Can't upload via wifi - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I can't seem to upload anything over wifi from my Galaxy S3 when I am at home. It works at work and when I am round other peoples but can't seem to get it to work here.
I guess it is a problem with my router, but I wouldn't know what settings to adjust and such.
Any help?
My router is a Netgear DGN1000
Thanks

Sorry to bump this, but have been rattling my brain for hours! Any suggestions?

If you have firewall program running on your PC such as Window Firewall, or Norton Security, or McAfee then you need to set some rules for the upload to work. Try to find out which port the upload is using, then open the port from your Firewall program.
Some routers allow you direct connect to the server and bypassing all rules to play games or for remote access, you may try to use one of these ports too.

Sorry to sound stupid, but how do I find out the port that the phone is trying to upload through?

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Allshare and my firewall

Cant get allshare to work, tried every way possible. Only thing I can think of is some sort of setting with my wireless router, firewall maybe. I have a belkin wireless n router, what settings should I be looking at when I log into the router?
Edit: fixed issue, it was windows firewall
What programs should i grant access?
I use Eset Smart Security, and if i make an exception for WMP it is not enough, but if i temporary disable the fire, everithing works perfect, but i cant leave firewall off.
hadesz said:
What programs should i grant access?
I use Eset Smart Security, and if i make an exception for WMP it is not enough, but if i temporary disable the fire, everithing works perfect, but i cant leave firewall off.
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I strongly don't suggest disabling your firewall, however, if you really want to use Allshare and your firewall doesn't allow it, I would assume there's an option to allow certain programs through, so I guess you're stuck with testing which programs to let through...
if ur using windows u need to have windows media, player open for allshare to even recognize your computer.
Then somewhere in media player theres a option which lets your computer ask or always allow then it'll start working
If not then idk
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well how did you fix the problem.
have the same exact problem. how did you solve it?
Bronk93 said:
Cant get allshare to work, tried every way possible. Only thing I can think of is some sort of setting with my wireless router, firewall maybe. I have a belkin wireless n router, what settings should I be looking at when I log into the router?
Edit: fixed issue, it was windows firewall
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[Q] stock vpn connection bug?

