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Wireless tether for android [Works perfect]

Hey guys. I just sucsusfully downloaded and tested the wireless tether app for android. I am not talking about the hotspot app that comes stock with the inspire. Im talking about this app (I cant post links untill i make 8 post lol, so copy and paste the url below)
Code:
code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/downloads/list
I downloaded the 2.0.7 version and it works flawlessly with the stock rooted rom.
Just wanted to share that.

Must Be Root on Said phone. just an FYI

darkbluexplorer said:
Must Be Root on Said phone. just an FYI
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Read the sentence right below my code ;-)

An alternative is you can put the phone in airplane mode, turn on wifi, and download the app from the market.

What is the difference between this and the wifi hotspot?

Scott4957 said:
What is the difference between this and the wifi hotspot?
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wifi hotspot is application that comes stock on the inspire. It checks your account to see if you are paying for tethering. The other application (which requires rooting) does not require you to have tethering enabled on your account; hence free tethering !

colbur87 said:
wifi hotspot is application that comes stock on the inspire. It checks your account to see if you are paying for tethering. The other application (which requires rooting) does not require you to have tethering enabled on your account; hence free tethering !
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But if one has to be rooted, isn't that kinda a moot point? If one has to be rooted to use this workaround to the stock app, but rooting in itself alleviates the need to avoid the stock app, then....

bella92108 said:
But if one has to be rooted, isn't that kinda a moot point? If one has to be rooted to use this workaround to the stock app, but rooting in itself alleviates the need to avoid the stock app, then....
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I have no idea what your trying to get at? The wireless tethering is not a "work around" its a separate application that does the same thing as wifi hotspot.

colbur87 said:
I have no idea what your trying to get at? The wireless tethering is not a "work around" its a separate application that does the same thing as wifi hotspot.
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Understood, but as several others have pointed out, the built in hotspot works perfect when rooted, so if one has to root to get this app, then what advantages does it have over the native tethering app to cause someone to want to have to add yet another app?

bella92108 said:
Understood, but as several others have pointed out, the built in hotspot works perfect when rooted, so if one has to root to get this app, then what advantages does it have over the native tethering app to cause someone to want to have to add yet another app?
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hmm weird. My hotspot app still checks my account and I have a rooted device. I figured it was because im using the stock rom. So i posted this thread to give others out there information about the wireless tethering app.
So yea, if your wifi hotspot app works fine then dont download this app. I was just trying to be helpful.

colbur87 said:
Read the sentence right below my code ;-)
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Ack! yep read that to fast! ~.~
However on a non rooted phone if you change the AP listed here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=960058 it is not seen as an teathered laptop or other item. I have tested this and talked to ATT about it. unless its software in the system that makes that decision. i dont think its the app that reports back. i think ATT sends a code over their network to the sim to unlock teathering via their network. by changing the ap to what is listed above it looks like the phone is just hitting off of another service that may be needed for it. I guess ill find out when i get my bill for next month but this is what att told me that its just the phone requesting information from a different ap and no additional charges would be applied. *shrugs* hope their right

colbur87 said:
hmm weird. My hotspot app still checks my account and I have a rooted device. I figured it was because im using the stock rom. So i posted this thread to give others out there information about the wireless tethering app.
So yea, if your wifi hotspot app works fine then dont download this app. I was just trying to be helpful.
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Yeah I think it has to do with which ROM the user is using when rooted... some say it still prompts, others not. Mine is enabled regardless of rooted or not, because I use a different APN which bypasses the wall.

Tethering?

