Why does my Internet Sharing get stuck at "Obtaining IP address.."?

So I was trying to share my laptop's internet connection with my Android phone (HTC Desire X). I enabled the checkbox for Internet Sharing in System Preferences.
My phone detected the network. But when I tap on it, it gets stuck at "Obtaining IP address..". So, when connecting, I selected "static" as opposed DHCP and gave:
IP: 192.168.1.1
Gateway: 192.168.1.10
Network prefix length: 24
DNS 1: 8.8.8.8
DNS 2: 8.8.4.4
Now it got connected, but still internet is still not working in the browser. Any ideas why?

lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
    options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
    inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
    inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
    inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
gif0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1280
stf0: flags=0<> mtu 1280
en0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
    options=2b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_HWTAGGING,TSO4>
    ether 58:b0:35:f2:2f:40
    media: autoselect (none)
    status: inactive
en1: flags=8823<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
    ether f0:b4:79:23:4d:88
    media: autoselect (<unknown type>)
    status: inactive
p2p0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 2304
    ether 02:b4:79:23:4d:88
    media: autoselect
    status: inactive
fw0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 4078
    lladdr d8:30:62:ff:fe:f1:70:5e
    media: autoselect <full-duplex>
    status: inactive
en3: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
    ether 34:4b:50:b7:ef:4a
    inet6 fe80::364b:50ff:feb7:ef4a%en3 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x8
    inet 192.168.0.144 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
    media: autoselect (10baseT/UTP <full-duplex>)
    status: active

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