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Hi,
I am wondering if the Hero, or any kind of android Phone supports some sort of plug and surf function using the mobile Internet connection of the Phone over the USB cable plugged to a Windows PC.
Just like a HSDPA USB-Stick
I know that this is no Problem with my Windows Mobile Smartphone (Blackstone), but what about android?
Yes. Read the manual about HTC Sync.
or read the multiple threads in here about tethering....
short answer without doing it myself is...
you have to plug it in first so that the option is not greyed out
go to setttings - wireless settings - mobile network settings - mobile network sharing
turn it on
names of these menus might not be accurate...
this has been tested on a t-mobile g2 touch and works fine
ROM : VillainROM 3.0.0
Kernel : Ninphetamine 2.0.5
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After applying the fix for Hotspot settings to save in another thread (chown and chmod the /data/misc/wifi) I tried to turn on the hotspot, after all, this was inevitably what I got the phone for, H+ Hotspot.
Now I turn it on and the network appears in my computer, but if I try and connect to it, after I type in the security key, it comes up with "Connecting" and just stays like that permanently...
Eventually it sometimes says "Limited Access".
My phone does have internet connection, but why does it not work.
Does your network allow tethering?
Did it work on another rom?
Have you tried a hard reset?
I'm using tethering on VR but with speedmod kernel with no issues.
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Does your network allow tethering?
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Orange in the UK for example use and APN on their SGS2 roms that doesn't allow tethering (you can set up a tethering connection no problem, but the network won't let you have any data).
They also lock the APN down so it isn't editable (insert rude word about Orange)!
You can get round the problem by adding another generic APN for all connections and using that.
i was having the same problem and struggled alll these days for solution. I used to get limited acesses and hence checked the ip4 & ip6 drivers connectivity for solution with no luck.
Then clicked on windows update, after update everything started working. So try to update your windows.
presently i am on turkbey ROM and it is working and also checked with sensation 1.9 and here tooo works!!!!!
Hey all, thanks for all your replies.
Network: 3
Plan: The One Plan +Tethering
Resolved: Yes.
For anyone else wondering how I fixed my problem:
1) Rebooted the phone
2) Rebooted my PC
3) Turned off the WiFi Adapter in my PC
4) Turned it Back On
5) Turned off WiFi on phone
6) Turned Hotspot on without any authentication
7) Worked on PC
8) Changed back to WPA2 PSK
9) Worked with Key.
<3
GlenH said:
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Orange in the UK for example use and APN on their SGS2 roms that doesn't allow tethering (you can set up a tethering connection no problem, but the network won't let you have any data).
They also lock the APN down so it isn't editable (insert rude word about Orange)!
You can get round the problem by adding another generic APN for all connections and using that.
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I had wifi tethering working fine on Orange with SGS running Froyo 2.2.1, but have just upgraded my handset to SGS2 running Gingerbread 2.3.5 (stock XWKI8 firmware), and wifi tethering isn't working now.
As far as I can see I have exactly the same APN settings in my new SGS2 as in the old SGS, but maybe I need to use this new trick.
What do you mean by "adding another generic APN for all connections and using that"? If I add a new APN, what settings do I put in?
Thanks.
Hi All
Please don't let me down!!
Just had a Virgin Media SuperHub delivered and installed, I have a Windows XP and Windows 7 PC connected and accessing the internet via WiFi but I for love nor money I don't seem to be able to connect my Hero to the internet, it connects fine to the SuperHub but does not have any internet access. Very frustrating as you can imagine. VM Customer support were next to usless.
I can ping the phone from the hub using the settings in my browser, I can even log in to the User page on the hub from my phone, just cant access any web pages from the phone
I have looked through all the setting and cant see what I need to do. My hero is running Cyanogen Mod 7.
Please Please Please can someone help?
/Rich
Did it used to work on your previous WiFi network? Before the virgin? Also ensure that the network security code is correct and if still not working try switching to a different Rom. If still the problem persists it may just be a problem with your virgin hub. The only way around this problem I personally see is to get on giffgaffs £10 unlimited data tariff.
