I have successfully followed the process to root my phone and am currently on ICS with root and LTE. All features are working very well with the exception of tethering. I have tried the built in tethering plus a number of tethering apps (Barnacle, Android Tether) and all suffer from the same problem. My phone can connect but I never get a public IP address. I am able to use PDANet but that is my preferred options. Anyone else suffering from this same issue?
Did you flash the .111 baseband only ? ATT stock baseband doesn't work for tethering.
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I just now actually tested tethering and it worked for me. One problem is I had to choose WPA2 security and create a password in the hotspot settings, my laptop would not connect with out it. Even though I had it unsecured Windows kept asking for the password. I changed the hotspot security to WPA2, added a password and used that password on my laptop to connect, all worked from that point.
accts said:
Did you flash the .111 baseband only ? ATT stock baseband doesn't work for tethering.
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Yes, flashed the .111 baseband. In fact started the root process by using .111 and wiped everything. No AT&T firmware or firmware components on the phone.
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Yes, flashed the .111 baseband. In fact started the root process by using .111 and wiped everything. No AT&T firmware or firmware components on the phone.
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So you can't get hotspot to even turn on? If can get it to turn but can't get a device to connect try setting the security up, that worked for me....at least on my laptop.
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So you can't get hotspot to even turn on? If can get it to turn but can't get a device to connect try setting the security up, that worked for me....at least on my laptop.
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Hotspot turns on, computer connects but I never get a public IP only a private IP. Same thing happens with USB.
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Hotspot turns on, computer connects but I never get a public IP only a private IP. Same thing happens with USB.
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Thats what it is supposed to do. The phone has the public ip address and any device behind the phone gets a private ip address. The phone is acting as the router.
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Thats what it is supposed to do. The phone has the public ip address and any device behind the phone gets a private ip address. The phone is acting as the router.
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Let me clarify. I fully understand how the phone acts as a router. The problem is any device I tether to the phone gets assigned a 169 IP address which is an invalid private IP address. It should be assigned a 192 IP address. This happens with every app that I have used with the exception of PDANet and that makes sense since it is running through its own modem adapter.
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Let me clarify. I fully understand how the phone acts as a router. The problem is any device I tether to the phone gets assigned a 169 IP address which is an invalid private IP address. It should be assigned a 192 IP address. This happens with every app that I have used with the exception of PDANet and that makes sense since it is running through its own modem adapter.
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Have you tried a dhcp lease renew? Also did you setup the wifi hotspot with a password or open? I've had no issues with mine. Set a password for WPA and it runs fine. Tested with my macbook pro.
How do you have ics on att phone?
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Have you tried a dhcp lease renew? Also did you setup the wifi hotspot with a password or open? I've had no issues with mine. Set a password for WPA and it runs fine. Tested with my macbook pro.
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Tried lease renew many times, no success. Tried open + multiple secure protocols. Wireless and USB. Could it possibly by APN settings? Can you share yours?
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How do you have ics on att phone?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1814487
This works on att phone? Sorry im just making sure since to my understanding the att phone is locked and cannot be hacked right now?! so im surprised that not a lot of people are doing this already!
Locked doesn't mean unrootable, and the.233 Chinese ICS ftf is a real firmware release not a cooked Rom. So we have root and ICS not much else yet.....
Sent from Rooted LT28at with ICS.
davtfor said:
Tried lease renew many times, no success. Tried open + multiple secure protocols. Wireless and USB. Could it possibly by APN settings? Can you share yours?
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I am using the stock AT&T apn settings. You can find those here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1770813&highlight=att
Identical settings. Doesn't make sense how one phone works and another with the same setup does not.
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ok can any tell me how can I get the tethering and portable hotspot feature onto my ion from att. its rooted and has ICS but I have no Tethering or Portable Hotspot feature within my settings? Please help
jostin01 said:
ok can any tell me how can I get the tethering and portable hotspot feature onto my ion from att. its rooted and has ICS but I have no Tethering or Portable Hotspot feature within my settings? Please help
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That's because you used the AT&T baseband. You need the LT28i baseband. Just flash the international firmware baseband only.
