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[Q] Tethering with i400

Has anyone had any luck getting Barnacle or Google's wifi-tether going on the i400?

Goods question. I'm curious for the answer.
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code.google.c*m/p/android-wifi-tether/
That works if you root download the latest beta

Easy tether also works without root, but it's not a wireless tether.

Trailblazer101, I'll give the latest beta a shot. Thanks.

trailblazer101 said:
code.google.c*m/p/android-wifi-tether/
That works if you root download the latest beta
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Nevermind... Here it is as a link...
http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/
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Worked fine!
Update (about 3 days late)
After flashing my GPAD to Vegan, I did get ad-hoc to work through the tether app installed on the continuum (for the newbies like myself: Android has adhoc connecting disabled by default, so you have to use -- from what I can tell -- a custom ROM to connect to an adhoc wireless connection).
The Continuum only needed to be rooted so tethering could be installed.

Trying to root my Continuum. Tried the one click but it just locked up my phone. Pulled battery, do I do it again?
I'm totally new on the androids.
suggestions?
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sytech55 said:
Trying to root my Continuum. Tried the one click but it just locked up my phone. Pulled battery, do I do it again?
I'm totally new on the androids.
suggestions?
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Have you updated with the ota yet?
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The "ota", meaning the system update on the phone? yes.

sytech55 said:
The "ota", meaning the system update on the phone? yes.
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Yes that is what I was referring to :-/
As of right now, you cannot root... I was previously rooted, but the update made it go away T_T. Bubby323 is getting a continuum for a little bit and should have it updated soon

I bought my Continuum yesterday, the 22nd. An update was immediately applied. Spent hours trying to root. Z4root (my go-to) wouldn't work after countless attempts. Gave up on an update.zip recovery. SUPERONECLICK is exactly how I was finally able to root...
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BrizzyMO said:
I bought my Continuum yesterday, the 22nd. An update was immediately applied. Spent hours trying to root. Z4root (my go-to) wouldn't work after countless attempts. Gave up on an update.zip recovery. SUPERONECLICK is exactly how I was finally able to root...
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hmmm.... I'll try it out

anyone get wifi tether to work with froyo update?

ive been using wireless tether 3.0 beta without a problem just select sasmsung fascinate then enable softap mode.

works thanks

I'm currently using Open Garden. It seems to be working great so far. I actually paid for the full version of EasyTether, and there's problems with the Continuum and EasyTether. Evidentially, USB debugging times out after a while. It's no biggie though, for me, because using a wifi tether app is so much simpler.

The new beta from Google works the best because you can enable softap mode so linux and playstations will pick it up. Open garden, barnacle, the wireless tether from the market just use adhoc frequincies so not everything will pick it up.
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Bierce22 said:
The new beta from Google works the best because you can enable softap mode so linux and playstations will pick it up. Open garden, barnacle, the wireless tether from the market just use adhoc frequincies so not everything will pick it up.
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Ahh... I was not aware of that. Thanks for that info!

The Google beta app works, but my primary problem with it is the fact that it turns off BT every time I tether. I'll be using Open Garden until a newer version is released that doesn't affect my BT connection.

Issues with Wireless Tether

I am running MikShift with 1.8 kernal with Cyan Dragon Theme.
The wireless tether works just fine with the 4g, but it doesn't work with the 3g, are there any threads or a fix or anything info on this?

I'm also having problems with this. I have thread a few post down but unfortunately we haven't found a solution.
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The only problem I'm having is that devices connected to my phone via Wireless Tether get a LOT LESS speed than my phone will. Full 4G signal on my phone ~5Megs while a connected device will be pulling about 500K.

HolyShift said:
The only problem I'm having is that devices connected to my phone via Wireless Tether get a LOT LESS speed than my phone will. Full 4G signal on my phone ~5Megs while a connected device will be pulling about 500K.
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The 4G works just fine for me, I just can't get the 3G to work.

