I've been using Lollipop's Smart Unlock with my Gnex and Moto 360. Works great but it appears that it locks down the device on the basis of the connection state rather than using the signal strength of the Bluetooth connection to gauge the proximity of your trusted devices. Perhaps it does use the latter, I'm not sure. Is there any literature as to how this works?
Yes, it seems to be the connection state. I don't have any bluetooth devices that can be permanently connected to my Nexus 7, so it is a bit useless and IMHO misdesigned.
I had bluetooth proximity authentication working on Linux with a modified version of pam_blue, and it just required my paired phone to be nearby, not connected. I don't know if it is possible to spoof bluetooth MAC addresses, but if so then I can't see how making the actual connection would help.
Smart Lock with NFC seems to not work at all, face unlock does not work well for me, and apps like Skiplock are not allowed to work with Lollipop, so I am a bit disappointed.
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I am using ARHD ROM (with Bricked Kernel).
My car can access and read out RSS threads and has a lot of interactive media functions, including being able access the internet via my bluetooth enabled phone. But I can't seem to get it to work fully, and really don't know if it is a ROM / Kernel / Phone issue or a car issue. I just don't know enough about the various bluetooth protocols etc, and as much as I research it, I keep going around in circes.
The car will connect to the phone and work fine as a bluetooth headset for telephone calls. It will also display the caller picture without issue and will access and read out my emails (using stock sense Mail client) and SMS messages. It also seems to connect to audio OK (although I never use it as it has a USB port that will accept a pop drive, so all my music is on the dashboard).
But the internet connection doesn't seem to work. I have looked into this and can't work out if it is a PAN or DUN profile issue. Soemtimes I can get the phone to show an internet connection being available to the car, sometimes it doesn't depending on which ROM I use and I can't seem to get any to work regardless.
Looking on the website, it claims the following:
How can I configure my mobile device for internet or BMW TeleServices usage?
In the operating manual of your mobile device you will find instructions on configuring “Access Point Name (APN)”; other names for this may be “Internet Settings”, “Modem Settings” or “Tethering Settings”. The required settings are available from your service provider. Please note that most Sony Ericsson mobile devices only recognise the first entry in the APN list, so it is recommended that all other APN configurations be deleted.
Can somebody please help me with this. I really am baffled as to how to get this to work.
Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e using Tapatalk
Bump. Anybody?
Sent from my Motorola DynaTAC using Tapatalk (feels like it at times with this phone)
It has been a year or 2 since I got bluetooth networking going. Today I tried to get my phone to connect to my windows 7 desktop and.... it couldn't even connect sadly enough. Anyways this is from memory so it may or may not be correct. I don't like posting incorrect stuff because you never know who will read/flame.
1. pair your phone to the other device
2. connect via bluetooth your phone to the other device
3. I used the app in the link below to turn on bluetooth tether. Your kernel needs to support this feature. Just a note, there are 2 apps off the link. One is wifi only, the other does bluetooth and wifi. Assuming you get this app, turn on bluetooth tether. I don't know if you should turn tether on then connect bluetooth. Maybe it doesn't matter.
4. This step I don't quite understand. The bluetooth tether should "offer" a network service to the remote device. The remote device in turn must recognize the service and use it. DHCP is the easiest to auto configure everything. If you need a name server, use 8.8.8.8 since that is a public dns server by our google overlords.
http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/
I'm really liking 4.3 and want a restricted profile to use in my car when I have my tablet mounted to my dash so that I don't need to type a password in to use music/nav/diag software. Problem I'm having is that some of the software that I use with a Bluetooth GPS will not work right because I can't get the Bluetooth working in the restricted profile. When I turn on the BT it looks like it is going to turn on, but turns back off. From the owner account I've looked at the paired devices to see if any of them had a new setting to allow restricted user access, but no luck. I've turned on the BT radio from the owner account, but when I switch to the restricted profile it turns off.
Anyone know of a file that can be tweaked to allow this to work, or if I've overlooked allowing access to some app I didn't connect with BT for the restricted user.
Can anyone test and confirm they also have this problem or not? I only have one device running 4.3 right now so I can not test much on my own. I've not seen much info on all the restrictions and settings to adjust restricted profiles.
I have the same problem with my Nexus 7 (2012) running stock 4.4.
Hi guys
I do not own the watch yet but have just been informed that apparently the WiFi model still relies on a smartphone to connect to the internet, is this true?
(I was told that the WiFi in the watch is simply a WiFi direct and that it will not work when the phone is off.)
My use case is the following: I wish to write my own applications for it that can connect to WiFi networks independently of the phone and can make API queries from Javascript
without using my phone's internet connection but instead directly connecting to,say, my company's wifi. Is this possible?
I know that without my smartphone active, the watch obviously won't have access to my smartphone notifications, but that is not what I am looking for in a watch anyway.
My ideas are going more in the direction of querying my own API for my server(via json) so I can keep an eye on its status. Does such a thing work with the smartphone being off, or is this something that works exclusively with the 3G version of the S2? I would love to get the 3G model, but it isn't being sold in my country.
Nik
Yes, it is possible. The watch connects to the WiFi by itself... You don't need the phone for that
endeebee said:
Hi guys
I do not own the watch yet but have just been informed that apparently the WiFi model still relies on a smartphone to connect to the internet, is this true?
(I was told that the WiFi in the watch is simply a WiFi direct and that it will not work when the phone is off.)
My use case is the following: I wish to write my own applications for it that can connect to WiFi networks independently of the phone and can make API queries from Javascript
without using my phone's internet connection but instead directly connecting to,say, my company's wifi. Is this possible?
I know that without my smartphone active, the watch obviously won't have access to my smartphone notifications, but that is not what I am looking for in a watch anyway.
My ideas are going more in the direction of querying my own API for my server(via json) so I can keep an eye on its status. Does such a thing work with the smartphone being off, or is this something that works exclusively with the 3G version of the S2? I would love to get the 3G model, but it isn't being sold in my country.
Nik
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Yes, using WIFI to connect other than the watch is doable, the problem that I had was the battery drain, it drained the battery in 3 hours when I have the WIFI set to on. so now I only use it Bluetooth to my phone, and with that, it lasts 2-3 days without a charge.
So this has been one of the annoyances I've had with android for awhile but never really put any research in to it to know if its normal, or more so - why this would be normal. If I want to connect to certain devices that run as a wifi hotspot, but don't provide internet access - android does not appear to use those connections. The workaround seems to be to disable cell data and then I can connect to the device. Currently on a Nexus 6p on 7.1.1. The wifi will connect, but i can't hit the device unless I wack cell data. I guess really the two questions that matter are 1) is this normal? and 2) is there a workaround? Tried it on the fiance's iphone and it works without issue.
-Chris
Hello,
I have a stock Motorola Z3 Play running on Pie and there's one issue I can't solve.
When I get back home it won't connect to my WiFi network unless I unlock the screen. I don't know if it's a bug or a feature. I never had this issue on any of my previous phones, my wife has a Galaxy Xcover 4 running on 7.0 and it connects even before she enters the house.
I have presence detection based on wireless clients list on my smart home controller and having to unlock the phone manually each time I get back just kills the idea.
Is there any option I could miss in the settings that could force such behavior?