I've been using Wireless Tether for Root on my Droid X phone for months to turn it into a wifi hotspot for my gTab to use when on the road. It was working great until a few weeks ago when I believe an update was pushed.
Since then the connection would drop frequently. Also, I noticed that when I was not using anything that needed to send data via wifi the connection would drop until I launched something that needed the connection and after a few seconds it would reconnect.
So it still worked (sort of) but it was really annoying that the connection was not solid and dependable. It's a free app but I "donated" money to the developers so it was doubly annoying that it didn't work dependably.
After much frustration I decided to switch to Barnacle WiFi Tether and I have to say it is ROCK SOLID. I've been using it for most of the day and it hasn't dropped the connection to my gTab a single instance. I highly recommend it. Barnacle WiFi Tether is also a free app but you can "donate" to the developers if you feel it is worth it.
I have CyanogenMod 7 on my HTC EVO and the inbuilt tether app works perfectly fine.
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Hi I was wondering if there is an app or a program for my phone or computer or maybe some settings that will make barnacle faster or speed up my 3g connection. I am using my moto dx to provide wifi to my laptop then networked the connection to a wireless router to provide internet to my wii and stream netflix.....needless to say it buffers alot and if I try to play games it boots me out of the game and I have to start over. So if there is something that can at least stabilize my connection so it is dancing arourn from 0kb/s to 1100 that would be bad ass!!!!!!! Kind of a newb here so lamance terms are good. lol using barnacle and wifi tether
A g1 isn't exactly the faster running of phones, id make sure everything I can turn off is off. You can try another app too. And if all else fails the g2 can be perma root and run a wifi tether
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Um.....my phone is a Motorola droid x rooted running barnacle and wifi tetherjust looking to make the net go faster the phone is plenty fast and capable of 3-4 megabytes per second but the speed is no where near stable I just want to keep the speed stable
oohhh i assumed you had a g1 since your in the g1 forum lol my bad. ive used wireless tether and have had no issues on all my androids so far. pandora plays great, no breaks
heres the link http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/
Yeah I goofed up and put it in the g1 forum. Anyway I have used wifi tether also and pandora works fine for me too.......I was just currious if any one knew of an app to make things go faster for streaming movies
ok so im getting the nook this afternoon (if ups comes through) and ive been thinking one big compromise i made over the galaxy tab was 3g. I would love to use this in places other than the ones with wifi. I have an HTC heroC and the wireless card does not support being a wireless hotspot, so i am forced to use apps like barnacle wifi teather but the speeds are horrible. Now that we have BT working on the nook (thx devs!) could i use PDA net's "Bluetooth teather" option to tie my nook to my phones 3g?
The bluetooth isn't working on the nook. (the hacked roms have it barely working)
The only thing you can do is connect it thru wifi. I've got a Motorola Cliq and can turn my phone into a wifi hot spot that my nook can access.
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timmyjoe42 said:
The bluetooth isn't working on the nook. (the hacked roms have it barely working)
The only thing you can do is connect it thru wifi. I've got a Motorola Cliq and can turn my phone into a wifi hot spot that my nook can access.
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Actually this is completely incorrect. CM7 roms have it working relatively well. I cann get about 6 feet of distance with it now so if your holding your nook and your phones in your pocket I dont see why it wouldn't work.
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HI,
Sounds like some people have a non-user friendly method of getting Bluetooth
tethering running from Nook Color running CM7 to cell phone via bluetooth.
Haven't tried it myself yet. See these threads in developer section:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=12090324&postcount=240
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=897934&page=31
Hope this helps.
Peter
sorry this information is wrong or outdated - i use BT gps and headset with my CM7 based nook color
timmyjoe42 said:
The bluetooth isn't working on the nook. (the hacked roms have it barely working)
The only thing you can do is connect it thru wifi. I've got a Motorola Cliq and can turn my phone into a wifi hot spot that my nook can access.
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Not to mention that the absolute last way CyanogenMod should be referred to is "hacked."
I'm still on CM7 19 and bluetooth is working well! However, I have not gotten BT tethering working at all (haven't tried much, bcuz wifi works well for me). Wondering why you get such bad speeds via WiFi tether? I have an OG Droid and I get good speeds.
I suggest trying out Wifi tether first and see how it works.
I'm hoping someone can answer my related question here about my phone.
I currently have the Samsung Moment, and no matter what ROM I use for my NC, I can't get it to see my tethered connection in the Available Networks.
My NC can see my friend's tethered connection on his HTC Touch Pro 2, and Nexus One, so I have a feeling it's got something to do with my phone.
