First post. So, I have a Evo but I won a iPad (wifi only) online the other day and i'm thinking about keeping it or selling it. I know Sprint has a Hotspot option that you can use on the phone but I don't want to pay $30/month for it which is crazy in my opinion. I downloaded EasyTether off the appstore so I can tether for free which is great on my laptop, but if I keep the iPad and take it around with me i want to be able to get online with it, so it would be great to have the Hotspot functionality on my phone. I know you can activate hotspot functionality by rooting the Evo, but I just updated to 2.2 and as far as I am aware there is no 2.2 root option yet.
So in the meantime I guess I was just wondering if anyone who has a iPad uses the Evo's hotspot functionality. I was also curious in general how it performs over 3G with wifi devices and if there is any option like Easy Tether so you can use hotspot functionality for free until there is a root for 2.2 on Evo?
Thanks for any input/answers and I look forward to contributing to the forums.
If You Root Your Phone You'd Now Be Able To Use Froyo (2.2) With Wireless Tether 2.0.5-pre7 I'm Actually Posting This From My LapTop On Fresh 3.1.0.1 Using The Above Named Wireless Tether.. My Girl's Cousin Has A WiFi Only Ipad And I Was Letting Him Use My Wifi Tether To Connect And It Was Working Flawlessly.. Congrats On Winning The IPad
We took a trip to the mountains a week ago. I used the EVO hotspot utility to connect my laptop and my wife's ipad and my son's ipod touch to the internet all at the same time! Worked like a charm! just remember to change the default setting at set a new SSID and password.
I believe that if you can connect with your laptop you should be able to connect with your iPad. I've always been able to connect with my iPad whether it was adhoc or AP mode.
Well i started paying for the 30 bucks option becuase the free wifi cap my speeds real bad and i was rooted back then but now im stock with rooted icons wierd but dont work but works awsome the hotspot for me i have 3 360 coneected amd 2 ps3 and my msi netbook connected and works bad ass i love it yea some lag but it ok for me
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persibro said:
I believe that if you can connect with your laptop you should be able to connect with your iPad. I've always been able to connect with my iPad whether it was adhoc or AP mode.
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Well, I can connect my Laptop to my Evo via USB using EasyTether Lite so I can get online with my laptop for free but I need free Hotspot functionality so I can use it with my iPad, but idk what I could do since I updated my Evo to 2.2.
I don't know if this will help you but there is a chance you can downgrade your Evo and then root it. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=715915
hold your ipad differently, or buy a case.
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If You Root Your Phone You'd Now Be Able To Use Froyo (2.2) With Wireless Tether 2.0.5-pre7 I'm Actually Posting This From My LapTop On Fresh 3.1.0.1 Using The Above Named Wireless Tether.. My Girl's Cousin Has A WiFi Only Ipad And I Was Letting Him Use My Wifi Tether To Connect And It Was Working Flawlessly.. Congrats On Winning The IPad
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I find people that type with caps on the first letter of every word to be very annoying. And there's no point.
persibro said:
I believe that if you can connect with your laptop you should be able to connect with your iPad. I've always been able to connect with my iPad whether it was adhoc or AP mode.
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I know that iPods (3rd gen) aren't able to connect to AP networks, since I've hosted from my laptop before and it couldn't see it.
zamardii12 said:
Well, I can connect my Laptop to my Evo via USB using EasyTether Lite so I can get online with my laptop for free but I need free Hotspot functionality so I can use it with my iPad, but idk what I could do since I updated my Evo to 2.2.
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If you want the iPad, keep it. It sound like the iPad can connect to even AP infrastructure networks. Although I'm pretty sure the Hotspot app, and wireless tether, both aren't AP network (although I don't know what it hosts, that's not my area ).
Basically, Hotspot would work if you felt like $30. Otherwise I'd wait for 2.2 to get rooted.
I honestly don't know what I'm saying anymore cause I'm watching tv and writing this. And there's models...
Oops I wasn't aware that EasyTether was done through USB. In that case, since you don't have root and upgraded to 2.2, you can either set up internet sharing on your laptop and connect using adhoc mode, or pay the $30 for the official tethering.
persibro said:
Oops I wasn't aware that EasyTether was done through USB. In that case, since you don't have root and upgraded to 2.2, you can either set up internet sharing on your laptop and connect using adhoc mode, or pay the $30 for the official tethering.
