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OK... After sacrificing my ability to tether by moving from CM7 xronified to ICS, I have tried all kinds of combinations to tether my Epic 4G Touch to my TP on ICS (currently running CM9 alpha 2).
I came across the app foxfi in the market and it WORKS. I am still on cloud 9 at the moment, but has anyone heard anything bad about this app? It doesn't behave like open garden or wifi tether, but its freaking working. I am posting from the tethered connection right now.
http://https://market.android.com/details?id=com.foxfi
I tether my HTC TBolt constantly, that's why having a tablet is so fun.
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DNak206 said:
I tether my HTC TBolt constantly, that's why having a tablet is so fun.
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What tethering app are you using?
I must be missing something, how is it possible that what version of Android your TouchPad is running effects your phones ability to be a wifi hotspot?
I have never had an issue with using the built in wifi portable hotspot in Android to tether my TouchPad. If you enabled that on your phone when you were running CM7 on your TP, how would ICS affect that.
What am I missing?
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quarlow said:
I must be missing something, how is it possible that what version of Android your TouchPad is running effects your phones ability to be a wifi hotspot?
I have never had an issue with using the built in wifi portable hotspot in Android to tether my TouchPad. If you enabled that on your phone when you were running CM7 on your TP, how would ICS affect that.
What am I missing?
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Touchpad doesn't play so nicely with all tethers. Consider yourself lucky. Alot of people dumped their TPs because they couldn't get tethering to work. It is very buggy. All 3 of my TPs don't tether at will. In the past, there have been different protocols to get each to work. My hotspot could be seen by every other device I own, but my TPs couldn't see it. There are tons of bug threads relating to wifi, but nothing really talking about tethering. I saw a few other threads in forums for phones addressing touch pad, but why not have a place in the touch pad forum to bring it all to one spot?
Now Foxfi works with all three TPs and no ceremonial switches and reboots are required to get it to go.
Mine tethers from my Atrix perfectly with the built in setting. didn't know people were dumping their tp cuz of tether.
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Dumb ?
Read what was here, but question:
Do I need to root my phone? I have the HTC Incredible 2, and am not trying to root that and just trying to connect my Touchpad (wifi-only) to my phone and be able to use internet, market, etc.
What apps and instructions would I need?
I thinking only people on Sprint (or Verizon?) have that issue....I tether my tp with my Samsung captivate on ATT all the time...so does my Sister from HTC sensation on Tmobile....
@Salvation27/: u csn try this app Clockworkmode tether
Salvation27 said:
Read what was here, but question:
Do I need to root my phone? I have the HTC Incredible 2, and am not trying to root that and just trying to connect my Touchpad (wifi-only) to my phone and be able to use internet, market, etc.
What apps and instructions would I need?
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As far as I know, without rooting, you will have to pay for the hotspot service by your provider in order to tether. I would say try PDAnet, but I haven't heard of anyone successfully tethering via BT.
viny2cool said:
I thinking only people on Sprint (or Verizon?) have that issue....I tether my tp with my Samsung captivate on ATT all the time...so does my Sister from HTC sensation on Tmobile....
@Salvation27/: u csn try this app Clockworkmode tether
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That could be the issue too. I will test it with some of my friends phones and report back (might be a day or two). I didn't think about a possible conflict with carrier specific phones.
jamesissocool said:
As far as I know, without rooting, you will have to pay for the hotspot service by your provider in order to tether. I would say try PDAnet, but I haven't heard of anyone successfully tethering via BT.
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According to the info on the Market, Foxfi does not require rooting. But you will need to check to see if it is compatible with your phone.
I have a rooted Bionic, works really sweet with it.
I'm using the built in sprint hotspot with no problems on my evo3d..and had good luck with WiFi tether v3-1 beta11
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F.T.P. said:
I'm using the built in sprint hotspot with no problems on my evo3d..and had good luck with WiFi tether v3-1 beta11
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I moved to ICS on my E4GT last night and I had to change to Wifi tether , but set my profile to galaxy nexus CDMA for it to work. Its so hit or miss.
jamesissocool said:
As far as I know, without rooting, you will have to pay for the hotspot service by your provider in order to tether. I would say try PDAnet, but I haven't heard of anyone successfully tethering via BT.
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I use freetether on my pre2 to tether-via-wifi with my touchpad, works great.
You're right about the bluetooth. The option is there, and I can get everything to link up, but it still doesn't seem to be actually sharing the internet connection. I thought it'd be brilliant to get bluetooth tethering going (it should use a bit less energy to tether, giving me better battery life), but it doesn't seem to work in all the testing and fiddling I've done...
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What tethering app are you using?
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Wireless Tether 2.0.7
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I tether using a stock Tmobile G2 with native tethering app- and my touchpad is running CM 9 alpha 2, works like a charm.
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jbird5047 said:
I tether using a stock Tmobile G2 with native tethering app- and my touchpad is running CM 9 alpha 2, works like a charm.
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+1 , same here but my G2 is rooted.
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Anyone figure out how? It has the t-mobile hotspot preinstalled which costs extra but is there a way to do it free. I've tried some apps like barnacle and foxfi but they don't work. I suspect t-mobile has blocked it somehow. Anyone have a work around or any ideas? Thanks. Oh and I am rooted.
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Anyone figure out how? It has the t-mobile hotspot preinstalled which costs extra but is there a way to do it free. I've tried some apps like barnacle and foxfi but they don't work. I suspect t-mobile has blocked it somehow. Anyone have a work around or any ideas? Thanks. Oh and I am rooted.
