I followed all the instruction and rooted the phone - proud of myself for that! it was really easy...anyway, i then downloaded wifi tether which people suggest doing for free wifi hotspot. My computer and ipod seem to connect to the signal, but won't get on the internet for some reason.
Windows 7 just keeps saying "connecting" and then "taking longer than expected", then it just quits. Any suggestions out there?
thank you!
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I'm new, not much of a techie but I need some help. I just rooted my Tmobile Vibrant, it's still running 2.1 Update 1. I want to wifi tether so I downloaded Barnacle Legacy. Everything opens fine, but when I try to search wifi hotspots on other devices, nothing shows. I am using a Droid and a Mytouch 2nd gen and neither will find the Vibrants Barnacle spot. I was then told to get Wireless Tether for Root Users app. I got Appbrain, Android market and tried the internet and all tell me that "the item can not be found". Where can I get a copy of this app? Or even better, can someone tell me how to make the Barnacle app work? It says it's operating, beaconing ad hoc but nothing never connects. Please, any help would be greatly appreciated
Dear Members, I have searched and read several threads on this, but don't seem to find the exact answer I am looking for. I have an unlocked HTC Aria (AT&T Branded) currently running on Android 2.1. I am not particularly interested in changing the ROM as the phone does what I need (Calls, Messages, E-Mails, and Web Browsing). However I would like to also be able to do BlueTooth Tethering over to an Archos 70 IT tablet that I use for all the rest. I notice that the apps that would do this, all require ROOT. My question is, if I can ROOT my phone ONLY in order t be able to install any of these BT Tethering Apps? Do I still have to install a ROM, or will ROOTING not affect anything else?
I appreciate you comments and any suggestions that you might have.
Thank you very much.
No you can root and leave the stock rom in place.
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Thanks mtnlion!
Ok! So I rooted my device and installed WIFI Tethering. The program does start on my Aria and the wi-fi signal is picked up by my notebook, however it shows limited connectivity (basically no internet). Unless someone has any feedback, I would now assume that it is an issue of my phone not connecting to the network, however I have tried the web browser on my phone and it does work, I also tried BT Tethering but both devices will show "paired but not connected", and can't get passed this step, so any comments again will be much appreciated.
Thanks again,
Stormglider said:
Ok! So I rooted my device and installed WIFI Tethering. The program does start on my Aria and the wi-fi signal is picked up by my notebook, however it shows limited connectivity (basically no internet). Unless someone has any feedback, I would now assume that it is an issue of my phone not connecting to the network, however I have tried the web browser on my phone and it does work, I also tried BT Tethering but both devices will show "paired but not connected", and can't get passed this step, so any comments again will be much appreciated.
Thanks again,
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Don't know if this thread might help or not.
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Thanks cHarley04,
I finally flashed Liberated 2.2.2. and it does exactly wht I was looking for!
Cheers,
Hey all, I just got a Galaxy Tab 10.1 32GB WiFi for my wife. I have a Droid Incredible and we are trying to get the Tab to see my phone's wireless tether AP. It works no problem on my laptop but I am not having any luck with the Tab. Is there a reason for this?
I did a search and came up with nothing, so I apologize if this has been covered somewhere....
Thanks for any help.
The phone is broadcasting on ad-hoc mode, which the Tab doesn't recognize natively. You can however root and switch out a file, which will allow out to recognize. See the thread in development about ad-hoc to learn more
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Kevin Gossett said:
The phone is broadcasting on ad-hoc mode, which the Tab doesn't recognize natively. You can however root and switch out a file, which will allow out to recognize. See the thread in development about ad-hoc to learn more
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Thanks, I had actually just found it. With my Incredible I got it working by updating to the 3.0 Tether app and changing my device profile to Galaxy S. I cannot however get it to work on my wife's Eris. I change the profile but when I go to start the tether, it 'starts with errors'. And in the error section it says that it failed to activate the wifi interface.
Am I screwed on getting this to work with the Eris?
Try "android wifi tether" version 3.1 beta 2. it worked for me. Your phone must be rooted, but your tablet obviously doesnt have to be.
I cant post a link yet, after searching google for "android wifi tether" it should be the first link to a google codes page.
ewinter said:
Try "android wifi tether" version 3.1 beta 2. it worked for me. Your phone must be rooted, but your tablet obviously doesnt have to be.
I cant post a link yet, after searching google for "android wifi tether" it should be the first link to a google codes page.
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Yeah, the phone (Eris) was always rooted, but it didn't like v3 of the WiFi tether. It always worked on my Incredible.
I ended up rooting the tablet and fixing the supplicant file, now all is good with v2 Wireless Tether on the Eris.
Thanks for the reply though.
Has anyone been able to get pdanet or wifi tether to work on the photon?
