Three most important are:
dun_apn_changable 0 (set it to 1)
Scroll down to Settings and Storage (hammer and wrench)
settings.db
settings
Change: entitlement_check from 1 to 0
This is SUPER SUPER SUPER Awesome
Entitlement check is the shit flag that says your tethering wont work without subscription!... by turning this off you can now tether with or without a tether plan!
Ok - I am all over the place... but if you are trying to solve this problem the answers are here.... just take my key words and search
Another program you MUST HAVE
Titanium Backup Pro
You need this to be able to change the APN program to a system program. Android versions 4.10 and above no longer allow 3rd party apps to change APN settings! (Shitty move gooogle)... so the work around is to convert your 3rd party ap to system and then you can make changes.
Ok - 30,000 foot view
Got your phone and all that shit
Want to get it working
Unlock it
Root it
download: Titanium Backup, sql editor, apn editor
use Titanium to convert apn to system ap
use apn editor to delete all your apn's
create a new apn - fill it up with the PROPER SETTINGS (which is a half days searching worst case... not all are the same and some work better than others)
Oh YEA!
You have to download a program called Tweakker
Super important... dont skip this step....
This program will spit out the APN that are best for your phone. I used it and my speeds went up by 50% with much less lag on setting change.
It will give you settings for Internet, MMS... I just combined them
APN Type: default,mms,dun,*
When you try to do that your phone will probably tell you that you cant edit the dun
that is when you use the sql editor to change the
dun_apn_changable 1
ah... see?
default,* is for your internet
mms is for your picture text messages
dun is for tethering... NO DUN NO TETHER
You read me here?
If you have done a bunch of hacks, got tethering working (by changing entitlement to 0) but your computer connects but with no internet.... YOU NEED AN APN WITH TYPE DUN
Now...
you could make one... you may notice that the first time you run the tether it makes up a new APN. Edit it if you can to Straight Talk - I could not - so I deleted all of htem and made my own
This is just a bunch of critical information - if you need it you will understand
yea... so...
unlock
root
download programs
turn off entitlement
turn on dun editing
delete all the apn
get new apn with prog above
enter new apn info
ALWAYS POWER CYCLE
ALWAYS BE PATIENT... sometimes changes take 10 minutes or an hour to take... SERIOUSLY... I did a speed test a few minutes ago after FINALLY getting tethering working
ping 160ms
Down 750kb
Up 100kb
10 min later
ping 159ms
Down 5Mb
Up 1Mb
Yea boy... that is what I am talking about
Straight Talk is locking up accounts now... so get a phone app that will limit you to about 2GB of stream. Dont be an idiot and watch porno or torrent with that bandwidth... save it for when you need it!
Yea man... Android keeps getting more and more complicated and the aftermarket hackers keep getting more and more sophisticated
Best thing I learned: LEARN HOW TO SQL EDIT YOUR PHONE.... way better than uploading a fresh rom. almost all of those roms suck in some way or another. Just use the stock rom, use Titanium to freeze or delete all the bloat ware, use sql to re-enable all the controls you had before they turned them off, and go big pimping.
I just went back and read that - sounds like a crazy person... haha... but I am leaving it. The only shitting thing a person can do is search the forums and TAKE without at least trying to GIVE BACK. Above is a boiling down of a full 8 hours of intense internet searching I did to solve a series of increasingly more complicated hurtles that were between me and tethering high speed internet.
Now it is working.... I hope this helps one person - if it does then SWEET.
Two of the aps are pay: You need to pay for the SQL editor $3... Best money I ever spent. You also need the more expensive Titanium version to convert the APN editor to System.
Yea - some will say just load a custom ROM... in my experience a few of these roms are awesome and many of them SUCK. They are slow, features do not work, they are buggy, etc. If your stock rom jams then just hack it... SQL editing is the key. It is FRIGGING EASY.
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