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I seem to be having problems tethering my A101 to my HTC Touch HD.
Bluetooth seems hit and miss. Any suggestions on correct procedure.
I also have a little app on my phone for establishing it as a wifi router. The app is wmwifirouter. While my lap top see's it fine the A101 just doesnt see it. Anyone managed to ge their A101 to tether to a wifi type connection their WM phone?
i'm having problem with it as well ... the A101 to my SE x10i ... the bluetooth can "see" the mobile but when it cannot pair ... this is plain stupid!!
i've tried to contact the Archos Support but no solutions as yet.
I tether my HTC Evo to my Archos 70 IT with zero issues. My Evo is rooted and I run the "Wireless Tether" app in the market (their website). It starts an ad-hoc WiFi access point that the tablet can connect to. I've never had any issues. The app supposedly works over bluetooth as well but I've never tried it.
I'm in the exact same boat as you airnike, except the issue is tether to my BlackBerry Bold 9780. I found a thread (listed below) that seems to offer me the possibility of getting my connection up and running - since it seems that it was a problem in the Archos firmware in the first place, maybe you can solve it by following the thread.
Because I am so new I cannot just post the URL, so here it is in a conveluted fashion.
h t t p ://forum.archosfans.com/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=46116
Stock Archos devices don't support ad-hoc networking, only infrastructure. Wireless Tether from the market supports ad-hoc and infrastructure mode. Some phones support infrastructure mode and some do not. If your phone does, you are lucky and it may work. There is a list of supported devices on the Wireless Tether website. There are also several threads on here about tethering and ad-hoc networking.
Tethering Blackberry is another problem, I think I read somewhere it was resolved now, but you need to type in a script in terminal.
Tethering Windows Mobile should be very easy. I always tether bluetooth from my Samsung i8000 to my 101. I never used wifi though as I reckon bluetooth is more battery friendly and speed is acceptable. What exactly is your tethering problem? what do you mean hit or miss? I've been consistently able to tether via bluetooth on my WM phone.
I have had some trouble tethering my Touch HD to my "101" as well - but finally this seems solved.
After pairing both devices, I found that I need to activate Bluetooth on both, then establish internet connection on the "HD" - and after that my "101" will tether fine.
The only strange thing I am a little unhappy with, is the fact that the tethering seems to break down when I turn off the screen of the mobile. When it switches off by itself, the connection appears to be stable.
i have a htc ozone wm phone how did u connect to your a101
What are the pro and cons of tethering via Bluetooth? I have Wi-Fi hotspot on my phone, and it worked perfectly right away. Could the Bluetooth use less battery?
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This thread went a bit off topic eh?
Pete, did you ever get this working? I have a A101 16GB and a Touch HD. They tethered via bluetooth off the bat for me.
Running:
A101 16GB - UrukDrod 0.7
Touch HD - EnergyRom
If you want me to post steps, let me know.
Hello.
I'm having trouble tethering an Asus Transformer (stock) to my Touch HD (also stock).
I can pair them but they don't connect.
Tried the establish data connection/turn BT on/tether suggestion but no luck.
Any suggestions?
Cheers,
E
eborremans said:
Hello.
I'm having trouble tethering an Asus Transformer (stock) to my Touch HD (also stock).
I can pair them but they don't connect.
Tried the establish data connection/turn BT on/tether suggestion but no luck.
Any suggestions?
Cheers,
E
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No clue. Wouldn't they know more in the Asus Transformer forums?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1104
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
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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
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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.
mesebar2 said:
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).
Just found an awesome APP in the market called Pdanet Tablet you install it on your phone then on your tablet and use bluetooth to get internet to your tablet via your android phone!!!!
It works pretty well on my Epic to my Transformer!
No Root needed (This will be for those of us who have not hacked our phones to send off Wifi already.)
Not working on my tab :\
Edit: I fixed it. reboot helped.
Awesome find, thanks! It's not quite working consistently for me, but I was hoping the PdaNet dev would make a version just like this. I'm sure he'll get it working reliably soon enough...
tethering off my nexus s, 2.3 hotspot w00t.
Anyone get this to work on Droid X, 2.3?
An update: after I installed this app, my TF Internet connectivity was completely hosed. It might be coincidental, although I doubt it. Essentially, I lost the ability to connect to a number of services via wifi, even after I uninstalled the app. Couldn't connect to Google properties, Tapatalk couldn't connect, etc. Absolutely miserable.
Only way to fix it was to do a factory reset. Multiple reboots and reconfigs of wifi settings did nothing.
Moral: be careful with this app.
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I have not installed it yet in my tablet.
But I just read it from the market and they said you should remove the proxy setting after using it, otherwise the internet will not work anymore.
Not sure if they meant you will have to remove the proxy setting everytime you finished using it. That will be a hassle if we need to switch between wifi and BT every time.
works for me bluetooth tethering to my Droid Incredible. Havent tried it longer than 30 mins so I havent experienced any disconnects yet.
You do have to reset the proxy every time you use the app (set it to use it, disable it when your done). If you dont, wifi wont connect anymore (at least for me).
It is a little bit of a hassle, but i can live with it. At least the app gives you a shortcut to quickly change the setting.
