I have the AT&T SGS3 with ota 4.3 I747UCUEMJB. I have searched the forums several times and all I do is to get more confused. Occasionally I need to utilize my phone as a hot-spot for my laptop. What is the minimum I have to do to accomplish this? I have unlimited data and I would lose this if I signup for tethering with AT&T. If you can point me to a specific link, I would truly appreciate it.
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Usually the minimum is if have the hotspot plan with the current Carrier you have which I'm assuming is AT&T. I'm not sure if there's a work around to tether for free without getting noticed. I've done with my T-Mobile SIM but but it shuts off since I don't have an actual plan
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All you need is a custom kernel which supports tethering. This will enable the option from the network menu, staying off att's radar tethering illegally is a different matter.
Same issue here
I'm trying to accomplish the same thing. I pay for unlimited data and AT&T will change that is I add tethering to my plan. I rarely use it as I have a Verizon hotspot but on occasion I need to. Prior to this last upgrade I had an app that worked great. Now those features have been turned off in 4.3.
As I understand it you will need root permission for the tethering apps that are out there. To accomplish this you will have to root your phone and put on it a firmware version (not sure of wording here) that allows you to do this. I think any non stock version does. Personally I'm not that tecky so the rooting part has me a little nervous. I don't want to brick my phone, nor do I want to have to spend hours and hours getting screens and apps all setup again.
BreaMark said:
I'm trying to accomplish the same thing. I pay for unlimited data and AT&T will change that is I add tethering to my plan. I rarely use it as I have a Verizon hotspot but on occasion I need to. Prior to this last upgrade I had an app that worked great. Now those features have been turned off in 4.3.
As I understand it you will need root permission for the tethering apps that are out there. To accomplish this you will have to root your phone and put on it a firmware version (not sure of wording here) that allows you to do this. I think any non stock version does. Personally I'm not that tecky so the rooting part has me a little nervous. I don't want to brick my phone, nor do I want to have to spend hours and hours getting screens and apps all setup again.
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As i said in my previous post a custom kernel that has tethering enabled will allow you to use the build in tethering functionality...no need for apps or firmware changes. Granted this will require a custom recovery, but rooting and flashing recovery and new kernel won't affect your data. I would take the time to research changing kernels on 4.3 however, i have no experience with the new bootloader and have no intentions of gaining any other than what i read. Having said that i haven't seen any horror stories on the forums from flashing a kernel as of yet.
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Anyone know which program, since the JB 4.1.1 updated (AT&T SGH-I747) will allow tethering preferably both wifi and usb. I tried this one and can't get it to work with the Samsung S3 profile selected or the Galaxy Nexus GSM profile selected.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...roid.wifi.tether&feature=search_result#?t=W10
Don't think you can unless u root your phone. At&t doesn't allow it.
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Don't think you can unless u root your phone. At&t doesn't allow it.
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I'm rooted. That app I referenced specifically says you need a rooted phone. I just don't see the SSID come up on my notebook. I want something that can also tether USB too, as then I don't have to worry about locking down security on the Wifi or draining the phone battery.
What are the options if you root it?
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Don't think you can unless u root your phone. At&t doesn't allow it.
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Been searching for an hour now. Tried two other apps. Neither worked. (Neither said root was necessary). Not willing to pay for Foxfi just to see it not work. Elixir 2 people have used but I think this is all pre Jelly Bean, at least for the GSM (AT&T) version of this phone.
Seems maybe we have to wait. All the apps, videos, posts out there seem to be for ICS. Guess this is the downfall when you update within 24 hours of the update being released. Need to let the developers catch up.
I can confirm pdanet works....havent tried foxfi but im sure it does as well considering how similar they work...
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Prior to update I was using FoxFi and it looks like it still works with Jelly Bean but I'm unable to get the Proxy Add-On to work since Jelly Bean.
Do you think I'll get caught tethering if I run FoxFi without the Add-On or does the Add-On only provide a false sense of security and is really not making a difference?
If it makes a difference, I'm on one of the old 2GB plans, not the new shared plans, but not unlimited either. Also, I'm stock, not rooted.
Finally, if you don't think this works, any suggestions that would work in this situation?
Thanks!
AlbConst said:
If it makes a difference, I'm on one of the old 2GB plans, not the new shared plans, but not unlimited either. Also, I'm stock, not rooted.
