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.
wmunn said:
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?
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Some time ago I rooted my Eris and flashed KaosFroyo v37. Very pleased with this rom and liked the ability of having root privileges. I naturally installed Wireless Tether for root users and was able to share my 3g with my laptop, although this does not help me with my desktop as I don't have wireless on my desktop. I do however have bluetooth on my desktop. I was pleased to see that I could also bluetooth tether to my desktop using the same program. I paired the two together and enable the bluetooth option of Wireless Tether, got my desktop to connect to it and was all set to go. Opened my web browser, tried to go to google, no luck. Checked the phone and it was rebooting. What??? So I tried it again, same result. Tried it a few more time and kept an eye on my phone to find out at what point it was rebooting. I could have my computer connected to it through the bluetooth tether until I tried to surf the web from my desktop.
At first I thought that maybe the wireless program was just not completely compatible with the Eris. I tried different roms (KaosFroye v38, v39, Tenzo 2.2.1, Nonsensikal v13.2, 15.2,16.1) all with the same results. Just yesterday I was messing around with this little problem again. Did some digging around the internet and found alot of information about bluetooth networking with android and Linux. Was able to run pand command from android shell and found that it has Bluetooth PAN daemon version 4.47. I believe that all the correct bleutooth tools are installed, so than I ran "pand -l -r NAP" and was able to get my phone to be a bluetooth network access point. Connected my computer to it, tried to access it throught the bluetooth network, and guess what, the phone rebooted. Now I do not think that it has anything to do with Wireless Tether for root.
I did some more digging on the internet and found that the bluetooth network interface is supposed to be bnep0. I can not find and interface on my phone for bnep0. Ok. More digging, bnep0 interface is part of the kernel built from the module bnep.ko. I can no find that module on my phone. Do I not need that module? Is that module not built at compile time of the rom? Does the Eris hardware not evan capable of Bluetooth PAN?
Could some one shed some light on this subject. Would really like to tether my desktop to me phone as that is the only way I can get internet at home. Thanks
P.S. My desktop and laptop are both dual boot into Windows Vista or Ubuntu 10.10 and they both use identical bluetooth usb cards.
I don't have an answer for you, but just wanted to add that I'm curious if anyone is knowlegeable about this, too.
You can use wired tethering. If you need help doing so, I've done it a lot as it's my and my girlfriend's only internet and has been for the past five months, too. I use wired because the wireless seems to use battery power faster than it can be charged on the phone, plus it gets even hotter for me. As it is, even with wired tethering, I take the back off and let it sit in front of a fan face-down to keep it cooler.
You're mileage may vary, of course. In my experience both wired and wireless is fairly unreliable and easy to overburden so much that the phone loses it's internet until I do an APN Restore and reboot the phone. Sometimes a reboot of my PC is necessary, too. I don't know if you've had this experience with the standard wireless tethering. I also download a LOT, so this could be a factor.
Thank you for the reply. Yes i can use wired tether to do internet as well, and yes the phone does heat up. It has never gotten so hot that I had to do a restore on it yet though. If that happens I think I would have a stroke and probably keep the phone in the freezer while tethering.
I have been trying to find some type of answer to this problem. I have been searching around and trying to figure out how to compile this module but since I am not versed enough in the whole compile process I am kind of lost. I have downloaded and installed EasyDev v6 on my laptop running Ubuntu 10.10, nut that won't even compile the complete rom. I believe it downloaded all the source code it needs(took about 8 hours), when it was finished it told me where to find my new rom, but when I go there it's only a little over 4 megs in size. I will keep plugging away and if I come across some kind of info I will pose it here.
Well I think I figured out how to compile the bnep.ko module. Using my laptop, I found my kernel source and typed
'export CCOMPILER="$PATH_TO_SOURCES"/prebuilt/linux-x86/toolchain/arm-eabi-4.4.0/bin/arm-eabi-' and then
'make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=$CCOMPILER menuconfig'
I was able to select the options for compiling a new kernel. Under networking → bluetooth → bnep
I noticed that it was already enabled. Must be included in the defualt build of the kernel. I told it to build a new bnep module. Saved my config file, and then ran the make -
'make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=$CCOMPILER modules'
To my surprise it actually build me a bnep.ko module. I copied module to phone into /system/lib/modules/ and tried to install the module.