Hope that's helped!
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It connected fine to my old router, which I bought because I had trouble connecting it to an old links one.
I have temporarily re connected the router it dose connect to, but I'm now not getting the full benefits of the new Virgin Media one.
Any ideas?
richiev4 said:
It connected fine to my old router, which I bought because I had trouble connecting it to an old links one.
I have temporarily re connected the router it dose connect to, but I'm now not getting the full benefits of the new Virgin Media one.
Any ideas?
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If it connected fine to your old router, it's definitely a problem with the new router. Most probably the Virgin's modem technology is far too advanced for our old hero's. You could try flashing a new Rom, that may just do the trick, although unfortunately I don't see any other way around this
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That's what I was worried about. Thanks for confirming that.
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Is it possible to have my Virgin router and my old router running at the same time?
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If you've got two separate phone
lines then yes, although you'd need two different broadband providers too, and that'll set you back a fair bit. Waste of money tbf.
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So I couldn't daisy chain the old router off the VM one?
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No no certainly not, a daisy chain wouldn't work. You can't get a loop from one modem to another and expect them to function normally.. what was even wrong with your first provider and the modem to change you're mind? I'm sure virgin can fix the problem because you do say the hero identifies the network and connects but no webpages appear, and you try a different Rom?
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Have you tried to reserve the MAC adress of your phone and provide an ip adress everytime you connect through wifi? (you can do this in your router settings - if you can acess that!).
Tenpin said:
No no certainly not, a daisy chain wouldn't work. You can't get a loop from one modem to another and expect them to function normally.. what was even wrong with your first provider and the modem to change you're mind? I'm sure virgin can fix the problem because you do say the hero identifies the network and connects but no webpages appear, and you try a different Rom?
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I don't have two modems, I have the Virgin Media hub, which is a modem and router all in one and I have my old Edimax router which was connected to my old modem.
Could I run boh routers at the same time like this - my PC's would connect to the VM Super hub and then my phone would connect to the Edimax router which would be connected to one of the ports on the VM Super hub?
1ceb0x said:
Have you tried to reserve the MAC adress of your phone and provide an ip adress everytime you connect through wifi? (you can do this in your router settings - if you can acess that!).
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I've tried this - still no joy.
richiev4 said:
I don't have two modems, I have the Virgin Media hub, which is a modem and router all in one and I have my old Edimax router which was connected to my old modem.
Could I run boh routers at the same time like this - my PC's would connect to the VM Super hub and then my phone would connect to the Edimax router which would be connected to one of the ports on the VM Super hub?
I've tried this - still no joy.
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You can try, but I doubt you'd have much luck connecting it onto the virgy hub.
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I want to use the built-in wifi hotspot in my SGS3.
My laptop is an old Acer Travelmate 4100, which supports only 802.11b/g. It is abe, though, to connect to my wireless 802.11n router without problems (I suppose there must be backwards compatiblity).
But I can't connect to my SGS3 in tethering mode. It detects the hotspot but it timesout connecting.
I have also tested USB and BT tether and it works OK, so at least I have this little "workaround".
I set the hotspot as open just to make things easier.
Anyone has tried the built-in wireless tether in the SGS3?
Anyone has tried another wireless tether app?
I have tried Wireless Tether for root users and it doesn't work.
By the way, my phone is rooted.
Thanks.
mine works fine but im not rooted
Not sure if it applies to you but I would try again with a password for the hotspot. Some roms don't seem to want to let a connection happen without it.
krabman said:
Not sure if it applies to you but I would try again with a password for the hotspot. Some roms don't seem to want to let a connection happen without it.
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I have already tried with a password
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I know it seems crazy but if you have vista or 7 try a password with at least 8 letters and one number or symbol. Also change the hotspot name to something else and try both wpa and wpa2. If that doesn't get it then its likely not one of the usual password snafus keeping it from connecting.
krabman said:
I know it seems crazy but if you have vista or 7 try a password with at least 8 letters and one number or symbol. Also change the hotspot name to something else and try both wpa and wpa2. If that doesn't get it then its likely not one of the usual password snafus keeping it from connecting.
