Does anyone know if it will be possible to do Mobile Network Sharing i.e using it as a wifi hotspot?
Hi, I have never heard about this before. Have you seen it working on other mobile phone? Or do you mean the feature when you create a wifi hotspot on your phone and you are sharing your mobile data connection? If so, than I think thats a standard feature of many phones...
Nexus5-32GB said:
Hi, I have never heard about this before. Have you seen it working on other mobile phone? Or do you mean the feature when you create a wifi hotspot on your phone and you are sharing your mobile data connection? If so, than I think thats a standard feature of many phones...
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yeh this is what I meant. text in bold.
this is usually already integrated on most phones.. even on low level devices...
It has it
Just pull down twice from the top and you see "Personal Hotspot" in the toggles - just click that and you can tether your laptop via Wifi
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Pretty self explanatory this one - is there any way of knowing whether your mobile internet connection (3G) or WiFi is being used in, for example, a browser session? Just don't want to make the mistake of looking at YouTube on the phone, meaning to use the home WiFi, and end up using my 3G by accident, and paying through the nose for extra feed.
ryanbryan said:
Pretty self explanatory this one - is there any way of knowing whether your mobile internet connection (3G) or WiFi is being used in, for example, a browser session? Just don't want to make the mistake of looking at YouTube on the phone, meaning to use the home WiFi, and end up using my 3G by accident, and paying through the nose for extra feed.
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The icons on your task bar should indicate if you have a active data connection.
Or, you can use Spb Wireless Monitor (which you need to purchase). It produces reports telling you which software uses which connections and the amount of data transferred.
In a discussion I had with HTC Tech Support, they told me that wifi, when enabled, over-rides the cellular data. I'm not sure if this just applies to the settings or always. Hopefully, someone can provide a definitive answer.
Yes that is correct, if WIFI is enabled you WILL NOT have a cellular data connection.
Umm. There is a wifi icon in the taskbar o.o and a signal icon also.....whichever is there means it's active and if wifi is there, your data will not be active, only wifi.
What all you are saying is true but some applications still use the data network even if wifi is turned on and connected it seems. I have the same issue(i don't have a data plan with my fuze since my college has wifi everywhere). But things like weather and other native apps on the phone will just turn on the 3g network and stat using data instead of wifi.
if a device is transfering data over gprs/3g whatever
it show arrows moving in the signal str icon
otherwise it use wifi
Applications can choose to use a certain connection if they are programmed to do so, windows only gives each one a type of 'ranking', the fastest connection having the highest ranking and being the one an application is to use by default, but the application can override this and choose whatever connection it likes. This ranking is called the "Interface Metric" if you'd like to learn more about it.
There's an HTC program called 'bytecounter' that monitors the SMDx: ports in the system, which are the ports the system uses for data.. in bytecounter you will see the values increase if an application is using data over cellular network. let me know if you'd like me to upload it.
Umm. There is a wifi icon in the taskbar o.o and a signal icon also.....whichever is there means it's active and if wifi is there, your data will not be active, only wifi.
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Well that wasn't particularly helpful. I too have made the same assumption, but the question asked if there was any way to make sure.
windows only gives each one a type of 'ranking', the fastest connection having the highest ranking and being the one an application is to use by default, but the application can override this and choose whatever connection it likes
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Well that was the kind of answer I was looking for, and is particularly pertinent in my case, as my connection through my mobile provider is about as fast (or maybe even faster) than my fixed line connection at home. A rather bizarre situation, but such is the advancement of Australian broadband infrastructure.
The last couple of times I have used it, I have taken to turning off the phone connection so that only WiFi is running, and then using the internet. It would be good if you can upload the byetcounter program, seems like a free (?) version of the software programatix mentioned.
Here ya go!
Maybe this is just me, but when I try to unzip that file, nothing comes up....?
lol, i always forget to remove the hidden attribute.. let me go ahead and fix that..
