This phone has a different method of accessing public WiFi spots that have a second authorization page (where you have to click okay on some agreement before it will allow you to connect to the network). I just wanted to post how to do it because it's rather confusing.
First, connect to the wifi as normal and then wait. It will redirect you to a seemingly blank page where you can't click anything, this is the confusing part. From here you need to click the three dots at the top right and select "use this network as is". After you do that, go try to visit any web page and you will be redirected to the actual wifi authorization page where you can click okay and be connected.
I have attached some screenshots, of what I'm talking about.
Just to give further instruction on this, only certain websites will redirect you to the authorization page for the network. So if it doesnt work at first, try a couple different ones until you get the redirect.
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I bought my gtab about a week ago and have it running nicely with Vegan. I had some trouble with the market but thanks to this forum got it working
Here is my last real problem. I work at a hotel. We have wifi for our guests which redirects you to a login page when you open your browser. It does not require a password you just have to click a button to accept the terms. Until you do this you have no internet connection. I can connect and even pick up an IP address but it will not go to the authentication page thus no internet. I have tried manually entering the URL for the login page and have also tried the IP address for the login page. I have tried setting a static IP with he correct gateway and DNS addresses. I have even tried the wifi web login app. Nothing works.
Any ideas how I can get this working?
toadleyb said:
I bought my gtab about a week ago and have it running nicely with Vegan. I had some trouble with the market but thanks to this forum got it working
Here is my last real problem. I work at a hotel. We have wifi for our guests which redirects you to a login page when you open your browser. It does not require a password you just have to click a button to accept the terms. Until you do this you have no internet connection. I can connect and even pick up an IP address but it will not go to the authentication page thus no internet. I have tried manually entering the URL for the login page and have also tried the IP address for the login page. I have tried setting a static IP with he correct gateway and DNS addresses. I have even tried the wifi web login app. Nothing works.
Any ideas how I can get this working?
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I assume you've tried installing different browsers?
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I have tried the stock browser, Dolphin HD, Firefox, and Fennec. I am going to try Opera today. Has anyone had luck with any particular browser?
Hi,
I think some systems like hotel-provided WIFI work by setting a proxy into the browser. If that is the case with your situation, it may require a different kernel, plus an app. Search this forum for "proxy", e.g.:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=891605&highlight=proxy
Jim
Okay dumb question of the day. How would I determine if this wifi connection uses a proxy or not?
When I connect from my computer and run a tracert the first hop is the gateway and the second hop is always 192.168.50.1. Would that be the proxy?
I am Currently connected to this wifi with my laptop and I am not behind a proxy. I tried installing the Kernel referenced in the link you provided and also installed transproxy according to the thread still no go.
Does anyone have any ideas how I can get this thing to connect. My wifi indicator is on shows I am connected but no internet.
I've had my gtab connected on hotel wifi, and similarly on airport wifi. If I recall, the redirected confirm page opened in a second tab in the background but was not put in focus. I had to manually switch to citing the TnT browser. If that's not it also look for a floating frame within the same window. I've seen this show up way off to the side, really had to scroll around to find it.
Just checked this no go. I am getting the unable to connect page on every browser I try. I did not see any other tabs popping up either.
Okay so I sent an email to the tech support for our wifi network. They responded and said Adnroid devices have trouble with DHCP because of their network and that it should work if I set a static ip. Now the problem is how do I set a static IP in Vegan. I have tried the app Static IP and it doesnt' seem to wan to work.
Nevermind just figured it out.
Okay for those that are interested or may search and find this thread later. I never would have guessed that would fix it but using a static IP address solved the problem. Thanks to those who tried to help
Todd
toadleyb said:
Okay for those that are interested or may search and find this thread later. I never would have guessed that would fix it but using a static IP address solved the problem. Thanks to those who tried to help
Todd
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Glad u got it working!
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Hi everyone,
I am trying to get my head around on what can be done to bypass the tethering filter on 3UK.
Below are different scenarios I have come up with and would like any volunteers who could try out any of the following for me. Of course I will be doing these myself as and when time permits but its always helpful to have others view on it too.
Please and I say please, do not turn this thread into Right and Wrongs of tethering or Terms and conditions of 3 mobile contracts. Please keep your views to yourself regarding if its lawful or unlawful or ethical or unethical or whatever you seem to come up with. I would like this to be a productive thread, instead of random comments on tethering.
Option 1: Use SSH Tunnel * Should I use SSH tunnel on my phone and use my PC to connect to it to use internet. Is there a reverse option?
Option 2: Use OpenVPN Install OpenVPN on your pc, and connect your phone to your pc using default VPN function on your phone in my case GT-I9100 comes with VPN function. You could also try to reverse this method and install OpenVPN on your phone and use your PC to connect to it. *
Option 3: Use the above two together in combination As the heading says, use SSH tunnel to connect to your OpenVPN.
