Hello guys,
I'm new here and I'm not sure if I posted this in the right category. The problem is that I can't physically turn on my WiFi on my Acer Iconia A200 Tablet. I was playing around with several roms from the forums for my tablet. I try turning it on but it just won't switch. On the settings the "WiFi" section appears faded. I restored my tablet back to my stock rom and still no luck!
Can anyone help me out?
Thanks,
Sudurack.
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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
Hi All,
I am not in the habit of creating new threads. But after searching and reading a lot of other posts I concluded I had to create one.
After upgrading to 3.2 my WiFi connection is lost after a few minutes. I have reset my router after the upgrade but that did not help.
This is what happens: I "cold- boot" my Iconia and after a few tries it finds my Router and establishes a connection. After a few minutes though, the connection gets "lost". It happens to me when I leave my Iconia on. If I leave the Iconia on it tells me after a few minutes that there is no Internet connection. It keeps searching, connecting and disconnecting untill I power of the Iconia. After restart the same occurs after a few minutes. If I shut down the Iconia and start it again, the same thing happens (after a few minutes).
I am using a TP-Link router WR1043ND with firmware 3.13.4 Build 110429 Rel.36959n
Anyone have similar issues? Is there any way to fix this apart from contacting Acer or downgrading to 3.1?
BTW My Iconia has build number Acer_A500_7.006.01_com_Gen1 and has not been rooted or otherwise altered.
Any help greatly appreciated....
Greetz,
S.J. Onnie
S.J.Onnie said:
Hi All,
I am not in the habit of creating new threads. But after searching and reading a lot of other posts I concluded I had to create one.
After upgrading to 3.2 my WiFi connection is lost after a few minutes. I have reset my router after the upgrade but that did not help.
This is what happens: I "cold- boot" my Iconia and after a few tries it finds my Router and establishes a connection. After a few minutes though, the connection gets "lost". It happens to me when I leave my Iconia on. If I leave the Iconia on it tells me after a few minutes that there is no Internet connection. It keeps searching, connecting and disconnecting untill I power of the Iconia. After restart the same occurs after a few minutes. If I shut down the Iconia and start it again, the same thing happens (after a few minutes).
I am using a TP-Link router WR1043ND with firmware 3.13.4 Build 110429 Rel.36959n
Anyone have similar issues? Is there any way to fix this apart from contacting Acer or downgrading to 3.1?
BTW My Iconia has build number Acer_A500_7.006.01_com_Gen1 and has not been rooted or otherwise altered.
Any help greatly appreciated....
Greetz,
S.J. Onnie
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Ton's of post about this. just google wifi drop out.
Some have fixed by changing in the router the lease time from forever to maybe a week or day. And that may not be your issue but worth a shot. Some have also fixed by using static ip for the tab. Their are others.
Hi Shaun298,
Will give your suggestion a try. Will let you know! Tx!!
Greetz,
S.J. Onnie
S.J.Onnie said:
Hi Shaun298,
Will give your suggestion a try. Will let you know! Tx!!
Greetz,
S.J. Onnie
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There's a fix if you were rooted but since your not this post doesn't help you ha sorry.
Sent from my PG86100 using Tapatalk
Neither of the tip's require root, one change is in the router, and the other on the tab, root or no root.
shaun298 said:
Neither of the tip's require root, one change is in the router, and the other on the tab, root or no root.
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The fix im referring to is applying a smali patch which i think requires root. Changing the router isnt always possible if its not your router and you dont have the user name and password and i dont know how well switching from dhcp to static works but the couple times i tried i still experienced dropouts
Sent from my A500 using Tapatalk
Did not think about campus routers and such. I had the wifi drop out with several roms. With security on the router open, I did not get the drop outs, but who wants to run like that. My fix was back to stock 3.1.
Hi All,
Thanks for your support and your suggestions.
Found a solution that seems to work over here: http://www.transformerforums.com/fo...neycomb-3-2-update-problems-tf.html#post34828 (Thanks, Shaun298)
Not sure how long WiFi stays on but I am hoping it sticks.
Weirdest thing: I did not even know you could reboot the Iconia like that :-S
Greetz,
S.J. Onnie
still not working
After I upgraded my A500 to Taboonay 2.2 (which is GEN_1 of Android 3.2) I started experiencing this issue.
Wifi connection keeps dropping every other 5-10 minutes. After reading this thread I was unpatient to figure out if the proposed solution works for me.
Unfortunately wifi still keeps dropping after I booted with power button adn "-" volume bottom pressed and then rebooted.
I also tried deleting the existing connection manually after that and repeated the same procedure. Even after that when I added wifi network from the scratch it still keeps dropping like it was previously
Hey all,
So I've been tethering wifi from my Evo 4G to my A500 for some time now, and only in the past few days has it decided to stop working. I've encountered the bug where it loops trying to obtain an IP address until it gives up (connection disabled). I've tried deleting the dhcpd-wlan0.lease under /data/misc/dhcp, paperclip resets, deleting all remembered connections, creating open and secured connections, and nothing seems to work.
