i used a lot the wifi tethering of my galaxy 2 until...i upgrade ..after this i used it once and then nothing...i did hard reset and again worked once and after nothing..my laptops can see the wifi and connects with it but doesnt share the internet access..in contrary if i use the usb tether everything works like a charm...has anyone any idea???
I am having the same problem. Did you resolve the issue and how did you do it...
Thanks in advance...
Same here as well, I have not used tethering before until now and wanted to see if I could get it to work as I will be away in a few weeks with no internet access for my laptop so wanted to try and get this running.
As said above got the laptop to see and connect to the phone, but wont let me have internet. Not tried doing it via usb yet as wanted to try it wireless.
Any ideas anyone? (by the way running lite'ning rom as well 5.2)
I have the same issue on mine. Just release/renew the ip address and it works fine.
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So judging by the quick search, many people have this problem on many different phones, and no solution was found.
I know I've had this problem with my old SGS 1, and even Nexus One.
Same problem on my SGS II, tethering to many different desktops and laptops.
So it seems to be android-specific, or Windows specific problem, really.
Basically, when you tether with USB, first several minutes all is well and speed is good, but in about 5-10 minutes, traffic from the phone just stops.
Phone still shows tethering ON, PC still thinks it's connected, but nothing loads, it doesn't disconnect, it just drops to speed or 0 kbps.
The only way to restore it is to disable tether and reconnect.
Anybody has any idea why would this occur and how to prevent it?
Does it say no internet connection on the network indicator on the bottom right of the notification center? My guess is your carrier has an issue with tethering. I see your on AT&T. Do they have a plan that is specifically for tethering?
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Does it say no internet connection on the network indicator on the bottom right of the notification center? My guess is your carrier has an issue with tethering. I see your on AT&T. Do they have a plan that is specifically for tethering?
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No internet connectivity loss is indicated in windows, it still thinks it has a good internet connection. I'm assuming that after a while, it will detect that although there's a connection, there's no actual traffic flowing through it, and will say that there's an issue... but for a long time, it's simply as if I'm connected, but actual speed is at 0kbps.
Browser tries to load pages and times out in 10-30 seconds.
Unfortunately (or fortunately) this definitely doesn't have anything to do with AT&T. I have unlimited grandfathered plan with AT&T and a custom rom, AT&T has no idea that I'm tethering. Internet on the phone is still working fine.
I kinda feels as if the usb tether drivers in windows (RDIS or whatever it's called) simply gives up after a while. Or maybe it's the android tether process that "forgets" what it's supposed to be doing.
you are running a stock ROM right?
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you are running a stock ROM right?
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Nope, latest CheckROM.
But as I've said, I had same problem with Captivate and other ROMs on SGS2 =(
i haven't found a custom rom where tethering fully works....thats why i went back to stock
Have the same problem on BOTH my Huawei ideos U8150 and my HTC sensation.
My wirelessly tethered devices still work flawlessly but my USB tethered desktop disconnects after a few minutes. Screen time out set to Max in case something in the phone went to sleep but no difference. Definitely not a network problem as my operator confirmed but an android (or windows problem) .
I even set USB Port power settings to always stay awake.
Hope we can find a solution to this.
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i got the same problem under ICS. tried on stock ZSLPE and custom XXLPQ firmwares. both do not work!
my stock gingerbread was able to work flawlessly without disconnection problem on the same pc. wtf is happening?!
I have Samsung Galaxy S Plus.
I am facing exactly the same problem.
Have tried different ROM's around 5, 3 were custom ROM's.
Looks like Android OS issue.
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I have Samsung Galaxy S Plus.
I am facing exactly the same problem.
Have tried different ROM's around 5, 3 were custom ROM's.
Looks like Android OS issue.
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I had this problem on both my Samsung Charge(Stock app 2.3.6), and my Motorola Razr(Stock app 4.0.4). I believe it is a driver issue inside windows. It seems less of a problem on the Motorola phone as I get a few hours of USB tether before it exhibits the same problem whereas the charge started after a couple of minutes. ie. Phone has data and can access web, computer thinks its connected to the web and okay, but any attempts to connect to the internet from the pc fails.