I'm having this exact same problem. I haven't been able to figurre anything out either. One this I've noticed is that if I switch to a different app, the tether will stop working until I go back to the wireless tether app itself and then the data will start to flow again.
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Ok so I am not the only one...4g works..3g dosen't give me internet access....on my GF EVO too...but I can tether through her hacked sprint hotspot....this thread and the other one needs to be combined i think...

beezie916 said:
Ok so I am not the only one...4g works..3g dosen't give me internet access....on my GF EVO too...but I can tether through her hacked sprint hotspot....this thread and the other one needs to be combined i think...
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Probably so, is there anyway someone can gain access to a "hacked" sprint hotspot for the Shift?

l2icky said:
Probably so, is there anyway someone can gain access to a "hacked" sprint hotspot for the Shift?
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Well it looks like newkidd might of found out the tether issue..../system/bi/sh is symlinked to bash....
he is working on a fix...but i was helping test and can say fixing the symlink and tether worked perfectly....on 3g...although i know i didn't do this fix Friday when we toyed with it so who knows what the deal was....
The hack apparently takes a lot of work to change from EVO to ours....not sure what dev is going to be able to port it....

l2icky said:
Probably so, is there anyway someone can gain access to a "hacked" sprint hotspot for the Shift?
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Nfinitefx just added a mod to him rom which is a sprint hotspot hack..whether it works or not no clue but it was in his change log just recently..maybe you could pull something out of there?
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Has anybody tried deleting their spint hotspot? I'm going to try that and check back later tonight.
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Well deleting the spint hotspot made no difference. Now a few days later I can't even tether on 4G. Quite frustrating, this. Any suggestions?
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foolforfood said:
Well deleting the spint hotspot made no difference. Now a few days later I can't even tether on 4G. Quite frustrating, this. Any suggestions?
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What rom are you on...I know stock it works..mikrom has an error on sh 3.2 which is being worked out and evervolve it works
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I was using miks rom, which was letting me use tether on 4G until today. I just switched to nfx stock, still not working.
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foolforfood said:
I was using miks rom, which was letting me use tether on 4G until today. I just switched to nfx stock, still not working.
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I meant the actual stock rom but nfx is working on a sprint hotspot hack
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Guys, I submitted an issue on their google code page, feel free to go comment and knock this thing up to a hot issue so they will look into it. lol
http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/issues/detail?id=878

OK I'm glad to see others are having this issue.
Prior to yesterday, I was only able to tether on 4G using Wired Tether OR Wireless Tether. As of yesterday, I can no longer tether AT ALL.
I've tried flashing back to the completely stock ROM (only had root mod) that preludedrew posted and I'm still experiencing this issue. The only other thing I could possibly do is RUU and then re-root.
Has anyone found a solution to this? Is this a sprint issue or individual phone? Are some people not affected at all? I have been using the stock ROM, rooted and with bcnice's 1.8 GHz kernel since root.
I use my phone as my primary internet so this is a HUGE detriment for me and also a GARGANTUAN downside for the phone. I'm wondering if Sprint is finding a way to outsmart us...
EDIT: Azilink appears to still be working fine for tethering. Although it does take a bit more of a setup and some familiarity (marginal) with adb, it also typically performs much better as well. Brandock made a post about it in the apps forum, a search should pull it up fairly quickly.

Well with stock root wireless tether wasw working fine once I switched roms it stopped working so you do the math
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My 4G tethering came back oddly enough. Maybe it was my area.
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Mine is back working now too...that's really weird.
NYC here.
Guess I wasted my whole day yesterday trying to figure this crap out =(

This is an issue with the ROMs not the app or anything. The symlin for /system/bin/sh is wrong....thats why when you go into terminal you see sh3.2 if you remove it and make a new symlink wireless tether will work....i can post the commands I was given that worked fine but I make no guarantees it will work or that it wont do something bad to your phone but I will give you the commands I used.
using terminal and your /system will have to be r/w
rm /system/bin/sh
ln -s /system/bin/sh0 /system/bin/sh

Wifi tether

Hey all, I tried using multiple versions of the Wifi tether apk on google source and none of them worked. I had my tablet out and tried to connect on stock ssid and it wouldn't recognize it. However, with the same apk on my Nexus, the tablet would recognize it. Got any help?

on your fascinate use the latest experimental version, go to settings, set device profile to galaxy nexus (GSM) and setup method to netd(master)
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Have you tried APP called OPEN GARDEN WIFI. ?
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icemanwbs said:
Have you tried APP called OPEN GARDEN WIFI. ?
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I haven't done anything at the moment because I am out of town, but will report my results as soon as I am back. I do know that open garden would not work on my nexus so I tried the google version and it worked.

gtab55 said:
I haven't done anything at the moment because I am out of town, but will report my results as soon as I am back. I do know that open garden would not work on my nexus so I tried the google version and it worked.
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open garden will work on your fascinate long as your using a touch wiz rom or any mtd rom other than ICS.
Google wifi tether will also work but you need to set as gsm galaxy nexus.

