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[Q] Wireless Tethering Issue

I rooted my phone Saturday mainly for tethering. I use my phone as my internet connection while I'm storm chasing. Well today was a chase day and everything was working great until I hit edge network and then i couldn't get any data on my laptop. It showed a local connection, but no internet. Now I haven't tested this since and I have 3g at home so I can't test it there. Does anyone know if this is how it is supposed to work and if so is there a work around? I'm hoping it was just a fluke and will work fine chasing the next couple days. We have my wife's iPhone 4 using mywi as a backup just in case though. Should I be able to use edge using the wireless ap in Android?
Thanks

Are you using the stock tethering?
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Yes I am using the stock tethering program and have the tethering manager froze.

you should be able to tether on edge but it will be slow, maybe slow enough to get an error. also i have had issues where i need to reset the radio on the phone by turning off wireless networks and turning it back on.

Ok thanks for the info. I just wanted to make sure it was possible and I didn't have to adjust a setting somewhere that I was overlooking. I will be using again today and tomorrow so I will get a chance to test it out some more. I'm very aware of the very slow speeds on edge but it usually works for updating radar information ok. And Opera web browser also works very well over edge with the turbo mode on. Thanks!

Tested out the tethering a lot the last two days and have came to the conclusion it will drop your tethering connection with two or less bars of edge. It will auto reconnect as soon as my signal improves above that level. Still a little frustrating.

Charge for hotspot feature?

Is this true, that theres a charge of 14.99 if i want to use it with the G2x?? I just got this phone Friday and since then im not able to use it and i called and thats what the rep told me. Weird though because i switched from the G2, and had no problems using hotspot on that phone.
Also, anyone have a problem with the browser always redirecting you to web2go.com telling you of a 1.99 charge if you continue even though you have a data plan?? My girl also got the G2x this monday and this would be her problem. Brand new activated sim card, restarted the network by the rep. Updated her line with the phones IMEI, it should be register and all ready to go right? But ive called 4 times because of that, and they seem to just restart the network, then it starts working fine but couple hours later, the web redirects me to web2go for that 1.99 charge. So then i call again and happens all over again. Im gonna call one more time at 3am pacific time, since im work right now 1am but would like your answers and suggestions please. Thank you.
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I am using EaglesBlood 2.3.5 and I can use my hotspot for free (although it counts to your monthly cap)

tweeklulz said:
I am using EaglesBlood 2.3.5 and I can use my hotspot for free (although it counts to your monthly cap)
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I know about the cap, im throttled right now.. But it just won't connect right anymore. It shows connected but if i highlight the signal bars by the clock with the mouse it shows no internet access
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If you are throttled ten you areon 2 g edge ****. I suspect that the reason it is not working is because it is just too slow. I could be wrong. I know that when I get throttled I cant even stream sirius xm or pandora unless I am onwifi. I think the g2x is optimized for 4 g network. I have the unlimited internet with the 10 gig high speed plan I think it is called ultra. I have never had a problem. I would wait till your cycle resets and see if it works.

All you have to do to get hotspot to work is to root your phone. And it counts against your data usage.
If your phone is on 2g, your tethered device will frequently get DNS timeouts.
I've never seen the web2go $1.99 msg - bummer.

namklak said:
All you have to do to get hotspot to work is to root your phone. And it counts against your data usage.
If your phone is on 2g, your tethered device will frequently get DNS timeouts.
I've never seen the web2go $1.99 msg - bummer.
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Maybe you guys are right about being to slow but i wasnt capped until Sunday. New phone was Friday.. And as soon as i switched from g2 to the g2x that day, hotspot stopped. Also forgot to mention that it connects but with an exclamation point on the signal bars on the laptop
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Stock G2x with GB wireless tethering just stopped working

i've been using the stock wireless tethering setting to use phone as a hotspot (without the tethering plan) for my Iconia and PS3 for when i have to pull a 24hr duty at work. was working ok this morning, but i had to reboot my phone and my Iconia cause they were both acting slow. after that when i try to tether it will connect but cant do anything that requires internet. anyone know what might be the problem (besides not having the tethering plan, although never had it in the past). thanks for the help.

jeebugorn said:
i've been using the stock wireless tethering setting to use phone as a hotspot (without the tethering plan) for my Iconia and PS3 for when i have to pull a 24hr duty at work. was working ok this morning, but i had to reboot my phone and my Iconia cause they were both acting slow. after that when i try to tether it will connect but cant do anything that requires internet. anyone know what might be the problem (besides not having the tethering plan, although never had it in the past). thanks for the help.
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You may have gone over your 2 or 5 gig cap and are being throttled.

You've probably been throttled. When you go over your limit, it's practically unusable.

Inconsistent Wifi Tether Issues!

