Wireless Joint

Recently bought a Nighthawk off ebay and i can insert my prepaid sim from my phone and it will show bars and LTE service but this is where i have a problem.

I cannot connect to the internet because Every attempt brings me to AT&T prepaid landing page telling me I have no data access and to visit att.com/prepaid to add some.

If i pop the sim card back into my phone DATA WILL NOT WORK **UNTIL** I make a phone call. Afterwhich data will work on my phone as if nothing changed.

Not sure what the problem here is. I figured all SIMS are the same and the hotspot should just work as if it were a phone trying to connect. Somehow at&t knows the device is a hotspot or other device and I am not sure how to fix this other than buying a grandfathered $100 plan from ebay which could or could not work

I had this problem .. I just changed the M1 IMEI number to a tablet IMEI that is registered to the account .. not sure how long it will work.. but we’ll see soon! Anyone else tried this?

ATT has recently cracked down on the use of prepaid ipad and phone SIMs being used in devices that are not the original device registered to the SIM... via the devices IMEI number. It is not legal in the US to change the number, though many people may be doing it. You are your own person and may do as you wish.

Post paid accounts don't seem to have the same problem as of yet.

how would you go about changing your IMEI of your m1? recently i got dced from mine and now i keep getting this redirect:
http://redirect.ac.sl.attcompute.com/cgi-bin/redirect.cgi

The info is out there, though not technically legal in the US. Info isn't available openly on forums and groups because of that.

You may want to try DM'ing people who talk about it.

I recently had the same issue, with TMO, connects, but only get a redirect about connect, and data doesn't work anymore.

wickedgtr wrote: Wed May 06, 2020 7:33 am I recently had the same issue, with TMO, connects, but only get a redirect about connect, and data doesn't work anymore.

Which M1 version? I heard that Tmobile blacklisted one of the two versions.

It's the '100NAS' model, sticker indicates hw v1.0 but it has B14.

0000000004000000 - B5 (850)
0000000000800000 - B2 (1900)
0000000000400000 - B1 (2100)

0000200000000000 - B46
0000000020000000 - B30
0000000010000000 - B29
0000000000002000 - B14
0000000000000800 - B12
0000000000000040 - B7
0000000000000010 - B5
0000000000000008 - B4
0000000000000004 - B3
0000000000000002 - B2
0000000000000001 - B1
0000000000000002 - B66

Ok, yep, looked it up. T-mobile is blocking the B14 variant of the M1. No explanation given. I dont know much about the Nighthawk. You may want to search the Facebook group for more info, or this site to see if anyone posted a workaround.

Jcwhite wrote: Wed Apr 15, 2020 7:24 pm I had this problem .. I just changed the M1 IMEI number to a tablet IMEI that is registered to the account .. not sure how long it will work.. but we’ll see soon! Anyone else tried this?

I’m unable send you a PM, new to forum. Could you please DM me? Need help how to do what you did. Thanks

wickedgtr wrote: Wed May 06, 2020 7:33 am I recently had the same issue, with TMO, connects, but only get a redirect about connect, and data doesn't work anymore.

Were you able to change the IMEI. I don’t know why but unable to send private msg, maybe new that’s why?

positiverush7 wrote: Thu May 14, 2020 7:56 am Were you able to change the IMEI. I don’t know why but unable to send private msg, maybe new that’s why?

Since changing the IMEI of a device is unlawful in some countries, it is a subject that is not allowed to be discussed on this forum.

The messaging system is disabled due to forum issues.