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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mugsaway:
Thanks for your reply.

How would I do any of these? Can I still do these with the phone stuck on the yellow screen.

Are you able to help me with this? Perhaps you want to PM me, to keep this thread clean.

Thanks
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] crawrj:
Look at the instructions in the hotspotmod thread. Odin recovery. Then install the hotspot mod from recovery. Instructions for both are provided.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mugsaway:
Thanks

One quick question

Where is Tar file I need to flash with Odin?

2. Download the Tar file that you want to flash with Odin
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] crawrj:
Choose which recovery you want. I would say either agat or shabby right now. Go to there threads and download whichever tar you choose.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] EFEXR:
So from my understanding MDL hotspot is better than MDC hotspot?

I flashed the hotspot mod last week, I'm guessing its the MDC version.

Can I flash that MDL hotpot mod over the already existing MDC version?

I tried googling difference between MDL and MDC and could not get a clear understanding what the difference is.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] crawrj:
No. The difference is the OS version. MDC came on the phone. The OTA update yesterday was MDL. You need to install the version that matches your system.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] EFEXR:
Thank you, I understand now.

Here is a question that someone might know, does tethering work differently in different roms. By this I mean, does tethering on cyanogen work differently than the hotspot mod for stock rom?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] crawrj:
I haven't used CM but I would say that CM uses some third party or possibly direct from Google hotspot while TW uses the native hotspot provided by Sprint. This just allows the hotspot to work. Not sure what other differences there might be since I haven't used it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] MoHoGalore:
Cm has it in the build. :beer: (native I would say, but I'll leave that to be said by the wiki. ;))

Sent from my SPH-L720 using Xparent Skyblue Tapatalk 2
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] guitarpager:
I installed the mod and tried to tether my tablet. It recognized the s4 but couldn't obtain an ip address. What do you think I could do to correct this?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] TheNinja370:
Works great! Thanks given.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] lightiv:
Life Is Good! Thanks!

:highfive: I am up and running with your HotSpot Mod. :good: Thanks a lot and to make things even better I have a low 4G signal at my house as an added bonus to my S4. I am shocked at that.

I do have the nag message but I will save that for later as it is 1:12 AM.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] crawrj:
Freeze the seandroid app and it will go away.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] maxnix:
Works great. Renamed and changed security,

But something keeps trying to open my WiFi connection which of course would kill it. I wonder which App is doing that?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] lightiv:
Thanks, I just upgraded to Titanium Pro and all is well.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] crawrj:
That is probably the smart mode in settings|wifi. Disable that and see. Also don't forget the hit settings on the hotspot and disable the timeout.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Floppy454:
If I am on Shabby's kernal and Crawrj's odexed ROM, which version of this mod should I flash?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] crawrj:
You want the one that matches your system. So if the rom is MDC you want the odexed MDC hotspot. If you are on MDL you want the odexed MDL hotspot.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] maxnix:
When I saw under Data an entry called Tethering, I was wondering if Sprint saw the same thing?

I doubt Sprint does packet inspection as that would be quite expensive.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Sparky_McBurning:
Thanks for setting this up! Worked great for me. Copied to zip to SD card, unzipped with ES File manager and moved to system/framework after copying a backup of my current services.* files. Works on 3g/4g and with WPA2 and shows up as a hotspot, not adhoc.

I feel like I'm missing something silly, but there doesn't seem to be a toggle in the notification area or a homescreen widget to toggle the built in hotspot. Anyone know of a decent widget for it? That's one thing I liked about Wifi Tether (used to use that on my Photon).
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] maxnix:
No one knows? :confused:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jcote258:
Just rooted my MDL with Shabby's recovery (pretty nice actually) and Shabby's modified MDL kernel and noticed that this was available to flash from recovery. Flashed the oxed version and all seems to work well. There was a small hickup with WPA2 and getting connected but after connecting with the connection open than going back to WPA2 I was able to connect just fine. Thanks for all the work, this was the main reason i wanted root. Thanks again!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] PapaDocta:
could someone please post the unmodified services.jar and services.odex from the MDC based firmware... i forgot to backup mine...

