WiFi Tether on VZW GN - What Did I Just Stumble Upon?

[Jet300]

Glad to see this is still working for all. When I made the OP I really wasn't sure how this would all turn out. I recently used the feature on a trip to the SouthWest last week .... Turned the hotspot on via Switch Pro Widget and tethered our original iPad at 4G speeds for the duration of the week. Worked like a charm.

No issues with VZW billing to date ... Hope it stays working for everybody!

[Pavilion]

It no longer works for me
It usually has an icon on the notification bar, but not today... So, I went into Settings > More... > Tethering & portable hotspot, the "Portable WiFi hotspot" is checked, but with a gray sub-text of "Error"
Anyone else? Did Verizon fix the hole?

[GNex Girl]

Originally Posted by Pavilion

It no longer works for me
It usually has an icon on the notification bar, but not today... So, I went into Settings > More... > Tethering & portable hotspot, the "Portable WiFi hotspot" is checked, but with a gray sub-text of "Error"
Anyone else? Did Verizon fix the hole?

Uncheck it.

It works fine for me, BTW.

[Pavilion]

Originally Posted by GNex Girl

Uncheck it.

It works fine for me, BTW.

If I uncheck it, it just disables the hotspot.
Turning it back on via the toggle method gives me "error" again... uhggggggg

[GNex Girl]

Originally Posted by Pavilion

If I uncheck it, it just disables the hotspot.
Turning it back on via the toggle method gives me "error" again... uhggggggg

Uncheck it, delete the toggle and then recreate it.

[tiramg]

still works for me....

[bobby1125]

Installed Switch Pro yesterday night and was working fine.

[GNex Girl]

Originally Posted by bobby1125

Installed Switch Pro yesterday night and was working fine.

That is another thing to try. Delete all of the Switch Pro toggles you made and then uninstall the program and then reinstall it and then recreate the MHS toggle.

[hamblindave]

Originally Posted by Pavilion

It no longer works for me
It usually has an icon on the notification bar, but not today... So, I went into Settings > More... > Tethering & portable hotspot, the "Portable WiFi hotspot" is checked, but with a gray sub-text of "Error"
Anyone else? Did Verizon fix the hole?

I'm seeing this exact same behavior (starting today), and I get the same error regardless of which widget/app that I use to toggle the tethering. I've tried four different toggle widgets.

Also, I've seen a few reviewer comments on some of those market apps saying that it stopped working for them today as well, so I'm glad I'm not the only one seeing this problem. I just haven't been able to find a solution yet. I've tried rebooting my phone, removing/re-adding the widget(s), uninstalling/reinstalling the apps, all with the same result.

Anyone have a solution?

[Channan]

Earlier today mine wouldn't turn on either. I enabled it and it would show that it turned on in the status bar, but as soon as the notification went away, the icon would as well. It eventually corrected itself.