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or you can pay $0 to root your phone, install any 2.2 ROM, and use android wifi tether.
Froyo (Android 2.2) has Wi-fi Hotspot capability: no need to root
Froyo (Android 2.2) has Wi-fi Hotspot capability: no need to root
Either 1: Open up your Apps page and look for the widget "Wi-Fi Hotspot" (on my Desire it is placed just before the YouTube widget"
or 2: open Settings, Wireless & networks and select "Portable Wi-fi Hotspot"
This has allowed me to connect my iPad via my Desire's data connection.
the desire on official froyo unrooted has a hotspot widget preinstalled as mentioned above.
my friends iphone and laptop spotted it fine. so no reason why an ipad wouldnt find it.
i note that evo can connect to many devices as can be seen from other posts here, but the htc desire has a max limit of 2 devices via the wifi hotspot at a time, although i dont know if you could connect more devices by using usb tether and bluetooth tether at the same time too. you dont need apps from anywhere for wifi or usb tether on 2.2 official version. i dont know if 2.2 allows bluetooth tether but if satnav devices can piggy back to net connection on phones i dont see why tethering cant be done but might be slow. there are apps on cnet for wifi and blueetooth tethering (cnet editor reviewed apps).
I believe the Sprint approved version of Froyo has Android WiFi removed and replaced by their own app.
Now that it's possible to root, I installed wireless-tether 2.0.5-pre9.
My iPad connects, but no Internet access!
Ipad works fine
I use the Wireless Tether with my IPAD all the time works great I am using Fresh 3.3.0.1
Hotspot and wireless tether are both AP, zune hd doesn't do adhoc and i was able to connect to my evo with it
My omnia 7 could connect to my brother's iPhone personal hotspot without a problem, but after the NoDo update i can't connect anymore! I wrote to Microsoft Answers but they told me to delete the network and try connecting again but that obviously didn't work. So i ask do you have the same error or you don't and what can i do :S
The error is: connection unsuccessful. You phone couldn't reach the Wi-Fi network ... You know the rest
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I have exactly the same problem, except I'm using a Samsung Focus. It won't connect to my iPhone personal hotspot. I get the same error message. Of course it doesn't give you any more detail than that. I've not been able to find any fixes either.
I have NoDo installed on an LG Quantum, and a buddy at work has the iPhone 4, and I connected just fine last week when we were comparing phones.
Im getting a weird problem with my hotspot.
i can enable it and other devices can connect to it but no internet goes through.
for example when im using my tablet to connect to my note2 it shows fully connected on the tablet and the note2 displays 1 user connected.
but when i look at the hotspot app i only see a mac address (i come from HTC phones and HTC phones always see the device name+mac address) i dont know if its normal.
then on my tablet i cant get any internet at all
my carrier is rogers i dont know if that makes a difference though
any thoughts on this?
thanks
no one?
can anyone tell me why i cant tether my laptop to internet via my note 2 using the notes portable hotspot app, setting up and finding phone is not an issue however internet connection is limited or no conectivity, when i try access any web page or google laptop returns dns failure unable to connect , i can put exact same sim in my old htc 1 x connects without any issues
any suggestions help guys ? before i give up all together
cheers
Well you can do it without an app as well so no need to play around with apps.
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Back when I had a jailbroken iPad & iPhone I had an app that was installed on both devices that made tethering crazy easy. When I turned the screen on the iPad and it didnt detect a wifi connection, it would automatically connect to my phone via bluetooth(could be wifi as well) for an internet connection. Does such an app exist for Android, or is this something I am going to need to do manually?
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Back when I had a jailbroken iPad & iPhone I had an app that was installed on both devices that made tethering crazy easy. When I turned the screen on the iPad and it didnt detect a wifi connection, it would automatically connect to my phone via bluetooth(could be wifi as well) for an internet connection. Does such an app exist for Android, or is this something I am going to need to do manually?
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Even easier on Android no extra apps needed.
Just turn on tethering on your phone whatever phone it is and then connect to it via normal WIFI....simple as that.
Well it is from my S3 to Note 2014.
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some of us are still on verizon unlimited and don't get the "free" tethering. i believe pdanet / foxfi may do that. i'm not actually sure as i've always been rooted with roms that have tether unlocked.