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I've found several threads on the subject of Tethering a Xoom via BT and Wifi but I'm not having much luck and there's a lot of confusion about providers/Xoom versions/phones, etc. so rather than tag on to a thread I hope it's ok to start a new one.
I have the following:
Wifi Xoom (NOT the Verizon version, the one that just came out on March 27th here in the US)
HTC Hero GSM - completely unlocked (purchased in Europe). Running Android 2.1 standard update from HTC. I'm using the AT&T data plan but device is not an AT&T device at all.
I would like to see if I can Tether the Xoom to the phone and use the data connection I have on it. I understand that the Xoom's chipset doesn't allow for Ad-hoc networks. I've tried to do a Wifi Tether and although that works from my Laptop to my Phone the Xoom doesn't see the ad-hoc network. I don't believe there is any way for me to make the Wifi Tether work in Infrastructure mode so I don't think there is an option there (unless the Xoom can be modified somehow to see Ad-hoc).
So now I'm trying to use Bluetooth Tethering. I've tried both PdaNet and Wifi Tether (v2.0.7 and phone rooted via SuperOneClick). Both seem to start up fine and are running. I then pair the two devices but as many others have reported, I don't see any Tethering options on the Xoom so I'm stuck.
I've tried different orders of things... run Wifi Tether, pair, vs. pair then Wifi Tether, work with Airplane mode on vs. off, Wifi on vs. off, etc. but I never see that Tether option show up.
Anyone have this working with an HTC Hero GSM by any chance? Note that this is the Wifi-Only Xoom which seems to have different features than the Verizon 3G Xoom. Could it be that the Hero itself doesn't support this profile? Or can the Xoom be modified to force it to think the device is tetherable.
I'm not sure if rooting the Xoom would help any or maybe flashing a custom ROM like CM7 on the Hero would help any. I'd prefer not to have to do this but if someone has this working with my exact configuration I'd give it a try.
Any help would be appreciated.
From what i know, most tethering tech /apps are establishing a ad-hoc network' which the xoom isnt capable of...
I too have the Xoom wifi only version with a HTC rooted CDMA Hero.
As everyone knows now the Ad hoc will not tether with the Xoom infrastructure as of the latest.
I too get full bluetooth tethering signal from Wireless Tether, but like you the Xoom will "pair but not connect". As you, I am confused as to whether it is the Hero or the Xoom Wifi which will not connect to the bluetooth tether.
I suspect it is the Xoom Wifi, but would also like a definitive answer and better yet a viable solution.
I have no issue tethering my Xoom (Wifi model) with my Verizon Motorola Droid (1 Gen) over Bluetooth.
My Droid is full rooted with custom Gingerbread ROM (2.3.3) and Overclocked Kernel from ChevyNo1. His kernels are everything enable such as tethering and VPN. This might be the difference for some.
The one annoying thing is that everytime I enable the hotspot on my Droid, I have to go into the Xoom settings and enable tethering on the connection to my Droid. This also has to be done if either device goes not a range and brought back. I am trying to find a widget or a Tasker script to auto enable this.
Be sure to already start the wifi tether program on your phone (selecting the blutooth option on it) then bring up the blutooth settings menu on your xoom, just press and hold the little wrench you see to the right of your phone icon. it should bring up the tether option...just press that and you should see it conect via blutooth.
Just be sure to have the wifi tether app on your phone already on and set for blutooth. This works for me everytime (running the atrix) and shoujkd also work for your phone too.
Still no luck on my side with the Tethering on while I do the pairing and/or when I touch the wrench icon.
I'd like to understand more about how the Bluetooth profile is detected. Does my phone have to publish out a certain profile? Or does the Xoom have a list of device types that it knows are tetherable? I've read on another forum that it seemed like Motorola devices like the Droid worked whereas HTCs didn't seem to. I'm wondering if the Xoom detects the type of phone it's connecting to and decides whether it's tetherable or not... Anyone know? If this is the case maybe there's some file that can be tweaked on the Xoom to include additional devices or change the phone to broadcast out a different device name, etc. Maybe I should try changing my device name to 'Droid' or something.
Just guessing at this point....
I had the same issue with my droid, bluetooth tether is a pretty good alternative. I made a video of it, works with most phones with that create the Ad-Hoc. Check out video below to see the easy steps involved. Root on phone required.
Thanks for posting the video. This is exactly what I tried but does not work with my HTC Hero and my Wifi Xoom. I'm going to see if I rename my Bluetooth device name to 'Droid' to see if that makes any difference. I doubt it....
rosso said:
Thanks for posting the video. This is exactly what I tried but does not work with my HTC Hero and my Wifi Xoom. I'm going to see if I rename my Bluetooth device name to 'Droid' to see if that makes any difference. I doubt it....
