hey guys, so theres this app in the market called KWeye, it lets you view IP cams, which my work uses. i recently got a call from the big boss's secretary, ive never even met the big boss, or his secretary, but somehow they called me on my cell, knew my name and told me to stop. how the heck could they know my number? they may have gotten my name because my cell is registered with the company, but how could they know my cell number?
the apps permissions are:
WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE (i think this is to take screenshots)
INTERNET (obviously to view the ip cam)
READ_PHONE_STATE (does this permission show my contacts/own number?)
thanks
The cams most likely have logs on them of who is viewing them. Most likely if they are internal only cameras there is only 1 ip that should be in the logs. If a new IP showed up in the logs its a simple matter of finding out who owns the IP. In this case its a cell phone company. They contact the cell phone company and ask them which cell phone account had this IP at this time. They get your phone number, match it with your name and presto.
This is of coarse assuming you are using 3g to check the cams. If you are on Wifi then its probably a simple matter of them matching up the IP to your phones mac address then matching that mac that they most likely have on file if they own the phone and matching it to your phone.
How did you figure out how to access the cameras in the first place? You would need to know the cameras IP I would guess.
soraxd said:
hey guys, so theres this app in the market called KWeye, it lets you view IP cams, which my work uses. i recently got a call from the big boss's secretary, ive never even met the big boss, or his secretary, but somehow they called me on my cell, knew my name and told me to stop. how the heck could they know my number? they may have gotten my name because my cell is registered with the company, but how could they know my cell number?
the apps permissions are:
WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE (i think this is to take screenshots)
INTERNET (obviously to view the ip cam)
READ_PHONE_STATE (does this permission show my contacts/own number?)
thanks
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I believe its the same as a wireless printer and the IP cam system will show whats connected (networked) to it.
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trevoryour said:
The cams most likely have logs on them of who is viewing them. Most likely if they are internal only cameras there is only 1 ip that should be in the logs. If a new IP showed up in the logs its a simple matter of finding out who owns the IP. In this case its a cell phone company. They contact the cell phone company and ask them which cell phone account had this IP at this time. They get your phone number, match it with your name and presto.
This is of coarse assuming you are using 3g to check the cams. If you are on Wifi then its probably a simple matter of them matching up the IP to your phones mac address then matching that mac that they most likely have on file if they own the phone and matching it to your phone.
How did you figure out how to access the cameras in the first place? You would need to know the cameras IP I would guess.
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You posted that as I was replying but yea this is what I was saying.
Hmm...phone companies don't just hand those out. Unless they had a warrant then that's not the route they took. Were you on their wifi or 3g and were you using the phone to access any other company systems (email). More likely they saw a weird ip and grepd their logs for any other connections at that time from that address and were able to tie it back to your username on some other service.
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so nobody thinks its cause of the read_phone_state permission?
I would say the definatly traced it back to the MAC address of you phone.
The IP Cams must store logs. I.P address is do-able but they would really need to catch you in the act. (as you were connected). IP address's obviously change all the time (If they are DHCP) so linking your IP address directly to your phone number isn't pheasble. Even if you are connected with an IP of 192.168.0.100 , there is no direct link between this IP and your cell. (When using DHCP)
They would most likely.
See your IP Address (Notice you are conencted)
> Get MAC address from logs
> Get Phone Number and Name from Company Mobile Phone records (Records of MAC address will almost certainly have been made)
The READ_PHONE_STATE way would be much more complex. (This is all presumption, I have essentially made this up but it's probably close to accurate)
The IP Cam Admin or whatever, would need the knowledge to promt the App your using to ask the android OS to supply this information and then the app to broadcast it. Unless of course for some reason this app constantly broadcasts this information, which I doubt as this would be seriously unsecure
Considering as soon as you connected, you MAC address will of been recorded by either the Cam or the routers logs. This information is already there so no need to go the long way round.
Also , I would discount this.
They contact the cell phone company and ask them which cell phone account had this IP at this time. They get your phone number, match it with your name and presto.
