[Q]Does Android Wifi Tether work on LTE?

[Sleestax]

Does anyone have Android Wifi Tether working when on LTE? I have been having the worst time trying to get this to work on the SGS3 (worked great on the EvoOG). Yesterday, I happened to be in an area that only had 3G coverage, and when I tried the wifi tether, it worked for the first time. A bit later, I was back in my normal coverage area and was back on LTE (4G) and the wifi tether stopped working again. It allows me to connect, and it sends traffic upstream, but it won't route it back down to my connected device (tried iPad 2 and laptop).

Regarding AWT settings, I have tried the usual settings (router fix checked, authentication enabled, SG Nexus CDMA/LTE, GSM, and other profiles that others have mentioned). No luck.


Screenshot of annoying upload but not download attached:

 

[coogrrr94]

I'm with you on this one, my original Evo worked great but have had zero luck connecting with the S3 no matter what settings I choose.

 

[tech7]

I'm also having issues getting wifi tethering to work sometimes I have to force close to get it to work but on 3g and I have the latest beta

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[rihc55]

I'm almost positive that i used wifi tether on LTE about 2 weeks ago. I don't have LTE at work but i'll try again at home tonight and see if it still works. I'm using Samsung Galaxy Nexus (CDMA/LTE) on wifi tether 3.1-beta14... still using the LF9 modem though.

 

[rihc55]

first screenshot = wifi tether
second screenshot = speedtest website.. speedtest.net wasnt working for me so i googled for another
third screenshot = my motorola photon tethered to my gs3

anyways.. it works for me with the settings i listed above.. i think i followed qbking's tutorial

 

[MvDef]

Ive been using this WiFi Tethering

do the install put model on auto select start WiFi there will be a pop up saying something like there is a new/update for are sgs3.

I haven't had any problems on 4g or 3g unless I'm in a area where I must be on the line of 4g/3g

 

[Sleestax]

Ive been using this WiFi Tethering

do the install put model on auto select start WiFi there will be a pop up saying something like there is a new/update for are sgs3.

I haven't had any problems on 4g or 3g unless I'm in a area where I must be on the line of 4g/3g

I did this, but the first wifi install is just the android wifi tether project with a wrapper. It said it wouldn't work on my device, as you stated, and then prompted me to install regular open garden. I don't want my phone to be an open, unsecured wifi hotspot. So I guess I'm fooked unless I can find out why the qbking setup seems to work for some people, but not me and at least one other person in this thread.

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[rihc55]

Here's the .apk that i use.
Device Profile = Samsung Galaxy Nexus (CDMA/LTE)
WiFi-Encryption Enabled
SSID changed..

that's all I did as far as settings go.

hope that helps someone!

 

[cwilson200932]

Here's the .apk that i use.
Device Profile = Samsung Galaxy Nexus (CDMA/LTE)
WiFi-Encryption Enabled
SSID changed..

that's all I did as far as settings go.

hope that helps someone!

I will agree i did use the same settings and I did accomplish a speedtest on my friends laptop using 4G LTE as my connection. Very fast i might ad 30Mbps down and 10Mbps up... Way faster than my cable here at the house.....

 

[Sleestax]

Ok, so I was able to resolve this by grabbing the latest beta from the project. The version in the play store, 3.1 v 14, just wasn't working right. The 3.2 pre1 version from the project page worked great. Anyone else having problems should grab the apk from the google pronect page. Here's the link.

http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/downloads/list

*edit* updating link to general download area of the google project page, rather than the specific version.

 

[csmasn]

Ok, so I was able to resolve this by grabbing the latest beta from the project. The version in the play store, 3.1 v 14, just wasn't working right. The 3.2 pre1 version from the project page worked great. Anyone else having problems should grab the apk from the google pronect page. Here's the link.

http://code.google.com/p/android-wi...etail?name=wifi_tether_v3_2-pre1.apk&can=2&q=

That version works for me. Dont have to start and stop until it want to show up.

Thank you Sir.

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[harrychimp]

Has anyone tried the FoxFi app to see if it allows the phone to use the LTE signal?
I'm in LA, and LTE is not available yet.

 

[potna]

i have spent entirely too much time on this tether app and this is because it was not working, but here is what i did which was a collection of things i read here but i had to mix the options up a bit


fist of all i just got this phone 3 days ago and i allowed it to do all updates like a fool

i rooted this 2 nights ago

i am running wifi tether 3.2-beta2

access control is off, sure i get msg once in a while but as soon as i turned this off it immediately loaded the page on my laptop

my profile is: Samsung galaxy nexus gsm, i know i know. im on sprint and its not gsm but this worked

setup method is: auto

it works quickly every time even after reboots of gs3, app and laptops

thought i'd share