Hello,
i have a question regarding the modem functionality of the StrTrk under WM 6.1 Pro V2.
How can I share the Internet Connection of the phone to a Notebook?
(I already found the "Internet Sharing" shortcut but the question is what to do after...)
In order to find it out, i activated the Sharing through Bluetooth PAN. (On the telephone).
Now ist the the question what I have to do on my Notebook.
My Notebook displays me a Dial Up Connection and a Network Access Point Connection.
What I have to chose and what I have to enter on the Notebook then?
Is there anything to do with the telephone (except the sharing shortcut)?
Many Thanks for helpful answers!
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First off you will need to install active sync onto your laptop, then you will need a sync cable that will attach your phone to the USB port on your laptop. (bluetooth would be very hard to get working for this)
On your phone, start Internet sharing, and then select connect, after it says "Check USB cable connection", plug your phone into the sync cable that is plugged into your laptop.
The active sync will not try to sync but a new internet connection will be found by Windows XP.
Hope this helps
I have the same problem after I upgraded the ROM from HTC website. The upgraded ROM was still wm5. Now I upgrade the ROM from wm5 to wm6. The problem is still there. I checked the modem configuration in XP from control panel, but I can't find the modem device.
I also followed the advice here, but the screen of my phone just indicated "Check USB cable connection". I didn't get the instruction to connect the USB cable.
The upgrading was really nice for my phone except I can't use my phone as a modem. I do want to repair this problem.
Any idea?
Hello,
do you already installed active sync?
Another Problem:
I cant connect the phone through usb cable because the laptop is from the company where I work for. Iam not allowed to install any driver (On my own PC the Generic RNDIS is need to be installed). Is ist possible to have the modem functionality through Bluetooth without using Active Sync?
You don't need ActiveSync / Windows Mobile Device Center to use the Internet Sharing on WM6.
For connecting via USB, make sure you ActiveSync is disconnected and the USB cable is unplugged before you click Connect in Internet Sharing. When you receive the prompt for 'Check USB Cable Connection' plug the USB lead in again. Windows should now detect new hardware in form of a 'Remote NDIS based Internet Sharing Device' instead of the usual 'Smartphone USB Sync' and a new Local Area Connection should appear in Network Connections.
The Bluetooth PAN option depends on the Bluetooth Stack installed on Windows. If you have the default Microsoft Bluetooth Stack installed (Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista) you can go to Network Connections (on Vista open Network and Sharing Center and click Manage Network Connections below Tasks) and double click on the Bluetooth Network Connection icon. In the dialog that opens the phone's Bluetooth PAN Connection should be listed for you to Connect to.
That's it. You should be browsing the Internet via GPRS / EDGE.
I did install Activesync. Even I can see the remote rndis Internet device after I plug the usb cord to my laptop, the modem doesn't work. I also can't find the modem in the control panel for it.
Thanks, I connected my Cingular 3125 to my computer. The connection is a local connection as a Ethernet card instead of a dial connection. So I don't have to set up a modem driver for it.
Just in case I wasn't clear, you don't need ActiveSync for this to work, the functionality is done entirely separately.
There is no modem device any more, it's all done using a "Virtual" Local Area Network which you'll find listed in Network Connections.
You shouldn't need to configure anything, just plug in the USB cable and wait a few seconds. The phone should initiate a GPRS / EDGE connection automatically and you should then have access to The Internet.
If it doesn't, you may need to temporarily disable any other Local Area Connections (especially any that are used for Internet access) so that your PC is forced to use the one provided by the phone's virtual network connection.
Thanks, your explanation is very clear. The process is exactly like what you said.
StarTrek can be connected with Ubuntu as a Ethernet card now.
Please check "How To: Internet sharing on USB with Linux and Windows Mobile."
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=5563028
Alright, did the usual searches and have the usual answers wich don't seem to pertain to what i'm doing.
I have one static connection allowed to wifi router. I wish to use phone to share this connection with more than one device not using mobile data but the broadband connection.
Basically connect phone to broadband wifi. Have devices connect to phone to share wifi.
Again, to prevent any confusion: I do not want to share mobile connection on phone. I wish to share wifi connection with other devices from phone. ie. I have only one connection allowed to router and I wish to use phone to share that connection with PC and PS3.
Sorry for redundancy in stating this but people seem to miss the point or not read and suggest applications like Barnacle wich only share mobile internet or USB tethering wich only works for PC.
Well from what I understand Wi-Fi must be off on phone in order to create the Wi-Fi signal on the phone so this may be impossible
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I know exactly what you are saying, and I am pretty sure it is impossible. I currently have wi-fi service where I have to log in, with only 1 device allowed log in at a time. When you turn on the wi-fi hotspot on your phone, it automatically turns your wi-fi off. You can only use the hotspot feature using your data connection over 3g or 4g. I have tried everything. If you are in the same situation, where you can only log one device on the internet connection, you may want to try spoofing your IP. Change the IP on the other devices to the IP on your phone. This may allow you to log the other devices in as well (so I have read). That may be your only option.
Yeah looks like Im going to connect PC and use an ethernet cable with connection sharing to get PS3 to work. Phone will have to use mobile data unless PC and PS3 arent being used.
Or phone gets wifi and USB tethered to pc and then connection shared (not sure this will work).
sharing wifi connection
I have done this using a Buffalo WLI-TX4-G54HP ethernet converter. You connect to the wireless source (WAP) then it acts like a router and allows you to plug devices into it, has four ports but you could use a switch if more are needed. Each device aquires an IP from the converter and is hidden to the WAP, looks like one device is connected. Pretty easy to setup. Check it out.
I have a YP-G70 (galaxy player 5.0), international version. It came with gingerbread 2.3.5, and it was unable to find the adhoc network I've set up in my laptop.
Then I flashed it with rumirand's custom kernel r13 and Meticulus's Foreigner ROM R5.1 (GB 2.3.6), and the problem was still there.
Then I replaced the wpa_supplicant file with the one mentioned in these posts:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=22268045&postcount=60
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1438334
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1377321
(the file that is mentioned is always the same)
Now it detects the adhoc network, but when I connect to it, the wifi status starts looping: connecting -> disconnected -> scanning -> connecting -> disconnected -> ...
Did I miss anything?
Has anyone managed to get adhoc to work on YP-G70 using one of the custom ROMs based on 2.3.6?
Or do I really need to go back to 2.3.5 and use the wpa_supplicant file mentioned above?
Thank you
I have played with some of these wpa_supplicant files recently. The result seems to be hit and miss.
So far I tried connecting to 2 different usb wifi dongo using ad hoc mode. The only successful one is the ad hoc connection to a tp-link wifi dongo using wep mode. This dongo doesn't support wpa.
The other one that failed is a linksys dual band dongo, I can't get a connection with either wep or wpa. The observation is very similar to yours.
Need to try a few other device to see what's wrong or whether it is due to incompatibilities.
By the way, I also tried all the possible security options (open, wep, wpa). Same behavior for all of them, except that the "connecting" step took much longer when using wpa.
Interesting note on incompatibilities. My laptop's wi-fi card is an Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG.
I found out that it ends up connecting successfully if I just leave it looping for a while... sometimes it will succeed on the first few attempts, sometimes it takes several minutes.
So far, it only worked in open or WEP. Never got it to work in WPA.
DHCP
Have you tried to use a fixed ip instead of dhcp ?
Yes, that's how I've always had it set up. I don't think there is a way to use dhcp in ad hoc.
Today, I've switched to the Chip v1.5 custom firmware and I just can't get ad-hoc to work at all. No ad-hoc networks are displayed in the wifi settings.
I've tried replacing the wpa_supplicant file with different versions of that file, but it just rendered the wifi completely unfunctional: I turn it on, it goes "scanning...", then it turns itself off automatically after a few seconds. I had to reinstall the firmware in order to get the wifi to work again.
I would really appreciate some help, as I completely rely on an ad-hoc connection to obtain internet access on my SGP when I'm at home. I don't feel like going back to the firmware I was using before, having seen how great this one is.
So you have used static ip? And set it up correctly? Because the wifi connect and disconnect problem is frequent with belkin routers, and is fixed by using static ip usually.
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Yeah, the IP settings are correct, and I'm using a static IP. I eventually got used to the looping that I mentioned in a post above, and I've lived with that for the past 8 months.
However, as I said in my previous post, I've installed the Chip v1.5 firmware, and now my problem is somewhat different.
Wiz7 said:
I've tried replacing the wpa_supplicant file with different versions of that file, but it just rendered the wifi completely unfunctional: I turn it on, it goes "scanning...", then it turns itself off automatically after a few seconds. I had to reinstall the firmware in order to get the wifi to work again.
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if you had this happening, it meant the wpa_supplicant you'd tried wasn't compatible with your device. Always backup wpa_supplicant before replacing in in case the new one doesn't work.
Try this wpa_supplicant, it works with my 5.0.
I had the same problem with Ad-hoc networks using windows7 (ie obtaining ip address loop) - I gave up in the end, but found this : Windows 7 as a WAP. It does the same thing, only it's not an ad-hoc network - you can also share wifi internet through the same wifi adapter...it works great for me!
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if you had this happening, it meant the wpa_supplicant you'd tried wasn't compatible with your device. Always backup wpa_supplicant before replacing in in case the new one doesn't work.
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I did backup. But, even after putting the original wpa_supplicant back in, wi-fi was still broken. So, the only way for me to fix it was to reinstall the firmware.
Try this wpa_supplicant, it works with my 5.0.
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Thanks. I've been playing with that wpa_supplicant for a while now. However, it did not solve the problem.
It detects the ad-hoc network that I set up on my laptop, but I'm having a hard time trying to connect to it. So far, I've only been able to connect twice. What I need to do in order to connect successfully is to keep enabling and disabling wi-fi. Each time I enable it, it will automatically attempt to connect to the ad-hoc network (because it remembers the info). Most of the time, it will say "Connected", but it actually isn't connected. It only succeeds like once every 50 attempts. And even if it succeeds, it will disconnect automatically after like 10 seconds. At least it gave me enough time to test the internet connectivity, which worked fine during those few seconds. Changing the encryption type from WEP to WPA only made things worse.
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I had the same problem with Ad-hoc networks using windows7 (ie obtaining ip address loop) - I gave up in the end, but found this : Windows 7 as a WAP. It does the same thing, only it's not an ad-hoc network - you can also share wifi internet through the same wifi adapter...it works great for me!
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That seems like a great idea. However, my laptop's wireless adapter (Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG) does not support that functionality. An adapter with Windows 7 certified drivers is required. I also tried to use Connectify, but it also does not support this adapter.
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It detects the ad-hoc network that I set up on my laptop, but I'm having a hard time trying to connect to it. So far, I've only been able to connect twice. What I need to do in order to connect successfully is to keep enabling and disabling wi-fi. Each time I enable it, it will automatically attempt to connect to the ad-hoc network (because it remembers the info). Most of the time, it will say "Connected", but it actually isn't connected. It only succeeds like once every 50 attempts. And even if it succeeds, it will disconnect automatically after like 10 seconds. At least it gave me enough time to test the internet connectivity, which worked fine during those few seconds. Changing the encryption type from WEP to WPA only made things worse.
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that's very strange. This wpa_supplicant works on my GP 5.0 very well. It detects my WEP ad-hoc network and connects to it just fine and keeps connection until i disconnect. Sometimes it won't connect right away, in which case i just turn wi-fi off and then on again and then it finds the connection, connects and then everything's fine.
Wiz7 said:
That seems like a great idea. However, my laptop's wireless adapter (Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG) does not support that functionality. An adapter with Windows 7 certified drivers is required. I also tried to use Connectify, but it also does not support this adapter.
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Agghh that's a shame.... you could try buying a wifi dongle.. they're not all that expensive...
After playing a bit with the network adapter settings on the laptop, I am now able to connect successfully to the ad-hoc network as soon as I enable wi-fi. What I did was changing the property "Ad Hoc Channel 802.11b/g" to 1 (it was 11 before). Setting this property to anything other than 1 makes it not be able to connect.