<Laharl> said:
Just found an awesome APP in the market called Pdanet Tablet you install it on your phone then on your tablet and use bluetooth to get internet to your tablet via your android phone!!!!
It works pretty well on my Epic to my Transformer!
No Root needed (This will be for those of us who have not hacked our phones to send off Wifi already.)
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Are you getting 4G speed off your Epic? I'm using wifi tether right now and only getting 3G speeds even if 4G is enabled, what kind of speeds are you getting?
lie_ui said:
I have not installed it yet in my tablet.
But I just read it from the market and they said you should remove the proxy setting after using it, otherwise the internet will not work anymore.
Not sure if they meant you will have to remove the proxy setting everytime you finished using it. That will be a hassle if we need to switch between wifi and BT every time.
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That was probably my problem, thanks for pointing it out. Wish I'd seen this before doing the factory reset...
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It's. Giving me a bad signal error
I'm on 3.1 and my phone(Droid 2) runs leaked gingerbread
Not sure why you need an app. I wifi tether with my Nexus S and it works fine. Just have 2gb package from ATT. They don't seem to care.
I got it installed, and everything went smoothly except I have no internet access via browser, or gmail.
Otherwise, this looks like a good app, easy to use.
I tried this PDANet for Tablet. The first beta release was buggy and there was a lot of disconnects with some debugging prompts.
Then I saw they updated it several days ago.
After updating it, its still not a smooth experience.
Got it connected to the phone, launch the browser and I could browse the web, but after 2-3 web pages, then it will stop working.
Email does not seem to work for me. Both GMail client and the native Email client, none works for me. Google Map seems to work.
But again, the connection dropped very frequently.
Hi,
Does anyone know of a solution for the TF101 when the phone you want to tether to is not an android device. I am still using my trusty HTC HD2, and it's WiFi hotspot is "ad hoc" and not seen by the TF, and its bluetooth creates a PAN, and rudely tells me that the TF needs a NAP.
Maybe I can use the "windows mobile version of PdaNet on the phone with the android tablet PdaNet client on the TF??
Wifi hot spot on G2x works perfect and I get 4g speed will post screen shot when I figure out how..
G2x power
moonan said:
Hi,
Does anyone know of a solution for the TF101 when the phone you want to tether to is not an android device. I am still using my trusty HTC HD2, and it's WiFi hotspot is "ad hoc" and not seen by the TF, and its bluetooth creates a PAN, and rudely tells me that the TF needs a NAP.
Maybe I can use the "windows mobile version of PdaNet on the phone with the android tablet PdaNet client on the TF??
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Prime 1.5 supports ad~ hoc connections.
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Wireless tether works better for me? EVO 4G here.
david279 said:
Prime 1.5 supports ad~ hoc connections.
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Any way with stock ROM??
i tried this last night and couldnt get it to work with my rooted samsung galaxy s, so I just ended up doing the wpa method. Plus Prime 1.5 includes it now
So - rooted my Virgin Mobile Samsung Intercept (running froyo) and just got lucky enough to get a Acer Iconia Tablet (a500 32gb model) and would *love* to be able to use my intercept as a hot spot.
Downloaded Barnacle (and a few others) to my intercept - can start barnacle with no warnings or error messages from my Intercept - i get the message letting me know it is beaconing - but no matter what I try I cannot connect from my a500 (or other devices I tried for troubleshooting; my girlfriends Samsung Intercept and my friends Evo 4 do not see my hotspot.
Long post made short; any one out there got the rooted 2.2 ROM working as hotspot? Would be grateful for some help.
Barnacle wi-fi in ad-hoc mode so that's probably one of the reasons your devices could not detect the signal. Since you have rooted your phone, what Rom or Kernal is it running on?
Thanks for responding!
My intercept is running stock 2.2 from Virgin Mobile - rooted and cleaned out some of the more worthless apps it ships with.
Intercept-
Build number - froyo.ec07
Kernel version - 2.6.32.9
Android version - 2.2.2
Acer Iconia A500 (WiFi only tablet)
Android Version - 3.0.1
Kernel version - 2.6.36.3
Build number - 1.144.07
I feel I may be going at it all wrong - have read a few threads claiming the a500 supports connecting to an ad-hoc connection, some say it does not. Would think my next step would be to head over to the a500 section and see about getting the a500 to support ad-hoc.
Will be by a friends laptop with wifi in a few mins, will test barnacle there to verify I even have it working right in the first place
Tested!
My intercept is not the issue - was able to connect to my hotspot via a windows box.
So now to find out if the a500 can be convinced to connect to ad-hoc.
Search Hotspot Widget by Harold Muller on the market. Says it's a widget, not a tethering app, but my acer a500, rooted nook color, and laptop all connect perfectly to my stock Optimus V on virgin mobile
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hmmmmm
Now I am confused. Does the virgin mobile phone you have support proper infrastructure hotspot, or only ad-hoc via a rooted phone (like mine?)
From what I read, I need to mess with the wpa supplciant here on the a500 to get it to even connect to an ad-hoc network, I am a little nervous about trying it - some users reporting broken wifi and other pains.