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Has anyone been able to get pdanet or wifi tether to work on the photon?
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PDANet works on mine. I think wifi tether will work if you're rooted. I am not rooted, so cannot say for sure.
I just rooted. I installed wifi tether. The phone makes it look like its working but if it does not show up in the network list of any of my devices like my laptop and my tablet. Anyone have wifi tether working after root?
I used the 3.2 beta of WiFi tether on my rooted photon and it worked great for me.
Which WiFi tether are you using? Who is the author? Did you get it from the market?
Nevermind, I picked up Barnacle Wifi from the market and it appears to work fine. I am posting this message from my Macbook over the barnacle wifi on my photon
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Nevermind, I picked up Barnacle Wifi from the market and it appears to work fine. I am posting this message from my Macbook over the barnacle wifi on my photon
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Scratch this! The Barnacle program does work but when you turn it off and I did this twice to repeat it, I had to reboot my Macbook, my phone and for whatever reason why my home router in order to get my Macbook and Photon to connect to my home network again. So I guess back to square 1, anyone know a program that works properly? I have tried many now including different versions of WiFi tether and my Photon will not show up on any of my device networks.
Pdanet works fine for me!
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Scratch this! The Barnacle program does work but when you turn it off and I did this twice to repeat it, I had to reboot my Macbook, my phone and for whatever reason why my home router in order to get my Macbook and Photon to connect to my home network again. So I guess back to square 1, anyone know a program that works properly? I have tried many now including different versions of WiFi tether and my Photon will not show up on any of my device networks.
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I already reported PDAnet works fine. Not free but I've been using it since my Hero days almost 2 years ago and its been well worth the cost.
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Which WiFi tether are you using? Who is the author? Did you get it from the market?
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I downloaded out directly from their website.
i had to change the power settings then it worked fone 10+mbps when retrieving media
I used pdanet to USB tether and ir0t worked great. It was almost too easy!
I can confirm that WiFi Tether if you go to there website the 3.1 Beta 2 appears to work perfectly on a rooted Photon. My phone now shows up as a network and with security on and everything my tablet and laptop surfed the net no problem.
I disagree 3.2 doesnt work , the best you can get is adhoc and it tells you that access control can not be enabled
I can confirm that my paid-for copy of PDAnet 3.02 works on my Windows laptop w/ my non-rooted Photon over USB. However, PDAnet does not do wifi tethering.
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I disagree 3.2 doesnt work , the best you can get is adhoc and it tells you that access control can not be enabled
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What does your comment even mean. So is only adhoc bad? What is the use of access control?
What would be the ideal situation? Sorry for asking so many questions but I have never used the wifi tether 3.2 app before.
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I disagree 3.2 doesnt work , the best you can get is adhoc and it tells you that access control can not be enabled
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3.02 works for me without problem. Are you using the free or paid version? The free version has some major limitations.
easytether works, not talking about pdanet but the wifi tethering app doesnt
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I can confirm that WiFi Tether if you go to there website the 3.1 Beta 2 appears to work perfectly on a rooted Photon. My phone now shows up as a network and with security on and everything my tablet and laptop surfed the net no problem.
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i have tried and tried but cannot get it to work with my photon...
Just a heads-up for anyone trying to connect to WiFi Tether with some/most Android tablets (like my Xoom). You might need to modify your device to be able to join ad-hoc networks. For the Xoom, it was as easy as replacing the wpa_supplicant binary.
Before I changed that file, my Xoom couldn't see the wireless network that my MoPho was broadcasting.
I have a droidX with liquid ICS 1.62,
android version 4.0.4,
and kernel version 2.6.32.9-g34b306d
i have tried every possible method i have found to get wifi tethering working, its to give my nexus 7 wifi on the train
I'm able to tether with bluetooth, but because there's no wifi connection various apps dont "see" the internet and ignore it.
so i need wifi tethering
BUT IT WONT FREAKIN WORK. :crying::crying:
more specifically, no matter what i try, nothing can see the wifi tethering signal of my phone, its as if nothing is there at all.
it'd tried; Foxfi, PDAnet, wifi tether for root users, barnacle tether...
i'm completely at witts end here, ask me any question you need and i'll answer in as much detail as needed
anyone? at all?
if you need any more information, i can provide it
guess not
i'll probably have to drop back down to CM7, it looks like every single ics or jb rom for the droidx has this dumb issue. thanks verizon
wait, nevermind, got it working again somehow
after flashing back to stock liquidICS 1.62 i found it working again
i tried to underclock the phone so i could leave it in my pocket running wifi all day, but apparently under OR overclocking the phone AT ALL breaks tethering, dont ask me how or why.
if you change the clock speed at all, you need to reboot before using tether