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[App][OSX/Windows] Wire 4 AirDroid

While working on that project, I read someone's complaint that AirDroid does not work over a USB cable. I know, that's kind of what the app's name would imply, right?
Anyway, AirDroid is awesome.
There are advantages to using AirDroid over a USB connection: for instance, it's much faster than a wireless connection and your data doesn't travel over your wireless network, and that's obviously safer.
So, I created this couple very basic tray/menu apps: one for OS X, one for Windows. Maybe one for Linux is your ask for it.
All it does it make AirDroid work over the USB cable.
Note that you will need to enable USB debugging on your device. Furthermore, on Windows, you will need to install your manufacturer's USB drivers.
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Get your free app at http://nexus.zteo.com/projects/beta/
Cheers,
-Chris.

Nice one! Going to try
Gesendet von meinem Sensation mit Tapatalk 2

Nice, because I'm also not able to connect my private mobile to my corporate WLAN...
Using AirDroid ober BLuetooth ist not possible? That would be the best for me!

Bierfreund said:
Nice, because I'm also not able to connect my private mobile to my corporate WLAN...
Using AirDroid ober BLuetooth ist not possible? That would be the best for me!
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Unfortunately, Bluetooth connections are very slow. I guess, with a rooted phone, it would be possible to install a network driver but again it would likely be extremely slow.

goooood job, I'll try later

Very nice idea. I can't make it running. The app works and it's in my taskbar but the browser can't open it. Is there any instruction how to run it? any options should I check in AirDroid?

Do you have USB debugging enabled on your device?

cyansmoker said:
Do you have USB debugging enabled on your device?
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Yes, I do. When I select "Open AirDroid" in Wire4Droid, it's open http://127.0.0.1:8888/ address in my browser but unable to open anything. I'm using Win7 64bit can it be the reason?

Ohohoho...nice idea!
Gonna try it out

Good idea! After installing Galaxy Nexus ToolKit on XP and its driver it tell me: device not detected

I have no idea whether it's supposed to work on XP

I love airdroid! Use it daily any kind of take on this app is cool with me!
Thanx button pushed
Sent from my SGH-T679 using xda premium

HTCore said:
Very nice idea. I can't make it running. The app works and it's in my taskbar but the browser can't open it. Is there any instruction how to run it? any options should I check in AirDroid?
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same problem here.
I've got usb debugging active and when I tap "start" on airdroid it asks me if I want to connect throught wifi or usb thetering.
I thought usb thetering must be active too, and when I switch it on, your application ask me to unplug and replug the phone, but nothing happens.
running windows 7 64bit professional with usb drivers for nexus s (i9023) working (even adb drivers).
any tip?

This has stop running since the new update of airdroid. Can you fix this problem.?

victore88 said:
This has stop running since the new update of airdroid. Can you fix this problem.?
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Victore88, thank you. Your post made me realize what's happening: indeed, recent versions of AirDroid stopped working over USB.
I sniffed AirDroid connections and no new port is being used, so I suspect AD stops listening on its local port after logging you in.
I sent an email to AirDroid's support; we will see if they can help.
Cheers

UPDATE
OK, please guys download the new version. The AirDroid people have come forward very quickly with a response to my enquiry

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OK, please guys download the new version. The AirDroid people have come forward very quickly with a response to my enquiry
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computers says "no" - when trying to download the osx version.

...I'm seriously dumb.
OK, fixed.

Cool idea, but as I understand it, perhaps a little misguided in the approach.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but your target is work/school computers, right? I mean, for your home computer, why not just use WiFi? It's easier, which is why AirDroid went that way. But you want USB access for those computers where you can't get on the WiFi network, and/or you don't trust the air for security purposes.
I think you should make a browser extension for both Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. This way, people can use it with Firefox Portable and Chrome Portable from PortableApps.com and similar sites. If a browser extension can't access the system like that (I'm sure they can: both browsers have some kind of IE extension where they put IE's engine in one or more tabs) maybe a standalone portable app, either in PortableApps' open standard or in old-school single-.exe format (maybe with a .ini in the same directory).

cyansmoker said:
...I'm seriously dumb.
OK, fixed.
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can you explain steps? try app is running in my win7, phone is connected to usb and adb can detect it. what next? airdroid wants me to connect to some channel (wifi r usb hotspot) to work.. is there a step inbetween?
thanks in advance'

USB tethering with CM10 on Windows 8

Running CM10 stable on a Telstra One XL.
I have adb drivers installed, and they work fine. But when I enable usb tethering, the device does not install or find drivers. I get these two broken devices in device manager, including a USB hub device that claims it cannot start (and disappears when I disable USB tethering):
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So annoying, since wifi tether drains more battery than is charged back into the device via USB.