Has anyone successfully made a VPN connection with their rezound? I am trying to connect to a VPN connection known to be working and it says its connected, but I am unable to get internet traffic to go through. (I.e. when I am connected to the VPN, Any app that uses data is unable to find a connection to the internet.) I know it's not on the VPN server side because I am able to connect and get data with another phone.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance!!!
BUMP. no one has tried or can try out VPN for me?
Bump. Not to sound whiney, and but I find it sad that my post can be up for so long without even a single reply. There is a ton of good info in these forums and I'm patiently waiting for s-off just like the average member, but the issue of the vpn hasn't even been looked into by anyone else? I guess my question to any mods would be "what do I have to do to get some attention to an issue I'm having? "
nlitend1 said:
Bump. Not to sound whiney, and but I find it sad that my post can be up for so long without even a single reply. There is a ton of good info in these forums and I'm patiently waiting for s-off just like the average member, but the issue of the vpn hasn't even been looked into by anyone else? I guess my question to any mods would be "what do I have to do to get some attention to an issue I'm having? "
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you are so active on the forums, I can't believe your question hasn't been answered yet...
sorry, don't have anything to hide, so don't use vpn.
Why would you need to use a VPN on a phone lol? If you're using free wireless tethering I really doubt that it'll mask it for you. Verizon would be like zomg in Russia wireless tethering steals you!
zetsumeikuro said:
Why would you need to use a VPN on a phone lol? If you're using free wireless tethering I really doubt that it'll mask it for you. Verizon would be like zomg in Russia wireless tethering steals you!
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First of all, thank you both so much for the replies.
I'm not sure that I follow that last sentence, but but to answer the first question.... I want to use the vpn to encrypt my data. I don't use tethering that often, so I don't want to pay for the hotspot fee..... And I don't want to risk Verizon messing with or possibly closing my account or charging me a fee.... So I'd like to run my tethering data though my personal vpn.
I am able to use the stock VPN to connect to my networks. I have about 25 different VPN connections and my VPN connections are the L2TP/IPSEC PSK type. I can mount shares, as well as using remote control programs.
I would look at the logs of the device that you are trying to connect to, maybe that might give you some hints as to the issue. One thing I did find it that my device does not see the DNS server for some reason (even though it is specified), so therefore I have to use IP addresses to connect to anything.
This probably doesn't help you too much, but I did want to reply to let you know that I have the stock VPN working.
Good luck!
Flipdog said:
I am able to use the stock VPN to connect to my networks. I have about 25 different VPN connections and my VPN connections are the L2TP/IPSEC PSK type. I can mount shares, as well as using remote control programs.
I would look at the logs of the device that you are trying to connect to, maybe that might give you some hints as to the issue. One thing I did find it that my device does not see the DNS server for some reason (even though it is specified), so therefore I have to use IP addresses to connect to anything.
This probably doesn't help you too much, but I did want to reply to let you know that I have the stock VPN working.
Good luck!
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Wow! Thank you! It's so good to know that someone has a version of the stock vpn working. Mine are the PPTP type. I wonder if this phone has issues with that setup. Could you possibly test a PPTP connection?
Sorry, I'd love to be able to help you test but all of the device's that I connect to use only the L2TP/IPSEC PSK VPN. Good luck solving your problem and have a happy holiday!
Well I just wanted to update this thread. It looks like PPTP VPN is broken in stock android and therefore it's not specific to the rezound. It looks like it can be fixed by developers (and from what I've read) it's pretty common for it to be fixed in non-stock roms. The lack of internet/browsing is caused by a bug in the MPPE (Microsoft Point-to-Point Encryption) implementation. The following article explains it pretty well:
http://www.securitykiss.com/resources/articles/android_vpn_bug/index.php
This thread discusses some workarounds that were a bit over my head:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=4706
IPsec connections are not affected....and it looks like MPPE connections have been fixed in ICS. If any developers could take a look at the above thread and explain in more basic english how to "fix" the connections that would be greatly appreciated. If not, i guess i'll have to wait and hope ICS fixes it.
nlitend1 said:
First of all, thank you both so much for the replies.
I'm not sure that I follow that last sentence, but but to answer the first question.... I want to use the vpn to encrypt my data. I don't use tethering that often, so I don't want to pay for the hotspot fee..... And I don't want to risk Verizon messing with or possibly closing my account or charging me a fee.... So I'd like to run my tethering data though my personal vpn.
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I was just joking around w/ the last sentence. Hope you figured it out!
I have been able to use Raptor VPN on my Rezound. Just Google it, it's free
Sent using my HTC Rezound
fjl307 said:
I have been able to use Raptor VPN on my Rezound. Just Google it, it's free
Sent using my HTC Rezound
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Very interesting! Thank you! Have you used the PPTP or L2TP version? Was this just to setup the vpn server and then you connect to it with the stock vpn client?
I'm using the L2TP version
Sent using my HTC Rezound
I'm having the same issues as you are. I know I'm replying a month late, but I didn't get my phone setup until almost Dec 30th and have been fighting my corp VPN ever since.
Once in a while I can get ping to work from Better Android Terminal, but that is always short lived and I can never get anything to work from other apps.
I'm glad you found the issue. I took a look at logcat and it is definitely a kernel issue. When the connection starts, I get the message "couldn't set tty to ppp discipline".

Any reverse tethering/internet passthrough app for the SGS2??!

I have tried the reverse tether app on GP by jasongong and it gives me a (Kernel not supported error) on two different ROMs (spike pure ICS and resurrection remix 2). There is another reverse tethering application on the market but its paid.
I cannot possibly imagine that such a basic functionality is not available by default let alone so rare in the GP. I just need to be able to share a LAN connection through a USB cable... is there anyway or any app to do that?
when you say reverse tethering, do you mean use your pcs internet connection??
if so then sure ya just connect ya wifi to the pc, or should i say router.
There is a program you can get for the pc, called VIRTUAL ROUTER or CONNECTIFY, both of which let you turn your pc into an internet hotspot providing you have wifi, this is how i connect my 360 to get around the firewall issues for online gaming.
Hope they may help you.
I am doing this to get internet at work. Wifi is protected by a password that I cannot know. So I need to get my PC's LAN internet connection on my phone via USB. HTC has a beautiful utility for that. I don't understand why samsung doesn't have this simple functionality... :S

