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[Q] Wireless

Just updated from an Incredible to a Charge on Wed. Still able to take it back and get a Thunderbolt if I don't fix a few problems. The main two are:
1) Bluetooth cutting in and out in car - Understand some others have also experienced problems with this, but so far hasn't been TOO bad and a deal killer.
2) Wireless "seamless roaming". I've got a two story house and a single access point has never given me full coverage. Long ago I wired up a 2nd router to the upstairs and set it to disable DHCP, etc., etc., then set it to use the same SSID as the primary router. One is set to use channel 11 and the other is set to use channel 2. The Incredible at least seemed to go from one access point to the other when it needed to and I maintained adequate throughput throughout the house. The Charge appears to be staying on whichever access point it initially connects to and my throughput will drop to nothing when I'm a long way from the one initially connected to. E.g. Go upstairs, turn on wireless - Speedtest of 25 Mbps. Go downstairs hold phone right next to access point - Speedtest of 0.9 Mbps. Turn off wireless, turn back on and throughput of 25 Mbps.
How do I fix this? Is it a network setting error or is the Droid not smart enough to change to the other point? That may be a "return to Verizon" problem.

USB Tether settings for Mac OS X?

Power is out at our house, seems to go out ever once in a while, whole entire neighborhood. Looking to get USB tethering up and going on Mac Os X with 4G Lte but it is asking for modem settings, apn, and account number, password. Anyone get USB tethering up and running on mac os x with the default samsung tethering application?

Ur better off using the wifi tethering and just charging the phone off the USB port, this will work better without having to set all that up

I would like to know also as I am not getting the same speeds when I am using the portable wi-fi hotspot option. When I do a speedtest on my phone Im getting like 12 MB/s download on 4G LTE. However when connected via hotspot, my mac laptop only gets like 2 MB/s. Just wondering if usb tether would get higher speeds.
I tried adding the device as a modem in the network preferences on my mac but could not get it to work. Not sure if I have the right settings.

[Q] Can we use P920(H) as a modem for a 3G router?

Hello all. I've just purchased a 3G/WAN WI-FI router (TP-Link model TL-MR3420 - link to manufacturer's page). It has an USB port to connect a 3G/4G modem. I tried to connect my P920H (V28b stock ICS - XBSA large partitions) but the router doesn't recognise it. I tried to use an older 3G phone (Sony Ericsson W980) and it works like a charm. In both cases I configured the phones to USB tether with their own configuration options.
Anyone managed to make this work? I believe the router lacks a driver, but I've found no driver for any phone on the manufacturer's page, although I works with the Walkman phone.
Edit: I forgot to mention that all tethering features on my phone works fine. I can turn on my hotspot and I can plug it to a PC's USB port and act like a modem. I just can't do it with my router.
Why I want to do this: Most of you who have nice broadband access may be wondering why I want to use my phone to provide Internet access to my router. Here's why: In the region I live, broadband access is a joke. A miserable 1Mbps insufficcient to watch even the lamest youtube video. But it has no limitations, so it is good for TV upgrades and other connected devices to do their maintenance.
On the other hand, my phone provider has a wonderful coverage around my house, sustaining an average of 3Mbps, reaching 10Mbps late at night. So, when I want a quicker net, like to watch Internet movies or download large files, I used to turn off my router and turn on the phone's hotspot. But even setting its SSID and password identical to the ones on the router, it takes some tweaking on the devices for them to reconnect. It was a nuisance.
With this 3G router, all I would have to do is connect the phone to it and it would switch from WAN to 3G. All I need is a driver that would make it recognize the phone and use it as a modem.

