The personal hotspot functionality available in Android is one of those we appreciate most: by enabling the smartphone turns into a real WIFI modem router that allows you to share the internet connection with the other devices in your possession.
It is supposed to have activated a data plan with the chosen mobile telephony operator and it includes, every month, a certain amount of traffic gigabytes.
By activating the Android hotspot, you can create a WiFi hotspot on the mobile device complete with SSID and WPA2 PSK password to prevent connection attempts by unauthorized users.
From the other WiFi devices that are used (you hypothesize to use a notebook, a convertible 2-in-1 or a tablet while you were traveling), you can connect to the internet using the hotspot configured on the Android smartphone and share the connectionMobile telephony operator data.
Nei seguenti due articoli, ai quali vi invitiamo a fare riferimento, abbiamo spiegato che cosa può andare storto nell'attivazione dell'hotspot Android mettendo anche in evidenza che alcuni operatori possono bloccare la condivisione dati via tethering oppure applicare addebiti indesiderati:- Wifi tethering on Android does not work: here's how to solve- portable wifi router with Android, how to make it
In the two articles we have seen how to prevent any additional charge from operators and how to make personal android and tethering personal hotspots work.
What to do if the Android hotspot does not work and it is not possible to access the internet from the connected devices
In some cases, despite having correctly configured the APN of the telephony operator in the mobile Android networks section (specifying default, supl, dun) and set as properly adequately the Windows network interface, it may happen that you cannot accessInternet from connected devices by sharing the data connection.
I "sintomi" sono molto semplici da comprendere:1) The activation of the personal hotspot Android takes place successfully and the connection to the WiFi hotspot set on the smartphone takes place correctly from the client devices.
2) On the Android smartphone where the hotspot has been activated, the tethering message or active hotspot appears;1 connected device.
3) From the Windows PC connected with the WiFi hotspot activated on the Android device, by typing IPconfig /All al Prompt of the commands, you will read the IP address of the Gateway.
By typing the Ping command followed by the IP of the predefined gateway will be answered.
This means that the Android mobile device on which the hotspot has been activated correctly.
Instead by typing ping 8.8.8.8 (IP corresponding to Google's DNS servers) or trying to browse the web from the Windows PC connected to the Android hotspot you cannot go out on the internet.
How to solve the problem
To ensure that WiFi tethering works correctly and the data connection of the mobile operator is shared, the solutions are two:
- acquire root rights on the Android device and apply the illustrated steps in the portable wifi article with Android, how to make it.
- Install the TWRP Console Recovery and start the device from that tool.
In Android updating items, how to do it when it seems impossible and Android backup: how to do it to never lose your data we have seen what it is, how you download and how you install the TWRP Recovery.
To start TWRP you will have to connect the mobile device to the PC via USB cable then install the following two software in Windows:- Adb- minimal ADB and fastboot driver
From the command prompt you will have to type ADB Reboot Recovery to restart the device in the TWRP recovery.
Once in TWRP, you will have to touch the Mount button, deactivate all the boxes and activate only system.
After returning to TWRP's main screen, you will have to type the following to the Windows command prompt: ADB Pull /System /Build.prop
In the same folder the Android configuration file will be downloaded by taking it from the mobile device.
After opening Build.Props with Notepad ++ or with a similar editor, you will have to go through it to the end and add the following line: Net.tethering.noprovisioning = true
After saving the file, the commands will have to type in prompt to recharge the build.proposed modified in the mobile device and assign the correct permits to it:
Adb Push Build.prop /system /adb shellcd system 644 build.prop
As a last step, from TWRP, just select Reboot, System.
By reactivating the Android hotspot, the tethering from now on will work correctly and the internet connection of the mobile telephony operator will be shared without problems with all connected customers.