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No offence but I very very much doubt this would happen, You have not broken the law by accessing these cameras, just company policy (maybe). There is no way on Earth that your mobile provider would hand out your personal details and mobile number because your boss asked for them. Never going to happen. They will give them to the police, under the correct circumstances (Fraud, abuse, etc etc). Knowing the external IP of the handset but not the phone number, or owners name will probably just make the network more suspicious of you.
Thats my 2p on this one anyway!
I agree it isn't likely. I was just putting it out there as a possibility. It could happen to say that it would never happen isn't true. Its technically possible. If someone wanted the info bad enough they could get it.
I'm willing to bet that if the company in question was Apple and the boss he was referring to was Steve Jobs, Apple would find a way to get the info from the phone provider. Apple has certainly found ways around those pesky laws in the past.
Its not likely but it is certainly a possibility in theory.
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For some reason my email doesnt work with edge, only wifi. when i try to send/recieve my email without wifi it says "cannot connect with current connection settings. I tried searching and found nothing. Anyone have any ideas. Oh I have a fuze by the way
Email via Operator..
FUZEinMYpants said:
For some reason my email doesnt work with edge, only wifi. when i try to send/recieve my email without wifi it says "cannot connect with current connection settings. I tried searching and found nothing. Anyone have any ideas. Oh I have a fuze by the way
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Do you need to download this?
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...amp;tm#filelist
FUZEinMYpants said:
For some reason my email doesnt work with edge, only wifi. when i try to send/recieve my email without wifi it says "cannot connect with current connection settings. I tried searching and found nothing. Anyone have any ideas. Oh I have a fuze by the way
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have u correct settings? try use built in setting configurator then restart.
i have the same issue. but i think it is normal becuase i dont think you can download email from edge, only 3g.
tengtou said:
i have the same issue. but i think it is normal becuase i dont think you can download email from edge, only 3g.
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Thats not true because I have a at&t fuze and download email on edge all the time.
server?
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For some reason my email doesnt work with edge, only wifi. when i try to send/recieve my email without wifi it says "cannot connect with current connection settings. I tried searching and found nothing. Anyone have any ideas. Oh I have a fuze by the way
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FUZEinMYpants,
Are you using a large outfit like gmail or something like your company email? If the latter, does it only work on wifi when you are on your company's wifi network or Starbucks' wifis as well?
The reason I'm asking is that depending on the email servers (there are two, one for sending, the other for receiving mostly) you may only be able to interact with them if your coming from an IP address that falls within the range of whatever the administrator set. I for example could not send email when I went down to Florida because AT&T gave me a too different IP address than what I get in New York so I had to ssh into my email server and modify the range.
Your admin may only allow email to be relayed out and/or read if you're on the LAN which in this case, in your office or college on their wifi network connected to the local area network to which the mail servers are connected.
If that's not it then we may have a connectivity problem with your settings. Maybe a bad proxy configuration, your email server doesn't like wap.cingular which is behind a nat, maybe your email server requires a type of encryption you're either not specifying or is not supported by Pocket Outlook, maybe they're using imap and not pop and you're mixing that up, maybe they don't have encryption but they used funky ports for the vanilla protocols -- I'm going to stop typing until you tell me what the story is with your email setup.
In the meantime, to hold yourself over with the phone and without wifi, consider getting your mail through a webmail thing your server may run (I run roundcube) using Opera or PIE, depending on the webmail interface.
Doug
d0ugie said:
FUZEinMYpants,
Are you using a large outfit like gmail or something like your company email? If the latter, does it only work on wifi when you are on your company's wifi network or Starbucks' wifis as well?
The reason I'm asking is that depending on the email servers (there are two, one for sending, the other for receiving mostly) you may only be able to interact with them if your coming from an IP address that falls within the range of whatever the administrator set. I for example could not send email when I went down to Florida because AT&T gave me a too different IP address than what I get in New York so I had to ssh into my email server and modify the range.
Your admin may only allow email to be relayed out and/or read if you're on the LAN which in this case, in your office or college on their wifi network connected to the local area network to which the mail servers are connected.
If that's not it then we may have a connectivity problem with your settings. Maybe a bad proxy configuration, your email server doesn't like wap.cingular which is behind a nat, maybe your email server requires a type of encryption you're either not specifying or is not supported by Pocket Outlook, maybe they're using imap and not pop and you're mixing that up, maybe they don't have encryption but they used funky ports for the vanilla protocols -- I'm going to stop typing until you tell me what the story is with your email setup.