The wireless tether works fine and does not exhibit the same issues so I would suggest you use wifi tether. I don't know if wifi tether uses more or less power than usb tether (assuming your phone is connected to computer and charging). If I get some more free time in the next few weeks I might try and do an analysis.
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I had this problem on both my Samsung Charge(Stock app 2.3.6), and my Motorola Razr(Stock app 4.0.4). I believe it is a driver issue inside windows. It seems less of a problem on the Motorola phone as I get a few hours of USB tether before it exhibits the same problem whereas the charge started after a couple of minutes. ie. Phone has data and can access web, computer thinks its connected to the web and okay, but any attempts to connect to the internet from the pc fails.
The wireless tether works fine and does not exhibit the same issues so I would suggest you use wifi tether. I don't know if wifi tether uses more or less power than usb tether (assuming your phone is connected to computer and charging). If I get some more free time in the next few weeks I might try and do an analysis.
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I've had this problems with pretty much every Samsung phone I had.
I have HTC One X now, and it doesn't have this problem. So something with Samsung drivers, I think.
Cool fact - HTC even has a one-click reverse tethering. So cool.
I have the same problem, but can't find out, where (windows or android) is it.
What I have:
Motorola Atrix (rooted with SuperOneClick, stock ROM)
PC with Windows XP x64 without WIFI
The only RNDIS drivers I could find was HTC RNDIS (for XPx64)
Situation:
I'm living in hostel for one month, and there is only WIFI internet here, so I tried to get my phone WIFI to tether into USB
What have I done:
Connected to WIFI over phone.
Turned USB tethering ON.
By default WIFI is not tethered to USB, so I found that turning USB tethering ON creates usb1 network and WIFI is eth0. Then I configured NAT by iptables on my phone to accept and forward connection from PC (usb1) to WIFI (eth0). [usb0 on Atrix is for Motorola Portal, didn't try yet to connect to internet throught portal connection, not USB tethering]
The problem in short:
At the begining everything works fine. But when many connection threads are opened (didn't look for that many count) connection stops. As it was already mensioned, PC thinks it is connected, on phone USB tethering is still ON, even more - ifconfig still shows the connection. The only diffrenece is that "ping 192.168.42.129 -t" on PC (192.168.42.129 is usb1 IP on phone) starts showing "Request timed out" messages. On the other side - from my phone, I cannot ping my PC either. So connection is like broken, no traffic can be passed, but both sides sees they are ON.
After turning off USB tethering, PC sees connection is off immediately and the Local Area Connection #23 is gone. After turning on USB tethering everything comes back to the beginning.
Current workaround (for me):
I am using VPS service, so I open dynamic SSH tunnel over putty, and use it as my SOCKS5 proxy. The worst thing is that not all programs can use proxies, and when I use such program it tries to crash my connection.
Sorry for my english, it is foreign language for me, if anything is not understandable or you need more test from me, please ask, I will try to do my best.
Power Tether Off
DarkDvr said:
So judging by the quick search, many people have this problem on many different phones, and no solution was found.
I know I've had this problem with my old SGS 1, and even Nexus One.
Same problem on my SGS II, tethering to many different desktops and laptops.
So it seems to be android-specific, or Windows specific problem, really.
Basically, when you tether with USB, first several minutes all is well and speed is good, but in about 5-10 minutes, traffic from the phone just stops.
Phone still shows tethering ON, PC still thinks it's connected, but nothing loads, it doesn't disconnect, it just drops to speed or 0 kbps.
The only way to restore it is to disable tether and reconnect.
Anybody has any idea why would this occur and how to prevent it?
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Hi,
I had the same problem with my Android Phone - P999 running Cyanogenmod 7.2
I had to go into usb debugging screen to adjust the Display power Settings to - Always ON when Charging - Option.
