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There you go... we've 1 compatible phone. Is your Nexus unlocked?

thx

Phones I have personally tested with a carrier that doesn't care about tethering:

Nexus 6p, nexus 6, galaxy note 3, nexus 5, nexus 5x, Samsungs latest edge phone.

Please keep in mind that usually you can also do WiFi -> USB tethering which will work great.. If it's not locked in the firmware, which some vendors do.

Either way, you can of course still manage your WiFi Pineapple over WiFi if tethering does not work. If tethering works but the app is stuck and cannot detect it, or cannot detect the WiFi Pineapple, then its possible the vendor / telco has made some changes which we don't anticipate in our app.

I'll release an update for the app hopefully fixing the "waiting for WiFi Pineapple" in the future, but I do not have an ETA.

Best regards,

Sebkinne

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Ok so now it depends on: The model of the phone, the Android version and the carrier.

Conclusion, If you are able to tether, then you're pretty lucky then.

Still just Android version and Carrier.

Model doesn't matter so much. Carriers typically have custom builds of Android they modify. Even the Moto X Pure is not running a straight Google build of Android. Then it comes down to the carrier network allowing it.

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Thanks for ll the input guys.

I just think that there are too many obstacles just to get the tethering going. Hopefully it's a firmware update away from being resolved. Of course, the best solution would be to have a mobile broadband infusion (like the mkv) so as to use 3g/4g dongles.

Time will tell.

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There you go... we've 1 compatible phone. Is your Nexus unlocked?

thx

It's from Google, so no.

I can tell you right now, if it's a recent Samsung phone on At$t or Verizon, it's not going to work. They want $$$ for you to use the data you are already paying for to work on anything else. They've also got it locked down so you can't reflash to another rom, you get a brick, and not a soft brick like most people think of.

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I used to use my nexus 7 wifi with my nano. It's just a weird thing to share an already borrowed wifi. Can't use marshmallow. Gotta use 5.1.1 and then the settings will have a USB tether option to enable. You won't be able to get the ip unless you connect with another device to the management interface and then ssh to the nano to run an ifconfig. That will tell you the ip your tablet assigned the nano. Made my life so much easier getting a galaxy s7 on its own line.

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It's from Google, so no.

I can tell you right now, if it's a recent Samsung phone on At$t or Verizon, it's not going to work. They want $$$ for you to use the data you are already paying for to work on anything else. They've also got it locked down so you can't reflash to another rom, you get a brick, and not a soft brick like most people think of.

Depends on the definition of "Unlocked". New Nexus devices work on all the major carriers so not "locked" to a carrier. But the boot loader is locked which means you have to unlock it to root. It's a pretty simple process with TWRP.

Mine is 6P with Verizon and works. I think there was an FCC ruling on tethering that they can't charge you to tether. But I know Verizon allows it. Most big companies will.

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Try Hotspot Manager from the app store. You can use the App to check for clients connected to your nexus 7 device with the ip it has assigned to it. You can also make your AP through the App but i've never done that. Either edit the wireless file to auto connect wlanx to that AP or setup in the interface to.

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So why do i get Permission denied and /sd1: not found when I try to wget this easytether file?
 

Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs                    2368      2292        76  97% /
/dev/root                12800     12800         0 100% /rom
tmpfs                    30560       116     30444   0% /tmp
/dev/mtdblock3            2368      2292        76  97% /overlay
overlayfs:/overlay        2368      2292        76  97% /
tmpfs                      512         0       512   0% /dev
/dev/sdcard/sd1       29556820     44992  27987344   0% /sd
root@Pineapple:~# /sd wget http://www.mobile-stream.com/beta/openwrt/easytether-usb-tiny_0.8.9-2_openwrt
-18.06.0.zip
-ash: /sd: Permission denied
root@Pineapple:~# /sd1 wget http://www.mobile-stream.com/beta/openwrt/easytether-usb-tiny_0.8.9-2_openwr
t-18.06.0.zip
-ash: /sd1: not found
root@Pineapple:~#

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Okay so I made it to this steep and I hit a new wall lol. So do I need openssl install to run the easytether program? If so can someone show steps on how to install openssl. They skip over the steeps on install openssl in the Hack5 video and in this blog post.

 

root@Pineapple:/sd/18.06.0/ar71xx/generic# opkg install easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_mips_24kc.ipk --dest sd

Package easytether-usb-openssl (0.8.9-3) installed in sd is up to date.

root@Pineapple:/sd/18.06.0/ar71xx/generic# easytether-usb
-ash: easytether-usb: not found

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Okay here we go this is me trying to install Easytether everything go's well till I try opkg install easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_mips_24kc.ipk --dest sd

 

PS: I forgot to put --dest the first time i tried to install the Easytether

PSS: Do I need openSSL installed first to install the Easytether openssl? if so I need a point in the right direction on how to do that.

