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Wifi Tether

I just rooted my phone and installed the Wifi Tether app thats so popular, off the market. Unfortunately, when I run it, and enable tethering, I can't find it on my laptop,or my other phone. Any ideas? Anyone else having issues?
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Shows up fine for me...ssid is androidtether if I remember right.
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I have the same problem exactly.
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Yeah, I saw the androidtether and even changed it with no avail.
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My laptop connects but I don't get any data down only up...anyone getting the same?
Would love some help.

i used barnacle wifi tether and it worked flawless for me!

Even barnacle doesn't work for me!
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So it seems that the droid x is just picky with what can connect to it. Fitting as I have issues with my droid staying connected to my wifi when saturating the bandwidth on the wifi (downloading from another computer on the lan). Anyway, its working fine right now between the dx and my hp netbook.
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Just a heads up guys... it seems that after rebooting my phone, I'm able to tether again... I also noted that I havent ended any apps or anything. I also haven't enabled my wifi yet.
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Exact same problem, Barnacle works sometimes, Android Wifi tether doesn't show up in Windows.
Works fine from my MT3G but not from my DroidX.
Barnacle is actually working pretty good right now. 1900Kb/s down just now with a solid connection for the past 10 minutes.

Tethering Xoom with Incredible

I have tried multiple roms on my phone, both if tiamats kernals on the XOOM and can't for the life of me get the xoom to see my wifi connection being broadcast by my droid incredible. I have verified that it is working by connecting my laptop to my d-inc so for some reason the Xoom won't see it. Anyone get this working, how? I ahve also tried BT pan and that won't work either.

Cyanogen 6.1 stable with my Inc and I have tethered WiFi fine. I set up with WPA2 security. Nothing special.

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I have used tethering with IHFTP69's Skyraider rom and it works just fine.
Thats the main reason that I didn't get a data plan with my xoom is cuz I got the D-INC.
LOVE IT =D

Thanks for the feedback. I guess I'll change roms and give it a shot. Are you using the Wifi-Tether app pre11?

i have been able to use the wifi tether, however, I have not been able to get a Bluetooth tether going. My work shouts down rogue APs, so indeed to be able to use the Bluetooth coonection... anyone been able get this going as well?

760hacker said:
Thanks for the feedback. I guess I'll change roms and give it a shot. Are you using the Wifi-Tether app pre11?
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Your issue is the Wireless Tether App, not your ROM. The Wireless Tether App from the Market uses Ad-Hoc mode, not infrastructure mode. Use the built in android tether or the newest Wireless Tether Beta, which I think uses the proper WiFi mode.

Cyanogen 7 stable stock tether works great. Bluetooth is another story, I would also love to get BT tether working with the dinc

the latest wireless tether has infrastructure so give it a try

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the latest wireless tether has infrastructure so give it a try
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So you are saying that Pre11 works with your Incredible and CM7? Is your Xoom rooted? Does it have the stock kernel?

I am using 3.0 -pre4 experimental. It works great with xoom.
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monadzback said:
I am using 3.0 -pre4 experimental. It works great with xoom.
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What phone do you have and what rom. Also is your XOOM rooted? If so what kernel is it running, stock, tiamet, brushdog?

I am using my unrooted Dinc to wifi-tether my Xoom just fine, and I am not paying for the tethering fee. I am using the stock tethering app that came out with froyo.

Wifi tether

I tried to tether with my evo using hot spot and wireless tether with no success. It works on my laptop but not on the zoom. Has anyone got it to work on zoom using evo? If so what settings?
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A friend of mine tethered off his stock evo just fine, no issues. Dont know his settings though, but since you can only select the security type, cant be much.

Works fine for me running xoom and evo unrooted. The xoom can't tell the economy from any other wifi but my second settings are just a standard named wpa2 set hotspot. Dhcp on, always in. Everyone in a while the xoom freaks out when the evo swaps between 3g and 4g but at worst in disable and re enable wifi and I'm fine. My second switches often since we don't officially have 4g in Columbus Ohio even though I have had signals most of the time since like last August.
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Mine works perfectly tethered to my Evo running CM7.
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Not sure if this was resolved, but I tether off of my EVO regularly, running CM7 stock.
OP, what setup are running on your EVO?
Swyped from my EVO

From what I gather, CM7 on the Evo has infrastructure mode wifi tether by default so Android devices shouldn't have any problems seeng the SSID (as opposed to Adhoc).
Also, the latest wifi tether version (direct from the code.google.com website) now does infrastructure mode, so you shouldn't have any issues as well.
Fuuton: Atsugai

It works great with my evo rooted. I'm using wireless tether app. I'm using Azrael 4.0 ROM... love it
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blackte4 said:
It works great with my evo rooted. I'm using wireless tether app. I'm using Azrael 4.0 ROM... love it
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I am running my 2.2 rls5 and I cannot get it to work. It seems to be a issue with the ad hoc network. I have tried several wireless heather apps including barnacle and others. Nothing works. May have to take zoom back if I cannot tether.

