Well, let me tell you about only problem I have with my phone. After applying the GingerBlur 4.5 using this instructions from this forums, I had some troubles with my phone, and by the way, here is some information about my Atrix:
System version:
Version.4.1.83.MB860.ATT.en.US (After applying the GingerBlur, I don't know before)
Model number:
MB860
Android version:
2.2.2
Baseband version:
N_01.77.07P
Motorola webtop version:
OSHWT_U1_6.71.0
Rooted:
True
And I suppose you should know something about my geographic location:
Country:
El Salvador
Carrier:
Claro El Salvador
Now here comes my story, when I applied the GingerBlur to my phone, it was rebooting and blinking its led in a red intense, so I knew there was some problem, after that, I did a hard reset and the phone worked again, but, it was not quite a hard reset, it still says GingerBlur when it starts, but after a few reboots, it worked! I was kind of happy because all the good stuff the ROM left, BUT, there is a really big problem...
My phone had originally an option to tether in the wireless settings, and it was WONDERFUL, why? you might say, well, it allowed me to create an infrastructure WiFi hotspot! It was amazing, simple and elegant, and now, it is gone.. I mean, most tether programs allow you to create AdHoc WiFi hotspots, but this one allowed me to connect everything to it.
So, now I am trying to get it back, and that is where you, wonderful guys, get into the story, I have thought some options:
1. Getting back to my stock Android 2.2.2, but for real this time. The thing is, I don't know how to do it. I suppose I need my carrier's ROM but I haven't found it.
2. Getting Android 2.3, the real one, but, I don't know if I'll have problems with my carrier, and most important, with my phone.
3. Getting the program from another phone, because, I have another two at my disposal, so I can get the files form there, but as you might know, I don't know how. And in fact I have already copied the files to my phone but nothing happens.
4. Getting a software as good as that and install it in my android, but I haven't found any, I actually have WiFi Tether from Google Code, but I am missing the option to make it work in infrastructure.
So, with all your experience, what should I do?
If you wanna usb tether. Use pdanet app it uses ur phones data plan. I have been using it for quite a while. And if u have a macbook or imac you can create a wifi hotspot
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thanks but I really needed the infrastructure option and a dear and special friend exchange her stock atrix for my modified one, now I got that feature back.
(^_^)
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Hey guys I rarely, if ever, post anything, but I made a discovery yesterday that I just tested and wanted to let everyone in on it. I have the **Leaked** but now **Official** "RUU_Hero_C_Sprint_2.27.651.5_R_signed_release" installed on my phone. My phone had not been rooted and I decided to upgraded from 1.5 to 2.1 yesterday (just couldn't get myself to pull the trigger sooner). While I molesting the new features I went to mount the phone as a disk drive and noticed there were some additional options. Once you plug in the USB into the phone, access the pull-down menu from the status bar and press "Charge Only". You will be greeted with another menu that, among other things, has an option for "Internet Sharing" select this and the phone will install some software on your computer. After that your computer will be able to utilize your phone as a modem. Now I haven't tried this over just a 3G connection as I live out in the country and my service is terrrrrible out here, but what I was able to confirm is that this works over WiFi with no problems. I turned off the Wifi card on my laptop and enabled the Wifi on the phone. A few moments later I got the connection indicator on my laptop (Windows Vista) and away we go. I posted this using the connection. Can anyone confirm this works over 3G?
Screen shots posted below. (Sorry about the blurry pics, I don't have the steadiest hands)
did you update with the RUU?
FYI, this is not "wifi" tethering, it's "wired" tethering.
good to know internet sharing was in the final!
If I understand your question correctly, yeah I updated with the RUU but I wasn't really interested in rooting the phone.
Yes it works, but you need to change your PRI
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Yes it works, but you need to change your PRI
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In other words, no it does not work if you ran the RUU. You would have to be rooted, flash an Eris based ROM, and then update using the SprintUpdate2.zip Damageless posted.
abcdfv said:
In other words, no it does not work if you ran the RUU. You would have to be rooted, flash an Eris based ROM, and then update using the SprintUpdate2.zip Damageless posted.
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I was really hoping to teach the lad to search (twas his first post )
tstack77 said:
I was really hoping to teach the lad to search (twas his first post )
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Aside from "Flashing an Eris ROM breaks your PRI" he wouldn't find much. Sometimes you just gotta let it slide and lend a hand.