Any help is appreciated

 

BusyBox v1.23.2 (2018-03-20 00:46:10 UTC) built-in shell (ash)

root@Pineapple:~# cd /sd
root@Pineapple:/sd# ls
lost+found
root@Pineapple:/sd# wget http://www.mobile-stream.com/beta/openwrt/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_openwrt-18.06.0.zip
--2018-10-15 14:28:15--  http://www.mobile-stream.com/beta/openwrt/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_openwrt-18.06.0.zip
Resolving www.mobile-stream.com... 217.112.35.92
Connecting to www.mobile-stream.com|217.112.35.92|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1008249 (985K) [application/zip]
Saving to: 'easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_openwrt-18.06.0.zip'

easytether-usb-openssl_0. 100%[=====================================>] 984.62K   447KB/s    in 2.2s

2018-10-15 14:28:18 (447 KB/s) - 'easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_openwrt-18.06.0.zip' saved [1008249/1008249]

root@Pineapple:/sd# opkg update
Downloading https://www.wifipineapple.com/nano/packages/Packages.gz.
Updated list of available packages in /var/opkg-lists/chaos_calmer_pineapple.
Downloading https://downloads.openwrt.org/chaos_calmer/15.05/ar71xx/generic/packages/base/Packages.gz.
Updated list of available packages in /var/opkg-lists/chaos_calmer_base.
Downloading https://downloads.openwrt.org/chaos_calmer/15.05/ar71xx/generic/packages/packages/Packages.gz.
Updated list of available packages in /var/opkg-lists/chaos_calmer_packages.
Downloading https://downloads.openwrt.org/chaos_calmer/15.05/ar71xx/generic/packages/management/Packages.gz.
Updated list of available packages in /var/opkg-lists/chaos_calmer_management.
Downloading https://downloads.openwrt.org/chaos_calmer/15.05/ar71xx/generic/packages/routing/Packages.gz.
Updated list of available packages in /var/opkg-lists/chaos_calmer_routing.
root@Pineapple:/sd# opkg install unzip
Installing unzip (6.0-3) to root...
Downloading https://downloads.openwrt.org/chaos_calmer/15.05/ar71xx/generic/packages/packages/unzip_6.0-3_ar71xx.ipk.
Configuring unzip.
root@Pineapple:/sd# ls
easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_openwrt-18.06.0.zip  usr lost+found
root@Pineapple:/sd# unzip easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_openwrt-18.06.0.zip
Archive:  easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_openwrt-18.06.0.zip
 extracting: 18.06.0/apm821xx/nand/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_powerpc_464fp.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/apm821xx/sata/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_powerpc_464fp.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/ar71xx/generic/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_mips_24kc.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/ar71xx/mikrotik/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_mips_24kc.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/ar71xx/nand/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_mips_24kc.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/ar71xx/tiny/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_mips_24kc.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/ar7/ac49x/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_mipsel_mips32.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/ar7/generic/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_mipsel_mips32.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/arc770/generic/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_arc_arc700.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/archs38/generic/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_arc_archs.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/armvirt/32/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_arm_cortex-a15_neon-vfpv4.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/armvirt/64/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_aarch64_generic.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/at91/sama5d2/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_arm_cortex-a5_neon-vfpv4.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/at91/sama5d3/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_arm_cortex-a5_vfpv4.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/at91/sama5d4/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_arm_cortex-a5_neon-vfpv4.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/bcm53xx/generic/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_arm_cortex-a9.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/brcm2708/bcm2708/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_arm_arm1176jzf-s_vfp.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/brcm2708/bcm2709/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_arm_cortex-a7_neon-vfpv4.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/brcm2708/bcm2710/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_aarch64_cortex-a53.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/brcm47xx/generic/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_mipsel_mips32.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/brcm47xx/legacy/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_mipsel_mips32.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/brcm47xx/mips74k/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_mipsel_74kc.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/brcm63xx/generic/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_mips_mips32.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/brcm63xx/smp/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_mips_mips32.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/cns3xxx/generic/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_arm_mpcore_vfp.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/gemini/generic/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_arm_fa526.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/imx6/generic/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_arm_cortex-a9_neon.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/ipq40xx/generic/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_arm_cortex-a7_neon-vfpv4.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/ipq806x/generic/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_arm_cortex-a15_neon-vfpv4.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/ixp4xx/generic/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_armeb_xscale.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/ixp4xx/harddisk/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_armeb_xscale.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/kirkwood/generic/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_arm_xscale.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/lantiq/ase/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_mips_mips32.