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[Q] wifi printing TB

Is there a way to print to a WiFi printer?

That depends on your printer brand. Most companies have an app for their printers on the market. I use the Canon app.
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What is the application called for Canon? I have a Canon printer I'd love to use, but don't see anything but "printbot."

Canon Easy-Photoprint
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Thanks. Now I need to find the app.

PrintShare in the market, I think there is a free version and a paid version (PrintShare Premium).
I use the paid version an it works well with my HP printer.
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Would this also work on a printer connected to a PC via WiFi?

If you have Dropbox (which is one of my favorite apps) install this. Works great.

I have installed PrintShare on my phone and printed the test page without any problems. I purchased and installed the key (PrintShare Premium) and PrintShare still ask for me to purchase the key. How do i get past that message?
I have version 5.5.0 installed i have tried to install 5.6.0 but get a signature error.
Need some help.

gadget! said:
PrintShare in the market, I think there is a free version and a paid version (PrintShare Premium).
I use the paid version an it works well with my HP printer.
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I second this. I use it and it works great.

+1 for printershare. It works great!

+1 for printershare

Google Cloud print!
Surprised nobody has mentioned Google Cloud Print. You have to have the latest Chrome version installed on your computer, but I've used it with my rooted Nook Color, and it's pretty cool.
You download the android app from the Market, and then there are instructions to be found on the web on how to set up Chrome.
Robert

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If you have Dropbox (which is one of my favorite apps) install this. Works great.
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This is great. Thanks for posting this.

accessing market completely

Hi,
I live in a country where Google Market does not provide paid apps. (Turkey)
So my Asus Transformer only shows free apps when I go into Market.
I had the same issue on my other Android device (Dell Streak) but that was a device with 3g and gsm features so I was able to access market by the help of app Market Enabler.
This app fakes the GSM provider on the phone.
Now that Asus Transformer is a wifi-only model this method does not work.
How does a wifi-only device defines the country of the device ?
Also, myLibrary does not provide buying books featue , just the free ones are available.
How can I enable access to Market and book library ?

any ideas please ?

http://code.google.com/p/market-enabler/

I'll have the same issues when I return home but I'm completely relying on Market Enabler even though there is no SIM.
Did you try the app? I'm running it but I'm in Uk where I can't really test
it.
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market enabler does not solve my issues.
after enabling it with a US provider setting, sometimes I can find the app that I'm looking for but the first page in Market always shows "free" apps.
any idea ?

you could try this but I have no idea if it really works.

thank you. but that is totally irrelevent.
it's about the country we live in.
somehow google detects the country and blocks paid apps.
maybe a proxy could solve...

ISP tells them where you're located right.
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Market Access
An app called Market Access has been working for me on multiple devices. Apparently it is based on the code from Market Enabler, although I'm not sure of the differences.
amip.tools-for.net/wiki/android/marketaccess
However, since I've gotten the new market app, it doesn't work right away. I think the server takes a while to refresh before it recognizes the hack. Try enabling the "emulate on boot" and "show notification" options in the app AFTER selecting a SIM to emulate. Then go into Settings > Applications > Running Services and stop the "Google services" app. Then restart your device. If it doesn't work right away then give it a day and see if it works itself out.
ALTERNATE METHOD:
Of course there is always the classic method of putting your device into airplane mode and jumping on the wifi. That little trick works here in the States, but I'd be interested if it worked abroad as well. Let me know if it works for you.

Hi,
I am interested in that alternate method. But I didn't understand it.
What shall I do after putting the device on Airplane mode ?

mrmrmrmr said:
Hi,
I am interested in that alternate method. But I didn't understand it.
What shall I do after putting the device on Airplane mode ?
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My apologies, in the US some companies (like AT&T) will limit the apps that their customers can see in the Market. The way around this restriction is to not allow the Market app to access your SIM card info when starting up. Here's how:
1) Turn on airplane mode
2) Turn on wifi (you can enable wifi even with airplane mode on)
3) Launch the Market app...that's it!!
As I said, this works because the market can't tell what network you're on, because airplane mode disconnects your SIM card accessing the network. I don't know if the market looks at the wifi's ISP, so I don't know what effect this will have in other countries. If this doesn't work, maybe using a VPN connected to the US might do the trick, but really I'm just spit-balling at this point.
GOOD LUCK!

but my device (asus eee pad transformer) doesn't even have 3G so your method is meaningless.
my 3g is always disabled

Thanks for Market Access looks promissing. Read thru the guide seems like a cleaned up updated MarketEnabler - good. In Saudi we had a tablet with MarketEnabler able to see paid apps in $.
I'm counting on these tools for my Transformer.
Will hit your thanks button when next on PC...
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mrmrmrmr said:
but my device (asus eee pad transformer) doesn't even have 3G so your method is meaningless.
my 3g is always disabled
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Oops, you're right. I was thinking of my phone and not the TF, which has access to all the apps for the reason you stated. I imagine this would be the case with using the Market Access app as well.
However, I did notice that when tethering the tablet to my phone, ads where not displayed on webpages because I've installed the AdFree app on my phone. So maybe if you could get unrestricted Market access on an android phone and tether your TF to that, then you could get paid apps on your tablet too.
(ps - again, I'm just thinking out loud. Thanks for keeping me honest. Let me know what you guys find in your trials.)

A friend of mine confirms MarketAccess is working
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Market Access didn't work for me.
But I found a workaround with Market Enabler and Market 3.0.27
I've removed my Market and erased data.
Then I've installed Market 3.0.27 after setting the GSM provider with "Market Enabler"
This way I can access paid apps.
hope this helps some one else.

Google Play Music outside US?

I've tried different proxies but it won't work later on my phone or on music.google.com. Can't even download the music manager. I live in Sweden and I want to be able to upload my music on Google Play Music..
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Check out tunnel bear. The free version is fine. You only need to use it the first time you log into google music. Clear your cookies first to be on the safe side.
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I used Orbit last night (free on the market). There is a guide on here somewhere to set it up to have a US exit node (a thread about using Pandora if I remember correctly?).
Then I used this guide to setup on my PC (as that's where all my musc is stored):
engadget.com/2011/11/19/how-to-use-google-music-from-anywhere-yes-outside-of-the-unit/
Works fine, and looks good, although you have to upload all of your music as opposed to icloud which just recognises your songs and plays it's own version...

tunnel bear won't work for me! damn! i've try a lot of tricks but no one work!

Try what I suggested... I couldn't get tunnelbear to work but orbot worked fine!

It's a shame Tunnel Bear didn't work for you guys. It made it super simple for me. I'm pretty sure TB isn't using anonymous proxies or anything like that, so I guess that would make it trivial for Google to detect people coming from the IP addresses at exit end of TB's VPN and block them, if they wanted to. Perhaps that's what's happening - it was quite some time ago when I used it to activate my Google Music account from Australia.
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[Q] VPN

How to set up a vpn on android. does it hide my ip address? I want to access a site that is blocking my ip. should I set up a vpn or any technique to hide my ip? I tried droidvpn but it just reboots the phone. I have root, busybox, tun.ko and openvpn binary but no openvpn config file < whatever that means

Try proxydroid its only need root and work perfect on my phone
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cant change ip?
I downloaded proxydroid and set it up to use first htttps then socks4/5 proxy bug it still shows my original ipaddress at whatismyip.com how to use this app?

Go to proxpn.com for $10 USD a month you can download their android app. No need for root. They have several vpn server locations such as x2 Usa, Uk Singapore and included is PC usage as well. Apparently it is no problems watching geolocation locked online tv
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aussie2sweden said:
Go to proxpn.com for $10 USD a month you can download their android app. No need for root. They have several vpn server locations such as x2 Usa, Uk Singapore and included is PC usage as well. Apparently it is no problems watching geolocation locked online tv
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Don't bother with the Android app if you just need it temporary (Certainly don't bother with the windows client).
If you download the Windows Client exe you can open it with 7zip and get the openvpn config files (Attached to this post).
Which you can then use with :
https://proxpn.org/createaccount.php
And then just fill in the required items.
It says allot about the company that they don't even use a different certificate and key for each user.
(Or provide L2TP)
For 7$ a month you can get a really good VPS in the US.
(See lowendbox.com)
Then just set it up yourself. (Anything you want L2TP/IPSEC / Openvpn or PPTP).
You can find a tutorial to set this up for pretty much any Linux distro. (In a better manner than the god awful way they configure this).

[Q] How to remotely access android device via PC

My father has a Samsung GT 7.7. Being a noob, he doesn't know much how to use it. Device is not yet rooted. I am not staying with him. So no possibility of connecting through wifi connection. I would like to remotely access his device from my pc, so I can remotely install apps and such. Installing apps is easy, cos I have his google email and password with me. What I'd like to be able to do is connect to the device in real time with something like teamviewer so that I can customize his device, access his files load his device with my huge collections of ebooks. But with team viewer android device can access PC and not vice versa. Is there any way I can do this?

Teamviewer has a Samsung only version, wherein you can remote the device from a PC or another mobile device with teamviewer. It can be downloaded on Samsung Apps. Oh and btw you can only install it on a Samsung phone/tablet with stock rom.
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if you have your fathers google account just sign onto google play, select the apps you want to install and it will automatically push the app to the device associated with the google play account. very easy to do
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I can find team viewer remote control, which I have already installed. But it works only android to pc and not pc to android. Can you point me to a link or something?
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pals0007 said:
if you have your fathers google account just sign onto google play, select the apps you want to install and it will automatically push the app to the device associated with the google play account. very easy to do
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That is easy. But I want to be able to access his file system and apps so I can make it user friendly for him. He he doesn't even know how to import books stored in memory to ebook reader.
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TeeeJaay said:
Teamviewer has a Samsung only version, wherein you can remote the device from a PC or another mobile device with teamviewer. It can be downloaded on Samsung Apps. Oh and btw you can only install it on a Samsung phone/tablet with stock rom.
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Thanks so much, team viewer quick support enabled me to access my father's device remotely. Only caveat is that it's a bit slow. But otherwise I can get the work done. No more giving instructions over phone which is really irritating for him as well as mine.
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