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Internet Sharing and battery drain

So...I use internet sharing as my primary source of internet as ?I am on the road a lot. Recently my phone has started to stop charging at some point while using internet sharing. I am trying to figure out why, the best I can find online is it is a heating issue and the phone stops charging at a certain temp. Should I keep it in my freezer at home wrapped in a cloth or something? Really annoying when I am working and the phone dies and I have to go out w/o a charge. Anyone know if it could be a radio issue? Thanks in advance,

votum said:
So...I use internet sharing as my primary source of internet as ?I am on the road a lot. Recently my phone has started to stop charging at some point while using internet sharing. I am trying to figure out why, the best I can find online is it is a heating issue and the phone stops charging at a certain temp. Should I keep it in my freezer at home wrapped in a cloth or something? Really annoying when I am working and the phone dies and I have to go out w/o a charge. Anyone know if it could be a radio issue? Thanks in advance,
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Its definitely a heating issue.
You can try different radios and see if that helps.
I have had some radios get my device really hot, compared to others.
Keep it by an AC vent or when it overheats, unplug it, cool it down and plug it back in.

what app are you using for internet share? im using the HTC Internet Sharing app that recently came out and i had the same experience BUT i figured that its because its using WIFI and also connected to data soo i believe its normal, what i find is that if u go on simple sites or use an IM without surfing the net, it wont overheat as quick, or if lucky it wont at all, the reason is the amount of data transferred to the phone then it transfers (via WIFI) it to the wireless pc at a fast rate which uses alot of CPU, which can be the blame for the over heat and mysterious non charge even if its connected to the charger...those some of the things thats causing ur problems, and btw yes sometimes keep it next to an AC, could lower down the temps a little bit

Wifi Tether Spica Edition 2.0 - hang after long use

Hi,
I've the Spica version of Wifi Tether on my Spica XXJE1, Lhx 2.02.1 rooted and it works really well even if the phone become really hot during using it also with underclock of the cpu.
Anyway my problem is that after a while even if the battery is not at the danger limit of heat, the program seems to hang without any possibility to unlock it.. the screen is on and everything seems to hanged and the only way is to remove the battery. Is there a system log to know what's happen?

[Q] May WiFi tethering damage the phone?

Hi guys,
I've a question I cannot properly answer by myself. I've searched the web but I didn't find an exhaustive answer.
I wanna use my Nexus S as WiFi router during holiday, for about one month, several hours a day. I'm concerned to possible damage that this could cause to my phone, especially due to overheating and fast battery drain.
When I tested WiFi tethering I noticed, obviously, overheating and also battery drain.
Since the phone will be probably connected to wall charger while tethering (that causes overheating itself), could the excessive heat damage something, somehow? I think I'll underclock to embank it a little, but I'm still worried..
And also the continue charghing of the battery, beside overheat, could really damage it ? :silly:

gnaurittiello said:
Hi guys,
I've a question I cannot properly answer by myself. I've searched the web but I didn't find an exhaustive answer.
I wanna use my Nexus S as WiFi router during holiday, for about one month, several hours a day. I'm concerned to possible damage that this could cause to my phone, especially due to overheating and fast battery drain.
When I tested WiFi tethering I noticed, obviously, overheating and also battery drain.
Since the phone will be probably connected to wall charger while tethering (that causes overheating itself), could the excessive heat damage something, somehow? I think I'll underclock to embank it a little, but I'm still worried..
And also the continue charghing of the battery, beside overheat, could really damage it ? :silly:
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The battery may be degraded a little bit as a result of overheating. As for the rest of the hardware, I'm not sure what the effect is on that, shouldn't be a real issue I guess. You can try to cool your phone with an icepack underneath it or something? But why not just take a wifi router with you? or make us of Ad-hoc from the laptop?

kwibis said:
The battery may be degraded a little bit as a result of overheating. As for the rest of the hardware, I'm not sure what the effect is on that, shouldn't be a real issue I guess. You can try to cool your phone with an icepack underneath it or something? But why not just take a wifi router with you? or make us of Ad-hoc from the laptop?
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Yes, I thought about cooling the phone somehow, but it sounds weird :silly: Anyway, I'm on linux and the driver (iwl4695) of the wifi card on my laptop doesn't support AP-mode ( I need to connect more than one device to it), so I cannot use that. I would do this to avoid buying a brand new device such a MiFi, but I'm not still sure, but maybe it will be the best choice, (apart from the 50€, obviously :laugh: )

gnaurittiello said:
Yes, I thought about cooling the phone somehow, but it sounds weird :silly: Anyway, I'm on linux and the driver (iwl4695) of the wifi card on my laptop doesn't support AP-mode ( I need to connect more than one device to it), so I cannot use that. I would do this to avoid buying a brand new device such a MiFi, but I'm not still sure, but maybe it will be the best choice, (apart from the 50€, obviously :laugh: )
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They're not that expensive are they? Couple of years back bought a very cheap wifi router for 20 euros... still functioning :good:But good luck with your decision

kwibis said:
They're not that expensive are they? Couple of years back bought a very cheap wifi router for 20 euros... still functioning :good:But good luck with your decision
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Finally I opted for WiFi tethering. Battery is about 42-43 degrees, but it's fine for now. And it's also charging with USB, great. I'm posting this with my PC WiFi connected to the phone.:laugh:
BTW, if phone will die for this, nevermind, it will be a good reason for switch to Galaxy Nexus :silly:
Anyway, thanks for help.:good:
I ìll leave this unsolved, because even if I solved my own situation, it will be interesting read experiences of users using their phones as router for extended period of time. I'll post my own experience after holiday.

ive been using wifi tet. while on my last holiday for about a week, few hrs a day, never got warm/hot when unplugged from charger, although when on charge and i was streaming videos from net , phone was warm..
if ur phone is really hot while using wifi tet, try to reflash ur rom.

Reasons for me to not sell my TF700T?

It's as simple as that. I've been using my Nexus 4 smartphone ever since I received it on Feb. 1, and since then I have not turned on or even considered using my TF700T. Although this is just a minor annoyance, it's quite a hassle taking it out of my backpack on campus, waiting for it to boot up, and connect it to slow wifi, while I can just do whatever I want to do on my phone twice as fast and without any I/O lag. The only real thing I can do on the tablet that I can't on a phone is type up notes.
I really love this tablet and CleanROM has made my experience much better, but I always find myself going to the phone for everything I need. That being said, does anyone one here have any tablet-specific tasks I can perform on a tablet but not on a phone?

I have phases like this. New device love syndrome :cyclops: Bought a nexus 7 and didn't use the infinity for 2 weeks. Now I never use the nexus 7. Think I'll sell it. Screen estate is just a bit too small.
Bought a Microsoft surface rt. Only use it for work related tasks. It's a great idea but a terrible mobile device.
Phone screens are too small for sustained web browsing and productivity tasks IMO.
I always come back to the infinity. Great device. I'm sure you will fall in love with it again. Once the honeymoon is over.

rikkoko said:
It's as simple as that. I've been using my Nexus 4 smartphone ever since I received it on Feb. 1, and since then I have not turned on or even considered using my TF700T. Although this is just a minor annoyance, it's quite a hassle taking it out of my backpack on campus, waiting for it to boot up, and connect it to slow wifi, while I can just do whatever I want to do on my phone twice as fast and without any I/O lag. The only real thing I can do on the tablet that I can't on a phone is type up notes.
I really love this tablet and CleanROM has made my experience much better, but I always find myself going to the phone for everything I need. That being said, does anyone one here have any tablet-specific tasks I can perform on a tablet but not on a phone?
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I'm having quite the reverse: my SGS2 never went more than 24h without needing a charge, now it sits there for 5 days. I text with wit, I tether its data connection by Bluetooth to the 700, I check my train schedule if I run into changed platforms and such. The rest: Infinity.
I might replace it with another fullHD tablet, non-ASUS, but I have to do a bit more research as to what my options are. I will not sell this one, however, as I have several optees within my family.

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I tether its data connection by Bluetooth to the 700
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Whenever I try that, my TF700 reboots immediately. Do you use any special trick, or is it just my old Motorola Defy that my TF700 doesn't like?

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Whenever I try that, my TF700 reboots immediately. Do you use any special trick, or is it just my old Motorola Defy that my TF700 doesn't like?
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Oh, it's definitely picky! Sometimes neither device will connect to the other (although both are set to being visible to any device), and sometimes even rebooting doesn't fix it. It stays a bit hit or miss, but you could give Open Garden a whirl (NB: it sets up an unencrypted VPN, so you do not want to send over anything sensitive, like banking data or the like, when you are, say, aboard a train or bus, but in the safety of my rather quite neighborhood, I used it several times when the normal Bluetooth tethering crapped out on me again ). Funny thing is, if anything, your Defy should reboot and not the 700. Which ROM are you on?
I pair both devices beforehand, then go to the Wireless hotspot option in the Settings, and CleanROM provides the option to do bluetooth internet sharing. I think I'm far too stupid to think of tricks on how to do this when that does not work.

MartyHulskemper said:
Funny thing is, if anything, your Defy should reboot and not the 700. Which ROM are you on?
I pair both devices beforehand, then go to the Wireless hotspot option in the Settings, and CleanROM provides the option to do bluetooth internet sharing.
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Defy: stock Android 2.1 (I don't want to mod my only phone)
TF700: CROMI 3.2
Devices are paired, "Internet tethering (via USB and BT)" is enabled on the phone.
When I connect the TF700 to the phone's "internet access" service, it says "connecting...", and after a few seconds I see the boot animation and Android restarts. Interestingly, not a kernel-level restart, I didn't see the bootloader logo. I remember reading about other reports of the same problem somewhere.
My workaround is to use WiFi tethering, which works fine. It just eats a lot of battery on the phone, but it's good enough for me.

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Defy: stock Android 2.1 (I don't want to mod my only phone)
TF700: CROMI 3.2
Devices are paired, "Internet tethering (via USB and BT)" is enabled on the phone.
When I connect the TF700 to the phone's "internet access" service, it says "connecting...", and after a few seconds I see the boot animation and Android restarts. Interestingly, not a kernel-level restart, I didn't see the bootloader logo. I remember reading about other reports of the same problem somewhere.
My workaround is to use WiFi tethering, which works fine. It just eats a lot of battery on the phone, but it's good enough for me.
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Mmmh... Never had that happen to me. WiFi tethering is my go-to as well when Bluetooth craps out.

sbdags said:
I have phases like this. New device love syndrome :cyclops: Bought a nexus 7 and didn't use the infinity for 2 weeks. Now I never use the nexus 7. Think I'll sell it. Screen estate is just a bit too small.
Bought a Microsoft surface rt. Only use it for work related tasks. It's a great idea but a terrible mobile device.
Phone screens are too small for sustained web browsing and productivity tasks IMO.
I always come back to the infinity. Great device. I'm sure you will fall in love with it again. Once the honeymoon is over.
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Hahaha I'm actually hoping that I'm going through a "honeymoon phase" too, I'm going to give it one more week to think it over! I do prefer the infinity for productivity, but what I mostly do is read over PDFs. I'm actually thinking of downgrading to a Nexus 7 for that :\
MartyHulskemper said:
I'm having quite the reverse: my SGS2 never went more than 24h without needing a charge, now it sits there for 5 days. I text with wit, I tether its data connection by Bluetooth to the 700, I check my train schedule if I run into changed platforms and such. The rest: Infinity.
I might replace it with another fullHD tablet, non-ASUS, but I have to do a bit more research as to what my options are. I will not sell this one, however, as I have several optees within my family.
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Ahh I see. I actually have the need to charge mine by the end of the day, but 'tis not a big deal because I'm home anyways. I do not yet have an unlimited data plan, but I plan to tether to a tablet once I do and hopefully that'll increase my tablet usage. Does tethering drain the phone's battery even more?

rikkoko said:
Ahh I see. I actually have the need to charge mine by the end of the day, but 'tis not a big deal because I'm home anyways. I do not yet have an unlimited data plan, but I plan to tether to a tablet once I do and hopefully that'll increase my tablet usage. Does tethering drain the phone's battery even more?
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Tethering over Bluetooth for about 2 hours during my train commute to work drains the battery for an extra 3 to 12%, obviously depending on what you're doing with the data connection. I never download immensely large files over my data connection, butjudging from the battery consumption, I guess I could leave it tethered for about three days running time in total.

_that said:
Defy: stock Android 2.1 (I don't want to mod my only phone)
TF700: CROMI 3.2
Devices are paired, "Internet tethering (via USB and BT)" is enabled on the phone.
When I connect the TF700 to the phone's "internet access" service, it says "connecting...", and after a few seconds I see the boot animation and Android restarts. Interestingly, not a kernel-level restart, I didn't see the bootloader logo. I remember reading about other reports of the same problem somewhere.
My workaround is to use WiFi tethering, which works fine. It just eats a lot of battery on the phone, but it's good enough for me.
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I am using PDaNet on both my Droid 4 (rooted, stock rom) and the TF700, now on CROMI 3.3 and I can tether the tablet through Bluetooth no problem. VPN is encrypted
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Using a galaxy s6 like desktop pc.

Hello everyone. Recently I was tasked at work to redesign and office space and attempting to use a program to lay out and then provide a 3d rendering of the proposed space. turned out to be a nightmare for me. I work in a facility that is not updated their computer systems since 2005 I ended up making everything work but I had to do it on my phone. My question without HML support is there any way to turn a smartphone reasonably to function like a desktop PC?
So far all I have found is Microsoft's miracast. Most likely have to buy a bluetooth keyboard mouse.
But I want to know if anybody else has tried this what worked what didn't. My goal would be to plug my phone into my monitor at work so I can actually do something. so HDMI is a must.
Hardware found:
https://www.microsoft.com/hardware/en-us/p/wireless-display-adapterPlease help
http://www.amazon.com/Belkin-Miracast-Video-Adapter-Supports/dp/B00HFAEBWG

what do you need to do at work and why didnt you onsider a hromeast?

Chromecast requires a wifi router. Miracast the phone communicates to the dongle directly. This removes some variables you can not plan for ie. Crappie or no wifi. I only need an HDMI display, a miracast device and my phone and I can work, display, present. Ideally with the two items that fit in my pocket. Especially without having to try and sign on to a WiFi network that may or may not work. Making it so I could walk into any room plug it into the TV connect with my phone and begin.

To be honest with you I recently got into it with my boss. I told him that I can do more on my phone than on the s*** computers they give us. And I kind of want to prove it.

jpetrach said:
Chromecast requires a wifi router. Miracast the phone communicates to the dongle directly. This removes some variables you can not plan for ie. Crappie or no wifi. I only need an HDMI display, a miracast device and my phone and I can work, display, present. Ideally with the two items that fit in my pocket. Especially without having to try and sign on to a WiFi network that may or may not work. Making it so I could walk into any room plug it into the TV connect with my phone and begin.
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with the new guest mode on hromeast you an ast diretly without needing to be onneted to a wifi network

godutch said:
with the new guest mode on hromeast you an ast diretly without needing to be onneted to a wifi network
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What? Haha
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Mentalmuso said:
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Something about sniffing crack out of a
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Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G920AZ

This would be really cool. Only phone I have known of that has these features is the old Motorola atrix. Maybe look into one of those new devices like IBM's pc stick. It's basically a donggle that plugs in via hdmi and as a full OS installed on it.

Today I tested the screenbeam 2 http://www.amazon.com/Actiontec-ScreenBeam-Wireless-Receiver-SBWD60A01/dp/B00O14JG2Y
Watched transcendence and great picture only got jumpy 2/3 times. Very minor lag. Some ppl reported the dongle gets hot this is true. Uses a lot of battery wifi direct phone was placed on a wireless charger and still dropped 20% during the hour plus movie. Tomorrow I'm testing a method of making the display more "desktop like" for my proposed use at work. Need to connect bluetooth mouse and keyboard. Along with some phone system tweeks. I could not get connected to my chromecast without the router.
Still looking for input from anyone who has tried this.

Mentalmuso said:
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His "c" key must not be working

jpetrach said:
His "c" key must not be working
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Indeed