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Epic 4G and wifi direct!

PLEASE OH PLEASE SAMSUNG!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.theandroidsoul.com/samsu...t-certification-becomes-the-first-smartphone/

That news or release or whatever that was didn't provide anything useful... the entire time I was like whats WiFi Direct? Care to explain?

Shoulon said:
That news or release or whatever that was didn't provide anything useful... the entire time I was like whats WiFi Direct? Care to explain?
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Bluetooth on steroids.
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Just a note,
This is about i9000 galaxy s, not the epic or other galaxy s.
BUT, its still good news as we might also get this.
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It is linking of WiFi devices to each other without the need of the well known middle man: the router. Seems logical to expect this feature in our phones...right?
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I guess this never happened. Bummer.

jasonsf said:
I guess this never happened. Bummer.
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Idk but my phone will connect to my wifes phone running her 4g and wireless tether... don't know if that is what they were talking about... I do it all the time though cuz she gets good 4g in the house and I do not
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If you set up two rooted epics with wireless tether you can run the wifi file transfer on the phone you want the files from while running wifi tether simultaniously you can send files 1.5kbps to each other without a router. Juss sayin
Edit: its kinda of a ***** but it works
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Ya I get what your saying but my phone gets great speed off of my wifes evo 4g... I have epic 4g... I get better download and upload speeds running wifi off her wireless tether than I do from just my phone
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This article was from a year ago....guess it's not happening.

Monkey Pox said:
This article was from a year ago....guess it's not happening.
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Nope. If they were going to do it, EI22 was their chance. I asked via Twitter and got a negative response.

[OTA UPDATES] CDMA Sprint's Nexus S 4G (Updated 9-11-12)

These are official OTA updates (linked below)
They are meant to be flashed over the complete Stock previous version
(Released 6-8-2011) GRJ06D --> GRJ22 df4305c48a37.signed-sojus-GRJ22-from-GRJ06D.df4305c4.zip LINK: https://www.box.com/s/824ctfmln6fubaktm28x
(Released 7-25-2011) GRJ22 --> GRJ90 39fe4c5954c0.signed-sojus-GRJ90-from-GRJ22.39fe4c59.zip LINK: https://www.box.com/s/y826ceizvax876gv86rm
(Released 9-20-2011) GRJ90 --> GWK74 2e8d40143341.signed-sojus-GWK74-from-GRJ90.2e8d4014.zip LINK: https://www.box.com/s/9vjkpbg8axmtx334irm8
(Released 4-5-2012) GWK74 --> IMM76D TAMkDR3z.zip LINK: coming soon
(Released 9-10-2012) IMM76D--> JRO03R BZ-Bqdau.zip LINK: coming soon

what's new?

yeah within minutes of me activating the phone yesterday evening it was pushed to my phone OTA.

I bet it's the update that takes away free tethering.
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I did the update when I first received the phone on Thursday and I still have tethering. This is a built in native Android feature. Eliminating that would defeat the purpose of a Nexus device.
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Yeah I saw it as well, yesterday. I went ahead and installed it. The corporate Sprint store around here opened at 11AM and I saw it when my phone was activated at 11:30, so it must have been something they knew about before the launch.
The description said it fixes minor performance issues or something to that effect.

GRJ22 is the final OTA build sent to the rest of the Nexus S devices. The NS4G phones likely all shipped with GRJ06D and are just being brought in line with the latest release.
You can find a changelog for GRJ22 in the OTA threads (mostly bugfixes and Google Talk video chat) but it likely doesn't all apply coming from GRJ06D.

mrmylanman said:
Yeah I saw it as well, yesterday. I went ahead and installed it. The corporate Sprint store around here opened at 11AM and I saw it when my phone was activated at 11:30, so it must have been something they knew about before the launch.
The description said it fixes minor performance issues or something to that effect.
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Well I had to do this update on Saturday May 7th at about noon when I got my Nexus ...
This could have something to do with the whole Google and Sprint working as one needing a quick fix... example Google voice not working right and making voicemail open to you're contacts...
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Nice, just released, and already more updates then the SGS series. I can't wait to get mine today or sometime this week.
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mrmylanman said:
Yeah I saw it as well, yesterday. I went ahead and installed it. The corporate Sprint store around here opened at 11AM and I saw it when my phone was activated at 11:30, so it must have been something they knew about before the launch.
The description said it fixes minor performance issues or something to that effect.
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I didn't say they would take away tethering. I said they will start charging for it
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matt2053 said:
I didn't say they would take away tethering. I said they will start charging for it
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Not callin' BS, sorry if it came out as if I were. Just giving my $0.02 on the update.
I was pretty surprised tethering was still in there, too, given that they charge for it for the other phones.