I believe USB tethering requires HTC sync installed. But I've never got it to work properly either way
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Maybe you've seen this. If you haven't , hopefully it will help.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26589828
Cheers
Sent from my One X using xda premium

No luck with HTC Sync. It just means that when I enable USB tethering, the HTC Sync window opens up. The device remains with an exclamation mark in device manager.
No one else has gotten USB tether working on Windows 8?

Passa91 said:
No luck with HTC Sync. It just means that when I enable USB tethering, the HTC Sync window opens up. The device remains with an exclamation mark in device manager.
No one else has gotten USB tether working on Windows 8?
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Hi,
I was having the same issue. Today I got it to work, sort of. I flashed to the latest nightly build (19/12) and also flashed to the EVITA 2.40 Radio for Telstra HOXLs. I'm not sure if this brought a change. What I have found is this:
A standard Mass Storage Device driver is installed when setting the phone to USB Storage mode.
If I then disable USB storage, and enable USB Tethering, the storage driver in Device Manager gets a yellow icon next to it indicating driver failure. Now, if I update the driver for that device (automatically search for updated drivers), or even delete it and scan for hardware changes, Windows finds a Remote NDIS driver for the same device, and tethering starts to work i.e. a new network is found.
If I then disable tethering and switch back to USB storage mode, then the Remote NDIS driver gets the yellow device failure icon next to it. Deleting that and rescanning, or updating the driver gets it back to the storage driver and the drive mounts.
I did not need to have USB Debugging enabled, as that simple enables the ADB interface. It did not impact how tethering worked.
So there seems to be a problem with switching between the two drivers. Like there should be a device ID change to allow 2 separate drivers to exist in Windows. I have posted this issue in the CynogenMod forums for the HT One XL.
I'm on Windows 8.

I tested this out on a fresh flash of CM10 with everything left as default. No backups restored etc. See the same behaviour.
I have raised a ticket with CynogenMod on their Google Code site. Issue 6857. I can't post links yet.
Please vote on it if you are having the same issue.
Thanks!

Wow, super sleuth! I too have a Telstra HOXL. Your instructions were bang on, I've got USB tethering working but only after removing the mass storage device.
Hopefully they get on this and fix it quick - seems straightforward enough. Might be an issue only affecting the Telstra HOXL, maybe because we have the extra storage NAND.

So anyone figure out a permanent fix for this?

hey, sorry for the "necro" but i just wanted to say that i had this same issue with htc doubleshot on cm9/10 and that a fix/workaround is just to set a different idProduct for rndis in the init.usb.rc inside the ramdisk
that way windows will see them as totally different devices and there will be no need to driver swap anymore

Neverending series of problems

I am almost getting to the point of blowing this entire thing off out of pure RAGE. WARNING: LONG POST AHEAD!
Now where to start...
My LG Optimus V via Virgin Mobile has been having every problem in the book lately. I have retrieved a new one from Virgin itself, so that should take care of the problems with calling and whatnot.
However, there are a few pretty major problems with the old one. Okay, QUITE a few.
Here is a list of my old phone's problems:
SD card slot will not read anything
Phone will not connect to computer via USB
Phone's Bluetooth is not recognized by computer ("Unable to get Bluetooth FTP Remote Folder content. Please check that your device is turned on and working properly.")
Phone will at times say my memory is almost full when at other times it says there are 8 more megabytes left
Phone's keypad will disappear in-call and will not return, making it impossible to check voicemail or dial extensions
I have installed the drivers direct from LG. I have tried booting in recovery. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling those drivers. I have tried booting/rebooting with all kinds of random patterns to the point that my headache has amplified. I have tried to hack the connection settings with an SQLite app. I don't even see an option for USB connections except debug mode. I have tried Bluetooth through Total Commander. Absolutely nothing I find is working to get me anywhere.
For the record: My computer is an ASUS laptop with an i7 processor and Windows 7. I have tried this same USB cord with my previous phone (a Samsung Captivate that also has issues) and it works fine. Also, my phone charges through the USB port, but it isn't recognized by my computer.
Given this entire list of problems, there are a few things that are suddenly becoming impossible to do since the backup routes are blocked off. Firstly, I want to transfer my data to my new phone so it's like nothing happened. Now, this is more a "want" than "need" but it certainly would be nice. Therefore, I need to get my USB setup working. I have Googled extensively for answers... and haven't found any that work. Which is ridiculous because I feel like I'm in an extreme minority... because the answers are working for others.
Eventually, I unpack ADB and...
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Great. Just bleeping great.
Second, I need to unroot my phone before sending it to Virgin. I don't want to get in trouble with them. So once I have my data backed up, I need to work on reverting the phone to stock - a factory reset and an unroot. That is impossible without being able to connect to my PC. Like... I have these saved but can't start the operation:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=27670666&postcount=8
http://androidforums.com/optimus-v-...uide-100-stock-lg-optimus-v-all-versions.html
See, I have found plenty of answers for each individual problem, but everything tends to overlap. I have completely confused myself. I am getting a headache from all of this new terminology to me and all of these different answers...
The first step should be trying to figure out why the phone isn't connecting to the computer. That may resolve a slew of other issues and allow me to run ADB. But I'm fully prepared for that not to get me anywhere.
What can I do? Where should I begin? Is there anything that's even possible with this mess? Anything to go on would be greatly appreciated! And feel free to ask me any questions you have about it - I will do my best to answer

you mentioned that your phone is rooted, and I suppose that you have recovery, so try this, connect phone to pc trough usb, boot into recovery, go to mounts and mount usb and see if your phone is recognized by pc(try LGMDP and if it does, update it, but you must have ADB enabled in phone settings development) and pop up the window with sd card content

grigtm said:
you mentioned that your phone is rooted, and I suppose that you have recovery, so try this, connect phone to pc trough usb, boot into recovery, go to mounts and mount usb and see if your phone is recognized by pc(try LGMDP and if it does, update it, but you must have ADB enabled in phone settings development) and pop up the window with sd card content
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Booting into recovery and doing that got me this:
E: Unable to write to ums lunfile (No such file or directory)
I couldn't mount "system" either. Well... maybe I did, but it didn't do anything?
Great. Just great. I am lost and confused like a little puppy dog right now... :/
I appreciate your suggestions. Thanks!

read this threads to see if you get a solution, they are related to UMS file
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1342769
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1710556

[DEV PROJECT]Recompiled Windows 7 Kernel

You guys might think, 'oh he's using VNC, or some other software, screen mirroring, blah blah blah FAKE' ...
This is not fake. Windows 7 is running on my Blaze 4G. I can assure you, a friend of mine recompiled the Windows 7 kernel in Ubuntu and sent me a zip file and an APK to reboot my phone into Windows 7. A lot of the Windows 7 components are missing, and some things don't work at all (like Google Chrome) and games, probably because there are no Adreno Windows drivers. Video playback doesn't work, Aero doesn't work, System Properties CTDs, and a plethora of other things don't work. I managed to get audio working with some fooling around, images read fine, and a few apps like Explorer and Paint work. WiFi works, Bluetooth doesn't, battery doesn't, soft keys don't do anything, power button doesn't work, volume buttons work but don't do anything (register on key functioning diagram) on-screen keyboard crashes, SD card works but is super buggy, and it gets hot REALLY FAST. the 1GiB of RAM gets cut down to about 512MB, and HDD space is the 1.4 GiB of app storage, most of which is taken up by shared (?) video memory for the Adreno.
Oh, and I forgot to mention...it is really slow. It took 27 minutes to boot. Other than many more bugs, it works. I am not uploading the apk or the zip because Microsoft would sue me for pirating or something, not to mention recompiling the Windows 7 kernel has some legality issues.
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Oh yeah, you might notice all of the game icons on the taskbar, those are just empty shortcuts.

The fact that it takes a lot of memory to install Windows 7 completely concludes that this is fake and the use of VNC is possible. You do realize that 1.4 GB of space is not even enough for Ubuntu! This was a useless post. Hence even seeing all the installed programs on the taskbar. If they indeed shortcuts, they will need a program to lead to. In reality, you would need more space for Windows 7 to even boot up. 512mb of RAM? Good luck even getting the file explorer up. Indeed was a useless post. Probably one for attention.

xWolf13 said:
The fact that it takes a lot of memory to install Windows 7 completely concludes that this is fake and the use of VNC is possible. You do realize that 1.4 GB of space is not even enough for Ubuntu! This was a useless post. Hence even seeing all the installed programs on the taskbar. If they indeed shortcuts, they will need a program to lead to. In reality, you would need more space for Windows 7 to even boot up. 512mb of RAM? Good luck even getting the file explorer up. Indeed was a useless post. Probably one for attention.
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Technically the min RAM for 32-bit is 1GB but you're right that this is fake
Kernel for windows is closed-source, you can't recompile it for ARM
Linux Kernel won't work on Windows so don't try to say you used that
1.5GB of space hasn't been sufficient to install Windows since like the ME days or even earlier
and there's probably a whole bunch of other logic wrong I'm not going to waste my time explaining to you

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Like my Brothers say .......... post a video showing it actually working ......... or ...... it's not real ........
You need 1 gig ram to run Win7 16 gigs internal storage The Blaze only has 4 gigs internal storage with only 2.5 useable .......... So, Yeah ........... Total Garbage Phoney post ........
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USB Mass storage support

I upgrade from z2 to z5 Dual. Everything is great, except slow camera startup, poor battery, and worst of all, usb mass storage support is gone. Could anybody tell me how can I enable back USB mass storage? Thanks!