Sent from my Sony Xperia™ ion.
but I followed the exact steps in the method for rooting it so does that mean I have to flash back to LT28i GB and then go to ICS root and do the same LT28i baseband to get the LTE back cause I do have LTE just not the Tethering and Hotspot settings. Because I mentioned before its rooted, has ics and has LTE but no Tethering or Portable Hotspot setting in sight at all within my ion's settings
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but I followed the exact steps in the method for rooting it so does that mean I have to flash back to LT28i GB and then go to ICS root and do the same LT28i baseband to get the LTE back cause I do have LTE just not the Tethering and Hotspot settings. Because I mentioned before its rooted, has ics and has LTE but no Tethering or Portable Hotspot setting in sight at all within my ion's settings
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Yes start with the LT28i firmware for the rooting and upgrade process. Do not start with the LT28at if you want tethering cause it might work but might not. Seems like there is something that just doesn't work right when going from LT28at to ICS even if you flash the LT28i baseband, The tethering is there just not seeing the settings for it.
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This goes under development because its a problem with my phone regarding the development so before the cyanogen rom release i had eugene's froyo5 and it worked fine.. well my fiance picked up the phone ****ed around with it and now no matter what 2.2 rom i use i can't get INTERNET sites to load or.. MARKET to sync my account or communicate this is with cyanogen rom and eugene's froyo6.. now my wifi will see connections connect and even gather info/ip addy from the wifi however it will not let me load pages ect.. now in 2.1 running the old RADIO + Slidemeroot5 or whatever it's called the stock with root it will go into the wifi/find/communincate and load my MARKET/INTERNET just fine.. so it has to be with a setting that would stay threw data/cache wipe with Cyanogen Kanged heres the thing.. I've wiped many times I've even tried restoring old backups from froyo5 they no longer let me sync/internet/market so.. anyone who can find a solution will receive an IMMEDIATE $20.00 donate and if done in a timely fashion an addition $10.00...
I will not be able to RE-ROOT or UN-ROOT my phone as i do not have my USB cable anymore
check your APN settings dude
Virus, what is with you and trouble?! You two always seem to find each other...
Tuba is right it sounds like your apn settings are wrong or deleted.
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check your APN settings dude
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what do you mean?
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Virius, what is with you and trouble?! You two always seem to find each other...
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No... Bad-Luck and me seem to be on everyday terms
Your not on t-mobile, so you need to change your APN settings to att
settings>wireless settings>mobile networks>apn settings, then you should be able to add the correct APNs or see what is listed there
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settings>wireless settings>mobile networks>apn settings, then you should be able to add the correct APNs or see what is listed there
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no APN listed
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what do you mean?
No... Bad-Luck and me seem to be on everyday terms
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Lol! Yeah, it sounds about right. I have'd had that streak before.
menu, settings, wireless networks, mobile networks, access point name
Google tmobile apn android and they'll list the proper apn settings. I don't have time to type them all out right now.
oppsy, I see some folks beat me to it and you need the at&t settings anyways. Just google at&t android apn settings. That should do it.
you will need proper APN setting for your carrier, google that shiz and you should be good to go, then you will just need to add the APN to your phone from that same screen
apns are different for each carrier, google APN <carrier> mytouch slide(or just android)
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Lol! Yeah, it sounds about right. I have'd had that streak before.
menu, settings, wireless networks, mobile networks, access point name
Google tmobile apn android and they'll list the proper apn settings. I don't have time to type them all out right now.
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I don't have a DATA plan so data is turned off will this matter? also I'm on AT&T
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I don't have a DATA plan so data is turned off will this matter? also I'm on AT&T
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Huh? No data plan huh. Yeah, that will matter. Umm, so you have been using wifi to access internet right?
Okay from what I understand... wifi is real iffy with the 2.2 ports. You might have to select static and type in your ip settings from your pc. Just go on the pc and run command prompt and type ipconfig. That will tell your ip setting and enter them into the correct slots on your phone. Its under menu settings wireless& networks wifi settings menu advanced select static ip
well is data is off then you aren't going to be getting on the interwebs, are you saying that with wifi you can't load pages?
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well is data is off then you aren't going to be getting on the interwebs, are you saying that with wifi you can't load pages?
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Yeah, he's basically saying wifi isnt sending data to the phone. I edited my previous post to show him how to set up a static network.
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well is data is off then you aren't going to be getting on the interwebs, are you saying that with wifi you can't load pages?
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yes I had wifi working fine on newslide.zip or myupdate.zip from eugene and all builds before in last 2 days wifis has stopped working... unknown why
Reread the first post. It says my WIFI will connect info and all that and above he states he doesn't have a data plan so its going to have to be wifi hes on.
