[ciprianmuresan]

I am not a developer or a mad scientist, I just decided to play with the e-screen a lil bit. I had some limited experience there from a couple of years back when I managed to make a Verizon Storm 1 work on Sprint (voice only). The e-screens are not for the casual user so if you do not know what you are doing , my advice for you will be to stay away

Here's how I removed all Hotspot/Tethering restricions from my Verizon Z10.

Here's a disclaimer : whatever you do to your phone from now on it is up to you, this is not a tutorial in any way shape or form, it is just a description of my experience with the e-screens, trying to remove carrier restrictions, I am not responsible in any way if you start messing with other settings in the e-screens. Do it at your own risk !!!

1.First of all, read this article very well : How to access the engineering (Help Me!) screen on BlackBerry 10 | CrackBerry.com

2.Once you have unlocked your e-screen, go to General Radio. Look for option "QCT Modem DUN" and turn it on. I am not sure what this option does, I am still researching it , but with it off it will not work. Update : some Verizon users told me that it's working without this step, for others like myself this step is a must otherwise it's not working. Try and see if it works for you

3. Go down, look for "RNDIS IP Tethering". Click on it. First thing you do is modify the option on the bottom, "VZW over Tethering/MHS Enttitlement" to off. Second option you modify is "Enable IPv6 over MHS/Tether, and you modify that to "shared". I tried with dhcp but it did not work on my phone. Update : dhcp works too

4. restart your phone, battery pull recommended.

5. Test both USB/Bluetooth tethering and Hotspot


I will upload pics in a bit here, hope it works for you guys as it worked for me
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[ciprianmuresan]

Before :
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[robsteve]

Are you sure eliminating restrictions is what you are looking to do? What if you eliminate the restriction and get a huge data bill for using data not in your current contract?

You may be eliminating the restriction, but you may not be eliminating the billing. During the early days of the PlayBook, a few Bell customers got hit with big bills by manually setting up the tethering info on their phones using wap.

[ciprianmuresan]

After :



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[ciprianmuresan]

Are you sure eliminating restrictions is what you are looking to do? What if you eliminate the restriction and get a huge data bill for using data not in your current contract?

You may be eliminating the restriction, but you may not be eliminating the billing. During the early days of the PlayBook, a few Bell customers got hit with big bills by manually setting up the tethering info on their phones using wap.

Not sure yet, but so far this is the only solution for someone who has their Tethering/Hotspot blocked by the carrier and they don't want to pay extra . Until Tether.com or pDAnet or other apps show up in App World, this is the only way out so far. You are right, there are risks that we don't know yet but time will tell

[siliconvalley785]

Just tried this with AT&T and no success. May need to modify somethiung with the apn for this? Any thoughts?

Pritesh

[ciprianmuresan]

Just tried this with AT&T and no success. May need to modify somethiung with the apn for this? Any thoughts?

Pritesh

Not sure, I do not have an AT&T phone to try. Mine is Verizon

[ciprianmuresan]

Are you sure eliminating restrictions is what you are looking to do? What if you eliminate the restriction and get a huge data bill for using data not in your current contract?

You may be eliminating the restriction, but you may not be eliminating the billing. During the early days of the PlayBook, a few Bell customers got hit with big bills by manually setting up the tethering info on their phones using wap.

This is tethering, yes your carrier might realize what you are doing and they might not like it. But you don't have to use it. You have the option to use it but you also have the option to turn it off. Before this, I only had one option


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[siliconvalley785]

I'll volunteer, just need to know what settings (aside from what you've already stated) that we can change. Still couldn't override the apn, I tried to change it but it kept reverting to phone. I think that's going to be the biggest issue.

Hopefully someone else with a bit more knowledge of the AT&T Z10 can join and assist us here.

Pritesh

[ciprianmuresan]

I'll volunteer, just need to know what settings (aside from what you've already stated) that we can change. Still couldn't override the apn, I tried to change it but it kept reverting to phone. I think that's going to be the biggest issue.

Hopefully someone else with a bit more knowledge of the AT&T Z10 can join and assist us here.

Pritesh

Post a screen capture of the RNDIS menu

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[siliconvalley785]

Ignore the DHCP thing, that's not obviously the reason it didn't work. Even shared had no success.

Pritesh

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[ciprianmuresan]

Ignore the DHCP thing, that's not obviously the reason it didn't work. Even shared had no success.

Pritesh

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Try changing the VZW over... option to off, then click back to get out of the sub menu then do a phone restart

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[tw1g_007]

Yea an ATT fix would be awesome.

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[siliconvalley785]

No effect. Still wants me to subscribe to a tethering plan .

Pritesh

[ciprianmuresan]

No effect. Still wants me to subscribe to a tethering plan .

Pritesh

Have you completed step #2?

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[Fusioned]

Ah good old forum helping hand. Its good to see there are still people out there on this site to provide substantial work arounds. I feel like now a days due to the development of technology work arounds are hard to find. I am on AT&T and I will try to see given your instructions how to get this to work on att. A quick google search turned up the APN settings for AT&T but I will need to find the information directly relating to 4G LTE devices as I am guessing it would be different from the 3G devices.

[ciprianmuresan]

I'll borrow a Z10 on att from a friend this week and I will try to figure it out. Like I said, my Z10 is on Verizon. My advice to you is don't mess with the escreens unless you know what you are doing

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[dubbsix]

confirmed this method works for me on VZW.

Thanks!

[ciprianmuresan]

confirmed this method works for me on VZW.

Thanks!

**** yeah, son!!! Who's yo daddy? Lmao! I am kidding, glad someone confirmed it

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[siliconvalley785]

Got that enabled from the start.


May be a bit delayed on responses, moving to another building for a bit. I'll monitor the thread remotely.

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[ciprianmuresan]

More pics as proof that it works on VZ :



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[Fusioned]

Ok tried a few things and still not able to get it popping on AT&T I will work on it some more and report my findings. Big ups @ciprianmuresan

[Fusioned]

I feel like I may be close as its been stuck on this screen looping for about 5 min.

[shai404]

Thx got it

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[ciprianmuresan]

I feel like I may be close as its been stuck on this screen looping for about 5 min.

Did you do a battery pull after modifying the values?

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