Many times when using barnacle, it will seemingly reset the connection and drop all existing clients, re-initialize the ad-hoc, etc. Is there a way to prevent this? It can be pretty annoying at times.
I dont have this prob with Wireless Tether (or wifi tether, whatever they want to call it now), and its a free app.
Is the phone getting really hot?
If so try to keep it cool.
Use latest version of WiFi Tether. Your problems will go away. From testing I did myself I found I was getting more bandwidth with this than Barnacle also.
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I have recently rooted my droid Eris that was on 2.1 via OTA. I then dropped the Vanilla Rom on top of it. i used Wireless tethering for 1st time today and the WEP function wasnt working as other computers connected to it. Any idea why not working, also now it keeps hanging on starting/stopping when turning tethering. finally when I turn on Access Control I get Force close issues.
I believe there is a known bug with trying to enable WEP with Wireless Tether for Root. I would say just disable WEP (i dont know if you have to uninstall/reinstall) and just turn on Access Control.
Use the access control to specify which MAC addresses can connect to the access point.
Ok, thanks I will try that out.
coudlnt get it working with WEP either. but disabled, everything runs fine. drains the battery and sets it on fire tho! just a minute ago it got up to 47.8 C
I have a once rooted (I say once because I'm not sure it still is after doing the OTA updates) that has the APN for tethering. Tethering works fine.
The problem is that when I change the APN back to use AT&T US I don't think the phone is disabling tethering. The reason I think this is because I am running JuiceDefender and it shows that Tether is on. Additionally, the battery life is much shorter than usual and the phone is warm to the touch even when it is just sitting there in standby.
Any ideas on how I can confirm that tethering is indeed still running and/or how I can truly turn it off?
I have tried rebooting the phone, selecting AT&T US Tether (so that I get the message saying that I don't have tethering on my plan) and have tried disabling and re-enabling JuiceDefender.
If you scan for wifi networks does your tether network actually show up?
Nope, I don't see it. It's almost like the phone thinks it needs to keep the cell data connection alive so that it can provide tethering, but without actually providing it.
I was using barnacle wifi tether just fine before the update. now, post OTA update, and re-root, barnacle doesn't work.
It doesn't complain that it can't work. It just doesn't show any wireless available like it used to. Even trying to connect to a hidden hotspot doesn't work.
I've spent a while this evening googling and searching here, but I've not turned up anything.
I've also tried android-wifi-tether. same symptom. looks like it's working, no SSID broadcast, no hidden hotspot connection.
rhaig said:
I was using barnacle wifi tether just fine before the update. now, post OTA update, and re-root, barnacle doesn't work.
It doesn't complain that it can't work. It just doesn't show any wireless available like it used to. Even trying to connect to a hidden hotspot doesn't work.
I've spent a while this evening googling and searching here, but I've not turned up anything.
I've also tried android-wifi-tether. same symptom. looks like it's working, no SSID broadcast, no hidden hotspot connection.
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Have you tried reinstalling it, or PDAnet from market. That's a nice tethering app too.
Anyone else have this problem? I can no longer see my Open Garden or WiFi tether tried both apps from phone my prime will no longer see it as available wireless network.... i know my phone tether is working because my laptop sees it fine... even tried to change my SSID and it still will not find it.... the oddest thing is that it still sees my in home wifi network and other neighbors wifi networks..... anyone have any idea how to totally refresh or reset the primes network settings?
THIS IS RIDUCLOUS I AM ABOUT TO RETURN THIS ****
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1438297
use search function. this issue has already been raised.
Hey everyone, I got myself a Z2 recently and have been very happy about it for the most part. However, some things seem to not function a 100% the way it's supposed to.
Some times after it's been to sleep and I try browsing online with it using either 3g/4g or wifi the phone says it has a connection, but nothing loads. All I have to do to solve this is to refresh the wifi/3g connection manually, and then it works. It's rather annoying to always go through that procedure every time I want to use my phone, so I'm wondering is there anything I can do about this? Or anyone experienced anything similar?
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I have the same issue with WiFi while the phone sleeps or is active (no probs with mobile data though!), but I was not able to determine whether it's my router, the phone, or a combination of the two (though I have a hunch).
When I'm in my room which is unfortunately the farthest from the router, and the connection drops, my Z2 is not able to reconnect on its own. Have to disable/enable WiFi or else it's stuck in an infinite loop of connecting and obtaining an IP.
Now, I'm fine with a dropping connection occasionally given the distance and the... quality of my router. However, my laptop is able to reconnect automatically.
I have tried lots of possible solutions: WiFi sleep policy, static IP or DHCP, disabling/enabling WiFi optimisation or Auto-IP, switching WiFi channels, and various WiFi fixer apps. Nothing worked.
My guess? There is a bug in the stock firmware that makes the phone unable to reconnect if a connection is forcibly dropped . Pair this with a crappy router and you have a recipe for inconvenience.
Unfortunately, I have no spare router to confirm this, and with the bugs in CyanogenMod I am reluctant to flash for now.
Also, I am sure this is not a hardware fault of the phone in my case since I notice this behaviour at home in my network only.
Do you guys possibly know where I could find some logs related WiFi? I wanna get to the bottom of this.