Is there a way to connect my phone to wifi. Then share that connection through wifi? Maybe an external wifi adapter?
The other phones are iOS so they have to connect to a wifi.
Wouldn't you just connect to whatever WiFi network with the phone as per usual, then create a mobile hotspot in network settings to enable other devices to connect ? (or even use Bluetooth tethering)
zeroktal said:
Is there a way to connect my phone to wifi. Then share that connection through wifi? Maybe an external wifi adapter?
The other phones are iOS so they have to connect to a wifi.
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Just use the mobile hotspot feature while you're connected to a wifi
zeroktal said:
Is there a way to connect my phone to wifi. Then share that connection through wifi? Maybe an external wifi adapter?
The other phones are iOS so they have to connect to a wifi.
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I mean....why? If the phone that needs to use your phone's connection is in near your phone...why waste you time and battery sharing a WiFi connection when you could simply connect both phones to the WiFi directly?
pjaysnowden said:
I mean....why? If the phone that needs to use your phone's connection is in near your phone...why waste you time and battery sharing a WiFi connection when you could simply connect both phones to the WiFi directly?
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I actually ha situation in my life when I really needed this feature, to extend wifi range. Can be useful, and some time ago you needed third party app requiring weird permission or root
Fl1nt91 said:
I actually ha situation in my life when I really needed this feature, to extend wifi range. Can be useful, and some time ago you needed third party app requiring weird permission or root
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Ok. Not something I would do...but horses courses I guess.
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I mean....why? If the phone that needs to use your phone's connection is in near your phone...why waste you time and battery sharing a WiFi connection when you could simply connect both phones to the WiFi directly?
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In many cases when travelling you get One single wifi login. Would be nice to share it with the family, on a plane or in a hotel.
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Is it somehow possible to log onto a wifi network with the phone, and at the same time create a hotspot that other devices can log on to, and use the primary wifi connection as tether? This would be the ultimate android function!
DylanYoung said:
Is it somehow possible to log onto a wifi network with the phone, and at the same time create a hotspot that other devices can log on to, and use the primary wifi connection as tether? This would be the ultimate android function!
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I don't think so. This sort of negates the purpose of the hotspot function. If you have a wifi connection on your phone, then that same wifi connection is available to other devices. If this is the case, why do you need ANOTHER hotspot? Besides, I think the hotspot needs the wifi radio to serve up the hotspot. I'm not sure, but I don't think it can do that and connect to another wifi connection at the same time.
This would be the ultimate hack. It would solve alot of problems for a number of people.
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This would be the ultimate hack. It would solve alot of problems for a number of people.
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I don't think you understand what I've said.
I'm not certain any software hack would do this. I'm pretty sure you would need two wifi radios to do this. One to receive/transmit to/from whatever hotspot your phone is connected to, and one to receive/transmit as the active hotspot of the phone. There is only one wifi radio in the phone, so.... ?
And I'm curious: what "alot of problems for a number of people" are you talking about?
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Is it somehow possible to log onto a wifi network with the phone, and at the same time create a hotspot that other devices can log on to, and use the primary wifi connection as tether? This would be the ultimate android function!
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I think you are misunderstanding between android wifi cards and PC cards.PC wifi cards can do this work while mobile phones does not because they simply don't have the same hardware.Windows vista/7/8 for example can create hotspot and connect to another network at the same time without problems but mobile phones (not a problem with Android OS) cannot.
The limitation in most mobile devices is the number of antennas - and this is why we can't use Hotspot while connecting to another WiFi network.
Most PC WiFi cards have minimum of 2 antennas, so they can use one for connecting and one for Hotspot. Mobile phones usually have only one antenna, and this is why they can either connect to a foreign SID, or transmit their own SID.
RedBull2001 said:
The limitation in most mobile devices is the number of antennas - and this is why we can't use Hotspot while connecting to another WiFi network.
Most PC WiFi cards have minimum of 2 antennas, so they can use one for connecting and one for Hotspot. Mobile phones usually have only one antenna, and this is why they can either connect to a foreign SID, or transmit their own SID.