Ok, I just tired open garden and various google versions to tether. None worked when I tried to connect from my tablet.

sageDieu said:
on your fascinate use the latest experimental version, go to settings, set device profile to galaxy nexus (GSM) and setup method to netd(master)
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Tether apps from the market will not work with your tablet, you need an infrastructure mode tether. Use WiFi Tether, then set the profile to Nexus One I believe...

sageDieu said:
on your fascinate use the latest experimental version, go to settings, set device profile to galaxy nexus (GSM) and setup method to netd(master)
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Would not work. Said tethering started with errors.

oh, I didn't think to ask what rom you are on. the nexus one works only on ICS. if you are on anything else, then set the device profile to google NexusOne and it should work. sorry for the confusion!
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I am pure stock 2.3.5
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I downloaded the latest software and let the device go to nexus one as well as gal nexus GSM and both started up with errors. I checked log and it said failed to load WiFi driver.

gtab55 said:
I am pure stock 2.3.5
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I downloaded the latest software and let the device go to nexus one as well as gal nexus GSM and both started up with errors. I checked log and it said failed to load WiFi driver.
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I don't believe you can use tethering apps on a pure stock rom.
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You need an older version of WiFI tether for gingerbread...I would post it but I lost it in my SSD failure. I promise it does work though.
And Mkuehl06 is right, you at least need to be rooted.

sendan said:
You need an older version of WiFI tether for gingerbread...I would post it but I lost it in my SSD failure. I promise it does work though.
And Mkuehl06 is right, you at least need to be rooted.
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In that case go to Droidstyle's guide in general section. Find section 2 for tw roms, and follow the instructons to the letter for nitsuj's superclean rom. Its pretty much stock, then after that, find my guide on installing kernels, read through and pick one you like. I explained them a little in my first post, instructions are in the second post. After that, download open garden and you should have 0 issues.
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In that case go to Droidstyle's guide in general section. Find section 2 for tw roms, and follow the instructons to the letter for nitsuj's superclean rom. Its pretty much stock, then after that, find my guide on installing kernels, read through and pick one you like. I explained them a little in my first post, instructions are in the second post. After that, download open garden and you should have 0 issues.
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Ya that will probably get it to work, except I don't think open garden allows infrastructure tethering (which most tablets require), so stick with your WiFI tether app if that doesn't work.

sendan said:
Ya that will probably get it to work, except I don't think open garden allows infrastructure tethering (which most tablets require), so stick with your WiFI tether app if that doesn't work.
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Yeah dude your right. I thought he was trying to get his phone to tether. I misread op. My bad.
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I have tried all of the wifi tether versions 3.x and none of them will work after the first try. They all say softtap errors.

gtab55 said:
I have tried all of the wifi tether versions 3.x and none of them will work after the first try. They all say softtap errors.
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Which profile are you using?
which ROM are you using?
Which kernel are you using?

gtab55 said:
I have tried all of the wifi tether versions 3.x and none of them will work after the first try. They all say softtap errors.
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How can you expect to get accurate help when you provide very little detail? As sendan posted, list your FULL setup.

Ihave NOT flashed any other ROM to the device after I rooted it. I have tried auto, galaxy nexus gsm, fascinate, and nexus one profiles. There are no other modifications to the device other tham the root. It is on 2.3.5

[Q] Wifi Tether not working on CyanogenMod7.2.0

I I just installed CyanogenMod-7.2.0-RCO-Epic last night. I have to say this is the first modded ROM that I am running and I love it.
But I cannot get Wifi Tether to work. I tried the Google version and also Barnacle. They both will run, ask for superuser, and they appear to start. But the SSID is not visible anywhere?
Is there anything out there that can fix this? Wifi Tether was working for me on the Stock Froyo (Rooted) but now wont work.....
Any help would be appreciated.
Samsung Epic 4g
SPH-D700
Android: 2.3.7
kernel: 2.6.35.7-gae7ed13-dirty [email protected] #1
MOD: CyanogenMod-7.2.0-RCO-Epic
Build: GWk74
Thanks!!

