My camera, a Panasonic GX85 uses an app called Image App, which until a recent android update, worked flawlessly.
It works by forming some sort of a private LAN with my camera.
However after the recent Android update, I can activate the WiFi system on my camera, my phone sees the Wifi, I tell my phone to connect to it. The phone makes a successful connection, but then goes..
"Checking the quality of the internet connection.."
After about 60 seconds of spinny circle, it then says "Internet not available", disconnects, and reconnects to my normal wifi. Making it impossible to retrieve the pictures from my camera, except by faffing about and yanking the memory cards out, and plugging them into an external reader.
Is there any possible way to stop it trying to check the "quality of the internet", and them dumping the connection when it can't find an internet connection?
Samsing S7 Edge SM-G935F
Android 7.0
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I have an Ethernet / Wireless IP Camera. It works on my home network without any issues. But I would like to connect with it directly from my Razr.
When it is on my home network and I'm accessing the control panel then the camera's configuration panel will detect and connect to my Razr running FoxFi. But I don't know how to access the camera to view it. Going to the camera application doesn't do it.
I have IP camera software on my Razr, including the camera viewer that came with the camera. I have FoxFi that I can use. I have the USB Host Ethernet cable that I can use. But I have no clue how I can wirelessly connect directly to the camera.
Any help in getting connected would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Andrew
Never mind. I got it figured out. In case anyone else is looking for a similar solution, here are the steps:
Connect the camera to the home network via Ethernet.
Note: If a port other than 80 is used then it will need to be remembered and specified on the phone.
Configure the camera with the SSID and password for the FoxFi hotspot.
Disconnect the Ethernet from the camera.
On the phone, start FoxFi.
Wait a moment for the camera to connect.
Once connected FoxFi will display the IP assigned to the camera.
Open whatever viewing application you wish and configure the camera.
Alternatively, it can be viewed through a browser.
I'm typing this just after connecting, so I haven't learned if there are any shortcuts when disconnecting and reconnecting later, or if there are any pecularities with the process. I may also experiment later with streaming through a Rasperry Pi, which would bypass using the phone as the hotspot. But this should get someone going.
Galaxy s6 can someone help me?
From what I understand. Security changes in Marshmallow are preventing the Samsung Camera app from working properly. Samsung needs to update the app to resolve the issue.
I found the following advice on the dpreview website which may be of help to you.
Everything works in marshmellow its just not automatic.
You lose NFC tap to join (which actually just connects to bluetooth and then trigers a call to make the phone/tablet connect to the cameras wifihotspot).
So now you can still use the basic bluetooth shutter but to use live view or transfer pictures you must your self press the mobile/wifi on the camera and then join your phone to the cameras hotspot manually. once you do that app functions pretty much like normal. unfortunately switching between app functions picture transfer and live view sometimes crashes the app or drops the cameras wifi hotspot and you have to reconnect.
Thanks but it wont work.. they wont update the app, they stopt the production of the nx cameras...
I picked up a new dash cam for my car, which requires WiFi to connect to it to pull the videos off it, watch the camera feed live, etc. There is no internet connection on the dash cam, for obvious reasons, and the phone lets me know about it. It makes the connection, it knows there is no connection to the internet, and that is perfectly fine with me. I need to be on that "broken internet" in order to do what I need to do with my devices.
When I'm at home, I have my android switch over to the dash cam wifi. It connects, it informs me that I'm connected. Cool. I switch to the app, try to get a live feed, or look at what is on the device, and it times out. I go back to the wifi settings, and its switched back to my home wifi.
If I go and forget my WiFi connection settings, the phone stays on the dash cam WiFi indefinitely. So I know the phone and camera is working fine.
What I'm asking the community is for suggestions on how I can "Lock" the WiFi connection to what I select, and not allow the phone to switch to a not-required better connection to the internet. I'm interested in whatever option is in the phone itself, or an app, paid or free. I don't want to have to keep forgetting my home WiFi to get onto the Camera. I COULD I guess just drop the WiFi itself while I do what I need to do....