'insmod /system/lib/modules/bnep.ko' and it told me “insmod: init_module '/system/lib/modules/bnep.ko' failed (Exec format error)”
Great now what. Well I tried the whole bluetooth tether again and guess what, now the bluetooth won't even turn on. I removed the bnep.ko file and was able to enable bluetooth again. Well I guess I am no further along now then when I started, except I have a little more understanding of how to build a kernel.
I have installed PDANet on my Eris and the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack on my Laptop. I am able to use Bluetooth DUN without a problem. The wireless tether for root app would always crash my phone. I am going to try a android tablet in a few minutes. I am running TazzFroyo.
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
So I have searched high and low and haven't had any luck finding any information about tethering the TF to a WM6.5 device. I am currently using a stock Touch Pro 2. When I pair the two devices together, under the BT settings on the TF there are no profiles listed. When I try to set up a network with the phone using "Share Internet Connection," I get the error message saying "Failed to establish internet sharing connection to remote device as it supports only Network Access Point (NAP) mode."
If anybody could shed some light on how I could actually get the the TF to tether with my phone, that would be greatly appreciated!
I have a Tilt2 running energy rom, normally i'd run wifi-router then all is well.
Apparently the Transformer doesn't accept AD-HOC and idk when it will be supported. The only way i can tether through wifi was to install FRX06 android.
Here's a link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=951962
Once you get to run android on your TP2 go to Settings -> Wireless and Networks -> Tethering & portable hotspot -> check the portable wi-fi hotspot box. You may add a passcode if you want but it will be defaulted to Open.
I've tried it and it works! Good luck!
dogmaxi said:
I have a Tilt2 running energy rom, normally i'd run wifi-router then all is well.
Apparently the Transformer doesn't accept AD-HOC and idk when it will be supported. The only way i can tether through wifi was to install FRX06 android.
Here's a link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=951962
Once you get to run android on your TP2 go to Settings -> Wireless and Networks -> Tethering & portable hotspot -> check the portable wi-fi hotspot box. You may add a passcode if you want but it will be defaulted to Open.
I've tried it and it works! Good luck!
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+1 This is the only way you can get it to work on the phone side that I can find. Works flawlessly.
Transformer wont see 6.5 tether unless you root it.
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Works fine for me, but slightly counter-intuitive. Firstly I paired the Phone and Transformer:
1. Set Phone to discoverable
2. Scan for devices on TF
Secondly, run Internet Sharing App (its in the tools folder on my WM6.5)
Select Bluetooth PAN instead of USB from the top dropdown and hit Connect
Now on the TF, selecting the Phone from the bluetooth settings should tether you
No rooting or modding of the TF required. Note this is Bluetooth tethering, not WiFi which doesn't work as WM6.5 WiFi tethering is Ad-Hoc, whci TF does not support without root and mod
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Works fine for me, but slightly counter-intuitive. Firstly I paired the Phone and Transformer:
1. Set Phone to discoverable
2. Scan for devices on TF
Secondly, run Internet Sharing App (its in the tools folder on my WM6.5)
Select Bluetooth PAN instead of USB from the top dropdown and hit Connect
Now on the TF, selecting the Phone from the bluetooth settings should tether you
No rooting or modding of the TF required. Note this is Bluetooth tethering, not WiFi which doesn't work as WM6.5 WiFi tethering is Ad-Hoc, whci TF does not support without root and mod
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Hi!
What version of Energy Rom are you using? for some reason i can only see USB on the dropdown, no Bluetooth. This is the internet sharing program.
eeit232 said:
Works fine for me, but slightly counter-intuitive. Firstly I paired the Phone and Transformer:
1. Set Phone to discoverable
2. Scan for devices on TF
Secondly, run Internet Sharing App (its in the tools folder on my WM6.5)
Select Bluetooth PAN instead of USB from the top dropdown and hit Connect
Now on the TF, selecting the Phone from the bluetooth settings should tether you
No rooting or modding of the TF required. Note this is Bluetooth tethering, not WiFi which doesn't work as WM6.5 WiFi tethering is Ad-Hoc, whci TF does not support without root and mod
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I tried this method, but for some reason it still doesn't work. On the phone it says the following.
