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Has anyone had any luck with any root wireless tether applications? So far I can not get it to work, even following the directions on the goodle code site for wireless-tether 2.01 about the EVO.
They have an experimental 2.0.2-pre13 version that I managed to get working following the thread on the google code site. Have you tried that out?
Thank you! Its working now. Posting this from my tethered iPad...
persibro said:
They have an experimental 2.0.2-pre13 version that I managed to get working following the thread on the google code site. Have you tried that out?
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I don't know about you, but I still can't get wifi tether to work, even with the experimental version. It connects, I'm asked for my passphrase (which I correctly input), but still no internet access.
persibro said:
They have an experimental 2.0.2-pre13 version that I managed to get working following the thread on the google code site. Have you tried that out?
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im sure root is required...yes yes??
will this tether at 4g speeds?
can someone link to the page? Thanks!
can someone post step by step on how to do this? btw best buy updated my phone. please help me.
Here is the site: code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/issues/detail?id=362
The instuctions to follow begins at around comment 25.
The gist of it is that you have to set a static IP with gateway and the works, then, from the phone, ping the tethered device.
As for speeds, I'm pretty sure whatever connect you're currently getting on the phone will also apply to the tethered device.
I don't understand what root tethering is? I don't have this phone yet but I heard wireless hotspot is already built into the phone. Once you root the phone, does the builtin hotspot app disappear? Thanks.
Vaporize said:
I don't understand what root tethering is? I don't have this phone yet but I heard wireless hotspot is already built into the phone. Once you root the phone, does the builtin hotspot app disappear? Thanks.
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You have to pay $30/month to use the built-in hotspot feature. With root access, we are able to create and use our own hotspot for tethering. Rooting the phone doesn't affect the built-in hotspot app.
Thanks for the quick reply. Its good having options out there to tether without having to pay the extra 30 bucks a month.
Has anyone been successful at rooting the phone and updating to Froyo 2.2? I heard 2.2 has its own built-in hotspot app. Is there a tethering charge to use the built-in hotspot on version 2.2? Thanks.
They have Froyo on the Evo right but there are still bugs with it I think
On a side note, we have both our Evo's rooted and using WiFi Tethering just fine as of last night.
So all of our phones with Wifi hotspot features create an ADHOC connection which Honeycomb does not support. Same goes with Bluetooth, no DUN. Google what the hell? Ya ya,carriers this and carriers that but what about people paying for hotspot features on the phone. I have customers that I need to setup to pair with the TF but it seems nothing will work without rooting and that can be phone specific. So the TF is great as long as you are close to a WIFI connection is supports?
If I'm missing something someone please fill me in.
~DC
think it depends on phone my desire HD works fine
Welcome to Android.
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think it depends on phone my desire HD works fine
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Are you rooted?
Are you simply pairing or using another app on your phone?
Can you run through your connection steps?
Thanks,
~DC
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But why would they do this knowing what the phones support?
~DC
I am using the hotspot feature on my Evo, and I've been tethering to it at work since the day I got my Transformer. I'm not doing anything special, just turning on the hotspot and letting the TF connect. Now, my Evo is rooted with a ROM that "unlocks" the hotspot functionality so I'm not paying extra, and I'm not using the Wireless Tether app, but it's the same concept.
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I am using the hotspot feature on my Evo, and I've been tethering to it at work since the day I got my Transformer. I'm not doing anything special, just turning on the hotspot and letting the TF connect. Now, my Evo is rooted with a ROM that "unlocks" the hotspot functionality so I'm not paying extra, and I'm not using the Wireless Tether app, but it's the same concept.
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The hotspot feature on your ROM is supporting a true wifi connection and not peer to peer adhoc. I can't always root customers phones.
~DC
I may be misunderstanding how it works, but this isn't a wireless tether baked into the ROM, it's the built-in Sprint hotspot feature that I'm using, just unlocked so I don't have to pay extra. If someone was paying for the hotspot feature on Sprint, they wouldn't need root, but maybe this is only the case with Sprint's implementation.
i was able to do both wifi and bluetooth tethering. took me a while to figure out, (since i've never done it before, less due to the difficulty of doing it)
assuming the phone supports Bluetooth tethering, it should always work.