thanks
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] crawrj:
Here you go. This is not an installer just the files.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] PapaDocta:
thank you so much .. that's all i need :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] gadget069:
Anyone have issues on stock rooted instaling with twrp?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] crawrj:
Not me. That is what I use to install it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] gadget069:
Somethings going on. I'm not getting the hot spot options in the connections tab. I've flashed the odexed mdc a few times, and extracted the files and manually copied with root explorer and I still don't have the option for hotspot.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] nicotheandroidguy:
Use goo manager free from the play store and flash open script recovery by going into goo manager hit menu and tap install open script recovery.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] gadget069:
Already done that, nothing seems to work.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] nicotheandroidguy:
Google how to flash recovery on sprint galaxy s4 and flash recovery through odin on your computer. And then follow those instructions.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] gadget069:
I have recovery twrp. I've tried flashing through recovery, extracting the files and copying with root Explorer to where my phone rebooted and stuck at the Samsung logo, I had to restore a nandroid backup, even tried pushing with adb.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] pvinodnayak:
I'm on stock MDL, used cf auto root to root. Can I install this mod. I don't have a custom recovery.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] PapaDocta:
You can install them manually without a recovery... That's what I did..
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] gadget069:
That's what I tried and got stuck at the boot logo. Still trying to figure this one out.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] buggz2k:
Hello,

After using the excellent CF Auto Root, I used the following for custom recovery, works great for me, was easy, and fast!

-	[RECOVERY] TWRP 2.5.0.1 touch recovery [2013-05-20]

This thread is in the Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Development area.

Not sure I could post a link, being a new member here...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Nunyo415:
Just wanted to thank everyone who's contributed to this thread. This is my first post, but I've been a lurker for a few years now. I got my phone rooted and native hotspot working. Cheers for the weekend!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] gadget069:
Still trying to get mine to work, not showing in the connections tab :(
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Nunyo415:
That sucks, man. I was stuck for the longest trying to flash the MDC files and my phone would get hung up on the sprint splash screen. I somehow had the thought to try the MDL files, and it finally worked.

Good luck with the troubleshooting. Hopefully it's an easy fix for you like it was for me.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] gadget069:
Are you on MDC then and flashed the MDL file?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] crawrj:
First question I have is did you let all of the Sprint default software install? If not nandroid. Factory reset. Let it install. Install hotspot mod again. Check it to see if it is there. If so, restore your nandroid with data only. If you did install it already proceed to the next section.

Next make sure you are flashing the right version. I noticed in your other post you said it was hanging on boot. That can't happen unless something is off. So make sure you flash the version that matches your build number in about device. Also make sure you are odexed or deodexed and flashing the right option to match. If you have done this already follow below.

I know this is a lot but here is what I would try. First do a nandroid. Then factory reset. Then Odin the stock MDC tar two times back to back. Then Odin custom recovery. Then install root from SuperSu 1.30 zip or CFAuto. Then let the system boot up all the way. Let the Sprint software install complete. Check for hotspot and make sure it is there. If not something is wrong somewhere else. If it is there, install the MDC Odexed hotspot mod. Check again and it should be fixed. If it is restore your nandroid with data only. Let me know how it goes.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Nunyo415:
I don't know how to check. I'm assuming I'm on MDL and was causing the splash screen hang up by trying to flash the MDC files. All I know is that it worked once I tried the other one.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] crawrj:
Yeah you are correct. You can check by looking in settings, selecting the more tab, about device and looking at build number. You will see that the last three are MDL. If it said MDC then you would need that version.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] buggz2k:
My input:

Used CF Auto Root on stock MDL.

Used GooManager for TWRP.

Used TWRP to install.

It failed twice, I tried twice.

Third time I turned OFF zip file verification button, works!

Yes, I am new to this, and smartphones in general.

Just some humble information to add.

Oh, and THANKS!

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Soo, I had a Hotspot menu item under WiFi before I did this, I know for certain I did.

No, I don't have the Sprint paid service for this.

I never checked if I could actually do anything with it.

But, it appears that it is configurable, now?

---------- Post added at 01:37 AM ---------- Previous post was at 01:32 AM ----------

W00!

And it works!

Wow, this is sooo cool.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] roadsterdave:
I think the wifi hotspot menu might have something to do with it. I had the same problem of getting stuck on the sprint startup screen and the only thing i could think that I did differently was open the wifi hotspot menu and made changes before swapping the files.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] kenshi1023:
is it possible to add the hotspot to the notification quickset list? (not sure if it was there before the mod)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Jay_Slim:
Just wanted to say thanks crawrj.

I just got the GS4 after being loyal to HTC since the Mogul and have zero regrets. I am loving this phone and this hotspot mod.

I rooted using chainfire's method. Installed GooManager, copied the hotspot zipfile to my sdcard via PC and installed w/ Custom Recovery.

