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For those who cant get Orbot : Tor Project to work on your phone > READ THIS

hey guys, theres actually an easier work around to listen to Pandora Radio outside the States, and it doesnt even require you to download Orbot.
Heres how, pop your phone's settings > Wireless & networks > Proxy Setting > set IP to 127.0.0.1 and Port 8118.
Voila! This should work like a charm, enjoy

Doesn't work for me .. I am on cm6
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do you see a small check box down below the proxy settings saying "Use proxy only on wifi" ? Uncheck that if youre not using wifi atm, it should work after that

Which version of pandora are u using
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1.4.1 latest from the market, should work irregardless of Pandora version tho

if it still doesnt work, heres another alternative to it, but only applicable when ure using your mobile network instead of wifi.
Settings > Wireless & networks > Mobile networks > Access Point Names (APN) > under Proxy and port change it to 127.0.0.1 and 8118 respectively. It should work too, but only when ure using mobile network data

doesn't work for my Nexus one, Froyo

Roydelmon said:
doesn't work for my Nexus one, Froyo
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thats weird, im using Nexus one myself, and it worked just fine.

guys, ive just found out that the 127.0.0.1 proxy server is somewhat "down" at the moment, that explains why it didnt work for you

lalahai said:
guys, ive just found out that the 127.0.0.1 proxy server is somewhat "down" at the moment, that explains why it didnt work for you
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127.0.0.1 is localhost, so it mean it redirect to your own device, and tor use the port 8118 so you are simply using tor more directly, it is possible that it work better but you still need to enable orbot...
As for your proxy down comment, I am not sure if you are seriously not knowing what you are doing or making fun of people... I hope the first statement is the correct one...

dear p0or,
Fyi, it DID work for me, for like an hour, then it just don't anymore, so i've summed up that 127.0.0.1 is either down, or maybe just too many is trying to connect to it thru Tor, i know what im doing and what you're accusing is without base and i can tell that you have no basic computing / networking knowledge or what so ever.

P00r said:
127.0.0.1 is localhost, so it mean it redirect to your own device, and tor use the port 8118 so you are simply using tor more directly, it is possible that it work better but you still need to enable orbot...
As for your proxy down comment, I am not sure if you are seriously not knowing what you are doing or making fun of people... I hope the first statement is the correct one...
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and oh P00r, 127.0.0.1 does resemble a local host address, but apparently youre WRONG, it is what Tor Project using as one of their open proxy server's IP, and 8118 is merely a port that they open to listen to connections, ports don't work all by themselves. get your facts right before you come in and start trolling around.

He is not wrong 127.0.0.1 is and always has been an alias for localhost. That address is unroutable on the internet.
-frank
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Oh my god...Someone actually thinks 127.0.0.1 is something else then localhost?
Networking basics..

lalahai said:
thats weird, im using Nexus one myself, and it worked just fine.
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sorry my bad, its working fine on 3G now !!
how can i apply the same settings over WiFi please?

I'm new to android, how are you guys getting the proxy settings, I don't find anything like that in my wifi settings ..
I'm running Froyo (shubcraft mod for HD2)

lalahai said:
and oh P00r, 127.0.0.1 does resemble a local host address, but apparently youre WRONG, it is what Tor Project using as one of their open proxy server's IP, and 8118 is merely a port that they open to listen to connections, ports don't work all by themselves. get your facts right before you come in and start trolling around.
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I actually LOL IRL here and everyone in my office looked at me like I was odd.

lol, yes, pretty sure this method is not right..

So...does this work?

SGMD1 said:
So...does this work?
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No, not without other software which must be already running.
127.0.0.1 doesn't only "resemble" localhost, it is localhost and has always been since the early days of IP networking.

[Q] Couldn't log into Panera Wi-Fi

Hi,
I was at Panera today and could see their Wi-fi, said "connected", but was grey, not blue in status.
Would try to find the Panera page accepting their terms, but stopped halfway loading.
It looked like the stats were DHCP and that's all I could tell.
any help?
Thanks

Adam said:
any help?
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Yes...try the chocolate brownies...they are great.
seriously...no...I haven't had a chance to try Panera's but it does the same thing on my laptop sometimes...not sure if it's the TF...

Thanks!
Never had an issue with win XP Pro on my laptop....
Addictive place to hang out at

I have actually used my transformer at panera. Once you connect, you have to open up the browser and accepts their TOS. Then you are set!
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And sorry, meant to add that you might need your browser set to a desktop string. To fully load their TOS
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You can also try setting a static DNS (not any other part of the IP, let it DHCP that) of 8.8.8.8
Those are google's DNS servers and this often lets you skip the web browser login aspect of many free or even PAY wifi at hotels.

shawnbuell said:
And sorry, meant to add that you might need your browser set to a desktop string. To fully load their TOS
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Thanks Shawnbuell... Being a Noob, I am not sure what you mean. Little help?

shawnbuell said:
And sorry, meant to add that you might need your browser set to a desktop string. To fully load their TOS
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Ahhhh... Whenever I typed about:debug into the browser nothing happened..
But, then I went to settings and found that more options were there.
It's now under advanced - set it for desktop rather than tablet so that the browser won't load the pages as mobile.
I'll try it later today!

crater said:
You can also try setting a static DNS (not any other part of the IP, let it DHCP that) of 8.8.8.8
Those are google's DNS servers and this often lets you skip the web browser login aspect of many free or even PAY wifi at hotels.
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Thanks for the tip about 8.8.8.8. I never knew that.

