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Vibrant wifi problems

Hey guys, newbie user and android owner.
I picked up the vibrant the other day. So far its rooted, android-wifi-tether, and i performed the gps fix on it.
I really like the phone, but whenever I connect to my wifi router, it stops all data (android market, web browser, etc) It says connected and doesn't show any signs of problems. Am I doing something wrong?
Thanks for any help you can throw my way.

Hmm. Mine has problems with "No Connection" when it's connected to my wireless at home, but I just figured it was my router's fault since my computer gives me the "unable to load web page" thing all the time too. My router sucks, though. Maybe your does too?

Yeah, mine does it sometimes too. I just turn on airplane mode, and turn it back off...works fine after that. Its a hit or miss issue.

Mine works fine running off if my router. Btw, do you actually have the wi-fi tether working? Because I thought we needed a working kernal for that to work.
Feeling Vibrant on xda-app

Yup that did it for me. All I had to do was turn on airplane mode and then turn it back off. Wifi working for me now. Thanks.
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App

Please tell us how you got wifi tethering to work without a custom kernel.
From XDA App on SGS-Vibrant

you know, i have a similar issue, where im connected to my router but i dont get internet and 3g goes away the moment i connect to wifi... airplane mode didnt help tho... its interesting really..
ive tried other routers and my phone can get wifi w/internet from them
i did factory reset on my phone 3 times trying to figure this out; 2 of the three times i got wifi to work w/internet until i disconnected and connected again. then i just got the same problem all over again

[Q] Has anyone successfuly gotten their A500 to work with Barnacle?

(Yes, I've searched...)
I see several people "working" in Ad-hoc mode. But none of them actually directly reference Barnacle. I've been messing with theis for over a week, and can't seem to get this figured out, or if it's a lost cause, and I need to get a new phone.
I've got a Sony X10 Mini Pro- infrastructure mode is still a ways off, and I'm running the new Taboonay 3.2 on the Acer. I have Ad-Hoc, I can connect, if I manually specify an IP- DHCP never connects.
There is no surfage, though. I can't even ping the IP of my phone. I show connected, get the up and down arrows, like it's connected, but no throughput.
Has anyone actually gotten this to work? Do you think it's a barnacle problem, or is it something I can tweak in the Acer?

I have the same question. I havent been able to get this to work.

Barnacle worked for me in the past.they did a update then no more worked. I switched to wifi tether.and I think its better.I even donated money to the other.
Sent them several emails with not one single reply.kinda sad but its life.

works for me from myn my samsung intercept.
Question can you connect to your phone using another devive like a laptop?
Does your acer even see the barnacle in the wifi settings?
If not make sure the adhoc patch is installed it think when i went to taboonay i also had to reinstall the patch.

Yes, Barnacle does work with a lappy, and yes, the tab does see the barnacle ad-hoc, it even connects- if given a static IP. Just not able to negotiate a network connection- no ping, destination host unreachable.

Try wifi tether.I had the same issue .wifi tether is faster as well and free also.

My phone is x10 mini running on cyanogenmod 7 2.0.7.
i am using barnacle tether on it and it becomes a ad-hoc hotspot. THe problem is my iconia a500 has issues working with the connection. I can see the hotspot (i have changed the wpa supplicant file to that of xoom available) so i get a *before the name but as soon as i enter the password of wep and click on connect button,it shows connecting and then obtaining ip address and that never stops. on clicking on that it shows that the signal is poor and decibel = -1. What the ****!
Please,can anyone help me out here?

erica_renee said:
Try wifi tether.I had the same issue .wifi tether is faster as well and free also.
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erica_renee,
I am so glad that you posted this. Even happier that I remembered it. Today around 4:30pm my dsl died. Called in and it is something that effects my little area. And of course they are working on it. Funny how the phone still works, but anyway... This was especially annoying because a friend gave to me a HTC Aria with a cracked screen. I'd just repaired it, started rooting it and installing CM7. The timing was typical.
I was using Barnacle to tether my pc, a tablet and another phone. What's worse I am in an AT&T Edge only area. So it was PAINFUL at best. I finally remembered your suggestion, that you mentioned a speed improvement, and also that I had installed WiFiTether after I read that.
Well I ain't gonna lie and say that I was able to browse on one device while I netflix'd on another while downloading on the other... But I can easily be getting something from the market on one of the devices and still manage to browse on my pc. Which is a terrific improvement to what Barnacle was doing for me.
Barnacle was like dial up on a bad day. WiFiTether is easily twice as fast as the old dial up ever was. Maybe more.
So you really saved me from going nuts. Thanks so much! And I'll go ahead and say thanks for my Brother in town. If that hadn't worked I would have been camped out on his lawn modding a phone...