I'm running a rooted One+2 using Lineage 14.1. I've seen suggestions about going into the advance WiFi options and turning off the phones ability to switch networks, but, I don't have that check box.
Anyone have any ideas or suggestions?
Thanks in advanced.
Hey everyone,
I have a small Android TV box (VONTAR X96) I bought from AliExpress, connected via WiFi to a TP-Link TL-WR741ND router.
When the TV box powers on, and connects to the router, I get a message under the network name: "Connected. No Internet.", meaning of course I cannot browse or get any other information from the internet.
Whenever this happens, after a few seconds all other devices in the house (phones, tablets etc.) are suffering from the exact same problem, except for a PC which is connected to the router via Ethernet.
The only temporary solution to this is connecting the TV box to the router via WPS. After a few seconds the message changes simply to "Connected", and the block is lifted from every device. Several hours later the problem returns, and I have to go through this procedure again.
I tried assigning static IPs to the TV box but this did not change anything. I also tried using an external USB WiFi stick, presumably to bypass the internal WiFi chip (don't know if this actually worked), but no dice.
Anyone know what is going on here?
Thanks a lot for helping!
Hey guys,
So basically I drive a 2016 Volvo V70 (car model not so important tbh) and before I got my Galaxy N20U I used to have an iPhone 8+.
At the time when I connected it to my car's bluetooth system, things used to run quite perfectly when playing music. Using the car's buttons I could rewind and fast-forward songs by pressing and holding in apps like Spotify.
Now with the Galaxy N20U, answering calls works sorta well, and I can skip songs forwards and backwards by short-pressing the car buttons, BUT I can't "slide" or "seek" the tracks, as in fast-forward or backwards, like I used to be able to do with the iPhone. I did all sorts of basic troubleshooting like unpairing and repairing the phone, resetting, trying other music players; but the problem still persists.
I messed around with the bluetooth connection type in Developer Mode settings on the Galaxy, but tbh I don't really understand what the settings mean or which one should be right. I'm not really aware what bluetooth version my car has either, but I think it would be an older version since it's 2014-2016 technology.
How can I fix it or tune the settings of the Galaxy in order to solve this? Or are there any apps I could install which fixes this issue?
Another problem with the Galaxy's BT connection is with my Windows 10 laptop. It's a pretty new laptop (HP Spectre 15 x360 2019) running the latest version of Windows 10.
Basically I did what everyone would do and I linked my Samsung to Windows, so I could have a similar continuity experience like Mac/iPhones have, like having a stable and automatic connection, picking up calls and texts from your laptop, and most importantly that your phone shares hotspot automatically through Bluetooth tethering when you're outside of home.
I tried several things like linking and unlinking through Microsoft's "Link Your Phone", and even tried with Samsung's Dex. I tried with both functions on, or one of them being unlinked.
The problem still persists, that it's not an automated and constant connection between the laptop and the phone, and that especially when it comes to automatic bluetooth tethering; then I always have to do it manually through clicking through several menus on Windows and creating an Access Point connecting to Bluetooth like some sort of a LAN connection. Every single time. And even when this connection is established, I'd see a LAN icon on the status bar (instead of signal bars) and when I expand the menu, it doesn't even list the current connection it is on (like "Samsung bla bla bla: Connected"). Instead I just get nearby WiFi networks and that it's searching. I DO get internet though and it works fine for the most part, but once I leave the room and the phone gets out of the range, or I put the laptop to standby, then I have to repeat the process all over again.
Even when I opt to sharing internet from my phone to the laptop through normal WiFi hotspot, I notice that the connection drops frequently.
To summarize, when it comes to both the car and my laptop, my Galaxy N20U does connect to them and offers the basic functionalities of the BT connection, BUT it misses other basic functionalities and it tends to be a half-baked, unstable connection.
Please help me out with this! Running the latest versions of softwares on all the named devices here.
For now turn off Developer options.
Clear the system cache on the boot menu
Reset network connections.
Pretty harmless and it may fix it...
dont have that problem