I have been using PDAnet for USB tethering, and it has worked fine. I am now running CM7, and it has functional, native USB tethering. I decided to thy this instead of PDAnet. However, when I connect to my PC, I get a Windows dialog box (on my PC) titled "Connect Broadband Connection", which requests a username and password for the connection. I have not set anything up for this, but I tried all of my normal combinations without success.
If anyone could offer any tips on this, it would be much appreciated.
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I have poor 3G and 4G reception at my office. Is there a way to use my USB to connect to a wired network? Thanks in advance for any guidance you can provide!
This would only work if you're on one of the newer ROMS that have the " internet pass through" option when you connect your phone this computer....
I pulled this from androidcentral..
1. Make sure your computer is connected to the Internet. Two things to check for your computer’s Internet connection. One, we recommend that you turn off your local network’s firewall. Two, if your computer connects to the Internet via PPP (e.g. Dial UP, xDSL, or VPN), Internet Pass-through will only support TCP protocol.
2. Connect the phone to the computer using the provided USB cable.
3. On the Connect to PC screen, select Internet Pass-through, and then tap Done.
4. On the message window, tap OK.
Edit: also htc sync will have to be installed on the source computer for this to work
Thank you very much for this information. I appreciate your help!
You're welcome, i hope it works for you. I've never tried it, so good luck!
I have a question regarding tethering via wifi on my T989D.
I am using the Juggernaut v5.0 on my Telus T989D. It has wifi-sharing app built in. When I use this application to share my mobile internet with my PC, I get two different ip addresses. For example, use my PC's browser, I find my PC's ip address is 123.123.123.57, however my phone's IP address is 123.123.123.101. So my phone and my pc have different ip addresses.
Strange enough, my Samsung Vibrant (T959 from TMobile), is different. I use wifi tethering for root user app, and I find my PC and my phone (T959) share the same ip address.
Why they are different on my T989D?
The problem I am having right now is, tethering via T989D's built-in function is slow. Sometimes connection drops. However the tethering via my T959 is very reliable and fast.
Is there a way to disable built-in tethering on T989D and use the tethering for root user app on my T989D? I have tried to freeze the tether manager, but tethering for root user still has error in log and I cannot connect to it at all.
Please help, I want to fix my tethering problem with T989D.
thanks
think about it...
when you are WiFi tethering, your phone is acting as the router, and it provides its own IP to you
you don't get the Mobilicity IP on your laptop or whatever it's hooking up to your phone on WiFi
Sorry I don't get it.
Why my T989D and T959 act differently?
Basically there are two ways of tethering your phone to your PC, (to allow the PC to access the internet through your phone's data connection). The first way is connect PC to the phone, and then to configure your PC to see the phone as the network adapter. This is the method used when you configure USB tethering and you connect the PC to the phone with a USB cable. In that case there will only be 1 IP address assigned, because the PC is using the phone as the network adapter. (Imagine the phone is just an ethernet adapter for the PC)
The second way is to connect your phone to your PC and then to configure the PC to access the phone as if it were a Wireless Access Point (WAP). This is the method used when you use Wi-Fi sharing, (called Portable Hotspot). It's called sharing because the phone can share access to its data connection through its Wi-Fi hardware, for up to 8 different PCs simultaneously. In order to do this the phone has to route data requests correctly between the connected computers. It does this by assigning itself 1 IP address, and then assigning each PC that's connected to it, a different IP address. This is similar to setting up a wireless router at home to share a single internet connection between multiple PCs.
Usually USB tethering results in 1 IP address for both phone (network adapter) and PC, and Wi-Fi sharing/tethering results in 1 IP address for the phone and another IP address for each connected PC. However, I suppose it's possible to use different Wi-Fi tethering software that connects the PC to the phone via Wi-Fi, using only 1 IP address for both phone and PC, like the USB tether method. This would mean you couldn't share the connection, but it may work faster, since the phone wouldn't need to do any routing.
If the android-wifi-tether app is what you refer to as "wifi tethering for root user app", it's worth it to see if it works on the T989. (I'd be curious if it works too). However, if you're using Juggernaut 5.0, you should be able to install android-wifi-tether, and it should work. You shouldn't actually have a Tethering manager app in your list of apps, I don't and I'm using 5.0. If you do, and freezing Tethering manager doesn't allow this app to work, then I would try freezing both the Wi-Fi sharing app and the Wi-Fi sharing manager app as well. If it still doesn't work I'd be tempted to reflash the Juggernaut 5.0 ROM, and then install the android-wifi-tether app again, and see if it works.