"Failed to establish Internet Sharing connection to remote device as it supports only Network Access Point (NAP) mode"
Also on the TF it still shows no profiles available with the phone. From what I have read in the forum is that the Touch Pro 2 is using the Broadcom Bluetooth stack and it doesn't' play very nice with other devices.
eeit232 said:
Works fine for me, but slightly counter-intuitive. Firstly I paired the Phone and Transformer:
1. Set Phone to discoverable
2. Scan for devices on TF
Secondly, run Internet Sharing App (its in the tools folder on my WM6.5)
Select Bluetooth PAN instead of USB from the top dropdown and hit Connect
Now on the TF, selecting the Phone from the bluetooth settings should tether you
No rooting or modding of the TF required. Note this is Bluetooth tethering, not WiFi which doesn't work as WM6.5 WiFi tethering is Ad-Hoc, whci TF does not support without root and mod
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Which phone do you have? I have the same exact problem asthe OP using my Sprint TP2. I dont see Bluetooth PAN option in my TP2.
I was informed that if even our 6.5 devices would have that option to have bluetooth PAN active, our Transformers doesn't support DUN. Basically, it would be pointless to get internet through this bluetooth method Only thing that will happen is that we can share files with our WM 6.5 devices with our Transformer.
I have Omnia 2 running WM 6.5 using wmwifirouter (use trial version first). Launch using 3G BT, then under options - tools - Bluetooth - Swithch mode to PAN, then switch to discoverable.
Connects great - not the fastest, but I'll wait until we can have ad-hoc work or until I learn more about rooting.
i was able to to do blue tooth tether of Treo Pro 6.5 (raiderfan rom) Ill try it again once i get home and post details (in case it helps anyone)
mt TP2 screen broke and currently on my palm centro...(yes,,go ahead and laugh..haha)
might connect my tp2 just to try the tether. that phone is on a ENergy ROm
dogmaxi said:
Hi!
What version of Energy Rom are you using? for some reason i can only see USB on the dropdown, no Bluetooth. This is the internet sharing program.
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this is exactly what i did on the treo pro
dogmaxi said:
Hi!
What version of Energy Rom are you using? for some reason i can only see USB on the dropdown, no Bluetooth. This is the internet sharing program.
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Not using Energy ROM, running stock HTC WM6.5 on a Touch Diamond 2. If you don't get Bluetooth PAN in your drop-down I guess your ROM does not support it
Aye, Not only the Rom, but the device itself on wmwifirouter
http://support.wmwifirouter.com/devices/
HTC Touch Pro 2
AT&T Tilt 2
HTC Rhodium
Sprint Touch Pro 2
Support from version 1.50. Sharing using Bluetooth not currently supported.
Guess i have to research more for alternatives.
Fellow TP2 owner here, I just pushed the modded file over to the TF (need root of course) and WIFI tethering works like a champ for me. Need to keep the phone screen active from what I can tell but I'm just using the built in HTC WIFI Router, 3rd party apps might have other options.
So while Bluetooth might be nice it seems like a no go for us old school TP2 owners...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1093778&highlight=ad-hoc
I guess it all depends on what rom you use.
I'm using the 1st generation touch pro with NFSFAN's rom. Bluetooth is right there under the internet sharing application and works flawlessly with my TF.
maoren99 said:
I guess it all depends on what rom you use.
I'm using the 1st generation touch pro with NFSFAN's rom. Bluetooth is right there under the internet sharing application and works flawlessly with my TF.
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I don't think it's so much ROM specific as it is PHONE specific. Haven't heard of any TP2's that work with bluetooth tethering looking across multiple forums on the subject.
Hi all,
I would like to know if it's possible to connect my Iconia A500 with the 3G connection from my mobilePhone like it's possible on the Xoom, (tethering)
is it possible to get the file from the Xoom to activate this feature on the iconia?
on the PDF manual from Acer, we can see in settings "tethering and portable hotspot" and "mobile network", but no access to these settings on my iconia
does something special to do to access or activate them?
brgds
jp
Hi,
Its not the iconia that needs software, its the phone.
Set it up as hotspot/wifi tether, the iconia will pick it up in wifi settings, just touch it and connect to it.
Not sure what version built in hotspot/tether starts, but my blade has 2.3.3 CM7RC2 and it is built into the cyanogen settings within the phone settings.
Hope this helps, if not it is still probably clear as mud
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ZTE Blade - Rooted OC 729mh - CM7 RC2 V/nice
Advent Vega - Rooted OC 1.4gh - Corvos5 rom gorgeous smooth and qqqick
Iconia A500 - Rooted - HComb Sweet
@MJ-12
at first, many thanks for your very fast reply,
but, i must specify than the 3G connection via Tethering like the Xoom, is via Bluetooth,
it's maybe not fast as Wifi? i'll try this method, but that's what i used on my Archos 70it in native and it was pretty good, no soft to lunch on the phone.
if someone know how we must do for a BT method...
for information my mobile is a Nokia N8, so it must be possible.