Rebooted and now it works perfectly! Now I can use my PSVita anywhere and for that I am grateful.:victory:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] AzWizzard:
Last night I rooted my GS4 and did the Hotspot MOD and everything is working great! I just followed QBKING77's videos and was done in 15 minutes!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] cwb1231:
boators was

Once i have installed the odex mdl hotspot for sprint, can i use triangle away to reset flash counter? i am on cwm custom recovery, but stock kernel as i understand from what the hotspot mod did. i certainly could be wrong as i am a total noob at this. my phone reads:

Software - L720VPUAMDL

Hardware - L720.08

Device - SPH-L720

Android - 4.2.2

Baseband - L720VPUAMDL

Kernel - 3.4.0-529760 - se.infra@SEP-107 #1 - Sat Apr 27 18:12:21 KST 2013

Build - JDQ39.L720VPUAMDL

SELinux status - Permissive

Thanks for any help. i looked at the triangle away link but don't see any question like this there.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] crawrj:
Sorry, guys and gals, for disappearing. Dealing with some personal stuff and won't have much time for a while.

The Mod doesn't have anything to do with the counter. But yes triangle away will reset the counter. TA now officially supports our device.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] BigDishDaddy:
Just flashed, works xcellent,many thanks :cool:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] loujennings4:
having problems finding ip address
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] loujennings4:
working for me
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] johnfred1987:
please help dont want to brick hotspot mod

i have already attempted to install hotspot mod and bricked my device and yes i used mdl which matched i just want to get this down correctly if any one can chime in and let me know its right here we go

first root using auto root

then install twrp

then make backup from twrp

then once mdl file for hotspot mod on sd then flash it from twrp

and if this fails i can recover by twrp if it gets stuck on splash screen again ???

if this is stupid im sorry just dont want to screw it up again got me so pissed
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] cruise350:
Just make sure you are using the correct one. MDL, Odexed or Deodexed. If you are hanging at the startup screen than you are installing the wrong file. If you are stock and only rooted you need to install the Odexed version. Make sure you do a nandroid backup before you install so you can easily go back if you mess it up again.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] johnfred1987:
zip

and dont unzip the file right just move to sd???
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] cruise350:
Yes, don't unzip it. Put it on your sdcard and select it in twrp from the install menu.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Vanishing-Warrior187:
Thank you very much for this hotspot mod! It has saved me get back online from my modem crashing on me. I am still fairly new to the whole s4 rooting and mods but I'm picking up on it fairly quickly. I figured the hotspot/tethering would work right out of the box from sprint like my HTC Evo did. But thanks to this mod, I am able to get my hotspot back :good:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] johnfred1987:
widget/toggle on home screen

thanks for the help worked like a charm didnt brick this time and have to play stupid at sprint to get a replacement but does anyone know if there is a easy toggle or widget i could get for my home screen and i also wanted to know if there is a way i can move the backup from twrp i made to a seperate sd card so it doesnt take up so much of the on board memory cause im streched very thin now with space thanks for all the help and for the sick mod way better than wifi tether for root users

also does anyone know of app to sd update and will i beable to ota update or now that im root is there a certin way to go about this maybe third party app or rom??
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] dubroz:
Is there a way to manually install the hotspot functionality? I'm not talking about the mod, I do not have hotspot at all on my phone because I can't do an ota update.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] deltawye:
Some how ive lost the ability to turn on hotspot. Ive flashed almost every rom on here to no avail. Any suggestions? Im thinking I might have to odin back to stock and start over.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] gadget069:
I still can't get this to work. But I'm also not on the Sprint network so I can't take the activation and I think that might be my problem. But flashing the Carbon aosp room allowed my to use wifi hot spot.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] deltawye:
Fixed my issue by installing the new faux kernel.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] gadget069:
Really, might have to give that a try.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] rtmoore4:
This did not work for me. I used the TWRP install method using the MDL Odexed .zip file. The script successfully ran, clearing the cache, and then copying the new files into the /system/framework folder. Upon rebooting, I got the standard, "Android is updating" message while it rebuilt the cache for my 154 applications. However, when the phone finished booting, I got about 50+ "Unfortunately, <every app that runs on my phone> has stopped" messages, including the com.android.phone app. Each of them took about 30 seconds or so to load up and the phone was unresponsive while it did so.

A reboot did not fix the problem, as I got the exact same behavior, including the ""Android is updating" message on boot, and all of the follow-on error message once the phone came up. A reinstall of the .zip file through TWRP again, as well as an additional clearing of the cache after the TWRP install, failed to solve the problem as well.

Fortunately, I took a full Nandroid backup before I started, so I should be in good shape, but does anyone know why this failed in such a spectacular fashion? I read both of these threads and couldn't find anyone who had a similar failure mode. I am on stock MDL ROM, rooted Sprint GS4, and the main errors I have seen were failures to even boot because someone grabbed the wrong file (either MDL when it should have been MDC, or Odex instead of deOdex)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] johnfred1987:
I had a problem my first time to make sure you download zip from original thread made the difference for me
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] rtmoore4:
FYI, the manual install method worked just fine for me. I don't know why TWRP failed, though.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] daniel4653:
Hey craw just wanted to say that I did a clean install of your stock MDL deodexed data wipe ROM zip and then flashed Deodexed MDL hotspot and my WiFi would not turn on at all. Would get stuck at the "turning on". Tried 3 different kernels including stock , wiped cache and dalviks and nothing. Had to wipe everything to get it back up to work again.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mkmer:
Hotspot is rocking for me.

