I'm about to switch back to verizon for the better network and was wondering if teathering would worknthe same as on my sprint hero.. I know that a lot of verizon devices have a button to teather stock and they want you to pay crazy prices for their service..
If I root a droid x can I tether on the down low? ... Thanks for any help.
Yeah you can use wireless tether or barnacle wifi tether. I believe there is a mod for the stock tether app to use it for free but never bothered trying it as the two I mentioned work fine.
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Team Black Hat has a patch for the stock 3G WiFi App... Works perfectly.
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thanks guys big help, so if i get this right.. the same as sprint- verizon will have no idea if i am teathering or not..?
They might be able to guess by the amount of data you use, but I use insane amounts of data and have yet to receive any complaints or notices of excessive usage.
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If you wanna tether through your USB, pdanet works pretty well, though I think it's more hassle than a WiFi tether.
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I've had my x for about a week and a half now and am using the darkslide rom. I like it a lot but I am having a few issues. I don't know if it's related to the rom or something else.
First the wifi tether is slow. I get about .5 M on a good day. I used to tether on an htc hero and easily got triple with sprint. Also after tethering for ten minutes our so the data will just stop and I have to stop tether and restart to regain connection. I get 1.5M when I use the speed test app on my phone..
What is the deal with verizon visual voicemail? Do you have to pay for that? Just switched from sprint so I'm ignorant on that one.
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And the signal strength indicator fluctuates from 1 bar to 4.
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What app ate you using to tether with? I usually get 2.2 to 2.4 down. I do have issues with wireless tether losing connection when my screen goes into sleep mode sometimes but when I wake the screen my connection comes back up. Only happens occasionally. It seems to happen less with barnacle wifi tether.
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I use WiFI tethering daily and I haven't seen a issue. I used to use the Wireless Tether App from Market and with that I did experience a couple dropouts and some slow speeds.... After I switched to the stock 3G Mobile WiFi App with Team Black Hats' patch I have had ZERO issues.
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I'm using the wifi tether app from the market. I guess I'll do some searching to find out how to do the patch thing.
Thanks!
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On average I get about 1.5mbps on my tether. Not to shabby I guess.
Here is my situation.
I have 2.3.7, stock, rooted, using Pete's 2.6.35.14 kernel. I installed wireless tether 2.0.8 pre-1 and set it to use bluetooth tethering. It works great, even via 4G. My issue however, is that it only works great to 1 device. My laptop, or my Galaxy Tab 10.1, connect perfectly fine and there are no issues. If I try to connect the other device (whichever other, doesn't matter the order from what I've tried) it won't work.
If I have my laptop connected first, then on my Tab, it will say it is connected in the bluetooth settings menu, but there is no internet access and there is no bluetooth tethering icon down by the clock.
If I have the Tab connected first, then try my laptop it will also say connection successful but then down on the taskbar the internet icon will have the little exclamation point and it will say no internet access.
Soooo..... is there a way to connect multiple devices via bluetooth? I really really hope so, but perhaps this is just a limitation of the PAN profile in bluetooth, or maybe the phone is only using the DUN profile or something. But in all my searching I haven't found an answer and I just don't know myself. Any devs out there know?
Why not just use Wifi to tether multiple devices?
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Why not just use Wifi to tether multiple devices?
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Because 4G tethering via wifi doesn't work (in infrastructure mode, anyway), unless you pay the $29.99 to Sprint, which I am currently doing. But in my opinion, it is BS that they charge this. And given I very rarely use tethering, I hate paying for it.
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Because 4G tethering via wifi doesn't work (in infrastructure mode, anyway), unless you pay the $29.99 to Sprint, which I am currently doing. But in my opinion, it is BS that they charge this. And given I very rarely use tethering, I hate paying for it.
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You know Pete has the wireless tether fix that unlocks the sprint tethering.
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Rem3Dy said:
You know Pete has the wireless tether fix that unlocks the sprint tethering.
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This only unlocks the 3G tethering though, not 4G. Right? Or did I miss where that was also fixed?
I thought on nexus s 4g was free tethering on google own app on 3g and 4g?
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I thought on nexus s 4g was free tethering on google own app on 3g and 4g?
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Nope, not true. When it first was out, 3G was.... but subsequent updates have stopped even that.
I think the max on Bluetooth tethering is something like 2 MB download so make sure your getting all you can.
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No other thoughts on this?
