Not on mine,I did both,and SBFed back to .340 ,and tether worked,I went back to GB again,and installed wireless tether 3.0 and ran the patch again,just to be sure,and tether is not working,the device connects,but no data transfer....im back on .340 again.I hardly tether,but I like to know i can in a pinch...I have hi speed cable,and home and work,I need to use dont use the 3g data much.
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Root Wireless Tether on GB.
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Not on mine,I did both,and SBFed back to .340 ,and tether worked,I went back to GB again,and installed wireless tether 3.0 and ran the patch again,just to be sure,and tether is not working,the device connects,but no data transfer....im back on .340 again.I hardly tether,but I like to know i can in a pinch...I have hi speed cable,and home and work,I need to use dont use the 3g data much.
dmiller2007
Android Expert
That's what is keeping me on froyo. I don't get cable where I live and the phone company hasn't gotten around to supplying us with dsl yet either. So my dx is my ONLY source of internet here. I usually use my phone for internet but will tether to my desktop occasionally for my wife to use it. I'd be in the dog house for a while if I went to GB now lol
Metfanant
Android Expert
couldn't you pay for a tethering plan?? wouldn't it work then??
Outlaw71
Android Expert
Yeah all this is making me rethink my position on tiered data. I used to think I hated the idea, but more and more I'm thinking it would be a good thing.
Buy a block of data, and then use it either for your phone, or tethered to your computer, or both. For instance, if you are on a 5 gig plan then it doesn't matter if you're rooted and tethering, not rooted and tethering, not rooted and not tethering, or any other combination you can think of... so long as you stay under 5 gigs, then you paid for all your data.
Then everyone who says, "well I paid for it right"? Would be correct. And it would no longer be stealing since you'd have paid for all the data you used. Seems fair to me.
But I don't know that the providers really want to include tethering in their tiered plans because that takes away the $20 bucks they charge to do so. Which seems unfair to me. If you are going to charge us $50 bucks (or whatever) for 5 gigs of data, then we should be able to use up to 5 gigs of data any way we want to. There will no longer be this argument that 'your stealing data' if you pay for 5 gigs and don't go over that. How would it be stealing?
So yes, I do agree with the fact that it's been stealing up to this point (and yes, I've stolen some). But once our contracts become tiered, I don't think that accusation will hold true any longer.
Buy a block of data, and then use it either for your phone, or tethered to your computer, or both. For instance, if you are on a 5 gig plan then it doesn't matter if you're rooted and tethering, not rooted and tethering, not rooted and not tethering, or any other combination you can think of... so long as you stay under 5 gigs, then you paid for all your data.
Then everyone who says, "well I paid for it right"? Would be correct. And it would no longer be stealing since you'd have paid for all the data you used. Seems fair to me.
But I don't know that the providers really want to include tethering in their tiered plans because that takes away the $20 bucks they charge to do so. Which seems unfair to me. If you are going to charge us $50 bucks (or whatever) for 5 gigs of data, then we should be able to use up to 5 gigs of data any way we want to. There will no longer be this argument that 'your stealing data' if you pay for 5 gigs and don't go over that. How would it be stealing?
So yes, I do agree with the fact that it's been stealing up to this point (and yes, I've stolen some). But once our contracts become tiered, I don't think that accusation will hold true any longer.
I do pay for tethering, but it's still not working for me. I'm hesitant to apply patches, 3rd party apps and all that, because I have tried to play straight with VZW all along. With the GB leak, tethering is not working for me either. I don't see the VZW sign-up page; the laptop and XOOM both connect to the DX just fine, but no data gets through. May have to SBF back to .340 - reluctantly, as I really like what GB has done for my device. Hopefully the OTA, when it arrives, will still allow tethering for those of us who are coughing up the $$$ for it.
Eris_2.1_2010
Well-Known Member
I turned on wireless tether for fun and still had 3g icon in the notification bar, but had 0 service. I opened dolphin and tried to goto to google.com, and only verizons mobile hotspot signup page loaded. That can't be good but airplane mode brought service back.
danmcq
Newbie
I am able to tether fine over bluetooth with Gingerbread (no hacking or third party apps needed), but when I try to use the 3G hotspot app none of my other computers or devices are able to see the DroidX's network ssid. The hotspot app doesn't report any errors, so I'm at a loss as to what is causing this.
How do you do this? PdaNet?
Eris_2.1_2010
Well-Known Member
So will the hotspot hack work with the new gingerbread leak?
The experimental APK with the TBH patch works on both versions of rooted gingerbread. Just confirmed it on .588 today
Does using the wireless tether app open the "hot spot" and sign in page? It did on mine.Also mine would come on,and the device would get on the tether,but there was no data transfer....even though they were connected...
It does open the hot spot app in the background, but no other page.
Have you applied the TBH patch?
Yes, I applied it more than once,just to be sure....the same patch d/l worked perfect on froyo....
Try turning on just the regular blur hotspot, accepting all their stuff, and putting the settings how they are on your experimental hotspot.
Then turn that off and use the experimental hotspot app (the one with the yellow icon). If that still doesn't work even after the TBH patch, I have no idea.
I am new to Rooting, but I have been having fun with it as I play around. I did have the wireless tether app on Froyo and it worked fine, but now I am on the new rooted GB and I am having the same issue as everyone else.....when I try to wireless tether it connects, but no data, and if I keep trying to connect I get Verizon's hot spot page. If the TBH patch is working, thats great....but what and where do I get the TBH patch lol? Anyway, thanks for helping.
I tried exactly what you said,and multiple times,I even sbfed back,and tether worked fine again,and downloaded GB from a different source...same results...I get a connection,but no data will transfer,and when i tried to shut tether down I got the message I posted....
alprazolam
Android Expert
Just to clarify for those who may be confused, Raryn is talking about using an experimental build of the wireless tether app. Not the mobile hotspot app.
http://android-wifi-tether.googlecode.com/files/wifi_tether_v3_0-pre13.apk
G.Armour
You know you want to.
What I did, I flashed the patch from TBH, it was still giving me problems, so I installed the old hotspot app, went into system and renamed that apk to .bak, don't ask me why but that fixed all my tethering problems. I am actually able to use the hotspot app. Just what I experienced.
Daciple
Lurker
Wireless Tether works on GB pretty good, i have tested! Only issue is not to use it unless you have a subscription. All carriers have apparently embedded software in GB to detect tethering and will charge you for Tether use. This has been verified and can be read on "MyDroidWorld.com".
Use Tethering at your own risk, unless you pay for it of course!!
Use Tethering at your own risk, unless you pay for it of course!!
alprazolam
Android Expert
Verified by who? Is there a press release? Or are you going off of a post by P3Droid? Not saying that he is untruthful, but I'll tell you anything you want to hear and you should probably believe me right?
Well, to back up P3Droid a little more, ATT has apparently been sending out text messages telling iphone owners that they will be charge for tethering on next months bill if they tether anymore. Why not android? Hmmm....
My advice? Don't be an idiot. If you tether, don't use your phone as a BitTorrent server and lay off netflix (if you can even get a decent picture on 3G). If you get a warning, which you will if VZW decides to crack down, then simply stop or pay up.
alprazolam
Android Expert
I suppose it will be debated until there is nothing left to debate because free tether will be a thing of the past. Until such time, get it while it's hot I suppose.