I read this on engadget. Are rooted users using the built in app on djsteve1.9 ok? http://tinyurl.com/3nfddg7
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streakdroid 1.9 (all of them actually) have the built in android tethering unlocked. At&t roms (and other carriers) will block this feature so you actually pay for tethering. I've been using the built in one with no issues.
Who cares?There are ways to download all those apps.
A two-pronged attack to try and prevent users from tethering.
1. disable sideloading in all AT&T phones.
2. hide tethering apps in the Market.
It might have worked if Google hadn't released the Android SDK. As it is, the sideloading block is easy to get around. After that, it's a matter of downloading the app from other places.
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I'm still on 2.1, but I rooted my phone using the one click root method. I downloaded the Wireless Tether app from the Marketplace, but I can never get the phone never sets itself up as a hotspot using that app. What am I doing wrong? No, I don't pay the $30 for the hotspot option from Sprint. Is that the problem?
To use Wireless Tether, you may need a custom kernel for it to work (not sure though)... Although, if you are still on the stock rom, I would suggest flashing MobileAP through CWM instead (LINK)
I use Wireless Tether and I'm rooted stock. Is the app giving error messages?
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I use Wireless Tether and I'm rooted stock. Is the app giving error messages?
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No, no error messages. I try to tether my iPad to my phone, but the hotspot never shows up. No data is ever transferred or uploaded.
As I don't know, does the iPad support connecting to ad hoc networks? If not, try installing MobileAP, which supports infrastructure mode (link in previous post).
Try downloading the wireless tether app from the google code page instead of the one from the market. There is a specific version for the Epic. Don't think the market one works correctly.
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CapsLockKey said:
Try downloading the wireless tether app from the google code page instead of the one from the market. There is a specific version for the Epic. Don't think the market one works correctly.
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+1 to this, you may want to try searching "wireless tether" in the Epic forums. I recall in a few threads this was mentioned with specific version #s.
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Try downloading the wireless tether app from the google code page instead of the one from the market. There is a specific version for the Epic. Don't think the market one works correctly.
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It worked! Thanks! For anyone else, here's the link: http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/downloads/list
Download the most current version. Thanks a million!
http://thisismynext.com/2011/05/02/...ring-apps-android-market-shame-fcc-violation/
interesting
Yet another reason I don't like Verizon.
Sprint will do it eventually. Just wait.
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If I'm not mistaken, they're only gonna pull apps like pdanet but their aosp codes will still allow tether natively
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This only affects stock rom users who don't use 3rd party markets or don't know about side loading like we had to do back when Google first blocked tethering apps for t-mobile with the G1. What Google is doing is nothing they haven't done before. Tethering apps can still be installed manually and is built into asop roms. In the end nothing of value was lost.
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Yeah, it's a "stupid" tax. Are you too stupid/lazy to root a phone and use the root apps? I got my first android, a Shift, a few months ago and rooted it within a week. I am one of two people I know that has rooted their android out of 40 or so, some of them being programmers and IT guys. I am an English Teacher. WTF!
On a side note, I they pulled the two "tether for root users" apps from the market. Can anybody give me a working version for a sense rom on the shift for the "wired tether for root users' app? I can look up the apk on google but I don't know which one works as it seems to be a side project.
I have always used PDANet,even when my X10a was on 1.6. They are FORCING us to go online and download,all to extract and extort more money out of us,the customer,to satisfy shareholders. That's bull****!!
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I have been trying to get mobile hotspot to work on 1.83 to much disappointment. I have it rooted, I tried gladenabler, and I have even installed gingerblur as last rom it removed the verification altogether.
This time it is just not going away. I have also selected =false using root explorer for that one value that was listed in a previous post.
I am not on att I'm in another country with no tethering restrictions.
Any help would make me very grateful.
Thanks in advance.
-caid
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Can't edit from my phone but in an update to what I wrote earlier. Editing the build.prop file actually worked but required a reboot.
In retrospect I should have thought of that but it wasn't listed in the op.
So, if you are also getting this problem
Follow the directions on this post
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1057665
Then REBOOT AFTER.
Should be golden.
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On your APN type just add tether after default. So your APN type looks like this APN type: default,tether
Mine works...I live in Malaysia
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Wifi-Tether Android
Just use http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/
Once you rooted and enabled side-loading install Wifi-Tether android , that works for me
I actually have an employee plan so 40 for unlimited and tethering but if you add the apn u can also use barnicle wifi tether. U can't find it on the market (anymore/F-u too att) you'll have to Google but it is better than using my included option in network settings. I have also used the open one on code.Google.com and has been great. I love my atrix and webtop and lapdock but if I had a chance at getting it all on tmo or sprint, I'd jump ship. Making Google hide apps from it's own users? Wtf? If I were sprint I'd be praying att buys tmo because everyone would run to sprint. If I didn't have said plan, I'm not sure I could take the abuse they give their high paying customers.
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I'm sorry, new to this, but what's wrong with using an app like 'barnacle wifi tether' to create a mobile hotspot?
dubyajaysmith said:
I actually have an employee plan so 40 for unlimited and tethering but if you add the apn u can also use barnicle wifi tether. U can't find it on the market (anymore/F-u too att) you'll have to Google but it is better than using my included option in network settings. I have also used the open one on code.Google.com and has been great. I love my atrix and webtop and lapdock but if I had a chance at getting it all on tmo or sprint, I'd jump ship. Making Google hide apps from it's own users? Wtf? If I were sprint I'd be praying att buys tmo because everyone would run to sprint. If I didn't have said plan, I'm not sure I could take the abuse they give their high paying customers.
