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?
jonnythan said:
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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tech7 said:
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'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.
Hey Folks,
Ever since the NS4G received the OTA causing tethering to not work unless you paid i've been interested in finding the easiest tethering solution (rooted) possible.
I came across android-wired-tether but assumed it wouldn't work because it hasn't been updated in two years.
Well I finally got around to trying it, and I think it's my favorite now. It starts tethering similar to how USB tethering in the android menus using RNDIS and tweaking some settings in the kernel via twiddling stuff in /proc.
So it works with 3G and 4G both. I prefer it to wireless tether since you actually get to keep the phone "charging" while you're tethering rather than burning through battery like mad running a 3G or 4G radio as well as the wireless radio.
http://code.google.com/p/android-wired-tether/
There's nothing wrong with wirelessly tethering AND charging your Nexus via a USB cable at the same time. Besides I prefer to just run a ROM with native tethering built in.
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There is also a flashable zip to hack sprint hotspot also that works well.
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cajones42 said:
There is also a flashable zip to hack sprint hotspot also that works well.
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the ics sdk port works great for a wifi hotspot, as well as native usb tethering
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There is also a flashable zip to hack sprint hotspot also that works well.
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Well two comments on that hack:
1) The thing i'm not keen on for that hack is that you don't really know what other improvements you're missing from the proprietary RIL by flashing the old one.
2) You can't tether with 4G when using the hack.
LordLugard said:
There's nothing wrong with wirelessly tethering AND charging your Nexus via a USB cable at the same time. Besides I prefer to just run a ROM with native tethering built in.
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The device gets noticeably warmer and the battery drains quicker than it can charge via the USB.
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The device gets noticeably warmer and the battery drains quicker than it can charge via the USB.
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Err, no, mine doesn't. When I need to tether, it's because my myriad of wifi devices need internet, not just my laptop.
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Created a hotspot on my rooted nexus 4. My computer can connect but can't get internet access.I have at&t. Do I need special settings?
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Soundchasr said:
Created a hotspot on my rooted nexus 4. My computer can connect but can't get internet access.I have at&t. Do I need special settings?
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It could be a feature not enabled in your plan. I would check there first
It's not part of my plan. I'm trying to do it "on the sly".
I was hoping I could get Wi-Fi tether to make the Nexus 4 appear as an access point, and not ad-hoc, but I haven't been able to get it to do that. Anyone else had luck?
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Can anyone help?? I've looked everywhere. I can connect to the hotspot, just not to the internet. Same thing happens with the hotspot on my Galaxy Tab. Both are with ATT.
Soundchasr said:
Can anyone help?? I've looked everywhere. I can connect to the hotspot, just not to the internet. Same thing happens with the hotspot on my Galaxy Tab. Both are with ATT.
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AT&T actively blocks teather if you don't pay for it. Not sure of a work around as they are blocking it from there end not the phones end. That said some of the thethering apps claim to be able to defeat this, the one Koush made, clockworkmod tether, comes to mind but it only has a 14 day free trial, $4.99 after that. It also requires a desktop client to be installed. Also is this plain AT&T or Straight Talk AT&T? Straight Talk limits you to 100 MB of data per day with a 2 GB cap. If you go over either they throttle you to 2G speeds for the rest of the month.
Regular ATT, not straight talk. Looks like the clockworkmod tether is usb only.....
Try WiFi tether for android.
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kzoodroid said:
Try WiFi tether for android.
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Tried it.
possibly APN settings?
Hi
I been tethering with my nex 4 since i got it. And i got it since release day, so a few months. The point is today when i go in a website i get redirected to a tmobile website that i need to subscribe to a tethering plan??
I been tethering since i had a vibrant lol and its the first time i get this. I can tether my nex 10 tho. Not my pc :/ any thoughts on this?
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orphan22 said:
Hi
I been tethering with my nex 4 since i got it. And i got it since release day, so a few months. The point is today when i go in a website i get redirected to a tmobile website that i need to subscribe to a tethering plan??
I been tethering since i had a vibrant lol and its the first time i get this. I can tether my nex 10 tho. Not my pc :/ any thoughts on this?
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I can't get tethering to work on my Nexus 4 at all, not with USB, Bluetooth, or WiFi hotspot. When using the WiFi hotspot option my computer--Windows 7--hard crashes after logging into the Nexus 4. Very strange.
I am on T-Mobile as well but I get nothing, just a crash. USB and Bluetooth tethering do nothing at all.
Noctophrenia said:
I can't get tethering to work on my Nexus 4 at all, not with USB, Bluetooth, or WiFi hotspot. When using the WiFi hotspot option my computer--Windows 7--hard crashes after logging into the Nexus 4. Very strange.
I am on T-Mobile as well but I get nothing, just a crash. USB and Bluetooth tethering do nothing at all.
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call your service provider and ask them to activate tethering. my provider (orange UK) doesn't charge for this so it was no problem but yours may be different.
i used to tether with my old phone on the same account without issues. i think that something about the N4 alerts them to tethering so that they can block it.
Noctophrenia said:
I can't get tethering to work on my Nexus 4 at all, not with USB, Bluetooth, or WiFi hotspot. When using the WiFi hotspot option my computer--Windows 7--hard crashes after logging into the Nexus 4. Very strange.
I am on T-Mobile as well but I get nothing, just a crash. USB and Bluetooth tethering do nothing at all.
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I had the same problem but I figured it out. Here is a link to my post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=37052455
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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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mann75 said:
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.