I apologize in advance if this subject is posted elsewhere. Please kindly point me to the thread...
I'm a noob and just bought a viewsonic G-tablet.
I've been searching xda for a day now, and I cannot find a how-to guide on how to make the "adhoc wifi hack" to work on the stock ROM.
I've found this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=754961
But I can't find a definitive answer on how to "flash this in recovery mode" specifically on the G-tab.
I'm assuming to proceed to installing ClockworkMod from (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=865245)
and then flashing the "adhoc-signed zip file" from there.
I realize ClockworkMod is used to flash ROM's, so I'm wondering if this "adhoc patch" file can be flashed the same way without affecting the stock ROM.
Please let me know if this is the correct path to go down.
Thanks for your help in advance.
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There is an easier solution. Search for the stock enhancement pack in the development forum. You will have to flash the file in CWM or with standard recovery. Instructions are in the post.
Enjoy your AdHoc goodnes.
Okay, I answered my own question, but now have more problems to deal with.
I installed the "adhoc signed zipped" file with CWM. I created a new folder in the gtab root and put the "adhoc signed zipped" file in there. In CWM's menu, there is a selection to install zip/flash from an internal folder.
okay, got adhoc to work. When scanning for networks, the adhoc networks show up with the * as expected. I connected successfully to my wm6.1 phone with wmwifirouter.
However, the gtab cannot load up websites. I do see spurts of data on the phone being passed, but it seems to be spurts and it stops. Browser on gtab say check connection.
So I'm thinking that this has something to do with the adhoc hack on the stock rom. I'm going to bite the bullet and try a non-stock ROM to see if this will resolve the problem.
@jasco: I cannot find the stock enhancement pack in searching... I might need to search harder.
Flashed this to my Gtab to test it out. Completely broke my wifi. No longer will see any wifi or adhoc networks. I had to reflash.
I don't have a phone that I can tether to, but my son does, and I just got this working w his phone.
What I did was:
- unzipped the file from that thread above, and got the wpa_supplicant file from the system/bin dir inside the unzipped dir
- turned off wifi
- used z4root to get temporary root and root explorer to make /system R/W
- used terminal to copy the new wpa_supplicant file to /system/bin
- changed permissions of /system/bin/wpa_supplicant to rwxr-xr-x
- turned wifi on
I was then able to see his SSID, and connect using WEP.
Jim
I would like to try this with my tablet and I am having a hard time understanding these instructions. can you please make a detailed set of instructions with more steps? If you would do this I am sure there would be a lot of people that would be truly grateful, I being one of them.
Thanks,
Waspvl1
All depends....
What if you don't have an Android phone?
I use WM 6.5 phone (in my case HD2) to tether to my G-tab.
Using program WMWiFiRouter. G-tab picks it up as another regular router.
Never had a problem and most important for me, don't have to go through all of the trouble configuring AdHoc.
JMO.
here is an easier method a version of the adhoc from froyo modified to support adhoc.. i was using it on my galaxy s.. now using it on the gtab works fine..
1. you need to be rooted.
2. use rootexplorer
3. turn off wifi
4. back up the existing file in /system/bin to somewhre on your sd or sd2 card.
5. using root explorer copy this file over the one in /system/bin
make sure to put /system in read/write mode (top of root explorer when in that directory) (also need to unzip it first)
I just updated my rooted tether on my droid x and now it works. Gtab sees my adhok without the zip.
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Okay, I answered my own question, but now have more problems to deal with.
I installed the "adhoc signed zipped" file with CWM. I created a new folder in the gtab root and put the "adhoc signed zipped" file in there. In CWM's menu, there is a selection to install zip/flash from an internal folder.
okay, got adhoc to work. When scanning for networks, the adhoc networks show up with the * as expected. I connected successfully to my wm6.1 phone with wmwifirouter.
However, the gtab cannot load up websites. I do see spurts of data on the phone being passed, but it seems to be spurts and it stops. Browser on gtab say check connection.
So I'm thinking that this has something to do with the adhoc hack on the stock rom. I'm going to bite the bullet and try a non-stock ROM to see if this will resolve the problem.
@jasco: I cannot find the stock enhancement pack in searching... I might need to search harder.
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Have exactly the same problem. Been looking for a solution for quite a while. Can't understand why this should be so difficult.
I went another route, but with the same problem.
I thought the "ad-hoc signed zipped" file install from CWM as I've described about was the issue, so I went back to the stock 3389 ROM with the tnt enhancement pack.
Exact same issue, the ad-hoc connection with WMwifirouter is connected, but no internet data will pass on the connection.
Tethering without root?
I'm definitely a noob to all this, although I have had an android phone for about 6 months now. I haven't found any roms to flash to my samsung transform so I haven't gotten root on it yet. Is there a way to tether to my g-tab (Vegan 7) with out gaining root to my phone? By the way, I really like the new rom.
I'm running a wireless tether app on my rooted Droid X and can connect my gTab to it without any updates or hacks or anything else. I'm running stock VEGAn 5.1.1 without any other tweaks.
I'll flash back to VEGAn 5.1.1 and see if tethering works with out having to hack my phone.
rosscopicoterry said:
I'll flash back to VEGAn 5.1.1 and see if tethering works with out having to hack my phone.
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FWIW, I'm running this ROM and just tried it. It connected fine to my iPhone w/MyWi. No hacking required.
No adhoc transfers with Vegan-Tab Ginger RC1
I've flashed this ROM 5 times now and ran some tests each time. I can connect to my WMWifirouter adhoc network, get an IP, but there is nothing going through...
My understanding is that this rom already has a hacked supplicant. What's my next step? Should I bother trying with the provided wpasupladhoc.6.1.zip above? Thanks in advance.
I cannot figure this thing out for the life of me. Has anyone gone the route of trying to use blutooth to connect from their android phone to the g-tab? I can get it to pair but not connect. G-tab may have to go back if I can't figure this out.
1.2-4349 Ad Hoc tether
lgkahn said:
here is an easier method a version of the adhoc from froyo modified to support adhoc.. i was using it on my galaxy s.. now using it on the gtab works fine..
1. you need to be rooted.
2. use rootexplorer
3. turn off wifi
4. back up the existing file in /system/bin to somewhre on your sd or sd2 card.
5. using root explorer copy this file over the one in /system/bin
make sure to put /system in read/write mode (top of root explorer when in that directory) (also need to unzip it first)
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Tried it on 1.2-4349 and it appears to work just fine. Immediately detected ad hoc tether on my original Droid running gingerbread.
Does the phone need to be rooted? Or are you putting these files on the g tab?
Hi all, I'm sorry if I posted this in the wrong place.
I have an Archos 32 and I have an ad-hoc wireless network at my home. I've been trying to get my Archos 32 to connect to it and the only way that I have done so is through UrukDroid 1.0. UrukDroid however won't allow me to run some applications such as Camera and WeatherBug that I really would like to be able to run (they just crash). So I downloaded the GPL Source Code from Archos and made the changes to the wpa_supplicant source code via the patch that is found online. I've followed the guide on CNXSoft (can't post the link) for compiling the entire source on Ubuntu 10.10 (although I'm running 11.04). I have successfully created a zImage and a cramfs file, as well as a squashfs file. What do I do now? Are there any more steps that I need to do as far as installing it on my device? I've searched high and low and can't find anything so I figured I would post here. If someone could help me I'd appreciate it.
Lol I can't believe this is such a hard question that nobody knows how to answer it.
Anyway, I got it sorted, sorta. With wifi on the device turned off, I deleted the wpa_supplicant.conf from /data/misc/wifi, and changed the WifiAdhoc value to 1 in /data/misc/wifi/tiwlan.ini, then pushed it over, as well as a patched wpa_supplicant file via ADB over to the device. Now I can connect to my adhoc network on 2.3.26, and still have WeatherBug and the Camera and all the other apps that crashed on UrukDroid. The only drawback is that the wpa_supplicant file gets replaced with the original one everytime I reboot the device. Not sure how to avoid that. So everytime I reboot the device I have to copy the patched wpa_supplicant file again. But other than that it works great.
Anyway thanks for reading.
Is there a file in the files structure that houses the WPA passphrase. I have looked around in \system\etc\wifi but none of those files seem to be what I am looking for. I have a feeling it is encrypted in some file but I thought I would ask if anyone knows. Most of the devices tell me that the passphrase is unchanged when i go into the settings of already configured networks. This does not help me if i forget what the passphrase is. Thanks in advance.
jschauf said:
Is there a file in the files structure that houses the WPA passphrase. I have looked around in \system\etc\wifi but none of those files seem to be what I am looking for. I have a feeling it is encrypted in some file but I thought I would ask if anyone knows. Most of the devices tell me that the passphrase is unchanged when i go into the settings of already configured networks. This does not help me if i forget what the passphrase is. Thanks in advance.
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If you are rooted you can use WiFi key recovery from the market to recover your passphrase. I have no idea where it gets this information though, you could always ask the dev I imagine.
you will need root to read /data or adb.
the wpa psk is clear text in
/data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf
polobunny said:
If you are rooted you can use WiFi key recovery from the market to recover your passphrase. I have no idea where it gets this information though, you could always ask the dev I imagine.
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That helps for my rooted phone but not for the stupid Kindle Fire one of my co-workers has. That is the device I am really trying to extract the passphrase from. I will look at that app for my phone though.
jschauf said:
That helps for my rooted phone but not for the stupid Kindle Fire one of my co-workers has. That is the device I am really trying to extract the passphrase from. I will look at that app for my phone though.
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Well you need root either way. :/
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Well you need root either way. :/
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Figures, guess I will have to figure something else out.
you MIGHT be able to do it with adb without root
if you have adb on a computer somewhere try
adb pull /data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf
Okay so I was told to come here because my phone doesn't have its' own forum yet (Not at all surprising..), so I'm just going to quote my post back on the other thread that told me to come here instead.
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Okay so I've had this phone for little over 10 months now and within that time I've managed to achieve root (unreliable but it works at the very least) in that time as well as learned a fair amount about Linux and android alike (Not a whole lot but I know some stuff) though I've now come to the point of I actually want to give my phone a proper root instead of this faulty solution I have currently. I (barely) managed to get my phone rooted using Kingoroot and I've played plenty with my phones' innards in that time, removed system apps, added my own selection to the system but some apps in my phone that use root don't work even with root permission granted which is why I'm wanting to replace Kingoroot with ChainFires' SuperSU binaries, could anybody help me with simple instructions for someone who doesn't actually know very much regarding how root and SU bins work inside of android? My phone's using 4.4.2 kitkat.
Just a few disclaimers first to get misconceptions out the way:
1. I do not have a custom recovery nor is one available for my phone (Samsung galaxy young 2 (SM-S130H) for those who want to know)
2. I'm currently unable to use the internet on my phone as I lack Wi-Fi to do so (router is dead) so I'm manually installing app packages through ADB, so if something needs an internet connection on my phone it's not going to work for me, for now..PC still has net access.
3. I have access to ADB shells' SU but not ADB root so I hope you don't need that from me.
4. This phone does not have a fastboot mode. (That I can find anyway..) Only a download mode from what I've found.
Can anybody help me out with telling me what I'll need to be doing in regards to getting this done?
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So, can anyone here knowledge on the matter can assist me with this instead of me having to figure it out on my own?
Hi guys!
A friend of mine asked me to retrieve a wifi password that was stored on her phone (Glaxy S6 Edge plus). I didn't want to root it, so I installed TWRP and extracted the wpa_supplicant.conf file, the thing is the key shown is very long, so apparently it is encrypted, I can't root/edit build.prop/anything like that on her phone becuse when I installed TWRP a bootloop happened and she got really scared (although I fixed it in 40 minutes, took me so long due to the bad wifi on that place and the fear of not being to fix it without doing wipes). So now I have the encrypted wpa_supplicant.conf file with an "encrypted" psk key and would like to know if there's any way to decrypt it and get the true key. I also have a Galaxy S5 and an S7 edge both rooted TW with custom kernel if that can help by copying the file to them (I doubt it would work). I also can use linux in case anyone has a solution with it.
fanfzero said:
Hi guys!
A friend of mine asked me to retrieve a wifi password that was stored on her phone (Glaxy S6 Edge plus). I didn't want to root it, so I installed TWRP and extracted the wpa_supplicant.conf file, the thing is the key shown is very long, so apparently it is encrypted, I can't root/edit build.prop/anything like that on her phone becuse when I installed TWRP a bootloop happened and she got really scared (although I fixed it in 40 minutes, took me so long due to the bad wifi on that place and the fear of not being to fix it without doing wipes). So now I have the encrypted wpa_supplicant.conf file with an "encrypted" psk key and would like to know if there's any way to decrypt it and get the true key. I also have a Galaxy S5 and an S7 edge both rooted TW with custom kernel if that can help by copying the file to them (I doubt it would work). I also can use linux in case anyone has a solution with it.
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Without root it won't happen and even then the device is most likely encrypted so you would have to unencrypted it which will wipe the device. You are out of luck.
I just wanted to help you. I had the same problem. I have samsung s5 . So I used "root browser "and In data->misc->wifi : I found this file "raw_conf.conf" And it's actually contains all my WiFi passwords. I used android 6.00 by the way and my device is rooted .