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Titchy Mobile - Questions

I installed titchy on my Uni two days ago, and while at least the core parts seem to be working, I'm having some trouble. Seeing as there's no forum or anything comparable to speak of on the titchy site, and seeing as we have lots of knowledgeable people here, I think it might be a great idea to start a thread about titchy here. Also, it's probably a good idea to keep it seperate from the normal 'Linux on Uni' thread here.
Ok, here goes: When I run haret, titchy boots to the console login, where I login as 'root'. Next logical step for me, it would seem, is to get wlan connection up, so I can update and install some packages. So, I did:
modprobe htcuniversal-acx
modprobe acx
that seems to have worked, as I can now fiddle with the wlan0 interface, using iwconfig. However, I can't for the life of me, figure out how to associate with my wlan router. To make this extra simple, I've even turned off WEP, WPA and access control, and set up a undiscriminating dhcp server. I've tried
iwconfig wlan0 ap any
iwconfig wlan0 ap $my_wlan (the ssid of my wlan)
iwconfig wlan0 ap $my_wlan_routers_MAC
all without results. Any hints on this?
I've also tried to set up USB networking, and it also works to a degree, but not fully. I can ping my Uni from my desktop Linux machine, but not vice-versa (ping isn't installed), and the Uni apparently can't resolve any URLs (at least, it can't resolve those given as apt sources).
Any help, as always, greatly appreciated.

There is a dedicated forum and thread out there. Check this out:
http://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=25666
Have fun!

dvm said:
There is a dedicated forum and thread out there. Check this out:
http://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=25666
Have fun!
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Heh, yes. I saw that. Did you take a look at it? It's 28 (!) pages of unstructured mess. totally unreadable.

Hi, did you get wifi working?
seems I've come to this too late, www.neilandtheresa.co.uk has stop supporting titchy as such, I downloaded titchy from sumnoum or what ever it is, got usb net working, updated everything, but haven't figured out wifi. been through above forum before, not really made much sense of wifi through there, now 43 pages.
and any ideas where to get xsever-titchy from?
thanks

[REQUEST]Internet via USB

Hi all!
My request is to share my PC internet connection to use it in my android with the USB connection.
I only found software to do the reverse(tethering),and im pretty sure talented developers in here can do this without much effort.
Hope im right.
Thanks in advance!

I think most people just use a wireless router and connect through wifi.
Is your reasoning to not use data through your carrier? If so I would use wifi if I were you...

The reason why im requesting this is because i dont have WiFi connections avaiable ,both at home and work...
At home i could spend some money and buy a wireless router(i shouldnt have to do that...specially in a mobile OS design to use internet alot) at work i cant do that.

Excuse me if I'm wrong, but there is already a usb tether app...I think it was posted recently in the g1 applications area.

Well it's possible via Linux [Seen on Connect-UTB!],what you need is your USB-plug and a linux machine connected to your LAN and a running DHCP-server on your lan.
Just connect your HTC to your linux machine and boot up android. This will create a usb network connection between your PC and your mobile.
Then create a bridge between the usb-network (most likely usb0) and your network adapter connected to your lan (for me it is eth2) using brctl:
ifconfig eth2 down
ifconfig usb0 down
ifconfig eth2 0.0.0.0 promisc up
ifconfig usb0 0.0.0.0 promisc up
brctl addbr br0
brctl addif br0 eth2
brctl addif br0 usb0
You might assign a network address to the bridge to use networking on your computer as well:
dhclient br0 (might be dhcpcd as well)
After that, fire up a console on your android device. You can use tty0 or the virtual terminal of the dev-tools. Execute
dhcpcd usb0
Dhcpcd will complain about a file that could not be opened or something like this. The reason for this is a missing directory. Just create the directory where the file should be placed in and execute dhcpcd again:
mkdir [directory]
dhcpcd usb0
This should assign a IP address to your android device and set up the gateway information. From now on, networking should work on your device.
If it does not work, something of your configuration might be wrong. Most likely it would mean, that your bridge is not working as expected. There might be a network manager running or your network card does not support bridging.
You can also access your device via telnet on default telnet port. Finding the right ip address of the device might be tricky somehow as the device has a fixed ip on 192.168.0.206 that is the only address shown by busyboxe's ifconfig. One option is looking into your dhcp-servers dhcp-leases. I used wireshark on my linux system instead to sniff the dhcp ack.
There is one thing about security:
The current android image runs an open telnet server, so make sure, that you only connect your mobile to a trusted network. Otherwise any bad guy could steal or deleta all information from your internal phone storage.
Just one thing about proxy servers:
I tried to get it running with a proxy server, but I could not manage it. I added the proxy to the settings.db as described in a android emulator proxy how-to, but it did not work. I would be grateful about any hint.