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I ran into a little bug, and it wouldn't recognize my droid. I had to unpair and turn on the bluetooth tether app. Then pair. The xoom then recognized the bluetooth tether. Hopefully this works, I apologize if it doesn't.
My wifi Xoom works perfectly paired with a CM7 Nexus One.
App: wireless tether
pd: key is the wrench
I tried renaming the bluetooth device name to 'Droid' but that didn't make a difference. I'm sure I'm following the same steps as in the video. Somehow the Xoom doesn't see the Hero as a Tetherable device...
Maybe there are some differences in Bluetooth chipsets?
Wifi tethering works with the Desire Z or the G2
I assume the network it creates is not an ad-hoc otherwise the xoom wouldn't have recognized it?
It's either not ad-hoc or you're using Bluetooth. You'd have to explicitly choose Bluetooth tethering in the Wireless Tether app so I assume you're using Wifi.
From what I understand some phones (the ones that are meant to be used as wifi hotspots) do broadcast in infrastructure mode rather than ad-hoc so I assume that's why it works for you.
Also of note is that Honeycomb only supports PAN tethering, and not DUN tethering.
Your phone also has to have "bluetooth tethering" turned on (however you do it, I don't have an android phone) so that the Xoom can discover the PAN bluetooth service.
Interesting. Something to read up more on. I'm using Wireless Tether to do the Bluetooth tethering but maybe I need something additional switched on. At least it's another direction to look at....
Seems like someone figured out how to get the Xoom to listen to Ad-hoc networks but that needs the Xoom rooted so I'll also research that. I prefer Bluetooth tethering since it uses less juice on the phone....
It does seem that "Wireless Tether" which is what I'm using on my HTC Hero, is running in PAN mode. If I look at the app's directory it has a pand executable, etc. and when I'm running the tether it is running pand in the process list.
Still, if I pair, even while it's running pand the Xoom still doesn't recognize it as tetherable. Grrr.... Wish I had another bluetooth client I could try to connect to see if it's the phone or the Xoom but I don't have anything else.
I'm wondering if it's because I have the Android 2.1 update for my Hero. Wireless Tether seems to support the 1.5 version of the Hero but doesn't mention 2.1. Maybe there is an incompatibility there...
Anyway, will continue to try to figure it out.
Rosso, your not on your own, I am still trying to figure this out on my hero running froydvillian. I have done the wifi ad hoc mod and thats working for me but BT tethering woudl be better, I will let you know If i ever find a solution.
I did see someone else loaded CM7 for the hero and then BT tether worked, but CM7 seems to have been pulled for the hero at the moment due to stability issues.
I have a droid eris (verizon's cdma hero) and I have the same exact problems but I'm on cm7and using wireless tether. I can get the to devices and connect via tethering but 5 seconds after that my phone reboots.
Just picked up a wifi-Xoom for my wife over the weekend. Tried to get it connected to my phone (HD2) as a wifi hotspot and was having problems (the ad-hoc problem). The xoom wouldn't even see the hotspot. I am running AmeriCanDroid 0413 build and it has wifi tether v. 3.0-pre11. So I switched back to winmo and still nothing, then I tried going to Darkstone SuperRam 1.5 (my fallback build). It has an older version of wifi tether, I think 2.06 or something like that and got the xoom to connect. I haven't had a lot of time to fool around with it, but it was able to get a network connection. Maybe you could try an older version of the wifi tether? I haven't experimented with the BT tethering yet. I don't want to root the xoom yet, maybe when my wife is tired of it.
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Just checked the wifi-tether website and there is a new version of wifi tether and it supports softap which may help the xoom recognize the wifi hotspot.
Hi, I have just managed to get my hero bluetooth tethered to my htc hero.
The process I followed was basically what everyone has said:-
download wireless tether i am using 2.0.7
1. start bluetooth on phone and xoom (make discoverable)
2. Do not pair the devices yet
3. start up wireless tether, select bluetooth and tap to start the actual service
4. go back to bluetooth on your xoom and pair the devices
I then got an icon I had not had before and when I tapped the wrench I got the option to tether.
As for wifi tether your phone needs to put out infrastructure wifi for the xoom to see it, if its ad-hoc, you'll need to do the wifi mod so that he xoom sees adhoc
although as stated the new version of 'wifi tether' (which just seems to be the new name for the 'wireless tether' app) may fix that? but doesn't seem to support bluetooth as the 2.07 version does
Is there Any way to tether TF with Android Phone after Carriers' Crackdown on Tethering?
