Hero cant see ad-hoc wifi networks - Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

guys
my Hero cant see ad-hoc wifi networks. i am running modac's latest rom and latest radio. all ny nokias and samsungs can use this ad hoc network but only htc hero cant. any ideas? cheers

take a look at this
http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/

Tethering is using your data plan for the mobile to connect your laptop to the internet. This is great if you have a good dataplan.
I think he wants to do the oposite : use his landline (dialup, adsl, officelan, whatever) to connect his Hero to the internet. This is usefull when abroad, in many hotels you only have a wired internet connection to avoid "stealing" bandwidth.
I tried to figure it out last month when I was in the US, but there is only very limited information available for this. I couldn't get it to work.

jh71 said:
Tethering is using your data plan for the mobile to connect your laptop to the internet. This is great if you have a good dataplan.
I think he wants to do the oposite : use his landline (dialup, adsl, officelan, whatever) to connect his Hero to the internet. This is usefull when abroad, in many hotels you only have a wired internet connection to avoid "stealing" bandwidth.
I tried to figure it out last month when I was in the US, but there is only very limited information available for this. I couldn't get it to work.
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exactly...................

Have a look at this thread :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=553508&highlight=adhoc
But as I said, I could not get it to work myself. And it requires rooting, what I am not fond off, I don't want to brick my expensive phone.

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Using Hero as WiFi Adaptor?

I live in uni accomodation, and unfortunately WiFi routers will not work in the rooms.
Is there any way of using my rooted GSM Hero as a USB WiFi Adaptor from my PC?
Ie: share my PC's internet over WiFi using the Hero connected via USB so I can wirelessly connect with stuff like my DSi and PSP.
There's an official Nintendo WiFi USB dongle that does this job, so I'm hoping there's also a way for the Hero to do it. I've used the PDAnet app for my Hero for USB tethering that basically is the exact reverse of what I want (it receives WiFi on the hero, shares it to PC).
Anyone know how to do this?
Wireless tether do the trick?search forums for it
Unless it has been written with a great deal of flexibility in mind, I doubt it. While wifi tether will let the OP connect his handheld consoles to his Hero, I suspect they'll be hard coded to forward this traffic over the GSM interface, whereas what I think the OP is after is the ability to forward the traffic over usb to his PC which I assume has a cabled connection to his uni network.
What s/he needs is simultaneous wifi & usb tethering with the abilty to route between the two. I've not come across anyone doing this before, though it's clearly just a matter of having the right software for the job. Not a trivial exercise to write it, alas.
The best chance would probably be if the author of the wifi tether app is still active & would be interested in adding this functionality to their existing app.
I would say you would have to
Use your hero to create Internet connection
Bridge that connection to wireless card in computer
follow this article
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/expert/bowman_02april08.mspx
RichardFHTC said:
I would say you would have to
Use your hero to create Internet connection
Bridge that connection to wireless card in computer
follow this article
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/expert/bowman_02april08.mspx
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Once of us has misread the OP. I took the OP's PC to have no wifi connection.
[Edit:] Hmm, I could be mistaken; I'm less certain now.
AXIS of Reality said:
I live in uni accomodation, and unfortunately WiFi routers will not work in the rooms.
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It's only just occurred to me to ask, why don't wifi routers work? Is it a matter of rules & regulations? Otherwise I'm somewhat confused.
If it is simply a matter that the only equipment you're allowed to connect directly to the network is a PC you register with the sys admins, I'd be inclined to stick a second network card in the PC (assuming your uni connection is via the primary ethernet port) & use this to connect to your (existing?) wifi router which you use purely as a wifi access point. That'd cost you less than a fiver, assuming you already have a wifi router or access point.
I would stick to the rules however. Unless you're sure you know what you're doing they might spot attempts to connect disallowed equipment from the resulting traffic.
you can use the hero as a wifi dongle?im using it now with internet sharing on and just connected to wifi?

[Q] Tether a Non Droid Phone with G Tablet for Internet?

Hey everyone,
Searched for an hour about this and read tons of posts that talked about Droid phones and some others, but nothing that seemed to apply to mine.
I am wondering if it is possible to tether my old Samsung Hue phone to my G tablet? I live pretty far out into the country, and this is the best way I have to get internet access. The Hue EVDO connection is always pretty fast and much better than the Hughesnet satellite connection I had before.
Is it something that can be done? If so, please let me know which ROM would be best for this application.
Appreciate any and all help!
Willy
I have a Tilt2 running windows mobile 6.5 and have tethered successfully using a tethering program found in the tilt2 section of xda.
Also winmo here......buy wifirouter for winmo
Samsung Hue is not a smartphone. Not going to be able to WiFi tethering.
Only going to be able to do USB tethering. While the G-Tab can act as a USB host, I don't know if it has all of the kernel modules and networking components necessary to do this. (What basically amounts to dial up networking)
You might consider getting a MiFi type device from your carrier (Alltel? Now Verizon?). Then you could do WiFI tethering through EvDo that way.
Same here - I want to tether using my Cricket Samsung Messager Touch via DUN when mobile. I know it can be done cause we mess with cellular connecting devices (GSM - at&t) at work, but I have no knowledge of the inner workings of linux/android, or the dial-up scripts needed for US-Cellular/Cricket.
Add my name to the list! I want to do Bluetooth tethering so when I'm on the road I can use my phones 3G service to get internet on my tablet.

[Q] Sharing my PC's wired connection using my phone's WiFi - possible?

Okay, so basically I have a PC running Windows XP, which is connected to the internet using a wired cable modem. I then have a laptop, which I want to use to access the internet, but no wireless router.
Then I realised that my G1 (running Froyo) has WiFi, and I have the USB cable for it. So, I ask you guys: is there any way of setting up my G1 to use the connection from the desktop PC via USB, and then broadcast it as a WiFi network?
This is only intended to be a temporary solution (a few days) so I'm not going to go out and buy a wireless router or anything.
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Okay, so basically I have a PC running Windows XP, which is connected to the internet using a wired cable modem. I then have a laptop, which I want to use to access the internet, but no wireless router.
Then I realised that my G1 (running Froyo) has WiFi, and I have the USB cable for it. So, I ask you guys: is there any way of setting up my G1 to use the connection from the desktop PC via USB, and then broadcast it as a WiFi network?
This is only intended to be a temporary solution (a few days) so I'm not going to go out and buy a wireless router or anything.
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I would assume it's possible, since the g1 can wifi tether. If the g1 has reception, why not just do that?
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Phateless said:
I would assume it's possible, since the g1 can wifi tether. If the g1 has reception, why not just do that?
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I forgot to mention - the G1 has reception, varying between 3G and HSDPA, but I have to pay extra to get data, and it's £1 per day for just 50MB. I tethered it to the laptop and the 50MB was gone within a couple of hours, without even doing any downloading.
Whereas the desktop is connected to an uncapped 10Mb/s connection.
Thanks for the reply though, and perhaps someone else knows how to tackle this specific problem. Googling only seems to return results regarding sharing your phone's data connection over WiFi, which isn't much use for me.
ellisbodds said:
I forgot to mention - the G1 has reception, varying between 3G and HSDPA, but I have to pay extra to get data, and it's £1 per day for just 50MB. I tethered it to the laptop and the 50MB was gone within a couple of hours, without even doing any downloading.
Whereas the desktop is connected to an uncapped 10Mb/s connection.
Thanks for the reply though, and perhaps someone else knows how to tackle this specific problem. Googling only seems to return results regarding sharing your phone's data connection over WiFi, which isn't much use for me.
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Why don't you just root and tether for free?
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Phateless said:
Why don't you just root and tether for free?
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I am rooted, and I can tether for free. The issue is, I don't have an unlimited data plan, so I need to either top up £10 to get 100MB for a month, or pay £1 out of my credit to get 50MB to be used in a day. Both of those disappear in the blink of an eye when I tether, even without doing any downloading. What I want to do is this:
Hook up my phone to the desktop using USB
Somehow get the wired connection from the PC to the phone, and broadcast that connection as a WiFi signal, so the laptop can connect to it
Security (WPA) would be great but as it seems like this is near impossible to do anyway, I'll happily use a method that doesn't let me secure the network
ellisbodds said:
I am rooted, and I can tether for free. The issue is, I don't have an unlimited data plan, so I need to either top up £10 to get 100MB for a month, or pay £1 out of my credit to get 50MB to be used in a day. Both of those disappear in the blink of an eye when I tether, even without doing any downloading. What I want to do is this:
Hook up my phone to the desktop using USB
Somehow get the wired connection from the PC to the phone, and broadcast that connection as a WiFi signal, so the laptop can connect to it
Security (WPA) would be great but as it seems like this is near impossible to do anyway, I'll happily use a method that doesn't let me secure the network
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Sounds like it would be doable, I just don't know how.
Phateless said:
Sounds like it would be doable, I just don't know how.
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Okay, thanks anyway.
I believe this should suffice
http://www.howtogeek.com/117118/how...oid-to-your-pcs-internet-connection-over-usb/

wifi phone router?