Thanks for your reply man,very usefull and well explained...too bad i dont use Linux but thanks anyway.
PDAnet tethering software from what i read is to connect your pc to the internet using your PDA...i want to connect my PDA using my pc connection with USB

Hi all!
My request is to share my PC internet connection to use it in my android with the USB connection.
I only found software to do the reverse(tethering),and im pretty sure talented developers in here can do this without much effort.
Hope im right.
Thanks in advance!
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I'm looking for the same thing. Coming from WM, I CANNOT understand why this isn't available on Android.

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lostsoul said:
I'm looking for the same thing. Coming from WM, I CANNOT understand why this isn't available on Android.
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Because it's the dumbest idea ever. Spend the $20 and get a router. If you can't afford the router, then you obviously don't need a smart phone.

evilkorn at least be respectfull to others.
some of us heave problematic isp configurations and/or can not use wifi in office. only reason to use reverse tethering over usb is such situations.
i still heave to try solution for linux given by k-zik. i heave old pIII laptop with ubuntu on it so i can experiment. as for windows unfortunately there is no solution.

evilkorn said:
Because it's the dumbest idea ever. Spend the $20 and get a router. If you can't afford the router, then you obviously don't need a smart phone.
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Maybe to you, not so for others....
I´m looking for the same thing....spending many days and nights a month in different hotels in the US, Canada, China, India etc., not all of which have WIFI in the room.....I´d still like to browse and use the market connecting via the wired internet connection of my laptop.....
Don´t always judge others by your own standards.....

evilkorn said:
Because it's the dumbest idea ever. Spend the $20 and get a router. If you can't afford the router, then you obviously don't need a smart phone.
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...Or maybe there are some people in the XDA community that are deployed, like my self, and the only access they have to the internet is on a USB internet stick, unless you can find a better way to get games and what not to play on my phone while I'm in the sand box...
-Alex

ZED_pt said:
Thanks for your reply man,very usefull and well explained...too bad i dont use Linux but thanks anyway.
PDAnet tethering software from what i read is to connect your pc to the internet using your PDA...i want to connect my PDA using my pc connection with USB
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There may be a way for Windows too:
blog.mycila.com/2010/06/reverse-usb-tethering-with-android-22.html
I hope some developer will pick up the glove and automate the process because there seems to be an interest in such an application.
I for one, will be very grateful.
Avner.

I just "flew" over the threads content...uhm...so I hope I´m not posting unappealing things...
But: I´m with MDJs Desire HD Rom (4.3) now and Internet via USB works fine here! Give it a try...I was blown away when I saw this function after plugging in the USB cable...

Is there a ROM with this feature fore the Legend too?
Avner.

See this open source project
http://code.google.com/p/azilink/
or you can use CM roms they have USB tether

Thanks,
but we are not talking about a USB tether. We are talking about "reverse USB tether"; connecting a phone without an internet connection with a USB cable to a PC with one.

ZED_pt said:
Hi all!
My request is to share my PC internet connection to use it in my android with the USB connection.
I only found software to do the reverse(tethering),and im pretty sure talented developers in here can do this without much effort.
Hope im right.
Thanks in advance!
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Get an HDDesire Rom, has this feature already, they call it Internet Passtrough

Has it ever occurred to you to just Google "reverse usb tethering"?
http://blog.mycila.com/2010/06/reverse-usb-tethering-with-android-22.html
Heres another WIN7: http://www.nexusoneforum.net/forum/...verse-tether-getting-internet-your-phone.html
Need more help? Just google it.

DNS issue in n1 android?

every morning when i wake up, i use home wifi to surf a bit before i go out
the n1's network *always* get stuck, as if it can't resolve any hostname
Using that "Phone Info" app (*#*#4636#*#*), i ran a ping test:
Ping IpAddr: Pass
Ping Hostname(www.google.com): Fail: Host unreachable
I suppose this means either my dns setting is incorrect or the dns is down,
so i did another test using "DNS lookup" app from market,
i tried resolving hostname with 8.8.8.8 (google's public dns) or my network operator's dns
both's working fine
rebooting the phone always fix the problem, and the problem seems to appear after wifi usage
I suppose this means the switching between wifi / 3g some how get the phone into a stuck situation?
Is anyone experiencing anything like this? I guess I am not the only one
mods: yea this might not be exactly android development, but this is the closest sub forum
please move this thread as you see appropriate

Same here.
There was another thread on this issue, suggesting clearing the cache and using setprop (or some command like that) for dns settings through GScript Lite. But a reboot always works for me, when the other methods fail.