I have a DroidX and I can tether using the built in stock Hotspot feature or with Bluetooth. However, I can't tether using an ad hoc connection because I get an error stating that the device doesn't support ad hoc connections...
So, it is definitely device specific and it will be something the carriers remove as many report being able to do so with root (my device is rooted and I can't connect via ad hoc - although, I haven't d/l or tried out the pdaNet app).
I will also add that the bluetooth tethering has worked MUCH better than the wifi - easier/faster to connect, runs pretty fast, and my phone doesn't overheat as much....
Works fine with my evo. The Evo has proper infrastructure wifi hotspot.
Maybe the users need to update their phones?
I went into a store to try a tf and there was no internet so I turned on my WiFi hotspot on my sgsII and it worked perfectly fine, not sure if that's the same as you're asking but that works.
jerrykur said:
Works fine with my evo. The Evo has proper infrastructure wifi hotspot.
Maybe the users need to update their phones?
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Are you rooted?
~DC
Any HTC thunderbolt users reading this that have tried hotspot?
~DC
a lot of clarification
Hi all,
I need your help, understanding ... well everything about wifi/TF/WM6.5/adhoc and whatever the other connection is?
I don't think of myself as a noob, but to be honest I'm lost with the wifi on the TF. So here it goes: I have TF and HD2. Under WM6.5 I can't get the TF to see the shared internet through the "wifi router" application on the phone. But then I run a custom Desire HD ROM and this one (can't remember the application) shares and gives access to the TF?!?!
First off, which is which? Which is adhoc and which is infrastructure? And what is the difference (sorry i did look on the internet, but that got me confused even more because I could not see any difference). Are you saying that a standard (not rooted Android) will have the same problem? I was thinking of switching to an android phone so that I can get the easy sharing option, but if I have to root a brand new phone????
Any help will be appreciated,
rio
Easy way to tether off a rooted phone.
Install one of the older versions of wireless tether that supports bluetooth.
Turn on the bluetooth DUN on wireless tether.
Hit ok when it asks to turn on Bluetooth and make discoverable.
On the transformer go to settings-wireless-bluetooth
Scan for your device and pair.
Once paired you should see a little wrench next to your device, click on it
Under Profiles, it should show tethering with a checkbox. Click this and in a few seconds Wireless tether should buzz its connected and off you go.
I've been able to tether my transformer like this since out of the box.
Edit - BTW I've tried this with PDAnet and other non rooted tehtering programs, and I couldn't get it to work with those options. Just FYI
the difference between ad-hoc and infrastructure is the way devices communicate.
infrastructure is kinda like the way we send messages via the post office. we send it to a central place, then it figures out how to deliver the message. this is how true routers operate
ad-hoc is peer-to-peer. imagine passing notes back in elementary school.
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some phones comes with a tethering app without having to root, but this typically requires you to pay extra fee to your carrier ($30 for sprint)
if you don't want to pay that, then you have to root your phone to either get a rom that already supports infrastructure mode, or download an app that does. [ ie Wifi Tether ]
people googling "honeycomb dun" would be incredibly misinformed by this thread.
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people googling "honeycomb dun" would be incredibly misinformed by this thread.
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You are right. I put Honeycomb 3.1 in the title but forgot to mention in the OP if anyone heard that 3.1 would have support for DUN or Ad Hoc.
Sorry for any confusion I might have caused
~DC
Edit: I posted misinformation.
I know with my Xoom I had to flash a patch to get it to connect to my tethered Thunderbolt, is it possible to use the Galaxy yet? Or is there a patch? I saw one for ADHOC in the 10.1v forums but wasnt sure if it worked for 10.1
Yes it does. Try it out. Don't forget to turn on airplane mode before following the procedure.
On a side note you might want to post this in the Q&A section, not development section. Especially since one week ago I posted a topic saying that it does in fact work - l2 search before posting.
Some people say that if you have the latest version of WiFi Tether on your phone that the Tab should see it. So try that first. However, my tab could not see it so i had to do things the old fashioned way.