Now I am having the same problem ever since I flashed the ROM and wiped twice and reflashed twice. Trying static IP now.
alas no luck on STATIC, question is why would I need to set up static when it should auto connect and auto know ya know? i'd like to be able to use WIFI outside of my home aswell
So right now it doesn't work on any rom now? If it's the cyan kernel, try dumfuq's oc kernel, I know it sounds strange but i tried one of cyan's kernel and somethings stopped working, led flashlight is one...Tried the new dumfuq and it worked for me. No promises though that it will work for your wifi problem.
your ip address of your router is 192.168.0.1 which means that your IP address of your phone will have to be 192.168.0.x since the computer is 192.168.0.199 i would try something around the 199 range(try going plus or minus 10) so either 192.168.0.189 or 192.168.0.209
also you will have to set subnet mask to 255.255.255.0 and gateway to 192.168.0.1
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So right now it doesn't work on any rom now? If it's the cyan kernel, try dumfuq's oc kernel, I know it sounds strange but i tried one of cyan's kernel and somethings stopped working, led flashlight is one...Tried the new dumfuq and it worked for me. No promises though that it will work for your wifi problem.
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will attempt wipe..
flash cyanogen rom
flash kernel
flash new radio
flash GAPPS
and tell ya
allows for surfing via browser doesn't fix my Market/google issue
ERROR from Market..
You don't have a network connection.
This could be a temporary problem or your phone may not be provisioned for data services. please try again when connected to a mobile network or connect to a wifi network, if the problem continues call customer service..
then gives me option to connect to wifi but i am connected
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I don't have a DATA plan so data is turned off will this matter? also I'm on AT&T
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If it worked before on myfroyo 5, then push the apn.conf into /system/etc
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You can try pushing the apn.conf file from the aria into /system/etc
then do a factory reset..
may or may not work
~Eugene
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?
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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.
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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.
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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)
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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)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Lol im using the gsm profile thats the only one that works for me.
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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
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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.
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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.
I came from a GS4 where I used Private Internet Access VPN and WiFi Tether Router. On the Note both services connect but do not route any traffic, my thinking its related to knox. Would a custom ROM fix that? At this point I have to either trip the counter or take this thing back for an iPhone 5S before the jailbreak is patched.
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All that needed to be done is to have this setting changed, I can use WiFi tether along with VPN running at the same time so I never hit my hotspot limit because Tmo cant tell if the traffic is from a phone or other device.
To change your APN, simply navigate to Settings > More > Mobile networks > Access Point Names. Select your T-Mobile APN, and scroll to APN protocol. Change this to IPv4, and then save your APN.
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I came from a GS4 where I used Private Internet Access VPN and WiFi Tether Router. On the Note both services connect but do not route any traffic, my thinking its related to knox. Would a custom ROM fix that? At this point I have to either trip the counter or take this thing back for an iPhone 5S before the jailbreak is patched.
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I have been having issues with the same vpn too. How are you getting yours to connect? I am running Jedi and I can't even get it to connect to the vpn. I tried cm11 too and same thing. I have changed my apn from ipv6 to ipv4 but everything else is whatever came with jedi and cm and stock. On my Nexus 5 I can use it just fine with tmo... so unsure what the issue is.
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I have been having issues with the same vpn too. How are you getting yours to connect? I am running Jedi and I can't even get it to connect to the vpn. I tried cm11 too and same thing. I have changed my apn from ipv6 to ipv4 but everything else is whatever came with jedi and cm and stock. On my Nexus 5 I can use it just fine with tmo... so unsure what the issue is.
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I'm just using the app from the playstore with the default settings. But I did install a custom ROM, Darthstalker version 6 and it still does not work.
Now the counter shows as tripped whenever the phone is restarted, I hope tmo will take it back because I'm just going to try to trade this for a 5S.
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I'm just using the app from the playstore with the default settings. But I did install a custom ROM, Darthstalker version 6 and it still does not work.
Now the counter shows as tripped whenever the phone is restarted, I hope tmo will take it back because I'm just going to try to trade this for a 5S.
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Please see my original post for the resolution.
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Please see my original post for the resolution.
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Weird... I have tried this with no luck. I'll try again. Did you make sure you were not connected to a wifi network? Mine works when connected to wifi but from the cell connection it doesn't.
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Weird... I have tried this with no luck. I'll try again. Did you make sure you were not connected to a wifi network? Mine works when connected to wifi but from the cell connection it doesn't.
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Are you using Fabios WiFi router? If so make sure to check his configuration page for the device. Yes I am not on WiFi, just came back from a 2 hour drive while my friend was tethered to my phone on his iPad.
https://sites.google.com/site/wifitetherrouter/home/device-configuration
How did you edit your apn settings. I'm on tmobile galaxy note 3, stock and rooted. My apn settings are all greyed out and I can't edit anything?
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Tethering
I provided 2 methods I use for Tethering at the other thread if its useful or not.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2620170
Im currently at 106GB for the month. With LTE.
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How did you edit your apn settings. I'm on tmobile galaxy note 3, stock and rooted. My apn settings are all greyed out and I can't edit anything?
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I'm on custom rom, thats probably why.
So over the past week, I've discovered that Fabio Grasso's Wifi Tether Router app has stopped working for my t-mobile LG G3. I tried different configurations, tried e-mailing the dev, and I tried changing the APN. None of it worked.
(Regarding the APN, he says to change T-Mobile to IPv4, but I can only change it to IPv4/IPv6. If I try putting solely IPv4, then my data connection drops out entirely).
Moving on, anyway, I've found out that if I use the Wifi tether router app, I can only access HTTPS sites. For example, any banking site, facebook, google, yahoo, etc. all work as long as I stick https:// in front of it. However, anything else won't work (like xda).
So I can only assume that T-mobile is somehow blocking that traffic...and now I need a way to disguise my own traffic...
I tried connecting through OpenVPN through a VPN I had, but even that won't connect properly.
And before anybody says to install the stock tether app Mod, I'm still on the stock recovery so I can't flash anything.
I'm on the stock recovery (but I'm still rooted) because I prefer to mess with my device as little as possible. I want to keep it as stable as possible, and having a stock recovery means I'm not tempted to go out and install new ROMs or flash anything that could potentially brick my device.
So...does anybody have any solutions? This is like a tug-of-war with T-Mobile, and right now it's in their favor.
This is old news. T-mobile made it knonw they would start blocking tether if it is being mistreated. Devs will have to become more clever and trickier with their apps. With this in mind, just be careful. They said anything that goes against the contract you signed regarding their data usage / tethering will cause your tethering to be cut of if data not cut of for that month (can't remember the full detail)
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This is old news. T-mobile made it knonw they would start blocking tether if it is being mistreated. Devs will have to become more clever and trickier with their apps. With this in mind, just be careful. They said anything that goes against the contract you signed regarding their data usage / tethering will cause your tethering to be cut of if data not cut of for that month (can't remember the full detail)
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Well this is the first time I've experienced any issues. I have a total of 11gb usage this month, and it's almost over. 95% of usage is on mobile, so I see no reason for them to even become suspicious. I doubt I'll be cut off. The "warning" they gave a couple weeks ago referred to like 20 customers or something that were using hundreds of gigs of data.
In any case, I really hope devs can find permanent ways around this.
By the way, I don't really understand ports/encryption, but I know that "443" is secured, so how possible is it for me to just manually make everything go through that port?
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So over the past week, I've discovered that Fabio Grasso's Wifi Tether Router app has stopped working for my t-mobile LG G3. I tried different configurations, tried e-mailing the dev, and I tried changing the APN. None of it worked.
(Regarding the APN, he says to change T-Mobile to IPv4, but I can only change it to IPv4/IPv6. If I try putting solely IPv4, then my data connection drops out entirely).
Moving on, anyway, I've found out that if I use the Wifi tether router app, I can only access HTTPS sites. For example, any banking site, facebook, google, yahoo, etc. all work as long as I stick https:// in front of it. However, anything else won't work (like xda).
So I can only assume that T-mobile is somehow blocking that traffic...and now I need a way to disguise my own traffic...
I tried connecting through OpenVPN through a VPN I had, but even that won't connect properly.
And before anybody says to install the stock tether app Mod, I'm still on the stock recovery so I can't flash anything.
I'm on the stock recovery (but I'm still rooted) because I prefer to mess with my device as little as possible. I want to keep it as stable as possible, and having a stock recovery means I'm not tempted to go out and install new ROMs or flash anything that could potentially brick my device.