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The point is, tethering does not use antenna. In other word we just want to use android device as wifi router while mobile data is not available and our PC don't have wifi antenna
The problem is tethering need to enable with wifi hotspot and it then disable wifi even the tethering does not use antenna. Understand situation now? I think this is more like a bug
Another problem I face is. I want to use my android phone as wifi hotspot. But then I want to use ES file explorer to browse into target device. And It can't find any device while I am being the hotspot myself. I should able to see all device connect to me as I'm the server but I can't. Because when I'm being wifi hotspot I need to disconnect myself from lan network and that's suck
Hotspot and Wi-Fi at the same time
I'll tell you what problems it would solve for my fiance and myself... We live in an area that is rural and surrounded by reservation land. There is no way to get internet here except through our mobile hotspots via our phone provider and the tower less than a mile away. We also use Chromecast and a canon pixma cloud ready printer, however, in order to connect to them, we must turn on our hotspots, yet the printer and chromecast force the Wi-Fi to come on when trying to connect, which then
I'm not certain any software hathen automatically turns the hotspots off, and visa~versa. If allowed to have both on at the same time, connection would be optimal. I've found a way to trick chromecast, but I have to be quick, however, I still cannot connect to the printer. Rather than having every product company change how the connection works, it would be much easier for the two functions to work together if we want them to, without one shutting the other down. That's an example of a problem it would solve.
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hotspot &wifi simultaneously.
I have the same situation. Do not want to buy yet another device to be able to use chromecast, or any other devices that require both internet access and WiFi! My internet access is my hotspot! Any new info on this? I am rural as well, no cable etc, and my satellite provider has no service even "way out here!" Ha ha
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Is it somehow possible to log onto a wifi network with the phone, and at the same time create a hotspot that other devices can log on to, and use the primary wifi connection as tether? This would be the ultimate android function!
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This is possible on windows OS with wifi adapter of inbuild device.. but dont know how to accomplish the same on android
Got the Solution Guys!
I suggest you to Use Alcatel OT918N
It must be rooted and having a Custom Rom
(Usually so Easy)
And Then Enjoy a Normal Wifi and A Hotspot At the same Time!!!
Enjoy!!!
Btw The Alcatel OT918N is popularly known as Idea 3G Smartfone Id918 in India!!!
Apple product do this already. When visiting client offices I had to connected my computer to the hotspot regularly because no one knew the password to the wifi. Really seems like a no-brainer, but apparently Google missed the obvious.
Try NetShare - no-root-tethering on the Play Store
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=kha.prog.mikrotik
Haha, I also had this thought back in 2011 when I bought my SGSII.
I had tried before and it doesn't work.
I am not sure with other devices, but for SGSII, the answer is "No".
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Aren't we all glad this is now possible... Like with the OnePlus8 Pro
on the Transformer Prime Settings under More...
I thought I would be able to share the TFS's internet via Wifi or Bluetooth with my Playbook but I unable to get this to work.
e.g. Enabling Portable Wi-Fi hotspot disables the Wifi on the Prime.
Hey, there's a possible use for a docked Prime with USB ethernet adapter. I'll have to try that sometime and see if it works.
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I can confirm that the Prime can act as a wifi hotspot when it has an Ethernet connection. The downside is that the range is pretty short, but that shouldn't be much of a surprise due to the aluminum backplate. It's kinda cool, yet I can't think of any practical application for this feature.
Probably just a function on the tablet / android that serves no real purpose unless you had a cell radio in the tablet.
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on the Transformer Prime Settings under More...
I thought I would be able to share the TFS's internet via Wifi or Bluetooth with my Playbook but I unable to get this to work.
e.g. Enabling Portable Wi-Fi hotspot disables the Wifi on the Prime.
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I tried this so much on my phone early on before common sense settled in haha
You're trying to use the same hardware to send and receive signal as a portable WiFi hotspot as you are to send and receive signal as a client to your wireless router. In other words, you're trying to perform four operations simultaneously with equipment that handles two.
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Probably just a function on the tablet / android that serves no real purpose unless you had a cell radio in the tablet.
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Yes, it's just features that all Android devices (after 2.1 I think?) have built in, you wouldn't want to just up and remove it just because at least a small number of people can find some kind of use for it. Not I, or at least not in my every-day routine.
It's always good to have options though
the_game_master said:
on the Transformer Prime Settings under More...
I thought I would be able to share the TFS's internet via Wifi or Bluetooth with my Playbook but I unable to get this to work.
e.g. Enabling Portable Wi-Fi hotspot disables the Wifi on the Prime.
