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PhoneMyPC error

Hello there,
Did anyone besides me encounter an error while using phonemypc? It just crashes and asks me to mail support after i try to connect to my pc.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
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What version do you have on your phone?
PhoneMyPC has been operating with nearly 100% stability. There are a few minor bugs remaining, but all can be circumvented by pressing Back or Home and simply trying again.

I hope your not paying for phone mypc because vnc is free, better and free.
Did I mention its free?
...and better?
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How do you use vnc?

simonthor said:
How do you use vnc?
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Download and install uvnc on your PC.
Get androidvnc from market.
If you get stuck I'm sure there are some instructions on the uvnc website.
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simonthor said:
How do you use vnc?
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1) Install a VNC server on your PC (there are many available; I like UltraVNC)
2) configure it with credentials and set it to always run.
3) Add an exception to your Windows Firewall for TCP port 5900 (for UltraVNC)
4) Get your PC's local IP address
5) Port-forward port 5900 to your PC's IP, in the settings for your router (PortForward dot com has pretty good instructions for most routers)
6) Get your public IP address (browse to whatismyip dot com )
7) Install a VNC client on your phone (I have no preference from those available)
8) Give it your public IP and VNC credentials.
9) ** If your ISP regularly changes your public IP, be sure to set up a dyndns account or at least periodically check your IP, or else you may lose contact at some critical time
I've used VNC for decades, written both clients and servers for it, built and used other RFB based apps, used RDP, G2, LMI and just about every other remote access tool available.
I founded SoftwareForMe because I knew myself and my colleagues could do better. PhoneMyPC is better--and getting 'more better' all the time. That's not to say everybody agrees, and as mercianary said: it's not free.
Reply here if you need more help with that VNC. More than anything, I'm a geek, and happy to help when I can.

I've changed my mind, it was a bit harsh for be to say vnc is better, I have never used phonemypc so I can't really comment on which is better. Its just my opinion, and I am a bit biased as I haven't payed for any software directly in over a decade and would allways choose free software even if it wasn't as good as paid software.
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mercianary said:
I hope your not paying for phone mypc because vnc is free, better and free.
Did I mention its free?
...and better?
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Not really best app for this will be PhoneMyPC its a great app that will see live video and screenshots from ure phnoe, and get 2 see whst going on in ure computer. Love this app but i mean is jst my opinion wrks well in my touch slide all need 3g.wifi so yeahh its pretty priceless on market 9.99 but worth it

Fix for skyfire video

So apparently sprint thinks this is the iphone and we want our traffic filtered and/or proxied. This causes skyfire not to work with its flash video feature (and possibly other video/streaming apps, like a radio app I tried). But you can fix it and here's how (credit goes to sdx thread for the moment, will try and post link when back at pc):
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Multimedia
Input your msl (find it using adb command getprop, look for msl in readout)
Change rtsp proxy to 0.0.0.0 and rtsp proxy port to 0
Enjoy your unfiltered traffic!
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Here is that link I mentioned, all credit goes to CHIBUCKS at SDX-Developers:
http://forum.sdx-developers.com/android-2-1/(solved)-android-2-1-streaming-apps/

Read the thread on the other site and I'd love to have this ability on my phone. The only problem I'm running into is where do i get the adb program from.

compuw22c said:
So apparently sprint thinks this is the iphone and we want our traffic filtered and/or proxied. This causes skyfire not to work with its flash video feature (and possibly other video/streaming apps, like a radio app I tried). But you can fix it and here's how (credit goes to sdx thread for the moment, will try and post link when back at pc):
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Multimedia
Input your msl (find it using adb command getprop, look for msl in readout)
Change rtsp proxy to 0.0.0.0 and rtsp proxy port to 0
Enjoy your unfiltered traffic!
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Here is that link I mentioned, all credit goes to CHIBUCKS at SDX-Developers:
http://forum.sdx-developers.com/android-2-1/(solved)-android-2-1-streaming-apps/
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Skyfire seems to work just fine playing video for me. Every site I've gone too the video feature has worked w/o this fix.

