[Q] Best ROM for ZTE Blade as Wifi Hotspot only? - General Questions and Answers

I own Blade II and I am not currently using it so I thought I could use it as Wifi HotSpot for my Gnex and nexus 7. I live in Poland and we have here carrier Aero2 which is providing free internet access, you are paying only for sim card around 6$ and you can use free 512Kbps internet, it only works on 900Mhz 3G towers but blade is supporting this frequency. I would like to use my Blade strictly as Wifi Modem only and I am wondering which is best ROM and Wifi Tethering software for such a use. I would like to have decent battery life and true wifi connection, not AD-HOC which is provided by play store apps. I tried to underclock CPU to around 300Mhz and I was ok with tether speed, but native wifi tethering in GingerBread is still battery hog. Is there any 3rd party software with non Ad-hoc hotspot and good battery consumption? Which is best rom for saving battery? Best thing would be modded android with modem feature only but i don't think there is anything like that. Thanks for help and greetings from Poland

There's no such thing as a best ROM because everyone has different things they like in a ROM.
My best advice to you would be to just test out different ROMs and see which one you like the most.
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Tethering my G2x (WiFi) to my Motorola Xoom.

I rooted my phone because I don't want to pay for wifi tethering.
I cant find a tethering app that my Xoom with recognize.
any help would be greatly appreciated.
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just use the default one that is on the stock rom I use it for my xoom
I prefer the WiFi Hotspot. Creates a wifi router in your pocket. Adds some freedom and you can connect multiple devices.
Hardwire tethering can be more reliable but not so much that is it worth the risk (plus it looks stupid).

[Q] Best way to achieve fastest speed using Mobile AP

Hey guys,
I've recently moves into a new house and don't want to pay the extra money for internet (since I already pay AT&T for unlimited internet).
My question is, what the best rom/modem/settings combo to use to achieve the fastest speeds possible. Currently I'm using CM7 with the KH1 modem over the built in Wireless AP.
Thanks!
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what? mobile hotspot is mobile hotspot.. there are no settings.
I was referring to apn settings or settings in the service menu
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jdbeitz said:
Hey guys,
I've recently moves into a new house and don't want to pay the extra money for internet (since I already pay AT&T for unlimited internet).
My question is, what the best rom/modem/settings combo to use to achieve the fastest speeds possible. Currently I'm using CM7 with the KH1 modem over the built in Wireless AP.
Thanks!
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after 137 posts you think that you would learn where to post... geezz...
If you read the general forum rules, it says if its a general question, just label the thread with a [q] tag.
Thanks for your help though.
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jdbeitz said:
Hey guys,
I've recently moves into a new house and don't want to pay the extra money for internet (since I already pay AT&T for unlimited internet).
My question is, what the best rom/modem/settings combo to use to achieve the fastest speeds possible. Currently I'm using CM7 with the KH1 modem over the built in Wireless AP.
Thanks!
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1. Home internet is cheap (Comcast for $19.99/mo) and faster (more than 12 Mbps) compared to mobile. You also get more quota (~250GB/mo). Plus if ur phone is continuously dragging data, expect a call from AT&T soon. Its not worth the hassle of trying to save $20 a month.
2. The max speeds u get on phone will not change be it u r browsing on net, or via mobile AP. Infused 2.1 with KH1 is giving me ~3-4 Mbps down.
Mobile AP is good for occasional uses like u r on travel, or when the home internet down down for some reason.
diablo009 said:
1. Home internet is cheap (Comcast for $19.99/mo) and faster (more than 12 Mbps) compared to mobile. You also get more quota (~250GB/mo). Plus if ur phone is continuously dragging data, expect a call from AT&T soon. Its not worth the hassle of trying to save $20 a month.
2. The max speeds u get on phone will not change be it u r browsing on net, or via mobile AP. Infused 2.1 with KH1 is giving me ~3-4 Mbps down.
Mobile AP is good for occasional uses like u r on travel, or when the home internet down down for some reason.
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Thanks for your input!
I was actually curious to see how long it would take att to get on my back about ~50gb a month data usage.
I plan to stick it out with my mobile AP for at least a few months before looking into broadband
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ive been using my mobile AP and i get faster internet from my mobile hotspot than i did when i was at home paying for ATT Elite DSL
and i dont go past 15gb per month,
Biggest limitations are your local towers and signal strength. Nothing you can do about the former, the latter can be improved with a bidirectional amp from Wilson Electronics.
However if you botch the install, a Wilson amp can make things worse. I have one in my car and it's amazing, but I'm an RF engineer by trade so I know its limitations and all of the installation gotchas.
It looks like the AT&T leaked ROM (UCKJ2) has speed cap on wifi tethering. It only provides 1mbps speed on wifi client. I tried multiple different builds, and it looks like cyanogenmod (CM7.1), and MIUI provides the best wifi hotspot performance.
Oh well, I like the samsung touchwiz interface, but I do want wifi hotspot performance (for my tablets). I will play with CM7.1 for now.