I can't seem to get barnacle or wifitether to work on this phone. Has anyone else been successful in tethering with the infuse?
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I just used the integrated wifi hotspot.
"Settings>>Wireless and network>>Mobile AP"
And have at it. Worked great.

lost1 said:
I just used the integrated wifi hotspot.
"Settings>>Wireless and network>>Mobile AP"
And have at it. Worked great.
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You don't have to have the tethering plan? Can't att ttell?
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I've never had an issue. On the iPhone (not jailbroken) you have to call AT&T to activate. On this one, you get an information tag above the activate checkbox saying:
A Tethering/Mobile Hotspot plan is required to use this service. Please go to att.com/myWireless or dial 611 if you do not already have this service provisioned.
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I've been using that on my Captivate for 7 or 8 months now, AT&T has never billed me. I'm not extravagant in my usage. The highest net data I've used is 4.5GB, but that's for both normal and tethered use. I've never been dinged.
I think if it becomes obvious, torrent or otherwise, then they may try to do something. But as far as I know, there is no way to distinguish the traffic of your phone from that of the connected devices.
My suggestion is try it for a small burst of data, note the time. Reboot your phone after. Then check your account online after a day or two and see whats listed under your data use.

You guys should try a custom apn similar to the captivate and atrix.
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Ok... I tried this again after I posted the message. Something seems to have changed in my account. Now I get a "Verifying" message and then a note that says tethering is not available. My guess is that we'll have to replace the IP/Stack to not request verification information from AT&T.
So, sorry, no go yet.

lost1 said:
Ok... I tried this again after I posted the message. Something seems to have changed in my account. Now I get a "Verifying" message and then a note that says tethering is not available. My guess is that we'll have to replace the IP/Stack to not request verification information from AT&T.
So, sorry, no go yet.
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Can someone else try it with an independent app such as barnancle or wifi tether to see if it works?
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lost1 said:
I've never had an issue. On the iPhone (not jailbroken) you have to call AT&T to activate. On this one, you get an information tag above the activate checkbox saying:
I've been using that on my Captivate for 7 or 8 months now, AT&T has never billed me. I'm not extravagant in my usage. The highest net data I've used is 4.5GB, but that's for both normal and tethered use. I've never been dinged.
I think if it becomes obvious, torrent or otherwise, then they may try to do something. But as far as I know, there is no way to distinguish the traffic of your phone from that of the connected devices.
My suggestion is try it for a small burst of data, note the time. Reboot your phone after. Then check your account online after a day or two and see whats listed under your data use.
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I notice you said ATT, but your profile shows the Canadian flag. So are you in Canada or US with ATT.
I know some Canadian carriers have some tether included in the 3G for free at no extra charge.

jthornton71707 said:
Can someone else try it with an independent app such as barnancle or wifi tether to see if it works?
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I dont see those apps in the marketplace. I take it you have to root?

I used EasyTether Pro. Works on my Mac fine. I have rooted the phone already, any way of getting a WiFi one now that it's rooted?

Ya you have to be rooted. Go to 4shared.com and search for barnacle.apk.
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You guys know that there is a wifi tether for android from google development right? Just use that and you are done.

Did just that It needed a 13 character wpa key... ilovekeineken worked jussst fine!
Searched for "wifi tether" on google code. Slider earned a thanks

EDIT: Now confirmed to work, see next post!
I tried the Android Wi-fi tether and it didn't work. Can anyone confirm that it works?

lost1 said:
I tried the Android Wi-fi tether and it didn't work. Can anyone confirm that it works?
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guys MOBILE AP in settings! that's native wifi teather ap stands for access point. there is an apk you need to delete or freaze to do it without the tethering plan. ill get details from captivate section and report back.

I can now confirm that Android-Wifi-Tether works.
I used Tether for Root Users 2.0.8-pre1 Wireless
I agree with Dani897, this will ultimately be a matter of replacing the AT&T Modded Wifi AP with the google stock version.

lost1 said:
I can now confirm that Android-Wifi-Tether works.
It worked for me as well with no problems
Thanks!
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Dani897 said:
guys MOBILE AP in settings! that's native wifi teather ap stands for access point. there is an apk you need to delete or freaze to do it without the tethering plan. ill get details from captivate section and report back.
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Please do, waiting of your info.
Thanks.

Papi4baby said:
Please do, waiting of your info.
Thanks.
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in titaniumbackp if you are rooted freeze ir uninstall "tetheringmanager0326.apk" should unlock it. you can also delete it from adb, rootexplorer, other root file managers as long as you mount read write in terminal emulator, or you can use terminal emulator.
i have a linux machine and use sshdroid to ssh into the phone. that's another way to do it if you get a windows application that handles ssh.