I take it you need root for this?
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DotMpeg said:
I take it you need root for this?
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Root is not needed to make this change.

id_twin said:
Skyfire seems to work just fine playing video for me. Every site I've gone too the video feature has worked w/o this fix.
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Skyfire never worked for me prior to the fix. I always thought Skyfire was broken, turns out it was because of the server setting. Now Skyfire videos work fine.

okay do we set every setting to the 0.0.0.0 and port to 0, which ones.

Mr.Muscles said:
okay do we set every setting to the 0.0.0.0 and port to 0, which ones.
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Every value to all 0's. The entire settings page (proxy servers) are unnecessary. They are essentially "middle-men" between you and the internet that are unnecessary (unless you're sprint and you want to pick and choose what content your subscribers can see). All values under multimedia should be all 0's (0.0.0.0's for ip addresses, 0 for port). Hope you guys enjoy the service you're paying $10 extra for that SHOULD have worked out of the box.
Now lets hope some devs can sort out the upload issue that is obvious sprint has no intention on fixing as it seems almost guaranteed to be intentional, given that Sprint now has a record of trying to give us less service for our dollar, despite the network being able to support it...

Thanks for the fix. For once I was able to look at flash video with skyfire. Still skyfire doesn't recognize video on Veoh while Vevo still gave errors but its something till we get 2.2 and flash.
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Yeah, my skyfire works great....just wish they would friggin add a fast forward so you can skip back to where you where after a phone call or something.

um how do you use connect bot. i dont even know how to connect to a host?
nvm figured it out 3seconds later

1) get it in the market
2) open it, tap where it says "ssh" or "telnet" and select "local" from the drop down
3) type anything in the box to the right to name it
4) type getprop and look for your msl in the readout
5) steal underpants
6) Profit

compuw22c said:
1) get it in the market
2) open it, tap where it says "ssh" or "telnet" and select "local" from the drop down
3) type anything in the box to the right to name it
4) type getprop and look for your msl in the readout
5) steal underpants
6) Profit
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Hi so what do I do it I type in getprop, get a screenfull of data and nowhere on it does it say [ril.msl] 6-digit number. Is there a way i can scroll or search for text.
edit: I found the number but I still wanna know if there is a way to scroll or search
edit2: does this fix iheartradio?

compuw22c said:
Every value to all 0's. The entire settings page (proxy servers) are unnecessary. They are essentially "middle-men" between you and the internet that are unnecessary (unless you're sprint and you want to pick and choose what content your subscribers can see). All values under multimedia should be all 0's (0.0.0.0's for ip addresses, 0 for port). Hope you guys enjoy the service you're paying $10 extra for that SHOULD have worked out of the box.
Now lets hope some devs can sort out the upload issue that is obvious sprint has no intention on fixing as it seems almost guaranteed to be intentional, given that Sprint now has a record of trying to give us less service for our dollar, despite the network being able to support it...
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Thanks for the fix. Uploads are fixed as of DI18 as you most likely know by now.

Masterface7 said:
edit2: does this fix iheartradio?
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Yes I am on version 1.5 and it is mostly working

See this is the kind of thing the forums are for. I installed the fix and now my phone seems to be faster. Anyone else notice that?

I haven't noticed a speed difference myself, but I did my fix before the di18 update, so maybe its more pronounced 'before and after' after the di18. Just glad people are enjoying the fix (but more glad that I thwarted Sprint's attempt to stop people from getting the most out of the bandwidth they've paid for )
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I keep having this weird problem with skyfire video even after applying this fix. I'll head over to southparkstudios with my uastring set to desktop using my home wifi connection, and when I try to play a video it cuts out every few seconds and seems like it's rebuffering. Anyone have any suggestions?
The weird thing is that it was working the first time I used it, but I got a phone call while watching that first time and it's never been the same. I've tried un/reinstalling it.
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I also noticed this last night trying to play south park. Bandwidth to phone is fine, I can play daily show/colbert just fine. My guess is its some new method of streaming (still flash obviously,but something's changed) that causes issues with skyfires servers that play the file locally and then stream to us. Its possible this is intentional (like hulu) but my guess is not, because it will play, but stutters to the point of being unwatchable. Long story short, I'm 90% sure its on skyfire/southparkstudio's end, not the phone. Also hoping for a fix, if anyone else has any info I'd be happy to hear it.
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its not working for me
i cant get it to work... i set everything up but when i click on a video it exits with no warning... im on anivide.com

