Portable Hotspot disable network connection for other apps?

[weknsmith]

I switched from the EVO 4G to the Nexus S last week when Best Buy was running the special. There are a series of things that have taken some getting used to, but the biggest issue so far is with the Portable Hotspot functionality.

Is it a known limitation on the Nexus S for other apps on the device to lose their ability to use the network connection while the Portable Hotspot is enabled? This was not the case with the EVO 4G.

The browser app continues to work, but there are quite a few things that will not. I was driving on a long trip this weekend, and noticed that two of my email clients had not synched in a while. Accuweather could not pull data. Amazon Marketplace would time out. Several other apps I tested had the same issue. All of these were resolved as soon as I turned off the hotspot functionality. I toggled the hotspot app back on, and the issue returned. I have rebooted the phone a few times over the last couple of days, and the problem still exists whenever the hotspot functionality is enabled.

Does everyone else experience this same issue?


Thanks,

Bill

 

[Wolfsv]

I have the same problem. I'm assuming this is the method Google/Sprint has chosen to keep you from tethering...

 

[weknsmith]

I may not have made this clear in my original post, but I do subscribe to the $29.99 Mobile Hotspot plan. I have been paying for that service for more than 6 months (most of that time with the EVO 4G.)

I called Sprint support, and they claim that it is a known issue with the way that the built-in Gingerbread hotspot works on the Nexus S. I did not believe that answer, and wanted to confirm with other Nexus S users that they were correct. If it does work that way, then I suspect it is a bug that Google should fix.

As a work around, I wonder if hunting down and installing the .apk for the Sprint Hotspot from the EVO 4G would work on a Nexus S.

 

[weknsmith]

Can anyone else confirm this same issue? Or can anyone else verify that their Nexus S does not have this problem?

 

[weknsmith]

I did not have any luck figuring out the source of the issue, or finding a work around. I have decided to return the Nexus S, and plan to get a Photon instead...