WiFi Tether

Do you have bad signal in your home?

If your loosing your 3G signal from your carrier, that might be cutting the wifi signal.

 

the 3g coverage *should* have nothing to do with wifi disconnections.

 

You CANNOT wifi tether without 3G signal. If you don't believe me, turn off mobile network and try to turn on your wifi tether

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I didn't say the internet would work. But they wifi should stay connected. Two different radio's

Tapatalk. Samsung Moment. Yep.

 

MAybe we're not undersatnding each other.
Without 3G service you cannot do wifi tether...right?

I only remember this happening once... but my computer disconnected from my wifi tether, and when I checked my phone the tether was also off.
I assumed it was because of signal loss.

I am not positive. But i think that if you loose 3G service, even if it's just for a moment, the wifi tether will turn off.

I believe this could be the OP's problem.
But i could be wrong

 

Ahhhh....
Sorry. This isn't the Eris forum. Sorry... I spend most of my time over there and assume every has an eris...lol

Ok... with the eris, you cannot tether without 3G.
Who's your carrier?
I know with other carriers you can turn off 3G and still receive MMS messages... but not with Verizon.
Probably the same deal with tethering.
Sorry for speaking like it was fact ....

 

You can tether without 3g on anyphone that can tether. It'll be slow as hell but it still works. So does mms...

Tapatalk. Samsung Moment. Yep.

 

Nope.
When i click to start tethering i get this:

"No mobile-data-connection established!"

Turn on 3G and it comes right on.

Also wrong on MMS. Can't MMS without 3G on Verizon.

 

Either there's something wrong with your phone, vzw did something to lock it down(like they always do), or your doing something wrong. Sprint uses the same technology as vzw, and I can tether on 1x.

Tapatalk. Samsung Moment. Yep.

 

No, i had looked into this before. There is an app that I wanted to use that turns off 3g (for saving battery) but allows MMS messages... can't remember the name...
anyway, i couldn't figure out why it wasn't working. Until my buddies at the Eris forums informed me this can't be done on verizon. I can't find the thread... but i believe it had something to do with their CDMA technology... or something like that.
So anytime my 3G is off, i will get a notification that I received a MMS message, but have to turn on 3G to download it. And wifi tether... forget about it....
And no... I'm sure it's not my phone .

 

I know what you're thinking... "well that sucks"...
lol. Yeah, kinda. But fortunately for me I have this:
http://www.lockergnome.com/blade/fi...verizon-over-_there_s-a-map-for-that_-ads.jpg

LOL...

I get great 3G where I live. I only turn it off because my battery sucks.

 

I know how cdma works. (In fact better than 99% of the people on this forum). I also know you can tether without 3g with cdma. People have been tethering before 3g even existed. Including me. On a phone that didn't even have a 3g radio.

Tapatalk. Samsung Moment. Yep.

 

ok..lol...
This really shouldn't be an argument. I'm telling you it doesn't work and any other Verizon memer with a rooted phone will tell you this (since they informed me).

I know you are right about tethering without 3G...
But the OP was talking about Wifi tether... which on Verizon can only be done by rooting.
I dont know if there is a difference in wifi tether over 3G than the old fashioned way of tethering...
But our wifi tether doesn't work without 3G

Ofcourse, the OP is with T-mobile and that might be a whole different ball game...
that's why I posted message #9...