[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] pdappcgeek:
These are exact steps. I'll explain ot it assuming you now absolutely nothing about this process. There's some minor things in between these steps that I think anyone can figure out on their own. Assuming you have Sprint, there isn't really any risk of you messing this up....assuming you follow this exactly. Any difficulties or questions....just ask. I will guide you through this. Disclaimer: you could mess up your phone badly. I cant be liable if that happens. Here's what you do...

-enable usb bugging on your phone. This will help protect you if you do something incorrect and allow you to recover. To enable usb bugging you're going to go to settings>about phone and scroll down to build number (near the bottom)....and tap on that 10 times to enable the developers options to appear in settings>about phone. Now go to about phone and you will see developers options. Within there you'll enable developers options. This is going to allow you to recover your system should something go wrong......it allows you to reflash stock rom in an emergency situation... in case you mess something up.

-Now you need to disable frp lock. Frp lock is something Samsung did to help protect you incase you lose your phone. Basically, if you lost your phone or made some type of system modification, when you restart your phone it doest boot and instead it says youre locked out. It wouldnt be the end of the world but it would cause you a head ache.... making this system change to enable tethering could trigger it..

(These two things above may not be necessary....but they're insurance I suggest you do). To disable frp lock...thats in developers options too. You want to toggle it so its to the right green (opposite of default)

-Download the code to root your phone: https://download.chainfire.eu/794/CF-Root/CF-Auto-Root/CF-Auto-Root-zeroltespr

-un compress that file. Within that file is odin. Google this if you want to read more about it. Its the software on your pc that will allow you modify the android operatiing system (via uploading stuff to your phone via usb cable). Also within that file is the code file (an .md5 file) that your go8ng to upload to your phone via odin.

-make sure you have the Samsung drivers installed. This is necessary for your pc to reconize your phone

-now start up your phone in "download mode. This is the mode that can communicate with Odin. To do this: power off your phone, hold volume down and the home button simultaneously, then press the power button. Hold all three buttons down for about 5 seconds (you can let go when you see the first boot up icon appear). Then youre promted, press the appropriate button to proceed (volume up?) Now your phone is waiting to be connected. Plug your usb cable comnecting your pc.

-start up odin on your phone. There's a bunch of boxes that are in a horizontal box in odin.... you should see the bottom of the left most box be blue and list a com #. This means youve got it hooked up to your phone, pc reconizes it, and drivrs are in place. In the bottom right theres like 4 or 5 verical box that to the right of them are location fields. You want the second to top. Depending on your version of odin, that second to top box either says AP or pda. Click it and point to the file. It should end in .md5

Dont click on anything....leave all stock settings within odin....and click start. Your phone will reboot and do its own thing for no more than 5 minutes. Once it's complete, you should be rooted. In your app drawer you should see an app called super user (if the the root was completed succefully. Also to verify: ther is an app available in the play store called riot checker. You just run it and it pops up yes your rooted or no your not. Its confirmation.

-Now that you're rooted. You want to do one more piece of insurance before you enable native wifi hotspot...... yo7 want to install a custom recovery and make a backup. Download TWRP: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...ggaMAA&usg=AFQjCNFOS5NfZEC1bP-WwP-kEOvPyJS8SQ

-once this is downloaded, turn off your phone and then start it up in download mode again. Then open up odin again and point to the twrp file (i believe its a .md5 file again). And click start. Your phone will do its thing and may restart a few times. In less than 5 minutes it will end with a normal bootup. Very important.... during both these odin uploads to your phone..... never interupt the process.

-ok now test if the custom recovery (twrp is the version of this custom recovery) was installed sussefully. In a similar way to starting your phone in download mode, start your phone in recovery.... turn off your phone, hold volume up (not vilume down lile before), the home button, and press the power button. Hold all three for about 5 seconds and let go (until you see the first logo appear. Now you should see TWRP starting if all was done correctly.

Now hit the mount button. Makensure you have as many of the partitions mounted as it will let you. Hit the back button. Hot backup. Have all the partitions checked. Start the backup. When its done, browse the filesnon your phone on your pc and copy over the backup for safe keeping. On your phone this backup exists somewhere in a TWRP folder in your SDCARD folder ( I believe). Restart your phone.

- now install Galaxy Tools and sart it up. Galaxy tools is linked in post 10 of this thread. Inside of Galaxy Tools, hit the enable wifi button. Restart your phone.

-now in settings>wifi and tethering you can hit hotspot and turn it on. It should work.

Note that if you do any type of update to your phone, including updating your PRL, it will disable the wifi tether capibility. You would then just need to fire up Galaxy Tools app again, hit the enable wifi button, and restart.

Id like your feedback on if this works for you.... it was a bit of effort to explain so basically. Good luck!