Dani897 said:
in titaniumbackp if you are rooted freeze ir uninstall "tetheringmanager0326.apk" should unlock it. you can also delete it from adb, rootexplorer, other root file managers as long as you mount read write in terminal emulator, or you can use terminal emulator.
i have a linux machine and use sshdroid to ssh into the phone. that's another way to do it if you get a windows application that handles ssh.
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10-4.
I was hoping of a way around it without root. I know the Atrix had one.
Thanks anyways.

Did 2.3.5 cripple your tether?

I posted this in two other threads but both got ignored.
As soon as I updated to the 2.3.5, tethering seems to be no longer supported. The option is there, but as soon as I activate the tether, 3G goes away. I have to turn off the tether, then manually switch mobile data off and on just for my 3G to come back.
Is this their way of getting people to finally pay for it?

Yes.. one of the features of the update was removing tether if you were not paying for it. No biggie though... you have a Nexus.. just unlock it and download one of the apps off the market.
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Since my phone had none of the reception issues this update was supposed to fix & reading alot of posts saying that it really didn't do much for those issues, I think I'll skip the update prompts & keep my free tethering.

highwayman1224 said:
Since my phone had none of the reception issues this update was supposed to fix & reading alot of posts saying that it really didn't do much for those issues, I think I'll skip the update prompts & keep my free tethering.
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Agreed I just flashed the new radio and that's good enough for me

NYYFan325 said:
Agreed I just flashed the new radio and that's good enough for me
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hmm can i just get back to 2.3.4 and flash the radio too?

Wow, Thats a bunch of Bullcrap that they removed the tether!! Oh well the Native app never worked with 4 g anyway..Just wondering, is there an app that allows us to tether in infrastructure??

nickespi said:
Wow, Thats a bunch of Bullcrap that they removed the tether!! Oh well the Native app never worked with 4 g anyway..Just wondering, is there an app that allows us to tether in infrastructure??
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yes wifi tether 3.0 pre 14 works with infrastructure i believe

Are we sure they removed tether and didn't just break it? Is it in the release notes somewhere?

Mine works fine with newest update

Mine is broken too, wifi tether works fine as always

NYYFan325 said:
Agreed I just flashed the new radio and that's good enough for me
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I would initially agree, but the speakerphone update is so much better than in 2.3.4 . I use speakerphone way more frequently than tethering..

i never used the native tethering anyway

hellcatt said:
i never used the native tethering anyway
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wireless tether for root users http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/

Works fine here.
Sent from my Nexus S 4G using Tapatalk

So you have the 2.3.5 update and no root and can use the stock wifi tether still?
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Works fine here.
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I am a little confused why Google allowed sprint to do this. Whether you you use the tether or not and regardless of how easy it is to get it back it doesn't sit well with me that Sprint is calling the shots with this phone now. One of the major appeals of this phone is the pure Google experience, which is now the partial Google experience. I wonder if this had anything to do with the delay of the OTA, maybe sprint was holding out until google let them kill the tether? Anyways, it doesn't instill a great amount of confidence in google for this phone and future nexus devices. I still like the phone and there is nothing on sprint I would rather have, I'm just a little pissed at how they tucked this into an update that was much anticipated and stripped some of our "pure googleness".

I don't understand this...i dont pay anything extra for tether, and i can still tether on stock 2.3.5. Why are some people unable?

i just flashed the new KE5 radio(found in the ns4g dev section), and im not seeing any issues. still on 2.3.4 tho.. i dont see any reasons to update to 2.3.5 especially if this is a problem. i tether wayyyy too much.

