Can't believe it.. It really seems not possible to share my PC Internet connection to my Android phone (HTC Desire), because Android OS simply forgot the option to add a new connection..
It is NOT thetering 3G internet to my desktop, but the other way around..
Sooo easy on a Windows Mobile, Simply possible on Symbian with gnubox. Why suck up my 3G data plan if I have a perfect Internet connection just in front of me most of the time. Of course, at work for example there is no WiFi available.
Bluetooth PAN would be great, it is available on almost every laptop. Wifi Ad-Hoc is also an option, but is not detected by Android. Why? Is Android sponsored by Telco Companies or something?
Searched for a while and found a discussion where someone says: "Yes, if you root your phone, and you are happy to mess around editing the wireless config files to add an ad-hoc wireless connection.
But why is'nt there a simple app to do this?
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As I understand it, the built in wifi router functionality only lets you connect one device at a time.
Are there any other applications about for windows mobile that allow you to connect two devices at once?
Thanks
It's not possible to share the WiFi connection to more than one client.
Even desktop computers can't do it (except through a combination of Windows 7, new hardware, and Connectify).
look at walking hotspot (costs around $25), think you can try before you buy.
http://www.walkinghotspot.com/
purports to support multiple connections
may need to check with them re HD2 connectivity, worked on Kaiser
You can use this one :
http://global.wmwifirouter.com/features/
Is it possible to connect two phones via WiFi? Does anyone have any idea on how make this happen that can point me in the right direction? I wanna work on this for my senior design project. I basically want to share the sdcard with another phone
Maybe having one phone as a hotspot, and the other connecting to it, or thru an already existent wireless network
Thanks
Anyone? ....
You can probably by creating one phone as access point and connecting the other through ad-hoc connection.
I never did, though had used this type of connectivity on PCs.
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Probably you want to make something like that:
frostwire.com/android/
p2p client connects phones via WiFi and shares photo, music, video, documents
they have opened sources but not for Android version.
Sadly you'll need to hack android to allow ad hoc wifi. On another note, Bluetooth 3.0 is kind of what you are talking about but not like a NAS setup which you are wanting. BT 3.0 sets connects/handshakes two devices by bt then turns on wifi for faster speeds. The only devices that I know have BT 3.0 as of now are the Samsung Galaxy S's
The title is self-explanatory, will it be possible to create a homebrew WiFi tethering app with the new API's of the upcoming Mango update?
Thanks everyone
I'm very interested in an answer to that question myself.
If I'm not mistaken than these things won't just be up to the API's/Apps but also to your operator.
It just happened somewhen during the last year that i.e. O2 Germany opened this feature for iPhone users. I think to remember that I read somewhere that it's blocked for most of the O2 contracts nowadays (especially those with mobile internet including a "flatrate").
I am interested if it could be achieved with the new API's. Neither BASE nor O2 block tethering in the network, O2 only blocked it on the iPhone by not allowing the setting on the device. I could tether with my Palm Pre and N95 8GB since ever with both carriers.
And I don't' think a carrier can stop you from installing a Homebrew tethering solution
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Alright, I didn't know that. Somehow the crying of all the Apple users made it sound a little worse to me
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Cyruss89 said:
The title is self-explanatory, will it be possible to create a homebrew WiFi tethering app with the new API's of the upcoming Mango update?
Thanks everyone
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It's possible to do this today, nobody has yet. I was trying to find something open source in either C# or for WinCE/WM that I could port, but never came up with something meaningful.
I'm not entirely sure whether we can connect to ad-hoc wireless networks though. I suspect it could be done over USB either way.
What do you mean with "I'm not entirely sure whether we can connect to ad-hoc wireless networks though"? I want my PC to connect to a WiFi network, not my phone.
I can already tether via USB, because I have a LG Optimus 7, thx MFG Menu ;-). Coming from a Palm Pre that's not what I want.
I'd love to help, but unfortunaly I can't code at all :-(
@Cyruss89:
What davux meant was that you have to get your phone and your laptop on the same WiFi network, and generally that means using an Ad-Hoc network. Since the phone currently can't do Ad-Hoc (so far as we know), that's one problem in the way.
An alternative approach would be to have the phone act as a WiFi Access Point (broadcast an Infrastructure network). This is possible on the PC with some tweaking, but requires OS support, unless the OS exposes the capability directly to the user. An intermediate option might be to write a native app that can tell the driver to enter this state, if it even knows how (and if there is a usable API for doing so).
Anyhow, once you've got some way for the phone and PC to talk over WiFi, there's a few more things that are needed. An app like this isn't going to work with simply turnign the phone into a USB modem (which is what the current tethering apps do). The phone will stay connected to the network itself, but it'll need to basically re-implement something like Internet Connection Sharing in Windows. This means:
* DHCP server, so the PC can get an IP address.
* DNS forwarding, so the PC can resolve domain names to IP addresses.
* Network Address Translation, so that the phone knows what packets it needs to send to the PC(s) and on what ports.
Now, the code for all of this exists, and is even available in reasonably portable open-source C (BSD can do everything we need). Getting it to work on the phone isn't going to be trivial, though. For example, it requires the ability to open a low-level type of network socket that isn't going to be available in Mango. It also will require some work to port to WinCE, unless somebody has CE code for this already.
For now, I'll keep doing what I've been doing: tether my phone to my laptop, and use the laptop's Internet Connection Sharing and WiFi to share with other machines, if necessary.
don't know if you know this but i'll post it anyway
on samsung omnia 7 is already possible even without nodo update, here is the link
@keanu20:
USB tethering is already possible on *all* WP7 phones. It also has absolutely nothing to do with this thread, which is about WiFi hotspot capability (similar in purpose but more useful and completely different in implementation).
Thanks a lot for this post GoodDayToDie! Basically this means I have to hope that MS or Nokia implement the functionality by themselves.
Hope dies last.
So this won't be in Mango.
The reason HTC were able to do it was that they included a new WiFi driver in their HTC 1.29 Firmware update for their devices. Which is being pushed out by MSFT now.
Hi everyone,
Is it possible to enable Bluetooth DUN Profile support in the Transformer so that I can use my 3G cellphone (Symbian S60v3) as a Bluetooth dial-up modem?
Thanks!
No, it is not possible and will likely never be possible unless someone modifies the android code. I've been studying the problem for a while but can't seem to make any headway.
http://code.google.com/p/android/is...un&colspec=ID Type Status Owner Summary Stars
This stuff i now working perfecly in any linux system!
What would they need? Port ppp and some code from network-manager? Probably the mobile phone providers database also.
Does anyone know what is the reason why this is not implemented?
I have an HTC Desire HD (DHD), I was hoping to use the BT DUN or PAN from the TF to the DHD when I was out an about, seems this wont work.
Then I thought, OK, if I connect the TF to the DHD with USB, I can use tethering, that does not seem to work either.
Any thoughts?
You MAY be able to get BT-tether to work between your tablet and your cellphone if you install pdaNET on both, and your cellphone supports BT-DUN. I believe stock Android kernel doesn't support BT-DUN, but if it's rooted and the custom ROM supports it you're in business.
For me I go with wifi-tether ... it's much faster.
USB-tether would make sense, cos you can charge your phone at the same time (with your dock, I suppose). Problem is there's no phone driver for the Android tablet and I don't think there will ever be.
So, in short, if you have a Symbian phone there's no way to have Internet access in the TF101 through the phone.
This is not good news...
[Q] Bluetooth Dial-up Networking Profile (DUN) in 3G firmware?
Does anyone know if the 3G firmware version supports Dialup Networking through Bluetooth?
The complexity of supporting DUN should not be much bigger than supporting GSM SIM cards, right?
There is no joy for us blackberry users either.
I think that dual-booting a standard Linux distribution is probably the way to go...
According to lilstevie Network Manager is starting to work.
Then it's just plug and play, hopefully
Hi I am not expert so please forgive me if i am answer wrongly .
I manage to use bluetooth internet sharing to my TF but I am using Iphone 3gs and use Internet Tethering option.
Is that what you want ? I never tested using nokia phone.
As far as I know, tethering requires the mobile phone to act as a wireless access point.
Symbian does not support this natively.
I did find an application that would implement it, but it was purchasable only.
And I'm trying to find a free solution.
I managed to get this working in CyanogenMod 7.1... in theory it should work on any Android 2.3.7 based OS.
I'm going to write a howto geared for the end-user later tonight, but for now my notes are here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1352936
Hi there,
At my girlfriend's house there's an existing WiFi access point for their home network and they also have a bunch of computers wired in with ethernet cable. Mobile reception in the house is terrible but I've found one spot by a window where I can sustain a pretty decent dc-hsdpa link. I'm able to tether my laptop to my phone, the phone creates a new WiFi network ap and my laptop connects to that. That works fine.
The thing is, what I'd really like to do, is to have access to the dc-hsdpa connection from some of the wired computers on her home network. To do that I want to have my phone bridge the house network - via their existing WiFi ap - to the mobile internet connection. I'd like the phone to provide a gateway on the house network that could be manually used from the other computers. (I want to avoid using DHCP or anything as it will disrupt the network for other users.)
I know this is technically possible but I'm struggling to find an application that allows for this functionality. I've spent a good amount of time searching around the internet but to no avail. Does anyone know where I can look or of a suitable application? (My phone is a Samsung Galaxy S4 i9505 flashed to run a rooted variant of the play edition KitKat rom.) I'm happy to pay money.
Cheers, Dave.