I messed with wifi tethering a bit a while back. Couldn't get it to work. My other phone sees it as a wifi point but won't connect. Something to do with LG not liking tethering I heard. I saw this mod that fixes tethering for some devices but never tried it ( I don't really need tethering). I am curious if it fixes it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=37062006

drastic00 said:
I messed with wifi tethering a bit a while back. Couldn't get it to work. My other phone sees it as a wifi point but won't connect. Something to do with LG not liking tethering I heard. I saw this mod that fixes tethering for some devices but never tried it ( I don't really need tethering). I am curious if it fixes it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=37062006
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Hello drastic00!
Thank you for your suggestion. I understand that the mod you suggested can have nice effects on slow or even broken tethering.
The problem is that I haven't made myself clear on the first post. I can see it now and I'll edit it right away. The tethering feature on my phone works fine, both WI-FI and USB tethering works. What I need is a USB tethering that makes my router "think" that my phone is actually a 3G USB modem. When I use this feature on a PC, I have to install the drivers. The bad news is that I can't install these drivers on the router.

Okay. I figured if wifi tether isn't working then usb isn't either. So what firmware do you have on which it is working?
There was a small discussion on a thread a month or so ago; it wasn't working for the 4 or so people who posted then...I think we were all on ICS or higher, but not positive. That's when I tried to see if I could get wifi tether to work. I didn't try any usb tethering.
So I guess I am not understanding the advantage of plugging direct to the router. Why not plug the phone to pc (signal in) and the router to pc (signal out)? Because it would be easier to switch from the signal you normally use? This is a new one on me... I have no idea if an ethernet switch would be of use...2 signals in for the router to broadcast and choose which wifi signal on the client end (not sure if your router could do that, just grasping at straws, since I haven't tried anything like this).
It's weird other phones work though, so I am still curious if Crossbreeder mod would do anything. It seems the other phones have a piece of software the O3D does not. Unless the router has drivers installed for those devices by default, which I doubt; you didn't install anything for those to work, they worked out-of-the-box, so to speak, right?

Exactly. Both WIFI and USB tether always worked out of the box for me, with several ROMs, either stock and modded ROMs. Eventualy some modded ROMs did break tether, but usually broke many other things as well Probably too undervolt and/or too overclock among other things I don´t understand.
I remember that discussion about not working tether, but didn´t get involved. It never happened to me. I believe it is more a hardware issue. If it happened to me, the first thing I would do is install the original stock Froyo to be sure if tether didn´t work with the most original firmware.
As to why I want to put my O3D as the Internet provider for my network: I have several devices connected: 3 PCs, 2 Androids, 1 TV and 1 Blu-ray player. The last two are not too easy to make connect to a different WIFI net, even if they have the same SSID and passwords. I used to turn off the router and then turning on the phone´s hotspot. The problem is that almost always several of these devices didn´t realise the switch and kept trying to connect to the unavailable router. The same thing happend when switching from the phone to the router.
Also, I don´t want to buy a 3G modem, because the speed advantage (and low fees) are "connected" to my voice plan. The SIM card is my primary phone number So, I need it to be able to make and receive calls. If I purchase a new SIM card, I would have to cope with two bills. Again, no more advantages.
Breaking news: I just noticed that the Sony Ericsson Walkman phone I am using as a modem only gets 1Mbps download, exactly the speed my provider guarantees. My P920H can get more than 10 Mbps on times, but usually between 3 and 5 Mbps. I believe that V28b stock ICS somehow unlocks some sort of ISP speed limit. Now, more than ever I want to use my phone as a modem on my router.

[Q] Linksys EA6350 (AC1200+) slow wifi only on Android devices.