In the meantime, to hold yourself over with the phone and without wifi, consider getting your mail through a webmail thing your server may run (I run roundcube) using Opera or PIE, depending on the webmail interface.
Doug
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Its yahoo mail. My company email which is an outlook exchange server works fine on wifi or edge.
FUZEinMYpants said:
For some reason my email doesnt work with edge, only wifi. when i try to send/recieve my email without wifi it says "cannot connect with current connection settings. I tried searching and found nothing. Anyone have any ideas. Oh I have a fuze by the way
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Check the setting in your email settings under advanced server settings and make sure that it says Netowrk conncetion media net or att isp. I have seen it default to Work and that locks it into Wifi. I send and recieve email everyday on EDGE since I do not have 3g within 40 miles of here.
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Check the setting in your email settings under advanced server settings and make sure that it says Netowrk conncetion media net or att isp. I have seen it default to Work and that locks it into Wifi. I send and recieve email everyday on EDGE since I do not have 3g within 40 miles of here.
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I checked this its set to media net
What the hell? Never even heard of opendns...wtf is it?
How do I fix it?
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What the hell? Never even heard of opendns...wtf is it?
How do I fix it?
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Are you using Wifi or 3G/Edge? Looks like the problem is with the admin that setup your Wifi.
Well sounds like you are using their DNS servers and someone blocked gmail.
go to opendns.com while tethering to change your settings if you can. You should see a "dashboard" link at the top right of the page.
OpenDNS is an alternative DNS service (normally DNS is provided by the ISP). Wifi-Tether-For-Root by default has OpenDNS hardcoded in as the default DNS (instead of T-Mo's DNS servers). Since all traffic on T-Mo 3G is routed through their central server, regardless of where you are physically, your ip on the internet will appear as coming from a T-Mo data center in Missouri or Kansas or something. Perhaps someone has maliciously set up an OpenDNS account with this ip and locked out gmail.
Edit: I am having no problems getting to gmail using WT4R. My tmo ip was different from the usual though. Perhaps they are load-balancing their US network. Last time I checked, my tmo ip came out in Kansas. This time however, it came out of Rhode Island. Strange, considering I am physically in California.
Could you lookup your internet-side ip address while tethering and see which tmo datacenter you appear to be coming from when your gmail access is restricted?
This is the first time I've ever used wifi tether. Was kinda wierd to see gmail was blocked. Working on setting up an opendns acct now.
Ok....I'm totally lost now. I've got an opendns acct setup. I'm lookin at the dashboard thing, and have no idea what to change to fix this issue?
You are going to want to go here https://www.opendns.com/dashboard/settings/
It should show your current IP in the drop down.
Turn off the filtering and make sure nothing down below is added.
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OpenDNS is an alternative DNS service (normally DNS is provided by the ISP). Wifi-Tether-For-Root by default has OpenDNS hardcoded in as the default DNS (instead of T-Mo's DNS servers). Since all traffic on T-Mo 3G is routed through their central server, regardless of where you are physically, your ip on the internet will appear as coming from a T-Mo data center in Missouri or Kansas or something. Perhaps someone has maliciously set up an OpenDNS account with this ip and locked out gmail.
Edit: I am having no problems getting to gmail using WT4R. My tmo ip was different from the usual though. Perhaps they are load-balancing their US network. Last time I checked, my tmo ip came out in Kansas. This time however, it came out of Rhode Island. Strange, considering I am physically in California.
Could you lookup your internet-side ip address while tethering and see which tmo datacenter you appear to be coming from when your gmail access is restricted?
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Easy enough to figure out my ip addy....but no idea how to do the rest.
Weird thing though...I signed up fro an opendns acct, browsed around a bit in the dashboard and now gmail works? ~edit~ nvermind, spoke too soon...gmail is blocked again.
For some reason I have a problem wrapping my brain around this kinda stuff.
your ip could have changed
neoobs said:
You are going to want to go here https://www.opendns.com/dashboard/settings/
It should show your current IP in the drop down.