SoCalTiger said:
Thanks for the tip about 8.8.8.8. I never knew that.
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Yeah can you guys elaborate on this? I am not following this at all?!

Me too please!

interesting.
the 8.8.8.8 DNS setting made my Xperia X10 disgustingly fast from home....the only issue is that i had to assign a static IP to the phone itself...I just chose a random one that I knew was part of my home network...
do you think that will cause a problem later on?

npompei said:
Yeah can you guys elaborate on this? I am not following this at all?!
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I tried to find some more info or settings on my TF and couldn't find how to do this. Any help?
Thanks!

for the future, when the wifi icon is grey instead of blue, your still connected, but you don't have direct access to google servers which means syncing is down.
This is normal with any internet that requires a log-in page.
For example at my school i have to log in through the browser like you do at panera, and gmail won't update because the google sync dosn't have direct access. You can do a manual check, but it won't do it on it's own.
just so you know.

3 UK Adult Content Block Thing

Doesn't matter, got it sorted.

MilkyJoePD said:
Doesn't matter, got it sorted.
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So tell us about is please.

How'd you sort it?

lol... you can download Orbot guys, use it as a proxy with your android browser:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.torproject.android&hl=en

thanks for that yukinok25.
i've just rang Vodaphone UK to get content block, unblocked. i get a sms update message, did everything they said and a few hours later im still blocked. must be something wierd on my desire & Oxygen ROM that it doesnt like.
installed Orbot and it's working as expected.
it wouldnt be so bad if the filtering worked ok (i really dont need access to adult material on phone), but so many false positives, network content block is just annoying.

No problem mate.
I used to have the same problem with 3UK, many contents were blocked and I started to use TOR.
Eventually, one day I found out I wasn't firewalled anymore??..??
Now everything works fine.

bdg2 said:
So tell us about is please.
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I changed the APN from three.co.uk to 3internet.
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Thanks for the information

If you top up online on your phone you'll have to change it back beforehand. It's easier to create another profile with the original settings and just switch between the two when needed.
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MilkyJoePD said:
I changed the APN from three.co.uk to 3internet.
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Old thread i know, but i'm new to the 3 network and just discovered that half my bookmarks are blocked! These aren't 'adult' sites either. Changing the APN name worked a treat! I'm so glad information like this is out there to find. God bless the Internet and XDA! :good:

DirkGently said:
Old thread i know, but i'm new to the 3 network and just discovered that half my bookmarks are blocked! These aren't 'adult' sites either. Changing the APN name worked a treat! I'm so glad information like this is out there to find. God bless the Internet and XDA! :good:
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Please note that it's not ideal to operate a mobile device with 3Internet APN. You will get a public IP rather than a private IP in the 10.x.x.x range you normally get which means there is no firewall between your device and the internet. Also if Three notice what you are doing they probably won't be pleased that you're using up a public IPv4 IP that's really meant for mobile broadband users.
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Brian G. (In the UK)

[Q] Problem with Splashtop Remote Desktop/Ad Blocking

I'm trying to track down a weird issue.
On any ROM I try, if ads are blocked, my Splashtop Remote Desktop app will crash after 2-3 minutes. (Mainly when I'm trying to connect to computers at work. Both locally and remotely)
I can fix the problem by copying a default hosts file instead of a custom one. My question is... Does anyone know any lines in the ad-blocking files that could be causing this? It would be nice to have adblocking and splashtop, too!
Thanks

this problem sounds config specific, and probably occurs when your phones attempts to contact an external ip within the application and fails after several attempts, so it crashes. you would manually have to go through the custom host file and remove suspicious looking entries. It may also be that your dhcp as set up at work (im assuming remote access is vpn?) is I'll configured to contradicts ad blocking. Either way there is no quick fix or specific entry is can recommend. Part of the problem is that there are too many variables that only u know. Sorry bud.

Kinda what I figured. Odd thing is, it happens on the lge network connection when connecting home, where I know the ports are right
At some point I might try adding hosts a few at a time to see what happens
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burgeswe said:
At some point I might try adding hosts a few at a time to see what happens
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That's the only real solution man.
Sidenote: Have you tried splashtop on a tablet? Does the bigger screen reduce quality of video??

Splashtop on a tablet is very pretty. Tried it on a Sammy tablet and it was very smooth
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[GUIDE] How to bypass T-Mobile's tether block using Firefox

Hello everyone, so I recently finally got blocked from tethering by T-Mobile after a long time of sucking it out of them by being rooted and on a custom ROM like all of us here.
The way they know you are tethering on their network is by the User Agent that is sent to them by your desktop/laptop computer browser. When they see that a regular browser is accessing their network, that's when you get the infamous T-Mobile Hotspot Screen we all hate.
I've recently discovered a Firefox Add-On called User Agent Switcher found here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-switcher/?src=search
Download it and install it to Firefox. Then download this (right click, "Save as") http://techpatterns.com/downloads/firefox/useragentswitcher.xml
Go to Tools>User Agent>Edit User Agents (a window pops up) click on "Import.." and add the .xml file you just downloaded.
Then pick a User Agent that resembles the Sensation webkit and BAM! Free tethering for all of us.
I'm using it right now
NOTE: If you use a Googlebot User Agent, you will be able to tether and always load up full webpages instead of mobile versions. - Thanks to The Archangel and chadwick3nser for discovering this!

You can also do the same with chrome.
Been doing it for since the day they released it.

The Archangel said:
You can also do the same with chrome.
Been doing it for since the day they released it.
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Hell yeah, go Chrome! I've never used it so I wouldn't know

FiddleGoose said:
Hell yeah, go Chrome! I've never used it so I wouldn't know
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I actually take it one step further an either completely hide my IP on the computer or switch it so they can't try to block it.

Nice!
Is that how att detects also?
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They detect by sniffing packets an the extra Mac address

The Archangel said:
They detect by sniffing packets an the extra Mac address
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Damn, AT&T is on point. Bastards.
I hate T-Mobile for pulling that move as well.

FiddleGoose said:
Damn, AT&T is on point. Bastards.
I hate T-Mobile for pulling that move as well.
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just about every major cell company does the exact same thing to detect it. Maybe different variants but still the same.

I am doing this right now as well, but all the desktop pages are in mobile. I have found the desktop button on the bottom of the youtube site but cant find it on most sites. any workaround for this?

chadwick3nser said:
I am doing this right now as well, but all the desktop pages are in mobile. I have found the desktop button on the bottom of the youtube site but cant find it on most sites. any workaround for this?
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Use a Google spider UA. Everything will be as normal

The Archangel said:
Use a Google spider UA. Everything will be as normal
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do i create a custom UA and edit the string to a spider or how would be the best way? or what would be the best one to use?about going about this? sorry, have no experience with user agents
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nevermind, i used googlebot 2.1 new version and its working great, thanks for this!!!

Glad you got it working.
Hey op. Heres a suggestion, put in the your first post. Use a Google bot user agent. Using that will load all the web mail pages normally.

The Archangel said:
Glad you got it working.
Hey op. Heres a suggestion, put in the your first post. Use a Google bot user agent. Using that will load all the web mail pages normally.
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You got it!

The Archangel said:
I actually take it one step further an either completely hide my IP on the computer or switch it so they can't try to block it.
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What are you using to block the IP address? I was thinking just changing the IP to not be the standard DHCP that the phone would give you still shows it coming from another MAC address on the same connection and would be obvious to the write sniffing rules?
I realize this isn't a requirement I've been using the UA for a while from canary but I easily see them stopping this workaround w/ better sniffing rules.

SurfCityCom said:
What are you using to block the IP address? I was thinking just changing the IP to not be the standard DHCP that the phone would give you still shows it coming from another MAC address on the same connection and would be obvious to the write sniffing rules?
I realize this isn't a requirement I've been using the UA for a while from canary but I easily see them stopping this workaround w/ better sniffing rules.
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i use platnium hide ip. it switches to another ip when im on windows an sometimes ill use smac to change that also. havent found any programs for linux yet (havent really looked)

The Archangel said:
Use a Google spider UA. Everything will be as normal
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This is a very bad advice as pretending to be a googlebot may get you either blocked or banned from many websites (especially if they use ZBBlock) as this behavior is rated as a spammer/bot activity.

tobitege said:
This is a very bad advice as pretending to be a googlebot may get you either blocked or banned from many websites (especially if they use ZBBlock) as this behavior is rated as a spammer/bot activity.
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I've been doing it for a while, never got a ban on my end

Okay I've been tethering fine for a while on FF, but T-Mobile finally blocked me yesterday... I figured out that it was the second I started to watch a YouTube video. Guessing they're able to see activity on my cell account at the same time as my login is accessing YouTube and put 2&2 together...? (That may be obvious to some...)
Anyway... I may try the user agent spoofing but this is really aggravating since I'm traveling right now and the internets in my hotel are $10/day.
Sent from my Galaxy S 4G

Anyone figure out how to use netflix while spoofing in Firefox? I've been settling for Amazon Prime instant video, but I'd love to have Netflix back. With the UA spoof, Netflix won't play movies. At least I haven't figured out how.

This method no longer works for me