Good Luck..
Thanks Jasnn, this really helped and I am now clear.
Yes, the application I am referring to was android-wifi-tether. It works flawlessly
on T959D. it is very slow on my T989D with Juggernaut 5.0/Telus modem.
If I reboot the phone and start tethering using android-wifi-tether, the application starts, but there is one error in log:
Setting ad-hoc mode: failed.
IP address are still different. My pc and phone has two different ipaddress.
I'd like to have the same ipaddress, also one thing bugs me is, the internet connection is not stable, the internet goes on and off. Lots of t989/D users have experienced this problem, there is no cure yet.
thanks
jasnn said:
Basically there are two ways of tethering your phone to your PC, (to allow the PC to access the internet through your phone's data connection). The first way is connect PC to the phone, and then to configure your PC to see the phone as the network adapter. This is the method used when you configure USB tethering and you connect the PC to the phone with a USB cable. In that case there will only be 1 IP address assigned, because the PC is using the phone as the network adapter. (Imagine the phone is just an ethernet adapter for the PC)
The second way is to connect your phone to your PC and then to configure the PC to access the phone as if it were a Wireless Access Point (WAP). This is the method used when you use Wi-Fi sharing, (called Portable Hotspot). It's called sharing because the phone can share access to its data connection through its Wi-Fi hardware, for up to 8 different PCs simultaneously. In order to do this the phone has to route data requests correctly between the connected computers. It does this by assigning itself 1 IP address, and then assigning each PC that's connected to it, a different IP address. This is similar to setting up a wireless router at home to share a single internet connection between multiple PCs.
Usually USB tethering results in 1 IP address for both phone (network adapter) and PC, and Wi-Fi sharing/tethering results in 1 IP address for the phone and another IP address for each connected PC. However, I suppose it's possible to use different Wi-Fi tethering software that connects the PC to the phone via Wi-Fi, using only 1 IP address for both phone and PC, like the USB tether method. This would mean you couldn't share the connection, but it may work faster, since the phone wouldn't need to do any routing.
If the android-wifi-tether app is what you refer to as "wifi tethering for root user app", it's worth it to see if it works on the T989. (I'd be curious if it works too). However, if you're using Juggernaut 5.0, you should be able to install android-wifi-tether, and it should work. You shouldn't actually have a Tethering manager app in your list of apps, I don't and I'm using 5.0. If you do, and freezing Tethering manager doesn't allow this app to work, then I would try freezing both the Wi-Fi sharing app and the Wi-Fi sharing manager app as well. If it still doesn't work I'd be tempted to reflash the Juggernaut 5.0 ROM, and then install the android-wifi-tether app again, and see if it works.
Good Luck..
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Anyone else had this happen? It's a Telstra phone with the latest Telstra ROM on it, and it used to work perfectly but I recently changed providers and it doesn't work any more - I know the data connection is still OK though as browsing on the phone still works.
Not sure if it's provider blocking (but that's sooooo 2009) or if the phone itself is hard coded to use the 850MHz band for tethering or something? The error I get is simply "Error APN" - but I know the APN is correct (it's just 'internet').
You're trying to USB or wifi or BT tether the data cxn on your phone to your PC, yes...?
I guess I'm confused as to why an APN even comes into play here.
This is with USB tethering - the same as it always used to work - you plug it into the PC, select Internet on the phone and after a few seconds the PC has access to the internet. File access works fine, internet connection on the phone works fine, just not when tethered as a modem.
I've also loaded GBX0C and Windows can't recognise the device when I'm running XDA (via USB or wifi tethering - it's a desktop PC so no BT) so I can't easily test if it's the ROM or the hardware.
Nukkels said:
This is with USB tethering - the same as it always used to work - you plug it into the PC, select Internet on the phone and after a few seconds the PC has access to the internet. File access works fine, internet connection on the phone works fine, just not when tethered as a modem.
I've also loaded GBX0C and Windows can't recognise the device when I'm running XDA (via USB or wifi tethering - it's a desktop PC so no BT) so I can't easily test if it's the ROM or the hardware.
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Please, let's keep troubleshooting to WinMo in this section... If you have an issue with a particular Android build, post in that build thread.
As for USB tethering in WinMo - when you select "internet", what happens? Do you get the noise on your PC like you've connected the phone or...? Have you tried a different port, and/or a different cable?
OK, I'll leave Android out of this - I just mentioned because it didn't help me narrow it down.
The PC makes the noise like I've connected a USB device as normal. Actually it does that twice, but that's quite common for a lot of devices. Then on the phone I get a popup window - the title bar says "Cannot Connect" and the message is "Error APN". I've tried different ports (even on a PCI-E card instead of onboard) and different cables. They shouldn't matter though as the only thing that changed was my provider.
I realise this this isn't a generic support forum though so I'm not looking for troubleshooting. I'm just wondering if anyone else has come across this with a Rhod110 - there's a lot of minor differences in this version, as I discovered when trying to get Android running. Or maybe even someone with some deeper knowledge of the OS knows if the tethered internet connection does anything different to a 'normal' 3G connection.
Hrm, I'm CDMA... so I guess I'll bow out. I've never seen/heard of those error messages when trying to tether, but GSM is quite different than CDMA in terms of data connectivity. CDMA doesn't have APN's .
Decided to do a quick search...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=571832
See if that works.
Cheers for that pointing me to that thread - it was indeed just a registry entry hardcoded to Telstra.
Leaving it blank allows me to get a couple of error messages and then eventually select a connection from the list and from there I figured out it just used whatever the connection name is (user-defined). Set the registry entry to that and now it's working just as it always used to.
I wonder how many other functions Telstra has dug it's claws into?
Greetings all,
I'm in a predicament and hope someone can help. I've tried browsing forums on XDA/other sites, implemented some suggestions, but nothing seems to work.
I have a camera that is connected to my laptop that streams live video (sort of a make-**** surveillance system). I want to access this stream externally. The camera supports DDNS, and has been enabled. I have software installed on my laptop to auto-update the ip. However, in order to view this video externally, I need to find a way to open up some ports (as defined by the camera) when tethering from my rooted note 2 on T-Mobile: 8554 (for RTSP), and 8000(server). According to canyouseeme.org, these ports are blocked. The two other ports that are needed for this setup, 443 (HTTPS), and 80 (HTTP), seem to be working fine. Please note that I have DDNS enabled for this setup.
Some forums suggested using a VPN. So I tried. I enabled privateinternetaccess (they have their own app) on my phone, but then my computer won't connect to the internet (note that tethering is still active). When I use PIA's Windows software, the computer connects via the VPN but no difference is made in terms of the ports being opened, etc.
HowardForums suggested using a proxy/SOCKS. I configured my note 2 to use a proxy server via an app, but then the same thing happens: the computer won't connect to the internet.
Does anyone have any suggestions? Port forwarding, etc? I know this is a lot, but any help is much appreciated. If I left anything out/can answer any questions, please let me know. Thanks again.
Has anyone sucesfully managed to tether their 4G gemini to a laptop, to share mobile data?
I've tried WiFi hotspot and USB tethering and I'm having no luck. The laptop gets an IP and gateway address from the Gemini but still can't connect to the internet.
I have no problems when I tether using a different phone.
If someone with a 4G gemini and a laptop could give it a go and let me know if it works for them, it would be really helpful.
Thanks!
Tom
Wi-Fi and Bluetooth tethering works fine for me.
Maybe tethering is blocked by your carrier.
FIle transfers do not work either
teb22 said:
Has anyone sucesfully managed to tether their 4G gemini to a laptop, to share mobile data?
I've tried WiFi hotspot and USB tethering and I'm having no luck. The laptop gets an IP and gateway address from the Gemini but still can't connect to the internet.
I have no problems when I tether using a different phone.
If someone with a 4G gemini and a laptop could give it a go and let me know if it works for them, it would be really
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When connecting USB to usbC , the Win laptop claims connection exists, but permission to connect is missing. Hence it would seem that Gemini or Android is incapable of registering a physical connection (even if it reports slow charging" when at an USB2 port as opposed to USB3.)
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I would really prefer a cabled connection to hack exposed and battery-eating wireless methods, so any advice is welcome. I tried to hook up and mount the Gemini so as to use the versatile file handler MC on it at my lange stationary Linux machine, but it seemed to be "invisible". (My Gemini is the pure android latest available version, not rooted.)
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