Turn off the filtering and make sure nothing down below is added.
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I see my IP under the network tab. Under the settings tab it says "to control your settings, you need to add a network to your account." If I click "add a network" it takes me back to the network tab where my ip is displayed. If I click add network, it says network already exists?
Bleh....
Like i said, T-Mo is likely load balancing across their many gateways. My guess is whoever locked gmail out only did it to one of the gateways. Your best bet is to change the DNS servers away from opendns.
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I see my IP under the network tab. Under the settings tab it says "to control your settings, you need to add a network to your account." If I click "add a network" it takes me back to the network tab where my ip is displayed. If I click add network, it says network already exists?
Bleh....
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The reason is because only one openvpn account can control a network. Whoever has messed up that tmo gateway has full control of it until that person or openvpn changes the situation.
jashsu said:
Like i said, T-Mo is likely load balancing across their many gateways. My guess is whoever locked gmail out only did it to one of the gateways. Your best bet is to change the DNS servers away from opendns.
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Ok, need this in baby talk, barney style. I have no idea how to change dns servers?
KidJethro said:
Easy enough to figure out my ip addy....but no idea how to do the rest.
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http://www.ip2location.com/
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http://www.ip2location.com/
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IP Address : 208.54.94.59 Location :
UNITED STATES, WEST VIRGINIA, CHARLESTON Latitude / Longitude : 38.3515 LATITUDE, -81.632 LONGITUDE Connecting through : T-MOBILE USA Time Zone : UTC -05:00
IDD Code : 1 Area Code : 304 Weather Station : USWV0138 - CHARLESTON
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Ok, need this in baby talk, barney style. I have no idea how to change dns servers?
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It might be enough to edit /data/data/android.tether/conf/dnsmasq.conf with a text editor and substitute out the DNS values in there with your own DNS. I'll try it out later.
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It might be enough to edit /data/data/android.tether/conf/dnsmasq.conf with a text editor and substitute out the DNS values in there with your own DNS. I'll try it out later.
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"wifi tether" should update the dnsmasq.conf-file automatically (will take the dns from your 2G/3G-connection) - this was introduced in version 0.95.
Type ... "getprop net.dns1" into terminal ... that should exactly be the nameserver in dnsmasq.conf (after you have started tethering).
Bleh....I need a break from phone tweaking for a bit. Buuurn ouuuut
Works for me
I just got home, tethered just to see if it would affect me too. Not problems at all.
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"wifi tether" should update the dnsmasq.conf-file automatically (will take the dns from your 2G/3G-connection) - this was introduced in version 0.95.
Type ... "getprop net.dns1" into terminal ... that should exactly be the nameserver in dnsmasq.conf (after you have started tethering).
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harry_m is right. When I tethered to my G1 via WT4R (ver 0.9.6) and visited opendns.com, it showed the "Start using OpenDNS" button, indicating my currently used DNS was not OpenDNS. I verified that WT4R had fetched the G1's internal DNS setting by checking the dnsmasq.conf:
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$ su
# cat /data/data/android.tether/conf/dnsmasq.conf
no-resolv
no-poll
server=10.177.0.34
server=10.176.80.242
I suggest you reinstall WT4R and choose no when it gives you the option to import old settings. This way, it will build your configuration files from scratch (and not use OpenDNS).
For some reason when I enable my location and my phone is connected to my Airave, it locates me in a city about an hour away. When I turn my airave off, it is able to tell the actually city I am in. Is there anyway to correct this?
I am using the stock ROM with WM6.5 which was recently released. The only modifications I have done is added the Taskbar and Co0kie home screen mod.
Thanks,
Same issue. Soon as the phone enters the building with the Airave it jumps 200 miles.
I can answer this one! I'm a Sprint employee and am extremely familiar with the Airave.
The Airave broadcasts signal allowing your phone to have signal in an area where Sprint signal is not normally available. It does this by receiving a request from your phone, connecting to the Airave, and then then sending the request via your broadband internet connection rather than through a Sprint tower.