Manual versus OTA update
mcosmi said:
I don't understand this...i dont pay anything extra for tether, and i can still tether on stock 2.3.5. Why are some people unable?
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So I have a two day new Nexus S and I did the manual update last night. Now when activating the mobile hotspot the 3g or 4g icons go away and it does not have connectivity anymore.
Now, I have read conflicting info about whether this is happening just to those who did the manual update and if you did OTA it still works. Can anyone confirm this?
If that is the case, then I need to return this one and get another and just be more patient next time to get the update officially OTA. =)
Not that I am tremendously worried about the tethering/hotspot being free, but I am uneasy that doing this manually may have screwed things up in as of yet other unknown ways. Like if I do pay for hotspot/tethering someday it might still not work right, etc.
Thanks!

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mcosmi said:
I don't understand this...i dont pay anything extra for tether, and i can still tether on stock 2.3.5. Why are some people unable?
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Did you manually update or did you wait for it to be pushed to your phone? I'm stock and wasn't rooted and I manually updated and my tethering both usb and wifi hotspots are not working.
Also I notice in the kernel version that it's longer than when I was on 2.3.4 mine says 2.6.35.7-g3cc95e3 [email protected] #1
Is that normal?
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[Q] wifi Tethering

Does anyone have a tethering program working?

SdgrS said:
Does anyone have a tethering program working?
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Yes i do<<
wireless tether 2.0.7 works great with the tether manager removed.

Thank you I was using 3.1
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I got wifi tether and barnical working...
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I'm using wifi tether 3.1 beta 6 with no problems.
I have tether manager frozen but I don't think it is necessary.

I'm not having any luck getting wireless tethering going. I can't download the apk even directly from Google code. I can't delete tethering manager or move it or delete it. I'm rooted and rusty. I've been looking for quite a while now. Any help would be appreciated. Maybe I cannot tether with a rooted stock ROM.

jpeterb said:
I'm not having any luck getting wireless tethering going. I can't download the apk even directly from Google code. I can't delete tethering manager or move it or delete it. I'm rooted and rusty. I've been looking for quite a while now. Any help would be appreciated. Maybe I cannot tether with a rooted stock ROM.
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if you cant remove/move tether manager...i would say you not rooted. when you open Tibu or anything does it say that you rooted with those??

Titanium backup Root OK busybox 1.18.4
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Do I need a diferent data plan for this?

Will be interested to see if anyone gets Tether warnings from ATT when using rooted tether apps

all you have to do is remove/freeze TetheringManager2.apk and you can use the stock wifi hotspot app no need to download anything else as far as i know.

twopumpchump said:
all you have to do is remove/freeze TetheringManager2.apk and you can use the stock wifi hotspot app no need to download anything else as far as i know.
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yep, exactly. All the trouble others doing is a waste of time.

twopumpchump said:
all you have to do is remove/freeze TetheringManager2.apk and you can use the stock wifi hotspot app no need to download anything else as far as i know.
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mbze430 said:
yep, exactly. All the trouble others doing is a waste of time.
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Yeah, that's what I thought. Wonder why others are using apps for this.

Thanks. Operator error. Tetheringmanager2 deleted. All is well
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Honestly i have used wireless teather since i hit android. figure i would stick with what works and have never heard from at&t behind it....
i always remove the tethering manager. so i should just use the Mobile Hotspot app and that will work just fine??

i tried installing a wifi tethering apk before reading this thread , i think it was the 3.1 beta 6, anyway i opened it and hit tether, it said running with errors.. i turned it off and uninstalled and now i cant get my wifi to work at all?? it shows my home router but wont sync up with it.. ive powered off a few times and even done a factory reset, still not working! any ideas why my wifi will not connect ?? just keeps saying scanning..connecting..disconnected!

Even with that .apk frozen or removed AT&T can still see you are tethering (by browser user agent string and data usage patterns) so be careful or you will find yourself in a tethering (4GB capped) plan. I'm not risking my grandfathered unlimited data for this.
If I'm full of crap here I'll find out soon enough. In the meantime, I'm putting on my fireproof suit.