glad that i m not alone : )
are you referring to this?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=640029&highlight=dns
i will try that app and see how it works,
is there any easy way to do a setprop whenever i need? i m unrooted

I had this problem (and not just between WiFi and 3G, but 3G and Edge, 3G and no service, etc.) on the stock Nexus 2.1 software, and also on my Milestone under 2.0 and 2.0.1 (though MUCH less frequently under 2.0.1).
You don't typically need to reboot, just go to airplane mode and back.
This might be a reason to unlock and install another ROM, because I have never had this problem under any Cyanogen build I've used (just 5.0.4.1, 5.0.5 and 5.0.5.1).

Setprop doesn't seems to work without root
$setprop net.dns1 8.8.8.8
$getprop net.dns2
192.168.0.1
I will file a bug report to see what google says
n1 is a good computer but not such a good phone, its been months since initial release but they have yet to fix many basic bugs
I had no problem with my god old g1 back then

got this issue too, but no need to reboot the phone, just disable and enable the wifi again will work.

[UPDATE 18/05/13][GUIDE] Spoof WIFI Mac address in Android

[UPDATE 18/05/13]
HOW TO SPOOF YOUR MAC ADDRESS IN ANDROID
UPDATE 18/05/2013
App (4.0 and above only ) : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1385577&page=14
DONT FORGET TO THANK HIM !
30/04/2013
App (4.0 and above only ) : http://www.mediafire.com/?qapodo05oc1im06
It is based on the command: busybox ifconfig*eth0/wlan0* hw ether
Thanx to hotsync for this app !
REQUIREMENTS
1) ROOTED PHONE
2) BUSYBOX INSTALLED
3) Terminal App
OPEN UP TERMINAL AND WRITE
:su
:busybox iplink show eth0
(THIS WILL SHOW YOUR CURRENT MAC ADDRESS)
NOW TYPE IN
:busybox ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:11:22:33:44:55
(INSTEAD OF 00:11:22:33:44:55, YOU CAN WRITE YOUR WANTED ADDRESS)
CONGRATULATION, YOU HAVE SUCCESSFULLY SPOOFED YOUR MAC ADDRESS!
YOU CAN CHECK YOUR MAC ADDRESS BY TYPING
:busybox iplink show eth0
PS: I CANT GUARANTEE YOU, IF THIS WORKS . BUT IT SHOULD WORK IF YOU GOT BUSYBOX INSTALLED.
(I HAVE TESTED THIS ON THE NEXUS S AND THE GALAXY S2
HTC AND LG DEVICES IS ALSO SAID TO BE WORKING! )

Why would you want to do this?

On some routers you can limit connections to only allow specific mac addresses - this would let you connect without needing to add permissions. possibly at work or a friend's house?
Im not familiar with any use unless you're using backtrack, but that's a whole different topic

I am getting no such device....

mustafaayubkhan said:
I am getting no such device....
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Same problem
Any solution to this? I am running optimus 2 X with cm7

the 0 in eth0 is zero, maybe thats the issue
busybox ifconfig will list your devices, i didnt have eth0 (ethernet 0) i had wlan0 (wireless lan 0)
try
busybox ifconfig wlan0 hw ether 00:11:22:33:44:55

Thanks, I was looking for this..
On GS2 it changes my MAC, however I can’t connect to any wifi network! It always say that the password is wrong.
Can I ask you what rom are you using?
Thanks in advance.

I had the same problem, but then i realized that the router was the issue. I found out that this works with router without password and frequency b and g , n does not support
Hope this helped !
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I see, I was suspecting something like that.
Thanks mate.

could anyone explain how do you get the wifi password out of the ip address? i am a newb to this thing, and i would love to use school network or public

Well
There is a software for PC called backtrack where you can get the password from the router
But hacking with phone will be difficult, because the phone needs the suitable WIFI adapter for cracking the router!!
Sent from my Nexus S using xda premium

lol there is a file in /efs/imei/bt.txt

I think thats the Bluethoot mac address !!
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with last CM7 it doesn't work!
In terminal it change but when I connect to my wifi, in my router I see the old MAC :-(