flash the latest nightly build

Check to see if your apps are saved to sd card, then move to sys memory(512MB), they should then be visible in your app drawer.......this is one possibility w/ your issue.
Also, as was suggested: reflash, could be a bad dl or bad flash.
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sonarchist said:
Check to see if your apps are saved to sd card, then move to sys memory(512MB), they should then be visible in your app drawer.......this is one possibility w/ your issue.
Also, as was suggested: reflash, could be a bad dl or bad flash.
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Apps are not installed on the SD Card. Apps are visible in the app drawer.
The apps start fine and say they are running. I remember before I flashed with this ROM and using just the rooted Froyo I would get "Hotspot activated" and sort of a bullseye icon on the top. That does not happen, i only get the wifi tether icon on the top.
The build that I installed says on the first page the wifi drivers and such were fixed.
I am new to MOD'd Roms, if i install a nightly and it messes up, can i just re-install the original Modded ROM (both MTD), i konw that is a really basic question, but dont want to brick my phone.

You could also try the wifi tether that Flastnoles11 posted in the CM7 Discussin and tip sharing thread. It was about the 10th page so roughly just under post 100.
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Why not use the wifi tether built into settings? That works perfectly fine for me.
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azyouthinkeyeiz said:
Why not use the wifi tether built into settings? That works perfectly fine for me.
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HAHAHAHAAH Maybe cause I didnt know it was there LOL....
This thing has so many mods, i never got to that one to see it!

thirty5 said:
HAHAHAHAAH Maybe cause I didnt know it was there LOL....
This thing has so many mods, i never got to that one to see it!
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Just note it does not work with 4G.
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kennyglass123 said:
Just note it does not work with 4G.
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Don't have 4g in my area anyway... Need the Tether for the kids in the car for their ipods LOL
Thanks Again!!!!
I have to give the nightly a shot though,

thirty5 said:
Don't have 4g in my area anyway... Need the Tether for the kids in the car for their ipods LOL
Thanks Again!!!!
I have to give the nightly a shot though,
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Glad you figured it out!
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Wireless N????

OK, I was reading a post from 2010 about enabling the Wireless "N", but the install download "script" is no longer supported, and I am not comfortable with Hex Editing, so I was wondering if anyone had an updated script???

Are you just running the stock ROM? Most custom ROMs have wireless N built-in. MikG as an example.

Yeah, you're not going to be able to make this mod without being rooted, and if you're rooted, you should be able to either flash a ROM that already includes this mod, or just flash a modded stock kernel, which will also take care of it.

Captain_Throwback said:
Yeah, you're not going to be able to make this mod without being rooted, and if you're rooted, you should be able to either flash a ROM that already includes this mod, or just flash a modded stock kernel, which will also take care of it.
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Hey Captain I know your smart. How can I tell if my wireless N is working? My rom says it is but I wonder
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Can you see your wireless n access point in the phone?
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Can you see your wireless n access point in the phone?
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Not a clue.
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Connect to your router with your EVO. Once connected then go to wifi details and click on the AP your connected to. Then it will give you connection details like your connection rate. Anything over 54mb connection rate will be N. The rate will fluctuate but if you're next to the router you should get something like 72mb which is what I usually get on wireless N on my EVO.
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Connect to your router with your EVO. Once connected then go to wifi details and click on the AP your connected to. Then it will give you connection details like your connection rate. Anything over 54mb connection rate will be N. The rate will fluctuate but if you're next to the router you should get something like 72mb which is what I usually get on wireless N on my EVO.
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Sweet thanks for the info. I get 58mb five feet away.
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Well the good news is that you are connected to wireless N.
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Well the good news is that you are connected to wireless N.
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I wish mine had as much speed as yours
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I have a stock non rooted EVO and only get 11 Mbps. My laptop gets 65 Mbps. Is there a way to speed up my EVO without rooting?

I am running a stock ROM that is rooted, but I am having trouble getting the mod to work.
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Are you just running the stock ROM? Most custom ROMs have wireless N built-in. MikG as an example.
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I have mikg v3. 11 with anthrax kernel, can I use the zip file to get wireless n on my evo 4g.