I have a very odd wifi issue and I have yet to find an answer. I will try to be as detailed and thorough as possible.
I have Comcast as a provider, and I recently switched away from their all-in-one modem/router. I got a really good deal on a Motorola Surfboard 6141 and Linksys AC1200+ (EA6350) router due to a going out of a business sale from a local place.
Everything has been working perfectly except our phones (both 1st Gen Moto X's. Contract is almost up) and my Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4. We have tested 5 different Macbooks, an iPad, a Windows laptop, and a Microsoft Surface. Everything else is working without issue as in the speed is great and streaming/surfing/etc. is great. The only thing hardwired in is the Xbox One which works beautifully.
So on to my wireless settings. I've got both the 2.4ghz and the 5ghz enabled. They both use the same name and password. The 2.4ghz is set to channel 11, auto width, N-Only, and WPA2/WPA Mixed Personal The 5ghz is set to auto channel, auto width, mixed(AC and N), and WPA2/WPA Mixed Personal.
I've tried changing some of the DNS settings as well. I set static DNS1 to 8.8.8.8 and DNS2 to 8.8.4.4 and left the third space blank.
For the firewall settings IPv4 SPI and IPv6 SPI are enabled. And under Internet Filters, filter anonymous and filter ident(port 113) are checked, while filter multicast and filter internet NAT redirection are unchecked.
Nothing has really helped much. I can set the Moto X to 2.4ghz only and I get about 10mbps down, 11 up. On 5ghz only, I get a much better 37mbps down, and 12up. Unfortunately, either way, actual browsing/streaming are sluggish. Similar results on my Galaxy Pro (not an easy way to set to 2.4 or 5 only). Sites are just loading slow. Just google.com is taking roughly 20 seconds. I've been using Chrome and Dolphin browsers on both devices with similar results. The Moto X phones are running 4.4.4 and the Galaxy Tab Pro is running 4.4.2.
I took my phone and tablet to another wifi network (Linksys E1200 g/n. Didn't check settings.) and things were loading quickly and without issue despite being a 30/10 connection. If I turn off the wifi on my phone and just use 4G at my place, things load much faster and I'm only getting about 20 down 6 up. The other network and 4G only take about 2-4 seconds to bring up google.com.
I'm a little lost here. Even tried wiping the cache on both devices. I feel like there's just something I'm missing here and I'm not finding anything online. I can provide any other relevant details. Just not understanding why my Android devices are the only ones with issues.

Did you ever find a solution to this? I am experiencing the same issue.

I'm having the same problem.... My fix is gonna be to return this junk.

I've got one of these; I suspect hardware fault. I had bad speed with stock firmware; I also personally did not like the stock GUI at all so I put DD-WRT on mine. This did "fix" the GUI but not the wifi. As with all yours, the 5ghz is good, the 2.4ghz shows low signal power and low speed. In my case I already had a working 2.4ghz AP so I just ended up turning off the 2.4ghz on the EA6350 (making it 5ghz only), hooking them together via ethernet, and running both. I got mine from a thrift store though (unnamed but one that does good work with their profits); if I'd gotten it from some electronics store I would have put stock firmware back on and returned it.

Wi-fi connection dropping out

Hi all, I'm on unrooted stock and have so far only disabled bloatware and system apps via the stock app manager. I've got a solid wireless network throughout my house with one Linksys WRT54G2 running as a wired gateway (with wireless connections) to my main router, a Linksys/Cisco E3200 (only wireless connections except the gateway). I don't have issues with any other wi-fi enabled hardware, including two tablets running Lollipop and my Note 2 which was running CM 12.1, but with this phone the connection seems to drop after a couple hours of non-use (i.e. - while sleeping overnight or while running around making dinner and taking care of our baby at night). When this happens the phone tells me that I'm still connected to my wireless network but there is no throughput until I cycle the wi-fi on/off in the phone settings and it reconnects.
This happens with wi-fi calling enabled. I have yet to make a successful call with wi-fi calling so I will leave it disabled today but doubtful that will cure my issue. Does anyone have any other suggestions?
Other than that I'm loving this phone and was so ready for an upgrade, will probably root before long but will try to keep the stock rom for a bit. TouchWiz still has its quirks but has come a long way over the last few years. Additionally, has anyone been following this thread? I will probably look at something like this in the coming days to increase battery life but for the most part I think all of my needs will be met with the wireless tether APN settings change and software. Thanks