I have all the apps i could possibly need installed on my phone, yet even after paired with my transformer via BT, and the transformer showing it being connected to the internet. I get 0 data going from my phone to transformer.
I've tried PDAnet 3.0, Barnacle and WIFI Tether. No dice.
And you can rule out not knowing how to do it, I've been tethering for the past year only started being an issue after the crackdown.
3G Hotspot Hack
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using Tapatalk
Not sure what you mean by 3g Hack... but i found something that works. Freezing data manager service with Titanium made everything work again. How exciting! Though, i think data transfer is super slow...
Have I missed something? Crackdown on tethering?
Edit : looks like its US only at the mo.
Can a carrier tell if data is from the phone or via tethering????
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Is there Any way to tether TF with Android Phone after Carriers' Crackdown on Tethering?
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One word: Sprint
Sent from my Asus Decepticon using Tapatalk
I tether just fine on my mytouch 4g running cyanogen mod 7. I dont think carriers notice if you tether another android device because on their end it just looks like an android device accessing it, not a laptop or such. I think they check user agent strings. I've honestly never had a problem tethering on TMO and never got any text or anything about it being blocked. I do keep an eye on my data usage just to make sure I dont raise any red flags in their system. I havent tried tethering my laptop since the crackdown but I did install a plug in for firefox that allows you to change the user agent string so the servers think it's an android device accessing the network
Hey Guys, been following this thread since I ordered from Best Buy, finally decided to join and post. I have mine coming on the 12th hopefully.
I read about the crackdown on tethering but from what I understand they are just making the tethering apps not show up in the market, they are not necessarily doing anything to prevent tethering.
I am currently using wireless tethering on my droid 2 with the Ipad 1 and have been for quite some time without a problem. Hope that helps and love this forum, thanks guys...
Tethering with my iPhone via bluetooth. So far, no warrant of arrest yet from AT&T.
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Is there Any way to tether TF with Android Phone after Carriers' Crackdown on Tethering?
I have all the apps i could possibly need installed on my phone, yet even after paired with my transformer via BT, and the transformer showing it being connected to the internet. I get 0 data going from my phone to transformer.
I've tried PDAnet 3.0, Barnacle and WIFI Tether. No dice.
And you can rule out not knowing how to do it, I've been tethering for the past year only started being an issue after the crackdown.
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One thing to note is that Honeycomb doesn't recognize Ad-Hoc networks. You may be having problems if you're trying to set up your phone as a wi-fi hotspot. Trying using the bluetooth tethering options.
Hi, i've just found out how to connect my phone (xperia x10) to my just arrived transformer.
I've been looking all through the forum to find out how to share my phone's connection but i didn't find any solution so, i hope, my reply will help at least you not to waste time any further
Simply install "PdaNet Tablet" both on your tablet and your phone (yes, PdaNet TABLET also on your phone).
This is how it worked for me:
1) Start "pdanet tablet" on your transformer and set the proxy hostname and port as stated in the program (127.0.0.1 and 1234)
2) Start "pdanet for tablet" on your phone and click "enable pda server"
3) Wait a few seconds
4) Allow your phone to open bluetooth and be visible
5) On your tablet, on the "pdanet tablet" screen click "tap to discover new phones"
6) On your tablet click on your phone's name
7) DONE!
I hope this helped
Crazy idea, wait for it....pay.
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Hi, i've just found out how to connect my phone (xperia x10) to my just arrived transformer.
I've been looking all through the forum to find out how to share my phone's connection but i didn't find any solution so, i hope, my reply will help at least you not to waste time any further
Simply install "PdaNet Tablet" both on your tablet and your phone (yes, PdaNet TABLET also on your phone).
This is how it worked for me:
1) Start "pdanet tablet" on your transformer and set the proxy hostname and port as stated in the program (127.0.0.1 and 1234)
2) Start "pdanet for tablet" on your phone and click "enable pda server"
3) Wait a few seconds
4) Allow your phone to open bluetooth and be visible
5) On your tablet, on the "pdanet tablet" screen click "tap to discover new phones"
6) On your tablet click on your phone's name
7) DONE!
I hope this helped
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Then the connection will drop after browsing 2-3 web pages.
At least that's my experience with the PDANet Tablet.
Email client and GMail client do not seem to work either.
I hope they will fix it and make it stable, its a good solution for people with stock ROM (both phone and tablet).
What I'd like to accomplish is to access the Internet through my cell phone's data service using Bluetooth, not WiFi.