There is probably some power setting in your device that allows you to do that as well.
Basically Power Saving (Screen Off) Powers OFF the Tether.
Ensuring the Screen is ON while Charging (it charges while plugged into a usb port) ensures the Tether stays ON ALL the TIME!
Hope this helps you.
Took me quite awhile of messing around to find the right option.
I do have a similar problem but it's not time-dependant.
Phone:
Nexus 4 mako
AOKP JB-MR1 Build 6
franco kernel 3.4.0 build #121
Situation:
I use FolderSync to backup my sdcard to my Windows 7 FTP server. The reason for doing this over USB Tether is that I get speeds at around 14MB/s instead of 1,2MB/s over WiFi.
I noticed that it doesn't really matter how long tether is connected and nothing really happens as long as FolderSync is scanning the folders on the ftp server at low bandwidth. However once a larger file is transferred the connection is almost sure to break and show the symptoms described by the other posters (interface still up, just no packets being received at either end).
So I assume that some driver (either on Android or Windows) chokes on certain packets and then just dies. Anyone got an Idea how to tell which device causes the problem to investigate further?
I also noticed that if I had ADB enabled before starting USB Tether that the tether connection on the android will be disabled once the failure occurs.
I have problem with my realme c2 when i connect it to pc via usb tethering, it connects it running ok. if i make screen on by playing youtube or any video on it run but as soon as screen sleep it disconnect after some time
I'm a bit late to this, but for anyone else still having this problem:
in Developer options of my phone(Redmi note 11) under Networking, there is an option called "Always keep mobile data on". Turning this on should fix the issue
@Denav
This doesn't work for me. I have a Moto G Power 2021 and that option is already checked.
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@Denav
This doesn't work for me. I have a Moto G Power 2021 and that option is already checked.
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Were you able to figure out the issue? I'm having trouble as well. Mine disconnects after a certain time period and the times seems to be random. I've played around with the dev options and other cables and still having same issue. It seems to happen with mac and windows laptops.
Hi I recently restored my s3 to factory reset but after that I am not able to connect any devices (phones or laptop )with wifi tethering
Prior to reset it was working fine. I have not rooted my phone.
Do I have to reset it again? Any other possible solutions?
Can you explain it in more detail? If using hotspot, are your phone close enough with the device you want to paired? Did you try bluetooth or usb tethering? Did your phone have data connection?
Having major issues with tethering on my SGS3 aswell.
When I recieved the phone, stock out of the box, I was unable to get tethering working, it worked for 10-60mins then automatically turned off.
I rooted the phone, and tried various tethering apps, and finally (after a couple of days) managed getting FoxFi to give me a stable tether.
Now I've installed the latest FW, and Im back to square 1 (or even further back), FoxFi puts up an access point, but after being connected 10-60mins, tethering stops working, and the connection dissapears from the list on my computer. FoxFi still reports it's running, so I have to turn it off, then back on to get another 10-60 minutes.
Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep: Always
Build Number: IMM76D.I9300XXBLH3
Android Version: 4.0.4
Considering trying Cyanogenmod, but I really like the stock room and wish to stay on it.
USB tethering is out of the question, as I use it for Xbox360, PS3, talet etc.
For those wondering, usually having 10/8 mbps @ 80ping, limited to 20GB traffic a month, aint that bad tbh.
Might just gotta get me a proper and wired internet connection instead.
Anyone got any idea what so ever what might cause this? Ill be more than willing to post logs etc, just tell me how.
One more thing, some of the tethering apps gives Ad Hoc error, FoxFi the only I've not getting this error on (of those Ive tried atleast).
Might be too late to warn about this, but the 4.3 over-the-air update has broken PdaNet+ for me. Others may have the same problem.
I believe this is an issue with windows not recognizing the phone properly. I had to manually run windows update and it downloaded htc drivers. Your computer should recognize the phone as "my htc" if it's working properly.