WIFI or USB Tether Photon and Thrive

Good morning Android friends need some help. I have a Motorola Photon rooted my provider is sprint. I have a Toshiba Thrive tablet none rooted. I installed WIFI tether version 3.1 on my photon and it works great with my laptop from work or my home laptop however I cannot get it to work with my Thrive.
Any suggestions or ideas

think it only supports adhoc and the Thrive does not unless your root.

I have tetherd my Epic to my Moms Thrive just to test it out with her & it worked grate.
What are your setting on the photons wireless thether app?
Have you tryed the betas on the google code page?
Sent from the Drivers Seat of my Suby txting and Driving doing 100MPH+ in a school zone! Ha.

I am running WiFi Tether and it works fine BUT I did have to change the LAN settings from the default 192.168.1.x to the 10. IP address as it was conflicting with an existing wireless network in the area and then everything began working correctly. But now works without issue

My photon is rooted and Im using WIFI tether. I rooted my Thrive as well, but it still won't recognize my WIFI tether. Is there something else that I need to do to get my Thrive to recognize my photon as a hotspots using WIFI tether?

sbotts said:
My photon is rooted and Im using WIFI tether. I rooted my Thrive as well, but it still won't recognize my WIFI tether. Is there something else that I need to do to get my Thrive to recognize my photon as a hotspots using WIFI tether?
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Along with root, you will need to load the AdHoc patch. You can find this on ThriveForums.org.

dalepl said:
Along with root, you will need to load the AdHoc patch. You can find this on ThriveForums.org.
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Thanks Dalepl for getting back to me. I looked through the threads and didn't see a link for the AdHoc Patch. Could you help point me in the right direction? Thanks a million!
S

If you go to ThriveForums.org, you can find what you are looking for. If not, PM me and I may be able to send you the wpa_suplicant file you will need to get this to work.

I would download on of Dalepl's ROM's. They will have the patch you need and they work great! I've been super happy with my TT since!

Got everything installed and it's working perfectly. Wifi Tether is working great. Thanks!!! Really appreciate you taking the time to set this up for all of us!

I using WP7.5 on HD2 for wifi Tether and it works fine instead of using Android. T-Mobile didn't charge for the Tether on WP7.

[Q] Can't connect to WiFi Tether

Hey all,
So I've been tethering wifi from my Evo 4G to my A500 for some time now, and only in the past few days has it decided to stop working. I've encountered the bug where it loops trying to obtain an IP address until it gives up (connection disabled). I've tried deleting the dhcpd-wlan0.lease under /data/misc/dhcp, paperclip resets, deleting all remembered connections, creating open and secured connections, and nothing seems to work.
I'm running Taboonay 2.2 on the A500 and Fresh Rom on the Evo. Strange thing is that when I'm home, it connects to my router with no problem, so it's just the tethering that's screwy. Anyone have any idea how to fix this?

In the past this is what I have seen people do (as well as me) with some success.
Attempt to connect to the network, when it fails, forget the network and reboot the tablet. When it reboots, try to add again. If it doesn't work again click to forget the network again and reboot. Sometimes this takes 3 or 4 times to start working again. Maybe this will help maybe not?

Try turning wifi off in settings (uncheck box), wait a sec and then turn it on again.

You have to root your Iconia tablet. Then replace ad-hoc file. This tablet will not tether to ad -hockey networks stock.look for instructions on this forum its all over on how to do this.
This has been answered many times since the day this tablet hit the market.
Back in April.
Google (XDA ad-hoc tether for acericonia a500)

erica_renee said:
You have to root your Iconia tablet. Then replace ad-hoc file. This tablet will not tether to ad -hockey networks stock.look for instructions on this forum its all over on how to do this.
This has been answered many times since the day this tablet hit the market.
Back in April.
Google (XDA ad-hoc tether for acericonia a500)
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He has been using it fine, with no issues until now. I use my stock A500 and my G2 to tether all the time.
I had the same problem with my A500 when I first got it, and a Toshiba Thrive when I got that as well. This was my home network though. Resetting the router solved the problem for me. I have had no issues since then.