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Use Odin to install a debranded Rom.
I don't see why FoxFi would not work. Other users have reported it working. Are you sure?
stock Rom then use the normal hotspot
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Thanks everyone...got it to work w/WiFi tether app. Had to change device to galaxy nexus in the app settings.
Hello guys.
I've updated my P7500 to ICS and found out that I cannot tether via bluetooth to my SIII.
It was working fine on Honeycomb. I can see the phone but when I check on the internet access option it does nothing.
Have you experienced this?
Mines works good with my galaxy note.. I can tether via bluetooth from the gtab
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No problems here to a Galaxy Nexus
Glad it's working for you. Maybe I'll flash again!
Is anyone having an issue with their data keep droping out while tethering. I am rooted on jelly beans build 1 - beanstown 106 rom. I wanna say that this happened once I rooted. Before installing a rom I tried foxfi and it conected for awhile then the 4g and data would drop out causing me to reset. Once I turn tethering off then on it works again for awhile. I thought it might have been foxfi so I installed the custom rom beans and am currently able to use the phones wifi tethering app but the same thing happens. Any suggestions?
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Unroot and b return to Vzw. You got a bad phone. My Galaxy nexi(had 5 of them or so) did this until I got a good phone.
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So urs would actually tether for a bit then just drop out?
Theres got to be more to it then just bad hardware cause the 4g and wifi never drops untill I tether for awhile. Then sometimes it wont do it for hours...
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I think it is the stock app. Mine does this sometimes, and so did my Stock Galaxy Nexus, but the Galaxy Nexus never did it when I was using ROMs... I haven't tried any ROMs other than stock or any non stock tethering apps on the Note II yet, but I don't think it is the phone.
Well thats a relief. Thanks. So should I flash another custom rom?
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lankyboy29 said:
Well thats a relief. Thanks. So should I flash another custom rom?
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yeah....try build3. what is your current data plan?
I've had hiccups in stock with tether too. Just to assuage your concerns
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dcdgoth said:
yeah....try build3. what is your current data plan?
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I have a 20gb plan. no tethering plan.
Do you have anything like Tasker or locale running they both will disable your Wifi
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I'm currently on jelly beans 3 and also have this issue. Tethering is almost unusable for me. Never had any issues with the galaxy nexus.
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allen2oo3 said:
I'm currently on jelly beans 3 and also have this issue. Tethering is The for me. Never had any issues with the galaxy nexus.
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Same issue. Stays tethered but 4g drops on and off after 3 minutes of activity
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Same problem here. Must be the app.
Sure enough the native hotspot app is a POS and causes LTE to intermittently drop. Now have to resort to rooting and installing wireless tether.
mi7chy said:
Sure enough the native hotspot app is a POS and causes LTE to intermittently drop. Now have to resort to rooting and installing wireless tether.
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You don't need to root to solve this. You can download Portable wifi Hotspot from the Market for free. It works great.
Root was a piece of cake with Chainfire's Exynos root exploit apk. And, as others have mentioned TrevE wireless tether is working much better than the native Verizon hotspot which was experiencing intermittent LTE disconnects, slow data throughput and connectivity issues with one of my older devices. Ran overnight without any LTE disconnects so far.
Easy Root from Stock
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2050297
TrevE Wireless Tether
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=34986846&postcount=5
cam30era said:
You don't need to root to solve this. You can download Portable wifi Hotspot from the Market for free. It works great.
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I've tried barnacle and wifi tether both do the same...will try some others. Went to beans' build 3 not doing it so far. Maybe something got fixed in the update. Am using phones native tether setting/app fyi.
Thinking of going to the clean rom 4.1.2.
Has anyone had tether problems with this rom? Specifically with 4g dropping out?
I didn't read this whole thread but if your 4g is dropping out its because your using the stock tethering and its not been hacked this is normal for it to drop out constantly and very annoying like. My s3 does it to. Use WiFi tether treve mod and again I didn't read this whole thread so if it has already been said just ignore my comment. Good luck. If you don't know what treve mod is I can't remember if its built into aroma with duild 3 or not but if its not and can't figure it out. Step over to the Verizon s3 section find treve mod and set up your note 2 the same way they say to set up the s3 and you'll be good to go. Again if this had been said ignore me. I'm bored. Hope it helps someone.
I pay for the unlimited hotspot feature from Verizon, and I often have the same issue on my stock, unrooted Note 2. It doesn't happen all of the time, but there periods where it constantly cuts in and out, especially when connected to a PC. It was also a problem on my Galaxy S3, RAZR MAXX, and Galaxy Nexus.
If you search around online, you'll see that people using the stock mobile hotspot app have been having the same issue for years.
Stock hotspot app AND Trev-E wireless tether does this to me constantly so it's got to be something else.... Its strange because some times it won't do it and then there's times where i'm dead in the water without the ability to tether. Yes I pay for tethering (plan).
My previous Galaxy S3 did the same crap to me as well... Thinking its a Samsung thing.. modem bug/kernel bug probably.
Anybody find any fixes/solutions?
Mine has done it periodically since I got the phone. Both stock and various versions of beans and clean rom. I just restart the phone and device connecting and it takes care of it. Happens maybe 1 out of 100 times.
A contact at Verizon says he sees people complaining about it sometimes and another one at sprint says the same thing.
I have a T-Mobile Galaxy S III running the latest CM10 nightlies. I'd like to use the hotspot to tether to my PS3 WITHOUT having to run it through a computer first. As some of you may know, this hasn't worked so well in the past. Has anybody found a way to make it work, just between the phone and the PS3?
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