The problem you are experiencing is because of settings with your Internet Service Provider (ISP). Your location, often refered to geolocation, is set by your IP address (provided to you automatically by your ISP). ISPs often base IP addresses in a city where the company is basing operations. For example, I live in Indianapolis, Indiana, and use Comcast as my ISP. My IP address however is based out of Rockford, Illinois.
If you go to http://whatismyipaddress.com, you will see the city to which your IP address is set. The city listed at this site, I would assume, is the city you see on your phone as your current location.
As far as a fix, I don't have much in the way of an answer. If the weather application is the issue, you could always set a city, rather than using the automatic location setting.
I hope this gives you some insight as to why the problem exists.
I had this same problem with my Touch Pro 2 using one of the Mighty Roms. I can't believe I didn't even think of the AirRave as the culprit. I figured the weather location came from my GPS coordinates, not which cell tower I'm connected to. This makes sense now. However, once I updated to Mighty Roms latest Rom, I no longer have this problem and my location is correct. Maybe Time Warner NY is doing something differently now and my AirRave is reporting the correct area. Before my phone was saying my location was "Jackson"...now it says "New York".
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Before my phone was saying my location was "Jackson"...now it says "New York".
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Precisely the same has happened with me. On cooked ROM's my location is "Jackson" (NJ, I think) and on the Sprint 6.5 ROM it's New York. I'm on Comcast cable, not Time Warner. I doubt this is an issue of the ISP one uses to access the internet from the Airave's location but rather of Sprint as the ISP for the phone via the Airave - Sprint is supplying the IP address for the phone, not your personal ISP.
The likely explanation for the apparent location change, of course, is that between ROM flashes Sprint changed something that provides different geolocation data and that this has nothing to do with the ROM itself.
More interesting is the comment above about a recent cooked ROM providing correct location information. It seems as if it should be possible to hack the location feature to use GPS rather than IP geolocation.
It is not rom related you are wrong. It is all about the ip address location.
same thing for me, but dont think it has anything to do with airave, dont even know wat that is or if i even have it on, but my fone shows my current location as a small town about 20 miles away with a population of about 200 (not thousand, just 200) so dont think it has anything to do with towers, any ideas?
It is all about the ip address. If I plug in the phone to activesync I get one ip and one location. If I use the verizon data connection I get another ip and another location
It does not appear to be IP related as the website posted to check the ip shows me in Kansas... but my location on the TP2 shows Canton, OH while connected to the airave. I know that I put in a zipcode in the settings for the airave on sprint's website and even that zipcode is different than the city I get.
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It does not appear to be IP related as the website posted to check the ip shows me in Kansas... but my location on the TP2 shows Canton, OH while connected to the airave. I know that I put in a zipcode in the settings for the airave on sprint's website and even that zipcode is different than the city I get.
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When you go to the same website ON YOUR PHONE does it show you as being in KS or OH?
Your phone and your computer don't have the same IP, even if your phone is connecting through your computer.
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I'm a Sprint employee and am extremely familiar with the Airave.
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The problem you are experiencing is because of settings with your Internet Service Provider (ISP). Your location, often refered to geolocation, is set by your IP address (provided to you automatically by your ISP).
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You're quite wrong about this.
The IP for my phone is supplied by Sprint's DHCP servers when it connects via the Airave. It's not supplied by Comcast's DHCP servers at all.
At the moment, both my notebook and my phone are online. Both the wireless router to which my notebook is connected and the Airave go through the same Comcast cable modem. There is no cellular service available near my house except via my Airave.
At the moment, my notebook's public IP is 24.147.35.xxx and my phone's is 174.146.248.xxx. As you can see, they're quite different. If I switch off my cellular radio and connect the phone to my WiFi, it uses the same IP of 24.147.35.xxx as my notebook. The 24.147.35.xxx address gives a geolocation of Monson, MA even though I'm in NH. The 174.146.248.xxx gives a geolocation of Cedar Grove, NJ.
Thus, your answer is wrong on several fronts. The ISP that supplies internet connectivity to the Airave has nothing at all to do with geolocation on a phone connected through that Airave. Further, the location shown on the phone still does not match the actual geolocation that corresponds with the phone's IP address. In the real-life example before me right now, the location on the phone is 21 miles from the geolocation of the phone's IP address.