So...does anybody have any solutions? This is like a tug-of-war with T-Mobile, and right now it's in their favor.
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Download THIS zip and extract it then find the APN XML and replace your old one with the one in the zip you extracted. Boom you should have full ipv4 for your tether app and vpn.
Make sure you rename instead of completely replacing. You'll probably need to restart and if it still doesn't work that means dalvik needs to be wiped and your Sol unless you want to install twrp. Unless a app exists that can wipe dalvik without recovery.
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Download THIS zip and extract it then find the APN XML and replace your old one with the one in the zip you extracted. Boom you should have full ipv4 for your tether app and vpn.
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Okay now this is getting interesting.
Although this is getting into brick-able territory. With my LG G2 when I messed with build.prop I almost soft-bricked it.
In any case, I can't seem to find out exactly how to modify the APN XML, and a quick google search is just showing me "apns-conf.xml", is that the same thing? Is it just a value inside build.prop?
Also, the warning on the xda mod page says "TETHER BROKE FOR NOW". Does that only apply to stock tether or something?
Edit: Nevermind, looked through the zip file and it turns out the apns-conf.xml file is under system/etc.
I'm still worried that this could cause some damage though. Lemme just double check - not brickable if I just replace, correct? and Also, I can create a backup of the apns-conf.xml and restore it without any issue, correct?
crazylilazn said:
Okay now this is getting interesting.
Although this is getting into brick-able territory. With my LG G2 when I messed with build.prop I almost soft-bricked it.
In any case, I can't seem to find out exactly how to modify the APN XML, and a quick google search is just showing me "apns-conf.xml", is that the same thing? Is it just a value inside build.prop?
Also, the warning on the xda mod page says "TETHER BROKE FOR NOW". Does that only apply to stock tether or something?
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Yes stock tether but the APN in that zip won't wreck it its the build prop edits that broke built-in tether. You won't need to do any builp prop edits just swap out your APN.XML for the one located in that zip.
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Yes stock tether but the APN in that zip won't wreck it its the build prop edits that broke built-in tether. You won't need to do any builp prop edits just swap out your APN.XML for the one located in that zip.
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Alright cool, well I looked through the zip file and I found what to replace, just wanted to double check though (made an edit above but you won't get the notification for that)
So to be clear - I change the apns-conf.xml file under system/etc , correct?
and 2) This has no possibility of breaking my device?
and 3) If I create a backup of my current apns-conf.xml , and then in the future I want to restore that backup, there will be no issue/conflict?
Thanks for the help
crazylilazn said:
Alright cool, well I looked through the zip file and I found what to replace, just wanted to double check though (made an edit above but you won't get the notification for that)
So to be clear - I change the apns-conf.xml file under system/etc , correct?
and 2) This has no possibility of breaking my device?
and 3) If I create a backup of my current apns-conf.xml , and then in the future I want to restore that backup, there will be no issue/conflict?
Thanks for the help
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1 yes
2 always the possibility but extremely unlikely
3 yes but just like #2 you could possibly run into complications but its unlikely.
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I'm going to bed if you don't have data or 4g upon reboot go into network mode and select gsm/wcdma/lte
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1 yes
2 always the possibility but extremely unlikely
3 yes but just like #2 you could possibly run into complications but its unlikely.
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I'm going to bed if you don't have data or 4g upon reboot go into network mode and select gsm/wcdma/lte
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I looked through that entire thread last night, and I discovered that somebody was having issues with Wifi calling after installing the mod, so I got nervous and backed out even though I've already created a backup of the xml, lol.
Do you know if wifi calling + texting still works? That's a dealbreaker for me if it doesn't, because I use wifi calling/texting all the time.
crazylilazn said:
I looked through that entire thread last night, and I discovered that somebody was having issues with Wifi calling after installing the mod, so I got nervous and backed out even though I've already created a backup of the xml, lol.
Do you know if wifi calling + texting still works? That's a dealbreaker for me if it doesn't, because I use wifi calling/texting all the time.
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They do I use it every day.
crazylilazn said:
Alright cool, well I looked through the zip file and I found what to replace, just wanted to double check though (made an edit above but you won't get the notification for that)
So to be clear - I change the apns-conf.xml file under system/etc , correct?
and 2) This has no possibility of breaking my device?
and 3) If I create a backup of my current apns-conf.xml , and then in the future I want to restore that backup, there will be no issue/conflict?