I tethered my XOOM to my EVO running CM7 RC4 just fine and dandy. No problems here, move along.

Im not using the Evo but the Samsung Epic.....WAY better phone, screen is 312x better, no HDMI out but the qwerty more than makes up for it.
The biggest downside I am finding is that using the FREE wifi apps, rather than the paid ones, i find it difficult to connect to my Sprint data network on the Epic with my Xoom. I am able to connect with my Epic to the Xooms network, but it only has 1gb and it costs money to go over. I have unlimited on the Epic, but I can only tether with Mac and Windows, and some odd distros of Linux that use older wifi network managers that were compatible with ad hoc networks......No luck getting the Xoom to connect the Ad Hoc only wifi hotspot that I am able to get using free third party apps.
Using the paid app works fine, but not with the app called Wifi-Tether, or Wireless Tether.

Antebios said:
I tethered my XOOM to my EVO running CM7 RC4 just fine and dandy. No problems here, move along.
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Are you using a paid tethering app, the official included tethering app, or a third party free app that requires rooting? Are you specifically using "Wireless Tether"?
If not, then its not really relevant to the OP.

Working tethering?

Is there is a working wireless tether app that works and doesn't trigger the built in one?
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Sorry it took so long for someone to get back to you. I recently tried to tether after having not tethered for a couple weeks, just to find everything being redirected to Verizon's site. I try a few different tethering apps and I even re-install my ROM (liberty). Eventually, I get EasyTether. Worked great. Search it in the app store and pay for it if it works for you. It's quite fast and the most stable tethering app I've ever used. The only problem is you have to connect your phone to the computer via usb, but I was then able to create an ad hoc network for my brother to use through my laptop.

PDAnet should still be working. Look for it in the market.

I know verizon is messing w/a lot of the tethering apps. Theres a good article here CNN Tethering w/verizon

Barnacle has been working well for me. I don't have the stock tethering app any more because I'm running CM7 and not blur, so I can't make that assumption. The free version works, the only thing the donate version gives you is a nifty toggle widget. I bought because this dev did a great job.

I'm still using Wireless Tether for Root Users. I was on a GB leak for awhile, Apex I think, before I tried to tether again and could not get it to work, seemed I was at a crossroads. Netflix via GB, or tethering via Froyo. I weighed the options and decided I just needed tether more so I went back to a Fission Froyo. I was surprised to find out that the Netflix app actually worked, guess they fixed that. All and all a Froyo Rom was just better for me. Too many bugs on the various GB roms, and tether doesn't seem to work, believe it was something that was built into the leaked releases that could tell when you try to tether, that's not there on Froyo. So if you're desperate, roll it back, should work for you.

I used Barnacle today and it works perfectly.

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I used Barnacle today and it works perfectly.
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are you running stock OTA Gingerbread, rooted? I am and can't get Barnacle to work. It throws an error.

Same here cant get barnacle to work past the verizon tether screen on gb rooted
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Wifi tether

Hey guys I just rooted my play and wanted to test out wifi tether on my ps3. I turn it on and it works fine but then the built in hotspot turns on and then it turns of disabling my 3g connection. Any help?
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What tether app are you using, if any? What carrier are you on?

Wifi tether 11 verizon
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I didn't spend a ton of time on it bc the Play is my son's phone, but I couldn't get wireless tether for root users to work. I ended up downloading Barnacle Wifi Tether free from the market. The only downside is it creates an ad hoc network instead of an infrastructure one, but it works like a charm.

I got both but neither work for ps3
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Captainfrost said:
I got both but neither work for ps3
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If you use the Uk firmware on a R800x then you can tether and mobile hotspot using the stock tether and hotspot in settings and you wont be routed to verizon's page, it works great
Im working on editing the verizon firmware to use the built in tether/hotspot without being routed to verizons page.

216Monster said:
If you use the Uk firmware on a R800x then you can tether and mobile hotspot using the stock tether and hotspot in settings and you wont be routed to verizon's page, it works great
Im working on editing the verizon firmware to use the built in tether/hotspot without being routed to verizons page.
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Any luck? I can't tether on verizon for crap

I recommend Barnacle for Game Console, and EasyTether for computers.
When it comes to gaming, Barnacle works very well, I live in a village built in the middle of a cornfield and I get all bars on Black Ops for Xbox. I'm going to try it on the Wii soon, I had to restore my Wii's NAND because some cIOS I installed screwed the network up.
EasyTether is best for Computers because it uses the USB Debugging mode.