I'm using my Nexus 5x as a hotspot for a raspberry pi. Everything works fine, the phones hotspot connects to the mobile data OK and the raspberry pi connects to the hotspot and can use the mobile data. The issue I'm having is that the hotspot seems to die after 6 hours. It still looks active but the raspberry pi can not access the internet. I've connected to the hotspot with another phone and it cant get to the internet via the hotspot either. Turning on aeroplane mode on the Nexus 5x and then turning it off again corrects the problem and everything can then access the internet again via the hotspot.
Can anyone help correct this issue or failing that is there a way of scheduling the hotspot/aeroplane mode to stop and restart automatically?
Grateful for any suggestions, thanks.
Well it looks like there have been a few views but no suggestions. Can anyone give me any ideas how to debug this? Or maybe another rom that might give me the same functionality but allow me to schedule turning on/off the hotspot?
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Hi,
Since i've had the One X i've had nothing but problems with tethering. I've tried wifi, bluetooth and USB. All seem to suffer from the same problem.
The problem being that the phone will have a working mobile internet connection (I can use the phone to talk to the internet without problem) but my netbook cannot talk to the internet. The problem is definitely not with my netbook or the connectivity between the phone and the netbook as I can ping the phones IP address just fine.
It's almost like when tether is enabled some sort of forwarding or bridging between wifi/bluetooth/usb and mobile internet should be enabled but isn't being.
Then, totally randomly, it will just start working fine.
Sometimes disconnecting mobile internet and reconnecting fixes it. Sometimes enabling airplane mode and then disabling it fixes it. But most of the time I literally have to just wait until the phone decides to start forwarding my packcets to the internet.
I travel by train to/from work and used to tether my HTC Desire using wifi or usb. It would generally be useable for the whole journey except when I lost signal entirely or when the phone switched between Orange and T-Mobile whilst I was in the middle of something.
I guess my main questions are:
Is anyone else having this problem?
Can anyone think of a way I can try to debug what's happening?
Does anyone have a possible solution?
Thanks
ashak said:
Hi,
Since i've had the One X i've had nothing but problems with tethering. I've tried wifi, bluetooth and USB. All seem to suffer from the same problem.
The problem being that the phone will have a working mobile internet connection (I can use the phone to talk to the internet without problem) but my netbook cannot talk to the internet. The problem is definitely not with my netbook or the connectivity between the phone and the netbook as I can ping the phones IP address just fine.
It's almost like when tether is enabled some sort of forwarding or bridging between wifi/bluetooth/usb and mobile internet should be enabled but isn't being.
Then, totally randomly, it will just start working fine.
Sometimes disconnecting mobile internet and reconnecting fixes it. Sometimes enabling airplane mode and then disabling it fixes it. But most of the time I literally have to just wait until the phone decides to start forwarding my packcets to the internet.
I travel by train to/from work and used to tether my HTC Desire using wifi or usb. It would generally be useable for the whole journey except when I lost signal entirely or when the phone switched between Orange and T-Mobile whilst I was in the middle of something.
I guess my main questions are:
Is anyone else having this problem?
Can anyone think of a way I can try to debug what's happening?
Does anyone have a possible solution?
Thanks
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Try resetting your APN setting back to default. This should fix the issue. You may have to do this everytime at OTA update is applied.
Does anyone else have problems with wifi tethering? It seems to happen for me with any rom, currently though using JellySlim_FullPower [HSD Project 4].
My problem is I start the wifi tethering from my Xperia S, then on my Windows 7 PC I can connect no problem at all and usually it works fine - The problem then is if I try and connect to the same hotspot with another device at the same (Xperia T / Nexus 7 2013). Within minutes of more than one device been connected to my Xperia S wifi hotspot all the connections drop, then on Windows 7 I get the Limited Connectivity and yellow exclamation mark.
To keep it simple, wifi tethering seems to work when only one device is connected to the hotspot, but it seems having multiple devices connected causes the connection to lose internet.
Has anyone else experienced this, have a solution maybe? I am wondering if there is a setting to allow x amount of connections at once or something
Thanks.
Ned_Flanders said:
Does anyone else have problems with wifi tethering? It seems to happen for me with any rom, currently though using JellySlim_FullPower [HSD Project 4].
