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plz help with 4g tethering

Hello,
I have the epic 4g touch rooted with starburst rom. I installed android wifi tether app and I am able to connect to the wifi from laptop, but i cant actually browse to any websites. I can ping from cmd prompt to sites. When I use sprint hotspot everything works fine. Also is there an app that will let me tether at 4g speed?

hshaik1109 said:
Hello,
I have the epic 4g touch rooted with starburst rom. I installed android wifi tether app and I am able to connect to the wifi from laptop, but i cant actually browse to any websites. I can ping from cmd prompt to sites. When I use sprint hotspot everything works fine. Also is there an app that will let me tether at 4g speed?
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Is there a reason why you want to use the wifi-tether app and not the sprint hot-spot?

jasone4gt said:
Is there a reason why you want to use the wifi-tether app and not the sprint hot-spot?
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I wanted to tether at 4g speed, I thought I cant do that with sprint hotspot, also I have the unlimited data plan, but I am not sure if sprint hotspot costs money.

jasone4gt said:
Is there a reason why you want to use the wifi-tether app and not the sprint hot-spot?
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3rd party tethering apps (ie, wifi tether, usb EasyTether, bluetooth tether) are not subjected to the 5GB Hot Spot Sprint limitation. The data used by these apps are seen as "phone data" which is unlimited, whereas Hot Spot data is limited to 5GB with overage charges/fees.
Am I right?
Plus... it's bad enough having the phone run on 4G now you want it to act like a wireless router transmitting over wifi to tether a laptop. HOT HOT HOT
I think 4G tethering is most efficient and "coolest" in temperature over USB Tethering. If you must tether wirelessly, then Bluetooth is probably better than wifi. Not as big of a battery drain.

ctbearz said:
3rd party tethering apps (ie, wifi tether, usb EasyTether, bluetooth tether) are not subjected to the 5GB Hot Spot Sprint limitation. The data used by these apps are seen as "phone data" which is unlimited, whereas Hot Spot data is limited to 5GB with overage charges/fees.
Am I right?
Plus... it's bad enough having the phone run on 4G now you want it to act like a wireless router transmitting over wifi to tether a laptop. HOT HOT HOT
I think 4G tethering is most efficient and "coolest" in temperature over USB Tethering. If you must tether wirelessly, then Bluetooth is probably better than wifi. Not as big of a battery drain.
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hey so i dont have bluetooth on my laptop.. i just use it at work on my laptop to stream music, netflix etc. so which thrid party app would be recommended for 4g. I get great 4g signal at my office. Also i get really really crappy speed with usb tethering like 069 dwn and .65 up

what version of wifi tether are you using?
I'm using v3-beta-6. I can connect using 4g, browsing websites and such. But for some reason, the down steam speeds are capped at ~0.7Mbs when I run a speed test. On my phone, I get 10Mbs down. I know its using 4g because the ping time is much lower and my upload stream is 1.5Mbs.
On 3g, i'm only getting .85 Mbs down and 0.5Mbs up

hshaik1109 said:
hey so i dont have bluetooth on my laptop.. i just use it at work on my laptop to stream music, netflix etc. so which thrid party app would be recommended for 4g. I get great 4g signal at my office. Also i get really really crappy speed with usb tethering like 069 dwn and .65 up
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Easytether app is what I use to tether over uab. works amazingly well with no slow down. I also use wifi tether beta 6 but not very often because it gets hot. Speeds are super fast for me over 4G USB tethering, like 8-10mbps.
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i have the sprint hotspot hack working on my phone. that is the only reason i have root and stuff done to it. have to admit i have not used it yet, but my wifes nook color and my galaxy 10.1 sees it and it works great for the quick test i did.i needed infrastructure and got sick of fighting wifi teather(?)
[ACS][Mod][EK02][EL13][EL26][Deodex][Odex]Hotspot Mod Now With 4G!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1394371
works with el29, just follow the download link.
hope this helps

ctbearz said:
Easytether app is what I use to tether over uab. works amazingly well with no slow down. I also use wifi tether beta 6 but not very often because it gets hot. Speeds are super fast for me over 4G USB tethering, like 8-10mbps.
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ok i am going to try easytether assuming i can get it from market. i tried barnicle tether as well and i get ping replies from lets say google.com. I still cant browse. I just think its so slow the sites times out. I am going to try the easy tether and see how that works.

s9amme said:
what version of wifi tether are you using?
I'm using v3-beta-6. I can connect using 4g, browsing websites and such. But for some reason, the down steam speeds are capped at ~0.7Mbs when I run a speed test. On my phone, I get 10Mbs down. I know its using 4g because the ping time is much lower and my upload stream is 1.5Mbs.
On 3g, i'm only getting .85 Mbs down and 0.5Mbs up
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I have tried 3 of the newest version from their site. All of them I get the same thing. It connects and i can ping and everything but none of the websites open. I tried using sprint hotspot (which only works at 3g) and i get about 1.2 dwn and .7up. I want to get the full 4g speed

hshaik1109 said:
I have tried 3 of the newest version from their site. All of them I get the same thing. It connects and i can ping and everything but none of the websites open. I tried using sprint hotspot (which only works at 3g) and i get about 1.2 dwn and .7up. I want to get the full 4g speed
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I am a little confused because I see the link posted for the 4g hotspot fix which has been out for quite some time now. Also as far as it causing issues with Sprint you can rest assure if that was the case it would be posted all over this community. I am not sure why your phone is not working properly with the wifi tethers but I can assure you that Sprint Hotspot on our phone works quite lovely. Also the data usage restrictions do not apply for phones but for actual Hotspot devices. Please go to the link listed above flash the hotspot mod and enjoy life..... It works I am on it right now....

hshaik1109 said:
ok i am going to try easytether assuming i can get it from market. i tried barnicle tether as well and i get ping replies from lets say google.com. I still cant browse. I just think its so slow the sites times out. I am going to try the easy tether and see how that works.
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I just tried easytether. Installed it from market, followed direction and got it working. I got 8.17mb dwn and 1.34mb up. I am going to keep playing with it. Thanks everyone for helping out appreciate it.

playya said:
I am a little confused because I see the link posted for the 4g hotspot fix which has been out for quite some time now. Also as far as it causing issues with Sprint you can rest assure if that was the case it would be posted all over this community. I am not sure why your phone is not working properly with the wifi tethers but I can assure you that Sprint Hotspot on our phone works quite lovely. Also the data usage restrictions do not apply for phones but for actual Hotspot devices. Please go to the link listed above flash the hotspot mod and enjoy life..... It works I am on it right now....
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Actually the title says "plz help with 4g tethering". I had it working with sprint hotspot as well but not at 4g speed. I had tried other app android wifitether and barnacle with no luck. Thanks to ctbears I got easy tether working with 8mbdwn/1.34 up.

hshaik1109 said:
Actually the title says "plz help with 4g tethering". I had it working with sprint hotspot as well but not at 4g speed. I had tried other app android wifitether and barnacle with no luck. Thanks to ctbears I got easy tether working with 8mbdwn/1.34 up.
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No prob man you got it working so rock on!

hshaik1109 said:
Actually the title says "plz help with 4g tethering". I had it working with sprint hotspot as well but not at 4g speed. I had tried other app android wifitether and barnacle with no luck. Thanks to ctbears I got easy tether working with 8mbdwn/1.34 up.
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you're welcome enjoy your tethering!

hshaik1109 said:
Actually the title says "plz help with 4g tethering". I had it working with sprint hotspot as well but not at 4g speed. I had tried other app android wifitether and barnacle with no luck. Thanks to ctbears I got easy tether working with 8mbdwn/1.34 up.
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I'm not sure what hot spot thread you were in but the hot spot hack works on 3g and 4g. And it reads now with 4g not help with 4g... I've used it on both ek02 and el29 with no issues. I hardly ever use sprints crappy 3g and I'm tethering fine. Also take into consideration the hot spot is infrastructure and can be access by more than just computers unlike the tether apps on the market which all are ad hoc...
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RayTrue04 said:
I'm not sure what hot spot thread you were in but the hot spot hack works on 3g and 4g. And it reads now with 4g not help with 4g... I've used it on both ek02 and el29 with no issues. I hardly ever use sprints crappy 3g and I'm tethering fine. Also take into consideration the hot spot is infrastructure and can be access by more than just computers unlike the tether apps on the market which all are ad hoc...
Edit: I just realized somebody posted the link to the hot spot hack and it clearly says it has 4g. I'm done with this thread... LOL!
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Meant to edit my 1st post and I quoted myself.. Wow I must be smoking some good ish!!!

I have Calk 2.8.1 which supports sprint 4g hotspot. But in reality, I can never get download speed past the 3g speed. Upload is fast but download seems to be capped to 3g speed a confirmed by other users. EasyTether blows them all away with 4g speed of 8-10 Mbps. But of course it is not wireless and does not support infra structure mode.

Here's what I did to get full 4g speed while tethering via wifi..
Go to market and install filter proxy..
Open application, enable it and remember port number (Default is 8000)
Start wifi tethering..
Setup proxy in your browser, point it to your phone's ip address and port 8000 (if you use default)
Do this for http, https and ftp..
And you are all set.. Test your speed.

osva said:
Here's what I did to get full 4g speed while tethering via wifi..
Go to market and install filter proxy..
Open application, enable it and remember port number (Default is 8000)
Start wifi tethering..
Setup proxy in your browser, point it to your phone's ip address and port 8000 (if you use default)
Do this for http, https and ftp..
And you are all set.. Test your speed.
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I can't seem to find the exact app. Will this work with Sprint Hotspot WIFI tethering or just the 4G Android Wifi Tether.
I just tested Android WifiTether 3.1beta 6 and it seems to pass the full 4g speed to connected device. I am losing 10% or less in 5 tests.

Can't seem to get wifi tether working...

Phone: Samsung Epic 4G Touch
v2.3.6 EL29 from HERE
I tried loading WIFI Tether from this website and no matter what version I load on the phone I can't get my computer to pick up the SSID and connect. I know it's not my computer since it running off WIFI Usb card and I am able to connect it to my neighbors WIFI as well.
Any help is greatly appreciated!!

I use that one on ics and have to select galaxy nexus cdma as my phone for it to work. Also foxfi works well on el29 and does not even require root.

maxim82 said:
Phone: Samsung Epic 4G Touch
v2.3.6 EL29 from HERE
I tried loading WIFI Tether from this website and no matter what version I load on the phone I can't get my computer to pick up the SSID and connect. I know it's not my computer since it running off WIFI Usb card and I am able to connect it to my neighbors WIFI as well.
Any help is greatly appreciated!!
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As someguyatx said, use foxfi..... That's what i've used since I found that app
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I have the same problem when trying to use wifi tether, my device cannot see the ssid when it is on. I tried several versions with no success.
Installed FoxFi and that works great, but I would still like to get WT to work to see which one is better on my battery.
I am still on a GB rom.

Raistlin1 said:
I have the same problem when trying to use wifi tether, my device cannot see the ssid when it is on. I tried several versions with no success.
Installed FoxFi and that works great, but I would still like to get WT to work to see which one is better on my battery.
I am still on a GB rom.
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Never paid attention to battery, wifi tethering kills battery either way.....
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i had the same exact issue i just flash one of cauklins roms with the sprint mobile hack, not sure if WT lets you tether 4g but the sprint one lets you

Yeah, I too use Foxfi, it doesn't even require root (although I'm rooted anyway). It works very nicely on Sprint, and allows you to create a mobile hotspot for other devices to connect to wirelessly. It also allows you to use WPA. It is available here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.foxfi&hl=en

Is anyone able to get android-wifi-tether to work on LG2?

I just rooted (teamepic cwm+root.zip) and installed the android wifi tether. Wifi tether is not working. I went to the QBKing thread in development, and see that others are having similar wifi tether problems. Does anyone have wifi tether working on an LG2 release? I am considering flashing back to a stock LF9 if sprint managed to bork the wifi tether with their latest release.
TIA.

works for me
No problems for me on LG2. What exactly is the problem?

billard412 said:
No problems for me on LG2. What exactly is the problem?
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After my laptop connects to the tether, I can't actually get out to the internet. It's like the NAT is not working. checking the IP stack on my laptop, I am getting the right ip address, gatway, etc assigned. Wifi tether shows the laptop connected. But I can't do anything.
I followed the QBKING video step by step (except using a different password for encryption). I have the Samsung Galaxy Nexus (LTE/CDMA) profile selected. I've tried some others in desperation, but none are working.
I think I'll try uninstall/reinstall of wifi tether, or maybe just use foxfi now that i am rooted.

go to settings of the wifi tether app if you havent already and set it to enable the security settings so that youll need a password on any device you enable to use your phones internet signal and that should work because i was having that problem with the wifi tether app on my evo 3d and when i enabled security protection that allowed additional devices to connect to the internet. on my galaxy s3 i havent had any problems like that cause i intiially started with this method and ive been up and running just fine and im in houston so it seems the 4g lte is up and running here cause my phone shows 4g at the top for signal and my pages load up on the phones web searches faster than when its connected to my uverse wireless modem. hope this helps you man.
Sleestax said:
After my laptop connects to the tether, I can't actually get out to the internet. It's like the NAT is not working. checking the IP stack on my laptop, I am getting the right ip address, gatway, etc assigned. Wifi tether shows the laptop connected. But I can't do anything.
I followed the QBKING video step by step (except using a different password for encryption). I have the Samsung Galaxy Nexus (LTE/CDMA) profile selected. I've tried some others in desperation, but none are working.
I think I'll try uninstall/reinstall of wifi tether, or maybe just use foxfi now that i am rooted.
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Sleestax said:
After my laptop connects to the tether, I can't actually get out to the internet. It's like the NAT is not working. checking the IP stack on my laptop, I am getting the right ip address, gatway, etc assigned. Wifi tether shows the laptop connected. But I can't do anything.
I followed the QBKING video step by step (except using a different password for encryption). I have the Samsung Galaxy Nexus (LTE/CDMA) profile selected. I've tried some others in desperation, but none are working.
I think I'll try uninstall/reinstall of wifi tether, or maybe just use foxfi now that i am rooted.
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Ok if you didn't already, try gnex gsm instead. Also does the tether app show any numbers moving or do they stay at 0.0. Make sure your version of the tether app is up to date as well. And disable wake lock is unchecked in settings

I had the same issues as the op. With wireless tether change profile to galaxy nexus gsm not cdma and you must use access control. Then you should PROFIT......

Sleestax said:
I just rooted (teamepic cwm+root.zip) and installed the android wifi tether. Wifi tether is not working. I went to the QBKing thread in development, and see that others are having similar wifi tether problems. Does anyone have wifi tether working on an LG2 release? I am considering flashing back to a stock LF9 if sprint managed to bork the wifi tether with their latest release.
TIA.
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Are you using the "WiFi for Rooted Users" app? If so be sure to change your Device-Profile.
Open App>Settings>Change Device-Profile> Select Samsung Galaxy Nexus (CDMA/LTE)

solo_element said:
Are you using the "WiFi for Rooted Users" app? If so be sure to change your Device-Profile.
Open App>Settings>Change Device-Profile> Select Samsung Galaxy Nexus (CDMA/LTE)
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Galaxy nexus Cdma profile would not work for me i had to use galaxy nexus gsm profile for it to work for me.

Need Help!
Not working for me on the latest LG8 update...
HELP will someone please post a step by step of what you have done to get it working without any errors I've tried all steps without any success.
Thanks in advance

1afly said:
Not working for me on the latest LG8 update...
HELP will someone please post a step by step of what you have done to get it working without any errors I've tried all steps without any success. Thanks in advance
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If your using wireless tether go to profile change to galaxy nexus gsm then enable access control and routing fix checked then you should be good.

jbadboy2007 said:
Then you should PROFIT......
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Ok, am I the only one who doesn't know what this means? I see the term PROFIT used a lot here but I cannot figure out its definition or context. Could someone explain it to me?
Thanks.

jbadboy2007 said:
If your using wireless tether go to profile change to galaxy nexus gsm then enable access control and routing fix checked then you should be good.
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Has anyone had a chance to try this? Did it fix the intermittent connection problems? I am going to try it later, because wifi tether is still not working for me (LG8) using Galaxy Nexus CDMA/LTE and with the access control disabled. I am just curious to see if anyone has this working as using the GSM profile is counter-intuitive for Sprint.

Sleestax said:
Has anyone had a chance to try this? Did it fix the intermittent connection problems? I am going to try it later, because wifi tether is still not working for me (LG8) using Galaxy Nexus CDMA/LTE and with the access control disabled. I am just curious to see if anyone has this working as using the GSM profile is counter-intuitive for Sprint.
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Lol im using the gsm profile thats the only one that works for me.

jbadboy2007 said:
Lol im using the gsm profile thats the only one that works for me.
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I tried it and the wifi tether still doesn't work. Half the time I start it, it requests Superuser and "starts" but there is no SSID being broadcast and I don't think the wifi radio is actually turned on. Every once in a while, it will broadcast the SSID, and I can connect but the up/down data stay at 0.00kb. Other times, I can connect, and I see the up/down data slowly incrementing, but I can't actually get out to the internet (or FTP, or telnet or....).
I guess I'm just fooked until foxfi or android wifi tether for root actually release a specifically-supported SGS3 version of their apps.

My issues were i could see the ap but not fully connect or allow internet access. Make sure your using access control it will not work with out it. Also make sure you have routing fix checked and use auto not ad hoc.

Sleestax said:
I just rooted (teamepic cwm+root.zip) and installed the android wifi tether. Wifi tether is not working. I went to the QBKing thread in development, and see that others are having similar wifi tether problems. Does anyone have wifi tether working on an LG2 release? I am considering flashing back to a stock LF9 if sprint managed to bork the wifi tether with their latest release.
TIA.
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I only had issue with this on LG2, but really I have none on LG8 and FreeGS3 ver 0.0.9

jbadboy2007 said:
My issues were i could see the ap but not fully connect or allow internet access. Make sure your using access control it will not work with out it. Also make sure you have routing fix checked and use auto not ad hoc.
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Thanks. I tried all that and still no luck. I'm on stock LG8 with root.