If you are in the same boat then you need to replace wpa_supplicant which is in system/bin with the one from the xoom (search for it, there's a link to it somewhere in the Galaxy Tab 10.1 forums. that's because the Tab's wifi driver filters out Ad Hoc wifi servers (which your phone is). You will need Root Explorer or some other file manager for root users. Here is a quickie tutorial
0) make sure your tab has regular wifi access before you start this process
1) Get the wpa_supplicant file from this thread (look at the bottom of the first post)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1083182&highlight=wpa_supplicant
2) Unzip the file and get the wpa_supplicant file which is in \system\bin of the zip
3) On your phone go to \system\bin using Root Explorer and copy it to somewhere on your SD Card.
4) Copy the new wpa_supplicant file that you unzipped in step 2 to a folder on your tab's sd card
5) Turn on R/W access in Root Explorer
6) Replace the wpa_supplicant file in /system/bin with the new one
7) Final step VERY IMPORTANT - change the permissions on /system/bin/wpa_supplicant to be rwe
8) Reboot tab
9) Verify that you still have traditional wifi access
10) Turn on WiFi tether on your phone
11) Go into wifi settings in setup and see if your tab can now see Android Tether
This seems like a pain.. mine worked out of the box. Granted, I have a custom rom on my galaxy S (ATT Captivate).. using the built in Mobile AP in the settings. No external app required...
An access point is an access point (whether it is your phone or your router), why would the GT not connect to any access point?
I can tether with my captivate.
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jvanbrecht said:
This seems like a pain.. mine worked out of the box. Granted, I have a custom rom on my galaxy S (ATT Captivate).. using the built in Mobile AP in the settings. No external app required...
An access point is an access point (whether it is your phone or your router), why would the GT not connect to any access point?
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Because an access point is not an access point. There is a big difference between ad-hoc and infrastructure mode. Android won't connect to an ad-hoc network. And my OG Droid along with other, older Android phones won't do infrastructure right out of the box.
Last I checked, while Access points do have support for Ad-Hoc, that is not the primary purpose of an AP. Ad-Hoc is generally a non service providing device to device.
An Access point by its very nature of being an AP does so in infrastructure mode. I do realize that I may have jumped the gun as many of the older devices do not support functioning as a true AP, rather an ad hoc network with a proxy running in the background to proxy data.
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This seems like a pain.. mine worked out of the box. Granted, I have a custom rom on my galaxy S (ATT Captivate).. using the built in Mobile AP in the settings. No external app required...
An access point is an access point (whether it is your phone or your router), why would the GT not connect to any access point?
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Yes, it is a pain. But if you are using certain older phones (Android 2.2 or older) that do not provide infrastructure wifi then you are forced to make the Tab recognize ad hoc and out of the box the Galaxy Tab 10.1 does not.
I am glad for you and others who have had it easy. I suggest that people try to wifi tether the easy way first, without changing wpa_supplicant. But it is a method of last resort which is better than nothing.
Windows Phone to tether 10.1
So from what I'm reading on the forums, it seems most of you have android phones and are using them to tether to the 10.1 after rooting. I have a crappy windows HTC HD2, it has wifi router on it, but like everyone else the tab does not recognize it. I was hoping that this WiFi Tether thing, I assume it's an app? Will work if I get it. Any experience trying to accomplish this and give me the warm fuzzy if I happen to pursue installing and going through the root process that is already posted, that it will work? I'd much rather try getting this WiFi Tether thing than go through and root the tab.
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So from what I'm reading on the forums, it seems most of you have android phones and are using them to tether to the 10.1 after rooting. I have a crappy windows HTC HD2, it has wifi router on it, but like everyone else the tab does not recognize it. I was hoping that this WiFi Tether thing, I assume it's an app? Will work if I get it. Any experience trying to accomplish this and give me the warm fuzzy if I happen to pursue installing and going through the root process that is already posted, that it will work? I'd much rather try getting this WiFi Tether thing than go through and root the tab.
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Wi-Fi Tether is an Android app for phones, so I don't think it'll help you unless you put the Android ROM on your HD2. So you're gonna have to root and follow the directions posted to get it to work.
Use Barnacle Wifi Tether
Just use Barnacle Wifi Tether in the Market
...works like a charm with rooted Captivate and 10.1
My Milestone running CM7 connected just fine (first try!) using 3G Mobile Hotspot that comes bundled in CM7. Great speed too.
I haven't tried any other wifi or USB tether app.
New At This!
