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Would it be possible to get Internet on the device, through PC, instead of Internet on PC, through device?
Is there any way to do this its very important as I live in India, there is no 3g and edge is very slow so can't download themes, updates directly on my g1
Sure there is a way, WiFi
No you cannot give the phone internet via USB
Can you be more specific on how to do it with WiFi? And without a router
I tried using the AdHoc connection created for the Tethering (Internet from G1's 3G/EDGE to PC), but with no luck.
The laptop and phone can ping each other, I have done all the necessary steps to share my LAN and WiFi connection, remounted the /system partition as rw, edited /etc/resolv.conf (/etc is in fact on /system/etc and if not remounted as rw you cannot edit /etc/resolv.conf), added the IP of the laptop, but then I have some trouble adding default route to it. No matter what settings I try "route add ...", they change nothing...
No internet, no ping.
Did you set the gateway?
You have the SDcard that you can use to move files to the phone, I don't see any need to download directly to the sdcard, especially if you have the phone hooked up via USB anyways.
Kind of pointless no>?
@ncoop23
but then I had some trouble adding default route to it. No matter what settings I try "route add ...", they change nothing...
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So, I have tried at least.
How do you do it without Wi-Fi, over the USB cable? I can't set up a Wi-Fi node at work or the network security guys will send a SWAT team after me.
If you have access to a computer that has internet, and you have your usb cable, why don't you just download whatever theme/update to the computer, then plug in the usb cable and transfer it to your phone?
You have a PC or laptop with access to the internet. Why not just download stuff on to the PC/Laptop and move onto SD card.
If you want it to get on the market or watch youtube to test it out etc then join the laptop/PC's connection. Simple.
There is no solution for getting internet from laptop to the phone....
I wonder that with technology improving at such a fast pace, why any developer at corporations or independently hasnt thought about it yet. Any app, gadget or software providing a solution for this problem will sell like a hot cake especially in developing countries like south asia, middle east and africa.
Brock Samson said:
If you have access to a computer that has internet, and you have your usb cable, why don't you just download whatever theme/update to the computer, then plug in the usb cable and transfer it to your phone?
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But how do I sync my Gmail and Contacts without a Wi-Fi or data connection?
dilwaladoctor said:
There is no solution for getting internet from laptop to the phone....
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Are you sure? There is a solution for getting internet from phone to laptop over USB, so why not from laptop to phone? This blog post claims it can be done, but I haven't ever seen it working: http://blog.mycila.com/2010/06/reverse-usb-tethering-with-android-22.html
I wonder that with technology improving at such a fast pace, why any developer at corporations or independently hasnt thought about it yet. Any app, gadget or software providing a solution for this problem will sell like a hot cake especially in developing countries like south asia, middle east and africa.
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This isn't a matter of "technology improving". Other phones already have it. Windows Mobile has had it for years.
dilwaladoctor said:
There is no solution for getting internet from laptop to the phone....
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You have no idea what you're talking about.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=5242264&postcount=17
I have know idea if this will work or not, but I have found this on a few different forum all posted by Diyism, so if it does work he deserves all the credit.
Code:
My android os is CyanogenMod 4.2.14.1,
1.Enable "Settings\Wireless controls\Internet tethering"
2.Install HTC Remote NDIS based Device driver([url]http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=277122&d=1265356413[/url])
3.Set the HTC adapter as: IP:192.168.2.1, Mask:255.255.255.0
4.Set the PC ethercard as shared connection
5.Run these codes in terminal:
su
ifconfig usb0 192.168.2.2 netmask 255.255.255.0
busybox route delete default
iptables -F
iptables -F -t nat
busybox route add default gw 192.168.2.1
setprop net.dns1 8.8.8.8
setprop "net.gprs.http-proxy" ""
6.Now your g1 could open browser to view any web pages on the internet, and update apps in the Market.
highlandsun said:
You have no idea what you're talking about.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=5242264&postcount=17
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Those instructions are only for a Linux computer, though?
I have used the setups as Brock Samson has indicated and it works for me.
I was asking the same question one year ago and I think I've posted somewhere a similar method to Brock Samson's, so it will definitely work.
In fact it will be less hussle if you don't enable internet tethering in settings and just bring usb0 up using ifconfig. You must set a correct IP address and netmask before the port is up though. Otherwise the driver on the PC end will freak out.
Generally Android never uses /etc/resolv.conf. Only console programs originated from Linux use it. DNS server must be set through setprop and has to be set everytime network status changes (e.g. mobile data network reconnect, etc).
Some programs will also use Android API to detect network availability and will back out if neither mobile data nor Wi-Fi is connected, so make sure you don't turn both of them off.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=793102
Hello. I have searched the forums but can't find a solution that works for me.
I need to connect my g1 to my laptop Wi-fi connection or at least via USB using adb shell. Can someone help me. I live in a country with very expensive 3g
data and cannot afford downloading apps. Any help will be appreciated.
I have rooted G1 with JF rc33
Why not get a wireless router?
/Mats
for example at work...
Edit : Nvm just reread ur post
Just get a wireless router or use the ad hoc thing for laptops, google search it
http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/tutorials/article.php/1451421
Пробвай това: http://junefabrics.com/android/index.php
Try this: http://junefabrics.com/android/index.php
;-)
Thanks
Well, getting a wireless router just to connect my G1 from time to time seems like a waste of money to me.I have read some articles about G1 and ad hoc networks and it seems that it is not possible at this moment to connect the device to a laptop. Actually I used to connect a PPC this way but the G1 won't even detect the ad hoc network i create. Well, if there isn't any other solution I guess the wireless router will be the last resort then. About PdaNET- i think it does just the opposite - it connects your PC to the internet using your phone. Isn't there any way to reverse teether using adb shell and usb cable?
Come on, is it really impossible to reverse tether using adb shell fo rexample, cant anyone with more knowledge give a solution please.
I was looking for something else and came across this post. I decided, even though it's ANCIENT, that someone might want to do the same, so I went to Google and searched for "Reverse tether G1 android". Within 5 minutes I had the answer.
http://androidcommunity.com/forums/291099-post8.html
It does require you to do a little command-line work on the G1 itself (or through ADB on the command prompt of the computer) but it appears it can be done.
HIH.
try this
Close any program that uses internet on your PC, connect your phone, turn on USB tethering. You would see a new virtual network adapter in your PC, enable internet sharing on that adapter as described in this article(hxxp://support.microsoft.com/kb/306126). The adapter's ip address would change to 192.168.0.1 with netmask of 255.255.255.0.
Then input the following codes line by line in your phone's terminal, you could download GScript(hxxp://code.google.com/p/gscript-android/) to do the job or just save it as a .sh file with 755 permission and run it when you want.
Code:
busybox ifconfig usb0 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0
busybox route delete default
iptables -F
iptables -F -t nat
busybox route add default gw 192.168.0.1
setprop net.dns1 8.8.8.8
setprop "net.gprs.http-proxy" ""
You would need to keep your GPRS/Edge connection on to trick programs into thinking that you have an internet connection, but all your phone's data is now routed thru your PC. Confirm this by checking if the GPRS/Edge icon on the top has those up and down arrows in it.
And to disable this, you simply turn off USB tethering and restart your GPRS/Edge connection.
OMG I just replied a post of 23rd March 2009, 09:13 PM! Don't think axlastro is needing this anymore. lol
@test1943
nice, I have been looking for this but...
how do I disable this properly?
To "restart your GPRS/Edge connection" I put my phone into airplane mode and then back to normal but it still couldn't connect to the network?? so I just rebooted and now that works.
But now my phone isn't recognized by my pc when I plug in the usb??
Any help.
oops let me take that all back. reboot, re-plugin and pc finds my phone again. tested again and it works as described.
Sweet Thanks
can this be done using root explorer?
I don't think so.
I just used gscript lite (free on the market)
I saved the stuff from test1943 in notepad as USBTether.sh, copied to my sdcard into the gscript folder.
Open gscript, push menu > add script. Click load file and select the USBTether.sh.
Made sure su was checked and clicked save.
Created a shortcut on the homescreen for this script.
1. Enabled Usb Tether
2. ran script
3. ???
4. profit.
Sleeepy2 said:
@test1943
nice, I have been looking for this but...
how do I disable this properly?
To "restart your GPRS/Edge connection" I put my phone into airplane mode and then back to normal but it still couldn't connect to the network?? so I just rebooted and now that works.
But now my phone isn't recognized by my pc when I plug in the usb??
Any help.
oops let me take that all back. reboot, re-plugin and pc finds my phone again. tested again and it works as described.
Sweet Thanks
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The easiest way to disable this(I think we could call it reverse USB tethering) was to use an APN switch, the "APN on-off Widget" in the market seems to do the job right. Turn off USB tethering, switch off APN, then switch on and you are good to go.
And Sleeepy2, how do you mean by "not recognized by my pc", is it in storage mode or debug mode?
plumppp said:
can this be done using root explorer?
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I think he is referring to the root explorer by Gpc, a Taiwanese. Never used that app, but judging by its description it could turn on/off APN just like the "APN on-off Widget" did.
Sleeepy2 said:
I don't think so.
I just used gscript lite (free on the market)
I saved the stuff from test1943 in notepad as USBTether.sh, copied to my sdcard into the gscript folder.
Open gscript, push menu > add script. Click load file and select the USBTether.sh.
Made sure su was checked and clicked save.
Created a shortcut on the homescreen for this script.
1. Enabled Usb Tether
2. ran script
3. ???
4. profit.
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ok thanks, gonna give it a try now
Edit: is this step necessary? im using vista and can't seem to find it.. can i skip it?
# Log on to the client computer as Administrator or as Owner.
# Click Start, and then click Control Panel.
# Click Network and Internet Connections.
# Click Network Connections.
# Right-click Local Area Connection, and then click Properties.
# Click the General tab, click Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) in the This connection uses the following items list, and then click Properties.
# In the Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Properties dialog box, click Obtain an IP address automatically (if it is not already selected), and then click OK.
Note You can also assign a unique static IP address in the range of 192.168.0.2 to 192.168.0.254. For example, you can assign the following static IP address, subnet mask, and default gateway:
IP Address 192.168.0.2
Subnet mask 255.255.255.0
Default gateway 192.168.0.1
plumppp said:
ok thanks, gonna give it a try now
Edit: is this step necessary? im using vista and can't seem to find it.. can i skip it?
# Log on to the client computer as Administrator or as Owner.
# Click Start, and then click Control Panel.
# Click Network and Internet Connections.
# Click Network Connections.
# Right-click Local Area Connection, and then click Properties.
# Click the General tab, click Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) in the This connection uses the following items list, and then click Properties.
# In the Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Properties dialog box, click Obtain an IP address automatically (if it is not already selected), and then click OK.
Note You can also assign a unique static IP address in the range of 192.168.0.2 to 192.168.0.254. For example, you can assign the following static IP address, subnet mask, and default gateway:
IP Address 192.168.0.2
Subnet mask 255.255.255.0
Default gateway 192.168.0.1
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Sorry for the confusion, that article was for XP only. Check this one for Vista: hxxp://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Using-ICS-Internet-Connection-Sharing
Notice: the network adapter you'll be working on should NOT be "Local Area Connection" because that's your PC's adapter. If you should have enabled USB tethering on your phone, you should see NEW one(i.e. it was not there before you turn on tethering), in my Windows 7, it was named "Local Area Connection 2".
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And Sleeepy2, how do you mean by "not recognized by my pc", is it in storage mode or debug mode?
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I mean after disabling usb tether, unplug usb, then plug it back in. The pc did nothing. Didn't recognize that I even plugged it in. Must be something that I did because it works great now.
I just need to figure out how to us gscript to enable USB Tether then I can do it all with 1 shortcut.
Then another 1 to disable USB Tether, disable apn and then re-enable apn.
test1943 said:
Sorry for the confusion, that article was for XP only. Check this one for Vista: hxxp://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Using-ICS-Internet-Connection-Sharing
Notice: the network adapter you'll be working on should NOT be "Local Area Connection" because that's your PC's adapter. If you should have enabled USB tethering on your phone, you should see NEW one(i.e. it was not there before you turn on tethering), in my Windows 7, it was named "Local Area Connection 2".
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ok thanks, gonna try this again
Edit: sorry if im beginning to become an annoyance.. but when i run the script i get "stderrr Script execution failed" "no such process network is unreachable"
Su is checked, i also removed tex. and added sh
plumppp said:
ok thanks, gonna try this again
Edit: sorry if im beginning to become an annoyance.. but when i run the script i get "stderrr Script execution failed" "no such process network is unreachable"
Su is checked, i also removed tex. and added sh
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Please type in each line to see which line produces error. And may I ask which ROM are you using? Remember to su first.
test1943 said:
Please type in each line to see which line produces error. And may I ask which ROM are you using? Remember to su first.
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okay thanks again, i'll do it manually one at a time. i'm using cyanogen 307 nightly
Edit: okay.. i didn't even get pass the first line lol..
i'm assuming its the rom.. when typing "busybox ifconfig usb0 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0"
i get: [ifconfig: socket: Permission denied]
which rom are you using?
plumppp said:
okay thanks again, i'll do it manually one at a time. i'm using cyanogen 307 nightly
Edit: okay.. i didn't even get pass the first line lol..
i'm assuming its the rom.. when typing "busybox ifconfig usb0 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0"
i get: [ifconfig: socket: Permission denied]
which rom are you using?
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That seems to be a root problem to me, does other root-required apps work right?
Before i start i want to let people know YES I DO HAVE A WIRELESS ROUTER!! So please do not respond telling me to just go buy a router.
REQUEST - Reverse wired tethering. I.E. Sharing PC's iNet connection with your phone via USB.
REASON - My university's wireless is locked down and does not allow mobile phones, pda's to connect up to our wireless without submitting MAC for approval. Looking to sync certain apps without using my data connection.
I dont know if anyone has played around with trying to get this working or not. I know its a small market of people who may be interested in this, but for certain places (CANADA) where data charges are WAY to expensive this could be handy for students at UNI where wireless is not an option.
get a second wifi adapter on your laptop, and share your uni wireless network connection with the second wifi adapter. Use a hidden SSID, then no one will know what is going on
This was asked a couple of times before here and I remember people saying you couldn't reverse the tethering.You could try though.
alexperkins said:
get a second wifi adapter on your laptop, and share your uni wireless network connection with the second wifi adapter. Use a hidden SSID, then no one will know what is going on
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Thats a good idea xD
Hey guys,
I have been trying to find a way to do this for a long time.
The best solution i have found (actually the only solution) is Connectify. The only downside is you must have Win7.
What it does is turns your wifi adapter into a HotSpot, even if you are using wifi to get the net in the first place. Its a great tool and should be what your after.
http://www.connectify.me/
memphisraynz said:
Hey guys,
I have been trying to find a way to do this for a long time.
The best solution i have found (actually the only solution) is Connectify. The only downside is you must have Win7.
What it does is turns your wifi adapter into a HotSpot, even if you are using wifi to get the net in the first place. Its a great tool and should be what your after.
http://www.connectify.me/
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thank you so much for this
Your best solution is the WiFi adapter. You could most likely get away with a SOCKS proxy over USB, possibly using adb, but it would be complicated, unstable, and messy.
I still don't know you just don't use your wireless router. I assume they have wired. Clone your PC's mac address and hook it up. Universities are retarded with that crap. They have the worst networks and security.
If no wired, then what podunk place is it? haha
Even if they had only wireless , you could set up a wlan client and repeat it. DDWRT, etc, ftw.
Just get backtrack for your laptop and spoof your mac to all 0 then grab connect to the network at your school the spoofed mac will allow you to browse so long as no other encyption is on the network such as WEP or WPA.
then you can try to flood all the ports on the network so no one else can connect then spoof your phones mac by conneecting to your laptop through wireless as an adhoc connection and while staying connected through adhoc load a second server through the same wireless network card and you can connect to the achools network again. and walla...
death1246 said:
Just get backtrack for your laptop and spoof your mac to all 0 then grab connect to the network at your school the spoofed mac will allow you to browse so long as no other encyption is on the network such as WEP or WPA.
then you can try to flood all the ports on the network so no one else can connect then spoof your phones mac by conneecting to your laptop through wireless as an adhoc connection and while staying connected through adhoc load a second server through the same wireless network card and you can connect to the achools network again. and walla...
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so simple, i dunno why i didnt think of that. thanks! lol
Well its quit simple once you learn your way around linux...
If you have any experience with *nix, you may want to look at Cyanogen's original usb tether shell script:
http://github.com/cyanogen/android_vendor_cyanogen/blob/master/bin/usb-tether
Basically you could use the internet connection sharing function that comes with all popular OSes and access your uni's network on your phone. You must have Cyanogen mod or another mod using his kernel. Not yet working on OSX for some reason. Tested under Windows 7.
First you'll need to figure out what IP address range your computer's DHCP server is using. This is normally fixed for each OS. For Windows 7, it's always 192.168.137.0/24.
For OSX or Linux, you can setup connection sharing (for some other connection because we don't have the USB interface yet) and ifconfig.
Second is to enable the USB connection on the phone's side. Type the following command in any console program, like Connectbot. (You must use a console program as opposed to adb because you will lose USB debugging once the USB network interface is enabled.)
Code:
su
cd /sys/devices/virtual/net/usb0
ifconfig usb0 192.168.137.200 mask 255.255.255.0
echo 1 > enable
The first line makes you the superuser. (Skip if the command prompt is #)
The second line land you in usb0's directory under sys. We'll need to type the disable command later, so it's easier if we're here.
The third line brings up the virtual usb network interface and sets its IP address.
The IP address should be in the same network (i.e. IP address range) you obtained in step 1. Say if the original is 192.168.137.1 in a /24, you can use 192.168.137.2 through 192.168.137.254
This actually enables the usb interface.
You will now see a new network adapter is recognized by your computer. Set up connection sharing to share your internet TO that adapter.
Make sure you have connection by pinging your computer from your phone.
For example:
ping 192.168.137.1
Now you'll have to change the routes so traffic go through the USB cable instead of the mobile network.(# is the command prompt, do not enter)
# busybox route
check the line starting with "default". Write down the ip address after it; call it IP1.
# getprop net.dns1
Call the IP returned IP2.
Code:
busybox route del default gw IP1
busybox route add -host IP2 rmnet0
busybox route add default gw 192.168.137.1
The first line deletes the old default route via the mobile network.
The second line adds an "exception" for your carrier's DNS server.
The third line adds the new route via USB. You should replace the address at the end with the IP address from the first step.
Your network should be working now. Test by visiting some website that is only available on campus or by traceroute.
You must make sure the mobile network is always connected though. This is because domain names are still resolved by your mobile carrier. If you ever lose your mobile connection, the routing table will be changed as well.
To disconnect:
Make sure you're still in /sys/devices/virtual/net/usb0.(Use pwd if unsure.)
Code:
netcfg usb0 down
echo 0 > enable
The usb interface will disappear on your computer.
Now switch the phone to airplane mode and back to re-enable mobile network.
The disconnect step should always restore your phone's state.
// This is written at 3am, so use it at your own risk...
help?
look at this
http://superuser.com/questions/91699/spoof-mac-address-from-ip-command
bg
It's really sad that Android can't reverse tether. If you want to use your laptop's AdHoc connection you have to do serious hacking to the tiwlan.ini and the wpa_supplicant.conf. There is no way to connect via bluetooth ar USB.
I'm seriously considering WP7 now for my next OS of choice... A nd for everyone saying "go buy a router" - go buy a router and stick it up your .... nose.
Hi,
I have the same problem. No WiFi in my work and no WiFi in my current home (a Resident Hall). There's no possibility to buy a WiFi router, of course. I tried to hack the system to connect ad-hoc networks but it didn't work.
I have found some interesting resources:
sluniverse.com/php/vb/blogs/psyke+phaeton/1042-making-android-phone-use-your.html
letsgoustc.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!89AD27DFB5E249BA!877.entry
I have a HTC Magic with the ADP-DRC83 hacked ROM with Usb tethering integrated. But usb0 interface in the mobile is configured to provide Internet connection (as gateway) to the PC, not the reverse functionality: connecting the mobile to Internet through the PC. So, all I need is to change the gateway in Android and then configure a NAT-DNS in my linux PC (easy with iptables and dnsmasq). But, I don't know how automatize the process exactly.
digitaljeff said:
but for certain places (CANADA) where data charges are WAY to expensive this could be handy for students at UNI where wireless is not an option.
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Wind will be launching in vancouver soon.
$35 unlimited data.
Silly ragin' cajun.
Ok, now it works. Here it's my procedure for a HTC Magic (Sapphire) without any APN previously configured from Telecom provider and ROM CSDIv4.
In the mobile by using Better Terminal:
Code:
su
cd /sys/devices/virtual/net/usb0
echo 1 > enable
ifconfig usb0 192.168.2.2 mask 255.255.255.0
busybox route add default gw 192.168.2.1
setprop net.dns1 8.8.8.8
In the linux computer:
Code:
sudo sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_forward=1
sudo iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
sudo iptables -A FORWARD -i usb0 -j ACCEPT
sudo ifconfig usb0 192.168.2.1 netmask 255.255.255.0
Android Market downloads and location service don't work but I think is possible if you switch on the WiFi.
Update: Syncronization, Android Market downloads and location service don't work even the WiFi antenna is switched on. I have added the iptables commands also.
Well gosh, reverse wireless tethering is so much simpler
There are another similar thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=522498
How can I join an Android device to a Bluetooth PAN (Personal Area Network) as a client? In some areas, the only internet connection available would be to tether it through another cell phone via bluetooth PAN (other phone has no wifi).
Solutions that require rooting or config file editing are OK.
I've searched alot, but all results are about going the other way - tethering other devices through the Android.
Soundman6 said:
How can I join an Android device to a Bluetooth PAN (Personal Area Network) as a client? In some areas, the only internet connection available would be to tether it through another cell phone via bluetooth PAN (other phone has no wifi).
Solutions that require rooting or config file editing are OK.
I've searched alot, but all results are about going the other way - tethering other devices through the Android.
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It's Linux, man, all you need is setting network config I was using reverse tethering for some time, this is my script (run on PC):
Code:
sudo pand --listen --role NAP
adb shell pand --connect XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
sudo ifconfig bnep0 192.168.101.1
adb shell ifconfig bnep0 down 192.168.101.2 up
adb shell route add default gw 192.168.101.1 dev bnep0
adb shell setprop net.dns1 192.168.101.1
Of course you should omit 1st and 3rd lines.
Are you sure second phone supports PAN connections, not DUN? PAN is quite complicated for phone, because it requires full NAT.
And you will have problems with Android Market and some other apps. Internet is configured at linux level, Android OS don't know about it, so if application asks: "Do we have internet connection?", Android replies: "No". Android Market will wait for connection even if there is one.
Brut.all said:
And you will have problems with Android Market and some other apps. Internet is configured at linux level, Android OS don't know about it, so if application asks: "Do we have internet connection?", Android replies: "No". Android Market will wait for connection even if there is one.
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I believe that is a valid concern. Anyone know how to deal with this? Thanks.
Soundman6 said:
I believe that is a valid concern. Anyone know how to deal with this? Thanks.
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But most of the apps don't check internet status and just use it - they will work. AFAIR I couldn't use Market, GTalk and syncing feature, but Browser, Gmail and many, many more was working.
If you have any WiFi device then you could connect Android to it. Even if it doesn't share internet connection, Android OS will think, that it does (but will use BT connection configured at linux level ) - then any app should work.
At work I got a laptop with windows XP, There's a wireless network but it's EAP secured and I can't connect to it with the phone (Motorola Milestone - Android 2.1).
Did you manage to make internet work through Bluetooth PAN? I just need to use the borwser, so It's not important if market or other apps don't work.
I have android sdk with adb on my laptop and terminal emulator with busybox on my phone. I'm kind of a newbie in this so some hints would be nice. I think many people like me would be gratefull
haxxy said:
Has anybody got it working?
At work I got a laptop with windows XP, There's a wireless network but it's EAP secured and I can't connect to it with the phone (Motorola Milestone - Android 2.1).
Did you manage to make internet work through Bluetooth PAN? I just need to use the borwser, so It's not important if market or other apps don't work.
I have android sdk with adb on my laptop and terminal emulator with busybox on my phone. I'm kind of a newbie in this so some hints would be nice. I think many people like me would be gratefull
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And my first post was about what, you think? I don't use it now, but I was reverse-tethering through BT for several months, until I bought some data plan.
Above commands should work for you, but... they will let you connect your phone to PC, but I don't know, how to share internet connection on Windows XP. AFAIR I tried to do it, but failed.
There's a bluetooth network icon. I know it's possible to share the internet connection from my ethernet to the other network cards. So this should work also with the bluetooth network.
I will try the commands and see how it goes.
haxxy said:
it's possible to share the internet connection from my ethernet to the other network cards. So this should work also with the bluetooth network.
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Unfortunately not ;-) It is a cost of easy-clicking-configuration that Windows has - it's very limited, don't work for BT connections. I guess there is some professional software for internet sharing on Windows, but I don't know one.
Brut.all said:
Unfortunately not ;-) It is a cost of easy-clicking-configuration that Windows has - it's very limited, don't work for BT connections. I guess there is some professional software for internet sharing on Windows, but I don't know one.
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I did this with my symbian phone. I managed to share internet to the bluetooth network, but the phone had a bluetooth PAN profile that connected to my laptop.
No! Already I have a bluetooth network set up on my Ubuntu Laptop - pand is running and there is a dhcp server monitoring the interface. What I need is not the below advice, which are commands to run on the PC, but an application / utility / instructions for enabling BLUETOOTH PAN CLIENT on Android. That is what the original question was too! Anybody?
Paul Beardsell
Brut.all said:
It's Linux, man, all you need is setting network config I was using reverse tethering for some time, this is my script (run on PC):
Code:
sudo pand --listen --role NAP
adb shell pand --connect XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
sudo ifconfig bnep0 192.168.101.1
adb shell ifconfig bnep0 down 192.168.101.2 up
adb shell route add default gw 192.168.101.1 dev bnep0
adb shell setprop net.dns1 192.168.101.1
Of course you should omit 1st and 3rd lines.
Are you sure second phone supports PAN connections, not DUN? PAN is quite complicated for phone, because it requires full NAT.
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What I need is not the below advice, which are commands to run on the PC, but an application / utility / instructions for enabling BLUETOOTH PAN CLIENT on Android.
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4 of 6 lines of my instructions were for setting Android client: connecting, setting IP, routing and DNS. And yes, they are run on Android, not on PC - I thought you will notice "adb shell" prefixes... You can also use dhcpcd instead of last 3 lines, but if you don't understand, what are you doing, you will have problems anyway.
Maybe anyone with Froyo can confirm that there's still no official option for joining a Bluetooth PAN from Android there?
@Brut.all So I guess there's currently no way to kind of telling Android there's a configured connection on Linux level?
By the way, every Mac allows the creation of a Bluetooth PAN with one click so this would be my usage scenario ;-)
This seems like it should work, and indeed I can use a similar technique from an ubuntu laptop to connect to another device, but my HTC Hero doesn't seem to have hcitool or pand installed on it. I downloaded some prebuilt binaries for them but they don't seem to be able to access the bluetooth device:
# /data/tmp/pand --role PANU --connect 00:17:83:0F:0F:C7 -n
pand[5083]: Bluetooth PAN daemon version 3.36
pand[5083]: Connecting to 00:17:83:0F:0F:C7
pand[5083]: Connect to 00:17:83:0F:0F:C7 failed. No route to host(113)
Do all versions of Android come with pand and hcitool? I'm on 1.5 although I'll be reflashing to 2.1 soon.
"find / -name pand" yields no results
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Do all versions of Android come with pand and hcitool? I'm on 1.5 although I'll be reflashing to 2.1 soon.
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No, it was added by rom cookers and I don't know how they did this. I think there are missing some kernel modules or something like that.
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This seems like it should work, and indeed I can use a similar technique from an ubuntu laptop to connect to another device, but my HTC Hero doesn't seem to have hcitool or pand installed on it. I downloaded some prebuilt binaries for them but they don't seem to be able to access the bluetooth device:
# /data/tmp/pand --role PANU --connect 00:17:83:0F:0F:C7 -n
pand[5083]: Bluetooth PAN daemon version 3.36
pand[5083]: Connecting to 00:17:83:0F:0F:C7
pand[5083]: Connect to 00:17:83:0F:0F:C7 failed. No route to host(113)
Do all versions of Android come with pand and hcitool? I'm on 1.5 although I'll be reflashing to 2.1 soon.
"find / -name pand" yields no results
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No, it was added by rom cookers and I don't know how they did this. I think there are missing some kernel modules or something like that.
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Thanks, I've got the FroydVillain ROM installed now and can confirm that it comes with pand and hcitool compiled and working.
Reverse tether does seem to work, the method that's worked for me has been to use:
Code:
pand --connect <remote BT device hex address>
ifconfig bnep0 down
dhcpcd bnep0
setprop net.dns1 8.8.8.8
This allows the device to access the internet, and you can ping www . google . com and get a response etc.
However, a lot of android apps (including the built-in google apps for gmail etc) use the ConnectivityService (see source code here) to access the net, and since this method of reverse tethering doesn't change the connectivity state within this service, those apps still believe that there is no internet connection on the device.
I can't see an easy way of "tricking" the ConnectivityService as it appears to have been hard coded to only cater for WIFI and 3G connectivity. So perhaps the only way is to rewrite it.
I've found a few cases of others going through the same issues online, although I think the getMobileDataEnabled return value is a red herring:
(I'm not allowed to post links, so you will need to add http : // www to these
superuser.com/questions/188636/close-connect-android-to-internet-using-usb-tether-through-laptops-newtwork
forceclose.com/questions/2669/connect-android-to-internet-using-usb-tether-through-laptops-newtwork
Looking at the code in ConnectivityService.java it seems that apps must subscribe to this service via getInstance() and then wait for a sendConnectedBroadcast() to occur, triggering them into action (e.g. the gmail app will attempt to sync to the gmail server etc).
Anyone got any ideas for an easier route than rewriting ConnectivityService.java to add an additional connectivity type?
Edit to add:
Found another related discussion at the following site. Seems to suggest modifying the ConnectivityService is the way to go:
comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.handhelds.android.porting/12028
Based on the posts I've seen in this thread, I'm guessing I can't use BlueTooth PAN tethering from my rooted Dinc to provide internet access to a Samsung Galaxy Tab???
So has anyone tried to Bluetooth tether a Galaxy tab with a phone?
Thanks for this thread! I just successfully Tethered both internet+gps over bluetooth from my G1 to my AdventVega tablet.
For now I am using GScript lite with the following script commands:
Code:
pand --connect {my phones BT hex address}
ifconfig bnep0 down
dhcpcd bnep0
setprop net.dns1 8.8.8.8
dhcpcd bnep0
(for some reason the first dhcpcd command always says permission denied, but the last one always works)
So...
1) Get in to car with Android phone and Vega Tablet.
2) On phone: Enable GPS/Bluetooth, click GPS2Bluetooth widget button, click WiFi Tether (configure for BT), press to start tethering.
3) On tablet: Enable Bluetooth, click Bluetooth GPS Provider, click Start, click Back or Home, click GScript Lite, click "Connect to BT-PAN" (above script)
4) Run GoogleMaps/Navigation on tablet and enjoy using your tablet as the ultimate GPS navigation system (while streaming Pandora in the background)!
I am very happy. I just wish I could make step 2 & 3 be a single click instead of so many.
NOTE: Must have "Allow mock locations" enabled in Settings->Applications->Development
NOTE2: You must pair your phone and tablet in BT settings (it will never say "connected" though, which is fine)
I tried this, but still no connection between my android phone and the other phone. Is there some other method?
Some research into bypassing T-mobile’s tether restrictions reveals there are several things carriers can do to detect hotspot usage and block those packets:
-is hotspot data sent through a second anp?
-does carrier mark the packets coming through the wlan interface?
-do they filter by user agent strings?
-do they view the ttl?
-do they block urls that phones do not use?
-do they have a monitoring app pre-installed? (ex delete com.tmobile.pr via titanium backup)
Getting around these restrictions while using the native hotspot functionality requires work-arounds that I did not go far enough to successfully implement. One cannot by default edit the APNs for instance. I had to set up a duplicate, but theorize T-mobile was still routing to the hotspot APN I could not edit. With root access (which I have) it should be possible to achieve success, but I have found satisfactory non-root ways of achieving unlimited internet with MetroPCs (owned by T-mobile). I have, however, compiled a number of resources and may look back into what hacks must be used on the native app in the future. If anyone has a good guide on how you're getting hotspot with the Nougat LG V10 please post!
It stands to reason that one must use a non-native application to disguise the tether usage, or significantly modify the native one. After stalling with the mods, I pursued the non-native of attack and found (2) independent working ways to get unlimited tethered internet.
Wifi Tethering apps
I tried various wifi tether apps and without additional modifications or configuration I could not get them to work including:
-native hotspot (which works despite not having a hotspot plan, but t-mobile blocks)
-Wifi tether router by Fabio Grasso ($2.90) (requires root access)--(t-mobile was blocking the connection)—in discussion with developer on how to get working, will update. UPDATE: After back and forth with dev, he recommended using a VPN. His app does route the VPN through the hotspot connection if that feature is toggled. I have not tested. Potentially, changing the TTL of the computer may do something.
-Open Garden Wifi Tether—crashed when attempting to start service
Wifi Direct apps:
Wifi apps such as NetShare (red-themed play store entry is completely free, several paid versions) which use the native wifi direct functionality create a proxy server through which you can connect to via wifi. These DO WORK without additional modifications, but most native desktop apps on your computer cannot access the internet. All websites will load however. You have to set up your internet connection as through a proxy server on the client side but do not need to install additional software. A GOOD OPTION TO HAVE. I have found that one sometimes may need to stop and start the service to get it to give you internet access. The way I do it is start then quickly bring up the wifi menu, computer recognizes the network and connects quickly. If there is too much of a delay between starting and connecting via the client Netshare(Pro) doesn’t seem to work without a quick disable/enable afterwards.
USB tethering apps:
Rely on the phone’s native USB debugging feature in the hidden developer tools menu. (Go to about phone, software info, and tap on build repeatedly until enabled.) NO ROOT required. I tested Easy Tether ($9.99) and ClockWorkMod Tether ($4.99). Both worked well. PDAnet+ may also fall into this category but I have not researched. THIS IS MY PREFERRED METHOD so far. It is also possible to USB tether to certain types of wifi routers and thus get wifi for the home.
-There are PC, Mac, or Linux applications and drivers which must be installed on the computer side.
-Must have USB debugging enabled, and USB options set to Photo Transfer (Media Transfer does not work, and why I originally failed with ClockWorkMod…otherwise probably would have not pursued root!)
-These USB tether apps have the benefit of reducing the heat generated by your phone (no wifi signal generation), so runs cooler (think chips last longer) and uses less energy than when you have wifi hotspot enabled. For this reason, and for the phone being so handy when connected to my laptop, I actually prefer this method. Plus you have access to the pictures and DICM folders of internal storage so you can transfer stuff to the phone fairly immediately. To get full access, however, you’ll have to switch to MTTP mode, which on LG phones such as this V10 will break the internet connection. Other phones may not have this particular issue.
Bluetooth Tether apps:
Easy Tether and probably PDAnet+ support Bluetooth tether. With easy tether I wouldn’t suspect any issues at all using this.
Potential other methods WHICH SEEMED PROMISING, I sorted through a lot! For your inspiration:
-One youtuber mentioned using a desktop hospot application + PDAnet+ to get legit wifi hotspot functionality. The desktop PDAnet+ application apparently disguises the tethering operation. Video here: https://youtu.be/D98abWOkkQI
-Exposed framework and tether for rooted devices (did not try): https://highonandroid.com/android-a...n-rooted-android-att-t-mobile-sprint-verizon/
-Claims you’ll be able to tether any rooted android with this rooted wifi app and particular settings (similar to wifi tether router) https://highonandroid.com/android-a...android-smartphone-or-tablet-universal-guide/ (UPDATE: I tried, app is not compatible with the phone)
See comments section of this article for the below quotes: https://www.groovypost.com/howto/hide-data-usage-get-truly-unlimited-tethering-tmobile-one/
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“The main issue I see people having is the lack of apn editing. This has been my setup for four years now
-Dd-wrt with iptables to edit the ttl value to 65 -Change TTL on windows PC to 65 so that it appears data is coming from the phone. (41 in hex = 65 in dec) https://social.technet.microsoft.co...o-live-ttl-in-windows?forum=w7itpronetworking
-Changed apn of hotspot to match the apn of normal mobile date. Doesn’t matter if you use fast.xxxx.com or alpha/beta BUT YOU CANT USE THE ORIGINAL HOTSPOT APN it’ll say mobile web or some ****. If you do you will be routed through their hotspot server and tracked. I’ve done this on iOS and android.
-FOR THE FOLKS THAT SAY THE VPN DOESNT WORK. Once again you MUST change the apn AND you have to make sure that your traffic is actually being routed through the VPN, in my experience on both android and iOS hotspot traffic bypass your phones VPN, and VPN on the router/computer traveling through the phone can be tracked if the phone isn’t the one using the VPN, to make it force traffic through the VPN I had to use the for data option in the tether me app on iOS. These things all work if you do it properly.”--Wifi tether router does have this VPN routing function but I have not tested.
"My COMBO works for me on T-Mobile unlimited.
Nexus 5x – rooted 6.01 with “settings put global tether_dun_required 0”
PLUS
Asus n31u router (w/ net.ipv4.ip_default_ttl = 65, bridge mod)
Works for Window 7 desktop and laptop, chromebook, and tablets. All about 80 Gigs last month”
“The TTLstands for “time to live” it is a counter on the data you send for its maximum hop count, or the number of devices it can travel through, for ever device it goes down by one, windows has a default TTL of 128, while Android has one of 64, if you change the TTL for windows to 65 when it gets to the phone the TTL will go down by one makeing it equal 64 the same as the phone. There are more adwanced way to do this so you can run a whole network off this by using a router with either DD-wrt, Tomatos or open-wrt or a dedicated pc running either pfsense, linux, or freebsd to act as a router and mangle the TTl on the fly, the benefits of this is it gets ALL of the data(windows seem to miss a small amount arohnd 5%) and its possible to edit the User agent in ways that dont mess up websites with squid and just appending the device.”
Reserved
For USB tether clients, ClockWorkMod seems to be programmed in a lower-level fashion and produce significantly less heat than running Easytether. I will be monitoring and update.
Arr123 said:
Some research into bypassing T-mobile’s tether restrictions reveals there are several things carriers can do to detect hotspot usage and block those packets:
-is hotspot data sent through a second anp?
-does carrier mark the packets coming through the wlan interface?
-do they filter by user agent strings?
-do they view the ttl?
-do they block urls that phones do not use?
-do they have a monitoring app pre-installed? (ex delete com.tmobile.pr via titanium backup)
Getting around these restrictions while using the native hotspot functionality requires work-arounds that I did not go far enough to successfully implement. One cannot by default edit the APNs for instance. I had to set up a duplicate, but theorize T-mobile was still routing to the hotspot APN I could not edit. With root access (which I have) it should be possible to achieve success, but I have found satisfactory non-root ways of achieving unlimited internet with MetroPCs (owned by T-mobile). I have, however, compiled a number of resources and may look back into what hacks must be used on the native app in the future. If anyone has a good guide on how you're getting hotspot with the Nougat LG V10 please post!
It stands to reason that one must use a non-native application to disguise the tether usage, or significantly modify the native one. After stalling with the mods, I pursued the non-native of attack and found (2) independent working ways to get unlimited tethered internet.
Wifi Tethering apps
I tried various wifi tether apps and without additional modifications or configuration I could not get them to work including:
-native hotspot (which works despite not having a hotspot plan, but t-mobile blocks)
-Wifi tether router by Fabio Grasso ($2.90) (requires root access)--(t-mobile was blocking the connection)—in discussion with developer on how to get working, will update. UPDATE: After back and forth with dev, he recommended using a VPN. His app does route the VPN through the hotspot connection if that feature is toggled. I have not tested. Potentially, changing the TTL of the computer may do something.
-Open Garden Wifi Tether—crashed when attempting to start service
Wifi Direct apps:
Wifi apps such as NetShare (red-themed play store entry is completely free, several paid versions) which use the native wifi direct functionality create a proxy server through which you can connect to via wifi. These DO WORK without additional modifications, but most native desktop apps on your computer cannot access the internet. All websites will load however. You have to set up your internet connection as through a proxy server on the client side but do not need to install additional software. A GOOD OPTION TO HAVE. I have found that one sometimes may need to stop and start the service to get it to give you internet access. The way I do it is start then quickly bring up the wifi menu, computer recognizes the network and connects quickly. If there is too much of a delay between starting and connecting via the client Netshare(Pro) doesn’t seem to work without a quick disable/enable afterwards.
USB tethering apps:
Rely on the phone’s native USB debugging feature in the hidden developer tools menu. (Go to about phone, software info, and tap on build repeatedly until enabled.) NO ROOT required. I tested Easy Tether ($9.99) and ClockWorkMod Tether ($4.99). Both worked well. PDAnet+ may also fall into this category but I have not researched. THIS IS MY PREFERRED METHOD so far. It is also possible to USB tether to certain types of wifi routers and thus get wifi for the home.
-There are PC, Mac, or Linux applications and drivers which must be installed on the computer side.
-Must have USB debugging enabled, and USB options set to Photo Transfer (Media Transfer does not work, and why I originally failed with ClockWorkMod…otherwise probably would have not pursued root!)
-These USB tether apps have the benefit of reducing the heat generated by your phone (no wifi signal generation), so runs cooler (think chips last longer) and uses less energy than when you have wifi hotspot enabled. For this reason, and for the phone being so handy when connected to my laptop, I actually prefer this method. Plus you have access to the pictures and DICM folders of internal storage so you can transfer stuff to the phone fairly immediately. To get full access, however, you’ll have to switch to MTTP mode, which on LG phones such as this V10 will break the internet connection. Other phones may not have this particular issue.
Bluetooth Tether apps:
Easy Tether and probably PDAnet+ support Bluetooth tether. With easy tether I wouldn’t suspect any issues at all using this.
Potential other methods WHICH SEEMED PROMISING, I sorted through a lot! For your inspiration:
-One youtuber mentioned using a desktop hospot application + PDAnet+ to get legit wifi hotspot functionality. The desktop PDAnet+ application apparently disguises the tethering operation. Video here: https://youtu.be/D98abWOkkQI
-Exposed framework and tether for rooted devices (did not try): https://highonandroid.com/android-a...n-rooted-android-att-t-mobile-sprint-verizon/
-Claims you’ll be able to tether any rooted android with this rooted wifi app and particular settings (similar to wifi tether router) https://highonandroid.com/android-a...android-smartphone-or-tablet-universal-guide/ (UPDATE: I tried, app is not compatible with the phone)
See comments section of this article for the below quotes: https://www.groovypost.com/howto/hide-data-usage-get-truly-unlimited-tethering-tmobile-one/
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“The main issue I see people having is the lack of apn editing. This has been my setup for four years now
-Dd-wrt with iptables to edit the ttl value to 65 -Change TTL on windows PC to 65 so that it appears data is coming from the phone. (41 in hex = 65 in dec) https://social.technet.microsoft.co...o-live-ttl-in-windows?forum=w7itpronetworking
-Changed apn of hotspot to match the apn of normal mobile date. Doesn’t matter if you use fast.xxxx.com or alpha/beta BUT YOU CANT USE THE ORIGINAL HOTSPOT APN it’ll say mobile web or some ****. If you do you will be routed through their hotspot server and tracked. I’ve done this on iOS and android.
-FOR THE FOLKS THAT SAY THE VPN DOESNT WORK. Once again you MUST change the apn AND you have to make sure that your traffic is actually being routed through the VPN, in my experience on both android and iOS hotspot traffic bypass your phones VPN, and VPN on the router/computer traveling through the phone can be tracked if the phone isn’t the one using the VPN, to make it force traffic through the VPN I had to use the for data option in the tether me app on iOS. These things all work if you do it properly.”--Wifi tether router does have this VPN routing function but I have not tested.
"My COMBO works for me on T-Mobile unlimited.
Nexus 5x – rooted 6.01 with “settings put global tether_dun_required 0”
PLUS
Asus n31u router (w/ net.ipv4.ip_default_ttl = 65, bridge mod)
Works for Window 7 desktop and laptop, chromebook, and tablets. All about 80 Gigs last month”
“The TTLstands for “time to live” it is a counter on the data you send for its maximum hop count, or the number of devices it can travel through, for ever device it goes down by one, windows has a default TTL of 128, while Android has one of 64, if you change the TTL for windows to 65 when it gets to the phone the TTL will go down by one makeing it equal 64 the same as the phone. There are more adwanced way to do this so you can run a whole network off this by using a router with either DD-wrt, Tomatos or open-wrt or a dedicated pc running either pfsense, linux, or freebsd to act as a router and mangle the TTl on the fly, the benefits of this is it gets ALL of the data(windows seem to miss a small amount arohnd 5%) and its possible to edit the User agent in ways that dont mess up websites with squid and just appending the device.”
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I recently been looking into this as well. I've currently been using the new pdanet with with wifi direct but it seem to be hit or miss when getting a internet connection when using the proxy method. I have a few devices where i cant install the interface so im looking for reliable method
Few scenarios im looking at. The first one you cover quite a bit, was wondering if your using IPV4 or IPV6 with your different apn settings? 2nd scenario is being able to tether when connected to wifi like from a hotel and being able to pass that to other devices and the 3rd is being able to pass along a vpn connection if connected to free wifi places
Sorry for the necropost, I just wanted to point out that currently the only method you can use to hide tethering from T-mo is PDANet with it's "Hide Tether Usage" feature.
All other methods are detected and if you have tethering, will count against your tethering allotment.
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Sorry for the necropost, I just wanted to point out that currently the only method you can use to hide tethering from T-mo is PDANet with it's "Hide Tether Usage" feature.
All other methods are detected and if you have tethering, will count against your tethering allotment.
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Thanks for the heads up. Just wanted to make sure since I wanted to try the TTL method, but that is also blocked by T-Mobile correct?
TTL 65 didn't work on my computers, but 85 and 99 did. So don't be afraid to try different things.
However, the phone should be able to modify the TTL before it forwards the packet. How is there not an app that does this, or is there a setting or hack we can do to make it change the TTL as it passes through the phone?
edit: have searched more and learned some apps do, but they don't work on my phone. Not sure why.
I have metro pcs with 15gb of hotspot data.. i run out every month.. once my data runs out i use hotspotvpn. A free app on the google play store and it works for everything.. been doing it for months..never had any issues
CHEEF WALKING-FROG said:
I have metro pcs with 15gb of hotspot data.. i run out every month.. once my data runs out i use hotspotvpn. A free app on the google play store and it works for everything.. been doing it for months..never had any issues
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Which one do you use? I saw a few that had the same name
Same here metro
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Which one do you use? I saw a few that had the same name
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Im also wondering which app you're referring to. Theres quite a few with that name
CHEEF WALKING-FROG said:
I have metro pcs with 15gb of hotspot data.. i run out every month.. once my data runs out i use hotspotvpn. A free app on the google play store and it works for everything.. been doing it for months..never had any issues
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Let me third the request. I just clocked through 8 or 9 different apps with that name. Who is the publisher?
Thanks!
Bypass With Termux
I've done this for ever and it's not going to be restricted to who you have but it will 100 percent get around any data throttling.
Download Termux app and install openssh-server on it. Go ahead and hotspot your phone, then run ifconfig inside Termux to get your current tethering local IP. It will be the only 192. spit out when you run ifconfig. Save this. Run sshd -dD inside Termux which starts an openssh server waiting to be connected to in debug mode to audit traffic. Now pop onto a PC or router you can SSH into, whatever and connect it to your hotspot from your phone. Now SSH tunnel all the traffic from the device back through the openssh server your running on the Termux app. Now that you are on the same local network you can SSH tunnel into that IP address you saved earlier. As long as you make sure all your traffic passes through the tunnel it 100 percent shows that all your internet is being used by Termux app not your hotspot app so you need no other spoofing of hops or anything because to your phone and carrier you are just using a bunch of data in termux, you do it right you will never be throttled I've used 150GB data multiple times.
Step by step > https://github.com/RiFi2k/unlimited-tethering
RiFi2k said:
I've done this for ever and it's not going to be restricted to who you have but it will 100 percent get around any data throttling.
Download Termux app and install openssh-server on it. Go ahead and hotspot your phone, then run ifconfig inside Termux to get your current tethering local IP. It will be the only 192. spit out when you run ifconfig. Save this. Run sshd -dD inside Termux which starts an openssh server waiting to be connected to in debug mode to audit traffic. Now pop onto a PC or router you can SSH into, whatever and connect it to your hotspot from your phone. Now SSH tunnel all the traffic from the device back through the openssh server your running on the Termux app. Now that you are on the same local network you can SSH tunnel into that IP address you saved earlier. As long as you make sure all your traffic passes through the tunnel it 100 percent shows that all your internet is being used by Termux app not your hotspot app so you need no other spoofing of hops or anything because to your phone and carrier you are just using a bunch of data in termux, you do it right you will never be throttled I've used 150GB data multiple times.
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This is amazing. How do I use my Windows PC to connect to the openSSH server to create the traffic tunnel? Also, how do I force my Windows 10 traffic through the tunnel?
I am guessing with Putty and then setup SSH proxy in a browser to force traffic? Won't that only allow browser based traffic through the tunnel and not all traffic from the Windows computer?
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This is amazing. How do I use my Windows PC to connect to the openSSH server to create the traffic tunnel? Also, how do I force my Windows 10 traffic through the tunnel?
I am guessing with Putty and then setup SSH proxy in a browser to force traffic? Won't that only allow browser based traffic through the tunnel and not all traffic from the Windows computer?
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So I am an everyday linux user and for me personally I use sshuttle to route everything back through the tunnel because it already handles the TCP over TCP problem because the guy that wrote it is a boss. This here explains that.
If I was on windows I would go with their vagrant solution because then you get the benefit of sshuttle and all your responsible for is making sure all traffic goes through the VM. Also you could use something like proxycap and putty works as well although I guess it's slow people have said.
Browser traffic can be handled with SOCKS proxies.
I feel like it's a pretty great solution overall and can benefit some people so I started a repo and I'll fully document how it works, I'm just too tired tonight so keep an eye out https://github.com/RiFi2k/unlimited-tethering and I'll step by step linux and windows for everyone as much as possible, plus if anyone else has scripts and whatnot feel free to contribute.
RiFi2k said:
So I am an everyday linux user and for me personally I use sshuttle to route everything back through the tunnel because it already handles the TCP over TCP problem because the guy that wrote it is a boss. This here explains that.
If I was on windows I would go with their vagrant solution because then you get the benefit of sshuttle and all your responsible for is making sure all traffic goes through the VM. Also you could use something like proxycap and putty works as well although I guess it's slow people have said.
Browser traffic can be handled with SOCKS proxies.
I feel like it's a pretty great solution overall and can benefit some people so I started a repo and I'll fully document how it works, I'm just too tired tonight so keep an eye out https://github.com/RiFi2k/unlimited-tethering and I'll step by step linux and windows for everyone as much as possible, plus if anyone else has scripts and whatnot feel free to contribute.
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Thanks a lot, will read up on this. Adding your github to my bookmarks as well. :good:
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I've done this for ever and it's not going to be restricted to who you have but it will 100 percent get around any data throttling.
Download Termux app and install openssh-server on it. Go ahead and hotspot your phone, then run ifconfig inside Termux to get your current tethering local IP. It will be the only 192. spit out when you run ifconfig. Save this. Run sshd -dD inside Termux which starts an openssh server waiting to be connected to in debug mode to audit traffic. Now pop onto a PC or router you can SSH into, whatever and connect it to your hotspot from your phone. Now SSH tunnel all the traffic from the device back through the openssh server your running on the Termux app. Now that you are on the same local network you can SSH tunnel into that IP address you saved earlier. As long as you make sure all your traffic passes through the tunnel it 100 percent shows that all your internet is being used by Termux app not your hotspot app so you need no other spoofing of hops or anything because to your phone and carrier you are just using a bunch of data in termux, you do it right you will never be throttled I've used 150GB data multiple times.
Step by step > https://github.com/RiFi2k/unlimited-tethering
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Had any user tried this already and confirm that it works with metropcs?
Pdanet+ documentation details that only usb tether+hide tether usage works with metropcs. It took me a while to go around all of it, but I haven't tested due to I want to switch carriers to metropcs.
RiFi2k said:
I've done this for ever and it's not going to be restricted to who you have but it will 100 percent get around any data throttling.
Download Termux app and install openssh-server on it. Go ahead and hotspot your phone, then run ifconfig inside Termux to get your current tethering local IP. It will be the only 192. spit out when you run ifconfig. Save this. Run sshd -dD inside Termux which starts an openssh server waiting to be connected to in debug mode to audit traffic. Now pop onto a PC or router you can SSH into, whatever and connect it to your hotspot from your phone. Now SSH tunnel all the traffic from the device back through the openssh server your running on the Termux app. Now that you are on the same local network you can SSH tunnel into that IP address you saved earlier. As long as you make sure all your traffic passes through the tunnel it 100 percent shows that all your internet is being used by Termux app not your hotspot app so you need no other spoofing of hops or anything because to your phone and carrier you are just using a bunch of data in termux, you do it right you will never be throttled I've used 150GB data multiple times.
Step by step > https://github.com/RiFi2k/unlimited-tethering
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Hey bro!! Thank you !!
This is great idea, I would try it on my country to see if this works
myself379 said:
Hey bro!! Thank you !!
This is great idea, I would try it on my country to see if this works
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For sure! See the nice thing about this method is that your phone doesn't register any of the data used as coming from the tethering app, it 100% all gets attributed to the Termux app because of the SSH tunnel. So basically there is no way for anyone at your carrier to know, or prove that you actually were tethering at all. If you open up the apps section and check out the part where it shows you how much data each app used you will see what I mean. So basically it really doesn't matter what country / carrier / phone you have, as long as you have access to be able to tether and you have a computer you can use for the SSH tunnel it's impossible for them to throttle you because they can't prove you actually used the data tethering. When you read the fine print about them throttling it basically says the same thing, if they can't definitively prove the data came from tethering it doesn't go on your tethering cap.
Hello RiFi2k,
OK, thanks for the information. I'm trying to translate this into a windows environment(Windows 10 phone and PC).
Here is what I have so far, but a few of your points are unclear. A little clarity would be fantastic.
Translation for Windows 10 phone
Since, I'm on a windows phone there is no Termux app. I guess Termux is used to install the SSH server and gain access to a command prompt, correct?
1. Ok since openssh server is built into the windows phone OS and I can access the command prompt via putty, I should be fine, right.
2. Generate key pair and stored public key on phone. Working fine.
3. Hotspot connection to phone.
4. Run ipconfig(windows) on phone or local machine. On local machine, gateway address is the needed ip, same as hotspot address on phone.
5. SSH Server is started on phone once the phone is placed in development mode.
Can't put server in debug mode on phone, but I'm pretty certain that it's hard coded to listen on port 22.
6. Your instructions on github.com have duplicated the step number 5, which should be 6 and I am having a little trouble sorting through it.
7. I guess the only way to tunnel to the phone is to run a putty session from the Windows machine configured per your instructions.
Are these commands executed on the device or phone?:
ssh -D 8123 -fqgN [email protected].1 -p 22 (ssh client)
sshuttle -r [email protected].1:22 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0 (sock proxy)
Either way, I will need to use putty for the SSH Client portion. What are the switches in your example "-fqgN"? Are the switches concatenated?
-f Specifies a per-user configuration file.
-q Quiet mode
-g Allows remote hosts to connect to local forwarded ports.
-N ???
And finally, depending on where the above commands are run, I will need to find a sock proxy solution, if I want all traffic going through the tunnel.
Again, thanks for all your hard work.
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Hello RiFi2k,
OK, thanks for the information. I'm trying to translate this into a windows environment(Windows 10 phone and PC).
Here is what I have so far, but a few of your points are unclear. A little clarity would be fantastic.
Translation for Windows 10 phone
Since, I'm on a windows phone there is no Termux app. I guess Termux is used to install the SSH server and gain access to a command prompt, correct?
1. Ok since openssh server is built into the windows phone OS and I can access the command prompt via putty, I should be fine, right.
2. Generate key pair and stored public key on phone. Working fine.
3. Hotspot connection to phone.
4. Run ipconfig(windows) on phone or local machine. On local machine, gateway address is the needed ip, same as hotspot address on phone.
5. SSH Server is started on phone once the phone is placed in development mode.
Can't put server in debug mode on phone, but I'm pretty certain that it's hard coded to listen on port 22.
6. Your instructions on github.com have duplicated the step number 5, which should be 6 and I am having a little trouble sorting through it.
7. I guess the only way to tunnel to the phone is to run a putty session from the Windows machine configured per your instructions.
Are these commands executed on the device or phone?:
ssh -D 8123 -fqgN [email protected].1 -p 22 (ssh client)
sshuttle -r [email protected].1:22 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0 (sock proxy)
Either way, I will need to use putty for the SSH Client portion. What are the switches in your example "-fqgN"? Are the switches concatenated?
-f Specifies a per-user configuration file.
-q Quiet mode
-g Allows remote hosts to connect to local forwarded ports.
-N ???
And finally, depending on where the above commands are run, I will need to find a sock proxy solution, if I want all traffic going through the tunnel.
Again, thanks for all your hard work.
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Ok, so the N is `-N Do not execute a remote command. This is useful for just forwarding ports (protocol version 2 only).` reference https://linux.die.net/man/1/ssh
It's completely fine if you don't have debug mode on when you start the sshd server on your phone, you actually don't technically need any flags. One is debug and one is detached so it runs in the background, which you are generally going to want.
Both those commands are run on your computer, but you only use one or the other. Follow my link to sshuttle they have information for using it on Windows, it will transparently route all your traffic through the tunnel for you already so it's way better than anything else.
So just to recap, you start the sshd (ssh server) on your phone and it will spit out a port. Then you go to your PC and ssh or sshuttle (ssh client) connect to your phone.
I'm around if you need more help!
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Also once you get it working on Windows with your phone if you don't mind letting me know what version of Windows and what model your phone is, and where the directions hung you up, because I'll mention it all to help the next person.
Thanks for the quick reply. I'm going to have to dig a little deeper. It looks as if Microsoft is doing some kind of filtering on the WiFi interface and blocking this approach. Again, thanks for the great start.