Hello,
I use my phone as a dedicated modem for my pc. I used to have an S5 that did the job pretty decently, now with the S7, I can only tether for a few minutes before the internet connection is completely shut down on the pc's end, the phone keeps connecting to the internet without any issue. I then have to disable and enable the tethering back again to get it to work.
This only happens when using USB Tethering, WiFi hotspot works fine.
Any ideas ?
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My 3g data is on and every time I turn on my wireless hotspot tether my 3g disappear and my laptop connected to it says i have limited internet access..
sounds like a bug in the os. did you try USB or blutooth tethering?
I will try the hotspot on my phone and ipad and see if I get the same result.
Update: my hotspot worked fine. Maybe you service provider blocks it. Most do.
thx, usb works fine and I d/l Barnacle Wifi Tehter app and it works fine... something wrong with the sony one =)
Hi,
I am struggling with an issue regarding tethering on my nexus 4 stock.
First, I have a plan for tethering with provider.
When I turn on the shared connection via WIFI, I am not able to connect to internet from my device, even if the device is not connected to my PC. If i turn on the shared connection via usb or bluetooth, i can then use itnernet on my phone. It looks like an issue between tethering and wifi.
Other issue is i can not get a bluetooth tethering or even USB. I am stock with this issue for days and was unable to find any answer in the forum.
Your question is not really clear, (or I'm too stupid to get it), because your last sentence contradict the previous one.
Anyway, Tethering allows you to share your Mobile Internet with other WIFI capable devices. This is a quick guide on how to do it. Note that you cannot use the wifi on your phone while tethering, you have to use Bluetooth tethering or USB tethering, if that is the case. Here is a guide from google.
And just out of curiosity which version of android are your phone currently running? Because there was some reported tethering problems on 4.4.2
Just this morning I noticed that I cannot maintain a constant connection for my laptop to my Verizon rooted S5 via hotspot. I opened the hotspot details on the cell and I can see the laptop constantly connecting and disconnecting every second or quicker. I just now started having this issue, but have been able to use this feature for about a month (since I rooted the device). I have tried restarting the laptop and cell and the laptop is listed as a trusted device when I look at the details under hotspot. Any ideas on what I can do so my laptop can stay connected to my cell via hotspot?
Cell Details:
Android Version 5.0 rooted stock BPB1
Unlimited data plan
EDIT: I truly believe the issue is with the cell, I brought a tablet and was able to connect my laptop and tablet. Once I started to use my laptop, the wifi connection started to go in and out for both the laptop and tablet. I also have the same issue when trying to connect my tablet alone and noticed that my tablet received an authentication error. I've tried testing this at home and seem to have no issues, when I'm at either of my work locations, the issue can be constant or sometimes will not happen at all.
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Facts: Rooted, Verizon Unlimited Data, Lollipop 5.0 BPB1
When I'm at work, college, and try to connect my laptop to the hotspot, the connection either does not happen or is disconnected/reconnects within seconds or half a second. I cannot maintain a constant connection, even when manually adding my laptop MAC address.
I have done some troubleshooting and found that the issue is not with my laptop and I only have this issue when I'm at campuses for my institution(2 campuses 40 miles apart). I have reflashed my ROM (to make sure something that might have changed was fixed) and still have this issue. I've also turned on the hotspot, ran a wifi analyzer on my laptop, and changed the broadcast channel as I saw my hotspot had the same channel as the college visitor & guest wifi, but this didn't help either. I am able to tether via USB to my computer, but would prefer to use the hotspot function as tethering uses up a USB port.
This is a very frustrating issue and any help/ideas will be greatly appreciated.
Since the last official update I'm always having problems when I turn on my wifi hotspot to use my other phone with the Zenfone Zoom Data.
When I turn it on it doesn't work, my connected devices show "no connection" when connected to the wifi hotspot, I manage to get it working always swearing while I reset the wifi and data settings, I turn on and off the data and the wifi hotspot. Sometimes I have to go to the VPN and re-tap on the correct VPN in use (that is already selected) and then the connection will stat working on my connected devices. Often I have to repeat those steps many times.
The other weird thing is that when I'm using the Zoom S as wifi hotspot, the connection on the phone itself stop working. It works only on the connected devices.
Never had those problems with previous android phones I had (several Nexus, a Note 3 and an Ulefone Power). I use the wifi hotspot really often since I still use my Note 3 and this is really frustrating.
EDIT Maybe I posted this in the wrong section. My mistake sorry. If some mod can move this I'll be glad.
try adding ",dun" to the access point types under the APN settings. I had a similar issue that fixed it.
Last week I used my Asus 3 Zoom to give my laptop internet by Wifi hotspot. Worked flawlessly.