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Just tried, no luck
faulty device ?
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faulty device ?
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I hope this is not the case.
I've found a workaround, though. I can use a USB cable or Bluetooth. Both of them work OK.
Maybe it's wifi standard related, as my laptop only supports 802.11b/g connections, and I don't know if my phone is capable of running only in b/g standard.
Also, the phone wifi connection works flawlessly with my home cablemodem.
I'm thinking about flashing a different firmware so I can test if it software or hardware related. Does Omega 3.0 firmware support wifi tethering?
Wait!. I'm going to test if my wife's SGS2 can connect to my SGS3's wifi hotspot!.
Oh, yeah!. It works!. So it's not hardware related, but software. My laptop also can connect to my wife's SGS2 wifi hotspot (as used to do, by the way).
Weird....
Galaxy S3 tethering doesn't work
I have exactly the same issue for tethering on Samsung's GS3. Bluetooth, USB tethering works fine.
Wifi tethering:
WPA2 - doesn't work, no clients can connect (password >8 alphanum chars)
WPA - doesn't work, no clients can connect (password >8 alphanum chars)
Open - works for connecting a single Win7 x64 client only.
iPhone, iTab, Nokia E72, Blackberry cannot connect to either of those above although it sees the AP.
The same SIM card (converted back to normal size SIM) works fine with tethering on Samsung Galaxy S1/S2. This is a pure GS3 issue.
I purchased the phone from FNAC in Madrid (no contract) and has current configuration:
Android version: 4.0.4
Baseband model: I9300XXLE8
Kernel version: 3.0.15-554452-user
Build number: IMM76D.I9300XXALE8
No ideas on what else can be tried... looks to be hardware/software bug...
Paktas said:
I have exactly the same issue for tethering on Samsung's GS3. Bluetooth, USB tethering works fine.
Wifi tethering:
WPA2 - doesn't work, no clients can connect (password >8 alphanum chars)
WPA - doesn't work, no clients can connect (password >8 alphanum chars)
Open - works for connecting a single Win7 x64 client only.
iPhone, iTab, Nokia E72, Blackberry cannot connect to either of those above although it sees the AP.
The same SIM card (converted back to normal size SIM) works fine with tethering on Samsung Galaxy S1/S2. This is a pure GS3 issue.
I purchased the phone from FNAC in Madrid (no contract) and has current configuration:
Android version: 4.0.4
Baseband model: I9300XXLE8
Kernel version: 3.0.15-554452-user
Build number: IMM76D.I9300XXALE8
No ideas on what else can be tried... looks to be hardware/software bug...
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Well, in my case it works when connecting from another phone (my wife's SGS2). So it looks like it's software or configuration related...
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wifi tethering
doesnt´t work for me either (stock, unrooted).
wifi teth does NOT work for me with my mac, pc, and some other mobiles that i tried. (All Encryptions )
neither does bluetooth tethering with my mac (usb as well but i guess that story is apples fault).
usb works on my pc (win7 x64) .
Anyone else can confirm this problem?
Beside this the Button Layout in the wifi-tethering config screen is quite weired. So i really think something really buggy in there.
thanks
quok
No problems here. Wifi hotspot set up on S3, set to WPA2, password over 8 characters with a mix of letters and numbers, TouchPad is happily connected to it. I'm on stock XXALF2.
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Hi,
USB & Wifi tethering doesn't work for me with rom omega 5.2 (or official XXALE8 and XXALF2) but on Cynaogenmod 9 (21/06) it's working fine...
Having connection problems as well. Seems to be a Samsung problem because when I loaded the app FoxFi I had no problem using WiFi tethering. Hopefully they fix this soon.
FoxFi app worked for me on stock.
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Ok I'm having the same problem.