I have been having intermittent wifi tether issues with 2 different wifi tether/hot spot apps. 1 being "Wireless Tether", the other the official verizon hotspot app. It is also worth noting I have had the same issues with each individual tether app across many different roms, with/without kexec, and tested with more than one wifi connecting device.
The first is the Wireless tether app. I have it configured with wpa2 security, I've tried both generic ics profile and galaxy nexus cdma/lte. When I launch it and turn tether on it appears to work normally but most of the time it does not broadcast the SSID, preventing devices from seeing the neteork and connecting. Sometimes restarting tethering will solve it but usually I have to reboot the entire phone to get it to work and broadcast SSID.
With the verizon hotspot app the issue is completely different. It always starts and broadcasts SSID, but after some time the internet will start running very slow on the receiving device. If I look on the phone the 4g lte icon will then be off. If I run a speed test locally on the phone it performs great with 25mbps dl speed and then wifi data will start working again on the receiving device.
Am I doing something wrong or just the first to complain?

m52 power! said:
I have been having intermittent wifi tether issues with 2 different wifi tether/hot spot apps. 1 being "Wifi Tether", the other the official verizon hotspot app. It is also worth noting I have had the same issues with each individual tether app across many different roms, with/without kexec, and tested with more than one wifi connecting device.
The first is the "Wifi Tether" app. I have it configured with wpa2 security, generic ics profile. When I launch it and turn tether on it appears to work normally but most of the time it does not broadcast the SSID, preventing devices from seeing the neteork and connecting. Sometimes restarting tethering will solve it but usually I have to reboot the entire phone to get it to work and broadcast SSID.
With the verizon hotspot app the issue is completely different. It always starts and broadcasts SSID, but after some time the internet will start running very slow on the receiving device. If I look on the phone the 4g lte icon will then be off. If I run a speed test locally on the phone it performs great with 25mbps dl speed and then wifi data will start working again on the receiving device.
Am I doing something wrong or just the first to complain?
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Try on the wifi tether app to use the Samsung Galaxy Nexus cdma/lte.
Sometimes I have to start/stop/restart mine to get it to work. Usually it works after a fresh reboot, turn it off for whatever reason breaks the ****ing thing and I gotta reboot. Sucky.
I haven't used vzw's app

ancashion said:
Try on the wifi tether app to use the Samsung Galaxy Nexus cdma/lte.
Sometimes I have to start/stop/restart mine to get it to work. Usually it works after a fresh reboot, turn it off for whatever reason breaks the ****ing thing and I gotta reboot. Sucky.
I haven't used vzw's app
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Yea I've tried that profile as well and its the same. I know I can reboot but I find that unacceptable, esp with kexec. Ive never had these kind of issues with my dInc.

m52 power! said:
Yea I've tried that profile as well and its the same. I know I can reboot but I find that unacceptable, esp with kexec. Ive never had these kind of issues with my dInc.
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Sorry I couldn't be more help. I don't like rebooting just to get the tether working either but I want my ****ing tether so that's what I do.. haha
I hope someone comes up with a solution though :good:

I have the same issue so I switched to using FoxFi. Seems to work 100% of the time. Sucks that it doesn't have a widget to activate the hot spot with a single click.

I am running synergy 1.3 and wifi tether works fine!!

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I'm considering changing my plan on Verizon from a data only to the Everything and getting the SIII. I never use the data plan for laptop anymore but just haven't close the account.
You might be able to answer my question... Does Verizon still charge wifi tether (hotspoting) fees on their new plans? Before, avoiding this fee was one of my main reasons for rooting my phone (different carrier).
I realize you're having trouble with this feature anyway.

ckinninger said:
I'm considering changing my plan on Verizon from a data only to the Everything and getting the SIII. I never use the data plan for laptop anymore but just haven't close the account.
You might be able to answer my question... Does Verizon still charge wifi tether (hotspoting) fees on their new plans? Before, avoiding this fee was one of my main reasons for rooting my phone (different carrier).
I realize you're having trouble with this feature anyway.
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On the new plans, it's free to tether. On the old unlimited plans, its a fee service.
Not that many of us pay it.
Data only plan? Can you elaborate at all please? I want aware of such thing...
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[Q] Verizon S3 Root Tether ROM

Hello,
I have a rooted verizon S3 i535. I'm one of the lucky to be on the unlimited grandfathered plan. Anyways, I've been using wifi root tether for months and all of a sudden it just stopped working (yes I do have updates disabled, still on 4.0), well technically the wifi portion of the tether broke, it still starts but just no longer broadcasts the SSID. I also downloaded the SVTP wifi hotspot app (non-root) and that worked for a few days, it still starts up but I the wifi broadcast is now messed up on that device (can't connect with anything to the broadcasted network).
So anyways, I really need to get tether working again, I figure something is ****ed up likely with my S3, and I don't have too much time to **** with this, so I figured I'd just ROM it and start over. (Unless someone has some better advice?)
The only thing I really care about is wifi tether. What is a good ROM that you would recommend for me to use to get this back?

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