Edit: fixed
Newer Windows Live (including the one that come with Touch Pro) will always dial-up the 3G/GPRS connection when checking for email in Messaging. But if you are checking in Windows Live, most of the time it doesn't dial-up but sometimes, it does.
So far that is the only program that I know of behaves like this. I contacted Microsoft regarding this and they keep asking me to contact my celular provider for help. In other word, they are not helping (or do not understand the problem).
Anyway I solved the problem by changing the Connections setting to "My Work Network" for Internet. The catch is, if I really want to use 3G/GPRS, I'll have to change the setting to my celular 3G/GPRS connection.
Or you could use the nodata application from modaco and disable whenever you like the cellular 3g connection just to be sure you are using wifi.When you are away from wifi networks you can in a matter of 2 clicks reenable the cellular 3g connection...
Hi,
Ich have one question.
I got my HTC HD2 on yesterday and it's a really nice device but there's one thing I don't like: If I want to go into internet by wlan, i always have to switch off the mobile phone network, because if i don't do that the browser will use the mobile phone network.
I hope someone understand me and find a solution to make the browser using my wlan while the mobile phone network is switched on.
Flo
P.S.: I'm sorry about my english
By Default, WIFI takes priority when it's on so you don't use your data connection.
Psygnosis84 said:
By Default, WIFI takes priority when it's on so you don't use your data connection.
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But when the phone is on standby.. in the background it starts up the data connection on the phone.. for automatic downloads like email, weather etc..
instead of using the wifi.. I had manually turned the data connection off from the settings.. even then the same thing..
any help.
hmm.. i would recommend using nodata. search for it.. its a program that will allow you to turn off mobile internet and use only wifi.. if that what your after?
Okay, say I bought a galaxy s2 skyrocket without a plan. Then I rooted it and downloaded a wireless tether app to make my phone a wireless hotspot. I then downloaded a VoIp app like (textPlus).
What I'm wondering is will I be able to talk anywhere like a regular cell phone but without the charge? Because the VoIp app needs internet to receive/send calls and texts. And the wireless tether will provide that. So yeah, I'm just wondering if its possible to make it a phone without call/texting/data charges.
Thank you.
katukutu said:
i dont think so .lol
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Oh damn. Haha well okay thanks.
When you say tether....
Dont you mean just turn on the Wifi - therefore using it on a WiFi connection?
THAT should work - in theory.
REGonz said:
When you say tether....
Dont you mean just turn on the Wifi - there ore using it on a WiFi connection?
THAT should work - in theory.
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Well I meant to activate the wireless hotspot device in the phone. Thus allowing you to use internet anywhere and letting you use the VoIp app (textPlus) anywhere.
The wireless hotspot uses the cell service for the internet connection. So if the phone is not activated then no it won't work. You could use the voip to make calls when you have access to someones wifi or using an open connection by wardriving.
85gallon said:
When you activate wifi tether the phone needs to be activated because cell service is used for the data connection. So the answer is no.
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Oh okay I see. Thank you
google voice over 4g data
Search on play store for GrooVe IP. It is a paid ($5) app that claims to route google voice calls over the phones data connection.
I am looking for a app that works without a wifi or a mobile 3G network. I have three different smartphones that I need to install this app on: One is a Galaxy S3, the other is a BB, and the last one is a Virgin Mobile Venture. I need a app that will allow me to communicate to the phones that require no wifi or mobile network access. Is there any out there?
So you want it to work via Bluetooth ?
Are these phones always going to be near each other with BT turned on ?
Can it use mobile data, just not "3G" ?
What are you trying to accomplish ?
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I am looking for a app that works without a wifi or a mobile 3G network. I have three different smartphones that I need to install this app on: One is a Galaxy S3, the other is a BB, and the last one is a Virgin Mobile Venture. I need a app that will allow me to communicate to the phones that require no wifi or mobile network access. Is there any out there?