I found this link
http://www.bytewiki.com/how-to-fix-wifi-connection-problem-in-samsung-galaxy-s3/
Basically:
1. Go to dialer, type *#0011#
2. Hit the MENU button and select Wifi
3. At the bottom of the screen is the button for Wifi Power Save Mode. Turn it off.
4. Back out of the menu.
5. Try tethering.
While it seems to have improved the reliability of the connection, the connection seems extremely slow and laggy compared to the connection I had with my Sensation.
Feedback from anyone?
Conundrum68 said:
Ok I'm having the same problem.
I found this link
http://www.bytewiki.com/how-to-fix-wifi-connection-problem-in-samsung-galaxy-s3/
Basically:
1. Go to dialer, type *#0011#
2. Hit the MENU button and select Wifi
3. At the bottom of the screen is the button for Wifi Power Save Mode. Turn it off.
4. Back out of the menu.
5. Try tethering.
While it seems to have improved the reliability of the connection, the connection seems extremely slow and laggy compared to the connection I had with my Sensation.
Feedback from anyone?
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It didn't work, but I have found the culprit: the kernel. I was using a custom kernel (siyah). I have gone back to the stock kernel and now it works ok. I hope this is fixed in next releases of the kernel. I have also tested with other custom kernels and it happens the same.
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I'm on ALE8 with Siyah-Kernel and it works without issues, not even dropping data connection once over several hours as was the regular issue with my S1.
At the moment i believe you must have root to wifi tether via foxfi, FoxFi devs seem to be aware of the issue based on their notes on their bin link, stating "*Support for the new Galaxy S3 and the new ICS update for Epic Touch are being worked on. Should be compatible soon in a future update."
Same issue on stock rom and kernel for me. Other Android devices connect fine as does a newer Samsung laptop. But an older laptop with Intel B/G adapter running Win7-home prem 32 bit will not connect. Whether open, wpa2, b only, g only, .... My HTC Evo 4G has no problem connecting to any device.
Hey Guys.
Recently my WiFi symbol in the notification tray turned grey and didn't go blue again.
I've noticed that when the symbol is GREY, I'm not able to access Facebook (through it's main App),it shows "Updating" only.
But to my surprise, the net works fine in the Browser ( inbuilt browser)
After analyzing the problem, I found that whenever I turned my Laptop on, the WiFi signal goes Grey..
And when I switch it off, it turns blue.
On further investigation, I came to know that both the devices (laptop and phone) have different IP's
Plus, another android device works well with the laptop being on.
I'm using Xolo Q600
Android 4.2.1
*no root, nothing...I'm amateur*
WiFi Router NetGear N150
Any help will be thankful.
Lakshya.
Have you tried reseting your modem? or forgetting the wifi net with both devices and set up the connection again?
Hope this helps
grapps said:
Have you tried reseting your modem? or forgetting the wifi net with both devices and set up the connection again?
Hope this helps
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Hey..
I tried forgetting networks in both the devices (laptop and my phone) but to no avail..
It behaved the same way..
I even did a factory reset to my phone..but didn't help me, rather I lost all my game data
How to reset modem?
And why should I reset it as the other devices connected through it (including another android mobile) works extremely fine?
Pls help.
I cant toggle bw laptop and mobile.
Lakshya Saxena said:
Hey..
I tried forgetting networks in both the devices (laptop and my phone) but to no avail..
It behaved the same way..
I even did a factory reset to my phone..but didn't help me, rather I lost all my game data
How to reset modem?
And why should I reset it as the other devices connected through it (including another android mobile) works extremely fine?
Pls help.
I cant toggle bw laptop and mobile.
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If you had using a model of your telephone services so the moutain frro of the back side of mouth organ have a small hole load spot in set up teen and click dam so your mordum has stated another option if you forget your password so go on your cmd it means command option go to run types cmd and click on them then dry type ip config and then you know that connection type means 192 168 10 or 11 go and type in your browser 192 168 or 10 hot 11 then you go on the full access of your router and the password of your router is there add mean and mean yea and another is password 1234 accessing them go to your wireless security and see your password thank you
if problem persist then try resetting your phone ones.
and did it worked fine earlier? if yes then contact your device center.