Finally, the location service on the phone does not depend entirely upon geolocation based on IP address. If I turn off my cellular radio and connect via WiFi, my phone decides that it's in Hancock, NH which is correct even though the phone's IP geolocates to a different state.
That last bit suggests that the location service on the phone is perfectly capable of using GPS if it can't use IP geolocation.
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You're quite wrong about this.
The IP for my phone is supplied by Sprint's DHCP servers when it connects via the Airave. It's not supplied by Comcast's DHCP servers at all.
At the moment, both my notebook and my phone are online. Both the wireless router to which my notebook is connected and the Airave go through the same Comcast cable modem. There is no cellular service available near my house except via my Airave.
At the moment, my notebook's public IP is 24.147.35.xxx and my phone's is 174.146.248.xxx. As you can see, they're quite different. If I switch off my cellular radio and connect the phone to my WiFi, it uses the same IP of 24.147.35.xxx as my notebook. The 24.147.35.xxx address gives a geolocation of Monson, MA even though I'm in NH. The 174.146.248.xxx gives a geolocation of Cedar Grove, NJ.
Thus, your answer is wrong on several fronts. The ISP that supplies internet connectivity to the Airave has nothing at all to do with geolocation on a phone connected through that Airave. Further, the location shown on the phone still does not match the actual geolocation that corresponds with the phone's IP address. In the real-life example before me right now, the location on the phone is 21 miles from the geolocation of the phone's IP address.
Finally, the location service on the phone does not depend entirely upon geolocation based on IP address. If I turn off my cellular radio and connect via WiFi, my phone decides that it's in Hancock, NH which is correct even though the phone's IP geolocates to a different state.
That last bit suggests that the location service on the phone is perfectly capable of using GPS if it can't use IP geolocation.
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Well said. BTW, Sprint has still not been able to fix this. All of my phones show Galena, IL instead of Cedar Rapids, IA (where I really am). The latest reason I got from Airave Technical Support is:
The Airave unit gets GPS data from a satellite. The location you see, is the location of the specific satellite that the Airave is connecting to.
Oh... My... God... I couldn't think of how to politely disagree; so I just flat out said that makes no sense whatsoever. The floor manager tried to tell me the same thing. :| This was after she tried to tell me the GPS was only used to facilitate connection to the network; which I agreed was possible, but pressed her to why it showed me about 100mi off if it was to be used for network connection? I also asked if this would affect my 911 use as the Airave is suppose to provide E911 data in case of emergencies; she said it doesn't use the GPS location for 911. I pointed her to the Sprint website which claimed it did; after which she started me a 'Network' ticket. ::sigh::
I'm having this same issue. I originally got my airave for my office which was out in the middle of nowhere with no sprint service. I have since moved and changed jobs. Even though I live in an area with strong coverage due to the buildings (I think) I get signal fluctuations from full to nothing and dropped calls. I set my airave back up which solved that problem but when I am home my weather still shows the location of my previous office which is 200 miles from where I am now. I have made 4 calls to airave "support" and they have been unable to fix the problem. The last 2 calls I finally hung up after they left me on hold for about 45 minutes (I guess that's their current solution). Sad that after over a year since this thread was started sprint still hasn't figured out how to change the registered location of the airave. Not only is it annoying but it worries me that should I ever have to call 911 I may have issues. IF the registered location affects E911, and I have no idea if it does or doesn't, aren't they required by law to provide reliable E911 service?
I just received a call from the company's network administrator asking what my Xoom was called on the wi-fi network. He had several devices that show up as Android-and then some numbers. We had to identify my tablet and phone by their MAC address. Do you know of a way to change the name that is broadcast? He mentioned the iPads on the network had the usernames associated with them...
Thank you!
Mine actually shows up with no name when I use Softperfect network scanner, however it might show up under the specific model of your Xoom (ie: MZ604 etc), the model will vary by the type of Xoom you have - Wifi/3G etc.
It might help your admin if you go to settings, click about tablet and then to Status; the IP address it lists there should be the internal network IP
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Mine actually shows up with no name when I use Softperfect network scanner, however it might show up under the specific model of your Xoom (ie: MZ604 etc), the model will vary by the type of Xoom you have - Wifi/3G etc.
