Tethering keeps telling me to go to Cricket Wireless?

[Windows Central Question]

Tethering keeps telling me to go to Cricket Wireless!

Whenever I try to turn on tethering (despite having mobile data enabled and Wi-Fi disabled) it keeps telling me to go to Cricket Wireless and turns off. Why is this happening?

 

[xandros9]

Re: Tethering keeps telling me to go to Cricket Wireless!

is Cricket your current service provider?

 

[tgp]

Re: Tethering keeps telling me to go to Cricket Wireless!

I do not believe Cricket offers tethering at all.

 

[RumoredNow]

Re: Tethering keeps telling me to go to Cricket Wireless!

I do not believe Cricket offers tethering at all.

They do... At a $10 monthly charge.

https://www.cricketwireless.com/shop/features.html

 

[tgp]

Re: Tethering keeps telling me to go to Cricket Wireless!

They do... At a $10 monthly charge.

https://www.cricketwireless.com/shop/features.html

OK, I should have looked first! :asleep: They didn't used to...

OP, are you paying for the tethering option?

 

[RumoredNow]

Re: Tethering keeps telling me to go to Cricket Wireless!

OK, I should have looked first! :asleep: They didn't used to...

OP, are you paying for the tethering option?

That's alright. It is pretty new and I know you are one who likes to keep up with these things to help others. :smile:

 

[GaborR]

Your phone reports your carrier tethering is on. Than the carrier disables it. Exactly this behavior pushed me back to Android. There you can at least fix it:

Non rooted phone:
This can be fixed permanently using the following procedure (UPDATE: no root required):
1.Enable developer mode (Go to Settings -> About phone, and click on the build number until the developer mode is enabled).
2.Enable USB debugging under Settings -> Developer options
3.Connect the device with a USB cable to a computer with the Android SDK platform tools installed
4.Start an adb shell: adb shell
5.In the adb shell, run this command: settings put global tether_dun_required 0

Any idea if this can be changed on WM10 somehow?