I would like to use the "bluetooth PAN tether" option in wireless tether to tether to my EEE Transformer.
The options are greyed out for bluetooth in the settings for wirless tether, and I've spent a few hours looking around the Epic 4G threads on normal google searches all I've found is that it won't work because the kernel isn't compiled with the proper kernel option.
I wanted to put a link here but if you google "epic 4g wifi tether bluetooth greyed out" it's the Issue 924 page on the google code link.
I'm running Simply AOSP 3.1.1, and my buddies are running the same rom, and I believe the options were greyed out on ACS 1.1.0 as well.
Does anyone have any ideas or have any experience with this problem? Maybe I need to run a different kernel, however I'm not sure about the compatibilities between different roms.
Thanks for any help you may have, and also thanks to all devs for always making my epic better!
Unfortunately, I don't have the answer.
But I am curious, why would you prefer to tether by bluetooth rather than Wifi Ad-Hoc/Infrastructure? It seems to me that these methods are more stable/secure, and just all around easier to use.
I'm interested in the lower power consumption, and I'm not worried about the lower data rate. Although I wasn't aware of security issues with bluetooth, I should look into it though.
The other detail I should mention is that the transformer doesn't tether ad-hoc without rooting, and I'm not ready to root it yet. I'd also be fine with wired tethering if it worked but it hasn't so far.
Well with midnight rom 6.0 beta 1, the bluetooth option returns. I haven't gotten it to work yet but it's at least available. Does anyone know if gingerbread is supposed to be able to wired (USB) tether to honeycomb tablets?
I keep seeing some people saying that native bluetooth tethering works and then others saying it doesn't. So for those that it does work for, I'd like to know what your setup is. On my Gnexus it worked tethering to my Nexus 7 for about a week, then suddenly stopped working. However the wifi tethering works just fine. Bluetooth tethering will work through the pdanet & foxfi method although this causes my nexus 7 to run at full power all the time making for insane battery drain.
So please, any input into this matter would be appreciated. I do not want to have to use the pdanet & foxfi method. The native bluetooth tether works much nicer.
I am capable to send files between the devices via bluetooth as well, but not tether anymore. It was working up until couple weeks ago, and now, it won't. I have seen people on the same rom and kernel have the functionality work just fine.
Not one person has an opinion?
I've been using ParanoidAndroid on my Note II and recently I realized that wifi tethering does not work. The service indicates it is active but it does not transmit a wireless network name, so no device can connect to it by wifi. Bluetooth tethering works. I have tried 3rd party rooted apps and they indicate that the cannot run because ad-hoc mode cannot be entered. Is there anything I can do like change the kernel or some other mod or app that is able to run tethering? Or do I need to just wait for the developer to provide an updated rom that fixes this?
wifi tethering doesn't work
that's exactly what i'm getting too, error starting ad-hoc mode... hope this gets fixed :crying:
I am on B119 and have not been able toget tethering working. I have tried both wifi and bluetooth. Also downloaded numerous tethering apps from the Playstore none of which work. I have tried tethering to a nexus 10, samsung galaxy and an Asus laptop.
All can see the P6 tether but cannot allocate an IP address to the attached device.
Anyone else having a tether problem on this or another rom version. Have tried a factory reset with the same result.
So I just tried a bunch of kitkat Roms and found Gummy to be the best for me right now. The only problem I'm having is when wifi tethering is on, the connected devices are in a "limited" mode and get no internet.
Anyone have a solution to this problem? I've flashed the latest 3 versions of Gummy and they all have the same problem.