Honestly, I dont know. Neither acer nor virgin mobile phone is rooted, but I tried this and it worked without having to change anything on either device. I put the widget on phone home screen to toggle it on, then scan wifi with acer and connect. I also secured it with a password. For $25/mo, this vmobile service is kicking att butt.
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hmmmm.
Sounds like your phone already has hotspot unlocked - which lets you run a normal infrastructure wifi hotspot - the intercept requires root to function as a hotspot, and even then it will be a ad-hoc network, which the a500 cannot connect to without a bit of patching some system files
Infrastructure Mode wi-fi
On rooted Intercept, Infrastructure Mode wi-fi is much better:
Infrastructure Mode 100% [Simplified]
Holy crap!
Educate: you just made my day. Works like a charm. Thank you ever so much - my Iconia tablet can now connect to my Intercept hotspot - and it works! Tested with multiple applications.
Thank you again for helping me. Very awesome of you!
Or.. do like I did.. install ultimate kernal v3 and then download wireless tether.. works great..
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I have looked but can't find a solution. I have the transformer 101 tablet and can't get it to connect to my tmobile mytouch 4g. I'm posting in this forum because I can get the tablet to connect to my computer so I figure it has something to do with the phone. I'm trying to get a bluetooth connection so I can tether. I don't use much data but I'd like to know I could do it with the tablet and make a connection if wifi not around. I have rooted and installed stock Android 2.3.4. I don't know much about Bluetooth or WIFi but from my readings I'm think it might have something to do with PAN BT profile. If this is the case, is this a software thing? Is their a ROM that has the PAN BT profile? I like some of the Sense Apps so I'd like to stay with a stable Sense ROM. I'd like to be able to stream Navigator when I need it or brows the internet while waiting in the parking lot for my husband. Yes I can do it on the phone but my eyes are bad and a larger screen is so nice. I don't come anywhere near a GB of data each month...just want to be able to connect when sitting in my car and give myself a bigger screen.
I must be missing something here. Why not install wifi tether or one of the myriad sense 3.5 ROMS in the dev section that ALL have a working wifi hotspot?
Well my thinking may be wrong on how Bluetooth and wifi work but I was thinking there isn't always a wifi connection, but there would always be a signal with bluetooth connecting the tablet to the phones 3G and 4G. I was hoping that, if tablet paired to phone when traveling, I could use the bigger screen on the tablet and navigation would run like on the phone. I'd like to use the tablet as much as possible and I'm thinking that in the country there wouldn't be any wifi hotspots. Sorry if I've got this all wrong. Most of the time I would use wifi and I've only used that at home or work....never hotspots.
As far as ROM's go, I was thinking of the Virtuous Affinity or Unity ROM's but didn't know if they were going to give me the bluetooth connection I was looking for. I can't remember but thought I read that you couldn't do some things in 3.5 that you could do with ealier versions. Do you know why the tablet can't connect with the MyTouch? Is it the PAN BT profile. I know the tablet doesn't do adhoc. Sorry but I did try to read up on it. I was just thinking of the message I see. They are paired but they wont connect. I click on the bluetooth device but it doesn't connect
I've tried to understand what your asking but I'm still confused. Are you trying to make a wifi hotspot off your phone, then connect your transformer to the hotspot, to use the internet?
If I helped, give thanks, if you please.
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d2dthetide said:
Well my thinking may be wrong on how Bluetooth and wifi work but I was thinking there isn't always a wifi connection, but there would always be a signal with bluetooth connecting the tablet to the phones 3G and 4G. I was hoping that, if tablet paired to phone when traveling, I could use the bigger screen on the tablet and navigation would run like on the phone. I'd like to use the tablet as much as possible and I'm thinking that in the country there wouldn't be any wifi hotspots. Sorry if I've got this all wrong. Most of the time I would use wifi and I've only used that at home or work....never hotspots.
As far as ROM's go, I was thinking of the Virtuous Affinity or Unity ROM's but didn't know if they were going to give me the bluetooth connection I was looking for. I can't remember but thought I read that you couldn't do some things in 3.5 that you could do with ealier versions. Do you know why the tablet can't connect with the MyTouch? Is it the PAN BT profile. I know the tablet doesn't do adhoc (point one). Sorry but I did try to read up on it. I was just thinking of the message I see. They are paired but they wont connect. I click on the bluetooth device but it doesn't connect
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There a couple things wrong with this post 1) the tablet does support and use AD-HOC tethering. I know that for a fact because I've had people connect to my home network via my tablet just to show off. Pretty embarrassing making them use my Android Tablet to connect their iPad to my home network. 2) If you are just wanting to use your tablet as a navigation unit, use the Google maps while you are connected to WiFi to find directions to where you want to go, then press the navigate button. It'll work w/o a data signal. I've done it several times. 3) you don't need blue-tooth to bridge the Tablet to the phone. This doesn't work like Blackberries and the playbook. You can use the Wi-Fi Tether .apk from Google's source code to do just that. [http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/downloads/list] 4) There has to be a blue tooth stack installed on the Phone, and on the Tablet that will allow them to share blue tooth connections for Internet. I have TF101 and have yet to find such a BT stack.