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Welcome to ICS.. which is supposed to be the same (more or less) on tablets and phones. Normally, on a phone, if you turn this feature on, it turns off the WiFi because it reconfigures it to be an access point and it's getting its Internet connection from the 3G radio anyway.
But on the Prime (or any ICS pure tablet), the feature is kind of useless.. except that as some have noted, with the Prime, you can attach a USB ethernet dongle and connect it to a wired network.
Unfortunately, because of the WiFi issues on the Prime, this is of limited use.. BUT... it's still there and it could be useful in some hotels where they have bad WiFi but provide wired Internet... it should be good enough to 'light up' a hotel room, for example.
And you can use Bluetooth to host a PAN (personal area network) and share internet that way - mind you, Bluetooth is pretty slow.
the_game_master said:
on the Transformer Prime Settings under More...
I thought I would be able to share the TFS's internet via Wifi or Bluetooth with my Playbook but I unable to get this to work.
e.g. Enabling Portable Wi-Fi hotspot disables the Wifi on the Prime.
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Hi,
foxfi app is a perfect solution to turn your phone into a free hotspot
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.foxfi
If on sprint check instructions because you will have to do a manual direct download. I can confirm it works great!
here are a few threads where its discussed:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1595789
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1527968
I just bought a chromecast and I'm trying to figure out if I can get my GNexus to host the hotspot and be the chromecast remote.
In more detail:
I do not have internet from a cable/satellite company. The only internet connection I have is through my cellphone hotspot.
Chromecast will be connected to the internet through my cellphone hotspot (SSID: AndroidAP).
When my cellphone has the hotspot running it does not show up on its own network (AndroidAP).
I need the phone to show up on the network (AndroidAP) so that I can see the chromcast and use the phone as a remote.
Is this even possible?
Really? No one?
Is it possible?
I'd be very curious to know if this is possible or not. I found this thread because I'm wanting to do the very same thing. I still have unlimited data through vzw so this would be terrific if there was a way. The only thing is that the wifi turns off when the hotspot is turned on (at least on mine) so there would have to be a way to get it to connect to its own hotspot without making mobile data shut off.
Same thing needed Badly here @@
I also want to connect my moto e to it's own hotspot for remote control my tablet using my phone as mouse(specifically) and keyboard/joystick.
(I know keyboard and joystick can be possible without doing that but MOUSE can't)
Hellllllllpppppppp ......
1.5 years later and there's still no way to do this. Not only that this is the only page on the internet about it.
The de thread here
I want to use my phone WiFi network to connect my PC to it and then use the phone to remotly control keyboard and mouse on my PC over WiFi, but I just can not connect my phone to it's own WiFi network. :/
One thing I could do is using a WiFi extender to connect both devices to, but then I couln't get the devices connected to internet since they're connected to a "no-internet" WiFi extender network.
Still nothing? I need it to use my security camera which needs internet connection. I also need to be able to view it on my phone using the camera app but the devices have to be on the same network. Sux that i can't do this.
Since Bluetooth Tethering is not available for connecting Phone to Tablet when WiFi is not available, how do I do it?
There are still many places without WiFi and with Bluetooth Tethering, I was able to use my WiFi only tablet.
So since I am told only a few use Bluetooth for Tethering, how do I make contact with my Tablet when I am in my car or at a place that does not offer WiFi?
I need a way to connect directly between these devices, is there a method to do this with some sort of cable connection?
cyaclone said:
I need a way to connect directly between these devices
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You didn't elaborate in sufficient detail to give us a clear idea of why, when and how you wish to connect. But you have four options to investigate. Wifi, data, USB and bluetooth.
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cyaclone said:
Since Bluetooth Tethering is not available for connecting Phone to Tablet when WiFi is not available, how do I do it?
There are still many places without WiFi and with Bluetooth Tethering, I was able to use my WiFi only tablet.
So since I am told only a few use Bluetooth for Tethering, how do I make contact with my Tablet when I am in my car or at a place that does not offer WiFi?
I need a way to connect directly between these devices, is there a method to do this with some sort of cable connection?
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Can't you just use WiFi Tethering? Which tablet is it? What exactly are you trying to achieve?