Cisco vpn issue - still confusing

It's been quite a while since I bought my Galaxy Tab and I still can't figure out how to set a working VPN connection..! There are so many topics regarding this issue but I still find setting tun.ko, using get-a-robot-vpnc, etc. too much confusing. I wonder if there is some step-by-step tutorial for newbies out there...
Please advice,
Thanks in advance

Hi,
I couldn't find a tutorial either, and I had to figure it myself. So here is a little help, that might work.
- get a custom ROM (most come with kernels that have tun support
- get vpnc from the Market
- add vpnc widget to your. "Desktop"
- start vpnc from your application drawer and configure connection parameters
- go back to your desktop and click on the vpnc widget
That should be all, hovewer I found out that even though I was successfully connected to the corporate Von I still couldn't reach the servers.... and that is because my kernel doesn't support advanced IP routing.
So,people out there ..please let me know which kernel has advanced IP routing support. (Currently using speedmod.)
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Any ways to get any kind of VPN working on Verizon Tabs without getting any custom roms?

gigadigit said:
Any ways to get any kind of VPN working on Verizon Tabs without getting any custom roms?
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yes I have done that.
it does require permanent root but...
root
get tun.ko
Install busybox
get vpnc from mkt
that's really all I had to do.
if you search my posts I think I did a post with a little more detail.
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Hi,
I've got Galaxy Tab and I have done the tun.ko and the busybox, and the insmod, and link for ifconfig and route..
my vpnc connects, says connected and stays connected.. But I cannot reach anything int he vpn network.. if I do "ip link show"... kind f like doing ifconfig -a on linux, I can see the tun interface, but it's down.
Is this really about advanced routing? If so, how come a lot of poeple on the forums are saying that they are succeeding in connecting fto CISCO vpn. It's worthless without being able to route there?!
Thanks,

Where do I have to put through tun.Ko?

root
get tun.ko
Install busybox
get vpnc from mkt and grant it root privileges
it's been working for me, the only thing is not working is the DNS. It seems when I am connected to the VPN I still can't access server by name, the only way is to use IP
if anyone solved that problem, please let me know

Update 1.2 Hulu hack?

Hi I did the update to 1.2 does anyone know how to make this hulu hack work for NC 1.2
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mobilecrunch . com /2010/ 05/ 24/ how-to-watch-hulu-on-android-2-2
(note remove spaces)
First up, open up your browser. Now, type “about:debug” (without the quotes, silly) and hit go. Click “Settings”, and scroll on down to the bottom to reveal the dastardly tricky “UAString”.
This is where the plan gets really cunning: you now change your user agent string — the bit of info that tells a website what type of device you are running — to “Desktop”.
From now on, Hulu (and every other website) will think you’re accessing it from — you guessed it — a desktop PC rather than a mobile device.
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thanks in advance

Hulu disabled the ability to do this on any android device about a day after somebody figured it out. There is a hacked Flash out there somewhere that can fool Hulu, but there won't be a way to run it until somebody roots 1.2.
That being said, doing the above trick to edit the UA string is still good because it gives you the real version of websites in general.

Try PlayOn. They now have a mobile setup and an Android App. I use it on my nook running Nookie FroYo.
Basically you install PlayOn on a PC in your house. Then you install the PlayOn app on the nook. You have to connect the PlayOn app to the PlayOn server via the same WiFi the first time, but after that you can watch Hulu, Netflix, Amazon VOD, and many others on your nook anywhere you have an internet connection!

