Hey, I just gota Nexus 5 phone yesterday, and I was planning on using wifi tether to connect my old phone and my ps3 to the internet. I'm able to create a mobile hotspot using the Nexus 5 settings, however I get no internet traffic. My PS3 tells me the connection times out. And my phone fails to log in.
Does anyone know if MetroPCS allows wifi tether? And if they don't, is there any way to bypass it. I'm on the $50 plan right now.
So I bought the $5 Mobile Hotspot service. It worked for a bit, But my wifi tether still did not consistently work. I eventually disabled it because of the issues.
Does anyone know what you have to do to get Wifi Tether up and running fully on Nexus 5 with MetroPCS service?
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The NS is my first phone on T-Mobile. I know with my evo and Sprint, I'm able to use free WiFi tethering (or whatever you call it). Would this be something the NS will be able to do or can it already do it?
This comes from the deepest thing ever rooted my ...HTC Evo 4G!
With the introduction of Android 2.2, usb tethering (using your mobile connection), and wi-fi hotspot (allowing other devices to use wi-fi to connect to yours) was added to the OS.
Yes, the Nexus S on T-Mobile with a real regular data plan (not trying to use the $5 or $10 tzones), you get free tethering via the built in tethering feature in Android 2.3
Its free, but other t mobile phone you need to pay for the service, not with the s
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just another confirmation the Nexus devices (One, and S) get you free wi-fi hotspot and tethering through t-mobile. Just be careful becauase t-mobile will drop your speed after 5GB now.
I rebooted a few days ago then the Wifi Hotspot turned on, but later that day it wouldn't turn on again, just gives "Error". Now even after a fresh reboot, it always gives "Error". What a piece of crap. This might be going back to Best Buy.
Oops, sorry, meant to post this in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=876366
Hey guys,
I JUST bought a Nexus S!
Does the Nexus S wireless hotspotting work for you for free?
Im on tmobile and turned it on just now and I can connect to the signal via laptop but cannot get onto any websites.
I thought that for gingerbread and nexus S, the wireless hotspot and usb tethering were free?
Thanks for your help, and glad to join the Nexus S party!
It is free, tried it out, pretty cool.
On the laptop, try disabling and re enable. I got that yellow exclaimation mark over the wifi signal which resolved in a min or two. Maybe it's taking yours a disable and reenable to get back on the ball
Yes wireless hotspot is free for now anyway. I use it all the time. Make sure you have unlimited data as it uses alot.
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.
NeutronBomb said:
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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access control
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??
JeffR714 said:
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.
hi, i haven't used my phone for a wifi hotspot in a very long time on verizon. i saw the thread about using Wifi tether for ROOT users with the s3. I'm currently on the grandfathered unlimited plan. Can anyone that has used Wifi tether for ROOT users on their android verizon phones recently confirm that verizon doesn't know you are using the wifi hotspot without paying and doesn't charge you? I plan to only use it rarely (ie: cable modem service goes out, on vacation with slow hotel wifi service for laptop etc), thanks!
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hi, i haven't used my phone for a wifi hotspot in a very long time on verizon. i saw the thread about using Wifi tether for ROOT users with the s3. I'm currently on the grandfathered unlimited plan. Can anyone that has used Wifi tether for ROOT users on their android verizon phones recently confirm that verizon doesn't know you are using the wifi hotspot without paying and doesn't charge you? I plan to only use it rarely (ie: cable modem service goes out, on vacation with slow hotel wifi service for laptop etc), thanks!
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I use FoxFi. I haven't been charged. It is basically the same concept as Wii for root.
I've used wifi for root both on my GS3 and before I upgraded on a DInc. Never been charged. Data is data, they can't tell how you use it.
Neither of these apps have worked for my rooted Verizon S3, niether will broadcast the signal even though it says it is running, however, I have not had a problem with wifi for root on my nexus.
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hi, i haven't used my phone for a wifi hotspot in a very long time on verizon. i saw the thread about using Wifi tether for ROOT users with the s3. I'm currently on the grandfathered unlimited plan. Can anyone that has used Wifi tether for ROOT users on their android verizon phones recently confirm that verizon doesn't know you are using the wifi hotspot without paying and doesn't charge you? I plan to only use it rarely (ie: cable modem service goes out, on vacation with slow hotel wifi service for laptop etc), thanks!
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Use FoxFi. Is free, its in the app store. You don't need to be rooted
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Rom: ICE 9.3
Kernal: NX R6
So I'm in a weird situation. I'm living in a home right now with no wifi but I'm lucky enough to have located XFinitys free wifi hotspot, which I have a plan at home, and will only require you type in your username and password to be connected to it.
I have unlimited data on tmobile but I honestly rather utilize xtinitys wifi as my hotspot/tether than my tmobile data. I want to make sure I'm not burning through my family's data for the month as although I have unlimited data i do believe they slow it down after a certain amount of usage. I've heard Tmobile One doesn't do that but we dont have it.
Thanks.
P.S. Also as a worst case scenario if someone could also tell me if theirs a way to use my tmobile data plan without them knowing I'm tethering as sometimes this Xfinity connection is unstable. Thanks again
PDAnet or NetShare apps should fix ya up. I use PDAnet without issues.
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easy tether will also do it.