Tether capability with android-wifi-tether (Wireless Tether for Root Users)

[cheeseybulb01]

Hi all,
Okay I've followed the instructions several times (nandroid restoring after each time it fails to work). After running the wireless tether app, patching the tether script, and then trying to tether, the app reports that it has failed. The interface doesn't change to reflect any tethering, though, and nothing seems to be happening. However, if i run the tether script manually, (sh terminal start), and then try to start tethering, it DOES look like it has started, i.e. the interface changed and it looks like its in tether mode, BUT I could not find the wireless network and I don't think its being broadcasted (I tried connecting directly to the SSID "android" and it timed out). Also, to stop tethering i had to run the script manually and then hit stop tethering with the tethering app. Anyone have any idea whats going on here?

[saifshaya]

does anyone have this working on 2.1?

[tghockey07]

Hi all,
Okay I've followed the instructions several times (nandroid restoring after each time it fails to work). After running the wireless tether app, patching the tether script, and then trying to tether, the app reports that it has failed. The interface doesn't change to reflect any tethering, though, and nothing seems to be happening. However, if i run the tether script manually, (sh terminal start), and then try to start tethering, it DOES look like it has started, i.e. the interface changed and it looks like its in tether mode, BUT I could not find the wireless network and I don't think its being broadcasted (I tried connecting directly to the SSID "android" and it timed out). Also, to stop tethering i had to run the script manually and then hit stop tethering with the tethering app. Anyone have any idea whats going on here?

The app is not working for me either, how do you manually do it?

[mitchellsm]

It worked for me on 2.1 if you manually start it through adb shell.

cd /data/data/android.tether/bin/
sh tether start

[tghockey07]

It worked for me on 2.1 if you manually start it through adb shell.

cd /data/data/android.tether/bin/
sh tether start

Thank you so much! That worked right away!

[webacoustics]

I'm testing out 2.1 right now, so I'll post an updated script when I get one that works for 2.1.

[nothing0]

Patching android-wifi-tether:

This step involves replacing the "tether" program that controls starting and stopping the ad-hoc network on your phone.

1. On your computer, copy the attached shell script to your sdcard: `adb push tether-1.txt /sdcard/tether` OR copy the file to your SDCard manually over USB (be sure that you rename the file from "tether-1.txt" to "tether")
2. Disable USB Storage Mode; unmount the drive on your computer, and turn off USB Storage from the phone (very important, since your files will not be accessible from the phone until you do)
3. Make sure you're in root mode: `su`
4. On your android shell, execute the following commands as root:
   `mv /data/data/android.tether/bin/tether /data/data/android.tether/bin/tether.orig`
   `chmod 700 /data/data/android.tether/bin/tether.orig`
   `cat /sdcard/tether > /data/data/android.tether/bin/tether`
   `chmod 700 /data/data/android.tether/bin/tether`
5. Open up the android-wifi-tether program, and start tethering. You'll notice that the gui says tethering failed--this is incorrect. You'll see that the program reflects correctly that tethering has been started. The error is related to the signals sent by the tethering script.
6. If at this point your tethering still doesn't work, try rebooting your phone.
7. Limitations of this script: it does not correctly set the SSID or WiFi channel based on your settings, it will use the values from the tether-1.sh script. I doubt that the WPA settings will work correctly, since they are tied to the SSID. Also, most users have reported that the ad-hoc network is only visible for a minute or so after you enable tethering, so be sure to connect your first device immediately--after that, the network will remain up.

Enjoy!

I did the steps above, but when I get to step 4 to copy the file from the sd card, it reads "no such file or directory". Is the file supposed to have a extension? I have it as just 'tether'.
Thanks

[webacoustics]

better make sure that you unmounted the USB.

[nothing0]

better make sure that you unmounted the USB.

Yeah I did. I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.

[webacoustics]

I updated the tether-1.txt file to try and get rid of the error message when starting tethering.

UPDATE: 2.1 support will be delayed until the application can be updated to support some changes in the 2.1 application API. If you must have wifi tethering with 2.1, you'll need to run the tether start/stop script by hand. There's an app out there that will run your root scripts for you from the gui, which would make this easier. If someone knows the name of this app, please post it.

Thanks!