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phone asking for sim card before hotspot

Samsung galaxy s5
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Asking for sim card before tethering

Boost mobile does not have sim card

Everything works except mobile hotspot which i have on my plan and worked on my gakaxy s3 phone before this
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8/22/2022 - Mon
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yes i have boost wifi hotspot plan
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Under "Network mode"
    What is your setting? LTE and CDMA, or CDMA... Change it to CDMA, restart phone and try  tethering again.

i changed to cdma and still does not work without sim card but i have sim card now so runs
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sim card worked. thanks for teaching me about phone
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