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You could also take the SIM out (or put the phone in airplane mode) and search via Wifi to find a tethering app on the market...
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I'm sorry, new to this, but what's wrong with using an app like 'barnacle wifi tether' to create a mobile hotspot?
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Barnacle is supposed to work, it's just the matter of getting it...
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Barnacle is supposed to work, it's just the matter of getting it...
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hmmm, I'm using barnacle at the moment just fine? Auto-associate til connected, running my ipod and notebook off it with no issues yet
Caid444 said:
I have been trying to get mobile hotspot to work on 1.83 to much disappointment. I have it rooted, I tried gladenabler, and I have even installed gingerblur as last rom it removed the verification altogether.
This time it is just not going away. I have also selected =false using root explorer for that one value that was listed in a previous post.
I am not on att I'm in another country with no tethering restrictions.
Any help would make me very grateful.
Thanks in advance.
-caid
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Sideload Barnacle or download PDANet
yea I use an unlocked AT&T atrix on Rogers and couldn't get the hot spot to work either. Just downloaded the android wifi tether from the market and it works fine. No need for the built in one.
I've seen a little about this - but couldn't find the answer.
Sorry if I'm repeating on someone else's thread.
I've got a Rooted (EC07) Continuum right now & just came from a Droid 1 (which I loved).
I can't find a way to remove the 3G Mobile Hotspot app from Verizon.
On my D1, I previously used Wireless Tether 2 & it was so awesome.
No when I open up the 3G otspot, it takes the device that is hooking up to my hotspot to a Verizon web page that requests a subscription.
I just want to use it free again, like on my D1.
Any suggestions on how I could do this?
I have already tried downloading other Wireless Teher apps apps & none of them seems to work properly.
Thanks.
I suppose you could remove the app with an explorer or Titanium Backup. I doubt it would get rid of it in the settings menu. I use open garden, and it works fine (assuming you aren't trying to connect with something that can't use ad-hoc)
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Why not you guys check out wireless tether beta 7 or whatever they are onto now, and go to settings, and set it as a fascinate xD then you can actually use it as a regular network, not adhoc xP
Also, I think 3g hotspot is a part of settings.apk if I remember correctly xP so you can't really get rid of it :l
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Why not you guys check out wireless tether beta 7 or whatever they are onto now, and go to settings, and set it as a fascinate xD then you can actually use it as a regular network, not adhoc xP
Also, I think 3g hotspot is a part of settings.apk if I remember correctly xP so you can't really get rid of it :l
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You wouldn't happen to have a market link, would you? It's not showing up on mine
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Haha, it's not on the market anymore, but you can find in on google xD I'll post a link when I am on a computer if you can't find it xD
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thats funny... I googled wireless tether beta7, and this post is the first hit that comes up...
here is the site for it.
http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/downloads/list
The app is built into the framework of the ROM I believe, or is tied into another piece of the ROM that can't be removed. The only way to really "remove" it is to use a launcher that allows you to hide app icons and just remove it from view.
Barnacle wi fi tether works
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Thanks guys.
I appreciate the info. Just got wifi tether 6.
Also you can "freeze" 3g hotspot, and anything else that's annoying you, using "Bloat Freezer", found in the market for $1.99. Or with Titanium Backup Pro (paid version) which is worth its weight in gold anyway.
that literaly does nothing except prevent the app from running and the app dosnt run in the background when your not using it. the bloat freezer is ment for apps using gps and updating weather that drains your battery.
If I root my phone gs4, does that mean I can use hotspot for free? Or is free hotspot usually included in the rom?
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try searching
As W7 said. This is such and old question. Do yourself a favor and find the answer yourself.
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Rooting your phone allows you to install software that you otherwise wouldn't be able to, due to carrier or device software limitations.
IF you root your phone, there are a large number of hotspot apps that you can install that will provide a hotspot for you. ROM's are usually just a collection of software (with the occasional performance tweak) that you can install. 99 times out of 100, ROM authors have merely borrowed someone else's hotspot app and packaged it in with the rest of the apps that they like. So no, you do not need to install a ROM just to install a hotspot app.
<Necessary Legalese> Keep in mind though, that if you cannot install a hotspot app and one was not provided on your phone, it's likely against the terms of service from your carrier. :angel:
I've done the searching and I realize this might be old, but I've been using hotspot with my gs4 for free and I don't have any hotspot apps. I'm running pacman but id like to play with other ROMs, just don't want to lose my free hotspot ability.
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I've done the searching and I realize this might be old, but I've been using hotspot with my gs4 for free and I don't have any hotspot apps. I'm running pacman but id like to play with other ROMs, just don't want to lose my free hotspot ability.
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the vast majority of roms have wireless tether built in. if you find one that dosent then there are multiple apps to make the feature avaliable.
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the vast majority of roms have wireless tether built in. if you find one that dosent then there are multiple apps to make the feature avaliable.
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Thank you addict. That answered my question. I appreciate the help ^_^
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