[Q] Grayed out USB Tethering setting? - Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I have the GT-7000 and I am to understand that both mobile hotspot and usb tethering come as default features. ive seen a simple guide on how to get it working and it basiscally states the obvious: Check it on. The wireless hotspot is no problem, its working, but the usb hotspot option is forever grayed out and I cannot turn it on. Tried every stupid simple thing but it never becomes selectable. I downloaded and installed pdanet and that works fine but i want to know why the native setting isnt functional so I can just hot swap between computers without having to go through that install process on each computer wherever I may be. Anyone?
EDIT: For some odd reason the next time I tried on another day the option became select-able. I still dont know the reason it stayed grayed out before but at least its working now. So yay =)

im assuming your phone is connected to the pc when you are trying it?
what rom are you using?

Richy99 said:
im assuming your phone is connected to the pc when you are trying it?
what rom are you using?
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LMAO....
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No rom, unrooted, stock GB, and yes, it was connected. Like I said, I tried all the obvious simple stuff. Dunno if i gotta do some weird ninja thing but it just seems like it doesnt want to work.
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Also the computer is windows 7, i hear that matters
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[Q] USB tethering and Windows 7

Before someone says anything, yes drivers are installed and everything is working on the driver end of things but the problem comes when I plug in my phone and enable the USB tether the network and sharing center in Windows 7 just comes to a complete crawl, also it shows that i have a connection to the internet but i get packet loss.
Anyone else come across this, and any ideas?
Running CM6
try using froyo's adhoc feature.
firehawkws7 said:
try using froyo's adhoc feature.
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Doesnt help me, I need a wired connection
Dont know why it has so much trouble in Windows7, works fine in Windows XP and Vista
Sorry can't be much help...but I'm on W7 and it's working fine.
SiNJiN76 said:
Sorry can't be much help...but I'm on W7 and it's working fine.
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Could be that its W7 X64? The drivers are installed and working correctly, what version of W7 you running?
I am also running cm6 final version. Internet works fine about five minute but my phone rebooted. I am wondering if we have similar problems. My wireless mode works fine. However with wifi I seems to run up the temperature of the way up. I worry if my phone can the heat it produce. It constantly stay up at 100 degrees. I need to fix the tethering some how.
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ya i can use the Wireless AP mode fine, and it is normal for the phone to heat up but not being able to use it wired bugs me Its much easier and better on battery life that way :/
slowz3r said:
ya i can use the Wireless AP mode fine, and it is normal for the phone to heat up but not being able to use it wired bugs me Its much easier and better on battery life that way :/
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Yeah it drains ma battery fast. I even reformatted my laptop. It worked but it shut down the phone again. But I was dl a 150 MB file from a bitorrent site. Argh. Not cool. It worked fine when I am using XP. But w7 has some bug. Its got to be windows 7.
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anyone else care to test?
Which driver are u using? Google or w7?
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Not able to connect to at&t hotspots after flashing to di11is5.6oc

I have flashed to di11is5.6oc and now I am not able to connect to att hotspots is there a fix for this?
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Which kernel are you running with it?
Suckerpunched latest the one that comes with the ROM.
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Bump anybody with this?
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what does it say when you try?
you can connect to any regular wifi network right?
I can connect to other wificonnections just fine. I have not had the opportunity to try this since I posted the problem. As soon as I get the chance I will and post back with answer.
Edit:
I have since flashed di11is6.0no_oc
charlier1977 said:
I can connect to other wificonnections just fine. I have not had the opportunity to try this since I posted the problem. As soon as I get the chance I will and post back with answer.
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I have only been able to connect to those connections when running stock. I have not been able to get it to work with any custom rom at all. I think there is something in bloat that att uses that allows it to connect, as you can tell only ATT phones are supposed to be able to connect to them.
If you don't have the att wsprservice all(or whatever it's called) you can't connect to hidden att hotspots and won't automatically connect to their open ones.