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I was on the old 5GB plan (the one that allowed tethering) and switched to the new shared plan (since I don't do that much data but do call a lot and wanted the unlimited calling (saves me over a hundred bucks a month)) and on these plans they do allow tethering. From what I understand, you will need to have a rooted phone if you want to tether under any other (older) plan..
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I can confirm pdanet works....havent tried foxfi but im sure it does as well considering how similar they work...
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I guess we should be specific that we are looking for apps that not only work on JB 4.1.1 but also don't require a tethering or shared data plan. So people say an apps works but fail to point out it's because their carrier is okaying the app since they have a qualifying plan. So pdanet works on JB 4.1.1 SGH-I747 without an AT&T tethering or shared data plan?
jazee said:
I guess we should be specific that we are looking for apps that not only work on JB 4.1.1 but also don't require a tethering or shared data plan. So people say an apps works but fail to point out it's because their carrier is okaying the app since they have a qualifying plan. So pdanet works on JB 4.1.1 SGH-I747 without an AT&T tethering or shared data plan?
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No...you should have said "I have no clue what im doing so can you please explain every single detail to me?". WTF does a tethering plan have to do with you being able to tether or not if youre rooted? You need to disable to tethering provision via TB!
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I just tried that wifi tether app and it works just fine....you obviously hacent disabled the tethering provision...
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Would this meet your needs?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=35072740#post35072740
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No...you should have said "I have no clue what im doing so can you please explain every single detail to me?". WTF does a tethering plan have to do with you being able to tether or not if youre rooted? You need to disable to tethering provision via TB!
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I just tried that wifi tether app and it works just fine....you obviously hacent disabled the tethering provision...
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Not everyone on here has been on an Android phone and screwing with it all their lives. For example, what the heck is "TB" ? Don't assume everyone has as much experience as you, just because they are a participant on XDA. And I should also add on that requirement, NO CUSTOM ROM.
So an appropriate answer might be the following:
If you are on JB 4.1.1 and want to tether without a tethering plan from your carrier, and you are on the STOCK ROM. You need to do this, this, this and this. Or just post a frickin link to someone who DID take the time to explain it for the rest of us. Does your solution require rooting, or doesn't it. STATE IT. So future people when they search the forums, they don't find a bunch of misleading, dead-end solutions and/or bickering.
I just came from iPhone and I was a jailbreaker. I'm loving the S3 and Jelly Bean. But on the iPhone, I'd jailbreak (equivalent of rooting on Android), install MyWiFi, and DONE and DONE. It seems this was how it was on ICS with this phone. Now on JB, not so simple. There's dozens of posts on several threads on several forums around the Internet of people no longer getting their tethering app to work since JB upgrade. These are both rooted and non-rooted, but they are all STOCK JB ROMs.
So please, tell us the trick to get a stock JB 4.1.1 ROM SGH-I747 AT&T to tether without the plan. We are all ears!
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Would this meet your needs?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=35072740#post35072740
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Not sure as I've been to busy with my real life outside of XDA to spend hours reading and reading posts.
Bottom line, if there was an app you can just download and install for ICS before that worked, isn't it just a matter of time until someone publishes an app on Google Play (may require rooting, big deal) that does the same without a bunch of workarounds and crap.
Look one post above yours
Install that zip file via CWM(clockworkmodrecovery)....then download TITANIUM BACKUP (TB...you need the pro version...you can download lucky patcher for that) and go in and freeze the tethering provision app. This will allow you to tether without your carrier knowing...kindof...
P.S. ICS was the same protocol. You have to freeze the tethering provision...
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Thank you. I've got Titanium Backup installed now. So should I just use the built-in AT&T tethering app now or is it 'safer' to use something else?
Found it.
Still no love. CW Recovery and Team Epic Root Installed. TB Pro installed. Tethering Provisioning Uninstalled.
Tried to Tethering Apps on Google Play, neither work. "Free USB Tethering App" and "Wifi Tethering for Root" (tried Auto and Samsung S3 profiles). No Dice. Thought there was an native AT&T app but may have uninstalled it with TB when cleaning out bloatware.
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Okay, duh, I found the Tether toggle in Advanced Settings. I also found a couple tether apps that don't require root that actually came up on the network, but I get 'Limited' connectivity indication in Windows with no Internet access.