Thanks for the help
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apns-conf.xml does not break WiFi calling or texting. This is where the tethering APN is stored. What could break WiFi calling is modifying build.prop.
I'm pretty sure they have deep packet inspection on their network and they can tell exactly what kind of traffic is being done. Any traffic using the fast.t-mobile.com APN that doesn't look like mobile can be very easily blocked. You can't deep packet inspect SSL (https) traffic, so I'm not surprised this works but everything else does not. An SSL VPN would get around this.
I'm using the PrimeTether mod which basically modifies the stock tethering to use the mobile APN so that your data looks like it's coming from the phone. WiFi Tether Router might be doing something different that T-Mobile can see and that's how they are blocking it. It actually might be that WiFi Tether Router is tethering using IPV4. The stock tether app tethers with IPV6.
havanahjoe said:
apns-conf.xml does not break WiFi calling or texting. This is where the tethering APN is stored. What could break WiFi calling is modifying build.prop.
I'm pretty sure they have deep packet inspection on their network and they can tell exactly what kind of traffic is being done. Any traffic using the fast.t-mobile.com APN that doesn't look like mobile can be very easily blocked. You can't deep packet inspect SSL (https) traffic, so I'm not surprised this works but everything else does not. An SSL VPN would get around this.
I'm using the PrimeTether mod which basically modifies the stock tethering to use the mobile APN so that your data looks like it's coming from the phone. WiFi Tether Router might be doing something different that T-Mobile can see and that's how they are blocking it. It actually might be that WiFi Tether Router is tethering using IPV4. The stock tether app tethers with IPV6.
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The prime tether changes one line in the framework-res to the fast APN. At least that's all I had to do. I never released my version because auto beat me to the upload.
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The prime tether changes one line in the framework-res to the fast APN. At least that's all I had to do. I never released my version because auto beat me to the upload.
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He changed more than that. I had made that change to framework-res but was still having issues with my stock tether. There's a check being done by the tether process. I believe he modified the smali code to get around this, just like it had to be done for the G2.
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He changed more than that. I had made that change to framework-res but was still having issues with my stock tether. There's a check being done by the tether process. I believe he modified the smali code to get around this, just like it had to be done for the G2.
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Are you sure? The change plus the APN XML I use worked flawlessly for me. Perhaps it was just the perfect storm of mods I had at the time.
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Are you sure? The change plus the APN XML I use worked flawlessly for me. Perhaps it was just the perfect storm of mods I had at the time.
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I believe so, but could be wrong. I couldn't get it to work and had zeroed in on the smali file that needed to be changed. I believe I did a checksum comparison and found them to be different.
Without prime's mod I could only tether up to my 3 GB bucket or had to do a dirty hack to hostapd for it to allow wireless clients to connect. It would default to 0 clients for some reason. Maybe I had a weird storm of mods that broke it.
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I'm using the PrimeTether mod which basically modifies the stock tethering to use the mobile APN so that your data looks like it's coming from the phone. WiFi Tether Router might be doing something different that T-Mobile can see and that's how they are blocking it. It actually might be that WiFi Tether Router is tethering using IPV4. The stock tether app tethers with IPV6.
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The way you worded that, you describe Prime's mod as using IPv6 to work around Tmo's tether limit, but it doesn't, it must use IPv4 to "mask" it.
When I change the APN back to IPv6, my hotspot enables but does not work whatsoever, nothing loads on my laptop, it'll connect and obtain an IP but no traffic is sent nor received over the phone's data. Can't remember if it's suppose to be like that or not, but IPv4 works, IPv6 does not with hotspot, but data stills work either way on the phone itself. I'll post over in Prime's thread about this.
BTW, WiFi Tether Router borked for me two about three weeks ago, a few days after Prime's mod came up, luckily. Been using it ever since. :highfive:
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The way you worded that, you describe Prime's mod as using IPv6 to work around Tmo's tether limit, but it doesn't, it must use IPv4 to "mask" it.
When I change the APN back to IPv6, my hotspot enables but does not work whatsoever, nothing loads on my laptop, it'll connect and obtain an IP but no traffic is sent nor received over the phone's data. Can't remember if it's suppose to be like that or not, but IPv4 works, IPv6 does not with hotspot, but data stills work either way on the phone itself. I'll post over in Prime's thread about this.