[Q] Tether internet from Computer out through Phones Wifi

I have searched the forums and google for an answer to this but haven't been able to find anything.
What I'm trying to do is use my computers internet for my phone, and then broadcast it out. I've downloaded and used successfully the xda Android Reverse Tethering .exe and it's worked wonderfully. But the thing is I want to be able to use it in conjuction with a wifi tether app from my Samsung Galaxy S. My phone is rooted.
The purpose of this is to get internet connection on my PSP Vita. All of the internet in my house is wired, I don't own a wifi router nor do I want one. I live in a building where finding wifi passwords is easy for everyone as we all have the same general field of work, but no one near me has wifi.
What I've tried so far is using the xda Reverser Tether program with Barnacle Wifi Tether, Open Garden WiFi, and WiFi Tether. All apps I've downloaded from the marketplace. They work well at broadcasting my cell signal for use as Wifi, but none of them have been able to use the internet being sent from my phone.
In short what I'm looking for, or even if it exists, is a way to transfer my hard wired internet through my computer to my phone and subsequently the cellphones ability to act as a Wifi router.
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That looks close, but how could I use that, and then have my phone broadcast my internets computer through it's Wifi?
Hi ,
Use virtual router software in your pc and turn on pc and phones wifi.and connect to pcs wifi connection.if you have confusion try virtual router in google. i got succeeded in this but i dont have any link to give you.
If i helped press thanks.
This sounds like something that might do it. I have it downloaded but it's not doing anything. What were the steps you got to make it work for you?
Well, I was able to get it to work using redankaiahu's advice. The only thing is I had to go out and buy a usb-wifi adapter instead of using my phone like I would've liked. Oh well.
I know this really doesn't belong here, but did u know that if u get a router, u can actually change the frequency channel on it? Which means , no ones pc will pickup on the channel unless they adjust from their own pc's and know what channel u changed to.
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[Q] BitTorrent Sync over ethernet

Is there a fix/hack to get BitTorrent Sync to use my ethernet connection? I got the same issue on both Android 4.2.2 and 4.4.2 on my Radxa Rock.
BitTorrent Sync isn't able to use my ethernet connection to sync files. All other apps I have tried so far is using the ethernet connection to get online but it seems like BitTorrent Sync only recognizes Wi-fi and mobile connections. I have tried enabling the settings to enable it to sync over mobile thinking it would try to sync on anything available but it did nothing.
Any ideas?
BitTorrent Sync Android client fails over ethernet
After hours and hours of going around and around in circles on this, I found the same problem.
And until it's fixed the only hack/solution is to turn on Wi-Fi.
And there's also file a bug/feature request, which I also did, and hopefully, everybody else who has this problem will also do.
I tried another custom rom made by Oma and BitTorrent Sync works with my ethernet connection on my Radxa Rock! Do you have the same device or something else? Perhaps one could try and contact Oma if this is a fix he has made in the custom rom? If you do before me, please reply back with any useful findings.
I know I tried enabling "Use mobile data" on 2.2.4 and it didn't work, I can't swear I did try it on the 4.4.2. Cause it must be enabled in this custom rom as well to work. Maybe it does work on 4.4.2 with "Use mobile data" enabled as well?
http://www.arctablet.com/blog/forum/crewrktablets-rk3188-entwicklung-customroms-development-croms/rom-radxa-rock-android-4-4-2-kitkat-custom-root-firmware-20140402/
willielassiter said:
After hours and hours of going around and around in circles on this, I found the same problem.
And until it's fixed the only hack/solution is to turn on Wi-Fi.
And there's also file a bug/feature request, which I also did, and hopefully, everybody else who has this problem will also do.
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Actually it did work for me even on Android 4.2.2 when enabling "Allow mobile connection" in the settings, I was being to impatient cause it took quite some time before it made the first connection, close to a minute.
Worth a try for you to?

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