Intro

I recently registered for the T-Mobile test drive program to try out their mobile hotspot service. My original intention was to get the T-Mobile T9 (Franklin Wireless R717) device that can be rooted and unlocked. However, it seems that T-Mobile stopped shipping that model some time at the beginning of 2021. Instead, they shipped another model referred to as "T-Mobile Hotspot" with a model number of TMOHS1.

Here is what the TMOHS1 device looks like: