Android WiFi tether not working - Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hey guys I was searching and didn't see this in the forums. Recently I've been able to use WiFi without a problem. All of a sudden today it stays on for a few seconds than says what the heck? Your phone took over WiFi connection! Shutting down WiFi now! Any idea what's going on?
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Are you using Green Power or Juice Defender or an app like that? If so, turn them off.

Nope.
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I've used the newest tether app and barnacle and neither works. Tried settings that other puerile have used, ones that worked for me before, uninstalling, reinstalling, wiping cache, nothing wants to let it work anymore.
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Wiping your system completely should fix it on cyanogen at least.

I was about to do that but wanted to make sure before I went to that extreme. Have so much crap loaded I'd hate to have to reinstall everything, even with titanium backup.
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Odd, the only time I've ever gotten that error is when I forget to shut off Green Power.
Your wifi keeps turning on when you try to tether. When this happens, are you near a wifi network that your phone can connect to?

Nope. Ended up wiping and starting from scratch. haven't restored everything yet but it works. Weird issue. Thanks though
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[Q] Wireless tether keeps disconnecting

I am currently running SHIFTS3NS3 V1.3X and can not keep the wireless tether connected. After about 5 minutes it will reset to 0.00 and disconnect. I have this issue on every rom I have tried so far. The issue is the same for each version of wifi tether that I have tried aswell. Each time I load a rom I wipe cache/data 3 times, system, and dev cache. I always keep the stock kernel installed so I don;t think that would be the issue. I had a rooted og droid for 1 1/2 years and didn't have issue with wireless tethering. Could someone please assist or point me in the right direction to get this working because I am at a lose at this point.
Have u tried the wireless tether fix in the candystore?
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Disable wake lock in the settings of wireless tether.
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I had just installed the rom around noon today and poked around in the candystore, but some how I missed that...lol I applied the fix and verified the wake lock setting, I will test it out in the morning. Thanks for the quick replies.
Unfortunately it still times out after 10 minutes. It will stream perfectly and then no error or anything, just tether resets to 0.00 and drops the connection. I'd love to have this working, so any more ideas would be great. Btw this is a very nice ROM, haven't had one issue and runs silky smooth!
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Try updating superuser, it fixed my problems
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Wifi Tethering stopped working

I am rooted and using Cyanogen 7. Either yesterday or today I lost the ability to tether wirelessly to my ipad. I've tried Wifi Tether, Barnacle, and the wireless tether app that comes with CM7. I can find and connect on my ipad but it isn't actually working. Any ideas?
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Just out of curiosity are you on 3g or 4g?
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Same here. Looks like VZW finally blocked us. Frickin ridiculous...telling me what to do with my unlimited data plan!! Internets out at home too. :-(
Same here...
Ok, after messing with it for about an hour I got it working. I had wifi connected, then hit the tether button for the 99th time and it worked. So I tried USB tethering and that worked too...for 5 minutes.
It's working again finally after going back and forth between wifi and usb, but it's not very fast. Who knows at this point...
I got it to work by flashing to another ROM. Tethering worked without an issue. I tried to flashback to CM7 but it seemed like my backup was corrupted, it wouldn't install. Im not sure if the update has caused these problems. I know just enough about ROMS and developement stuff to get me into trouble.
Before you flash a stock Rom there is an app called tetherguard.apk make sure that app is no where to be found before flashing the Rom then any WiFi tether program will work.
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Wifi just randomly broke

Hey guys. This morning my Wifi was working fine before I left home. I came back and now Wifi won't work at all????? I thought it was my rom at first because I was on a hellraised rom (checkrom). Ps. I did not and have not flashed anything for the last couple of days.
I flashed three roms in total from here in the att. Unnamed, serendipity, and sho stock. But the result was the same. I even tried different kernels but it just will not work.
Any help will be appreciated.
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Just restored a nandroid restore of the stock att rom and still nothing
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Router up?
Some flashes have been known to dork up the wi-fi until a factory reset wipe.
Just a thought.
iqak said:
Router up?
Some flashes have been known to dork up the wi-fi until a factory reset wipe.
Just a thought.
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OK I'll try that. But yes my wifi router is on. It's just when I turn my wifi on my phone it just shuts back off.
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MysticKing32 said:
OK I'll try that. But yes my wifi router is on. It's just when I turn my wifi on my phone it just shuts back off.
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Exact same thing I discovered when I flashed.
Would turn right back off before discovering anything, and also too quick to manually add my node.
Under, Settings/Privacy/Factory data reset.
iqak said:
Exact same thing I discovered when I flashed.
Would turn right back off before discovering anything, and also too quick to manually add my node.
Under, Settings/Privacy/Factory data reset.
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OK. I just did that but it still does the same thing. Do I need to flash a different rom and then do it again or what?
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O yeah and I had restored a stock att rom in clockwork when I had did the factory reset if that has anything to do with it not working.
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Not sure.
I was on UnNamed 2.2.1 when I flashed back to the Return-to-stock rom.
That's when I saw it. A quick factory reset did it for me.
It's just random. I think I'm gonna take it back.
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Anybody?
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Have you tried restarting your router?
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Have you tried restarting your router?
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Yes but it wont work
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Same thing happened to me after installing the Siyah Kernel, very frustrating.
Edit: After installing Unnamed 2.2.1 the issue seems to have gone away (haven't been able to a wifi network, but wifi is staying on now). Will update later.
hd779 said:
Same thing happened to me after installing the Siyah Kernel, very frustrating.
Edit: After installing Unnamed 2.2.1 the issue seems to have gone away (haven't been able to a wifi network, but wifi is staying on now). Will update later.
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Yeah. Mine just broke and its retarded. But i took mine back to best buy and got another one for free. So its straight now
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4g strangeness

So I've has this ongoing issue and it never really bugged me until today, and want to see if anyone has any ideas. Sometimes (more often then not) I am unable to activate 4g on my photon. It simply refuses to start the radio whether its done via widget on home screen or settings. The 4g icon will flash for a half second then goes away. The only way to fix is to either kill all tasks (including system tasks using systempanel) or a phone shut down and reboot. Now, I understand it might be an app interfering with it, but I don't know what it would be. I am rooted stock, and i do have roam control, although this did happen to me before I got roam control I believe.
Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.
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Do you tether with it? I get the same thing whenever I tether with 4g. Usually a reboot also does the trick for me too.
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I do Tether but not regularly. Its not because wifi tether is just installed at all is it?
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I have the exact same 4g radio issue. I do have wifi tether installed but rarely use it. Happens to me every few days and rebooting is the only thing that had worked for me. I've tried clearing out ram but I usually end up having to reboot to fix it. Very annoying!
{edit} I'm on stock 198_6 rooted.
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Wifi issues

Hey. Got an AT&T ATRIX 4G phone with Nottachtrix4G Rom. Long story short my Wifi doesn't seem to work anymore. I know my router is fine because I use my laptop everyday. I tried removing and re-adding the network. I also went into recovery and deleted the cache and stuff. The network connects fine, and gets an IP but I can't load anything like facebook, browser, radio, etc. Any suggestions besides full wipe? Thanks
PS: im a network / computer tech for my job, so im not a noob and know for a fact its not my network.
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do you have MAC filter on your router?
Nope.
I will also add it worked fine a week ago. Then it just stopped working.
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you can try with another browser, or try to clean app data. Or just make new connection
Issue had to do with my router and wireless access point. Rebooted both and no issues since.
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