Help help turn on portable wifi hotspot

caameronn · Aug 2, 2012

Ok , So im trying to turn on my Portable Wifi Hotspot for my android phone. And whenever I click Turn On. A message appears and says "to enable portable hotpot on this phone, go to att.com/mywireless " . So I went there and signed up and everything. Now it says I have to link the account I made ( At&t Account) , to my At&T Wireless Account and enter my Wireless number ... and I dont even know what that is ! So can someone please show me where I can get a Wireless Account and Number ?

droopies · Oct 28, 2012

If you're on AT&T, it's your account number...I believe they charge extra for using it as a hotspot. If you're on Straight Talk or something else, it won't work. You'll have to root and use a third party hotspot app.

Rsccman · Jan 29, 2013

droopies said:
If you're on AT&T, it's your account number...I believe they charge extra for using it as a hotspot. If you're on Straight Talk or something else, it won't work. You'll have to root and use a third party hotspot app.

or howbout plug the phone in to the computer using usb and tyou can tether that way
IM WITH ATT, its only 2.99 a month to allow hotspot, and you need the 2+gb plan, not the 300mb plan

Tico2013 · Feb 11, 2013

Hello
I have the same problem with the wi-fi hotspot

Any ideas of how to make it work?

droopies · Feb 18, 2013

I am on Straight talk. Make sure your phone is rooted and install Barnacle from the Play store. Works fine for me.

thrillho123 · Apr 23, 2013

If anyone still wants to know how to use the portable hotspot without paying extra for it this is how I did it.

First go to the play store and download quickshortcutmaker(there are no spaces between words) and run it.

Look for a file called settings settings com.android.settings/com.android.settings.tethersettingsNoCheck. Open it and name the shortcut something l like hotspot and hit ok. Run the shortcut you just made and turn the hotspot on.make sure you have a large data plan because it uses allot of data.

Georgios · Mar 6, 2016

Okay! The only way to turn on your hotspot is this.I had the same problem with cricket every time trying to turn the hotspot on getting a massage say attmywirelles after downloading all kind of apps to turn it on and 2 days later nothing I was so mad finally i figured out cricket doesn't support hotspot on Nexus 6 i switched to T-Mobile and now my hotspot it's working. So don't get mad it's nothing wrong with your Nexus 6. That dam cricket don't support Nexus 6 firmware for hotspot don't waste your time there is no other way around it. Just switch carriers or don't use hotspot. But for me i got to have it because i got no internet at home for my laptop.

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