I'm running Taboonay 2.2 on the A500 and Fresh Rom on the Evo. Strange thing is that when I'm home, it connects to my router with no problem, so it's just the tethering that's screwy. Anyone have any idea how to fix this?
In the past this is what I have seen people do (as well as me) with some success.
Attempt to connect to the network, when it fails, forget the network and reboot the tablet. When it reboots, try to add again. If it doesn't work again click to forget the network again and reboot. Sometimes this takes 3 or 4 times to start working again. Maybe this will help maybe not?
Try turning wifi off in settings (uncheck box), wait a sec and then turn it on again.
You have to root your Iconia tablet. Then replace ad-hoc file. This tablet will not tether to ad -hockey networks stock.look for instructions on this forum its all over on how to do this.
This has been answered many times since the day this tablet hit the market.
Back in April.
Google (XDA ad-hoc tether for acericonia a500)
erica_renee said:
You have to root your Iconia tablet. Then replace ad-hoc file. This tablet will not tether to ad -hockey networks stock.look for instructions on this forum its all over on how to do this.
This has been answered many times since the day this tablet hit the market.
Back in April.
Google (XDA ad-hoc tether for acericonia a500)
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He has been using it fine, with no issues until now. I use my stock A500 and my G2 to tether all the time.
I had the same problem with my A500 when I first got it, and a Toshiba Thrive when I got that as well. This was my home network though. Resetting the router solved the problem for me. I have had no issues since then.
I figured out what the problem was: the Wifi Tether app is just buggy as hell. For some reason, whenever I switched the tethering on, it also triggered the phone's wifi toggle on, which blocked the tether (I think). Flipz actually unlocked the official hotspot on the Evo 4G because of this, so I've been using that and it works just fine. Thanks for the help, though!
erica_renee said:
You have to root your Iconia tablet. Then replace ad-hoc file. This tablet will not tether to ad -hockey networks stock.look for instructions on this forum its all over on how to do this.
This has been answered many times since the day this tablet hit the market.
Back in April.
Google (XDA ad-hoc tether for acericonia a500)
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He mentioned using Taboonay, so must be rooted...
Guys a week ago I bought my acer a500 Iconia yesterday I updated it to version 3.1, it was fast hands, much improved, I turned on my wifi connected it more often when I was browsing it does not access the Internet more and more strange I I can even access my router. Then I saw in that topic if you give it a reset back 2x the wifi to work properly. The more I did it and did not work, so I found the website of acer patch to fix the problem, I used more problem remained, so I downloaded another update.zip to update it to version 3.2, more el is still with the same problem does anyone know how to solve this?
Hello XDA Forum Members,
First of thanks to all you guys that take their time and help us to fix problems or let us understand things clearly about Android.
My question is that I just bought Acer Iconia A500 and love it and I was expecting to use my LG Optimus V wifi tethering (I can use the wifi tethering easily to my laptop using wireless tether app). I cannot seem to connect it to my Acer tablet. I used PDA Net app for tablets and others wifi tethering app using Bluetooth but the problem comes to only one thing. When I try to connect bluetooth to my Acer tablet, I seem to pair it easily but on both end i.e. on my phone as well as Acer tablet I get a message "Paired but not connected". I also cannot seem to see any proxy settings in Acer tablet settings so that I can tweak it plus after pairing I cannot seem to see Internet Connection in Bluetooth Profile section to connect to internet. But on the other hand I can flawlessly (with out any problem) use my Virgin Mobile LG Optimus internet to my laptop.
I tried everything but unsuccessful and here I am asking you guys to help me.
I am pretty sure you guys out there smarter than me to give me a simple solution.
Thanks
Nick
Iluvandroidfone said:
Hello XDA Forum Members,
First of thanks to all you guys that take their time and help us to fix problems or let us understand things clearly about Android.
My question is that I just bought Acer Iconia A500 and love it and I was expecting to use my LG Optimus V wifi tethering (I can use the wifi tethering easily to my laptop using wireless tether app). I cannot seem to connect it to my Acer tablet. I used PDA Net app for tablets and others wifi tethering app using Bluetooth but the problem comes to only one thing. When I try to connect bluetooth to my Acer tablet, I seem to pair it easily but on both end i.e. on my phone as well as Acer tablet I get a message "Paired but not connected". I also cannot seem to see any proxy settings in Acer tablet settings so that I can tweak it plus after pairing I cannot seem to see Internet Connection in Bluetooth Profile section to connect to internet. But on the other hand I can flawlessly (with out any problem) use my Virgin Mobile LG Optimus internet to my laptop.
I tried everything but unsuccessful and here I am asking you guys to help me.
I am pretty sure you guys out there smarter than me to give me a simple solution.
Thanks
Nick
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I have no idea about using bluetooth to tether so I cant help you there. But what happens when you try and tether over wifi?
I've got an Optimus V running CM7 and I'm able to wirelessly tether perfectly via wifi using QuickSettings off the marketplace. I've been doing it with my A500 or my old CM7 Nook Color for a good 4 or 5 months now.
Once you get your mobile hotspot set up, you literally open the app and hit a button to turn on the tethering. It's really easy.