Hah! At first thought strange....should work....what may he have done wrong?
I tried three different USB-OTG cables with two different USB sticks EVER worked.
NOTHING WORKED.
So I went out into the internet to find out whats wrong?!
Here is the solution:https://support.sonymobile.com/glob...de/Connecting-your-device-to-USB-peripherals/

Upgraded from z1 to z5. Sometimes i was using z1 with usb cable as flash drive (in usb connection mode - usb mas storage enabled). It is useful, when you need copy something from pc to your phone SD-card. And that pc wont search drivers for media transfer protocol mode.
Unfortunately there's no usb mass storage mode in usb connectivity options. Is that feature hidden somewhere else?

You mean connecting your mobile to the pc AS a mass storage ? or connecting usb w/ otg cable on the mobile ?
If it's the first choise you probably traveled time from 4 years ago, since Android 3 or 4 Mass storage is definetly gone, nothing else than this ever sucky MTP...
Thanks Google and Microsoft..

MTP is currently the best solution to avoid data from being corrupted in the midst of transferring file(s) or resources that linked to extsd .
I dont see anything wrong about that.

It sucks for typical user, it is maybe convinient for developper but actually what matters is the user..
It is slow as hell, you can't do two thing at once, it requires some external driver on most computer (Windows update for Windows, and a driver to install on archlinux) there is no advantages

For those looking for a solution to avoid MTP while connecting the Z5 to PC this is a perfect solution: Link

monx® said:
MTP is currently the best solution to avoid data from being corrupted in the midst of transferring file(s) or resources that linked to extsd .
I dont see anything wrong about that.
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O RLY ?
It sucks mighty balls, cause it's slow as hell (1 MB/s)
then there's the limitations of only being able to copy a certain amount of folders & files at once, ...
Developer Options & adb push to the rescue ! :good:
(that is ranging between 3.5-5+ MB/s for me)

winst said:
Could anybody tell me how can I enable back USB mass storage? Thanks!
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I really hate the mandatory MTP connection on new android versions , too. It's definitely slower in transferring, viewing, doing generic things.
If you have root you can try: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=os.devwom.usbsharereval
I remember it working (badly) on my old samsung phone, try playing a bit with the settings and particularly choose external sdcard if you have one. It might work with a ton of luck

USB mass storage option was there in my Z3 Compact with Android 5.1.1. (Don't remember if I checked it after upgrading to 6 not long before I replaced it with the Z5.) It really sucks that it is not there with the Z5. I can list a thousand reasons why I would prefer mass storage mode over MTP...

Knux14 said:
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zacharias.maladroit said:
O RLY ?
It sucks mighty balls, cause it's slow as hell (1 MB/s)
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Prof_Hu said:
It really sucks that it is not there with the Z5. I can list a thousand reasons why I would prefer mass storage mode over MTP...
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I found a tricky workaround to share ONE folder READ ONLY (not r/w) as MASS STORAGE using two apps:
- install and run http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-universal-mass-storage-enabler-beta-t3240097
click "enable usb mass storage"
- install and run https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=os.devwom.usbsharereval
(if you have problems like from comments on play store, google "usb sharer v2.2.2" and start it in offline mode)
*add a folder tapping on the + (to share full internal sd add "/storage/emulated/0" , to share external sd card use "/mnt/media_rw/yoursdcardnumber" )
*tap on share (if asked to enable UMS mode, note that this shouldn't appear because already activated through the first app)
- folder will appear as pendrive on your pc. No more slow loading of files / files not showing /slow file transfer
you can only view/copy files NOT delete/add/write
Everytime Sony USB mode selection window appear on the phone, simply press "cancel" and dismiss it.
If you have more success with mounting folders with only one of those app, plese share. The first app is needed for me because it keeps USB mode on UMS, though it does not work for me for mounting External sd.
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Still no proper solution on Z5 to restore Mass Storage? Even with root?

Bump I guess..