[Q] FoxFi, PDAnet, ESFileExplorer, WiFi Tethering AT&T - AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin

A co-worker had mentioned one of these apps to me a while back and I am investigating using them now. I have an AT&T S4, no root, stock ROM with NovaPrime Launcher.
Is this right?
-PDAnet was a USB only tether app, now it is combined with FoxFi
-FoxFi is a WiFi tether app
-ES File Explorer NetManager tool - this just turns on the builtin Android HotSpot
My Experience so far:
-FoxFi (free) did not work well for me. It worked breifly, I was able to download SpeedTest app and then lost connection and haven't gotten it back since.
-FoxFi today popped up the Android host spot setting and a message from AT&T that I need to call 611
-So I found out about ES FileExplorer NetManager and it seems to be working great, 2Gbps download and works while my phone is in standby(screen off)
-ES is also popping up the call 611 message now though
Remaining questions:
-does the 611 message mean that AT&T is going to start charging me for hotspot? Or do they even still charge for hotspot?
-I have AT&T unlimited data, has anyone determined if there is a limit on how much data or time you can use hotspot without AT&T detecting it or making you pay?
-Is there a widget to quickly turn on/off the setting in ESFileExplorer?

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[Q] nTelos Milestone X Wireless Tether problems

So I started having issues with my Evo4g (unlocked to work on nTelos), so I went back to my Milestone X (Droid X). I followed the procedures found here and elsewhere to root the OTA 2.3.5 update. All was well until I went to use Wireless Tether. Within 10 seconds of starting it, it says "3g data link lost" and disconnects any wifi clients.
I found a few different instructions, and installed the Droid X Bootstrap recovery, installed the TBH patch, and rebooted. The problem persists. I even tried the wifi tether beta that allows you to select the device type, but that doesn't help at all.
One thing to note is that no matter what wifi tethering app I use (Wireless Tether, Wifi Tether, Barnacle, OpenGarden), the built in hotspot program pops open and says "Tethering or Hotspot active"--then I get the "3g data link lost" My "3g" icon will then disappear and reappear at random, and while it's gone, the phone itself doesn't have a data connection. Once I close any tethering programs, the phone's data works again. The same thing happens when I try to use the built in hot spot program.
It seems as if enabling tethering kills the cellular data connection, and somehow resets it. I read somewhere about issues with this phone and wifi+3g working at the same time, but with wifi enabled, connected to an access point, I have cellular connectivity (since calls come through)
Any ideas?
Wireless Tether
droidxforums.com/forum/droid-x-hacks/30698-guide-wireless-tethering-your-own-risk.html
Take out the space
Gives lots of options for 2.3.and above. It all starts with freezing the main 4 programs that records the tethering data. Read there and it will explane.
those four programs don't exist that I can find on the nTelos device. One strange thing though, I used AndSQLite per some of those instructions to browse the databases, and there are lots of things with vzw in their names (verizon wireless). I wonder if Motorola made a generic ROM, and this just doesn't have Verizon's bloat in it yet.
nTelos doesn't charge us for tethering, but they don't officially support it yet either, so they're no help.
What's the simplest way to go back to 2.2 ?
For an update if anybody runs across this, if I select "Routing Fix" in the Wifi Tether settings, it works.
you may contact nTelos to see if they can assist. Their toll free line is 18774683567.
kastone
touch-aaron said:
For an update if anybody runs across this, if I select "Routing Fix" in the Wifi Tether settings, it works.
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Apparently this only works sometime. Sometimes the tethering works, sometimes it doesn't.
kastone said:
you may contact nTelos to see if they can assist. Their toll free line is 18774683567.
kastone
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I'm an nTelos re-seller. They tell me that since it's "not officially supported" that they cannot help.
is there a way to go back to 2.2?
touch-aaron said:
is there a way to go back to 2.2?
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TTT. Really looking to get wifi tethering back.

[Q] HELP! is there anyway to avoid mobile hot spot charge?