Hey all, Loving my GTab at the moment except for the inability to tether it to my iPhone. This is a new arena for me. I have been jailbreaking each of my iphone versions since the first but I have never had a Android phone before so no idea how to root it. The steps listed on the first page of this thread, are those the steps you have to follow AFTER you have rooted the phone? If so, I am assuming everyone has had success at rooting the 10.1 tablet so far. I ask cuz I would never tell my friends to jailbreak their phone cuz if you do not know what your doing you can screw something up. I dont want to fall into the same category. I am going to do a search for rooting in Galaxy Tab 10.1 but figured I would first see if those directions are all I need to know. thanks in advance and sorry if I missed any post that already has this info in it.
I asked you this in your other thread, but it's probably best placed here:
iPhone 4 or 3GS?
I don't think the 3 can create and infrastructure hot spot, only ad-hoc which takes rooting to connect to. I could be wrong about that though as I'm not an Apple guy.
If you have a 4, TetherMe is an app that should allow you to create an infrastructure hotspot and your 10.1 will connect to it. You won't have to root if you go this route.
Or you can just get a Nexus S 4G like me with infrastructure mode out of the box...
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I asked you this in your other thread, but it's probably best placed here:
iPhone 4 or 3GS?
I don't think the 3 can create and infrastructure hot spot, only ad-hoc which takes rooting to connect to. I could be wrong about that though as I'm not an Apple guy.
If you have a 4, TetherMe is an app that should allow you to create an infrastructure hotspot and your 10.1 will connect to it. You won't have to root if you go this route.
Or you can just get a Nexus S 4G like me with infrastructure mode out of the box...
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I have the newest iPhone4. I use PdaNet right now because it allows me to hide my usage so that AT&T can't be A-Holes and take away my unlimited data usage. I am not sure it has a Infrastructure hotspot like TetherMe does so I will check it and let ya'll know. Thanks for the help so far!
Using Galaxy Vibrant's built-in Mobile AP on Tab 10.1
works great...stable connection!
jvanbrecht said:
This seems like a pain.. mine worked out of the box. Granted, I have a custom rom on my galaxy S (ATT Captivate).. using the built in Mobile AP in the settings. No external app required...
An access point is an access point (whether it is your phone or your router), why would the GT not connect to any access point?
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Good and Bad news!
vansmack said:
If you have a 4, TetherMe is an app that should allow you to create an infrastructure hotspot and your 10.1 will connect to it. You won't have to root if you go this route.
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Ok it seems that PDANet doesn't have the infrastructure hotspot but fortunately TetherMe allows tethering on any APN that is used for iphone data. So the hide usage feature from PDANet seems to have been ported over to TetherMe so I am going to give it a whirl and see what we come up with! Too bad I paid for PDANet a while back! LOL
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Installed and tethering perfectly without the need to root! VanSmack my man...Madd Props! However, I should note for those with iPhone4 looking to do this, I ran into a snag along the way. I am not sure why but TetherMe crashed during the middle of its install and took me about 10 mins to get it rebooted, purge of the half install and installed again. I am not sure if My3G and/or PdaNet conflict with the install of TetherMe or if it was a random glitch, but I uninstalled both of them and reinstalled TetherMe and it installed like a charm. Simple easy and connect. Thanks again everyone!
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I asked you this in your other thread, but it's probably best placed here:
iPhone 4 or 3GS?
I don't think the 3 can create and infrastructure hot spot, only ad-hoc which takes rooting to connect to. I could be wrong about that though as I'm not an Apple guy.If you have a 4, TetherMe is an app that should allow you to create an infrastructure hotspot and your 10.1 will connect to it. You won't have to root if you go this route.
Or you can just get a Nexus S 4G like me with infrastructure mode out of the box...
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Any Apple 3GS guys know the answer here? I have one (3GS), want to tether the SGT to it but don't want to root the Tab.
Much appreciated
S4NS said:
Any Apple 3GS guys know the answer here? I have one (3GS), want to tether the SGT to it but don't want to root the Tab.
Much appreciated
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TetherMe now supports all iPhones from iOS 3.x up to iOS 4.3 so you should be able to use the same software I installed to tether your GTab. However the easiest way to check it is to go into cydia and find TetherMe and see if your device supports its. I would post a link but i'm a newbie thus its inactive.
