Personal hotspot is not visible

personal hotspot is not visible

ok guys same thing happened to me on iphone 5 and I found a solution. my situation was similar as many of you:
my operator is vodafone and when my sim was activated vodafone sent me a profile for operator settings so I installed it. but when I tried to enable personal hotspot, the menu simply disappeared from settings menu. there was only settings -> general -> cellular -> personal hotspot but it wasn't like "on" or "off", it was trying to do sth for a while but nothing happened. when i clicked on it it gave the message "to enable personal hotspot on this account, contact /operator_name/ (vodafone)". I contacted them for nothing, just to lose money for contacting. they said it was apple's problem but i knew it wasn't because it was working with my former operator. I tried everything suggested on forums, none worked. so I simply deleted this profile, and personal hotspot menu instantly came back to the settings menu. now it works just fine and you don't need a profile to make calls, send sms and mms or use cellular data (3g). I actually don't know what a profile is good for but I now know it disables personal hotspot.
I hope this helps you.

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Hi, thanks for your answers.
I have tried bluetooth tethering and it does work, but often i find has the same issue after a few minutes or if i let my device sleep, i have to reinitiate the hotspot. Whats worse is that i can go into the hotspot settings sometimes and it says "NOW DISCOVERABLE!" but nothing can see it, not my iPad, not my laptop, nor any other wifi enabled device until i toggle Hotspot off and on again.
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All these super annoying first world pains eh? Again, thanks for your feedback but it doesn't help my particular issues.

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