Option 4: Use a proxy on your pc and connect to your phone or reverse, install proxy app on your phone and point your pc web browser to that proxy address. You could use the SSH tunnel here to connect too.
So, tools at hand are vpn with any encryption available, ssh tunnel, proxy server.
Tools to ignore - TOR (onion), garlic based TOR like, changing User Agent on web browsers or paid VPN.
3 UK has two APN settings, three.co.uk for mobiles (NATd ip address) and 3internet (dongle users) has external IP address and I believe it’s an Open NAT or no NAT.
Please feel free to mix and match any options and also share your views on what is technically possible.
I hope to see something useful and learn a bit more. Even if we fail to achieve the desired results, it will still be enlightening to find the facts on how 3 detects tethering.
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Found on giff gaff forum useful info
Well, they have a few ways..TTL: In my opinion, the most likely telltale signal of tethering. For example, *iOS packets originate with a TTL of 64, so if they see anything else they know something is up. This is very easy to check, as the TTL is checked by each router as the packet is handled. (the address on the envelope - doesn't require opening the letter, to use an analog analogy)APN: Another possible sign of tethering is data being routed over the access point set up for the built-in tethering feature. But giffgaff does NOT have a separate APN for Tethering. Again, this is easy to check without deep packet inspection.User-agent: This is where carriers would need to get heavy-duty equipment and a willingness to be invasive to detect tethering. Your browser sends information about itself to remote web servers, and this information could be checked. I do not think giffgaff is doing this (to detect tethering at least,) as it is not proof of tethering since anyone can easily use another browser on your phone that reports a different User Agent.Web Sites Visited: Again, highly invasive, though it doesn't require DPI. If you're using the DNS servers of the carrier, they could look for requests for certain domain names like windowsupdate.com etc. This wouldn't be proof either, though.I would bet that they are using TTL. So tunneling the TCP/IP packets that way probably resets the TTL to the default of the WAN interface on the phone.
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Why do you have to make 2 threads for the same subject?
Well I wasn't sure at the time of writing first one if I had to go down the route of testing which the second one is for. So, the first one is literally to know if its happening to new contracts only and second is for testing different scenarios and finding how.
Hope this helps and if not then jog on.
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Invincible29 said:
Hope this helps and if not then jog on.
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Less of the attitude please and more of the reading of forum rules. Stick to one thread for the same thing.
Thread closed, use the other one (it was created first).
Howdy all. I have a wifi at home which works with web authentication i.e. you connect your phone to wifi and on opening a browser, it redirects you to an authentication site wherein upon entering your username and password, you get connected. The authentication page requires you to keep the tab open and work with another tab, otherwise you lose the connection. When working on a PC, it works like a charm. I keep the tab open and wifi sticks for long even when you're not active. But on a smartphone (I have a Galaxy S3 here), it's a living hell trying to keep it stay connected. I've tried keeping the browser app resident in memory, created a tasker script to browse the URL and reconnect on certain intervals which honestly is too tedious and needs a better solution, used wifi web login apps which don't work to my satisfaction i.e. don't connect just when connection is lost; but in all these cases, the connection just seems to disconnect making me reconnect time and again :/. I would be utterly grateful to anybody who could suggest a solution for me for this as this is seriously making me lose my sleep.
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Howdy all. I have a wifi at home which works with web authentication i.e. you connect your phone to wifi and on opening a browser, it redirects you to an authentication site wherein upon entering your username and password, you get connected. The authentication page requires you to keep the tab open and work with another tab, otherwise you lose the connection. When working on a PC, it works like a charm. I keep the tab open and wifi sticks for long even when you're not active. But on a smartphone (I have a Galaxy S3 here), it's a living hell trying to keep it stay connected. I've tried keeping the browser app resident in memory, created a tasker script to browse the URL and reconnect on certain intervals which honestly is too tedious and needs a better solution, used wifi web login apps which don't work to my satisfaction i.e. don't connect just when connection is lost; but in all these cases, the connection just seems to disconnect making me reconnect time and again :/. I would be utterly grateful to anybody who could suggest a solution for me for this as this is seriously making me lose my sleep.
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what is the reason you don't want to use wpa2 for a home network?
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what is the reason you don't want to use wpa2 for a home network?
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Dunno much about wifi security protocols but this is as my ISP provided. I've tried modifying the router protocols but nothing seem to make the web authentication go away.
ubz91 said:
Dunno much about wifi security protocols but this is as my ISP provided. I've tried modifying the router protocols but nothing seem to make the web authentication go away.
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ah, ok, what kind of router is it?
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ah, ok, what kind of router is it?
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A Motorola SBG901 wireless router.
ubz91 said:
A Motorola SBG901 wireless router.
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is there any security settings tab? or maybe it's under the wireless settings tab
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is there any security settings tab? or maybe it's under the wireless settings tab
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Nope, even setting security protocol to open shows the auth page. Might have to find a different solution for this.
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Nope, even setting security protocol to open shows the auth page. Might have to find a different solution for this.
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it could be the provider is forcing it, have you tried another router? normally, the web authentication is a proxy, so that could be the modem, or at the provider's end
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it could be the provider is forcing it, have you tried another router? normally, the web authentication is a proxy, so that could be the modem, or at the provider's end
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Don't think the router has anything to do with this. Only the provider URL loads in the browser for authentication. So yeah, would know if it had something to do with the router.
I am having trouble with authoricating Wi-Fi. When i connect to WiFi a website should pop up to allow me to login. However this is not happening. I had a Samsung note 2 and i had no problems at all. Is there some setting i need to use?
Not sure what you mean popup, I simply open the web browser and try to open any website, it will redirect to login page if it reqires login or accept something.
Ya thats the problem its not redirecting the web page. I am using chrome. I have tried setting chrome as the default browser but no luck with the web page being redirected
When that happens to me (e.g. at Starbucks, at McDonalds, any public place with WiFi, etc) .. I usually wait around for a little while and like every 20 seconds or so I try to navigate to google.ca... If done correctly the WiFi access page should appear. If it doesn`t work, try going to the WiFi settings and forget the network and reconnect to it. Once you connect to it wait like 20 seconds sometimes the pop up will happen right in the settings.
Thanks i'll give that a try. I know there's a bit of a problem with chrome and the default browser. Thanks for the help I'll let ya know
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Thanks i'll give that a try. I know there's a bit of a problem with chrome and the default browser. Thanks for the help I'll let ya know
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On my home network the Mate 2 does NOT do well on N. It runs fine on G. Perhaps that is part of the problem.
Very slow Wi-Fi
I am using my HAM2 without a SIM card, on wi-fi. It is way too slow and gets disconnected. Is this coz of no sim or is the phone by itself having an issue?. My other devices ( laptop, Nexus5, iphone6) are having a good signal strength and is pretty fast
Any advise to increase the wi-fi on this phone will be really helpful.
As the title implies: I want "a button" that can reopen the Captive Portal page, for instance when I accidentally swiped away the notification upon connecting to whatever wifi it is that I'm connecting to.
So is there any app, Magisk/Xposed module or anything else that can offer such "a button"?
Well that’s an uncommon topic and you can just create a button using More Shortcuts ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ss.moreshortcuts) to create a shortcut to turn WiFi off and on to reconnect tot he same network with the notification re-popped up.
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Well that’s an uncommon topic and you can just create a button using More Shortcuts ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ss.moreshortcuts) to create a shortcut to turn WiFi off and on to reconnect tot he same network with the notification re-popped up.
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Yeah, that doesn't always make the notification reappear. The "usual" experience I'm having is that the notification no longer reappear even after turning wifi off and back on, it rarely works that way.
The definitive and only solution that works (for me) all the time is to first turn my wifi off, secondly reboot my phone and lastly turn my wifi back on.
Hence the reason I'm bringing this topic here to (hopefully) eliminate the hassle. Moreover it just irritates me that there doesn't seem to be a dedicated button that can always open the captive portal interface.
Likely depends on how long the given IP is leased to your device(your phone's wifi Mac address usually) the portal is hosted by the network your connecting to this network also decides what traffic gets redirected or not. Its all or nothing with captive portals, you pay/agree to get access or are provided with terms and given a way to to agree or pay. Its not something the client(your phone) has much control over, that would defeat the purpose. If you have root, changing your mac address will likely trigger the portal. A captive portal is a special wepage hosted on a local server. Depending on how its set up, you can find the local ip and port its hosted on. Look up look up your gateway address in wifi settings, it will likely use a special port as well. In your browser, enter the gateway address, much like opening up the settings page of a wireless router. For example 10.0.0.1 is a common address for router settings, a colon : and the numbers following specify the port in chrome or Firefox and many others. I made a portal for my hotspot on my phone. Its hosted on 10.0.0.1:9090 if your on my hotspot and enter that in your browser, my portal will show. An app like fing would find the ip/port combo for you. It may not label it as a portal, but it will be within the subnet(similar address) of the gateway adress, most likely. Another way to get the address(easiest for sure) is to ignore the system captive portal popup, and instead attempt to visit a site in browser, some sites will still work without ssl which will trigger a browser warning. meetme.com is one such site. I use that website to trigger the portal for McDonald's wifi. The "Button" you want, may be bookmarks in your browser of captive portals you find on networks you use.