Sleestax said:
Thanks. I tried all that and still no luck. I'm on stock LG8 with root.
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HELP!!!

I got it to work by changing the device profile to Epic Touch 4g...tether all the time with it.
Sent from my Transformer Prime TF201

NeroDan said:
I got it to work by changing the device profile to Epic Touch 4g...tether all the time with it.
Sent from my Transformer Prime TF201
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I'll give that a try, thanks.
*edit* I'm starting to wonder if this is an LTE-related thing. After a bit of testing, it seems like the tether works ok if I am on a 3G connection, but when I'm on LTE is when it won't work.

Bluetooth tethering, requires hotspot?

I was playing around with settings tonight and discovered Settings -> More Settings (under Data) -> tethering. Checked it, paired my phone and my Win7 PC, initiated an "access point" connection from the PC, and suddenly I was browsing while using my phone as an access point. Granted it was 3G speeds, but it did work.
Does this work for me because I have mobile hotspot, or is this a feature that shouldn't be working, or does it work for everyone? I'm not rooted, using the latest software update (with multiview). I can't even remember far enough back to when a carrier would have ever simply allowed bluetooth tethering, not even Sprint. It's a nice feature to have since WiFi radios usually wear batteries down faster.

hausman said:
I was playing around with settings tonight and discovered Settings -> More Settings (under Data) -> tethering. Checked it, paired my phone and my Win7 PC, initiated an "access point" connection from the PC, and suddenly I was browsing while using my phone as an access point. Granted it was 3G speeds, but it did work.
Does this work for me because I have mobile hotspot, or is this a feature that shouldn't be working, or does it work for everyone? I'm not rooted, using the latest software update (with multiview). I can't even remember far enough back to when a carrier would have ever simply allowed bluetooth tethering, not even Sprint. It's a nice feature to have since WiFi radios usually wear batteries down faster.
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this will work for anyone the only thing differnet for people subscribing to hotspot and those who dont is the ability to wirelessly tether with hotspot. hopefully soon we anyone rooted at least will be able to use free wifi thether

Interesting, thanks. I'm still surprised Sprint would allow this considering they offer unlimited data.

That's weird. I just tried this and I got an error 67, registration failed. Maybe they "fixed" it in the software update.

cruton said:
That's weird. I just tried this and I got an error 67, registration failed. Maybe they "fixed" it in the software update.
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Are using a Galaxy Note 2 on Sprint? Your image tag says you're on AT&T.

Sprint has unlimited data on the phone data only. They have separate plans for hotspots.
2GB @ $19.99
6GB @ $49.99
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I wasn't talking about hotspot. I was talking about Bluetooth tethering, and asking if it requires hotspot to work, because with unlimited data you could tether with bluetooth and theoretically have unlimited internet on your PC through your phone.

Can you tether via wifi? There is a wifi tethering app. You can find on xda or PM me and I will email it to you or post a dropbox link.
Sent from my SPH-L900 using xda premium

My question has nothing to do with WiFi tethering.

hausman said:
Does this work for me because I have mobile hotspot.
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[Q] mobile hotspot not working

I live in Jamaica (I'm using a T999 here) and my network allows me to tether free. The problem is when I try to turn on tethering and mobile hotspot it just turns itself off without even trying to connect. When I had my BlackBerry, I would just enter the apn settings and I was good from there. Do I need to get a app just to tehter?

You may try WIFI Tether in the play store. It's free.
At the same time, if you flashed JBFrost ROM, you can just toggle the Mobile Data on the pull down.
Good luck. I'm giving away free good luck to everyone for the holiday spirit lolz
frazbox said:
I live in Jamaica (I'm using a T999 here) and my network allows me to tether free. The problem is when I try to turn on tethering and mobile hotspot it just turns itself off without even trying to connect. When I had my BlackBerry, I would just enter the apn settings and I was good from there. Do I need to get a app just to tehter?
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so i tried wireless tether and foxfi, and both cant get me to share my data.
foxfi showed that it connected, but when i tried to connect my tablet I got network timed out.
wireless tether says it got an error trying to connect.

Try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1992948
Wifi tether app.
Sent from my SGH-T999 using xda premium

that doesn't work either...

frazbox said:
that doesn't work either...
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I have the exact problem,my phone is unlocked and outside USA, Did you find a solution?, all I can find is solutions for the redirect page.