WiFi HotSpot & Mac not working - T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions & Answers

I have a T-Mobile S7, using it in Europe with a Spanish SIM card.
Cannot get Hotspot to work. My Mac (10.11) sees the hotspot, can connect, but does not get an IP from the phone.
Any way to troubleshoot?
Anyone else got this set up working?
Maybe try a 3rd party app? There used to be one called FoxFi or something ...
Note: I am NOT rooted.
(I've tried with/without security, SSID broadcast, etc. Also disabled VPN adguards etc.)

Try pdanet. Haven't used that in ages but it was always reliable for me

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Hi
I'm just making this post as I can't really see any solutions for this.
Let me first explain the situation we're in, we have a bunch of laptops that need access to the internet and this building provides free wifi, YAY. The problem is, the wifi is unstable where we are, randomly doesn't allow computers to connect to it, and drops computers from the network for no reason. The landlord is pretty much unhelpful here, and we're only here for 2 weeks so we're just living with it right now.
I have a contracted phone with unlimited data that I tether with USB to my computer and then run a VPN on the computer which works fine for me, but I want to get the other laptops connected too.
The problem is my phone hasn't got tethering, so as soon as it detects a user agent that corresponds with a desktop based browser, it blocks the data connection until the signal is completely reestablished.
This is even a problem for my laptop as sometimes theres a random HTTP request that blocks the connections before the VPN can connect.
So the solution I really want for this is a VPN to be running on the phone, and then a hotspot to run on the phone. Then the laptops can connect to the phone and theoretically be behind the VPN, so everything can be connected and the connection won't get blocked.
I've tried all the iptables forwarding and masquerade rules to no avail, OpenVPN with "Use default route" to force all routes through the VPN also does not allow any computer on the hotspot to connect to get a data connection.
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Using VPN with Tether Seems to Break Tether

I have the Tmobile $70 plan with comes with 2.5 GB of tethering.
If I tether to my laptop and the laptop has a VPN, then I can look at the counter at ma.web2go.com and see that no tethering data is being used. This solution works very well for a laptop, where I can operate a VPN on the laptop.
When I use the VPN on the phone, not the laptop, the laptop will see the tether wifi signal, will register, but the internet will not work on the laptop.
Or, other times, the VPN will disconnect on the phone after a few seconds and cannot be reconnected.
I would like to be able to use the VPN on the phone so that I can use a Roku and Chromecast where I cannot set up a VPN on the device.
Yes, I have added the line in the database file.
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How can I set a static IP address of/for my hotspot?

Short version:
When I turn on my phone's hotspot I want to control the IP addresses it uses. It wants itself to be 192.168.43.135 most of the time, and I need to set it to something else more or less permanently. The address it wants to use is causing conflicts. Can you please help me figure out how to do this?
Long version:
My wife and I use our phones as our home's internet source. Till now, we've just been connecting things directly to our own hotspots individually as needed. However, we now have many more devices wanting a stable connection, so I bought several routers (Asus RT-AX92U). I've set two up as bridges, one connects to my hotspot, and the other to my wife's hotspot. These bridges feed into the third router set up as dual-wan, to either aggregate or fail-over. All this seems to work, EXCEPT, both phone's seem to want to dhcp the IP addresses used over their hotspot connection. I suspect this is causing IP conflicts when both phones are setting their own IP addresss on the same subnet, and their gateway addresses also exactly the same. I've tried setting static IP addresses in the bridges, but then even though their wifi connection remains, the access to the internet drops. I think I need to tell the phone what subnet to use to correct the problem.
Someone please help!
Thanks in advance.
-Jason
PS. both our N20u's are bootloader unlocked. So, you know, I can probably control anything that needs to be, if I only knew what and where.
You'd need to root the phone for that - OneUI does not let you finetune the hotspot functionality unfortunately. In fact, Android itself hardcodes the tethering IP and DHCP range. Once rooted, you can use any of the root tether apps, many of which allow setting your own DHCP ranges and IP addresses.
Another, possibly better solution would be if you took a home broadband data line from your provider/carrier, and used a USB 4G dongle with that.
fonix232 said:
You'd need to root the phone for that - OneUI does not let you finetune the hotspot functionality unfortunately. In fact, Android itself hardcodes the tethering IP and DHCP range. Once rooted, you can use any of the root tether apps, many of which allow setting your own DHCP ranges and IP addresses.
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Could you recommend a tethering app with that ability? I am rooted. The tethering apps I've looked at either won't do that, or get bad reviews for not working well.
0reo said:
Could you recommend a tethering app with that ability? I am rooted. The tethering apps I've looked at either won't do that, or get bad reviews for not working well.
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I can't, unfortunately. To be honest, since Android introduced built-in tethering, the market of tether apps have dropped significantly, especially since rooting hasn't been a mainstream thing for the past ~4 years or so.
Why can't you get a real Internet connection? . Main will be the cable/fiber & failover can be your mobile connection.

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