Hi,everyone,I need some advises here.
I used my laptop browsing via mobile hotspot 2 days ago, today I received a sms from tmobile asks me to add $15 hotspot program. My laptop can't loading pages anymore,only thing appear on the screen is warning message from tmobile,says I must have mobile hotspot service added in order to use it. I don't wanna pay extra $15 for just using hotspot. Btw,I have 2g data plan already. Is there anyway we could go around it to use hotspot without being caught. Or paying it is only option?
Are you rooted? If you are, Google wireless tether apk, download it, install it and use that instead of the hot spot that comes with the device. Or you can switch to a different custom rom. Those 2 options usually do the trick.
If you're not rooted, then there's nothing you can do but to pay the fees.
sunwave said:
Hi,everyone,I need some advises here.
I used my laptop browsing via mobile hotspot 2 days ago, today I received a sms from tmobile asks me to add $15 hotspot program. My laptop can't loading pages anymore,only thing appear on the screen is warning message from tmobile,says I must have mobile hotspot service added in order to use it. I don't wanna pay extra $15 for just using hotspot. Btw,I have 2g data plan already. Is there anyway we could go around it to use hotspot without being caught. Or paying it is only option?
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Either root and get a custom rom or root and get barnacle tether
Sent from my HTC Glacier using XDA App
Tmobile is having a deal where you get free hotspot an picture sync.promo for the 5gb an 10gb plans, all you have to do is ask bout it
If I helped, give thanks, if you please.
........Death before dishonor........
Team MS
Thank you for help!
my phone is rooted, and i did try several wifi tethering app to bypass tmobile, it actually worked.
Barnacle Wifi Tether and another app named Wifi Tether doesn't work in my phone, but one app named Wireless Tether works flawlessly.
Moreover, I have to delete firefox in my laptop and install other version in order to get rid of T-mobile cookies, otherwise tmobile warning page will stay there forever.
Thank you again!
sunwave said:
Thank you for help!
my phone is rooted, and i did try several wifi tethering app to bypass tmobile, it actually worked.
Barnacle Wifi Tether and another app named Wifi Tether doesn't work in my phone, but one app named Wireless Tether works flawlessly.
Moreover, I have to delete firefox in my laptop and install other version in order to get rid of T-mobile cookies, otherwise tmobile warning page will stay there forever.
Thank you again!
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this is one of reasons I use Chrome, even when I wasn't rooted and was using stock Wi-Fi Hotspot I never once received any messages from TMO about adding Hotspot to my account

[Help] On Verizon, UDP, hotspot being flaky

Hey all,
So I have UDP with Verizon. Got my phone the other day and activated it before I inserted my VZW sim card. Tethering worked fine until today (after Droid-Life posted about it), and now it will work for a few minutes and then I lose internet connectivity on both the phone and hotspot.
To get around this with my previous Moto X 2013, I used the wifi tethering apk from here: https://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/ and then only allow one device at a time to connect. This app doesn't seem to work with Android L (or I can't get the settings right).
Is there anything else I can try? Or is there any way to limit devices with the stock tethering?
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Other info:
Phone is unlocked.
TWRP installed (phone tethered fine after TWRP installed)
Phone is rooted (same as above)
I installed Xposed today, started having issues. Uninstalled Xposed, still have tethering issue.
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Wife's phone, a rooted VZW Samsung GS4 is also being flaky with wifi tethering. I'm guessing that it isn't my device tonight...
hbar98 said:
Hey all,
So I have UDP with Verizon. Got my phone the other day and activated it before I inserted my VZW sim card. Tethering worked fine until today (after Droid-Life posted about it), and now it will work for a few minutes and then I lose internet connectivity on both the phone and hotspot.
To get around this with my previous Moto X 2013, I used the wifi tethering apk from here: https://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/ and then only allow one device at a time to connect. This app doesn't seem to work with Android L (or I can't get the settings right).
Is there anything else I can try? Or is there any way to limit devices with the stock tethering?
(edit)
Other info:
Phone is unlocked.
TWRP installed (phone tethered fine after TWRP installed)
Phone is rooted (same as above)
I installed Xposed today, started having issues. Uninstalled Xposed, still have tethering issue.
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Wife's phone, a rooted VZW Samsung GS4 is also being flaky with wifi tethering. I'm guessing that it isn't my device tonight...
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I have a similar issue but not quite the same. I am also on UDP vzw and the behavior that I get is that the hotspot connection to the Internet is barely usable at all. Some pages load, sometimes but often they timeout. But with all of this the connectivity on the handset itself is unaffected. I'm going to try a usb tether on my Mac with the HoRNDIS package soon to see how the speeds compare. Maybe it's just the wifi tether and sub will be okay?
There have been some that are specifically noticing DNS issues. Maybe that's where the root of the problem is.
Forrice said:
I have a similar issue but not quite the same. I am also on UDP vzw and the behavior that I get is that the hotspot connection to the Internet is barely usable at all. Some pages load, sometimes but often they timeout. But with all of this the connectivity on the handset itself is unaffected. I'm going to try a usb tether on my Mac with the HoRNDIS package soon to see how the speeds compare. Maybe it's just the wifi tether and sub will be okay?
There have been some that are specifically noticing DNS issues. Maybe that's where the root of the problem is.
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Ever since I found out that VZW allows you to add the tethering package to your UDP line and not mess anything up, I bought it and have experienced zero issues. Before that, every few days I would have some bad DNS issues where google would work, but nothing else would. Now my phone is my ISP and I've had no issues.
My (current) network setup: phone (wifi tether) -> bridge computer (internet sharing) -> router (Asus AC66U) -> wired/wireless network.
I haven't tried the bridge computer as an actual network bridge as that caused some flakiness before... but that was when I wasn't paying for tethering. Eventually I'd like to use my phone as a 4g modem that is directly hooked up to my router.