BTW, WiFi Tether Router borked for me two about three weeks ago, a few days after Prime's mod came up, luckily. Been using it ever since. :highfive:
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It has been a while so I forgot how Prime and WiFi Tether Router worked. The stock tether app, with the stock tethering APN uses IPV6, but you're right, Prime's mod uses IPV4 with the mobile data APN.
WiFi Tether Router implements its own DHCP server, iptables and hostapd configuration. Something in the way it does things makes the traffic look different from the stock tether traffic, so T-Mobile is able to block it.
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It has been a while so I forgot how Prime and WiFi Tether Router worked. The stock tether app, with the stock tethering APN uses IPV6, but you're right, Prime's mod uses IPV4 with the mobile data APN.
WiFi Tether Router implements its own DHCP server, iptables and hostapd configuration. Something in the way it does things makes the traffic look different from the stock tether traffic, so T-Mobile is able to block it.
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This is remarkable to me. It SHOULD look completely the same with the exception of user-agent (which is easy to spoof).
I've been using EasyTether (the USB version) and they have yet to figure out how to block that AFAICT.
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This is remarkable to me. It SHOULD look completely the same with the exception of user-agent (which is easy to spoof).
I've been using EasyTether (the USB version) and they have yet to figure out how to block that AFAICT.
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That was my assumption, but I don't see why it would be different either.
I just tried WiFi Tether Router on my phone and it worked just as well as it had in the past. I did some tcpdumps and the traffic looks the same on both. My guess then would be the users that are getting throttled or blocked are doing things that are CLEARLY not mobile phone traffic.
Another user did 32 GB of Xbox Live traffic while using the PrimeTether mod and was throttled. Surprise? No.
Those getting blocked or throttled are probably abusing the system.
Wifi tether router works for me on my tmobile S5.
Hi There
First post!
I have a Note 3 on T-mobile.
So I had rooted kitkat using this method: http://www.galaxynote3update.com/root-tmobile-galaxy-note-3-sm-n900t-no-knox-counter-trip/ and had been using Wifi Tether router to have unlimited tethering while i'm at work.
I used this method to get to the new lollipop when it became available for my phone: http://forum.xda-developers.com/not...icial-lollipop-n900tuvufob5-t-mobile-t3046295
and now Wifi Tether Router runs, enables the hotspot, but none of my devices can see the hotspot. I've tried the SQL thing, and someone suggested trying to set the encryption to Open instead of WPA2, but that doesn't work either.
anyone else having this issue or have a fix?
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Hi There
First post!
I have a Note 3 on T-mobile.
So I had rooted kitkat using this method: http://www.galaxynote3update.com/root-tmobile-galaxy-note-3-sm-n900t-no-knox-counter-trip/ and had been using Wifi Tether router to have unlimited tethering while i'm at work.
I used this method to get to the new lollipop when it became available for my phone: http://forum.xda-developers.com/not...icial-lollipop-n900tuvufob5-t-mobile-t3046295
and now Wifi Tether Router runs, enables the hotspot, but none of my devices can see the hotspot. I've tried the SQL thing, and someone suggested trying to set the encryption to Open instead of WPA2, but that doesn't work either.
anyone else having this issue or have a fix?
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Hey, i managed to get it working by changing the SSID. For some reason keeping the SSID i used before the Lollipop update wouldn't let it be seen.
Pls am having the same problem... How did u resolve yours Mr gohanrocs12.. How did u change ur ssid?
Ssid is the name that identifies your wifi network, like Netgear 77, or Lynksys. It's typically the name your network wifi router comes with when you take it out of the box and set it up.
You access it with a computer based settings program that comes with the router allowing you to change settings on your router. .
Pp.
Now UV got me in a maze.. Pls can u gv me a good link on how to do the work.. M not really a tech guru mate... Thanks
jiggah100 said:
Now UV got me in a maze.. Pls can u gv me a good link on how to do the work.. M not really a tech guru mate... Thanks
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Try Google and youtube, you will find a bunch of stuff on it. Use your brand of WiFi router in search to get more specific answers.
Pp.
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Now UV got me in a maze.. Pls can u gv me a good link on how to do the work.. M not really a tech guru mate... Thanks
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uninstall tether app, reboot, reinstall. tether app drained my hotspot data on my plan after flashing stock lollipop.
@ bigred850 pls how and which section of my device will I find the tether app man... Thanks a lot