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I believe this is an issue with windows not recognizing the phone properly. I had to manually run windows update and it downloaded htc drivers. Your computer should recognize the phone as "my htc" if it's working properly.
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The latest drivers were brought in with HTC Sync, I think. The phone was recognized properly and all, as before. PdaNet was just unable to connect from computer to phone.
Not to hijack this thread but has anyone actually run into the data cap for wifi hotspot w/ T-Mobile? I supposedly get 500MB of tethering w/ my plan, but today alone I've used over 500MB and well over a gig in this billing cycle. Is this something actively being enforced? Just curious.
OP is right, it's not working anymore. It recognizes my phone fine but when I have usb debugging and pda net and usb tether enabled and try to connect on pda net desktop it keeps asking me to "Please start pdanet on your phone and enable USB Tether mode"
I've also noted that there doesn't seem to be a way to disable the HTC Sync while keeping USB debugging on. Perhaps that is the culprit here?
Having the exact same problem described - the desktop client asks to start pdanet on my phone even though it's already on and usb mode is active. I tried using easy tether lite, but that does not hide mobile data usage. Has anyone else tried any othe app/any luck getting pdanet to work after the 4.3 update?
The 4.3 update also broke Wifi Tether too!
But I am lucky now Tmo is giving 2.5gb for hotspot with my $70 prepaid plan.
Has anybody found a workaround or know if June Fabrics Software intends to update to fix this?
Lets give pdanet some time to update
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Same thing happened to me. I was rather miffed. When looking about for a solution, I installed ClockworkMod Tether, and it worked. It's a 10 day trial, though. After 10 days you have to upgrade to the full version for $4.99. Still a good deal.
I remembered reading somewhere that FoxFi might work if you installed the dedicated FoxFi app instead of using the version built into PdaNet+. I gave that a try, and it did work for me as long as I changed the user agent string in my browser. I bought PdaNet a long time ago and received an activation code, which I used to activate the full version of FoxFi.
Finally I bought a VPN subscription for $30 a year. Now I can tether away wirelessly and not have to worry about my user agent string. My tethering speeds also went up, though this coincided with the network fix that solved the issue with extreme throttling on large downloads. Still, I should have gotten a VPN ages ago. It rocks.
BTW, my One is not rooted and is running stock 4.3.
I get the same problem with my galaxy s4 it says device can't be reach to something like that any help I don't like 4.3 I'd rather go to 4.w again
Hi, I am new to the XDA-Developers forum . I recently rooted my Nexus 4 using the Nexus Root Toolkit and now i've noticed that I can not tether my phone to my laptop. Before rooting, USB tethering worked without a problem. What could have happened? My Nexus 4 is on the T-Mobile 3GB Simple Choice plan -3gb data and tethering.
That is very odd. Rooting doesn't mess with any of the files that have anything to do with tethering. Have you made any other changes or mods other than rooting? It was working immediately before and not after? Or you haven't tested for awhile but it worked last time you used it kind of thing? Have you since updated to 4.4.2? Does wifi tether work?
I'm thinking if you have updated recently and wifi tether doesn't work either, then it might have something to do with this:
https://support.t-mobile.com/thread/62311
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I Have tried the steps on that link and I followed steps using SQLite editor
So far all i've modded on my phone are the soft keys through an app. I did not check tethering immediately before rooting, probably 1-2 weeks before and yes on 4.4.2 KitKat. I have tried all methods of tethring: USB, WiFi, and Bluetooth - non work.
Can you describe the error? Does it broadcast and you can't connect? Or does it not even broadcast? When plugged in, does the phone recognize that you are in tether mode?
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Can you describe the error? Does it broadcast and you can't connect? Or does it not even broadcast? When plugged in, does the phone recognize that you are in tether mode?
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On my phone's notifiction bar I get the usual "Tethering or hotspot active" notification and one of the three tethering mehods are checked. However, on my laptop(Windows 7) I do not even get the moniter w/plug icon. All I have are the bars with a yellow asterisk signifying that there's no connection.