I will try and explain: I am in my car and want to tether to my WiFi tablet. While in the car, I do not have a WiFi connection and have previously used Bluetooth Tethering to accomplish this connection. Since the Bluetooth tethering is not available, how do I make contact with the tablet when there is no WiFi?
cyaclone said:
I will try and explain: I am in my car and want to tether to my WiFi tablet. While in the car, I do not have a WiFi connection and have previously used Bluetooth Tethering to accomplish this connection. Since the Bluetooth tethering is not available, how do I make contact with the tablet when there is no WiFi?
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Turn your phone into a WiFi hotspot. Use the WiFi tethering on your s5. You will then see the WiFi network on your tablet and you can connect to it.
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Thanks I'll try that and see what happens.
I had a very disappointing experience with my Tab S6 (LTE version) today. What happened is that we lost the internet connection, apparently the cable company had a neighborhood-wide outage. So, I figured, no big deal. I turned on the hotspot on my Tab S6 and on my laptop connected to the hotspot (instead of my home WiFi).
Well, no luck. Windows kept saying, “no internet”. I spent an hour trying to figure out why. Finally, I found the problem: my laptop was connecting to my Tab S6 and from there to my home WiFi… which had no internet. When I turned WiFi off, it then connected to mobile data and I had internet on my laptop. It's funny because on the Tab S6 I could browse the web just fine, it was clearly using mobile data. But the hotspot was connecting to WiFi. BTW, by the time I had it figured out, the internet outage was over. ?
I noticed that on my old ZTE Axon 7, when I turn on the hotspot, it automatically turns off WiFi. It’s very disappointing that the Tab S6 doesn’t do that, it would have saved me an hour of intense frustration.
It’s really silly, when you think about it. Why would I need my hotspot to connect to my WiFi? On my laptop, I can connect directly to my WiFi, I don’t need the Tab S6’s hotspot feature for that. Hotspot should by default connect to mobile data.
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I noticed that on my old ZTE Axon 7, when I turn on the hotspot, it automatically turns off WiFi. It’s very disappointing that the Tab S6 doesn’t do that, it would have saved me an hour of intense frustration.
It’s really silly, when you think about it. Why would I need my hotspot to connect to my WiFi? On my laptop, I can connect directly to my WiFi, I don’t need the Tab S6’s hotspot feature for that. Hotspot should by default connect to mobile data.
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First - Turning WIFI off would have been the thing that saved you an hour of intense frustration. :laugh:
But in all seriousness, WIFI could be useful to share a connection with something like a VPN active, surely? For example, I remember sharing a VPN connection through my OG Tab S with my Xbox so I could shop on the Turkish Xbox store, would prefer to do that via WIFI than Data, obviously, especially since I didn't have an LTE OG Tab S. I do remember having to have multiple apps to achieve sharing WIFI then.
So ultimately, I'd personally prefer they didn't disable WIFI whilst using Hotspot, better to have more options than less for when the occasion calls.
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First - Turning WIFI off would have been the thing that saved you an hour of intense frustration. :laugh:
But in all seriousness, WIFI could be useful to share a connection with something like a VPN active, surely? For example, I remember sharing a VPN connection through my OG Tab S with my Xbox so I could shop on the Turkish Xbox store, would prefer to do that via WIFI than Data, obviously, especially since I didn't have an LTE OG Tab S. I do remember having to have multiple apps to achieve sharing WIFI then.
So ultimately, I'd personally prefer they didn't disable WIFI whilst using Hotspot, better to have more options than less for when the occasion calls.
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Ahem, I said the system should turn off WiFi automatically because in the vast majority of cases, people would want the mobile hotspot to connect to mobile data. I didn't say "disable". I too like to have options.
Oh, and BTW, your scenario wouldn't work on the Tab S6 - it would connect you to WiFi bypassing the VPN. Duh!
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Ahem, I said the system should turn off WiFi automatically because in the vast majority of cases, people would want the mobile hotspot to connect to mobile data. I didn't say "disable". I too like to have options.
Oh, and BTW, your scenario wouldn't work on the Tab S6 - it would connect you to WiFi bypassing the VPN. Duh!
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Meh. Disable, turn off - Same principle.
You're right, though - I remember now, that's why I mentioned needing multiple apps. Android natively won't share a VPN as far as I recall (it's been a while). You need another app that enables sharing VPN.