Just another question regarding tethering. Using the free android tether program I'm only able to wireless tether to my macbook, shows up as a "device" instead on a router like my captivate used to. And I can't get any other devices or phones to tether from my phone like I used to.
Anyone got any ideas? Is this the adhoc vs infrastructure thing that I keep hearing about?
TIA
Yes this is ad hoc. It should work just the same except I guess android devices wont discover ad hoc networks. I used it on my mac Book and ipad fine
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Hoping someone can help with tethering a cell phone with the g tablet. I specifically have a blackberry storm 2 from Verizon with all the necessary rights to tether. The problem is the the OS I am using (Vegan) makes the tablet believe it is a phone rather then a computer so it obviously causes issues with connecting to a phone by Bluetooth. Any assistance would be great.
auen11 said:
Hoping someone can help with tethering a cell phone with the g tablet. I specifically have a blackberry storm 2 from Verizon with all the necessary rights to tether. The problem is the the OS I am using (Vegan) makes the tablet believe it is a phone rather then a computer so it obviously causes issues with connecting to a phone by Bluetooth. Any assistance would be great.
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If you get an answer, let me know...
I set up a buddy with a BB with a mobile HOT SPOT for now.
Storm 2 tether
Anyone ever figure out if tether between storm2 and gtab? Running vegan b 5.1
I have an android phone and it tethers fine. Do you see the black berry show up in your network??
I think there is an app called tether for the blackberry that lets you do bluetooth tether.
barackisbrown... Wifi tether or usb tether?
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I use wifi tether..Not sure if the gtablet can do usb tethering??
It's been asked in several different threads, there is no solution currently to tether blackberry with the gtab. There is no bluetooth dun client available to do this yet unfortunately.
I just got my G tab about a week ago and and wondering the same thing. I have a iPhone that I have jailbroken so bluetooth would be the most convenient way to tether but if anyone has any suggestions I would be grateful.
Besides the difference between Bluetooh and wife, what is the difference between those two types of tethering???
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Besides the difference between Bluetooh and wife, what is the difference between those two types of tethering???
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I don't know what the speed differences would be between the two methods but I've been using Wireless Tether on my rooted Droid X for almost two months. It turns my phone into a 3G wifi hotspot that allows up to 5 devices to connect to. Since I have an unlimited data plan with Verizon this seemed like a no-brainer to me rather than paying them an additional $30/month for a lousy 2GB to use the Verizon hotspot app the phone came with.
This has worked with no headaches and since I always have my phone with me it is convenient.
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I set up a buddy with a BB with a mobile HOT SPOT for now.
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So I installed the Nero ROM on my Vibrant and it states that I can tether, but anyone know of a way to tether it to my G-Tab? I found apps like PDA-Net, which will install just fine on my phone, but will it have issues if installed on my tablet? Pre-Thanks for the help. You guys rock ! ! !
I'm running tnt lite 4.2.1 and I'm tethering it to the gtab. The Tnt lite rom recognizes ad hoc tethering which is required using Wireless Tether on my Droid X to the gtab. I don't run VEGAn so I can't help you there.
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Anyone know if the Thunderbolt will be able to BT teather to a xoom?
I don't see why we wouldn't be able to, at least through the mobile hotspot. The xoom should treat that like any other wifi network.
As for a direct wireless tether, I don't know.
Yes, it wil work.
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Are you thinking what I was thinking? Get a wifi-only xoom and use the phone's connection instead of buying a data plan? I dont see many scenarios where i will be with a tablet and not my cellphone.
I want to root my Xoom so I can wireless tether from my phone. If I can't do this, I don't even want the Xoom. So, if I root it and I still don't like it(because I still have a few days before I can take it back), is there a way I can get it back to the stock software and all so I can return it? I have the wifi model.
I saw some other posts on this but I wasn't quite clear on whether they would work or not. Some were only for Verizon model and stuff so I wasn't sure.
Thanks.
Why would you want to root the Xoom?
