Hi All,
Somebody have a any idea or hack for turn on the torch of an Android via IP?
For a wildlife photographic project I need to control the torchs of two old Android from my own Android. I will stay in the mountain, the old android have not SIM card (no 3G) and no bluetooth.
I have probing with Tasker and Wifi Zone:
- Turn ON Wifi Zone on my phone
- Tasker switches the light when the new Wifi is detect.
This works, but fail too much:
- Is very slow (when I activate Wifi zone) the other phones takes about 30 seg - 3 min on detect and connect.
- In one or two hours the devices tend to sleep and not connecting anymore
I think what the most usefull will keep the phones connected at my phone via Wifi Zone and controlling the lights via IP with tasker or similar.
Any suggestions are wellcome.
Thank you.
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Hi guys, so here's the deal : Just got a brand new Optimus One and the Wifi dosen't really work. It took me ages to get it to detect my home network ( Realtek RTL8187, used as a hotspot via win7's wireless miniport adapter - so basically virtual hotspot) Once I managed to get a connection the device would either be stuck at "obtaining ip adress from..." or would simply disconnect and reconnect in a quick burst. I finally managed to get it to connect by manually assigning the internet sharing permissions for the virtual miniport, but the speed is abysmal! We're talking to the order of bytes/s, measured both by attempting a small download from the phone and by reading the in/out data on the pc connection info. Upon some further poking around, a few wifi adapter and phone restarts later, I notice that when I connect to my hotspot the phone's wifi manager reports a normal speed of 54mb/s, but when I actually try to use the connection (say, the youtube app) it works fine for a second or two (it usually loads a bit of a vid, or half of a big webpage) and then drops down to the aforementioned speed and the phone's wifi manager indicated that the connection is 2mb/s
Also, I went out before setting up my home network to a mall and tried to connect to one of the free hotspots available. On some, it would connect straight away, but be very slow (signal wasn't great) and on one (max signal) it would disconnect/reconnect in very short bursts (10-15 times a minute) and it would eventually establish the connection. Then the same speed issue as above: works fine for a few seconds, drops down to unusable. Didn't think about checking the connection speed there, simply thought the public network was overused. In hindsight, the problems were similar to the ones experienced at home
A few side notes: The 3g speed is fine, consistent and problem-free
I have tried changing my home wifi's frequency to a number of settings (there are quite a few other wifi's around, I know it could cause issues if they overlap)
My wifi connection was actually not detected by a friend's laptop wifi, but we could connect our computers just fine via ad-hoc (which from what I've heard is a no-go with android at the moment - and the phone does not see ad-hoc)
The phone is brand new, only installed a handfull of apps on it, didn't change any relevant settings (I think)
Set wifi sleep policy to "never"
My pc wireless adapter worked just fine in the past, used it for a few months as the main internet connection, and even with half-signal it would achieve good speed. I also moved the antenna away from the PC itself to avoid interference
I set my PC to use only 802.11b since I've read around that some phones prefer this to 802.11b/g
That's about all I can think of right now. (oh, and It's my first android, so I don't know my way around the OS that great yet)
I appreciate any advice you can give me. Basically I'm trying to find out if it's an issue with my Wifi adapter, it's settings, the phone's settings, or if the phone itself might be broken, so I can send it back to warranty.
Thanks in advance.
Try switching from b to g.
it was initially on b/g
Can anyone recommend me a FREE app that will automatically enable bluetooth when wifi disconnects and disable it when wifi reconnects.
Both me and my wife have bluetooth enabled phones, mine is a htc desire and hers is an X10 Mini
Our bluetooth kit in the car does not support multipoint so only one phone can connect at a time.
If either of us is by ourselves this is fine but when we are both in the car together its a crap shoot on which phone will connect.
manually checking bluetooth every time we get in the car is a pain in the butt and given the fact that I always drive when we are together I want to install an app to turn on her BT when her WIFI disconnects.
This solves the problem because if we are together my phone has already connected long before her BT ever gets enabled.
Have you tried "Setting Profiles". I can't remember what the free version does but certainly the paid for version (which isn't very much) enables you to do a whole lot of setting rules which would enable you to do exactly what you are wanting.
Give it a try. I've got some complex rules which detect cell locations and then trigger the enabling of WiFi when I get close to home and then when the WiFi is on another rule sets some other bits when I connect to my home WiFi.
Triggers can be, GPS location, Cell location, WiFi networks connected/disconnected, time of day, bluetooth connection etc. Very useful app. Good for power saving as well. (I've got a HTC Desire S but it should work on your phones as well).
Hi,
I have the following issues with my Razr:
1. When connecting to my home network, sometimes the WiFi logo won't turn blue. This causes google talk to be unable to sign in. However the phone is connected to the network, internet browsing with Dolphin and Market work fine. Rebooting fixes the issue, when connecting now the WiFi logo turns blue as soon as connected and all is good.
2. I can't connect to my university's wifi: it is an 802.1x secured with PEAP and uses MSCHAPV2. When I set up the connecting (which i have to do manually by long pressing network -> modify settings) it fails to connect (says connecting to... then Disconnected). Weird thing is when modifying the network again, the settings are screwed up (e.g. set to use TLS, MSCHAPV2 unselected).
Does anybody have any ideas what to do about these (except for waiting for an update?) I am using the 651.73.18-version, so not updated so far...
Also, WiFi strength seems rather crappy with the Razr, i'm only getting ok signals where i used to get good ones with my desire and fail to connect when my cheap hp netbook connects fine...
Thanks lots for any help!!
cmdkeen said:
2. I can't connect to my university's wifi: it is an 802.1x secured with PEAP and uses MSCHAPV2. When I set up the connecting (which i have to do manually by long pressing network -> modify settings) it fails to connect (says connecting to... then Disconnected). Weird thing is when modifying the network again, the settings are screwed up (e.g. set to use TLS, MSCHAPV2 unselected).
Does anybody have any ideas what to do about these (except for waiting for an update?) I am using the 651.73.18-version, so not updated so far...
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I have the same problem! drives me crazy . Any help will be appreciated!
I use EasySMS app to sens text messages from my phone by typing them on my laptop. Laptop connects to EazySMS through Wifi. It works when the screen is ON, but when it goes off, the http interface no longer works (page not found errors). I then need to turn on the screen again to regain connectivity.
EasySMS has an option 'Keep wifi connected (drains battery)' and I already have it ON.
At the same time, AirDroid works fine over wifi even with screen off.
What could be the problem?
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Tray
Go to the settings - wireless & networks - Wi-Fi settings- then click right - Advanced-second option change to never.
*_*
Turned out DISABLING "'Keep wifi connected" made it work. How logical...
Connected to a hotel WiFi network with my Pixel 6a, every few seconds/minutes, irregularly, the phone makes the default notification sound. After much f***ing around, I determined that it happens every time the hotel's generally fast but somewhat intermittent WiFi reconnects on the phone. It's one of those WiFi networks with a 'lobby ambassador' which intercepts connections and asks you to login, and thereafter it remembers the device MAC and does not intercept your device's communication attempts anymore.
Every time the phone reconnects to this network, which is frequent because apparently my room is a bit out at the edge of coverage, after the layer 1/2 negotiation for the phone to establish the link, the WiFi client on the phone briefly shows "authenticating", and then the connection is established (without user interaction) and immediately the phone emits the default notification sound. So my phone is irregularly and frequently chirping Android 13's default "popcorn" sound. It's super annoying.
I've looked at Settings -> Notifications -> Apps, show System -> Android System - it's not any of those. I turned off all Android System notifications and it still does this.
What is the actual notification class and specific notification type on (Android 13 on) the Pixel 6 series (I have a 6a) which causes the default notification sound to play every time WiFi (re)connects please, so I can turn off this torture without silencing the whole phone?
(My one last test, ongoing at present, was to change the hotel WiFi network Privacy configuration from "randomized MAC" to "device MAC"; I don't see why that should change anything, because it's my device that is audibly notifying me that it's (re)connected; the network to which it's (re)connecting is not a new network every time - for that I might expect a notification).
thanks,
You could temporarily enable Do Not Disturb with exceptions for your usual apps? Otherwise I'm not sure if there's a way to disable that. It'd make sense if your change from randomized -> device MAC fixed this, though, as the network should remember your device rather than make you log in again every time, but that's a big should that's not in your control.
Well, damnedest thing. Looks like turning off privacy/random-MAC mode for this WiFi stopped the notification. Doesn't make any sense at all, since my phone knows that the hotel WiFi is the same one to which it had connected before, even if the hotel WiFi might think my phone is new every few minutes...