Hi everyone,
I've got a beautiful sprint dataplan which I want to take full advantage of.
Ive been using PDAnet but the program is awfully unstable.
I'm considering rooting my phone so that I can get long-term stable tethering.
Can anyone speak to the reliability of:
- usb-based tethering applications
- once rooted
- on Sprint?
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I just rooted my EVO yesterday & I just can't get a tethering app to work. ONCE I had my laptop connect, but had no internet access. I've tried WiFi Tether several times with different settings & I can't get a connection. I'm just looking for a simple & reliable tethering app to use on trips & such. As far as I know I have the latest updates with no additional roms installed. Basically a rooted stock phone.
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judbgrdmchn said:
I just rooted my EVO yesterday & I just can't get a tethering app to work. ONCE I had my laptop connect, but had no internet access. I've tried WiFi Tether several times with different settings & I can't get a connection. I'm just looking for a simple & reliable tethering app to use on trips & such. As far as I know I have the latest updates with no additional roms installed. Basically a rooted stock phone.
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This can be a very tricky question that has perplexed many people including myself for quite some time! What I have found is wifi tether for root users is the best and most reliable but there are some conditions to this. What I have found is if you are a sprint customer you have to be sure to get the right version of wifi tether. It all depends on how much flexibility you want but if you want something reliable consider one of the early 2.0 releases instead of going for the latest and experimental one. The easiest way to determine this is to make sure that the little wifi icon is green and not yellow.
if you do decide to try to alter the sentence with the more advanced version, be sure to leave it on a generic mode with waln=0 instead of the specific evo 4G mode.
If you're using a rooted stock, a lot of the roms come with a built into hacked sprint wifi tether, so you should be all good to go.
I'm getting ready to switch over from my current cell phone - an Incredible - to an Incredible 2. I had to unlock the bootloader to downgrade in order to root it - all that worked fine.
Now I've flashed a Paranoid Android ROM of Jelly Bean 4.1.1, and after doing my research, I'm seeing that wireless tethering is not working in JB!!! At least using the wireless tethering app.
I currently tether with the wireless-tether app in the DINC1, and I must continue to wireless tether on the DINC2.
I really want to use a newer version of Android...
In my trying to make it work, I've used all the various versions of wireless tether ("wifi_tether_v..."), both the "stock" ones and the "Treve" mods, trying all the settings-combinations as well as power cycling, not using the wireless encryption, netd(ndc) mode, etc., etc.. So far, nothing I've tried works.
However...I don't have the 3G/Cell service turned on yet in the phone.
So here's the actual question in this post: Would tethering fail because the cell/data service is not turned on?
Running pa_vivow-2.57.3-20130303-100902-ChillyBean.zip, with gapps-jb-20120714.zip.
And of course, I've seen that the built-in tethering app in the pa ROMs is supposed to work - but I can't test that because those menus don't appear under wireless until cell service is turned on!
I can't switch phones until I know that wireless tethering will work.
Any advice/knowledge regarding tethering requiring cell service to be enable in order to test? Or if the built-in "Hotspot" functionality will work in the pa-ROM?
Or do I have to try find a 4.3 ROM rather than the 4.1.1 ROM - so far I'm fairly sure there's no pa-ROM that's 4.3 for the DINC2...
Unfortunately this seems to be turning into a tired question that gets asked at least once a year (under different circumstances or requirements I guess), so happy 2015! The included Verizon tethering app seems OK, but I miss some of the tethering apps I used to use back in Gingerbread that would do things like restrict clients and show current upload/download speeds in-app.
At any rate, I currently have the tethering option from Verizon, and I'm rooted, so hopefully I'm pretty compatible with most of the apps out there. My issue with what I've found so far though is that there's a category of root apps that bill themselves as very hacky workarounds, and most of which haven't been updated in years which makes me a little hesitant to install on my device. Then there's another category of apps, both free and paid it seems, updated somewhat recently, but having even less features than the Verizon app, and/or most user reviews state to the effect that they do not work or are in general awful.
To help shorten the list, I've tried FoxFi, which was not so good imo, and I guess that would eliminate PDANet as well since I believe that requires a USB connection. Also, I'm looking to move away from the native Verizon tethering app.
So I guess this is a sort of "what are you using" topic, and are you happy with it?
Thanks for your input!
Just giving this a bump to see what you guys think.
At least for AT&T's tethering restrictions, flashing any custom ROM (that corresponds with your firmware) will do the trick. Or even any stock ROM that isn't carrier branded to Verizon or AT&T (most other carriers and regions have no such tethering restrictions).
I wasn't that impressed by FoxFi or PDANet either back in Gingerbread days. They seem needlessly complicated, compared to just going to the built-in HTC WiFi tethering setting and turning it on.
redpoint73 said:
At least for AT&T's tethering restrictions, flashing any custom ROM (that corresponds with your firmware) will do the trick. Or even any stock ROM that isn't carrier branded to Verizon or AT&T (most other carriers and regions have no such tethering restrictions).
I wasn't that impressed by FoxFi or PDANet either back in Gingerbread days. They seem needlessly complicated, compared to just going to the built-in HTC WiFi tethering setting and turning it on.
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Yeah, maybe there's some sort of "just right" when it comes to complication that isn't out there right now. I gave in and downloaded a few root-requiring apps so I'll be giving them a run later today.
Well, I gave both Barnacle and the Wifi Tether app a try - sadly, it seemed that neither could properly control the wifi radio to get it broadcasting. Also, it seemed that both would cause the system Wifi Radio controller to glitch in that I could not toggle wifi anymore after using those apps unless I rebooted my phone. 0 for 2!
Hello everyone, so as some/most of us know t-mobile has supposedly caught onto the whole unlimited tethering evade method we've all come to use, love and appreciate...none the least I do, very much. It's the reason why I started rooting and getting deeper into "getting the most out of our device" scene.
Anyways, I have been tethering with my grandfathered unlimited plan for a long time with no issues. Methods used from native app mod's built into roms, flash able zips that modify the necessary files no matter the rom, modifying apns/xmls, foxfi, svtp hot spot app and my favorite the WiFi Tether Router app.
Recently though, I've been getting messages about mobile hostpost data usage "x amount has been used" ??? At first I thought it was related to me upgrading to lollipop rom, bootloader baseband and all via Odin...so I downgraded to kit Kat (nk3) which is what I previously had. I did so and tethered like I normally do....bam! got a message x amount of data has been used? So I read around threw a bunch of Q&A threads, general, roms, note3, s6, note4 threads and it's becoming more of a concern to people. Glad/sad I'm not the only one.
Note:I'm currently full nk3, running effortless, lean kernel tethering with the WiFi Tether Router App.
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Changing the browser user agent string to Safari works for me. Also running through a proxy with encryption on.
I have this great smartphone from since when it was released, now its a bit limited by apps which i can't install due to low storage space.
So now, i would like to re-purpose it into 3G WIFI hotspot.
My main question is, which ROM has best Wi-Fi stability and reliability for 24/7 for usage in this mode of operation, when device is always connected to charger?
Ideal rom would be bare naked with 3G<->WIFI functionality.
Thank you in advance