Wouldn't you just be able to connect wi-fi by just allowing your cell phone to output wi-fi signal? I can do this without rooting my Xoom.
Hmmm, I guess I am confused by your question. Do you want to use your phone to act as the modem for your Xoom or your Xoom to act as a modem for your phone?
If it is the latter, that doesn't make much sense. So it must be the former and in that case you would need to have a rooted phone to tether your Xoom to. Your Xoom can then remain stock.
My phone is rooted. I want to use my phone's internet to tether to my Xoom. Wifi tether apps create an ad hoc wifi network for your device to be able to connect to, and if you have not heard, Motorola disabled the functionality to connect to ad hoc networks in the Xoom. Therefore, it must be rooted.
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My phone is rooted. I want to use my phone's internet to tether to my Xoom. Wifi tether apps create an ad hoc wifi network for your device to be able to connect to, and if you have not heard, Motorola disabled the functionality to connect to ad hoc networks in the Xoom. Therefore, it must be rooted.
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My stock Xoom tethers just fine to my rooted Evo so I guess I wont be of much help.
What app are you using on your Evo?
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What app are you using on your Evo?
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The hacked Sprint hotspot. Haven't tried wireless tether.
Guess it depend on your phone. Using tether on my incredible and droid 2 it is not in adhoc mode but infrastructure mode. They both show up as wireless g networks not wireless b or adhoc. I also did not know of anything you had to do to a rooted xoom to use the adhoc serivce.
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Well that app must run differently than the wireless tether because I know for a fact wireless tether doesn't work unless the Xoom is rooted.
Edit: dch921 what app are you using?
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Well that app must run differently than the wireless tether because I know for a fact wireless tether doesn't work unless the Xoom is rooted.
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You are incorrect sir. My Xoom Wifi is not rooted. And I have no problem tethering with my Droid Incredible. Not using any app. Just the native Wifi tether built into CM7.
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You are incorrect sir. My Xoom Wifi is not rooted. And I have no problem tethering with my Droid Incredible. Not using any app. Just the native Wifi tether built into CM7.
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Then I don't know what the problem is because my tether network does not show up when I scan for networks in my Xoom.
I am using cm 7 tether as well.
The newer experimental builds of wireless tether apk supports infrastructure mode. Not sure which phone you are using but here is the link to the site where the project is hosted
http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/wiki/ReleaseNotesKnownIssues
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What app and phone are you trying to tether with?
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I am using cm 7 tether as well.
The newer experimental builds of wireless tether apk supports infrastructure mode. Not sure which phone you are using but here is the link to the site where the project is hosted
http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/wiki/ReleaseNotesKnownIssues
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Alright i have a backflip so ill try it with that but I also need it to work with an iPhone and I use MyWi 4.0 for that... I don't think it supports infrastructure mode.
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Well that app must run differently than the wireless tether because I know for a fact wireless tether doesn't work unless the Xoom is rooted.
Edit: dch921 what app are you using?
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This is 100% incorrect. I have a Rooted HTC Evo and use Wireless Tether all the time on my WiFi Xoom ( No root whatsoever).
Yeah i was already corrected on that. Just has to be in infrastructure mode. My phone has an older version without infrastructure mode.
So I currently own a Thunderbolt on Verizon as well as a wifi only galaxy tab and a wifi only xoom.
I also have a G2X on a 2 week trial. I was going to transfer me and my gf's phones over from Verizon.
I have my G2X rooted already and I have wireless tether installed. It works but my Xoom and my Galaxy tab won't recognize it. I'm assuming this is because it's running in ad-hoc mode and not infrastructure.
If this something that can be changed with kernal upgrade or custom roms or will this phone forever broadcast ad-hoc? This is pretty important to me as it's one of my primary purposes for switching to tmobile. (4g in my area vs none for verizon as well as battery life.)
all the 3 version is infrastructure mode the 2 version is in ad hoc. try it out should work not sure yet tho. http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/downloads/list
I feel like a tard now actually. I'm so used to having verizon I didn't realize that T-Mobile didn't take out the stock android mobile hotspot app.