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/lantiq/falcon/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_mips_24kc.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/lantiq/xrx200/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_mips_24kc.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/lantiq/xway/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_mips_24kc.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/lantiq/xway_legacy/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_mips_24kc.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/layerscape/armv8_32b/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_arm_cortex-a15_neon-vfpv4.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/layerscape/armv8_64b/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_aarch64_generic.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/malta/be/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_mips_24kc.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/mediatek/mt7622/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_aarch64_cortex-a53.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/mediatek/mt7623/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_arm_cortex-a7_neon-vfpv4.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/mpc85xx/generic/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_powerpc_8540.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/mpc85xx/p1020/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_powerpc_8540.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/mvebu/cortexa53/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_aarch64_cortex-a53.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/mvebu/cortexa72/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_aarch64_cortex-a72.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/mvebu/cortexa9/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_arm_cortex-a9_vfpv3.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/mxs/generic/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_arm_arm926ej-s.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/octeon/generic/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_mips64_octeon.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/octeontx/generic/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_aarch64_generic.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/omap/generic/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_arm_cortex-a8_vfpv3.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/oxnas/ox820/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_arm_mpcore.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/pistachio/generic/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_mipsel_24kc_24kf.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/ramips/mt7620/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_mipsel_24kc.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/ramips/mt7621/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_mipsel_24kc.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/ramips/mt76x8/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_mipsel_24kc.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/ramips/rt288x/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_mipsel_24kc.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/ramips/rt305x/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_mipsel_24kc.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/ramips/rt3883/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_mipsel_74kc.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/rb532/generic/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_mipsel_mips32.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/sunxi/cortexa53/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_aarch64_cortex-a53.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/sunxi/cortexa7/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_arm_cortex-a7_neon-vfpv4.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/sunxi/cortexa8/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_arm_cortex-a8_vfpv3.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/x86/64/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_x86_64.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/x86/generic/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_i386_pentium4.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/x86/geode/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_i386_pentium.ipk
 extracting: 18.06.0/x86/legacy/easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_i386_pentium.ipk
root@Pineapple:/sd# ls
18.06.0                                             lost+found
easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_openwrt-18.06.0.zip  usr
root@Pineapple:/sd# cd 18.06.0
root@Pineapple:/sd/18.06.0# ls
apm821xx    archs38     brcm2708    gemini      ixp4xx      malta       mxs         oxnas       sunxi
ar7         armvirt     brcm47xx    imx6        kirkwood    mediatek    octeon      pistachio   x86
ar71xx      at91        brcm63xx    ipq40xx     lantiq      mpc85xx     octeontx    ramips
arc770      bcm53xx     cns3xxx     ipq806x     layerscape  mvebu       omap        rb532
root@Pineapple:/sd/18.06.0# cd ar71xx
root@Pineapple:/sd/18.06.0/ar71xx# ls
generic   mikrotik  nand      tiny
root@Pineapple:/sd/18.06.0/ar71xx# cd generic
root@Pineapple:/sd/18.06.0/ar71xx/generic# ls
easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_mips_24kc.ipk
root@Pineapple:/sd/18.06.0/ar71xx/generic# opkg install easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_mips_24kc.ipk
Unknown package 'easytether-usb-openssl'.
Collected errors:
 * pkg_hash_fetch_best_installation_candidate: Packages for easytether-usb-openssl found, but incompatible with the architectures configured
 * opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package easytether-usb-openssl.
root@Pineapple:/sd/18.06.0/ar71xx/generic# ls
easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_mips_24kc.ipk
root@Pineapple:/sd/18.06.0/ar71xx/generic# opkg install easytether-usb-openssl_0.8.9-2_mips_24kc.ipk --dest sd
Unknown package 'easytether-usb-openssl'.
Collected errors:
 * pkg_hash_fetch_best_installation_candidate: Packages for easytether-usb-openssl found, but incompatible with the architectures configured
 * opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package easytether-usb-openssl.
root@Pineapple:/sd/18.06.0/ar71xx/generic#

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So I am trying to get my phone to be able to tether to my Pineapple and I found an old video on the Hak5 Youtube that they explain it and they mention an app 'EasyTether Pro'. I would like to give it a shot on my LG G8, but $10 just to see if something works isn't something that sits ok with me. So does anyone know if the apps works with the carrier 'Sprint'?

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