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Help Firmware update and hotspot

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chilinski

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Someone reported today on the sprintusers forum that a new firmware update (LS670ZVD) now stops programs like QuickSettings from allowing the phone to be used as a WIFI hotspot.

Please post your experience if/when this update becomes available (if, of course, any of this is true in the first place).

And somewhat later....I see this has been covered already extensively elsewhere. The update does indeed kill the hotspot ability in those programs.
 
Killed me Dead.

Looking at rooting phone now, never needed to before.

Damn - so much information, so much conflicting information, don't know how to proceed.
 
so. lol. i'll just go back to using my paid copy of pdanet. as long as sprint doesn't find a way to detect pdanet like apps from tethering and follow what att is planning on doing to their users then i'm all good. sucks tho that they going to patch the hotspot glitch. i believe that we should be able to use what we already pay for how we want. the hotspot feature that sprint and other carriers charge is ridiculous. so far i haven't got the update yet. i never really had a mandatory update on sprint before except the voice-mail update that wouldn't let you use the app if you didn't update. all the updates i received ota i could ignore it.
 
So I've got this 12.9 MB update file hiding somewhere in my phone. The reminder to launch it is sitting in my notification bar, annoying me. Why can't I just find it and delete it instead of launching it? (Kinda like an antivirus procedure) . A quick look around didn't turn it up. Anyone know which directory its hiding in?
 
Why should the ones of us that pay for unlt. data not be able to use our hot spot for free this sucks now i have to look in to buying a hot spot device.
 
My daughter accepted the update (SW version LS670ZVD) before I could tell her not to, and it killed her Hotspot capability. The rest of my family refused the update for the Optimus S, and we all (3) still have Hotspot capability. Is there any way that I can restore my daughter's phone to SW version LS670ZVC?
 
RazzMaTazz said:
I'm a bit suspicious that 69lt1bird is a Sprint employee since he just joined the forum and his first two posts are today (on two Hotspot dead threads), contradicting what everybody else has said.
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Yes. 69lt1bird is trying to get folks to update so that they lose their hotspot capabilities.
 
I am not trying to trick people and I am not a Sprint employee. What I did forget is I have phone as a modem on my account that is grandfathered in, I do not use it much and I did forget about it.
 
I have a file explorer on my phone. I can go into the deep dark files of phone itself. There HAS to be a way to find the file that is the new update and erase it to go back to the old one. I don't know enough about it, but someone must!! I am not going to pay $30 a month or more for a hot spot from Sprint. Total ROBBERY!! Way too much.
 
I know that a wireless hotspot is convenient, but you can download the LG drivers to your pc, then use EasyTether. It works very well and the full version just costs a $10 one-time fee. Something worth thinking about.
 
KMFireMedic111: I think you need to root your phone to gain access to the system files responsible. If you want to attempt that, consider looking at the following link and scrolling down to my comments, where I try to distill the overwhelming amount of info into 2 easy-to-understand guides.
http://androidforums.com/lg-optimus-s/277765-optimus-s-rooting-roms-themes-unbrick-methods.html

CarrieK refers to EasyTether, which requires a USB connection to your PC, not WiFi Hotspot.
 
Pulling the battery after clicking "More Info" on the update notice seems to have prevented the update from nagging my wife and me about installing the update anymore. Unfortunately, I guess that the update has already been downloaded onto our phones somewhere and is wasting my RAM or ROM. I read that it's 12.9MB.
 
RazzMaTazz said:
69lt1bird: Would you please delete your earlier misleading comments on multiple threads before it causes other people trouble?

KMFireMedic111: I think you need to root your phone to gain access to the system files responsible. If you want to attempt that, consider looking at the following link and scrolling down to my comments, where I try to distill the overwhelming amount of info into 2 easy-to-understand guides.
http://androidforums.com/lg-optimus-s/277765-optimus-s-rooting-roms-themes-unbrick-methods.html

CarrieK refers to EasyTether, which requires a USB connection to your PC, not WiFi Hotspot.
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Lol, I guess I should have further clarified that EasyTether is not a hotspot. It does work very well though on the stock Optimus (I am rooted, running ThundeROM 1.8.2, which has a built-in wifi component) but my husband has the stock Optimus and uses EasyTether. It is a cheaper way to get internet if you don't want to pay the $30 a month or root your phone.
 
I have EasyTether and I can say that it works (mobile-stream.com). But I'm using the "Hotspot Widget" app right now for wi-fi connection. That's worked well so far.

But yes, the update notice keeps popping up and it's getting to be really, really annoying. I'll try to pull the battery and see if that re-appears.
 
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