I didn't think they would be able to charge for tethering on a pure Google phone, until I noticed they updated the features page at Google.com/Nexus. It now says under portable wifi hotspot that it is subject to carrier fees. :/
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matt2053 said:
I didn't think they would be able to charge for tethering on a pure Google phone, until I noticed they updated the features page at Google.com/Nexus. It now says under portable wifi hotspot that it is subject to carrier fees. :/
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Even if it says that, I doubt you woulf get charged tethering fees.
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Longcat14 said:
Even if it says that, I doubt you woulf get charged tethering fees.
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I agree, since it doesn't warn you when you try to use the built-in tethering...

matt2053 said:
I bet it's the update that takes away free tethering.
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No does not take away the tether, and neather did it make rooting impossible.
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Longcat14 said:
Even if it says that, I doubt you woulf get charged tethering fees.
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I'm gonna check on that. In the meantime, anyone know for sure?

Sprint rep said tethering wouldn't work unless the account was already set up for the mobile hotspot $29.99/month plan. Tested to see, and you can set the phone to act as a mobile hot spot and make the connection, but it wouldn't actually give me internet access. The laptop showed the connection, but with local access only and an error about the IP address. Not surprised - it was the same way with the CDMA Hero, too.

mamamor said:
Sprint rep said tethering wouldn't work unless the account was already set up for the mobile hotspot $29.99/month plan. Tested to see, and you can set the phone to act as a mobile hot spot and make the connection, but it wouldn't actually give me internet access. The laptop showed the connection, but with local access only and an error about the IP address. Not surprised - it was the same way with the CDMA Hero, too.
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I don't have tethering on my account and it works fine for me... I think you're doing something wrong.

derekwilkinson said:
I don't have tethering on my account and it works fine for me... I think you're doing something wrong.
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Same here. Perhaps you were having connection issues while trying to tether; I've experienced that a few times on my EVO.

has anybody made a 2.3.4 stock rooted rom based on the OTA? my phone gets here tomorrow and i want to root and go to town!

Mobile hotspot

I wanted to ask if you guys have had any luck with using the mobile hotspot without any monthly charges?
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That's something we really aren't supposed to discuss, because it's kind of a gray area legally
But Wireless Tether is a great, free alternative and you don't have to do any serious modifications to the phone with this option, just rooting
If this doesn't satisfy you, you can always send a PM
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Thanks for the information and I had no idea idea about the legal implications....
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What version of wireless tether are you using? I tried 3.1 beta 7 bit couldn't get it working running ec07 miunia beta 4
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Googles wireless tether for root users works perfectly for me just make sure you're selecting the correct profile (Fascinate!) and start up mode (WEXT ad-hoc works best) in the settings!
Still running the eco7clean.
Using latest release of witether from Google.
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Did some digging. I guess the version I was running (2. 0.7) didn't have profile options. Got the latest and greatest, and it is working good.
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Thanks for the recommendations. I am going to give Google wireless tether a shot and let you know if I have any questions. I am running minunia beta 4 (can't wait for 5). So Google tether is free and no extra charges to my awful bill?
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gk438 said:
Thanks for the recommendations. I am going to give Google wireless tether a shot and let you know if I have any questions. I am running minunia beta 4 (can't wait for 5). So Google tether is free and no extra charges to my awful bill?
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Correct, on the app being free. I assume you are grandfathered on unlimited data. If not, be careful.
I am not a fly, i am levitation. I represent an entire generation. - Niki Minaj

Thanks... I was lucky enough to switch to the unlimited plan before verizon took it away. I also bought the continuum thinking verizon would update the phone.. (we all know what happened there ) lol
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gk438 said:
Thanks... I was lucky enough to switch to the unlimited plan before verizon took it away. I also bought the continuum thinking verizon would update the phone.. (we all know what happened there ) lol
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Yeah... but ya know what? Thanks to the Dev's here, VZW and Samsung can both KMA. I don't need em. Even if they had released froyo, how many of us would still be running stock odexed with all bloatware intact? I sure as hell wouldn't.