As I understand it, the iPhone 3GS wifi chip does not have infrastructure mode coded into its firmware. Thus I don't think TetherMe will fix that problem, but my recommendation would be to try it and find out. Again, I'm not an Apple guy, I've just played around with others phones and that's what I discovered.
And no sweat, stat. Glad to help.
I just got the Acer Iconia A500 8gb. I know nothing about rooting or flashing or new rom or w/e. It's stock OS (android 3.2)
The tablet can't connect to my phone's wifi hotspot
iPhone 3G
MyWi tethering app
T-Mobile
Please help
If you need more details, let me know
Are you trying to connect to the hotspot on your iPhone 3g? If you are, that means you don't have wifi hotspot, but personal hotspot, which connects through bluetooth. I am pretty sure you cannot do this on stock ROM, you need to root it in order to enable this functionality. I was able to connect to a personal hotspot on an iPhone 3Gs with Thor's ROM.
Furthermore if you are trying to connect to a phone with wifi hotspot, that will not work either as stock tablets cannot connect to ad-hoc networks. There is a specific file that is in the android system that disables this ability.
Not sure if that is totally correct. My G2 which is rooted can be run as a wifi hotspot, and when my tablet was on stock 3.2 unrooted, it connected to it without issue... Unless I've completely misunderstood your post.
ad-hoc support
i think the phones hot spot is ad-hoc if this is true .. you will have to downgrade. root and replace the ad-hoc file .
the iconia does not support ad-hoc networks out of the box.
this is all over this forum.. probably the very most asked Question.. Do a simple search and you will find more information.
goodluck
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Not sure if that is totally correct. My G2 which is rooted can be run as a wifi hotspot, and when my tablet was on stock 3.2 unrooted, it connected to it without issue... Unless I've completely misunderstood your post.
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That's odd, maybe your G2 runs the wifi hotspot in infrastructure mode. I was under the impression that all hotspot features on phones were ad-hoc though, but I most certainly could be wrong.
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i think the phones hot spot is ad-hoc if this is true .. you will have to downgrade. root and replace the ad-hoc file .
the iconia does not support ad-hoc networks out of the box.
this is all over this forum.. probably the very most asked Question.. Do a simple search and you will find more information.
goodluck
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That's what I read all over the place too.
In terms of connecting to the iPhone though, the iPhone4 was the first iPhone to introduce wifi hotpot. The previous gen have personal hotspot which connected through bluetooth. I know that an unrooted Iconia cannot connect to a 3Gs's personal hotspot. I've tried it and when I switched to Thor's ROM, I was able to connect to it.
Is there a way to plug our phones into tablets and use the 3g service from our phones to our tablets.... Sorta like a modem for on the go.. Instead of using wifi tethering? Not sure if it's been done or not thought it would be a good idea tho
Do a quick search, it has been discussed extensively in other threads. You can use PdaNet Tablet if your phone support bluetooh.
No. Simple answer.
The 500 does not have this capability, Because it doesn;t have the radio to accommodate it.
Physical limitation
so my best bet for Internet on the go is tethering from my phone?
If you want to connect your tablet to a phone you will need to root your tablet.
The tablet doesn't support Ad-hoc connectivity out of the box. Many wi-fi hotspot features on phones use Ad-hoc to connect.
I also remember a while back I was trying to see if I could connect my stock Tablet to the personal hotspot of somebody's iPhone 3gs (connects via bluetooth) but it didn't work. I remember rooting the tablet and installing Thor's ROM and found out that now I could connect to the personal hotspot. Not sure what was in Thor's ROM to make this work though.
And as another poster said, you can try pdanet if you have an android phone. I tried it before I had an Android phone and it wouldn't work (even though the phone still had pdanet on it), and have not tried it since because my phone has wifi-hotspot.
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Is there a way to plug our phones into tablets and use the 3g service from our phones to our tablets.... Sorta like a modem for on the go.. Instead of using wifi tethering? Not sure if it's been done or not thought it would be a good idea tho
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Depends on your phone really. Android is easy enough rooted + wifi tether for root. Non-smartphone takes a little work, but isn't that bad. Check tut on getting usb to 'dumbphone' modem working. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1452800
...or you can use 3G modem and take these steps to use it with your tablet http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1633086