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I don't know how or what you want them to "communicate". But you could definitely hook them all up to the computer through usb and they would "communicate".
Wireless communication will not be possible without some sort of transceiver. And Bluetooth may be a possible solution for file transfers. It will really depend on your capabilities and knowhow.
The more I think about it, the more I feel that this post is a prank.
How do you plan on sending a call without a network or any type of wireless signal transfer you can't use Bluetooth because that would only allow you to call people right next to you or in the same room maybe a couple rooms over your voice travels farther then a Bluetooth connection does. And connecting it to your computer to call someone does you know good without and internet connection. So your back to your voice again....its kind of impossible to do what you are trying to do.
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basketthis said:
The more I think about it, the more I feel that this post is a prank.
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I think that a lot, but I've seen people come up with some truly unique questions.
basketthis said:
I don't know how or what you want them to "communicate". But you could definitely hook them all up to the computer through usb and they would "communicate".
Wireless communication will not be possible without some sort of transceiver. And Bluetooth may be a possible solution for file transfers. It will really depend on your capabilities and knowhow.
The more I think about it, the more I feel that this post is a prank.
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Thank you, This is not a prank, I am looking for something that will be able to communicate without a mobile network, I seen someone had at least a texting app that worked, but i am looking for one that you can call as well as text without the mobile network. I see now that it is unrealistic to say without wifi or mobile network.
Pennycake said:
So you want it to work via Bluetooth ?
Are these phones always going to be near each other with BT turned on ?
Can it use mobile data, just not "3G" ?
What are you trying to accomplish ?
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Thank you for the response. They are not all going to be in the same area at the same time, and I am unable to use the mobile network.
Pen, paper, and a stamp?
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I think the app you're looking for is KakaoTalk https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kakao.talk&hl=en
It's a cross-platform (Android, iOS, BlackBerry) free texting and calling app.
Of course, you need some kind of data connection, either WiFi or 3G.
I assume you're travelling out of your country and don't want to pay roaming fees, so you would have to find a WiFi hotspot to use this app.
a app that works without a wifi
just have a try of Xender,it can transfer pictures, videos, documents even contact list to friends at a moment! one of its most important advantages is it runs without wifi. so i want to suggest it because it is very convenniet .
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wndrwmn87 said:
I am looking for a app that works without a wifi or a mobile 3G network. I have three different smartphones that I need to install this app on: One is a Galaxy S3, the other is a BB, and the last one is a Virgin Mobile Venture. I need a app that will allow me to communicate to the phones that require no wifi or mobile network access. Is there any out there?
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i have this galaxy s8+ Sprint version and im trying to figure out how to enable the hotspot so i can share my data and i don't find a real solution please help!!
Quiperd809 said:
i have this galaxy s8+ Sprint version and im trying to figure out how to enable the hotspot so i can share my data and i don't find a real solution please help!!
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What do you mean disable? Does it say you are no subscribed to Hotspot or something like that when you try to turn it on?
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What do you mean disable? Does it say you are no subscribed to Hotspot or something like that when you try to turn it on?
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I mean i Don't have the option to hotspot my data i can't share my internet. i dont see the option/
Hidden hotspot, "Sprint, you make them love you little and nothing"
Quiperd809 said:
I mean i Don't have the option to hotspot my data i can't share my internet. i dont see the option/
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I have the same problem. To be exact, it is as if they had hidden from the menu "settings-> connections" the option Hotspot that allows to activate and deactivate the Internet sharing.
My S8 plus is SM-G955U with OREO, I'm using it outside of the USA. And my local carrier does not block these things. I imagine this is some Sprint software that runs when you start Android and hide Hotspot. The APN I can access, see and edit without problems, I select the local carrier and everything works except share the internet.
At the moment, I use PDANet + as a workarround but it is very annoying that it is disconnected every time and the paid version does not solve my problem.
If someone has another solution to let us know, I will be very grateful.