Didn't think about it that way but you're right. I hate all the bloatware.
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Txwolf1980 said:
Yeah... but ya know what? Thanks to the Dev's here, VZW and Samsung can both KMA. I don't need em. Even if they had released froyo, how many of us would still be running stock odexed with all bloatware intact? I sure as hell wouldn't.
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Wed be golden if they'd release froyo source. But true about the devs and no need otherwise.
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Wifi tether

Having issues tethering here. I know on previous phones att had a tether manager apk I could delete to tether for free. Now I dont see it and wifi hotspot says I need a plan. Couldnt get any version of wifi tether to work, or foxfi. .
Anybody have hotspot up and running?
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Anybody tethering and care to share im about to toss this pos if I cant even tether wtf
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.hotspotcontrol
that may be what you're looking for until we get the bootloader unlocked and can start doing some heavy modding!

DJsCrIBbLe said:
Anybody tethering and care to share im about to toss this pos if I cant even tether wtf
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Really? The device is a pos if you can't illegally tether without a plan that allows tethering?
Not to be rude, but there are ways to ask things without being a jerk about it.
Pay for tethering if that's what you want. Find a way around it, but that's not because the device, Samsung, or ATT have provided a pos device.
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foxfi works for me without root I can tether. its on sale right bow from 7.95 to 2.99.. really works great
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lyrad12 said:
foxfi works for me without root I can tether. its on sale right bow from 7.95 to 2.99.. really works great
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Thanks man +1 FoxFi works..

I was delighted to find out that FoxFi works as well. My phone is stock, not rooted or anything. I had the paid version of FoxFi from a while ago when it was on sale too.

so if im on the unlimited data plan on att i can grab this app and it will allow me to tether off my LTE???!!!

JL84 said:
so if im on the unlimited data plan on att i can grab this app and it will allow me to tether off my LTE???!!!
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yup
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Finally got pdanet+ to work had to by the full version. .. the free version of foxfi force closed everytime. Tried the paid version but it just downloaded the key then pda net not foxfi..
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Me too~
I didn't know there was an app by Chainfire that manipulated hotspot controls, haha.
It works for me quite well!
However, Foxfi didn't do anything for me, it just force-closed itself after hanging for 10 seconds.
Also, if you want to use the default functionality, you can drop by over here.
I've never had a device right out of the gate before, but I'm glad there are devs so diligent on getting the ball rolling for this device like literally(seemingly) every other device out there.

App request: Xfinity TV Go app that works with T-Mobile 4G

Like the title says, trying to use my T-Mobile Note 3 to stream movies via Xfinity app but apparently only Verizon users have this privlage. That's pretty messed up, may drop Comcast if I don't find a solution. Is there some kind of FCC rule against this kind of thing?
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I have noticed same thing and after small read, apparently they have struck some kind of exclusive deal and #[email protected]&#[email protected] the rest of us. I find it very unfair. I pay good price for the service and do t see why I have to be excluded from ALL benefits of it.
Would love to see if there is an old app that works before an update or if there is a hack to trick fake wifi over 4g

Ohhhhh man.. same here bro. . I have att now and my note 3 will not stream on 3/4g like it did on verizon. I am using Android tuner to adjust permissions to see if I can get it to work. Will report back
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Rich3077 said:
Like the title says, trying to use my T-Mobile Note 3 to stream movies via Xfinity app but apparently only Verizon users have this privlage. That's pretty messed up, may drop Comcast if I don't find a solution. Is there some kind of FCC rule against this kind of thing?
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djpaul said:
I have noticed same thing and after small read, apparently they have struck some kind of exclusive deal and #[email protected]&#[email protected] the rest of us. I find it very unfair. I pay good price for the service and do t see why I have to be excluded from ALL benefits of it.
Would love to see if there is an old app that works before an update or if there is a hack to trick fake wifi over 4g
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madjokeer said:
Ohhhhh man.. same here bro. . I have att now and my note 3 will not stream on 3/4g like it did on verizon. I am using Android tuner to adjust permissions to see if I can get it to work. Will report back
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/xposed/modules/app-fake-wifi-connection-t2800416

Airtioteclint said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/xposed/modules/app-fake-wifi-connection-t2800416
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Confirmed works perfectly!
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