My problem is I start the wifi tethering from my Xperia S, then on my Windows 7 PC I can connect no problem at all and usually it works fine - The problem then is if I try and connect to the same hotspot with another device at the same (Xperia T / Nexus 7 2013). Within minutes of more than one device been connected to my Xperia S wifi hotspot all the connections drop, then on Windows 7 I get the Limited Connectivity and yellow exclamation mark.
To keep it simple, wifi tethering seems to work when only one device is connected to the hotspot, but it seems having multiple devices connected causes the connection to lose internet.
Has anyone else experienced this, have a solution maybe? I am wondering if there is a setting to allow x amount of connections at once or something
Thanks.
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I have same problem, looking solution also. Stock 6.2.B1.96 Android 4.1.2 + OC DoomKernel.
Also tryed tether internet by bluetooth, but not work.
Noo, not working...
Pepzki said:
Noo, not working...
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The only thing I can do is connect phone to PC and use USB tethering for internet on PC, then to share with another device also use hotspot.
Again though, any more devices using the same hotspot drops all the connections. I cannot find a resolution.
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Have you tryed with kitkat how tethering works?
Two months later and so many many wasted hours, looks like solution found! Luckyly by my self
Go to your pc wlan device properties and change from internet protocol verion propeties ip to automatic.
I hope this helps help someone else.
Strangely two other phone tethers ok even ip wasn´t automatic. Not sure when that setting was change. Or was it.
I use my Mobile Hotspot to tether my Nexus 7 tablet in my car. I am running 5.0.1 Lollipop.
As soon as I turn the car off, the Mobile Hotspot turns off and the WiFi is turned on again. The phone will connect to my home wireless hotspot but there is no data tranfer.
Instagram says "Can't refresh feed" and Chrome cannot connect to the web.
In order to fix the problem I usually need to restart the device and then it will connect to WiFi will full connectivity again.
Any ideas?
Is my Mobile Hotspot locking something up in Android, like the MAC Address or IP Address or something until I reboot?
I've come across a quick fix I suppose. If I follow the steps below then I don't need to reboot the device to get the WiFi to work again:
1) Turn off Wifi before enabling Mobile Hotspot
2) Enable Mobile Spot
3) Turn off Mobile Hotspot when finished with it
4) Manually re-enable WiFi once Hotspot is off
Seems the issue stems from keeping the WiFi on when enabling the Mobile Hotspot. The Note 4 will automatically disable WiFi and re-enable WiFi on it's own if you do not manually disable the WiFi beforehand thus leading to the no internet connection issue.
Still curious what the actual issue is though.
UPDATE 10/14/2015: Seems as though the method I described above does not even work as a foolproof method for getting the WiFi to work properly again after hotspotting. Reboot is the only way to get it to work again. It's very temperamental.
I have been experiencing this same issue. I didn't link it to turning the mobile hotspot on and off until you mentioned it. I also have to reboot the phone to make Wi-Fi work again.
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I work in a dead zone, so I have wifi but no mobile data.
With my new Pixel 2 XL, I cannot USB tether that wifi connection to my laptop. When I try to tether with no mobile data, or mobile data turned off the phone still tries to do a subscription check.
For reasons I do not care to discuss, I cannot connect my laptop directly to the wifi at work, I have to connect through my phone, which I can no longer do. Apparently, the subscription check was turned off by default on the Nexus 6P and so I never had this issue. Now my Pixel 2 XL will not let me share a wifi connection to my laptop via USB/ The phone has to check with my career if it will be ok to share a connection that is not theirs?
Is there a way to fix this? The whole reason I bought the google phone is that I didn't want to have to root and manually update it all the time. I'm ok with rooting it if there's a way to fix this using root, then turn off root so I can still get auto updates, but of course, it's never really been that simple in the past with other devices.
So far the only solution I can think of is to buy a second phone (another Nexus 6P) and carry them both so that I can wifi to USB tether?
Can anyone advice on getting the Razer Phone to successfully set up tethering using the Wi-fi hotspot facility. I have tried doing this using all the security options (WPA2 PSK, WPA PSK & None), changing AP band and different channels, but it times out on any device that I try to connect to the Razer. Is there something else that I need to do to get it to work. I have tried apps from the app store as well but the devices still time out. I have a tethering allowance on my phone contract as well.
Thanks in advance for any help that you can provide.
It should just work like any other android phone.
I did change my passkey to eight 8s for ease of use but it worked.
Is your network blocking hotspot? Also try using a different machine to see if that connects, if it does then you might need to delete some of your old wireless connections from your pc/laptop as it could be causing an issue.
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