Are you guys talking about the same thing he is? He said he ran the RUU and is not rooted. He said he doesn't get good 3g where he lives but what he did was turn off wifi on his laptop and enable it on the phone. He enabled internet sharing and it shared his internet connection with the laptop.
This isn't wifi tethering like we usually describe it, but he is describing a different situation than the one you guys are talking about. Unless I missed something in the posts.
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Are you guys talking about the same thing he is? He said he ran the RUU and is not rooted. He said he doesn't get good 3g where he lives but what he did was turn off wifi on his laptop and enable it on the phone. He enabled internet sharing and it shared his internet connection with the laptop.
This isn't wifi tethering like we usually describe it, but he is describing a different situation than the one you guys are talking about. Unless I missed something in the posts.
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He was asking if it would work over 3G, as well as wifi.
jlem26 said:
Are you guys talking about the same thing he is? He said he ran the RUU and is not rooted. He said he doesn't get good 3g where he lives but what he did was turn off wifi on his laptop and enable it on the phone. He enabled internet sharing and it shared his internet connection with the laptop.
This isn't wifi tethering like we usually describe it, but he is describing a different situation than the one you guys are talking about. Unless I missed something in the posts.
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You're both right and wrong.
I was assuming that he rooted his phone before updating to 2.1, thought he just made a mistake by adding the ruu part.
And he was asking about 3g tethering since he could do it over wifi.
To answer his question: You cannot tether that way if you ran the official RUU...that is until an exploit is found and you root your phone.
PDAnet will still work for you though
He probably has one of the few Sprint PRI's that allows MNS....bastage.....
Thanks guys, I'll take my laptop to work tomorrow and give it a try with and without PDANet. Thanks for all of the feedback.
What is you PRI number?
Pri version: 2.20_003
I have the same PRI number. How did you get the network sharing to work? Did you download any software?
yeah we need to find out if this new PRI will allow wired tethering, but I don't want to lose root
we need a few people (read: guinea pigs) to test it out
Ok, I got the network sharing via wired tether to work with WIFI. Now if I can get it to work on 3g.
Edit:
I tried to use the 3g network and it will not allow you to wire tether. It will keep popping up error 67 which "Data Call Failure". Boo.
I'm currently trying to figure out where exactly the PRI is stored in a ROM, so I can make update.zip's of different PRI's, to allow tethering.
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I'm currently trying to figure out where exactly the PRI is stored in a ROM, so I can make update.zip's of different PRI's, to allow tethering.
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I've been digging through for a while now, off and on, trying to find this myself. I PM'd flipz and asked, but haven't received a response, but i'm sure he knows how/if this could be done. I'm very interested if you do find something out, let me know!
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Hey guys I rarely, if ever, post anything, but I made a discovery yesterday that I just tested and wanted to let everyone in on it. I have the **Leaked** but now **Official** "RUU_Hero_C_Sprint_2.27.651.5_R_signed_release" installed on my phone. My phone had not been rooted and I decided to upgraded from 1.5 to 2.1 yesterday (just couldn't get myself to pull the trigger sooner). While I molesting the new features I went to mount the phone as a disk drive and noticed there were some additional options. Once you plug in the USB into the phone, access the pull-down menu from the status bar and press "Charge Only". You will be greeted with another menu that, among other things, has an option for "Internet Sharing" select this and the phone will install some software on your computer. After that your computer will be able to utilize your phone as a modem. Now I haven't tried this over just a 3G connection as I live out in the country and my service is terrrrrible out here, but what I was able to confirm is that this works over WiFi with no problems. I turned off the Wifi card on my laptop and enabled the Wifi on the phone. A few moments later I got the connection indicator on my laptop (Windows Vista) and away we go. I posted this using the connection. Can anyone confirm this works over 3G?
Screen shots posted below. (Sorry about the blurry pics, I don't have the steadiest hands)
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The hero has always been able to share wifi using the usb tether. The 3G sharing will be disabled for you as always. Sorry to burst your bubble this is not something new. In fact, way back before we had root you could use a trick to tether the 3G over usb by turning off mobile network and then enabling the MNS while turning the mobile network back on. It was just a bug that someone found to bypass the 3G sharing lockout. After we got root no one really needed that trick anymore.
Hi, New here and have been trying to root and get my phone to wifi tether.
Ive read over many,many pages and like my user name suggest. I have become more confused. Im not very good when it comes to computers in fact the computer Im using for this is a 2003 with windows XP. A dinosour and not a strong one.
I have the unrevoked 3 on my the computer. I went through all the steps. And the unrevoked said waiting for root (can restart if this doesnt work) at this point it restarted it self.