ok i no you can use wifi tether to tether your 3g/4g, but is there anyway to use wifi and tether your wifi through your house on a android phone. I have a wireless router at my house, but it does not reach all the way acrossed the house. is it possible to use an old android phone to tether my wifi singal further through my house? or can it only be done on my rezound with by 3g/4g signal?
Actually, this is a good question. What you're really asking is, can you use your phone as a wireless access point for your home network. I don't have an answer (at least, not one from 5 minutes of Googling) but I'm interested to know.
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unfortunately you cannot do this, as the phone's wifi connection can only be used either for connecting to your network, or tethering to another device, not both. you can however buy a "wifi repeater" to extend the range of your wireless router.
Repeater or bridge plus access point
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Thanks
xdadevnube said:
Repeater or bridge plus access point
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xerpy said:
unfortunately you cannot do this, as the phone's wifi connection can only be used either for connecting to your network, or tethering to another device, not both. you can however buy a "wifi repeater" to extend the range of your wireless router.
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Kennnny1 said:
Actually, this is a good question. What you're really asking is, can you use your phone as a wireless access point for your home network. I don't have an answer (at least, not one from 5 minutes of Googling) but I'm interested to know.
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well thanks for reply guys was really hoping it could work i got 2 extra android phones sitting around.
In theory, it is possible. You can use a tethering program to a PC via USB and then use the PC to "share" or "bridge" the connection to a WAP. I may try that when I get time, I just picked up a new Alcatel Omnistack switch I want to test out.
There is a way of doing this... but it may or may not help you out. Allow me to explain:
I used to live in a house where I kept a basic PC tower in the living room for playing movies. It did not have a wifi card. I was able to use my Droid 1 to tether this living room PC to my home AP.
Now, you're problem is that the wifi isn't even reaching the PC you want to get online. If you have a Droid 1 and it can get on to the AP without a terrible drop in throughput, this will work for you. If not, then it won't.
Here's what to do if you have a Droid 1 that can get on your home AP where the PC can't:
Install CM7 on the Droid 1
Connect to the AP
Connect the Droid 1 to the PC via the USB cable
Enable USB / Wired tethering
Done
It can be a little temperamental, but it works.
This does not address his question. Wired tethering the wifi does work, as you pointed out, but this will not help him extend the range of the network. If the phone is wired to a computer that is too far away to reach the wireless network, the phone is too far away as well.
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Kennnny1 said:
This does not address his question. Wired tethering the wifi does work, as you pointed out, but this will not help him extend the range of the network. If the phone is wired to a computer that is too far away to reach the wireless network, the phone is too far away as well.
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He could be a whole usb wire closer XD ... Why not just wired tether with pdanet or foxfi? Don't want the data charges, is that it? ... im lucky to be on the real unlimited train
fqrouter2 is the solution
fqrouter2 is an excellent WiFi repeater for rooted Android devices (available free in Google Play Store)

Tethering UK

Just wanted to know if you could tether the GS3 without your network knowing?
I've only owned a wifi android tablet - so not clued up on how android handles 3g tethering etc?
There's some UK operators offering unlimited data with the GS3 at the moment...
Most of them allow it anyway. Three do for definite anyway, same with T-Mobile.
Scottymeuk said:
Most of them allow it anyway. Three do for definite anyway, same with T-Mobile.
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The only way is tether then "do not download" anything.
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mrdeviance said:
Just wanted to know if you could tether the GS3 without your network knowing?
I've only owned a wifi android tablet - so not clued up on how android handles 3g tethering etc?
There's some UK operators offering unlimited data with the GS3 at the moment...
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The only way is tether then "do not download" anything.
You should check whether your data is actually unlimited or (which it usually is) 1GB . I tethered my phone to my tablet and only appears as mobile data on my allowance (o2)
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Why can you not download. Ive hit 40gb a month on tmobile tethering and its fine. If you have unlimited, then its fine. You will just get traffic managed on Three if your in the top 5% of their users.
there is literally no way for any netwsork to know that you are tethering. i dont even know why people worry about it.
if you run over your data allowance they will just charge you for the extra. its basically in their interest for you to tether.
hefonthefjords said:
there is literally no way for any netwsork to know that you are tethering.
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Tethering can be detected by browser string interception and network address translation detection quite easily. Many providers around the world do detect and block tethering. I'm with T-Mobile on an account where tethering is not allowed but I've done it loads and exceeded my 3gb limit and they haven't done a thing about it.
Both those methods of detection do not work. NAT makes it HARDER for someone to detect whats going on beyond your device in the local network, not easier. They cant detect what is happening beyond the modem in your phone any more than the cable company can detect whats going on in your physical wired network beyond your router in your home cable line.
Browser string is not device specific and can be modified on most if not all devices by any user.
The only thing stopping you tethering is them saying you cant do it. Been tethering since the days of my nokia 6233 and never had any hassle from providers and never payed an extra penny for the priveledge.
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NAT makes it HARDER for someone to detect whats going on beyond your device in the local network, not easier. They cant detect what is happening beyond the modem in your phone any more than the cable company can detect whats going on in your physical wired network beyond your router in your home cable line.
Browser string is not device specific and can be modified on most if not all devices by any user.
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Of course NAT makes detection harder but all sorts of protocols such as rDNS lookup and SMTP leak local IP addresses. Personally I find it unrealistic that any network provider would be employing these techniques, all I'm saying is they are possible.
What interests me is that some networks do block tethering. I'm not sure if any UK ones do, but the question I'd have is how do they do it?
Are they relying on default APN entries and blocking the ones a phone would access for tethering?
Sorry to butt in to this, but I have just installed Salmon rom on my gs2 and since this whenever I try to connect to the net I am taken to a screen from Three that says tethering is not allowed on my unlimited plan. It is turned off on my phone. I have to turn off mobile data then turn it back on again to be able to get on the net. Tried other roms and stock, and all are fine. So Three at least know when you are tetherd and do not allow it.
Basic gist i got of this (via a giff gaff comment) is that they will only guess based on massive download totals in a day or a few hours. So don't go over 1GB for example in a few hours, limit what you download and spread it over days. Giff Gaff (02 network) WILL ban if it detects this way.
Fortunately Ive had no such problems with 3 network

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