Now get this, whenever I go into Settings > Advanced > Tether if I toggle it on or off or toggle USB sharing on, I get the message "Settings application has stopped working" Some of the tethering apps also "stop working" when I try to run them even though I see the blue tether notification icon in the status bar and I can see the SSID on the network and connect, but it is as if the phones ability to bridge the wifi hotspot it is providing to the 4G Internet connection is broke.
****. Do I need to load Kies and to a stock firmware restore, or is that not even possible not that I have CW recovery installed. I really really didn't want to get into this Android tweaking Hell and now I'm there. Another wasted frickin weekend! Maybe I'll just go back to iPhone. Hopefully the iOS 6 jailbreak is out now (untethered).
Kind of ticked up about being lead down the road that indicated just freezing the tethering provisioning was the solution to all my woes. Maybe it worked for some (are you on JB 4.1.1 with AT&T SGH-I747???) but not me. After a couple more hours of searching and searching, including all sorts of YouTube videos showing using FoxFi, Wifi Tether for Root, etc, and then a lot of recent comments about it nor working. Anyways.....
Soultion is a newer hacked version of Wifi Tether for Rooted user that is not on the Play Store and the apk has to be downloaded directly. Current version is here:
http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=9390195663897100406
YouTube Video on it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztsZH6Xj7A0
What a pain in the ass it took to finally find this. Guess that's the price you pay when you are brand new to Android and an OS update comes out two weeks after you got your phone and you install it the day it comes out. Sigh.
Ugh. Got too excited too quick. You can't toggle Wifi back on after shutting down tethering without restarting phone! Guess it's going to be a few more days until some good developers come out with a simple one-app solution without issues. It was WAY easier to get free tethering on the jailbroken iPhone that this. I'm shocked this is so hard right now on Android JB 4.1.1. But I have to remember the OS update just came out.
I'm on an older TMobile business value plan that includes 5GB high speed data, but no tethering. Given the seeming uncertainty of the various root methods at the moment I'm staying completely stock for now. Are there any wifi tethering solutions that will work for me right now? I've tried FoxFi but I always get the T-Mobile upsell page. I'd be happy to pay for any app that actually works.
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hfuizo said:
I'm on an older TMobile business value plan that includes 5GB high speed data, but no tethering. Given the seeming uncertainty of the various root methods at the moment I'm staying completely stock for now. Are there any wifi tethering solutions that will work for me right now? I've tried FoxFi but I always get the T-Mobile upsell page. I'd be happy to pay for any app that actually works.
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Without root there is no solution for wifi tethering and all the other features
and options people enjoy with their rooted phones.
If all you do is root the phone without flashing any custom roms then
it's really easy to get the phone back to official stock condition just by
opening the supersu app and select option to fully "unroot".
After doing that your phone will be in the exact same condition as it is right now. (unrooted)
Good luck!
Misterjunky said:
Without root there is no solution for wifi tethering and all the other features
and options people enjoy with their rooted phones.
If all you do is root the phone without flashing any custom roms then
it's really easy to get the phone back to official stock condition just by
opening the supersu app and select option to fully "unroot".
After doing that your phone will be in the exact same condition as it is right now. (unrooted)
Good luck!
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I have a question for you then. I have the Sprint Samasung Galaxy Note 2, and I love my roms and root. The main thing I love with root is the ability to wifi tether and use my tablet in my car or where ever. How would I go about getting the new 4.3 OTA coming out on Nov 20th to Sprint, and still have my wifi tether. Can I go back to stock, take the 4.3 OTA and just simply root and turn on wifi tethering? Or is it rom specific or a specific apk? Thanks, I really want the 4.3 official and wifi tethering. Then I would be happy for a while.
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I have a question for you then. I have the Sprint Samasung Galaxy Note 2, and I love my roms and root. The main thing I love with root is the ability to wifi tether and use my tablet in my car or where ever. How would I go about getting the new 4.3 OTA coming out on Nov 20th to Sprint, and still have my wifi tether. Can I go back to stock, take the 4.3 OTA and just simply root and turn on wifi tethering? Or is it rom specific or a specific apk? Thanks, I really want the 4.3 official and wifi tethering. Then I would be happy for a while.
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Wouldn't you ask this in the Sprint Note 3 thread? This is T-Mobile thread.
Pdanet paid version with FoxFi. Do some looking into that
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Ah forget about it. For $5/more per month they added tethering, I'm tired of finding workarounds.