It might help your admin if you go to settings, click about tablet and then to Status; the IP address it lists there should be the internal network IP
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Thanks Corallis for the response. We can see it show up its just that it is called Android-XXXX and so is my phone and someone else's. Would be great if we could change that identified to be Android-myname so the IT guys know it is a trusted device (sort of ...) and don't boot me off the network.
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I just received a call from the company's network administrator asking what my Xoom was called on the wi-fi network. He had several devices that show up as Android-and then some numbers. We had to identify my tablet and phone by their MAC address. Do you know of a way to change the name that is broadcast? He mentioned the iPads on the network had the usernames associated with them...
Thank you!
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The information might be a bit dated, but this thread is relevant: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=668300
Should get you in the right direction. I am looking for a simple way but there doesn't appear to be one unfortunately. I don't see hostname exposed anywhere in the network/wifi configuration, not even if you specify a static ip.
tekuru said:
The information might be a bit dated, but this thread is relevant: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=668300
Should get you in the right direction. I am looking for a simple way but there doesn't appear to be one unfortunately. I don't see hostname exposed anywhere in the network/wifi configuration, not even if you specify a static ip.
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Thanks. A slightly complicated process. Seems like I could do that for my phone since it has a custom ROM but not on the tablet.
Odd there isn't an easier way to name your device.
I'm a network admin, and I recently had this same issue since I needed to find the ip address of my Xoom so I could set a content filter policy for it. I'm kind of surprised that there isn't a way to give the tablet a name (ala iOS devices). Regardless, it wasn't that hard to figure out since the DNS name began with android.... we don't have many of those devices on the network where I work.
Hi,
exist some HOMEBREW app which can let me change the IP address ?
Somebody told me that it exist.
Thanks.
Well, you can easily specify your own IP address for WiFi networks. That's built into the phone.
For the cellular network... I'm not aware of a way, though it probably does exist. I'm not sure anybody has coded it as a WP7 app, though.
Why do you need to do this? Your IP address quite probably changes every time you reboot your phone; why do you need it to be a constant value?
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Well, you can easily specify your own IP address for WiFi networks. That's built into the phone.
For the cellular network... I'm not aware of a way, though it probably does exist. I'm not sure anybody has coded it as a WP7 app, though.
Why do you need to do this? Your IP address quite probably changes every time you reboot your phone; why do you need it to be a constant value?
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For me this threat is also interested. And why would be practice to be able to put static IP address is simple, what to do when you want to connect in WIFI environment where is no DHCP.
Or let say ISP, give you STB with WLAN on which is not enabled DHCP.
Cheers.
As I said, specifying your own IP address is easy on WiFi (specifically for networks without DHCP). Open the WiFi settings page, press-and-hold on a network, and select Edit. If you connect to a network that doesn't have DHCP, it should prompt you for the settings when you first connect.
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As I said, specifying your own IP address is easy on WiFi (specifically for networks without DHCP). Open the WiFi settings page, press-and-hold on a network, and select Edit. If you connect to a network that doesn't have DHCP, it should prompt you for the settings when you first connect.
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My friend, this what you are wrote is written in user manual which I am get with my optimus 7. There is also written that is procedure for connecting on hidden network is press-and-hold on any wlan net and change the name according with hidden net and I could not reach hidden net until I am receive latest fw(few days ago) and I have optimus 7 almost nine month.
In any case, what you are wrote not applies for optimus 7, maybe for some other phone apply, but not for optimus 7, at least with OPN Firmware.
Cheers.
Ah... I don't have an LG phone, so if there's some weird quirk to their WiFi drivers, I can't help you with that. Sorry. :-(
JosipoGo, have you connected your phone to Zune and done updates that way? Go to Settings=> about phone and tell us what version of OS you have.
I am thinking you may be running NoDo on your phone, as anything with Mango or above should have the ability to change IP address. Yes, your shipping firmware (if it is NoDo version) may not have this feature, and it wouldn't be on your phones manual if that is the case.
If you have never done system updates, you should be able to add this feature by preforming the Zune update (if an update is available for your phone).