I have a few old android cell phones that I would like to use with my traditional land-line phone. I see there a some android phones that are coming out that use DECT 6.0 to use as a home phone and I would like to use my old phones in a simulate way. I have 2 original droids and an HTC Incredible they are not DECT compatible. I was hoping that there may be a Bluetooth or WiFi adapter that would connect to the traditional phone wire or DECT 6.0 to work with my current DECT phone.
Basically I want to make and receive phone calls over my land-line using my old cell phones. I do not want to use the internet to make a call.
If there is anybody that knows of such a device please let me know.
What you need is a bluetooth landline adapter, from ebay, amazon etc. But I think they have something like a 10mtr range
Also checkout Archos 35
and Motorola have a couple coming soon.
Hope this helps
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Hey Gang-
Looking at getting a new 2011 Chevy Silverado. One of the new features is bluetooth. As I look at the truck bluetooth specs, US Cellular isn't listed as a service provider, nor did I see any provider that sports a Samsung Mesmerize in their phone list (gm.com/bluetooth). Wondering if anyone has a new Chevy and uses the bluetooth. This was one feature I am interested in. Any info would be great!
Question short version: Is the USCC Mesmerize compatible with the new Chevy bluetooth?
-Deke
Even if it doesn't suport bluetooth for the mesmerize, "but I'm fairly sure it does" most new trucks come with a AUX connector.
There's no reason why it shouldn't. USCC is just a smaller carrier, usually only big name brands show up in lists like that. The carrier doesn't have anything to do with the Bluetooth anyways... that would be like a wifi router listing computer brands that can connect to it, it isn't related.
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It will most certainly work to some degree. The bluetooth interfaces that newer cars have do not only audio but caller ID, contact lists, etc through the factory radio. I used to be in the mobile electronics industry and I have noticed that some phones that "weren't compatible" still worked, they just did not utilize all of the features. That generally happens with older phones though. I would be very surprised if any Galaxy phone didn't have full functionality through any new car BT system. I have an aftermarket BT radio in my car that is 6 years old and it works mint. Go to the dealer and test it out, it only takes a minute to pair it up.
I appreciate the encouraging info. I am headed to the pick up a new truck tomorrow, so I will be able to answer this question with certainty and will report back!
I'm sure they would let you sit in the truck and test drive it, at which time you could play with the Bluetooth.
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Bluetooth works like a charm! It pairs very easy (actually speaks the pairing instructions through the truck speakers during set-up). No problems at all! Thanks for the info!
Anyone know of a fairly easy way to to send all audio from one phone to another phone, via bluetooth?
My reason for asking is that I would like to set my car up to pair with a bluetooth receiver that plugs into the auxiliary port that my car stereo has. My thought was to use to the OG Droid as the receiver. I have a 2008 vehicle and spent over $1,000 on the navigation head unit when I bought it, so I don't really feel like replacing the head unit just for bluetooth. I thought of this idea while I was playing around with the bluetooth settings, and noticed that my computer can receive all the audio from my phone, so why not my old phone? So, I tried it, and alas, only file transfers were accepted between the two phones.
I currently have a non-rooted Thunderbolt, and an OG Droid that was recently flashed back to vanilla froyo because I was going to sell it. I assume this would only be a driver issue on the Droid, as the Droid was also able to send all of its audio to my computer.
Any ideas?
Obligatory bump...
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I have a double din car stereo where the faceplate doubles as a 7 inch android tablet running 2.3.3 O.S. Im wondering if it can be rooted somehow any help would be greatly appreciated,as far as brand this stereo came directly from china doesnt have a brand name on it the box it came in says car multimedia system,its also referred as a car pad I think it might be made by a company in china named milion but not 100% sure on that.
It there a way to plug it into a laptop or take it out and use ADB,?
if so there might be a way. No roms or kernels that you wouldn't have to make yourself, unless you find out the brand.
Thanx,yea all I really want to do is just a generic root of sorts to be able to push super user to it and manipulate the files a little bit
Hi Friends,
I am from India, Recently we bought galaxy note 800 and its amazing. it works great and we love using it. Now what is bothering me is that we have TATA photon plus postpaid USB dongle in our home. We use it with our laptops and desktops. Now I want to connect the same to my galaxy note and access the internet, when I am outside. I know that we have sim card provision for that purpose but as this photon is provided by my office , I wanna use it instead buying a new SIM. So friends please let me know if we can use this USB dongle with my Tablet and if yes, How do I do that ? I have even got the 30 pin to USB connector for my tab and tried connecting the dongle, but after connecting nothing happens. Only the blue LED on my dongle keeps blinking as it does when it connects to internet over my laptop, but I cannot connect to internet.
Help me guys and thanks in advance.