Anyone with experience with the Samsung Moment--do you have any input as to a ROM that might make this work?
Thanks in advance.
babyqtangel said:
I'm hoping someone can answer my related question here about my phone.
I currently have the Samsung Moment, and no matter what ROM I use for my NC, I can't get it to see my tethered connection in the Available Networks.
My NC can see my friend's tethered connection on his HTC Touch Pro 2, and Nexus One, so I have a feeling it's got something to do with my phone.
Anyone with experience with the Samsung Moment--do you have any input as to a ROM that might make this work?
Thanks in advance.
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Most of the NC ROMS do not support Ad-hoc wifi networks right off the bat. If you're not sure if you have an ad-hoc network or not, try and tether your phone to your computer and you should be able to tell on there. If it is an ad-hoc issue, follow the instructions in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=868354
I too have a HTC HeroC and both it and my Nook are running CM7, AOSP build for the phone and Phiremods build for the nook. I have no problem using Wireless Tether to use my phone as a hotspot, I do so just about every day at work to brows the internet on lunch, speeds have been fine, can watch Youtube stuff and listen to internet radio just fine.
I use Wifi Tethering for Root Users on my Epic and it works great with my NC.
I have been using Hotspot on my rooted N1 flawlessly for years. However I recently noticed something weird going on. When my Hotspot was not working in the past it was because of network issues in my area. However, now I am noticing that the network is fine and I can browse fine on my phone, but when connecting my laptop to my phone using Hotspot I can not browse at all. I've done speedtest on the phone using speedtest.net mobile app and get great speeds and able to browse on my phone fine. Also It's not my laptop as I am able to browse fine when connected to any other wifi network. Anyone else experiencing issues with Hotspot?
XDA is no longer worth my time.
Yea I think I got throttled for being in top 5% and then some weirdness was going on in my area where my connection kept getting clogged and ATT had to reset my phone but it still seems to be working.
Anyone have a working root wifi tether working on the Droid 4 yet?
WiFi Tether for Root Users 3.1-beta11 works great for me
nm (see above post)
FoxFi works great, and doesnt require root. I use it all the time. Only thing different from the one posted above is it allows BT tether also, but doesnt tell you when someone logs onto your phone.
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.foxfi&hl=en
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WiFi Tether for Root Users 3.1-beta11 works great for me
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So you have 4G sharing with that??
Yes you will have 4G speeds. In my experience with the Google project one which IMO is the best, if your on the move and your tethering from tower to tower and you lose 4G signal, its hard for your phone to re-connect to 4G. It just stays on 3G until you toggle airplane mode then restart tethering. My DROID 2 did the same thing. If 3G signal got really low, it would go to the edge network and wouldn't go back to 3G sometimes.
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My personal preference is PDAnet, but for wireless, I second the google projects one.
Does anyone know whether it does active masking like PDAnet? One thing I like about PDAnet is that it is supposed to mask the fact that you are tethering, and it doesn't seem to trip the built-in hotspot indicator (which makes me nervous).
I use my Droid Turbo as a hotspot for the Nexus 7 I have installed in my dash. I use Tasker to automate the process, so that it turns on the hotspot when a connection is established with Tablet Talk, and then turns it off when the connection is lost. (Actually, because third party apps are apparently unable to turn off the hotspot, I just have it bring up the wifi settings page.) This worked well on my old rooted Razr Maxx, both on the original firmware and with CM11.
On the Droid Turbo, it will work great for 2-3 times, but after that it will stop sharing the phone's internet connection. The hotspot is still created, the Nexus still connects to the hotspot just fine, but it can't access the internet anymore. I tried a factory reset, and the same issue came up.
I know it's a bit obscure, but any suggestions? At this point I have to restart my phone every day or so to keep it working, which is quite annoying without root.
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I use my Droid Turbo as a hotspot for the Nexus 7 I have installed in my dash. I use Tasker to automate the process, so that it turns on the hotspot when a connection is established with Tablet Talk, and then turns it off when the connection is lost. (Actually, because third party apps are apparently unable to turn off the hotspot, I just have it bring up the wifi settings page.) This worked well on my old rooted Razr Maxx, both on the original firmware and with CM11.
On the Droid Turbo, it will work great for 2-3 times, but after that it will stop sharing the phone's internet connection. The hotspot is still created, the Nexus still connects to the hotspot just fine, but it can't access the internet anymore. I tried a factory reset, and the same issue came up.
I know it's a bit obscure, but any suggestions? At this point I have to restart my phone every day or so to keep it working, which is quite annoying without root.
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Its a bug introduced with the last OTA. It *should* be fixed next update.