So I've been tethering with wifi no problem since I got the phone. I can not for the life of me however get it to tether via USB. I've tried it on two separate window 7 x64 laptops with the OEM USB cable with no luck. Made sure udb debug was disabled, made sure drivers were correct, tried rebooting both the phone and computers. I'm on the official tethering plan so that isn't the issue. Tried the MTU trick the Mac guys hander been using, still no good. When I connect the phone, it recognizes it as a network device, RNDIS, and says it can see the DHCP server, but it assigns some random 169 IP instead of a 192.
Anyone else having this problem?
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Update. Called VZW and went through the normal insult my intelligence troubleshooting. They handed me off to moto and we repeated the same song and dance. They suggested I try the mtu workaround, which I had already tried. Then the guy pissed me off by asking "why do you want to use USB anyway? Can't you just use wifi?" I asked "you mean wifi, with it's known bugs?" He dropped that lol. He couldn't fix it, so he submitted an "engineering ticket". We'll see what comes of it I guess.
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I can't get Verizon's USB tethering to work either. Verizon's Wifi hotspot works for my laptop but not the kindle fire.
I'm thinking of canceling my tethering plan since I got easy tether to work and then I use Intel's my wifi to share the internet connection. My kindle can then connect to the wifi shared by the laptop and I can even watch Amazon instant videos.
Verizon's wifi hotspot and USB tethering is a fail for me.
Well, I decided to tinker with it some more. This time I unrooted it, then did a factory wipe and lo and behold...USB tethering works. Haven't tried re-rooting it to see if that breaks it as there currently isn't really a strong need to root anyway. We'll see how long this lasts I guess.
Same problem for me with Vodafone.
Although Wi-Fi tethering is working like a charm, USB tethering fails on routing connections.
It can't resolve hostnames...
It's not a data plan problem, it is mobile equipment failing
Any new ideas?
Hi, I am also trying to use the RAZR's built-in USB tethering feature with no success on Windows 7 64-bit. The Remote NDIS driver from Microsoft seems to act very badly once the RAZR is connected... basically the whole "Network Connection" Windows function completely locks up.
I CAN tell you guys that this works perfectly with Windows XP SP3. I actually connected my RAZR via USB to a Windows SP2 machine that had RNDIS hotfix KB959765 appiled to it.
With that Windows XP setup, USB tethering over RNDIS works perfectly! So can someone tell me how things got so badly screwed up in Windows 7?
I saw this exact same failure when I tried tethering to Windows XP SP2 without the RNDIS hotfix applied, so are there still some unresolved problems with RNDIS in Windows 7?
I would suggest that you download "easy tether"... when.you run the app it will give you a website to download the win 7 x64 version... when both are running, and you enable USB tethering on the phone.... you will have no more problems....
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Isn't there any solution without a software on the pc? Cause at my office I am not andmistrator and I doubt that they would allow to install such a software to use pc's internet connection for my mobile..
I wonder because my old HD2 with a andriod rom could do this without any software with any pc just fine..
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Anyone having trouble connecting a laptop running Windows 7 to a Fascinate running Open Garden?
Sorry if this has been asked/answered, but search isn't working, and I'm dealing with a time constraint.
EDIT: It works fine with my other laptop, which is running Vista.
Depending on what ROM you're running, you'll probably be better off switching to Wireless Tether for Root and using Infrastructure Mode (the little info I could find about Open Garden suggests it using AdHoc mode), which should improve reliability a great deal (there's even some Intel Wireless Chipsets out there that crap out constantly when connected to an AdHoc network... upgrading the drivers for them can help, but they still have issues).
It seems that the built-in wifi in many laptops are not compatable with the wireless tethering apps. I have tried ALL of the apps with my laptop and none of them have worked. The only way I could get it to work was to use an external / pcmcia wifi adapter, or use a wired tether program.
Yeah, Google is my friend; I found updated Intel drivers and it connected fine. I also tried to install Wireless Tether, but my phone didn't like it; told me I had "insufficient space." I guess that's something to figure out some other time; at least my other laptop is online. Thanks so much for the reply!
Oh, and I'm running Evil Fascination...
No issues here running open garden tethering to my windows 7 computers...
Hello, swapped a NS4G 2 days ago for the Photon and got it to work with my HP WM7 laptop without an app or paid subscription. Posted the following for someone at androidcentral and thought it might help...
"No additional drivers installed. If you're not familiar with tethering click 'help' in setting/tethering mobile hotspot for directions - you will initiate pairing via the Photon and after paired phone will say 'paired but not connected' and computer will show 'stereo audio paired'. Withing the BT manager on you computer click your phone settings, find 'networking' / 'access an external network via a BT gateway' and click connect - should be good to go. Instructions are for WM7, not sure about other OS"
He said it works fine for him with XP as well. No-go thus far with any HotSpot attempt although I hear PDAnet will work, and no-go on a Streak 7 via BT(claims a rooted Streak might work, but had no luck on a Streak 5). Haven't tried a USB connection but believe it will work fine for WM7 and XP. I understand there's a 'mod' for the EVO3D to use HotSpot without root or subscription and will explore unless someone else here can shed some light.
Note: if you plan on using this 24/7 Sprint may have something to say about it, but as best as I can tell - no issues with moderate use.
I rooted my phone, and when i try to wireless tether the network shows up on my laptop but it will not connect. Any ideas why this is not working?
Thanks
Disable authentication and give it another try. For some reason, when I setup a WEP key I'm unable to even see the network on my laptop. Once I disabled it everything was working fine.
I was having same issue I tried both the beta version (wifi tether) and the version found in market (wireless tether). The one from market works however, its strange that my laptop when in Windows 7 I cannot connect but when using Ubuntu It works. I am trying to figure out how to get my PS3 and Windows 7 to connected.
The computers network card must be able to handle ad-hoc networks.....AND the drivers must also support it.
Not all cards or drivers do.
I have tried it all both tethers, one called barnical and nothing. It just says computer taking longer than normal to connect and then says it cant connect. I never had any issues on my laptop with my evo. When i first opened the app on my photon it says no access control something about the kernal.
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until they make it infrastructure it really sucks and has issues
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
I turned on the wired tether today on my rez running CM 11 unofficial vigor from Neo. I have never used the wired tether before, I thought I was turning on the wifi hotspot. Anywho, it works. The tether works. This is significant because since I reinstalled windows, I have not been able to communicate with the rez via usb from either windows or ubuntu. The drivers were wiped, and the HTC software will not recognize the device when it is plugged in. It suprises me that tether works. Am I alone in this?
I believe on kit kat you have to choose your computer connection as its disabled by default, try going to settings>storage and hit the menu button, should be able to pick your default connection from there.
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I turned on the wired tether today on my rez running CM 11 unofficial vigor from Neo. I have never used the wired tether before, I thought I was turning on the wifi hotspot. Anywho, it works. The tether works. This is significant because since I reinstalled windows, I have not been able to communicate with the rez via usb from either windows or ubuntu. The drivers were wiped, and the HTC software will not recognize the device when it is plugged in. It suprises me that tether works. Am I alone in this?
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tether has always worked in cm11
but for me to get it to work in windows 7 i have to go into the device manager and manually choose a different driver for it to work which would than disable storage access until i turned it back to the original driver. so in win7 it was a pain
as for ubuntu it was automatic tether which came in handy for me because i would need internet to sync rom sources ect..
but since my chipset/NIC is unsupported by linux (x58 mobo with Bigfoot Killer E2100 for NIC onboard)
i didn't have internet over LAN in ubuntu, but i was able to pass my WiFi or Lte connection through my phone temporarily until i got a usb wifi dongle just for ubuntu use