Mobile HotSpot on AT&T grandfathered Unlimited Plan

"Mobile HotSpot on AT&T grandfathered Unlimited Plan" If you have a regular At&t plan the hotspot is easily employed...... I have the grandfathered plan that sends me the "Call 611 to enable."
Does anyone have a way to employ the mobile hotspot on the Galaxy G935A? Seeing as there is no root, is there any coding or permission tweaks I can try to get the Hotspot to work?
FoxFi works with tethering, but turns up a 10246 permission error for Hotspot. I though I had it when I kept the system from checking my plan with At&t.....But eventually, the system picked up on the blocking I employed.
Two main reasons for me to root are Viper4Android, which there is not get-around. The second is the Mobile Hotspot. When I travel with my kids, they used to use my Rooted G3 to play Youtube, games, and interactive apps to keep them busy on long road trips.
My choices, buy a G935F on Ebay and root it.....but then I would have to sell my G935A.
Someone miraculously figures a way to root.
I find a work-around and change "permissions."
I'm leaning toward the new phone, just hate spending $700 on Ebay with electronics.......
Any help is appreciated, even the slap of reality to "just get the F" and quit screwing around with the A.....
-dmxinc
dmxinc said:
"Mobile HotSpot on AT&T grandfathered Unlimited Plan" If you have a regular At&t plan the hotspot is easily employed...... I have the grandfathered plan that sends me the "Call 611 to enable."
Does anyone have a way to employ the mobile hotspot on the Galaxy G935A? Seeing as there is no root, is there any coding or permission tweaks I can try to get the Hotspot to work?
FoxFi works with tethering, but turns up a 10246 permission error for Hotspot. I though I had it when I kept the system from checking my plan with At&t.....But eventually, the system picked up on the blocking I employed.
Two main reasons for me to root are Viper4Android, which there is not get-around. The second is the Mobile Hotspot. When I travel with my kids, they used to use my Rooted G3 to play Youtube, games, and interactive apps to keep them busy on long road trips.
My choices, buy a G935F on Ebay and root it.....but then I would have to sell my G935A.
Someone miraculously figures a way to root.
I find a work-around and change "permissions."
I'm leaning toward the new phone, just hate spending $700 on Ebay with electronics.......
Any help is appreciated, even the slap of reality to "just get the F" and quit screwing around with the A.....
-dmxinc
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Can someone help me try this? THERE ARE NO MODIFICATIONS HERE
-I opened the mobile Hotspot app, set it up while I was connected to my home wifi network.
It worked, but used my home network as the hotspot.
-Next, I shut my wifi off and expected the error, but the phone hotspot transferred to the 4g, as long as I didn't turn the hotspot off.
I also tried this at an open cafe wifi hotspot, then turned off the phone wifi again, the hotspot remained working as long as I didn't hit the back button.
* I did get a tetherprovision.apk error, but it didn't shut the phone mobile hotspot off.
I tried this on my wifes S6 Edge, but it didn't work. Can someone try the S7 and S7 edge G935A
***To make sure it was the phone hotspot, I checked ip addresses before and after the WIFI was turned off. Ip adress changed from where I live to a place in Maryland, so fairly sure it wasn't just a fluke, but that is why I need someone to test it........Thanks
-dmxinc
I had the same challenge (unlimited data but no tether provisioning) and wanted to tether without giving up my awesome plan or pissing off my employer (my corporate plan includes international LTE roaming -- amazing!). Being unable to root and having unsuccessfully tried FoxFi (gave me an error message about internal connectivity or somesuch) I discovered Samsung already has an app for this called SideSync. It requires a USB cable but is able to set up its own hotspot.
I'm using a Mac laptop with SM-G930A and after installing SideSync on both the Mac and the phone, and launching both, I can detect the phone connection (apparently this works better when the app is running in the background but not on its home screen). Then I can click the "More" button on the Mac side and launch "Enable Mobile Hotspot". You'll need to give it MTP and several other access permissions the first time, but it should create and configure a WAP of the form "SIDESYNC_HOTSPOT_##:##" and connect the Mac to it. This works even if your phone provisioning wouldn't normally allow it. Easy!
aikidork said:
I had the same challenge (unlimited data but no tether provisioning) and wanted to tether without giving up my awesome plan or pissing off my employer (my corporate plan includes international LTE roaming -- amazing!). Being unable to root and having unsuccessfully tried FoxFi (gave me an error message about internal connectivity or somesuch) I discovered Samsung already has an app for this called SideSync. It requires a USB cable but is able to set up its own hotspot.
I'm using a Mac laptop with SM-G930A and after installing SideSync on both the Mac and the phone, and launching both, I can detect the phone connection (apparently this works better when the app is running in the background but not on its home screen). Then I can click the "More" button on the Mac side and launch "Enable Mobile Hotspot". You'll need to give it MTP and several other access permissions the first time, but it should create and configure a WAP of the form "SIDESYNC_HOTSPOT_##:##" and connect the Mac to it. This works even if your phone provisioning wouldn't normally allow it. Easy!
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I am on Win 10, I will try and find Sidesync, or an equivalent thanks! But, that is exactly what I was looking for!
If I find a Windows equivalent, I will repost.
Thanks again,.
I found it but it says both devices utilize the same wifi connection. Will it Direct Connect them and use 4g as the wifi?
dmxinc said:
I am on Win 10, I will try and find Sidesync, or an equivalent thanks! But, that is exactly what I was looking for!
If I find a Windows equivalent, I will repost.
Thanks again,.
I found it but it says both devices utilize the same wifi connection. Will it Direct Connect them and use 4g as the wifi?
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Not sure what you mean by utilizing the same wifi connection -- It is NOT the WiFi Direct feature if that's what you mean..if the phone is connected in that mode, this will need to be turned off first. Mine handles the setup of the hotspot automatically (at least on Mac). It's a little wonky but usually works on the first try. And yes... once it's working, the phone shows that it's got a device connected via wi-fi sharing icon, and the laptop shows it's using SIDESYNC_HOTSPOT.
aikidork said:
Not sure what you mean by utilizing the same wifi connection -- It is NOT the WiFi Direct feature if that's what you ttle wonky but usually works on the first try. And yes... once it's working, the phone shows that it's got a device connected via wi-fi sharing icon, and the laptop shows it's using SIDESYNC_HOTSPOT.
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If figured it wasn't the Direct. It installed and loaded right up, but it disconnected on the PC side every few seconds. I think it might be my A.V. software......I'm going to mess around with it this weekend to see if that's the issue. Thanks for tips.
So sidesync is a hotspot app, must be installed on all devices that want to connect to hotspot (in this case galaxy g930a). Is this correct?

