I'm looking for the best/easiest way to remotely connect to my home PC via android.
What is the best combo app/software for this?
What do you want to do?
Transfer a file? Some file explorers on android (ES? Astro?) offer Samba functionality. Then there's Dropbox and google docs which synchronize between PC and Android.
Remote desktop? I'm always fond of LogMeIn Ignition, but it might be a bit on the expensive side. However, it just works, which can't always be said of the various RDP applications out there.
If you use Linux on your PC, you could also use SSH from Android.
I'm looking to remote desktop and I am using dropbox for file transfer.
I'll check out the free version of LogMeIn
TeamViewer !!!!
I use Logmein Ignition. $30 I know but it functions incredibly well. Can do everything I need to on remote systems very easily.
I found TeamViewer to be the best for free. It's awesome, full control and smooth. Thanks for the suggestion B-Man.
2X client is my favourite Remote Desktop client. It's free in Market.
But you need to be in the same network as You machine (or have a public address) or you can create a VPN connection (as I did). Works perfectly and it's free.
If you have too much money you can buy very very good LOGMEIN.
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So, I have a plug PC, known as Pogoplug, and I have an HTC Evo, and also a Samsung galaxy Tab, a good set of gadgets, what I want to do is, have a torrent app on my tablet, (i have 2 actually, a 16gb and a 32gb) that will download to the drive attatched to my pogoplug.
(i've thought about hacking the pogoplug to setup a BT client on it, but its quite a hassle.)
You could get a torrent app (for your device), download files and transfer them to your Pogoplug (just not straight to it without setting up some kind of sync).
You got a Pogoplug and you are not hacking it ? WHYYY XD ? I found a nice guide, looks not so hard and it might be worth it... Making your tablet download torrent would mean keeping it busy and killing its battery, the main download app should be in the plug or in another computer. I have a seedbox made with an old pc, uTorrent and a custom WEB interface made by myself, it saves into internal HD (20gb) then when dl is over, it moves files in external drive (that is then shared thru the net). I can check/update from everywhere, even from old phones (as my interface is plain html no fancy js like the official web interface).
If you want to stick to a tablet torrent app, you will have also to find a sync program supported by both android & pogo (that might eventually lead to installing something on the pogo anyway... ) so check out what pogo can offer first (ftp, scp, smb, rsync...), then you are likely to find something for Android too!
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You got a Pogoplug and you are not hacking it ? WHYYY XD ? I found a nice guide, looks not so hard and it might be worth it... Making your tablet download torrent would mean keeping it busy and killing its battery, the main download app should be in the plug or in another computer. I have a seedbox made with an old pc, uTorrent and a custom WEB interface made by myself, it saves into internal HD (20gb) then when dl is over, it moves files in external drive (that is then shared thru the net). I can check/update from everywhere, even from old phones (as my interface is plain html no fancy js like the official web interface).
If you want to stick to a tablet torrent app, you will have also to find a sync program supported by both android & pogo (that might eventually lead to installing something on the pogo anyway... ) so check out what pogo can offer first (ftp, scp, smb, rsync...), then you are likely to find something for Android too!
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Yeah i hacked it for a day, and didnt like it. Im not very familiar with all the command line linux aspects, If there was a "Oh ok, click, touch, done" installer i could use, kind of like how android phones work. then i could do it, I just need a torrent app, DLNA app, and FTP or file access app.
I have a focus wondering if there's a way to access the phone from a web browser. Like what you can do to the android with a program called remote desktop. Wondering if its possible or not. Tried doing it stock got nowhere gave me page cant be found. Figure i give it a shot anyway
That depends what you mean by "access the phone" but yes, there are web server apps (homebrew only, the official APIs don't allow server sockets for some reason). Root Webserver (linked in my signature) is the newest one, providing full access to the phone's filesystem, but requires elevated permissions (typically from WP7 Root Tools or a fully-unlocked custom ROM) in order to use it.
If you're looking for an app to remotely drive your phone from the PC through a web browser, I don't think anybody has written such a thing yet. I'm not sure why you'd want to do this though, in all honesty.
If you're looking for an actual Remote Dekstop app (as in, an app that uses the Remote Desktop Protocol to allow you to remotely log into and view/control a Windows computer) there are several such apps on the WP7 marketplace. I use one called "RemoteDesktop" (there's no space) and it works quite well.
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I've been thinking of making my android phone operate like a stand-alone operating system; i.e. which does not require direct input from the user but can receive input through internet.
I've been trying to setup an architecture in which I place an android phone in my home connected to my wifi, it has uTorrent Beta and some file syncing service (like dropbox, google drive, skydrive, etc.) What I'm trying to accomplish is to operate my phone from my laptop sitting at my office, send a torrent file to my phone lying at home, it picks up the file in uTorrent (or any other torrent client), downloads the file, and later uploads to dropbox or other file syncing service, and after uploading it removes the file from phone.
Can something like this be performed on android? it involves two main obstacles... remote controlling the android via internet, and operating two / three separate apps on android. Is there a better way to do this?
-F.A.
itzfaraz said:
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I've been thinking of making my android phone operate like a stand-alone operating system; i.e. which does not require direct input from the user but can receive input through internet.
I've been trying to setup an architecture in which I place an android phone in my home connected to my wifi, it has uTorrent Beta and some file syncing service (like dropbox, google drive, skydrive, etc.) What I'm trying to accomplish is to operate my phone from my laptop sitting at my office, send a torrent file to my phone lying at home, it picks up the file in uTorrent (or any other torrent client), downloads the file, and later uploads to dropbox or other file syncing service, and after uploading it removes the file from phone.
Can something like this be performed on android? it involves two main obstacles... remote controlling the android via internet, and operating two / three separate apps on android. Is there a better way to do this?
-F.A.
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trying to make a trojan horse?
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trying to make a trojan horse?
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?? no way sir. Wouldnt it be too obvious for any person seeing multiple apps running around on his cell phone?
My office has real bad ass firewalls all around its network. But it allows dropbox or teamviewer etc apps. I used to have a windows computer for this work of mine. I used an Acer Aspire ZG. So whenever I have something to download on torrent I connect to my laptop at home via teamviewer, download the file and then put it up on dropbox again, so i can download it at my office. My work makes me travel a lot to different cities so im not always at my home, thats why i need something like this.
But alas my aspire got burnt in the power spike in my area. I have my old samsung galaxy S android phone as a spare. I see apps like dropbox and utorrent are now available for android. So i thought would a similar server setup be possible on android.
So can you give me any ideas or workarounds?
Hello,
I want remote control(mouse and keyboard) my Android via PC
I searched many applications for remote phone management, the most convenient for me teamviwer quick support, is there any way to work via USB and not via the internet?
vnc droid(and vnc viewer in PC) does not have a buttons on the screen as teamviewer and it is important to me.
thx for your tips
Striiicek said:
Hello,
I want remote control(mouse and keyboard) my Android via PC
I searched many applications for remote phone management, the most convenient for me teamviwer quick support, is there any way to work via USB and not via the internet?
vnc droid(and vnc viewer in PC) does not have a buttons on the screen as teamviewer and it is important to me.
thx for your tips
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I'm not really sure about the name, try my mobiler
Looking for a way to setup a rooted android device as a dedicated cloud server to allow on the fly storage for phones and computers, is there any way to use a android tv box or android device of any kind as a cloud server to access it over any network away from home with my phone or laptops etc for example? The idea being use a usb external hdd on my ouya that's rooted and access it online somewhere or anywhere using any mobile device or computer trying all manner of ftp apps, but they allways seem to expect you to use a pc to access the ftp address any I try to join via a browser just fail to open to view files, I would have thought it's easily possible and the whole plan is to have a cheap electricity cost android device as the cloud server. Maybe provide others access to set folders to save stuff and access stuff to. I asked tonido cloud if their app supports android as the server not just access as a client it but it doesn't else would have set it up. Meanwhile I'll keep trying apps and looking back here to see if anyone can come up with something thanks in advance.