[Q] Wifi dongle Vs Android wifi tether.

Hello everyone.
firstly thank you to everyone on XDA for all your help past present and future. Extra special mention for the developers, Thank you so much!!!
now onto my question...
i have a htc desire bravo - running latest oxygen - dont think rom really matters for my question but thought i would put it out there...
i want to play world of warcraft while im sat in hotels (i travel alot) now i know that playing games over wifi is rubbish at best of times but...
is there a difference to sharing my phones 3g connection and having a dedicated 3g dongle?
will i just get same speeds and reliability out of them both? is it even worth having a wifi dongle?
thank you for all replys.
superliam said:
Hello everyone.
firstly thank you to everyone on XDA for all your help past present and future. Extra special mention for the developers, Thank you so much!!!
now onto my question...
i have a htc desire bravo - running latest oxygen - dont think rom really matters for my question but thought i would put it out there...
i want to play world of warcraft while im sat in hotels (i travel alot) now i know that playing games over wifi is rubbish at best of times but...
is there a difference to sharing my phones 3g connection and having a dedicated 3g dongle?
will i just get same speeds and reliability out of them both? is it even worth having a wifi dongle?
thank you for all replys.
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So long as your Desire supports the highest throughput of your network, you'll be fine. For example, your network may rin at 21mbps HSPA. Youre Desire supports only (I think) 7.2mbps HSPA. In this instance, you would get better performance out of a 3G dongle that could utilise the entire theoretical 21mbps (you'll never see speeds that high).
If your network only runs at 7.2mbps though, you're already getting the best possible throughput through your phone.
If you can find out how wide the bandwidth is on your mobile network, then find the official HSPA value supported by the Desire, that will tell you whether or not your phone will maximise what the network has to offer.
FWIW, I'm in rural Australia on a 7.2mbps backend, and I can game and stream over a tethered phone just fine Dongles are only really nexessary if you can't tether, or if you're interested in absolute best maximum throughput.
Good luck!

[Q] Wifi and USB Tethering on 3G 10.1

Hi.
I'd like to ask if the galaxy note 10.1 3g models support:
1. Creating your own wifi hotspot
2. Using it as a usb modem on a pc
I'm asking this since I know that my 3G iPad can't do this without jailbreak hacks. ...and yes I may end up using the tablet as my phone.... cause I'm sad on the inside...
On a side note, is LTE worth it price-wise and performance-wise in your respective countries? I'm not really considering the future LTE version but maybe this tablet may last longer on me than I'm willing to say cause I'm cheap. LTE's not quite up in my country so far and 3G is very limited in my country. As in they offer unlimited 3G on all 3 major networks but they throttle the connection speeds from dial-up to 256kbps at best. I'm on the worst network (signal-wise) but my 3G connection is at least dependable compared to the other 2 (I can use viber with high quality sound) as long as I stay in the capital region (which is always).
fvig2001 said:
Hi.
I'd like to ask if the galaxy note 10.1 3g models support:
1. Creating your own wifi hotspot
2. Using it as a usb modem on a pc
I'm asking this since I know that my 3G iPad can't do this without jailbreak hacks. ...and yes I may end up using the tablet as my phone.... cause I'm sad on the inside...
On a side note, is LTE worth it price-wise and performance-wise in your respective countries? I'm not really considering the future LTE version but maybe this tablet may last longer on me than I'm willing to say cause I'm cheap. LTE's not quite up in my country so far and 3G is very limited in my country. As in they offer unlimited 3G on all 3 major networks but they throttle the connection speeds from dial-up to 256kbps at best. I'm on the worst network (signal-wise) but my 3G connection is at least dependable compared to the other 2 (I can use viber with high quality sound) as long as I stay in the capital region (which is always).
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try looking up "wifi hotspot / wifi tether" app from innodroapps. i use it to tether my note 10.1 to my computer all the time with no problem. I only have the wifi version of the tablet though, so the 3g version may have the option to tether built in somewhere
krzysiekh said:
try looking up "wifi hotspot / wifi tether" app from innodroapps. i use it to tether my note 10.1 to my computer all the time with no problem. I only have the wifi version of the tablet though, so the 3g version may have the option to tether built in somewhere
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I use Fox-Fi on my SG Note without rooting. Should work on the 10.1.

