Has anyone managed to make a WiFi hotspot work on carriers/plans blocking it like the old Verizon unlimited data plan? I remember reading for the nexus 6 that if you pop the sim card out, enable the hotspot, then pop it in it will work. Has anyone found anything like that? I'd really like a phone with a keyboard but I won't give up the hotspot function.
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There is lots of information on tethering Android to PC/MAC/Linux but I am having trouble finding any information or apps that can do WIRED tether of ANDROID-to-ANDROID, such as a smartphone to a tablet. Anyone have any information on this?
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If this forum does not have the answer to this question, does anyone know where else I could find this information? I have done numerous Google searches and can't find anything.
Why not bluetooth tether?
Wireless tethering is the only option currently available for phone to tablet tethering. Either in the form of Bluetooth or WiFi.
cajunflavoredbob said:
Wireless tethering is the only option currently available for phone to tablet tethering. Either in the form of Bluetooth or WiFi.
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Have tried but unable to get both devices to connect. They see each other but can not connect. I must be doing something wrong!
I just came here to start a new thread on "wireless tethering" between 2 Android phones. Is it possible? I can't find any info on it. I have a Captivate with an Unlimited Dataplan and a Captivate without a Dataplan. The one WITHOUT the Dataplan is on AT&T's $50 Unlimited Talk, Text & Web Plan. The Talk and Text work just fine. I was wanting to use my Rooted Captivated with the Unlimited Dataplan to broadcast my internet over to the other phone when nearby. We don't have Wifi at home. I use the Wireless Tether apk all the time for a laptop, but for some reason the other phone can't see the signal. Any help would be appreciated!
Hey, I was wondering is it possible to tether without a carrier. I have a phone already rooting and giving out WiFi on a carrier but I am due for an upgrade. So I would use the old phone as a WiFi dummy, nothing else, while the new phone and my nexus 7 will connect to it. Is it possible? Thanks.
No way that I know to allow it to act as a WiFi repeater. Now, you can connect it to your WiFi and USB tether or Bluetooth tether as an alternative.
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Hey, I was wondering is it possible to tether without a carrier. I have a phone already rooting and giving out WiFi on a carrier but I am due for an upgrade. So I would use the old phone as a WiFi dummy, nothing else, while the new phone and my nexus 7 will connect to it. Is it possible? Thanks.
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I'm not sure I follow the question entirely.
How will the old phone be able to provide data if it's no longer associated with a data plan? The new phone will have the data plan after you upgrade. The old phone will be able to receive wifi, but not cellular data. In that sense as a spare wifi only device, but it won't be passing any cellular data to other devices.
If you are trying to get out of paying for data, you could switch to a regular "feature" phone, and only get wifi on all your devices, but they won't receive cellular data, so they can't tether anything for you. This is the route I went. I run a Windows phone as a no-data phone (not supposed to), an android phone as wifi only, and the nexus 7 as wifi only (though I add the 3g plan to the nexus on a month to month basis).
Now if you're trying to set the old phone up as a wifi repeater, I'm not sure if it could do that or not. It would depend on the hardware involved, but it's unlikely. Even if you did pull it off, what's the point? It's unlikely that it would work well.
For some reason whenever I use the built in wifi tethering my laptop always just shows a limited connection. I can never get it to work. I don't get any other error messages. A friend of mine on the same plan is able to use it so I'm just wondering if anyone else is having problems and if there is maybe something I'm not doing. both my friend and I do not have the tethering add on, but he is able to use it. thank you everyone in advance.
I don't do anything BUT tether with my $30 plan. I have a JVC head unit in my car that integrates so well with my iPhone 4, I never turn off tethering at all. My Nexus lives to serve my iPhone 4...lol
Never had an issue. Have you updated your wireless card drivers on your laptop?
Try your laptop with your friends phone.
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For some reason whenever I use the built in wifi tethering my laptop always just shows a limited connection. I can never get it to work. I don't get any other error messages. A friend of mine on the same plan is able to use it so I'm just wondering if anyone else is having problems and if there is maybe something I'm not doing. both my friend and I do not have the tethering add on, but he is able to use it. thank you everyone in advance.
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You should be able to. No problem here.
wp7chris said:
For some reason whenever I use the built in wifi tethering my laptop always just shows a limited connection. I can never get it to work. I don't get any other error messages. A friend of mine on the same plan is able to use it so I'm just wondering if anyone else is having problems and if there is maybe something I'm not doing. both my friend and I do not have the tethering add on, but he is able to use it. thank you everyone in advance.
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I just tried mine to see what happened...It worked when connecting to my nexus 7 but not with my PC...so maybe it is a PC issue and not something with the phone or network.
Download a user agent switcher for your browser (Firefox or chrome) and then switch it to android and it should work
"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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"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!
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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.
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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 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?
So I just rooted my phone mainly to use hotspot and I can't get it to work. I'm on cricket wireless and when I tried turning it on I got an error saying I had to pay for the add-on.
Did a quick search and tried putting net.tethering.noprovisioning=true at the end of my build.prop and that got the hotspot to turn on. But when I actually connect on my laptop I get a limited connection and can't actually load any webpages. Any way to get it working fully?
I am on Verizon and the hotspot worked right off the bat with no modifications. I am on a old grandfather unlimited data plan. At least about as unlimited as you get these days. I do not have the hotspot activated on my plan.