I'm moving to a new apartment with a roommate in a few days, and we won't have internet, so I want to share the data connection off of my rooted Atrix to both of our laptops. I could either a: figure out how to set up wifi tethering directly on my phone, or b: wired tether to my computer and then use internet connection sharing to my router (because sadly my laptop wifi card doesn't support internet connection sharing as best as I can figure out).
I'm a little concerned about directly using wifi tethering from my phone though because of the massive heat generated between running both cell and wifi radios hard and having it charging at the same time since it drains battery so fast doing that, but is that really a big deal?
I use the wifi hotspot function with the phone plugged in all the time. If you're really concerned, I would just avoid putting it on carpet or fabric, as that will retain the heat better.
Nah it shouldnt get that hot. If you are that worried buy a laptop cooler and put it on that or get a desk fan
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Alright I'll just do that. I might take off the back cover or something, that would help. Does the phone have any sort of overheating protection built in so I don't have to worry about it?
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I'm pretty sure if it gets too hot, it will shut off. Not sure where the threshold is though. I know other android phones do, and my old iPhone did.
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Hi!
Next sunday I will take a seven hour train. And in the latest releases of wifi tethering it has come a temperature view of the battery.
What I am asking about is, do I have to watch my phone the hole time for not being overheated? What about when I am charging?
Im at work atm, so have to be short of explonation right now
Thanks
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I occasionally do this for a hour or two and seems to be fine. Longest I've done it was three hours without any issues. This was using pdanet.
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http://ip208-100-42-21.static.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=631464
Others already question this. But I think a lot more practical to use the wifi tethering than any other connection type (Bluetooth and wired). However is it possible to have a non-wired connection without heating the phone?
I ask this because the staff of the HTC does not support this.
Thanks in advance
Thanks a lot for the link!
So what they say is that if you wanna tether, use usb? I dont really care whether I use wired or non-wired thering.
Sorry I misunderstood what you were asking. My phone was connected via USB and using PdaNet to connect the laptop to the WiFi. Didn't seem to heat up. I also have a silicon case on the phone.
Since the phone is constantly using both the Wi-Fi and (or) the Mobile Network Connection over hour's. It will get a little hot.
But, you can adjust the clock with "overclock widget" or "setcpu" to a lower value, so it don't uses that much processor power all the time.
The Hero should handle to teeter for some hours, anyway.
So like with the original EVO, I used it to navigate with Google Navigation. The phone heated up sometimes but not by much. However, the EVO 3D seems to heat up the point of almost burning at the touch. Anyone else get this?
Some of them overheat. My first one didn't, my 2nd one did, my current one doesn't. My girlfriends first one did her current one doesn't. Her's was exchanged specifically because of it getting too hot. Mine had screen issues.
You should exchange it.
Well when you use navigation you are using the GPS, data to keep the map current, display to show it all. All of these things cause the phone to heat. If you have it charging while navigating it will heat more. Heat is a totally normal product of hardware doing its job.
Now, if it gets burning hot, melts your components, anything like that, there is call for alarm.
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Yeah, well whenever im using my GPS im usually not using it as a phone. But when I do happen to get a phone call, its like putting a hot coal against my face X.x.
I mean it's hotter than a laptop would be if it was running full on. Maybe I will exchange it...I don't want there to be problems in the future.
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Yeah, well whenever im using my GPS im usually not using it as a phone. But when I do happen to get a phone call, its like putting a hot coal against my face X.x.
I mean it's hotter than a laptop would be if it was running full on. Maybe I will exchange it...I don't want there to be problems in the future.
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What temperature does it get to? Was it charging while using it? Was the sun on it at all? Was the air on in your car, or was it hot? All of those things can.play a role as well, especially while using gps.
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Ok so is it just me or are my download/upload speeds extremely faster when using my 3G to tether my computer? I say this because normally my speed for 3G is 0.88Mbps. When I USB tether to my computer I get like 2-3Mbps on 3G!! Even though this is a very good thing, why is that...If anyone would test this out as well and report back with results then we can come to some sort of conclusion
It's in part because the antenna is in the phone so holding it you will usually get less signal than say flat on a desk. So just setting it down in most cases will pull data faster.
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I seem to keep having an issue with phone and various chargers I own. They are plugged in but when they move around in the plug they seem to lose connection and the phone thinks I unplugged it. It makes the charging noise everytime it happens and it's even more obtrusive when below or at fifteen percent battery. Has anyone experienced this before with the Note or any phone? It is very annoying.
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Yes i had a loose connection with my previous note and even had.exchanged it.for.that very same problem. I'm sorry but unless you don't want a continued problem you might need to have it exchanged. But of course in doing that there is always a chance they will say it's owner damage because that's a wear and tear problem which is not covered under warranty.
Good.luck mate
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You might look here. Along with my note thinking it was connecting & disconnecting with NOTHING plugged into it, When I would move the phone
around, you could here the connection/disconnection sound. It might be
nothing more than a contaminated connection. I wrote this one and threw
in some photos. Might be worth it before you send it back.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=25102882&postcount=18
I put a little object under the plug and it seems to work fine.
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Guys does anyone have any tethering solutions for this phone. I've tried using the built in tethering with a widget that bypasses the subscription check, but if i plug the phone directly into a wall outlet using the correct Samsung charger, it STILL uses about 10% battery per hour. i knew going into this that the battery would be worse than my Note 2, but that's just not right, How can it use battery if it's plugged into a wall outlet. I don't have internet at home and use tethering on an unlimited plan, so I HAVE to have tethering but i simply cannot use it if I can't find a solution, and will have to return the device.
The battery isn't bad on this phone unless I tether, It will easily last all day using regualr apps, but i bet it wouldnt last an hour if i tether. I don't mind plugging it in to use tethering, but 10% loss every hour while plugged in, is not ok. Does anyone have any thoughts?
I have always used Trev-Es tethering on other devices and it works great but I can't seem to get it going on this.
Any help is truly appreciated, because I love the design of this phone and truly want to like it, but right now, I hate it.
I tether and don't have this issue. But I use the stock tether. I don't use any apps. I don't think there are random disconnects or radio drops to where you need treve mod on the s4. At least I haven't experienced this yet.
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ok i'm not sure what the deal was. I reverted back to stock. It is now charging normally whilst tethering. Also most of the lagging issues I had are now gone. it's still not buttery, but i guess thats TW for ya. much better device now. Thanks :laugh: