I was wondering if like laptops and the psp (maybe otherdevices as well) if thereis a way to reduce power when using wifi activley, for instance im right next to my router and dont need full power to pick it up from far away.
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I have never heard of a way to do that. My guess though is that at some level android already does this. At least I hope google was smart enough to realize a feature like this would be very useful to mobile devices. However it is possible that our "mobile" hardware isnt capable of doing something like that. But I would sure like to know if it can and how.
I wasnt sure if thehardware is capable or not, in my view I would think you would have to have this idea in mind before hand and make the hardware capable of it. It makes sense for psp ( close ad hoc gaming), and laptops are meant to be versitile, but i could understand if this is not thought for with tablets, while some people use them as laptop replacement, the idea of a tablet is more free and moving around and such)
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Can the PSP's wi-fi pick up the ad-hoc "router" frequency of the Wi-Fi tether app? I'm thinking of buying one but I'd like to know if I can use my phones internet on it
no, the PSP can only use ad-hoc for system to system, it can not use ad-hoc for internet access, tried it and researched it, sorry for the bad news.
edit: but still get one, I love mine when I have time to play with it
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Does the same apply to the ps3? I haven't messed around with the settings much, just curious.
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hmm.. alright im gonna try to do this tomorrow regardless since its the psp 3000, maybe it has something new? and theoretically it should work since theyre both wifi b so i'll see. i hope it does
I repeat, it is impossible on PSP ANY MODEL, unless you want to add new wifi hardware it cannot happen, sorry I spent 3 days researching and trying this, can't happen.
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If you get the right wifi tether program, it supports Infrastructure mode, which isn't Ad Hoc. Which means, it should work fine for you. That's how the official Sprint app works and you should be able to connect to that with anything.
Dunno if any of you clever developer-types will find this tucked away in here but here goes anyway.
Via the Cydia store for iOS there's a handy little app called "3G Unrestrictor" that fools certain apps into believing they're connected over WiFi when they're actually only on 3G/HSDPA. Without going into too much detail about the morality and quality of video due to speed, is anyone able to say if it's possible to replicate this effect on the Android platform and if-so, would anyone care to take the ball on it? I'd pay a quid for such an app and I'm fairly sure I ain't alone.
Just hypothetical of course..... ;-)
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That'll be a no then?!?!
Seriously? An open-source platform like Android?
Oh well.
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So I've pretty much replaced my laptop with my transformer. Yea my laptop has a 17 inch screen, but to be honest with you its so big I never wanted to take it anywhere! Isn't a laptop supposed to be PORTABLE? I feel like I can (and should) take the TF everywhere. It seems tiny when docked, but just right when used as a tablet.
I love it.
The only thing stopping me from selling my laptop at this point is that I need to burn CD's occasionally. Is there any app out there that can access an external burner so that I can make CD's from music I have stored on my external drive?
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Probably more a matter of time, at least if there's interest in it, but might be a long time. Didn't Honeycomb just add USB host support? I don't think it would've been possible before that.
javroch said:
Probably more a matter of time, at least if there's interest in it, but might be a long time. Didn't Honeycomb just add USB host support? I don't think it would've been possible before that.
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You woukd think this would be simple enough if we had usb host. Oh how I wish I was a dev.
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You woukd think this would be simple enough if we had usb host. Oh how I wish I was a dev.
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Not necessarily at all, not all manufacturers provide Linux drivers for their hardware (Android is linux underneath it all). As well, I'm not sure exactly how Linux drivers work, but each CD burner might need their own set of drivers
If the iso drivers are in the kernel, the system will know about cd/dvd disks and drives. The issues is a program to do the burning.
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If the iso drivers are in the kernel, the system will know about cd/dvd disks and drives. The issues is a program to do the burning.
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So I plugged in my external DVD writer, and the kernel currently is not reconigzing it.
So that is step 1, someone adding the drivers into the kernel.
After that, it is simly a matter of re-building cdrecorder and mkisofs for an ARM target and writing a little UI on top of it.
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So I plugged in my external DVD writer, and the kernel currently is not reconigzing it.
So that is step 1, someone adding the drivers into the kernel.
After that, it is simly a matter of re-building cdrecorder and mkisofs for an ARM target and writing a little UI on top of it.
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Lets contact some dev's who might know how to do this! I can message the Dev for the prime rom. He may be able to point us in the right direction.
EDIT
Messaged him just now.
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I would dust the laptop back off......There are not enough devs or support for at least another 2 yrs to have a bug free Android OS. Also you have the first model of about 15 major tabs in the next 2 yrs! Just because it has a docking station means nothing. Don't get me wrong i love Android.....but leaving windows 7 and coming up 8????? Not to mention all the bugs because its a "beta" product. Actually i wouldn't even call this Alpha..Android OS should of release a GOOGLE laptop first with all the correct hardware specs and almost bug free before letting anyone put there OS on a tablet and sell it...Every Honeycomb tablet that has been made has issues. And its the hardware not being fully compatible.
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I would dust the laptop back off......There are not enough devs or support for at least another 2 yrs to have a bug free Android OS. Also you have the first model of about 15 major tabs in the next 2 yrs! Just because it has a docking station means nothing. Don't get me wrong i love Android.....but leaving windows 7 and coming up 8????? Not to mention all the bugs because its a "beta" product. Actually i wouldn't even call this Alpha..Android OS should of release a GOOGLE laptop first with all the correct hardware specs and almost bug free before letting anyone put there OS on a tablet and sell it...Every Honeycomb tablet that has been made has issues. And its the hardware not being fully compatible.
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I think you are way over thinking this.
It wouldn't take much to make android completely replace a full size os.
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I would dust the laptop back off......There are not enough devs or support for at least another 2 yrs to have a bug free Android OS. Also you have the first model of about 15 major tabs in the next 2 yrs! Just because it has a docking station means nothing. Don't get me wrong i love Android.....but leaving windows 7 and coming up 8????? Not to mention all the bugs because its a "beta" product. Actually i wouldn't even call this Alpha..Android OS should of release a GOOGLE laptop first with all the correct hardware specs and almost bug free before letting anyone put there OS on a tablet and sell it...Every Honeycomb tablet that has been made has issues. And its the hardware not being fully compatible.
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If you replaced android with another operating system on your post, that can apply to any OS system on the planet. Be it windows, osx, Linux or what ever a company puts out. Not one OS or hardware is immune. Perfect software only happens when it's on the drawing board. The longer android is out the better it gets..but honeycomb has been out a very short time and is only on 5 percent of the devices running google OS. There are more then enough developers for it.
I'm looking for an external dvd burner to work with the TF also. Seems like a lot of TF owners are looking too. Hopefully someone with xda will develop the software...
Not exactly what you want but it might help
Check out this product.....It adds an extra step and it would be kinda kludgy at best.......It is a standalone cd burner.
http://www.cyberguys.com/product-details/?productid=11177
They also have a DVD burner. There may be others out there as well. I have been wanting this as well and don't really want to spend extra to get the capability right now at least.
Awesome! Definitely a solid solution. And a great idea in general! Thanks for the info
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Install Ubuntu, install cd burning software, profit.
brando56894 said:
Install Ubuntu, install cd burning software, profit.
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Get the trackpad drivers working, wifi UI up and running, sound, hdmi audio, and the other 1000 not yet working things running in ubuntu then yeah, sure, profit.
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Get the trackpad drivers working, wifi UI up and running, sound, hdmi audio, and the other 1000 not yet working things running in ubuntu then yeah, sure, profit.
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Lol
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Get the trackpad drivers working, wifi UI up and running, sound, hdmi audio, and the other 1000 not yet working things running in ubuntu then yeah, sure, profit.
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technically you don't need any of those things you listed to burn a cd in linux, all you need is the command line.
brando56894 said:
technically you don't need any of those things you listed to burn a cd in linux, all you need is the command line.
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I don't think he's looking to reboot into a full-blown Ubuntu environment (where nothing else works) just to burn a DVD... The whole point of this thread is to get Android-native tools to do the burning - not setup some half-working OS to do the task...
I don't see what the Unix "cdrecord" and "mkisofs" utilities can't be ported over to Android. Although, I don't have the skills to do that, so maybe it's not such a trivial task...
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seriously dude?? This thread is almost two years old. Stop necromancing.
Hello everyone not must of a poster more of a reader have a quick question I noticed my laptop can pick up way more wifi signals at a distance is there a tweak or a way to boost the wifi on the tf700 to pick up wifi signals?
I'm finding the WiFi radio in the TF700T to be a bit underwhelming too. But considering it's a $500 device they had to keep costs down somewhere and I think much of that $500 goes to the screen and CPU. IMO the sound system and WiFi radio didn't get much of a budget to work with.
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Perhaps something like these?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.signal.booster
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bacastudio.network_signal_booster
But this will most likely decrease your battery life.
Tell us if it helped.
Buy some wifi router booster antennas
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d14b0ll0s said:
Perhaps something like these?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.signal.booster
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bacastudio.network_signal_booster
But this will most likely decrease your battery life.
Tell us if it helped.
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I don't believe that these apps increase the power of the wifi radio - they are mainly for cell phones - all they do is look for a stronger signal and switch to the stronger network. In the case of wifi, I don't think it will help at all unless you have multiple wifi routers and you aren't using the one closest to you (but then again, you can switch that yourself - no need for an app)...
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I don't believe that these apps increase the power of the wifi radio - they are mainly for cell phones - all they do is look for a stronger signal and switch to the stronger network. In the case of wifi, I don't think it will help at all unless you have multiple wifi routers and you aren't using the one closest to you (but then again, you can switch that yourself - no need for an app)...
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Many comments say otherwise, so perhaps it's worth a try. Personally I don't like to make statements based on a "belief", so I'd try it if I were you, although I've just posted the links, I haven't tried it myself yet. Having said that, I believe the idea is boosting the radio capabilities in the similar fashion as Volume+ boosts your speakers' volume. I'll have a look at it in a spare hour.
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Many comments say otherwise, so perhaps it's worth a try. Personally I don't like to make statements based on a "belief", so I'd try it if I were you, although I've just posted the links, I haven't tried it myself yet. Having said that, I believe the idea is boosting the radio capabilities in the similar fashion as Volume+ boosts your speakers' volume. I'll have a look at it in a spare hour.
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Actually, I have used these apps on my phone and they will not help with wifi connections unless there are multiple hotspots, which again, you could do yourself.
It says it right in the app description: "drops your current connection and connects to a better connection" - that's all it does. Like I said, it's mainly for cell phone connections. Not going to help for home wifi connections and is certainly not going to boost the power to your wifi radio.
And if you really read the comments, you'll see that they also introduce SPAM and is generally a waste of time.
I would *not* install these apps for this purpose - you are wasting your time.
Just my opinion of course - everyone is entitled to one!
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ovaidge according
jtrosky said:
Actually, I have used these apps on my phone and they will not help with wifi connections unless there are multiple hotspots, which again, you could do yourself.
It says it right in the app description: "drops your current connection and connects to a better connection" - that's all it does. Like I said, it's mainly for cell phone connections. Not going to help for home wifi connections and is certainly not going to boost the power to your wifi radio.
And if you really read the comments, you'll see that they also introduce SPAM and is generally a waste of time.
I would *not* install these apps for this purpose - you are wasting your time.
Just my opinion of course - everyone is entitled to one!
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Fyi I have already tryed the apps you have posted before I even started this thread I was just curious if there was a wifi radio tweak which must not be possibe
I'm using easy tether app with VPN and Bluetooth connection. Kind of slow, makes it seem like working at work is a better idea. Help, any better way to fix that's less clunky
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trjcasper said:
I'm using easy tether app with VPN and Bluetooth connection. Kind of slow, makes it seem like working at work is a better idea. Help, any better way to fix that's less clunky
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I use IbVPN but with another phone. So far it works. I assume any VPN solution would work.
Boy, that is probably the most misleading topic ever.
Anyway, the Nexus 5 has nothing to do with being caught tethering as your carrier can tell you're doing it by the user agent of the browser (the most typical method of detecting tethering) and other ways as well.
As for a workaround, there are several available but there's no guarantee on any of them that you won't get busted even so.
It's a chance you take - the carrier tells you it's against the service agreement and you choose to do it anyway; if you get popped and lose your service, the blame lies solely with you alone.
The user agent in this case is android using dolphin browser. Should appear Amy different than my phone.
I'm not whining, BTW, I'm aware of risk and consequence and adult about it. I'm also cheap, so after having used several nexus phones in the past the exact same way and never getting popped sure makes it look like the 5 is the problem doing the reporting about tether use.
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trjcasper said:
The user agent in this case is android using dolphin browser. Should appear Amy different than my phone.
I'm not whining, BTW, I'm aware of risk and consequence and adult about it. I'm also cheap, so after having used several nexus phones in the past the exact same way and never getting popped sure makes it look like the 5 is the problem doing the reporting about tether use.
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This is bad news. I have always been able to tether any tablet through my Nexus device on Tmobile and browse with the stock browser and Netflix app. I have a feeling, Google is playing dirty and sending T-mobile/provider some kind of notice that tethering is now 'on'. I wish they'd develop an app like they did for Google Glass that proxying packets for ANY tethered device. Stick it to the carrier. Especially, Verizon.