Anyone notice the limit of 2 devices? When Itry to connect a 3rd the device gets "connection denied. "

Officially sprint should allow 8 devices (I think)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] vgomez916:
Anyone?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] batman5315:
press on configure->show advanced options->maximum connections

change it to whatever you like (max 8)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mkmer:
Advanced options. .. so clearly hidden in plain sight! Thanks for the pointer!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] vgomez916:
Thanks
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] eyecon82:
anybody else having to turn it off, and back on, and or restart the computer to get the hotspot to work?

Most times I have to do that, or it connects with an orange triangle saying "limited connectivity"
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] DJSmoove:
I found a hidden toggle for wifi hotspot mod today. I'm surprised I havent seen it on these forums yet.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] eyecon82:
where did you find it? im on mf9 and can't find it anywhere...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] DJSmoove:
Look at this forum http://bit.ly/15yHNuL . It's a fairly simple modification to do and it works for our sprint phones.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jjkjustin:
Hey all,

I had been running the MDL hotspot mod for about a month or so with no issues, and I wanted to update to MF9. I flashed the MF9 rooted odexed rom and the Hotspot mod for it, but when I booted up, neither WiFi nor hotspotting would work, and my phone kept complaining about me trying to utilize a function that wasn't authorized. I ended up flashing back to MDL, but I really want MF9. Can anyone help?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] deltawye:
Reflash your kernel if you haven't already.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] eyecon82:
Does this mod work for sprint, or only verizon?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] DJSmoove:
It works for sprint as well. Make sure you put it as WiFiHotspot; All its doing is modifying an sql file to add the hotspot toggle.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] crawrj:
Great find! Thanks for sharing that. You can also use sqlite Database Editor, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mixo.sqlitedbeditor, which is free. For those that don't own SQLite Editor. I will put up a tutorial in the OP with credits later on.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] crawrj:
Ok the tutorial is now posted in the OP.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] gharlane00:
Just added WiFiHotspot to Notification panel worked perfectly. Great find!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] HiredGUN.45:
Thanks it worked perfectly!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] SayWhat10:
Flashed mf9 odexed file and got an error, would not install

What am I doing wrong?

I'm rooted on stock mf9 Rom with twrp. Mdl hotpot had worked fine in the past
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] eyecon82:
try redownloading the zip and try again (sometimes there are errors with the download)...make sure you put the zip in your root directory on your SD and don't unzip it
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jzebrahockey:
Awesome this worked like a charm. Thanks for the find.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] SayWhat10:
I re-download it, files sizes were same. Tried again with that. Error I get is simply "cannot open zip file". But it's in my download folder. How much of a difference does it really make if it's not in root?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] crawrj:
The location shouldn't matter. But I have seen lots of reports of people trying to download files directly to the phone causing problems. It seems that Chrome or some of the third party browsers work better. For best results download it to a computer and transfer to the phone. Also make sure signature verification is turned off. I think you get a different error if that is on but check it to make sure.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] eyecon82:
Although it does not matter, keeping it in root is always recommend

Also, try to download on a computer and then transfer your file
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] sponge14:
I just did this and when I rebooted my phone it's staying on the yellow Sprint screen and was getting extremely hot. I pulled the battery, tried again, same thing. How can I get back into the file explorer to restore my backed up files if I cant boot the phone?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] crawrj:
You would either have to restore a nandroid, install a Rom or use adb to copy the backup over. You should be able to hit adb from the yellow Sprint screen.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] sponge14:
I have very little understanding of adb, the only guides I have seen have the phone booted already. Is there a way to have adb be able to connect from the Downloading mode (vol down, home, power)? I tried to follow the guide and the first step you type adb shell, I get the error that device was not found.

I am trying to not lose everything on my phone, if possible, so I don't want to wipe it or install a custom rom. Is there a way to edit the file names from Download mode or something like that? I named the stock files with ".bak" so I have the stock files in the system folder still.

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Can someone can give me the stock files for the MF9 firmware in a Zip file that I can install with CWM Recovery screen?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] crawrj:
You can't do anything from download mode but use Odin. If you didn't have usb debugging enabled adb won't work.

This is your best bet to keep everything. Install a custom recovery from Odin. Download the odexed mod that matches your build number from a computer and put it on a sdcard. Install it from recovery. If it still hangs the version isn't right. Try another version. Download from the skydrive link, which is the primary link. That seems to offer the most stable download.