Short version...
I'm looking for a way to remotely control an S9 from another S9, with no interaction from the S9 being controlled (no "press ok to allow remote access" type prompts). I've tried Team Viewer, but it requires the "ok" button press.
Long version...
I live out in the sticks and my only home internet options are dial-up, satellite, or cell data. I've had satellite service for a few years and it works, but it sucks... it's expensive, only 40GB per month (was only 10GB until a few months ago), video limited to 480p (not that you could watch much at 40GB per month, and it's pretty slow and has horrible ping/latency. I recently had some equipment failure with the satellite system, so I looked into cellular data again.
I bought another S9 and it comes with 50GB of wifi hotspot data per month. Right now, it is running in hotspot mode and I'm using a wifi repeater & router/switches to allow all of my wired & wireless devices to connect to the net. It has been doing fine like this, but occasionally the hotspot locks up or turns off (it is set to never turn off in hotspot options), so I'm looking for a way to be able to connect to the "home S9" from my S9 so that I can reactivate the hotspot or even reboot the "home S9" while I'm out of the house work/shopping/vacation.
So, does anyone have any software that they like & use for something like this? The phone has unlimited data, besides the 50GB hotspot, so it is always connected to the net, even when the hotspot dies. Also, I'm trying to stick to using the hotspot only, instead of doing something like PDAnet/foxfi and just using the regular data connection.
Thanks!
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I just bought a chromecast and I'm trying to figure out if I can get my GNexus to host the hotspot and be the chromecast remote.
In more detail:
I do not have internet from a cable/satellite company. The only internet connection I have is through my cellphone hotspot.
Chromecast will be connected to the internet through my cellphone hotspot (SSID: AndroidAP).
When my cellphone has the hotspot running it does not show up on its own network (AndroidAP).
I need the phone to show up on the network (AndroidAP) so that I can see the chromcast and use the phone as a remote.
Is this even possible?
Really? No one?
Is it possible?
I'd be very curious to know if this is possible or not. I found this thread because I'm wanting to do the very same thing. I still have unlimited data through vzw so this would be terrific if there was a way. The only thing is that the wifi turns off when the hotspot is turned on (at least on mine) so there would have to be a way to get it to connect to its own hotspot without making mobile data shut off.
Same thing needed Badly here @@
I also want to connect my moto e to it's own hotspot for remote control my tablet using my phone as mouse(specifically) and keyboard/joystick.
(I know keyboard and joystick can be possible without doing that but MOUSE can't)
Hellllllllpppppppp ......
1.5 years later and there's still no way to do this. Not only that this is the only page on the internet about it.
The de thread here
I want to use my phone WiFi network to connect my PC to it and then use the phone to remotly control keyboard and mouse on my PC over WiFi, but I just can not connect my phone to it's own WiFi network. :/
One thing I could do is using a WiFi extender to connect both devices to, but then I couln't get the devices connected to internet since they're connected to a "no-internet" WiFi extender network.
Still nothing? I need it to use my security camera which needs internet connection. I also need to be able to view it on my phone using the camera app but the devices have to be on the same network. Sux that i can't do this.
Hi everyone, I have a question that i can't quite seem to find an answer to any where i look.
I am a recent android convert, i had ios on my iphone and ipads for many years. I use a wireless hard drive that has its own wifi signal, which i connect my devices to. The problem with doing this is that the device thinks then that it should get all of its internet from that wifi connection, which of course, being a hard drive, it does not have.
To get around this what i have done is go in my IOS configuration and remove the "default gateway" or "router" or whatever you want to call it (depending on your networking background), and then iOS knows to go ahead and not use wifi and continue to send any non local traffic over LTE.
My Samsung Note 5 doesn't seem to want to do this. First thing, when i try to remove the router/gateway from the ip address configuration in wifi, the "save" button is grayed, meaning i cannot save a blank gateway. I located an app on the app store called "wifi settings" which was suggested to use to set the router to nothing, but still this did not work, really what it did was save a 1 in the router/gateway field and caused nothing to work, not even local traffic.
The Note 5 has a "smart network switch" option which is apparently to detect a poor wifi signal and switch to LTE, if i enable this, the phone does realize that the wifi connection to the wifi hdd doesn't have an internet connection, but terminates the wifi connection, thus killing my connection to my hard drive.
My question, does anyone know how to configure the wifi on android to access local resources via wifi while still using the 3g/4g connection for internet traffic?
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks much.
I'm curious ─ after wasting lots of hours of research I couldn't find the answer I wanted. Can Android be forced to ALWAYS use cellular data (HSPA+, LTE, etc.) even when connected to WiFi ─ independed if the WiFi network has internet access or not.
The situation here on my side is as follows:
× I have unlimited LTE data, calling time and messages.
× I have 2 SIM cards (Smart-SIM) and one contract, one in my phone and one in my Wi-Fi LTE modem (to online on Laptop, Gaming Consoles, TV, etc.) ─ yes I'm a cellular data only person. Cable sucks in my region.
It is useless to turn on WiFi since its basically the same connection (well, actually not), but sometimes I need to connect to WiFi for local streaming content to my TV. While connected to WiFi I want my phone to use cellular data for Internet instead of WiFi to not unnecessary slow down the modems connection and therefore slow down download rates when for example I download games on consoles.
Long time ago where I used iOS, I used a Cydia tweak to accomplish this on an iPhone. The question is, can the same accomplished on Android too?
So, I got my S9+ (international version, DUOS, 256 GB) last week from the Samsung store. I am on stock ROM (and will stay as long as my warranty lasts or someone finds a way to root with Knox 0x0, which I am not expecting).
At home, I have a WLAN Mesh (AVM Fritz!Box 6590 Cable, 2x AVM Fritz! 1750E Repeater on a wired connection), everything working great with any device.
Except my S9+. It connects and everything is fine, at some point - especially when using it for e.g. streaming Netflix or so - it will stay connected to the WLAN but will say "no internet access". Switching WLAN on and off fixes the issue until it happens the next time (minutes to hours later). I have no special settings, no neighbouring networks which would interfere. I have 2,4 and 5 GHz active and automatic channel selection. All other devices in my home work with no problems. I have found similar issues froim users on other Samsung phones (S6/7/8 series (my former S5 on Resurrection Remix Oreo does not show t his behaviour)), but no answers that worked (like forget the network, reboot and reenter credentials).
Quite annoying, anyone knows a fix? Big THANKS in advance.
No one experiencing the same thing or havin any ideas?
I have had the same issue in the beginning with the phone. I have a router with a cisco switch connected to it. The standard router's wifi wasn't sufficient in coverage through my house. I got hold of a cisco AP and connected it to the switch and disabled the wifi on the router. That's when my issue started. Fiddled around trying various options, but the one that worked for me was to tell the phone to forget my network, restart the phone and then "setup" the wifi on the phone again(password for wifi needed to be entered as it sees the network as a new one) Haven't had the issue after that. I did notice at my office that even though the wifi conection is good, that if it goes below a certain percentage, the mobile data will kick in, although I have that option switched off. I also picked up that if your line connection's speed goes very low for whatever reason, the same problem appears again that the phone assumes there is no internet
Thanks, this is what I've read from other threads (with S7, S8), too. But this didn't work for me. My repeaters get ther signal through LAN cable and I have a fast connection, coverage all over my house and garden. I really do not have an idea on what to try...
I had a very disappointing experience with my Tab S6 (LTE version) today. What happened is that we lost the internet connection, apparently the cable company had a neighborhood-wide outage. So, I figured, no big deal. I turned on the hotspot on my Tab S6 and on my laptop connected to the hotspot (instead of my home WiFi).
Well, no luck. Windows kept saying, “no internet”. I spent an hour trying to figure out why. Finally, I found the problem: my laptop was connecting to my Tab S6 and from there to my home WiFi… which had no internet. When I turned WiFi off, it then connected to mobile data and I had internet on my laptop. It's funny because on the Tab S6 I could browse the web just fine, it was clearly using mobile data. But the hotspot was connecting to WiFi. BTW, by the time I had it figured out, the internet outage was over. ?
I noticed that on my old ZTE Axon 7, when I turn on the hotspot, it automatically turns off WiFi. It’s very disappointing that the Tab S6 doesn’t do that, it would have saved me an hour of intense frustration.
It’s really silly, when you think about it. Why would I need my hotspot to connect to my WiFi? On my laptop, I can connect directly to my WiFi, I don’t need the Tab S6’s hotspot feature for that. Hotspot should by default connect to mobile data.
Azra4 said:
I noticed that on my old ZTE Axon 7, when I turn on the hotspot, it automatically turns off WiFi. It’s very disappointing that the Tab S6 doesn’t do that, it would have saved me an hour of intense frustration.
It’s really silly, when you think about it. Why would I need my hotspot to connect to my WiFi? On my laptop, I can connect directly to my WiFi, I don’t need the Tab S6’s hotspot feature for that. Hotspot should by default connect to mobile data.
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First - Turning WIFI off would have been the thing that saved you an hour of intense frustration. :laugh:
But in all seriousness, WIFI could be useful to share a connection with something like a VPN active, surely? For example, I remember sharing a VPN connection through my OG Tab S with my Xbox so I could shop on the Turkish Xbox store, would prefer to do that via WIFI than Data, obviously, especially since I didn't have an LTE OG Tab S. I do remember having to have multiple apps to achieve sharing WIFI then.
So ultimately, I'd personally prefer they didn't disable WIFI whilst using Hotspot, better to have more options than less for when the occasion calls.
bartleby999 said:
First - Turning WIFI off would have been the thing that saved you an hour of intense frustration. :laugh:
But in all seriousness, WIFI could be useful to share a connection with something like a VPN active, surely? For example, I remember sharing a VPN connection through my OG Tab S with my Xbox so I could shop on the Turkish Xbox store, would prefer to do that via WIFI than Data, obviously, especially since I didn't have an LTE OG Tab S. I do remember having to have multiple apps to achieve sharing WIFI then.
So ultimately, I'd personally prefer they didn't disable WIFI whilst using Hotspot, better to have more options than less for when the occasion calls.
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Ahem, I said the system should turn off WiFi automatically because in the vast majority of cases, people would want the mobile hotspot to connect to mobile data. I didn't say "disable". I too like to have options.
Oh, and BTW, your scenario wouldn't work on the Tab S6 - it would connect you to WiFi bypassing the VPN. Duh!
Azra4 said:
Ahem, I said the system should turn off WiFi automatically because in the vast majority of cases, people would want the mobile hotspot to connect to mobile data. I didn't say "disable". I too like to have options.
Oh, and BTW, your scenario wouldn't work on the Tab S6 - it would connect you to WiFi bypassing the VPN. Duh!
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Meh. Disable, turn off - Same principle.
You're right, though - I remember now, that's why I mentioned needing multiple apps. Android natively won't share a VPN as far as I recall (it's been a while). You need another app that enables sharing VPN.