[XT1528] Simple fix for stock WiFi tether/hotspot no internet issue on GSM networks

tl;dr: If you have the WiFi hotspot issue where you can connect to the network but not get internet access try launching the stock verizon hotspot app and enabling it. Worked for me.
This is my first post please don't hate me for posting something so simple, thanks. :highfive:
I've been using my XT1528 as my main device for a few months now, preferring it to the Galaxy S4, but a major drawback was the inability to use it as a hotspot. I own a copy of easytether(for my linux machines) and PDAnet so it wasn't the end of the world but having to physically connect the phone is inconvenient.
Basically, you can enable the hotspot but it doesn't provide any connectivity. The standard fix for this on all phones is to edit the APN type setting to include "dun". When using the airplane mode trick to enable connectivity with a GSM carrier on the XT1528 apn changes don't stick for whatever reason. Half the time when I look an APN isn't even selected. I don't know if MMS works or not because I use hangouts to text but the SMSC seems to be fine. You also cannot enable the hotspot through any of the standard apps from the play store. FoxFi says it isn't compatible, etc.
So today I was playing around, testing M$' arrow launcher, and I launched the verizon "mobile hotspot" app on a whim, which seems to be just a shortcut to the stock tethering settings. It isn't though. When you go through this app and enable the hotspot - it works. I then disabled it, went to the tethering settings normally, enabled it, and the hotspot worked again. It makes no sense to me, I struggled to get this feature working for weeks and did a ton of googling for a solution. This app must temporarily add "dun" to whatever apn this thing is using because as a stock system app SELinux isn't blocking it. I haven't tried a reboot yet as I'm working on something with the phone and can't reboot it for a while.
With this solved I am in complete awe at what an incredible device I got for $25. From one hand usage, to the really nice feeling of the body, SD card slot, battery life. I am just so happy with this thing.
I haven't been able to replicate your results. I clicked on the red mobile Hotspot icon on the app drawer, set up and activated it. My tablet seems to connect, but the connection has no internet. This is driving me bonkers.

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