All u need to do is root ur device and install titanium backup...once installed and running in titanium uninstall tether manager and u will have ur mobile hotspots. When u uninstall that at it does not check att network to see if u have a tethering plan
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toyfreak said:
Even with that .apk frozen or removed AT&T can still see you are tethering (by browser user agent string and data usage patterns) so be careful or you will find yourself in a tethering (4GB capped) plan. I'm not risking my grandfathered unlimited data for this.
If I'm full of crap here I'll find out soon enough. In the meantime, I'm putting on my fireproof suit.
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correct me if i'm wrong, but unless your tethering is excessive, AT&T is highly unlikely to mess with you (assuming you're on an "unlimited" plan).

Supposedly people are getting busted even after using only small amounts of data. Seems AT&T are seeing how data is used, not only how much. Lots of chatter on the net about this including lots on xda.

[Q] Wireless Tether

Anyone have any info if devs are working on this for us unlimited guys?

gtabnoob said:
Anyone have any info if devs are working on this for us unlimited guys?
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FoxFi works in the meantime

Foxfi doesn't work on these phones - that's the problem.
I found a workaround and posted a new thread in the Dev section though.

I've got a Maxx, and FoxFi works just fine for me.

o0beaner said:
I've got a Maxx, and FoxFi works just fine for me.
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This is the RAZR HD/RAZR MAXX HD forum. These phones were just released yesterday.

Mobile Hotspot
I have the MAXX HD as well. I just searched on the forums here and found the hack using SQL Lite Editor to change the entitlement check so that the phone doesn't check to see if you have purchased the feature in question from Verizon. I did it this way just as I did on the original MAXX and it worked like a charm!
edit: annnnd here's the link! http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1945274 (although the app is only $2.99, you could purchase it, do the quick and dirty, then get a refund from the google market if you do it in less than 15 min)

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edit: annnnd here's the link! http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1945274 (although the app is only $2.99, you could purchase it, do the quick and dirty, then get a refund from the google market if you do it in less than 15 min)
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Really? Do you want to stiff a developer of three bucks for an app you are going to use?

I'm not encouraging or discouraging any type of behavior. I look at it like a free trial. If you're going to use the program for 30 seconds, then I wouldn't expect to pay full price for it. Regular users of an app would be the ones who should pay if they are going to use it on a continuous basis.

I have been using foxfi for the past week and have had no issues.
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Foxfi works for me as well (no root required)
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FoxFi
I can not get FoxFi to work. I have downloaded the add-on too. Several times. The Proxy won't work. My computer will see it for a few minutes, and then it's gone. FoxFi still shows the computer as being connected, but I get nothing on my computer. Same with my N7. I did email the dev, but he has not responded back. Last time I emailed him, it was about FoxFi not working on the GNex after the JB update. As soon as they got it working, he emailed me. So hopefully that will happen again. In the meantime, I'm using PDANet to tether my phone to the laptop.

working mobile hotspot without plan purchase
evltwn72 said:
I can not get FoxFi to work. I have downloaded the add-on too. Several times. The Proxy won't work. My computer will see it for a few minutes, and then it's gone. FoxFi still shows the computer as being connected, but I get nothing on my computer. Same with my N7. I did email the dev, but he has not responded back. Last time I emailed him, it was about FoxFi not working on the GNex after the JB update. As soon as they got it working, he emailed me. So hopefully that will happen again. In the meantime, I'm using PDANet to tether my phone to the laptop.
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I've gotten my Razr HD to use the stock mobile hotspot app without a plan purchase. You have to disable the entitlement check in the phone's database. I've used SQLite. Under apps tab, go to Settings.Storage (com.motorola.android.providers.settings). Then go to Settings Storage, then Settings.db, then settings. look up _ID #68 and change entitlement check to 0. Reboot, then try the app. This is what worked for me on my Razr HD with JB

Can we tether through bluetooth??
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Foxfi Wifi tethering does not work with JellyBean. It works with Ice Cream Sandwich. The SQL Lite editor change does work in ICS and JB. Bluetooth tethering is fine but it's slower than Wifi.

This works on JB
Link to app...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.googlecode.android.wifi.tether
I can confirm this works - rooted on stock JB OTA - and broadcasts in infrastructure mode.