So am I done with this part or did it not finish? Is there something I should see on my phone after. I'm lost. I really need this rooting and wifi tether.
Please someone help me.
Okay, Ive got it to go all the way through until it said it was done. Now what I still dont see any differance is there a place I should look to see this?
You can tell you are rooted by looking for the superuser app in your app pantry. Unrevoked should also have flashed clockwork recovery onto your phone. You will have to flash a rom to get tethering on your phone. I don't feel like typing out everything here, so come into the IRC sometime. http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#liberatedAria
Okay I'm rooted now.
Do I have to install a file Manager now? I have a Wifi app. installed now I cant get it to work though. Am I missing something?
If I have to install a file manager which is the best?
pcidiot said:
Okay I'm rooted now.
Do I have to install a file Manager now? I have a Wifi app. installed now I cant get it to work though. Am I missing something?
If I have to install a file manager which is the best?
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Astro or Estrong
first thing you should do when you are rooted, is make a nandroid backup.
And then install the Free Wifi Tether app, or install the latest Liberated Froyo rom,
which has tethering over USB, and Wifi hotspot built in.
Have it all done. Thank you very much Anthony1s and the people at IRC. Very helpful and patient. Im pretty much new to computers and this phone stuff. He made it simple.
I have a few questions still. When the new latest ROM comes out is there a easy way to find it? Like a place to look ect.
When turning on Wifi tether I assume that it uses my megabytes from my phone plan even though the simbol on the top is not there when tethering. Am I right about this? Or is it free? Can At&t find out and give me a tethering charge?
All help has been greatly appericated. Thank you
You just check the official thread for the ROM you are following. If its one of attn1's - he updates is good about updating the first post.
As long as you aren't having any issues and are happy with the way everything is working, there isn't really a need to check for updates. Unless you're obsessive like me.
Currently AT&T does not check to see if you are tethering on your own accord, so at the moment - the built in tethering is free!
Yes, a little obsesive. Now more so because of being able to do this. I want the latest and best ROM. I'll admit I liked some of the original ROMs features and smoothness a little more, but all the extra stuff greatly out weighs this.
So, when I use the wifi tether connected to my laptop or another phone its not using any of my megabytes from my data or internet plan? It just seems to me that it would.
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Yes, a little obsesive. Now more so because of being able to do this. I want the latest and best ROM. I'll admit I liked some of the original ROMs features and smoothness a little more, but all the extra stuff greatly out weighs this.
So, when I use the wifi tether connected to my laptop or another phone its not using any of my megabytes from my data or internet plan? It just seems to me that it would.
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depends how you're keeping track of your data. I know some apps that track your usage - don't even see tethered traffic.
i would imagine that data use is kept at at&t's end so teathering would use data same as you surfing the net from the phone.
I want to be able to sideload apps.
I want to be able to "tether" without the tether data plan, so I can occasionally use the Laptop Dock without spending $20/month.
I want to be able to load my apps from Google, which I think means using a different "ROM" and loosing MotoBlur, but tell me if I wrong.
I'm a long time smartphone user who's used a few different ROM changing apps. Willing to put in the time after the "rooting" I did yesterday didn't seem to do everything I hoped. Got pretty frustrated when I could only webtop in the laptop dock.
1. att should be releasing the ability to side load apps soon. they are allowing it on the samsung infuse. until then:
go to android central and search for sideload wonder machine. thing works flawlessly.
2. Im new to the tethering part here but from what i understand there are two types. sorry
3. currently there are no ROMS yet, there are pseudo ROMs available: greyblur, gingerblur. im using greyblur and the guy did some awesome work on it. both allow sideloading all day, as well as hdmi mirroring and webtopdock hack.
good luck
You can still use Google apps and Google Market surely? Otherwise it wouldn't be a proper android phone!
I can use the Market, but obviously if you normally install 30+ apps, it's awesome when you boot up a phone, sign in with your Google account, and all your backed up apps and data just show up on the new device. I did this with my Motorola Milestone and Xoom every time I'd update the OS, etc... and it works FLAWLESSLY, not to mention saves a LOT of time trying to remember all the apps you loaded.
The Webtop hack worries me, simply because I wonder if that isn't what is preventing my Laptop Dock from seeing my phone. I used Gladroot updating my phone to 1.57, and root works fine. But when I put the phone in the laptop dock, it wants to do Multimedia or nothing... and the dock doesn't "just work" like it did at the store. And I didn't think Gladroot did anything with the HDMI connect, so I wasn't expecting any issues because of it.