Ah ok now i get you, i see what you mean now.
Unfortunately i am not familiar with n8 or symbian so that is as far as i can go.
Hope there is an n8/iconia owner out there who can help you soon.
Regards...
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ZTE Blade - Rooted OC 729mh - CM7 RC2 V/nice
Advent Vega - Rooted OC 1.4gh - Corvos5 rom gorgeous smooth and qqqick
Iconia A500 - Rooted - HComb Sweet
About the connection via BT, the advantage is that it's the tablet lunching the connection, and when is no more needed it stop automatically,
also with the wifi hotspot, you need to stop the connection yourself.
I used to own a N8 before switching to a DHD.
At that time I was using the application from 3W joiku dot com that turned my N8 into Wifi Hotspot.
Keep in mind that bluetooth is quite slow ( 1 Mb max ) SFR does provide 3 to 5 Mb/s of bandwith ... so bluetooth is really not the option you want to go for , uneless you want make you surfing experience as slow as possible.
I have downloaded Dolphin Browser HD on my iconia , because there is an easy option to change its user agent ( I set it to : Iphone) this way I can use the 3G connection provided by my DHD on SFR without letting them know that I am using my phone as a modem , and as a result of this I don't get charged of course ;-)
@hiroko83
can you connect your iconia to your N8 via joikuspot? 'cause i'd tryed and my iconia doesn't found my joikuspot hotspot.
can you giving to me your joikuspot soft version and wich parameters you'd used for you hotspot, and how to detect hotspot on iconia?
jp
jeanpierrr said:
@hiroko83
can you connect your iconia to your N8 via joikuspot? 'cause i'd tryed and my iconia doesn't found my joikuspot hotspot.
can you giving to me your joikuspot soft version and wich parameters you'd used for you hotspot, and how to detect hotspot on iconia?
jp
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Your phone will create a Ad-hoc hotspot. However the iconia cannot connect to ad-hoc hotspots without a new wpa_supplicant (it's not working in stock android). SO you need to root and replace the wpa_supplicant before this will work. Check the development thread for instructions.
We're all waiting for the custom roms when this will all be fixed...
many thanks all for your help, i'd changed my wpa_supplicant as you told, and it works perfectally,
BUT, Not for the native web browser, for this one, you need to type:
about:debug [enter]
going in settings, débug, and select in UAstring something else than Android or Desktop.
i'd choose, Froyo of course ;P
many thanks all. it was a big problem for me, a tablet without internet!? useless.
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some applications seems to be down as "facebook for android (no feeds, but chat works fine)" "native webbrowser (with the most of user Agent)" "Firefox"
i suppose that's my mobile provider SFR who limit access to some ports used by the apps.
please advise if it's different at yours to know if it's my iconia, my manipulation, or my mobile operator.
brgds
jp
Hello I have in my rom Iconia A500 THOR V14.2 ANDROID ROM 3.2.1 works fine, I used wifi tethering with my tel. rom htc hd2 and HD2_NDT_GINGER_2.3.7_CM7.2_BASED_V35.0_MAGLDR and earlier and this too well, but with great battery consumption at tel. So PdaNet tablet discovered by BT to connect both perfect and very good speed and low power consumption.
The problem is that I tried to do the same with other rom in the Tel and nofunciona with any other, in some Wifi if I managed to connect but bt nowhere.
I can not access this configuration to the proxy and the true sense of megustan the HTC rom and now I can not use them for this.
I have read also in San Google and forums and I think it has something to do DHCP choking in Iconium.
Would greatly appreciate help in resolving this problem.
I'm not completely sure I understood you correctly, but here's what I think might help you:
Bluetooth is somewhat broken on this tab. I don't know if BT tethering works on any ROM... I never actually searched for it and it's not in the settings.
WiFi Tethering works just fine with most ROMs; Acer removed the menu entry, but not the necessary software, i. e. any "WiFi tethering widget" will work if you've got root. I'm not sure about non-rooted devices, though, as I rooted mine like 10 minutes after I got it... Also, most custom ROMs (even almost-stock ones) restore the menu entry, so you don't even need that.
EDIT: After re-reading your post I think the problem might just as well be with the kernel you use... Its source is (in violation of the GPL) not available, so I can't be sure of that.