Cricket and tethering

[ericlp]

So, I am a cricket newbe...

I jumped on the free windows 10 smartphone deal ... When I get my 75 rebate card in the mail, we'll see how that works out...

Anyway... Obviously, cricket disables wifi sharing on it's phones, but I don't really care for windows phone. It's a decent phone just I like samsung hardware more. All my samsung devices are off verizon network. Time to buy an S4 or S5 ATT phone. Kinda wondering, anyone get a new S5? Swap the sim card over and is wifi sharing available? If worse case came down to it you could always share internet service over BlueTooth.

Thought I'd check my options out before jumping in on a new phone.

Thanks!

Edit, PS, if you came here to tell me that cricket doesn't support tethering, yes I already know, so don't waste your time.

 

[ImDonly1]

Tethering works for me but I'm on a custom ROM. I would assume on the stock ROM you would have to make some changes.

Why not use your Verizon phones on cricket? Moody of the new ones are gsm unlocked.

 

[ericlp]

Why not use your Verizon phones on cricket? Moody of the new ones are gsm unlocked.

Well, they just put up a new ATT tower in my area. I only get 3G virizon lucky to get 2 bars. ATT 5 bars and 4G so.... I'm gonna stick with ATT plus I was already thinking of upgrading to S5. Or something better on the android side.

Thanks for the reply.

 

[RossMAN]

Tethering works great on my stock Nexus 5 with Cricket using Foxfi.

 

[dlock13]

So I've used unlocked devices (Nexus 5, Moto X) and locked devices (Lumia 1520, Lumia 1020, Lumia 635, iPhone 5), and I can tell you that it really depends on the phone itself.

On my Android devices, I was able to tether perfectly fine with the built-in options and not a 3rd party app such as FoxFi that RossMAN suggested.

On the iPhone, I didn't have the option since it wasn't actually on AT&T and provisioned by them.

On the Win Phones, if I'm on the developer preview, then I have the ability to tether, but if I stay on the AT&T-built OS, I do not have the ability to tether.

Hope that helps!

 

[RossMAN]

On my Android devices, I was able to tether perfectly fine with the built-in options and not a 3rd party app such as FoxFi that RossMAN suggested.

I think I discovered that after I installed and purchased Foxfi

Oh well it was $ well spent as far as I'm concerned, Foxfi worked great.