[Q] WiFi Tether on Tmobile (going over the 2.5 gb limit)

Hi there,
I have a $70 T-Mobile Unlimited Plan which includes 2.5 GB wifi tether hotspot feature.
My question is, when i was on Sprint (Rooted ROM) I was able to use the built in wifi tether feature without any limitations.
It appears on the nexus 5 (android kit kat) that the carriers now have the ability to truly monitor this useage.
Would i be able to get around it by using a 3rd party tethering app?
Anyone else had success in going over the 2.5gb wifi hotspot allowed?
It makes no sense to me why me using my data on my nexus 5 vs. tethering and using my nexus 7 should be limited.
Thanks in advance,
RR
h20wakebum said:
Hi there,
I have a $70 T-Mobile Unlimited Plan which includes 2.5 GB wifi tether hotspot feature.
My question is, when i was on Sprint (Rooted ROM) I was able to use the built in wifi tether feature without any limitations.
It appears on the nexus 5 (android kit kat) that the carriers now have the ability to truly monitor this useage.
Would i be able to get around it by using a 3rd party tethering app?
Anyone else had success in going over the 2.5gb wifi hotspot allowed?
It makes no sense to me why me using my data on my nexus 5 vs. tethering and using my nexus 7 should be limited.
Thanks in advance,
RR
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see... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2512674
I have the same plan...you might also have to change your apn settings to ipv4, at least I had to. btw, i'm just south of riverside, ca and although my lte speeds are over 20 mbs down, if I change the preferred network settings to hspa (3g?) instead of lte, I can stream with little to no buffering.
h20wakebum said:
Hi there,
I have a $70 T-Mobile Unlimited Plan which includes 2.5 GB wifi tether hotspot feature.
My question is, when i was on Sprint (Rooted ROM) I was able to use the built in wifi tether feature without any limitations.
It appears on the nexus 5 (android kit kat) that the carriers now have the ability to truly monitor this useage.
Would i be able to get around it by using a 3rd party tethering app?
Anyone else had success in going over the 2.5gb wifi hotspot allowed?
It makes no sense to me why me using my data on my nexus 5 vs. tethering and using my nexus 7 should be limited.
Thanks in advance,
RR
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This should help. Read the thread and figure it out.
You will not get around the limit using a third party app (if you want it to work over wifi). It may not make any sense to you, but to providers it does because they can make money. I agree, it's dumb that they want to charge more to share a data plan you already use, but it's us vs them and they're are big wireless companies... so I don't think our complaints will go very far.
You should be happy that you do have the 2.5GB because it can be very handy in a pinch when you need to do something on laptop or tablet but no wifi available or because the available network is just straight up garbage.
But since you say you're using your tablet, have you tried bluetooth vpn with PDAnet? I used to do that for my tablet. It's not the greatest because some apps wont recognize the bluetooth as you have a "internet connection" but its worth a try. I havent used it in a while as I really dont tether much these days so I'm not sure how good it is these days.
Do this and u should be ok...no tethering limits.
how do you get to the pages shown in the thumbnails
jenenser83 said:
Do this and u should be ok...no tethering limits.
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As a new member to the family of android devices, may i ask how you made your way to that cmd page, yes i know im a noob
Install android terminal from play store open it and execute that...oh you gotta be rooted for this to work.
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This did not bypass hotspot limits on Nexus 5 "tether_dun_required". I can use bluetooth to tether.
Can anyone confirm this works? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.snclab.wifitetherrouter

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