Picked up the Note yesterday, retiring and storing my s4 for emergency use with had Hyperdrive and Tether. Is there a way to bypass the subscription check it runs when you start the tether up? I have unlimited data and use it mostly for tethering since my university's WiFi is awful. I could have sworn there was something you had to set to true and it would bypass the check on other phones. What really drags is we don't have root yet so it makes this quite difficult. Any help is welcome!
Try Foxfi. Works without root. Do a search...topic has been discussed at length.
Thought about using that app, but the free version only gives you so much bandwidth or something like that. I like the idea of just using the stock app. Is this my only option until root and other Roms follow?
I was swapping my SIM back and forth between my rooted note 2 so that I could hotspot, but then I found out foxfi works on the unrooted note 4. I haven't bought the paid version yet, but probably will just for convenience.
Yes...been using paid version for a month, works flawlessly.
Thanks guys!
I've just switched to at&t from verizon owning a nice g3 with root and everything.... And just did a deal with at&t and have found out that it can not be rooted.
So is it possible in anyway to get the tethering app to work at least? If not I'm thinking about going back to verizon because every phone I looked at so far online that's with at&t is locked down and I just can't deal wit that no matter how beautiful the phone looks idc I want root or at least for the time being wifi tethering...
My phone's on the 5.1.1
AngelRyu said:
I've just switched to at&t from verizon owning a nice g3 with root and everything.... And just did a deal with at&t and have found out that it can not be rooted.
So is it possible in anyway to get the tethering app to work at least? If not I'm thinking about going back to verizon because every phone I looked at so far online that's with at&t is locked down and I just can't deal wit that no matter how beautiful the phone looks idc I want root or at least for the time being wifi tethering...
My phone's on the 5.1.1
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You don't need root to tether, just go into phone setting and turn on hotspot. Once phone see what your trying to connect to, it will show up as a connection point on item being connected like a laptop. You would then connect to phone like a modem and use the password the phone gives you. You will be then sharing the phones data.
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You don't need root to tether, just go into phone setting and turn on hotspot. Once phone see what your trying to connect to, it will show up as a connection point on item being connected like a laptop. You would then connect to phone like a modem and use the password the phone gives you. You will be then sharing the phones data.
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I know it took me awhile to reply back but I was hoping someone would replied for me lol....
I'm on unlimited I don't have that option. Hint why I need tether without root so I can bypass it... But thanks for trying.
I dont have unlimited but i have 32g of monthly data.
its under setting>connections>mobile_hotspot_and_tethering
you should not have to replace a modded tether.apk(whatever the name was) like what you have mention on the other thread.
could it be that att purposely gave you the one without that apk, just because you have unlimited data?
fuzmik said:
I dont have unlimited but i have 32g of monthly data.
its under setting>connections>mobile_hotspot_and_tethering
you should not have to replace a modded tether.apk(whatever the name was) like what you have mention on the other thread.
could it be that att purposely gave you the one without that apk, just because you have unlimited data?
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Hi, If you don't have unlimited then that's why. They make unlimited users pay for their hotspot....
I've tried the network signal refresher route used with the original pixels, but it isn't working for me. Does anyone know how to get tethering working on a brand new Pixel 2 xl? I'm ok with rooting if it comes to that... but pretty much I just want to get back to the same functionality I had with my Oneplus One.
there are tethering apps you can use, or if you can wait for root (soon I hope) you can edit the build.prop to disable the tethering provision check.
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there are tethering apps you can use, or if you can wait for root (soon I hope) you can edit the build.prop to disable the tethering provision check.
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Do you have a tethering app you recommend? Last time I used one there was a ton of chaff in the app store.
uofirob said:
Do you have a tethering app you recommend? Last time I used one there was a ton of chaff in the app store.
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Unfortunately I do not, I don't really use tethering all that often so I'm just waiting for root right now
The ones I've tried, haven't been able to get around the limitation. If anyone has one that works, let me know!
what service do you have? T-Mo tethering working fine for me but i know i need a ROM to tether on cricket
Call ATT and add your IMIE to the phone number you are using.
I have an unlocked P2 XL and I had to call them, give them the IMEI(VZW lets you do it yourself online), the girl on the phone entered it, I rebooted and now it works properly.