I think for this morning, I WILL just wipe it, removing root, etc. Update to the latest firmware again, and setup with the default options for now. Then I can at least see if the Laptop Dock works at all, using that different APN to try tethering without the $45/month plan, and I guess I'll go from there.
Once I have the Amazon Store loaded with that sideload program, I won't need that feature very often anyway.
maybe i am not using the search tool properly nor posting this in app section.
But anyone know any way to do so?
my xperia x10 is half dead already i would like to 3g tether to tablet for 3g uses.
I search the market for app, none of them seem to support it. Is there another method? I am not too great with this sort of things
would like a detail guide or explanation.
thank you.
p.s: also i would like to ask, is it possible to use rocket mobile 3g fingers from rogers (i live in canada) to obtain 3g? sorry i am not technical so no idea how these things goes.
I don't know anything about rocket mobile, but I just downloaded Quick Wifi Hotspot from the market yesterday and it worked fine while at the restaurant. I left the network open and named it my name and connected via the tablet with no issues. It's also free and that is helpful Hopefully it's compatible with whichever rom/android version you are using. I have an HD2 with an Android 2.3 ROM based on C7 (I think that's all the requisite info).
I have cheap zip cricket cell phone. I do love crickets service here in my area.thou some say its lame elsewhere.
Anyway I rooted my cell installed wireless tether.and when I turn it on my tablet or my notebook will connect automatically and its great for most things even tried Netflix yesterday. Pared with crickets unlimited plan for 50.00 a month.
Set wireless tether to Mac address security lots of people will try to connect.to use your internet.some just do it automatic ..
thank you, the reason i posted this is because my x10 still run on grandpa software (at least not 1.6) android 2.1.
Acer have an instruction on how to enable portable wi-fi option on phone and ad-hoc but 2.1 doesn't have that option yet.
since my phone is already half dead (thank to SE's crappy product), i don't know if i can root it and install custom rom before it brick or dead completely.
i will check out that method thanks.
Hi XDA,
This is my second post now and since you diamonds here helped me out last time so well perhaps you could solve this one for me.
So after my noob post about rooting, unlocking the bootloader and flashing roms on a uk Atrix 4g i was guided through the process and ended up flashing the Aura Blurred rom...
Love the rom, could do with and OC Kernel but so far works flawlessly.
Anyway I have a few questions...
Firstly my phone thinks its an ATT phone now when its actually a UK Retail unit. is this Right?
Secondly today i receievd notice that an OTA update is available from ATT???
I cant stop this notification popping up every hour or so by pressing later. Can anyone tell me how to stop it coming up?
And lastly I have also bought the xoom2 media edition which I want to bridge to the atrix as you can with bb and playbook. There is a an app called Wireless Tether you are probably aware of which should allow me to tether the tab to the phone via Bluetooth then keep the Wifi connection that the Atrix has when conected to my home network..
As below
Router OR Network <---Wifi OR 3G---> Atrix <---Bluetooth (or Wifi if poss)---> Xoom 2me
Not
Network ONLY <---3G ONLY---> Atrix OR Router <---Wifi ONLY---> Xoom 2me
Lots of aps will allow the 2nd kind of connection fine but i want to use my phones wifi OR 3g conection whilst using my xoom2me not the Atrixs 3g or the tablets wif.
(Hope I'm making sense in my explanation here folks)
It seems the Wireless Tether app will do this, (please correct me if anyone knows different, i dont know just assuming) but here is the catch...
My kernel doesnt have netfilter capabilities and access controll...
Anyone know if i can flash a custom kernel over the Aura rom which will allow this and which one i should use?
Once this is done, will it allow me to use my tablet as extention of my phone ie calls texts etc?
To help with the answerind below are my phone details before I flashed Aura
•Motorola Atrix 4g (UK version) Second phone as busted the last one. Bought outright as a retail sale.
•Orange UK
•System Version: 45.31.0.MB860.Retail.en.GB
•Android Version: 2.3.4 (After UK released update)
•Baseband Version: N_01.100.00R
•Webtop Version: WT-1.2.0.133_38
•Kernel Version: 2.66.32.9 [email protected]#2
And now after Aura the above reads as below.
Motorola Atrix 4g (UK version) Second phone as busted the last one. Bought outright as a retail sale.
