Hi I have Galaxy S II SGH-T989 on T-Mobile with Android 4.1.2 and Mobile hotspot plan paid for (phone unlocked).
After updating to 4.1.2 (official update) I started having issues with the mobile hot spot.
1) I turn on the hostpot in the morning
2) connect fine with my notebook
3) can’t get past the gateway, ipconfig release / renew, nothing, can't ping beyond the gateway
4) reboot the phone and go back to step 1 and 2, hotspot starts working fine, I can connect to the internet with no issues
5) I turn off the hotspot for the rest of the day to conserve battery
6) in the afternoon I turn the hotspot back on, same issue comes back, I can connect to the hotspot with my computer but no access beyond the gateway
Workaround I found
At this point I can turn on the Airplane mode, after it turns on, I turn it back off and then turn on the hotspot. Then I can connect and access the internet with no issues.
Its a major pain and annoyance to have to keep turning on and off the Airplane mode along with hotspot just to connect and access internet via my notebook. I have to do it twice a day for my commute.
Anyone else experiencing same issue?
Thanks
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I've got a Xoom wifi and I use the Fascinate as a tether for 3g when I'm on the go. I've got stock Froyo ED01, rooted.
I use the yellow icon Wireless Tether app (http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/) which has infrastructure mode, with the following settings:
1. Device Profile - Samsung Fascinate
2. Auto setup method
3. Wifi encryption enabled
4. Passphrase present
5. SSID "1"
6. Hide SSID checked
7. Channel "auto"
8. Wifi driver reload checked
9. Enable access control checked
Rest of the settings are the default
The problem I face is I turn on wifi tether, the Xoom connects (I get a notification that the Xoom (mac address id) connected and can use the internet with out any problems. Then some time around 1 hour - 3 hours, I get another notification that the Xoom is connecting again (phone vibrates). After this second connection, my phone works for like 10 seconds then just restarts. It shuts off and immediately I can see the samsung logo. After the phone restarts I can use wifi tether app again, but it happens again after a while of using it (1-3 hours).
On a related topic, I noticed that if I stop the wifi tether manually, I cannot use the wifi tether app again until I restart the phone. If I do try to run the program again without restarting I just get stuck on the "start tethering" notification forever. The yellow tether icon is there in the notification bar, but it isn't functioning at all. I have to restart the phone to get it to work.
It's kind of annoying, but more importantly, is this an issue a lot of people face and is it causing any damage to the phone?
Try using 2.0.5
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Just try not to use your phone while tethering, I too have experienced this and it's always when I'm using the phone and wifi tether gets killed. then everything freezes and the phone reboots.
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ive had this problem as well tethering on my vibrant
After using the wifi tether app once, I need to turn on wifi, wait about 10 seconds and make sure it can see the networks, then shut off wifi, then I can reconnect to wifi tether.
On my backflip running CM7 from Jr0dd I used to be able to use USB tethering while the phone is connected via wifi with airplane mode on ( in essence turning my phone into a really overdone USB Wlan stick )
On the Atrix with airplane mode on, turning on tethering over USB, everything seems to go okay. The phone can get online via my works wifi router fine. my tethered computer can't ping IP addresses or domain names through terminal though. Rebooted the phone and restarted tethering with the same results. If I disable airplane mode and shut off wifi, tethering over 3G / H+ works fine, its just slow and noisy on speakers.
I used this for computers that have an iffy Wlan card often and would like to know if this was never intended to work, only was a fluke that it did, or if I can show a logcat or similar so someone smarter than I can investigate the issue.
Thanks in advance. =)
Hi all, I have encounter this problem since 2 month ago.
There's a way to reproduce it:
Turn WiFi on and you have to connect to any router, then you can keep data connection on.
After 30 min to 1 hour, turn off WiFi. Now data connection should working, but in my case, I can't.
Thought the data connection is enabled, it just unable to connect to the server...
I have to enter "test mode" to turn off Wireless connection and turn it on again to fix it.
Or to turn on/off airplane mode to fix this issue.
However, I've seen no one complain it here.
Is there anyone have this issue and how to solve it?
P.S I've tried all the ROM and Modem from v24p37 to v24p50
Hi,
I suggest that before the update worked perfectly.
After updating the wifi tethering does not work anymore.
In practice, the other device connects but does not navigate.
I noticed that with tethering connected and connected device if I disconnect the data and reconnect them, the connected device navigates but no longer surf the phone.
To be able to surf the phone I have to disable the router and disconnect and reconnect the data.
It's as if either surfing one or the other.
I have already reset my factory data.
My sim has no tethering block.
I've already tried to change APN (default - default,dun - default,supl,dun).
The same problem also in safe mode.
Can someone help me?
Thanks
I use my Redmi 6A as an Wi-Fi hotspot to use its data on laptop. But since I started doing this, I notice that its hotspot is not working as it should be.
Every once in a while, internet connection goes away, while Wi-Fi stays connected. It happens especially after the laptop is rebooted and Wi-Fi reconnects. If that happens then I'll have to turn off hotspot on my phone and start the hotspot again for the Wi-Fi to work.
I tried to see where the problem is, and I found out these:
1. Wi-Fi stays connected, but no internet.
2. It happens after random period of time after the laptop is connected to the hotspot
3. It also happens when the laptop is rebooted and then it connects again to the hotspot.
4. From the laptop, ping to gateway IP does not work. Ping to any other IP also not work.
5. Turning off and on again the hotspot solves the problem. And then it happens again.
Do anyone else face this problem?
Can anyone tell me why is this happening?
ROM version: 10.3.2.0 Global (Problem was also happening since a few previous versions.)
Laptop: Windows 10, Ubuntu (problem is not in the laptop, because it works fine on other phone's hotspot)
Old thread, but nope. Mine works great and wifi is stable.