I figured out what the problem was: the Wifi Tether app is just buggy as hell. For some reason, whenever I switched the tethering on, it also triggered the phone's wifi toggle on, which blocked the tether (I think). Flipz actually unlocked the official hotspot on the Evo 4G because of this, so I've been using that and it works just fine. Thanks for the help, though!

erica_renee said:
You have to root your Iconia tablet. Then replace ad-hoc file. This tablet will not tether to ad -hockey networks stock.look for instructions on this forum its all over on how to do this.
This has been answered many times since the day this tablet hit the market.
Back in April.
Google (XDA ad-hoc tether for acericonia a500)
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He mentioned using Taboonay, so must be rooted...

Selective Wi-fi

Hello everyone,
I checked the forums and I haven't seen anything like this, but I'm hope my situation isn't unique.
So I got the Nexus 4 and I love it. I have it linked to my wi-fi at home and the campus wi-fi. Every time I got to the college campus it links just fine. However, when I get to the home wi-fi, it sometimes takes a while for the phone to connect to the wi-fi, or say that the wi-fi is out of range.... even when standing next to the router.
I've tried rebooting the router, rebooting the phone. When it connects it's awesome. Sometimes I have to turn off the wi-fi on the N4 then back on again for it to connect.
Does anyone know what this may be? Anything would be great help.
P.S. - everything else works on my wi-fi just fine. A couple Rokus, a notebook, and etc.
Thank you

nexuscanvmx said:
Hello everyone,
I checked the forums and I haven't seen anything like this, but I'm hope my situation isn't unique.
So I got the Nexus 4 and I love it. I have it linked to my wi-fi at home and the campus wi-fi. Every time I got to the college campus it links just fine. However, when I get to the home wi-fi, it sometimes takes a while for the phone to connect to the wi-fi, or say that the wi-fi is out of range.... even when standing next to the router.
I've tried rebooting the router, rebooting the phone. When it connects it's awesome. Sometimes I have to turn off the wi-fi on the N4 then back on again for it to connect.
Does anyone know what this may be? Anything would be great help.
P.S. - everything else works on my wi-fi just fine. A couple Rokus, a notebook, and etc.
Thank you
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Nexus 4 has several flaky wifi issues. When I first got mine I could not get it to connect to my home router at all. Then it just started and has been working fine ever since. You may try changing your frequency settings on the router or using a different security protocol. In my case it seems once it got connected the situation was resolved. Good luck!

grubbster said:
Nexus 4 has several flaky wifi issues. When I first got mine I could not get it to connect to my home router at all. Then it just started and has been working fine ever since. You may try changing your frequency settings on the router or using a different security protocol. In my case it seems once it got connected the situation was resolved. Good luck!
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I tried changing the frequency, seeing that my neighbor was on the band as me. I'm not sure if that did the trick, but now my N4 seems to be picking up the signal a little more quickly.
Thank you for your suggestion.

nexuscanvmx said:
Hello everyone,
I checked the forums and I haven't seen anything like this, but I'm hope my situation isn't unique.
So I got the Nexus 4 and I love it. I have it linked to my wi-fi at home and the campus wi-fi. Every time I got to the college campus it links just fine. However, when I get to the home wi-fi, it sometimes takes a while for the phone to connect to the wi-fi, or say that the wi-fi is out of range.... even when standing next to the router.
I've tried rebooting the router, rebooting the phone. When it connects it's awesome. Sometimes I have to turn off the wi-fi on the N4 then back on again for it to connect.
Does anyone know what this may be? Anything would be great help.
P.S. - everything else works on my wi-fi just fine. A couple Rokus, a notebook, and etc.
Thank you
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Same issue here. Sometimes I'm connected to campus wifi, I drive all the way home and look at my phone, it's still trying to connect to campus wifi. I have to turn wifi off then back on for it to disconnect and auto connect to my home wifi.