Orange UK
System Version: 4.5.91.MB860.ATT.en.US
Android Version: 2.3.4
Baseband Version: N_01.100.00R
Webtop Version: WT-1.2.0.133_38
Kernel Version: 2.6.32.9-MB860-GB-Faux123-v0.2.1
Build Number: Aura 1.2.2.2
Thanks once again XDA for any help and advice in advance...
Whistles#
anyone???? pleeease...
Dcskeete said:
anyone???? pleeease...
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Well first of all, whatever you wrote up there makes no sense at all. With that said, I'm going to try and have you walk me through this.
a.) Whatever ROM you flashed reports the device as an Atrix 4G and not an international Atrix:
It doesn't really matter.
b.) You want to use your phone's data plan to tether wirelessly with your tablet.
You need to find how to enable Ad-hoc networks on your tablet, not your phone. For some tablets support is built in (Asus Transformer), for others it's as simple as switching out the wpa_supplicant file, and the rest it's much more convoluted.
c.) You want your tablet to act as if it was your phone.
No, as far as I know, this is not possible. The closest you can get is using Google Voice and Titanium Backup to use texting apps like Whatsapp on your tablet.
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Well first of all, whatever you wrote up there makes no sense at all. With that said, I'm going to try and have you walk me through this.
a.) Whatever ROM you flashed reports the device as an Atrix 4G and not an international Atrix:
It doesn't really matter.
b.) You want to use your phone's data plan to tether wirelessly with your tablet.
You need to find how to enable Ad-hoc networks on your tablet, not your phone. For some tablets support is built in (Asus Transformer), for others it's as simple as switching out the wpa_supplicant file, and the rest it's much more convoluted.
c.) You want your tablet to act as if it was your phone.
No, as far as I know, this is not possible. The closest you can get is using Google Voice and Titanium Backup to use texting apps like Whatsapp on your tablet.
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Hi,
Thank you for responding... I wondered if i was making sense lol ill try to explain..
Firstly I flashed Aura rom for international phones and now my uk retail unit thinks its an ATT one. Im assuming this is just down to the programming of the rom I have installed but what has confused me is that I have received notice of an OTA Update asking me to down load or tap later to be reminded in 1 hour. not wanting to hard / soft brick or loose the rom and any data i have so far i can only get rid of this notice by tapping later... it then reapears every hour or so.
Is there a way of getting this to stop?
Also it states it has been sent to me by ATT. I'm in uk ATT does not exist in the uk and my updates are usually from orange or motorola??? Is the UK even due this update?
My second point was that i wish to have my atrix connected to my wifi router when in range and then have my Xoom 2 me bridged / tethered to it (like a playbook to Black berry phone) ie it would connect to my wif network but through my existing connection via the atrix, would allow me to use files from one or other device on each view messages, make calls etc etc etc (I hear the answer at c in your reply)
.... obviously when out of range the apps i have already alow me to tether to my phone via wifi for use of my 3g data plan.
My third point was that the app wirless thether which will allow me to tether the xoom to the atrix via bluetooth but will aloow the atrix to remain connected to my wif network at the same time tells me that my kernel doesnt have access control. In the apps help page it says that my kernel needs to have netfilter capabilities enabled for the app to work on my phone....
I cant work out which kernels will have this facility...
Hopefully this has explained it a bit better and I have made sense this time...
Thanks again for your help, Im always very gratefull to all those that share their knowledge...
if you want to stop the notification,
go to titanium back up and freeze FOTA
that will stop the notification.
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download latest faux kernel and its 024 version for blur/gb version .
Do you want to make a local network between the tablet and the attic and have the atrix share the internet to? Hm maybe enable tethering and get an app that supports local file sharing over bluetooth or on Thea dame network
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Do you want to make a local network between the tablet and the attic and have the atrix share the internet to? Hm maybe enable tethering and get an app that supports local file sharing over bluetooth or on Thea dame network
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yes pretty much wouldnt be so bad if i could get moto cast streaming ability to work on atrix...
So far the xooms motocast works but only with my laptop.
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if you want to stop the notification,
go to titanium back up and freeze FOTA
that will stop the notification.
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download latest faux kernel and its 024 version for blur/gb version .
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ah, Ill give that a go thanks...
what if i wipe the data of that app instead of freezing altogether... will it stop the message coming through also untill a new one comes in?
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ah, Ill give that a go thanks...
what if i wipe the data of that app instead of freezing altogether... will it stop the message coming through also untill a new one comes in?
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This didnt work for me. Still keeps popping up.... Any other ideas anyone?