I do not think it will support it but you can test it you need the connector to USB converter should get it for around 100 rs in the local market use it and check whether it detects it or not if it does you are in luck if it does not then you have to look at an alternative anyways it will look ugly why dont buy a prepaid card all the providers provide 1gb for 250
No Data card does not work using an OTG cable just tried it
The dongles need drivers to work. On the laptop or pc it generally installs them as part of the setup process however as this is a windows app it won't work on an android tablet. I know dongles have been got to work on other tablets, the Acer Iconia A500 comes to mind but there was a lot of work by the devs to get them working and then it was only certain dongles....
No the drivers for dongles are part of Linux or Unix like keyboard or mouse but it is detected as an high voltage device and hence it does not take it. older version of Linux kernels use to not support dongles but newer version do support it
Hello.
I recently came into possession of an LG G5 Android phone, T-Mobile variant H830. I was planning to use it for software development, and I was wondering if there's a way to get it to connect to the internet using my ADSL connection. I'm fairly new to the wonderful world of Android, so please bear with me.
I realize Wi-Fi is the path of least resistance... but it's not the best option in this particular house and I have a fine Ethernet network just sitting there waiting to be used. Also, my old Windows Phone (ducks) is able to use it just fine.
I have a USB type C hub (a Microsoft HD-500 display dock) and a small collection of USB to Ethernet adapters (Realtek RTL8153, ASIX AX8872B). Unfortunately, the LG G5 has no interest in recognizing any of them.
I've also played around with reverse tethering to my PC, but apparently it requires root access to even work, and even after that it doesn't even work very well.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to make this work? Should I be looking into flashing LineageOS? Or maybe I just have the wrong phone?
Thanks.
Today's progress: I played with an app called ReverseTethering, which works by establishing a VPN connection to its host PC over an ADB-controlled USB pipe. Most apps seem fine with it. However, the Google Play Store insists on using Wi-Fi to download apps and won't recognize a reverse-tethered connection. It does resume in-process downloads over the connection, but won't initiate new ones. My conclusion is that this is an app bug, and that it is checking for Wi-Fi when it really should simply be checking for a valid connection.
There's an app called Fake Wifi that will apparently hack apps into thinking their connection is over Wi-Fi when it's not. However, this app needs a framework that requires a rooted device. So, back to square one.
(NB: I'd prefer not to root my device for security reasons.)
Today's progress: connecting a Sharkk UH-SKRJ11 (RealTek RTL8153 chipset) directly to the phone using a USB C-to-A adapter works. A couple of apps seem iffy about it, including the Google Maps offline downloader, but the Google Play Store and the LG updater work. So this is probably as good as it gets without major surgery.
This suggests that the problem was in fact the Microsoft HD-500 display dock. It would charge the phone, but the phone didn't seem to recognize it as a USB hub.
Does anyone have a suggestion for a USB Type C hub that works with this phone? Ideally I'd like to use Ethernet and charge at the same time.
Hello,
I work on the desktop team at a company and we started using Dell's DW-15 USB-C docks since Dell is phasing out the E-port. Out of curiosity, I plugged my phone into one a couple of months ago and everything but the display output works. We also have Dell 96NPS USB-C to Ethernet adapters that work fine with the G5.
I have this here.
Bought from eBay. Works on both G5 and V20. Should work on any phone that supports SlimPort.
I have connected it to the phone with display and various peripherals. Did not try ethernet dongle though.
I'm a bit puzzled that the Microsoft dock did not function right. I though that too was simply a display/slim-port design. Or maybe it's only the hub/otg functionality that's unavailable?
@askermk2000: thanks for the note. Any idea what the model number is on that device?
The Microsoft dock situation is quite odd. Before fully patching the OS (the phone arrived with the March security patch, I think) it wouldn't see anything at all on the dock (which has a Surface Ethernet Adapter aka RTL8153 plugged in). After patching, it suddenly started working, and working fine. Then after patching up to latest, it sort of half-works. It connects and data flows, but the phone pops a "Connecting" message for a minute every so often, as if it were pulling a new DHCP address or something. When connected directly to the Ethernet adapter, things work fine.
(And when I say fine, I mean mostly fine. Every now and then I plug in the adapter and nothing works. Disconnecting and reconnecting sometimes works. Changing USB connection settings sometimes works. Sometimes rebooting works. <shrug>)
@Keynesian
I'm sorry but there is not a single marking on that thing. A truly generic device.
That exact one seems to have become rare now. This looks like the successor, though it has one less usb port than mine.
Here's a listing of mine.
There are many generic types, with or without hdmi, one or more usb etc
One option with aluminum housing, 1 usb 1 hdmi and usb-c power input should cost no more than about $10
I think I got mine for around that (which is a more expensive model), but I got lucky and found a lonely expiring auction. Saved maybe $20
Weird about that dock of yours. Hopefully you'll have better experience with another one.
If I had an ethernet dongle I'd try to confirm if it works with or without the dock on my H850, but that could also depend on the type of chipset and driver used (and LG's flavor of the month it seems).
Just ordered one of these off Ebay. We'll see how it goes in a month:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/UBS-3-1-Ty...-Charging-Port-OTG-Adapter-Cable/162309246619