No need for about:debug on Stock. Just go to settings and UA Changer is at the Top. Only Desktop and Mobile modes though.
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cgtombstone said:
That being said, doing the above trick to edit the UA string is still good because it gives you the real version of websites in general.
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Thanks for the info, have you tried this, I didn't find that string or a way to edit it.
Yes I'm a nob, so help is greatly appreciated.
japzone said:
No need for about:debug on Stock. Just go to settings and UA Changer is at the Top. Only Desktop and Mobile modes though.
I have always run NC in desktop browser mode, but sometimes sites load the m.site version. it is rather annoying.
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Try my thread posted in the apps section.
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[GUIDE] How to view tablet websites in CM7

By setting the user agent to match the Xoom with honeycomb, I was able to load the tablet version of websites, while still being viewed as an Android device. Here is the user agent I used:
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux;U; Android3.0.1; en-us; XoomBuild/HWI69)AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML,likeGecko) Version/4.0 Safari/534.13
Just copy and paste this as the custom user agent string in Dolphin and you should be good to go!
Here is a website with a list of a bunch of user agents, for those who are interested: http://www.zytrax.com/tech/web/mobile_ids.html
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Is there a way to enable the tablet version of websites on my Fire? I know I can use the iPad user agent, but I would like websites to recognize it as an Android device. I am currently using Dolphin HD on CM7. I found a thread once for the HP Touchpad with a similar question, but I don't think a solution was found.
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i use dolphin hd also - settings - more - settings - user agent - set to android(default)

b63 said:
i use dolphin hd also - settings - more - settings - user agent - set to android(default)
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The issue with this is that websites do not recognize the fire with CM7 as a tablet, so they load the phone version instead. Google is a good example.
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i'm using dolphin on stock os - thaught it's only on the browser settings - tried one of the other settings ? - "ipad" will not work, "custom" maybe

b63 said:
i'm using dolphin on stock os - thaught it's only on the browser settings - tried one of the other settings ? - "ipad" will not work, "custom" maybe
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Are you seeing the tablet version of websites with the stock Amazon OS?
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do you have a site where i can test it ? - the google search seems to know only mobile (where i'm with setting "android") or normal

b63 said:
do you have a site where i can test it ? - the google search seems to know only mobile (where i'm with setting "android") or normal
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Sounds to me like you're not getting the tablet version of websites either. Google is a good site to test with. I think the trick will be a custom user agent, I'm just not sure what it would be. Now that I am thinking about it, theoretically you should be able to get the tablet version of sites from your phone as well if a custom user agent will work.
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i think if the site has a portion for tablet and we set the custom useragent to "Tablet" (if it's the right name) then it should work

Update: I just tested with my phone, and by setting the user agent to iPad, I was able to pull up the tablet version of Google from my phone. But this leaves me in the same situation as earlier: my device is recognized as an iPad, and not as Android.
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b63 said:
i think if the site has a portion for tablet and we set the custom useragent to "Tablet" (if it's the right name) then it should work
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Just tried setting the agent to "tablet", and it brought up what looked like an older version of Google, but not the tablet version of the site. From what I can tell, sites are using different methods to determine if you are using a tablet. Perhaps if we can find the user agent from a honeycomb tablet, we can get it to work.
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funny - just tested the same before reading your post !
but looks nice also !
i'hv gooled a little bit and found nothing about a tablet version only
standard - mobile (also if i set to iphone) - ipad
update:
tested on a galaxy tab with stock browser - also the mobile version
where have you seen such a android tablet version ?

b63 said:
funny - just tested the same before reading your post !
but looks nice also !
i'hv gooled a little bit and found nothing about a tablet version only
standard - mobile (also if i set to iphone) - ipad
update:
tested on a galaxy tab with stock browser - also the mobile version
where have you seen such a android tablet version ?
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I updated the OP with a user agent that should work. I will test on my Fire when I get home. Thanks for your help!
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I just got home and tested the new user agent string, and I can confirm that it works. I am seeing the tablet version of Google on my Kindle Fire using Dolphin HD.
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could you post a screenshot from the settings and the google site ?
can't get it - must have a typo somewhere ...
update: had a typo - works perfect !!!

Thanks, works great for me!
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