Only thing I need to figure out now, is how to get WiFi calling to work.
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Call ATT and add your IMIE to the phone number you are using.
I have an unlocked P2 XL and I had to call them, give them the IMEI(VZW lets you do it yourself online), the girl on the phone entered it, I rebooted and now it works properly.
Only thing I need to figure out now, is how to get WiFi calling to work.
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What you talking about?? Adding imei in their system. I put in Verizon sim in phone and get phone service. What does hotspot or tether have to do with this??
Tethering wasn’t working for me on att until I added my imei to my account. Maybe because I am on an unlimited plan...
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Tethering wasn’t working for me on att until I added my imei to my account. Maybe because I am on an unlimited plan...
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Is hotspot part of your plan as well?
I think so. We have an Unlimited plan, but we get 10gb of tethering included... my OnePlus 3 had tethering built in that bypassed the plan and tethered Unlimited whether they wanted me to or not.
I'm on cricket, I'm not paying $10/month for tethering I've been able to do for over 3 years when I was on my Oneplus One.
Has anyone else been able to get tethering to work through an app? This is going to be annoying if I need to travel for work. I may have to bring my onePlus one along just for tethering...
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Has anyone else been able to get tethering to work through an app? This is going to be annoying if I need to travel for work. I may have to bring my onePlus one along just for tethering...
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Doesn't work. You need to wait for root
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Doesn't work. You need to wait for root
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Thanks! I wish root would appear faster! I thought since it was Google's phone, the images would be out already.
I guess I don't understand why it isn't tethering.
If you are not on an Unlimited data plan, it should just work, without root. It's illegal for carriers to block tethering when you are on a tiered data plan. The FCC slapped the carriers down and determined that if you pay for 15GB, then it doesn't matter how you use it, you can tether.
If you are on an Unlimited plan, make sure that tethering is included and give AT&T your IMEI and have them add it to your account, have them enable tethering and whatever other features you want, reboot your phone, and it will work.
I literally just went through this with them, and tethering works on my AT&T Unlimited data plan, right through the stock tethering feature... no app, and no root.
If you are trying to tether a laptop you can checkout PdaNet+ in the appstore. Will allow you to tether over USB (preferred) or Bluetooth (painfully slow). I havent found an app that enables wifi tethering without rooting and editing system files as others have mentioned.
I had the same issue on Sprint, and while I get 10GB of tethering included in my "unlimited" plan, it did not work. Once I called Sprint, they did something on their end and the provisioning check worked.
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I had the same issue on Sprint, and while I get 10GB of tethering included in my "unlimited" plan, it did not work. Once I called Sprint, they did something on their end and the provisioning check worked.
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Exactly, you just have to get someone on the phone who knows what they are doing, and get them to add your IMEI to your account to provision the tethering, and then it will work. Many of us have done it.
Rather than wait for root and hope that you can then hack it to get tethering, just pick up the phone and get someone knowledgeable to fix it.
lets put this in a simple way, most carriers DO NOT want you tethering without paying for it. if you are paying for it, then they would normally have an app that does this. if you are trying to do the sneaky "my carrier doesn't need to know how i use my data" way buy editing build.prob and maybe the tethering_dun change, then tell me, why would this be enabled be default. the carriers cant make their extra buck from the same data, so they forbid it. that simple. unlocked phone, does not refer to the carrier restrictions.
this is even more funny when you think people bought the verizon version and complain about a phone not being unlockable, did NOONE learn from the galaxy nexus (for only 3 months before taken off the nexus project) hell. i could not raise my middle finger high enough when i left verizon.
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Rather than wait for root and hope that you can then hack it to get tethering, just pick up the phone and get someone knowledgeable to fix it.
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a better thing to say is READ, READ, READ some more. then before you root, READ.
i dont want to sound like an elitist, but this is not something that a person that doesnt not understand the restrictions, the list of edits sometimes needing to be made, and how even with these edits, tethering is still detectable by the traffic. its not like the carrier will not wonder why your android phone is pinging the windows update servers.
the last thing a novice user should have, is a rooted phone. this is why i forbid root on my mother's phone (someone that tampered with the NAT setting on our business router). and still debate on it on my wife's phone.
the whole autoroot thing, and rom toolboxes should not be used by anyone that doesn't know how to do it manually. if you dont know what the -w option is when restoring to stock, you should not be using a toolbox.