Howdy all. I was wondering if anybody has been able to toggle the wifi hotspot via Tasker, software toggle, or anything like that?
I have tried to set up the task to toggle the hotspot in a number of ways. I've tried it native, Secure Settings, Wifi Hotspot Plugin, using toggle, on, and off options. It works to enable the hotspot, but it will not disable the hotspot. To disable I have to go into hotspot settings and manually disable. This led me to try a toggling via softwares such as Power Toggles and similar. Same results, hotspot will be enabled, but won't disable without entering hotspot settings and manually disabling.
This isn't a biggie, but it would be nice to be able to toggle the hotspot using Tasker via Pebble...
Thanks for any input!
Nope - it doesn't work! It is a biggie for me because I use a 7" Anroid Tablet in my car as my infotainment system. Via Tasker I have my phone turn on hotspot anytime it connects to my car's Bluetooth and turn it off when it disconnects from car. Worked great on my old S3.
Now with the Droid Turbo, it doesn't work. Tasker and some 3rd Party apps actually can turn on HotSpot but can't turn it off (which is the bigger deal since I will often forget to disable it and be burning data when I should be on wifi).
There is also a bug where if you enable it via Tasker or 3rd Party app, then when you disable it in the HotSpot Phone Settings, it will not automatically turn WiFi back on as it should. I have checked with support via Moto and Verizon and there is no fix for this other than hopefully in a future update.
Very annoying to get a phone that is 2.5 years newer and have it not work with basic things that your old phone did. Anyway, I'd recommend posting your desire for this in the official Motorola Forums for Droid Turbo and the Verizon Wireless Forums because those are the ones the companies actually look at to see what bugs are bothering people most and need to be fixed.
Wait... so you're able to enable Wi-Fi hotspot without root on droid turbo? Unlimited data? Or just because you can otherwise use Wi-Fi hotspot on a tiered plan and just want to automate?
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I toggle WiFi constantly with tasker...
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hollywoodfrodo said:
Nope - it doesn't work! It is a biggie for me because I use a 7" Anroid Tablet in my car as my infotainment system. Via Tasker I have my phone turn on hotspot anytime it connects to my car's Bluetooth and turn it off when it disconnects from car. Worked great on my old S3.
Now with the Droid Turbo, it doesn't work. Tasker and some 3rd Party apps actually can turn on HotSpot but can't turn it off (which is the bigger deal since I will often forget to disable it and be burning data when I should be on wifi).
There is also a bug where if you enable it via Tasker or 3rd Party app, then when you disable it in the HotSpot Phone Settings, it will not automatically turn WiFi back on as it should. I have checked with support via Moto and Verizon and there is no fix for this other than hopefully in a future update.
Very annoying to get a phone that is 2.5 years newer and have it not work with basic things that your old phone did. Anyway, I'd recommend posting your desire for this in the official Motorola Forums for Droid Turbo and the Verizon Wireless Forums because those are the ones the companies actually look at to see what bugs are bothering people most and need to be fixed.
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This really bites. It was the whole reason I bought Tasker. I have a Maxx with KK and have the same experience. I can turn on the hot spot just fine with Tasker but it won't turn it off. I wanted the automation so I don't forget.
Steve
Be sure to join the official Motorola Website forums and post your complaint/concern. I think it may be the only place Moto's powers that be look to see what needs to be improved. But yeah, it's very annoying. Based on my experience so far, though there are many things I love about this phone, I don't think I'd go with Moto again.
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Be sure to join the official Motorola Website forums and post your complaint/concern. I think it may be the only place Moto's powers that be look to see what needs to be improved. But yeah, it's very annoying. Based on my experience so far, though there are many things I love about this phone, I don't think I'd go with Moto again.
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I will do that. Does the same behavior exist with USB tethering too?
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I don't know because I never considered that as a realistic option for my uses.
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I don't know because I never considered that as a realistic option for my uses.
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What my thought was is this: I have an Chinese android HU in my truck. It has 2 USB ports on it. I could use the USB port to charge the phone and tether through it also. Might even put a powered USB hub in the mix too. Thought this could easily be configured with tasker to set up.
Steve
BTW: Thanks for the great Tasker video's. I'm brand new to tasker and they've helped out.
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Here's a tasker plugin that you might find very useful:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-toggle-wi-fi-hotspot-5-0-xda-t2981805
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I don't suppose anyone knows of an app that can automatically turn on tethering when specified wifi access points are not available?
Like many others I dont want a data plan on my xoom so I tether using my phone when I am not near an access point. I get damned good battery life on my nexus one, but I still don't want to leave tethering on all the time. I would be nice if I could have it automatically turn on tethering when my known wifi APs are not available.
You could probably use Tasker to do this - You'd have to configure it yourself, but it would work.
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I don't suppose anyone knows of an app that can automatically turn on tethering when specified wifi access points are not available?
Like many others I dont want a data plan on my xoom so I tether using my phone when I am not near an access point. I get damned good battery life on my nexus one, but I still don't want to leave tethering on all the time. I would be nice if I could have it automatically turn on tethering when my known wifi APs are not available.
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Don't know of an automated way but Hotspot Toggle in the market is a good widget you can place on your home screen. One touch on and off.
I was thinking that I could combine your answers to get a solution, but hotspot doesn't show up as an app in tasker.
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Without rooting your phone and having an app require root, you won't find this capability. In one of the recent major android builds google removed the ability for applications to turn on and off wifi automatically.
i have a Verizon Note 3 Stock/Root Rom and Gear with NULL Rom but no Nova launcher. i install NULL for the extra features but like the stock look and feel. this should work with NULL installed period regardless of your setup.
i have used Network Spooker, PdaNet, etc etc etc trying all scenarios trying to get the best results with the least amount of work to set it up and having to reconnect etc...
i am posting this just 10 minutes into my testing and so far so good.
here is what i did and with others help perhaps we can figure out if this is the best way and how it may or may not work with Gear Connection Bridge etc...
1. on Gear i put it in airplane mode
2. on N3 i turned off wifi and BT
3. on N3 i went into settings > Wireless and Network > More Settings > Tethering > tick BT Tethering
4. on Gear leaving it in airplane mode i just turned on BT and connect to N3
5. on Gear Settings > Bluetooth > tap the settings icon next to your phone device name > scroll down and tick Internet Access
7. on Phone you should see in Taskbar "Tethering Active"
8. on Gear open Browser or whatever to test
6. DONE
i have no other items running like Spoofer etc.. and everything seems to work perfectly. i now wonder for location how Gear Connection Bridge will wok?
also wonder what a day or 2 of testing battery will look like?
please let me know if this works for others
Looks great
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I don't get it? That's how tethering is meant to work...
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I don't get it? That's how tethering is meant to work...
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well at least for me on Verizon (not sure what carriers matter) i could only get internet access with Xposed Network Spoofer set to "Wifi" then PdaNet+ running on N3 and then PdaNet Tablet running on Gear and it was a lot of steps to get them all going. it did not work "out of the box" for me on Verizon as you were thinking.
if tethering wasnt an issue for you this will mean nothing but to me it was HUGE and very excited to figure it out.
lets see if others agree that may look at this and maybe im just nuts and this post was pointless
Some phones need wifi connection off before you can use Bluetooth tether, but other than that if you have the option on your phone to do Bluetooth tethering, then the profile will appear whenever your watch is connected
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Some phones need wifi connection off before you can use Bluetooth tether, but other than that if you have the option on your phone to do Bluetooth tethering, then the profile will appear whenever your watch is connected
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well i would never get the profile to appear and when i simply selected BT Tether in phone settings it would just turn itself back off again shortly. it wasnt until i set Gear in Airplane mode and with BT on phone off and then selecting Tether on phone that the option ever worked. trust me i had hours testing this in every way posted here
anyway it works for me now and so maybe others will benefit if they were having issues like i had.
I used Tasker with BT auto connect on the gear. When the gear connects to the note 3 blue tooth with is automatic Tasker will signal BT auto connect. Now I have sprint so I used BT auto tether on my note 3. So in other words I can reboot either device and it will automatically tether the gear. I can turn blue tooth of as well then back on same result if you are running Tasker on the note 3 also. The only issue I have is if I turn tether off on the note 3 from the settings then back on. I would have to re-enable it manually on both. But I think there maybe a way to have Tasker on the note 3 send a blue tooth packet to the gear that Tasker there can see and respond to. Any thoughts or suggestions?
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Newbie here with the Gear, sorry if this has been asked before but I googled for a while.
I have a rooted Gear with Null ROM and rooted phone. Bluetooth tethering is awfully slow though when I'm indoors since my phone gets crappy 3G/4G reception, but I have solid Wi-Fi -- the phone's apps all work great through Wi-Fi, but the bluetooth tether insists on trying to use cellular data even though Wi-Fi is there.
Is there any way to allow the bluetooth tethering to use both the 3G/4G as well as the Wi-Fi connection, whatever the phone has available?
Thanks!
It's limited to whatever your phone rom allows. E.g. international stock rom allows tethering via Wi-Fi where as most carrier rounds will only work with cellular data (if it is even an option)
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It's limited to whatever your phone rom allows. E.g. international stock rom allows tethering via Wi-Fi where as most carrier rounds will only work with cellular data (if it is even an option)
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Thanks! But why should it be limited by the carrier? I want to tether the actual Wi-Fi connection over bluetooth, not the cellular connection (because the Gear doesn't have Wi-Fi, but my phone does, and 95% of the time I'm indoors where I have much better Wi-Fi than cellular reception).
If it makes a difference, I bought my Nexus 4 directly from Google so it's stock ROM and rooted. If I have to change to some other ROM (e.g. Cyanogenmod) I'm willing to do that
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Thanks! But why should it be limited by the carrier? I want to tether the actual Wi-Fi connection over bluetooth, not the cellular connection (because the Gear doesn't have Wi-Fi, but my phone does, and 95% of the time I'm indoors where I have much better Wi-Fi than cellular reception).
If it makes a difference, I bought my Nexus 4 directly from Google so it's stock ROM and rooted. If I have to change to some other ROM (e.g. Cyanogenmod) I'm willing to do that
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maybe just a few words from my side - why do you need a faster internet connection?
i mostly use it just to sync new data like calendar, or to do list. even slow internet is enough to do that, as it's not a lot of information to be exchanged. if you are planning on streaming videos or so, prepare that your gear will die quickly..
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maybe just a few words from my side - why do you need a faster internet connection?
i mostly use it just to sync new data like calendar, or to do list. even slow internet is enough to do that, as it's not a lot of information to be exchanged. if you are planning on streaming videos or so, prepare that your gear will die quickly..
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For light use, faster internet means the device wastes less CPU cycles waiting for responses. It's going over bluetooth either way, so better the device get the data in a fraction of a second than say 20-30 seconds (literally; I get only GPRS and occasionally EDGE in my office, never 3G or 4G, but I have flawless Wi-Fi). In those 20-30 seconds I could have pulled the phone out of my pocket to check what came through.
Although in all honesty I bought the Gear to hack with, and there are lots of crazy ideas I want to do with it that want a fast internet connection. Yes, the battery will die quickly, but that's the price of early adoption; I just want to hack for now and hope that when battery technology becomes better I can continue to be living with my futuristic apps. For now I can live with a charging cable down my sleeve and an external battery in my pocket, but I don't want to use USB tethering since I want it to still be able to go while disconnected.
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Thanks! But why should it be limited by the carrier? I want to tether the actual Wi-Fi connection over bluetooth, not the cellular connection (because the Gear doesn't have Wi-Fi, but my phone does, and 95% of the time I'm indoors where I have much better Wi-Fi than cellular reception).
If it makes a difference, I bought my Nexus 4 directly from Google so it's stock ROM and rooted. If I have to change to some other ROM (e.g. Cyanogenmod) I'm willing to do that
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I meant carrier branded rom. But in theory, stock international roms should use wifi if connected, otherwise use data. Some roms don't allow wifi to be used for tethering (cellular data only)
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I meant carrier branded rom. But in theory, stock international roms should use wifi if connected, otherwise use data. Some roms don't allow wifi to be used for tethering (cellular data only)
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Brendo is right. Stock roms often have wifi tethering via bluetooth enabled and can switch back and forth as need. I have not experienced laser fast result with either but as you states "for your needs", look for a phone with native bluetooth tethering. One that works well and is cheap is the Galaxy Grand II. I have one and it worked well. I use a Note 2 now with native bluetooth tethering via Verizon and it works with 4G but not wifi. Maybe someone will chime in with an international rom that has this capability.
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Brendo is right. Stock roms often have wifi tethering via bluetooth enabled and can switch back and forth as need. I have not experienced laser fast result with either but as you states "for your needs", look for a phone with native bluetooth tethering. One that works well and is cheap is the Galaxy Grand II. I have one and it worked well. I use a Note 2 now with native bluetooth tethering via Verizon and it works with 4G but not wifi. Maybe someone will chime in with an international rom that has this capability.
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Interesting. I have a Nexus 4 (directly from Google), and I'm surprised that if this feature exists that the Nexus 4 doesn't offer it. You'd think it'd be in Google's best interest given Glass and all.
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Interesting. I have a Nexus 4 (directly from Google), and I'm surprised that if this feature exists that the Nexus 4 doesn't offer it. You'd think it'd be in Google's best interest given Glass and all.
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This is very true as unfortunatly in the US, native BT tethering is often blocked via Carriers who want to charge for it. In theory, this shouldnt be an issue with the Nexus line, curious if the Nexus 5 can... I can confirm, first hand that the technology does exist for wifi bluetooth tethering but it may be that no US phone has this feature enabled, to date. It should be noted that my Galaxy Grand was an international model, specifically the Latin model, not the India model. I could acutually use the phone without a sim card to serve up bluetooth PAN via home wifi to my old Motoactiv Smartwatch while I was screwing around in the house.
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Newbie here with the Gear, sorry if this has been asked before but I googled for a while.
I have a rooted Gear with Null ROM and rooted phone. Bluetooth tethering is awfully slow though when I'm indoors since my phone gets crappy 3G/4G reception, but I have solid Wi-Fi -- the phone's apps all work great through Wi-Fi, but the bluetooth tether insists on trying to use cellular data even though Wi-Fi is there.
Is there any way to allow the bluetooth tethering to use both the 3G/4G as well as the Wi-Fi connection, whatever the phone has available?
Thanks!
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You should include som info about the make and model of your phone if you wish people to help you....
Anyway, both my GalaxyS3 and my iPhone4S can easily be used to share WiFi with my Gear over Bluetooth. But it doesn't increase the speed much as this is limited by the BT bandwith between the phone and the Gear. Typically max 3Mb/s
I've got an N9005 rooted (X-Note 13) bluetooth tethering my null 23 gear, and on 4G I actually get speeds up to 5MB/sec, yet the gear rarely goes above 50kb/sec, which, for me, is too low even for a vague browsing . I highly doubt anything carrier specific, I just think bluetooth is slow...
I'm trying to find a hotspot widget, specifically one that enables and disables the built in AT&T hotspot. Yes I do have this enabled and authorized by AT&T, it just would be nice to have a widget where I just press it and it toggles it on and off. I've tried several from the marketplace but none of them worked, they would try to verify and it looked like it would turn on for a split second, but then turn off.
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I'm trying to find a hotspot widget, specifically one that enables and disables the built in AT&T hotspot. Yes I do have this enabled and authorized by AT&T, it just would be nice to have a widget where I just press it and it toggles it on and off. I've tried several from the marketplace but none of them worked, they would try to verify and it looked like it would turn on for a split second, but then turn off.
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I like power toggles.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.painless.pc
A widget that tries to enable hotspot, but shuts down sounds like you're not able to tether, or haven't configured your hotspot yet. Are you able to enable hotspot thru the system settings?
440bro said:
I like power toggles.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.painless.pc
A widget that tries to enable hotspot, but shuts down sounds like you're not able to tether, or haven't configured your hotspot yet. Are you able to enable hotspot thru the system settings?
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Hmm that doesn't work either. It will say "Please wait while verifying" then nothing, and the hotspot isn't turned on. My hotspot is working and setup, I have named it and put in a password and I can manually go into settings-connections-tethering and portable hotspot and click it on and it turns on and off just fine.
Anyone else have trouble with this?
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Hmm that doesn't work either. It will say "Please wait while verifying" then nothing, and the hotspot isn't turned on. My hotspot is working and setup, I have named it and put in a password and I can manually go into settings-connections-tethering and portable hotspot and click it on and it turns on and off just fine.
Anyone else have trouble with this?
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You wouldn't happen to be rooted by any chance?
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You wouldn't happen to be rooted by any chance?
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I wish, I'm one of the poor saps who upgraded to kitkat.
same issue here
Going to bump this because I have the exact same issue on a rooted galaxy s5. I used hotspots toggle Widgets on my s4 without issue for years, but that one typically had custom Roms. On the s5 I'm running rooted stock 4.4.2
I do have legal tethering with at&t, and use it frequently so if anyone has a fix I'd greatly appreciate the info.
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I wish, I'm one of the poor saps who upgraded to kitkat.
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i think theres root on kitkat now by geohotz. if you somehow root your phone, install Dynamic Kat, i has hotspot toggle on the quick settings, I use it all the time.
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.