I've tested, and it is possible on other Honeycomb tablets (ie., Eee Pad, Galaxy Tab, both with HC 3.2. On those, I can go through the bluetooth settings screen while connected to my cell phone, and the tethering profile is available, but it is not on my Acer A500.
It seems as though at least one custom ROM solves this: The PRIMEE ROM with David's Mod lists 'enhanced network driver (tethering enabled for Bluetooth / wifi / usb)' among it's features, seen here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1201802
I am willing to root and maybe install a different kernel, but would like to keep the software as close to stock as I can. Is it possible to get this feature on the A500 without flashing a whole new ROM?
Much thanks to any pointers or solutions.
This is the only ROM that has it for iconia and everything works perfect for me.
http://www.tegraowners.com/
I am running latest version of
Thor Transformer Revolver 3.6 port v7
Thank you very much, though I am looking to avoid flashing a new ROM altogether.
Any further information is greatly appreciated.
I looked for the same thing for over a month and it looks like the profile cant be exported or imported.
That is really your only option.
good luck
Thanks again, you may have saved me a bunch of mucking around (though I did spend much time Googling...) Have you by chance tried any other ROMs recently?
I have tried all the ROM's out there for A500 for the same reason as you.
I wanted to Bluetooth tether to my iPhone.
Only the transformer has the option and Xoom, but Xoom with their latest release broke the function, so any ROM coming from xoom will have the option but not connect.
again the Thor ROM is awesome ROM and works great.
and he is always providing updates and keeping in touch with the users on his site.
good luck
Hm. Im trying Thor's ROM now, and it kinda sucks that my camera no longer works, the backlight isn't automatic anymore, sound doesnt seem tobe as crisp, and the battery seems to be discharging way more quickly. I'll probably end up going back to my original rooted/stock. Oh well, thanks anyway.
That is not true
everything works perfect, including the camera and sound, did you grab the latest version? only back lite sensor does not work, which is same for other roms as well.
beside that everything else works perfect.
make sure you are grabbing the right one, Thor transformer revolver 3.6 V8 and also update you kernel to A500/501 Kernel 3.7 Android 3.2 + the-rest: for roms with custom kernel buildin
ok,
I have a blackberry torch 9800 phone, with unlimited data
I have an acer a500 tablet I would like to tether to my phone
according to what I have read here, I should be able to do this with Thor's revolver.
so I went to tegraowners as suggested
rolled back my 3.2 OTA to 3.0.1
factory reset
rooted tablet
installed acer recovery installer
installed thor recovery
put thor recover latest version on microsd card
updated thor recovery
during this process I mentioned to thor I wanted bluetooth DUN, and he replied if revolver v7 worked for it, then thors a500 rom v12 should as well
so I downloaded and installed v12, and now when paired with phone, there are no DUN options showing at all, I just get paired but not connected, same as stock image.....
what am I doing wrong here?
I had the same problem when upgraded, just do a clean install of V12 and it works perfect, I did that yesterday.
reboot to recovery, format everything and install V12.
SO WHEN YOU PAIR YOUR ANDROID TABLET TO THE PHONE, WHAT DO YOU SEE THAT ALLOWS YOU TO INITIATE BLUETOOTH DUN?
All I have seen so far is device paired but not connected, and the wrench icon doesn't have anything in it other than change name of the connection, and option to unpair.
nothing else shows.
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SO WHEN YOU PAIR YOUR ANDROID TABLET TO THE PHONE, WHAT DO YOU SEE THAT ALLOWS YOU TO INITIATE BLUETOOTH DUN?
All I have seen so far is device paired but not connected, and the wrench icon doesn't have anything in it other than change name of the connection, and option to unpair.
nothing else shows.
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You should be able to pair the tablet w/ your phone, via BT, not sure if you need the bluetooth tethering on the tablet enabled or not, and you should be connected. Just did this on my tablet today w/ my droid x. Currently streaming breaking bad via netflix on the tablet
with my blackberry torch 9800 you have to use bluetooth Dial Up Networking or DUN to initiate the connection. I do it from my windows 7 laptop and it works fine, but no dice on the acer a500 , and running the rom that is supposed to have bluetooth DUN profile built in..... very frustrated at this point.
I am considering just waiting until I am eligible for a new phone in February, and see if I can get a newer phone that supports wifi tethering....
