It must be different with SERO....as stated before. I just go to ICS, select the "Sprint PCS" profile and click connection...it just works. No hacks needed for me.

What ROM are you using now EB? Luv said this is for the Sprint ROM, are you perhaps using a full blown Alltel ROM?

Aside from that, check your registry and see if that value exists for you. If its not there, then that would explain why you dont need to connect PIE first.

I am looking through the hex edit of an RIL.dll file right now, and as I suspected it appears to have a lot of the AT modem strings and power features jabber in it. I guess that ICS can use the file as an extension to determine whether or not to use a tethering profile with this device...?

With that note... there does not appear to be a rilphone.dll anywhere on my device - and I am using colonel's hybrid ROM at this time. Yet, even though the file isn't on my device, making the reg change still cures the connection issue with ICS... I have more digging to do :p

Perhaps you're not familiar with my post history on this site, so I'll forgive you that mis-step, but you can rest assured that I don't post anything that needs debunking. I had a look in rilphone.dll with a hexeditor and saw the tethering detection logic. You're welcome to do the same.

Making this registry change will prevent Sprint from knowing you're tethering. I don't have the time nor the patience to explain it to you, other than to say that the Internet Sharing app is microsoft code, and does not have tethering detection built into it. It is extensible, however, but any of that code is not microsoft code. The link between the MS code and the 3rd party code is that registry entry. Without it, the internet sharing app will function just as it would on any other device--which is just straight IP NAT.

Hey Luv? Would I be able to trouble you into attaching the rilphone.dll file here for me to look at? I would like to do some hex discovery myself, but as I said before I don't have that exact file on my device with the ROM I am using. Plz, thx and all that!

You do have that file--it handles much more than just tethering. If you're using the built-in File Explorer to view the Windows directory it is set to hide system files from view--go to the right softkey and choose "Show All Files".

But that file exists in a partially deconstructed form known as a module, so it would have been impossible for you to pull it off the device anyway. You need to dump a ROM image file on your PC and use a tool called recmod to reassemble the physical dll file. I've attached it for your perusal.

this is just BEAUTIFUL... i'm in class reading this and can't wait to get home and test it! ... luv2chill.. does this lend any credibility to my ramblings or was I way off? I have yet to play with hex editors, roms, and the like...

Thanks Luv... and I still cannot locate that file in any directory on my device... I have all files set as visible. Odd... no biggie though. There is a file named RIL.dll in there. Same layout as the file you posted up here it seems (just glancing through the hex that is)

Anyway, you really don't have to look very far into the file to make the association, thats for sure...

http://www.krayziepop.com/random/tether_NAI.jpg


I wonder why Sprint does such simple things that can be so easily bypassed to prevent tethering? Oh well... I am happy, it works well now. One less hangup to have over owning teh Mogul :D

Y'all Are Such Geeks!!
 

And I LOVE it! I don't understand a darned thing you're talking about! I feel like I'm learning French or Arabic or Swahili or something. It's exhilerating!!!

Thanks guys (and I know there are some geeky girls too) for being yourselves. I'll learn something.

Thank you thank you thank you.
 

I have SERO. Never could get IS to work, always got the 67 error. I could tether by first connecting which would have been fine, but with chill's regedit I don't have to make that extra step. Internet Sharing / tethering working fine.

added full terms at the end to make it easier for noobies such as my self to find in a search of the subject.