Does anyone know if t-mobile makes you sign up for a tethering plan to use it? I was able to fire it up and connect both my Xoom and my galaxy tab just fine.. just don't want a suprise in my bill.
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I feel like a tard now actually. I'm so used to having verizon I didn't realize that T-Mobile didn't take out the stock android mobile hotspot app.
Does anyone know if t-mobile makes you sign up for a tethering plan to use it? I was able to fire it up and connect both my Xoom and my galaxy tab just fine.. just don't want a suprise in my bill.
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Just use it.
If you got error page, you simply add tethering option or just change browser agent (but I don't think you'll get in trouble if you tether with Android tablets).
As long as you have an unlimited data package youll be fine...they have a 2gig & 5gig. Once you go over those limits it will still work, just not as fast as before you went over the data cap. No issues with mine tho, my hotspot works fine with various devices
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I keep getting access control disabled when I use either Android Wifi tethering apps I don't have a hotspot app in my G2X I went and downloaded via android any solutions to making this work??
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I keep getting access control disabled when I use either Android Wifi tethering apps I don't have a hotspot app in my G2X I went and downloaded via android any solutions to making this work??
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It's not an app, it's in the wireless network settings. Same place as wifi-bluetooth and all that. Just a check box to turn it on.
Funny story about the wireless tether for root users app.
So when I posted this that it will only work in ad-hoc mode, I found a workaround for my xoom to connect before I realized there was built in hotspot. The built in hotspot works great and it's infrastructure mode, but like my thunderbolt and droid x before it, won't stay connected in my office for some reason.
I tried the wireless tether program and low and behold it stays connected firmly in my office. Must be something about it being ad-hoc because all the infrastructure mode tethering methods I've tried will not stay connected in my office.. must be some intereference or something.
Hello I have a rooted NS4g. and i use the wireless tether app to tether to my laptop but i notice that when i connect my macbook it shows me "Androidtether" under devices instead of a access point(like a router) and i started to notice that certain devices do not recognize the NS4g WIFI signal because of it coming up as a device and not a access point. can someone please help me fix that so that i show it come up as a router so that my nintendo 3DS or PS3 can connect to it. Thanks, i also have another question i downloaded the tethering fix patch to have the built in native tethering software work. well when i turn it on i loose my 4g signal is that normal? dosent seem to connect 4g when i do that and just stays 3g. please anyone if you have any info help guide me in the right place
You have it setup as adhoc mode. You need to change it to infrastructure. The native tethering app does not work with 4g.
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how to do i change from ad hoc to infrastructure? is there an option within the "wireless Tether app" that will allow me to do that? thanks for the fast reply. just want to get this going . I had my Evo 4g before and never had This issue. Thanks again.
If you don't see the option under settings more than likely that app only supports adhoc mode on the nexus s. I know on the EVO you can switch modes.
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Hello I have a rooted NS4g.
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If it's rooted, the easiest way it to use Pete's fix. It works in infrastructure mode and no separate app is required - you can use the phone's built in wifi hotspot feature. You won't get 4G though...
http://www.peteralfonso.com/2011/08/download-tethering-fix-for-nexus-s-4g.html
Thanks for your guys help. is there any way that i can make the wireless tether app work by sending a infrastructure rather than a Ad Hoc?(i would like to Use 4G while i tether) my old Evo 4g was able to do that no problem. so im just wondering if its a Nexus s issue ?
Wireless tether works as ad hoc but the built in one works as infrastructure. The evo 4g is one of the few phones that can go into infrastructure mode with wireless tether. The majority of phones can only do ad hoc. I searched wireless tether settings and do not see a mode switch.
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If it's rooted, the easiest way it to use Pete's fix. It works in infrastructure mode and no separate app is required - you can use the phone's built in wifi hotspot feature. You won't get 4G though...
http://www.peteralfonso.com/2011/08/download-tethering-fix-for-nexus-s-4g.html
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thanks! Works perfectly with my rooted Nexus S 4G (with 2.3.7)