Wifi droppage

So I just lived out a nightmare trying to figure out how to ' reverse tether' so I can use my cable internet while at home and not waste my data. I Finally get it working with connectify and virtual router only to discover that I get dropped frequently and sometimes can't even reconnect with a reboot of my phone and/or pc. unfortunately I haven't been able to test it on wifi anywhere else cuz there isn't much around. Can I get some advice in things to check/change on my phone (modem?) That might keep me connected? My girlfriend has an htc and she doesn't get dropped so it's something with my phone. I'm running 2.2.1 that came with serendipity 5.11. Nobody has issues with wifi that I could find in the serendipity thread so I'm at a loss.
Thanks a bunch
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Did u try flashing to stock, and re-flashing the ROM u have on urs?
Actually, no. guess I should give that a shot. Does the modem affect wifi or no?
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modem absolutely affects Wifi
I read somewhere on here that ths modem doesn't affect wifi. But them someone else said they thought it did. Do I want sure. I haven't had a chance to reflash yet but here is some additional info on my problem..
I seem to get dropped when my phone has been idle for a while. Like right now I am connected but when I am done writing this and I set my phone down itll be disconnected when I come back to it 9 out of 10 times. I got dropped just before writing this in the same way. I connected, set my phone down, came back maybe 15 minutes later and I was disconnected. I was on connectify at the time and couldn't reconnect. I closed connectify and launched virtual router which I am connected with now. Changing the tether program doesn't always work. Sometimes I have to restart my phone too. I have a feeling I need to look into a different modem.
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Phone keeps resetting and losing connection

OK. I tether my internet to my PC when I use the USB it resets all the time when I tether wifi my computer cuts out says limited access even though my phone has full reception and hasn't changed anything I'm running sgs 2 v11.2 do I need to change roms
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chooky536 said:
OK. I tether my internet to my PC when I use the USB it resets all the time when I tether wifi my computer cuts out says limited access even though my phone has full reception and hasn't changed anything I'm running sgs 2 v11.2 do I need to change roms
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Hi chooky536!
The [ROM]SGSII JB ROM v11.2 [7/3/2013] is based on stock and does supports USB tethering.
Bear in mind that the firewall must be properly configured.
Just in case you could try any USB tethering application from the market.
Good luck.
BajoPrimate said:
Hi chooky536!
The [ROM]SGSII JB ROM v11.2 [7/3/2013] is based on stock and does supports USB tethering.
Bear in mind that the firewall must be properly configured.
Just in case you could try any USB tethering application from the market.
Good luck.
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thankyou i tryed but all the apps i try say started with errors or dont work at all can you suggest one to me that will work either wifi or usb
chooky536 said:
thankyou i tryed but all the apps i try say started with errors or dont work at all can you suggest one to me that will work either wifi or usb
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Hi chooky536!
You could try Barnacle Wifi Tether from the market.
Good luck.
You could also try Easy Tether from the play store. I have used it when switching from windows to linux, and it worked really well.

[Q]Help w/ mounting phone with 4.3?

ON 4.1/4.2 I had no issues with mounting phone to transfer files. Even on GPE roms with 4.3 no issues. But all 4.3 sense roms I cannot get it to mount and allow me to transfer files. What it does right now when I plug it in goes through found new hardware attempting to install, no go, or select advanced and it says not installed because it couldn't find necessary software. Then it comes up with HTC One Camera connected and shows stupid options that don't help me at all like; Dropbox and microsoft options and stuff.
Things I've already attempted
Removed drivers
attempted to re-install them
USB debugging on, rebooted between selecting/deselecting options phone & computer.
Removed HTC Sync, attempted to reinstall get an error upon trying 1152 Error extracting to temp location, I cannot change its desired location though, stupid lol.
Cannot delete C:\HTC folder cause of passthrusvr.exe I don't need or want that (my understanding it is for passing internet connections and such).
I'm on XP, I know its a dinosaur, it gets what I need done, until now lol.
Oh ya, it connects fine to other computers like my works and a friends. Just not mine which has all my music on it... :-\
I just wanna move some music over and stuff, hate going back and forth on backups to do so.
I won't be available til tomorrow to trouble shoot or late tonight depending on how things go later.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2191279
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2191279
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Read and tried them. No go, mentioned in OP....
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Umm sounds like the problem isn't with your phone but with your computer and windows is such a finicky os that not one solution works for all kind of thing. Just a thought are your firewalls configured properly? What does the computer show when plugging it in device manager? Sometimes my phone and laptop don't play along and its either because I have fast charge enabled in kernel or I just turn debugging off always works then and the phone is recognized as mass storage device. Good luck
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hatlesssandman said:
Umm sounds like the problem isn't with your phone but with your computer and windows is such a finicky os that not one solution works for all kind of thing. Just a thought are your firewalls configured properly? What does the computer show when plugging it in device manager? Sometimes my phone and laptop don't play along and its either because I have fast charge enabled in kernel or I just turn debugging off always works then and the phone is recognized as mass storage device. Good luck
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I don't use anti virus or have any firewalls active as far as I know, it looks for cdc serial but then nothing happens so it mounts as an HTC One camera device. Stock kernel as well, appreciate the trying tho.
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And its def a computer thing which I'm not super knowledgeable on unfortunately. I've got it to connect on other PCs and laptops without a hiccup, also have tried differs cables also, before that's suggested too. I'm almost positive it's just the leftovers from drivers that I can't seem to fully get rid of.
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