Yeah David279, it probably isn't fast enough to get full 4G speeds, but still plenty fast for the little bit I'd use it.... oh well, I guess I'll keep paying $29.99 a month until someone figures out how to do infrastructure in wifi tether on the Nexus S (or until I buy the prime if it ends up on Sprint).
Have u try the latest beta of wifi tether
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I just rooted the G2(vzw) and I tried 3 different tethering apps from the playstore and none work. It doesnt even broadcast a signal.
On barnacle it says "WIFI: Could not sed ad-hoc mode of wlan0: Operation not supported on trasnport endpoint"
I'm not a heavy data user, but I do need to tether since there is no ISP in my area (just 56k ('yes i said that) and satellite which is ridiculously expensive).
The Att version g had a built on tethering app did u freeze or uninstall that if you did unfreeze it..I just turned tethered on my g2
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The Att version g had a built on tethering app did u freeze or uninstall that if you did unfreeze it..I just turned tethered on my g2
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I have the verizon verison therefore if I try the built in app I get the pop-up saying I need the subscription. I'm grandfathered into the unlimited data.
Same here. No go just yet. Usb tethering works (Fox fi) but no wireless tether yet. (Verizon unlimited here)
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Mods could you close this thread. There's another thread with more activity, thank you.
on tmobile you get free wifi hotspot with the unlimited data package. been using it quite a bit today. have you tried the android wifi tether ? https://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/
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Mods could you close this thread. There's another thread with more activity, thank you.
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Which thread are you referring to? I couldn't find it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2456338
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Hey everyone, first of all thank you for taking the time to look at my post.
My question is this, what is the difference between the mobile free hotspot and the wifi tether app? Reason why I ask is, on older rooted phones the wifi tether app was the program you ran to get your phone to be a hotspot. Even if your phone was preloaded with a mobile hotspot option from your cell phone carrier. From what I thought, even if there was a hack to use the original mobile hotspot preloaded on your phone. The cell phone carrier could moniter your usage? So thats when wifi tether app was made available, to avoid this. Or am I waaaay off bases?
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Hey everyone, first of all thank you for taking the time to look at my post.
My question is this, what is the difference between the mobile free hotspot and the wifi tether app? Reason why I ask is, on older rooted phones the wifi tether app was the program you ran to get your phone to be a hotspot. Even if your phone was preloaded with a mobile hotspot option from your cell phone carrier. From what I thought, even if there was a hack to use the original mobile hotspot preloaded on your phone. The cell phone carrier could moniter your usage? So thats when wifi tether app was made available, to avoid this. Or am I waaaay off bases?
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I believe you are correct, but from Sprint with unlimited data, all they would see is the data usage, so using the native hotspot shouldn't alert them to anything strange. In my experiance the wifi tether apps are not as reliable, with the native hotspot hack, I have no problems, and when using a tether app it seems to require much more configuration and was still not as reliable, I frequently got "limited or no connectivity" using a tether app.
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I believe you are correct, but from Sprint with unlimited data, all they would see is the data usage, so using the native hotspot shouldn't alert them to anything strange. In my experiance the wifi tether apps are not as reliable, with the native hotspot hack, I have no problems, and when using a tether app it seems to require much more configuration and was still not as reliable, I frequently got "limited or no connectivity" using a tether app.
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Awwwwww....I see and you are correct there is connection problems. But let me ask you this...does the native hotsot have better download rates than the tether app? Or thats just depends on your data service?
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Awwwwww....I see and you are correct there is connection problems. But let me ask you this...does the native hotsot have better download rates than the tether app? Or thats just depends on your data service?
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To be honest I have not tested that, because hotspot works consistently and the tether app wouldn't always get internet access when connected, I went with what is easier. I would assume that it is based on your current network speed. I ran a speed test and got 2.18Mbps down and then connected my laptop to the hotspot and got 1.98Mbps down. So it is close, I don't currently have a working tether app since this works ok. I know the speed sucks but its only 3g in the 24th floor of an office in Denver, where LTE is not fully released yet.
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I have a Verizon Motorolla Droid RAZR M (XT907) and it's rooted. I was using the stock tethering app in settings from Verizon and my company told me not to use it, then gave me a MiFi portable hotspot, but then 2 months later they took it away.... So now I want to figure out how to tether my phone without the company being billed for tethering. I tried FoxFi but it doesn't work at all. Anyone have a good app for this, preferably free? Or some way to use the stock app without being billed? I tried to search but there's nothing specific to my question...
You could try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1981625 but of course they would see an increase in data...
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