There is still the issue of automatically disconnecting after a while (which can vary from seconds to minutes), but it doesn't happen very often, and I'm usually able to stay connected for a long time. Playing with the network adapter properties didn't seem to help in this regard. Anyway, I guess that the problem is solved.
It should be noted that I've never had to change the network adapter settings for any anything else before. I've always been able to connect to other computers via an ad-hoc network. I also used to be able to connect with my SGP 5.0 when I had a different ROM installed. The looping problem that I had before (see my early posts in this thread) could probably be solved also by changing that property in the adapter.
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After playing a bit with the network adapter settings on the laptop, I am now able to connect successfully to the ad-hoc network as soon as I enable wi-fi. What I did was changing the property "Ad Hoc Channel 802.11b/g" to 1 (it was 11 before). Setting this property to anything other than 1 makes it not be able to connect.
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How did you get to that property? I can't find anything similar on mine...
Control Panel -> Network and Sharing Center -> Change adapter settings -> Right-click on the wireless adapter -> Properties -> Configure... -> Advanced.
The properties for the network adapter are listed there, and you should be able to change them.
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Control Panel -> Network and Sharing Center -> Change adapter settings -> Right-click on the wireless adapter -> Properties -> Configure... -> Advanced.
The properties for the network adapter are listed there, and you should be able to change them.
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Hmmm yes, I looked there but unfortunately there is no option to change or configure the channel at all!
I suppose it's driver dependent.
I have two laptops and one LAN connection. Say I connect the LAN to laptop-1. Then I use Mhotspot software to turn that laptop into a virtual wifi hotspot and connect laptop-2 to that hotspot. This way I have internet on both laptops without any additional router. I'm using this method for 7/8 months now.
The problems starts when I connect my HTC Titan to that hotspot. I can't access internet on Titan or Laptop-2, even though they're connected. As soon as I disable wifi on my Titan, internet on laptop-2 starts to work again. But it doesn't work the otherway, means if I disable wifi on laptop-2, Titan still doesn't work. Wifi signal from Titan somehow stalls the network. I'm almost certain because I have an android phone too (Galaxy S). I can connect the galaxy and laptop-2 at the same time and both works flawlessly. But whenever I start Titan, the virtual network stalls. Galaxy shows its connected but can't browse, Laptop-2 shows its connected but can't browse, Titan shows its connected but can't browse. Is it something to do with windows phone? Or I'm doing something wrong.
Note, the Titan is new but the Galaxy is old and the galaxy never created this problem. I tried to connect the Titan alone to the network, but obviously it also didn't work.
Thanks for any help. I don't want to buy a new router just for Titan :crying: :crying:
Update
I have somewhat narrowed down the problem. The networks actually stalls soon after I open the the marketplace or resume any app download. If I browse through mobile IE or use the facebook/email app it seems to work fine. But after opening Marketplace, the network stalls within minutes.
And another clarification, I do not use any sim with my phone yet. I'm still not sure I want to use Windows phone as my primary device yet. So 2G/3G + Wifi issues, pointed in other threads is not an issue here. I don't have sim, so no chance of cellular data to conflict with wifi. I would really appreciate some help here!
Apologies if this has been asked before, but I've searched and couldn't find anything that matches what I'm after.
I have a GNex running custom 4.2.2 and Windows 7 x64.
I want to be able to access my phone from my PC. To do this, I installed AirDroid. All good so far.
Issue 1: Using WiFi to access the phone, it doesn't do anything when the screen is off/the device is locked. Annoying.
Issue 2: Using USB tethering, it works fine when the screen is off, but kills my PC's internet access. Also annoying.
I would like to use USB tethering if possible, but I only want to be able to access my phone via AirDroid, not use it for internet (my PC has a much better wired connection already).
More on issue 2: Windows says the DNS server is unavailable when I troubleshoot. The moment I plug in my phone and the NDIS-thingy connection is formed, I lose internet access via my normal connection. It goes back to normal as soon as I unplug it. I've tried changing the priority of the network devices, but to no avail.
Any help appreciated.
Solved my own problem.
To those who are curious:
Under network settings for the USB tether, set DNS server addresses manually, go into advanced settings, and set the default gateway to whatever your router's address is.