You can create a pan network (at least using an android phone). Let's say your phone is the master/server: turn on bluetooth and make it discoverable. Then run "pand -c <macaddress-of-phone>" on your tablet. You will see an icon for bluetooth tethering in the status bar on the phone. Find the bnep0 ipaddress on the phone by running "netcfg". This will also have created a network interface called bnep0 on the tablet and you can run "ifconfig bnep0 <bnep0 ip of the phone + 1> netmask 255.255.255.0 up" to create the interface. Finally run "route add default gw <bnep0 ip address of the phone> dev bnep0" and "setprop net.dns1 8.8.8.8" and you're done. As for dun, get an rfcomm binary from a cm7 zip , grab profile/chatscript of your operator of the internet, create your interface, and you should be able to dial up using any smartphone. (pand & pppd are installed on the taboonay rom)
Has there been any progress on this? Is there any bluetooth DUN support in the new ICS roms? I'd really like to tether to my phone (works perfect with laptop).
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You can create a pan network (at least using an android phone). Let's say your phone is the master/server: turn on bluetooth and make it discoverable. Then run "pand -c <macaddress-of-phone>" on your tablet. You will see an icon for bluetooth tethering in the status bar on the phone. Find the bnep0 ipaddress on the phone by running "netcfg". This will also have created a network interface called bnep0 on the tablet and you can run "ifconfig bnep0 <bnep0 ip of the phone + 1> netmask 255.255.255.0 up" to create the interface. Finally run "route add default gw <bnep0 ip address of the phone> dev bnep0" and "setprop net.dns1 8.8.8.8" and you're done. As for dun, get an rfcomm binary from a cm7 zip , grab profile/chatscript of your operator of the internet, create your interface, and you should be able to dial up using any smartphone. (pand & pppd are installed on the taboonay rom)
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i tried this with Custom ROM ICS 4.0.4
Bluetooth is able to pair with my Phone (Iphone 4s) and connect as a personal Hotspot
but when i type the command ifconfig bnep0 .........
i alway get the Message "Cannot assign the requested IP Adress"
the same as i got with "dhcpcd bnep0"
any Ideas ?
Thanks
Big11
What do you mean you can connect as a personal hotspot? And what about the other instructions before ifconfig bnep0?
As the title says, if I try to enable USB or Wifi tethering on Quarx's 7.1-11 it won't work and at some point the phone reboots (to cyanogen mod logo, not the wasp screen).
I tried on Ubuntu who sees a connection but loops trying to connect without success, and Win 7 x64 who sees and install the adapter but can't connect through it. In both cases after a few minutes the phone reboots.
Wifi tether won't start and reboots the phone too.
Googled around to find an answer but didn't find anything helpfull.
It works with some wifi tether with an app from the market, but I would really have liked to get USB or at least default Wifi tether working rather than relying on an app, and I'm reading that it seems to work for most people so I wonder if my carier (Orange France) didn't sell me a phone where they disabled tethering at hardware level, would it be possible?
My phone has a green lense in case it could help find an answer.
As some of you may know yesterday i went through he!! getting my Razr M rooted. I did it. The reason for the root was the built in tether on the Droid Razr M doesn't work with my Droid tablets both running ICS. So I figured if I root and then get a tether from Google Play then it might work. Problem now is I've downloaded all of them seems like (accept FoxFi it sucks now because it makes you install a screen lock password that can never be removed.) I set these things up start the tether and no device can see them. My laptop, tablet destop all nothing. As if it weren't there. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong if anything. I've used wifi tether on my rooted Droid X and it worked great. Now not so much. There seems to be extra settings like select lan network. The choices are ip addresses. 192.168.1.0/24, 192.168.2.0/24, 192.168.3.0/24, 172.20.21.0/24, 172.20.22.0/24, 172.20.23.0/24, 10.10.1.0/24, 10.10.2.0/24, 10.10.3.0/24 what do they mean? Is this my roadblock? Frustrating as hell. Using 3rd party tethers for rooted devices has always been simple and effective. I used them on my Droid X because the built in version would drop out after 5-15 minutes and I'd have to turn it off and on to get it back. Now I just want to use my tablets. A USB tether would be fine with me if I could find one that worked on my tablet. I used to use PdaNet but it's bundled with FoxFi now. Suggestions?
Broke down installed Pdanet and Foxfi. Installed pdanet for tablets on tablet side. Made a connection to the phone via foxfi. The hope was foxfi would talk to the tablet where the stock tether wouldn't. No dice. Apparently the problem resides in the way to phone negotiates internet traffic. There's a connection there but no communicating is going on. I've spent too much time on this already. I can get us online through the phones via connectifyme installed on my wifes laptop. It seems a router between the phone and the tablet fixes the issue. Problem is there's no way to connect a router to a phone. While not perfect, it's better than nothing. It's just my wife likes being online during trips and that isn't possible now.