Bypassing mobile hotspot sharing and gaming limitations for Unlimited Data plans on A

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Recently I got a “no frills, no limits” unlimited data plan for 33$ a month. I got it because I’m out and about a lot and on many occasions I’ve found myself needing to do something on my laptop requiring an internet connection.

I was quickly disappointed to find out that many websites were simply unaccessible, didn’t work for certain devices and that I could only share about 2GB of data before getting locked out. So thus began my quest to find a way to bypass the limitations my carrier had on using my device as a mobile hotspot, and on the way, I found a solution that even got rid of the NAT limitations of my mobile hotspot, allowing me to play online games with consoles, regardless of the NAT limitations of the carrier.

OBLIGATORY please check your terms and conditions for your carriers before doing this so as to not be in violation of them.

This should also work if you want to be able to game off of your mobile hotspots though this might be VPN dependant.

If you want to get straight to the steps, skip the following and go to the bold Instructions section.

First thing I did was look up how carriers know that you are tethering, because there had to be some communication between the carrier and the device if they were going to limit what websites you were going to visit, limit the amount of data you can share with your other devices or even outright disable your ability to tether, and I found out something interesting.

It turned out that when you attempted to enable your mobile hotspot, the device would actually send a prompt to the carrier asking it what it should do, basically making a provisioning check. This included “questions” like: Am I allowed to tether? What APN should I be using to tether? How much am I allowed to tether?

So the solution was simple, right? Just make your device not contact the carrier when enabling the hotspot! Well, not so much.

While Android does have system files you can add simple lines to that will prevent it from doing so, they didn’t work on their own. I tried the adding net.tethering.noprovisioning=true to the build.prop file under system, which tells the device not to do these provisioning checks (great write up on how it works here: and using the settings put global tether_dun_required 0 command in terminal, which should have actually worked, since it would tell the phone not to switch to an tethering APN and instead use the usual unrestricted APN.

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