Ok. Bottom line, I now have the ability to share my internet connection. It's a solution that I'd call a "workaround" that will hopefully be addressed by an update from Nokia/Microsoft. Here's some of my findings and theories I've debunked along the way;
*** Please note, these findings are merely for MY problem with my Lumia 1020 on Bell network coming from AT&T ***
Access Point: By installing Access Point, it immediately renders MMS (specifically sending a picture through txt) useless. It rejects it every time. So, you'll need
to ignore the settings that are pre-installed by Bell and create a new configuration within Access Point and use those settings before MMS will work again. You can get
those setting from Bell's website. The upside of installing Access Point is that it transitions your phone out of this pseudo-locked state from AT&T. You can tell this by
the number of connections allowed switches from 5 (AT&T) to 8 (unlocked).
Internet Sharing Only Works by Using ##DATA#: I learned this from one of the posts in this thread showing a link to a YouTube vid. I found that the ONLY way I can
get this to function is to go into "field test mode" by going to the phone keypad and dialing ##DATA#. From there, (after hitting 'accept') you hit the "..." in the bottom right and select 'settings'. When you change your "Network type" to 2G, wait for it to switch, then without leaving the settings page switch it back to 'automatic', you are now
able to successfully turn on your "Internet Sharing". I believe that on the Lumia 920(?) this was/is a function available to you without having to go into ##DATA#, but then again, I'm not sure that 920's had this issue.
Needing to Switch Your Country to United States: I managed to get Internet Sharing to work for both "Canada" and "United States". I'm going to call this step unnecessary.
Needing to Switch your Bell Settings to "inet.bell.ca" rather than "pda.bell.ca": I tried both. Both work.
One thing that I'd like to have confirmed by others: Once Internet Sharing is turned on, I can't get a data connection the the device itself, only on the devices connected
via sharing. (ie; my iPad can surf the net when the Lumia is sharing, but i can't surf the net on the Lumia itself). I don't know if this should be considered 'normal', or if
is just (yet another) setting that i've missed. My boat-anchor Gingerbread Android is capable of sharing the connection while still maintaining it's own data connection.
Thoughts?
11-07-2013 11:24 AM