I just wanted to say thanks and offer some insight for anyone having trouble with this.
I was able to do this on my g2 and checking in the ActionTec router to verify. However, it would crash my ActionTec if I didn't time things very good.
Open Terminal.
Type "busybox ifconfig"
I was given results for rmnet0, I assume this is my phone's MAC, not my Wireless MAC. I turned Wi-Fi on and did ifconfig again.
I was given results for eth0.
I then set the eth0 with the method in the first post.
busybox ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:11:22:33:44:55
Then, during an attempt to see these changes in my router, I was no longer able to access my router from my pc. (or from any device)
Then, I went back to wi-fi and it set my eth0 back to default again.
So, I turned wi-fi off, waited in emulator (until my router was fine again) and this time I :
had busybox ifconfig eth0 hw ether :etc: typed out but didn't press enter.
I turned wi-fi on and I kept pressing enter on my terminal until it stopped showing an error for "No such device"
This error exactly in terminal was:
ifconfig:STOCSIFHWADDR: No such device
As soon as my wi-fi actually opened and tried to get an IP, it set it at the perfect time. I was able to see my results in the devices table of my router as well as in ifconfig.
I'm sure there's a better way to do this for my situation/device but for now, I know this works for me.

Came back with more info for this method. It's not 100% by any means. Closer to 4/10 times it works.
I've tried a lot of testing with it so far on my home network.
I open terminal, su and type this in so it's ready:
busybox ifconfig eth0 hw ether 11:22:33:44:dd:ee
i submit it so I can track-pad up and get it easily.
I get the same error (no such device)
Then, i turn on wifi and immediately go back into terminal and press enter.
Then, up enter, up enter, up enter 5 times. It doesn't error after the 2nd or 3rd time but I do it a few more times because it seems to work better that way.
Then, I check the table and it shows connection type as network instead of wireless but I still have full internet access with the spoof'd mac.
Next test I cloned my gf's wifi mac while she was browsing on her phone.
I took control of the MAC and her device was no longer able to view websites.
I turned my wifi off and her device picked up where it left off, right away.
I will be doing some further testing throughout the week and try to report anything new/helpful.

Tested on HTC thunderbolt for Verizon and working!

I got it to do the commands but as soon as it changes the mac address it disconnects from the wifi and when it reconnects it changed my mac address back to normal.

Does not work
Hello,
After doing this, my mac was changed successfully.
I turned of / on wifi.
Followed the steps without being connected to any router/modem.
After my mac was changed, I tried to connect to my modem, but it kept scanning/connecting/disconnecting over and over again.
So when my mac is changed, I can't connect.
Any one knows a good way to fix this?
Cheers

I am using a Droid Razr and I found that to access the wifi mac i had to type
busybox iplink set tiwlan0
instead of wlan0 or eth0. BUT here is the next issue i came across. When I changed the mac it said
either "dev" is duplicate, or "00:00:00:00:00:00" is garbage
Ive tried searching for a solution but so far nothing
I don't want to permanently change my wifi mac just temp. Anyone else run into this?
btw im using android version 2.3.6 if it matters.
Thanks for any help at all! Its driving me crazy lol

usb to ethernet adapter

Hi!
So I am in college and they do not allow more than one device to be connected over internet per person in a dorm, so i cannot set up any wireless routers. My iconia is running the jb cm10 preview port and i was wondering if a usb to ethernet jack would work and if so, which adapter should I buy?
any suggestions/ ideas would be appreciated

cullenmq1 said:
Hi!
So I am in college and they do not allow more than one device to be connected over internet per person in a dorm, so i cannot set up any wireless routers. My iconia is running the jb cm10 preview port and i was wondering if a usb to ethernet jack would work and if so, which adapter should I buy?
any suggestions/ ideas would be appreciated
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I dont believe it would but im not sure how can they tell whos device it is? Cant you just spoof your mac address or use one device at a time or a vpn......

they could tell if more than 1 device is connected by doing a simple network scan and seeing that there was 2 ip addresses assigned to a dorm. they found my wireless router as soon as i plugged it in

cullenmq1 said:
they could tell if more than 1 device is connected by doing a simple network scan and seeing that there was 2 ip addresses assigned to a dorm. they found my wireless router as soon as i plugged it in
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sorry theres ways to get around that but im pretty sure were not allowed to talk about it on the forums im nlt sure if a usb to ethernet adapter would work to me it seems drivers program or something would be missing

okay... does it involve external hardware or does the "other thing" involve using a wifi router b/c i cannot set up a wireless router as anyone with a wireless device will be able to see it. I know that the transformer infinity has built in ethernet adapter compatibility, but is that an android ics/jb thing or is it a manufacturer add-on?

cullenmq1 said:
okay... does it involve external hardware or does the "other thing" involve using a wifi router b/c i cannot set up a wireless router as anyone with a wireless device will be able to see it. I know that the transformer infinity has built in ethernet adapter compatibility, but is that an android ics/jb thing or is it a manufacturer add-on?
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Haha i dont understand how they could detect where each device is coming from unless they have a separate wifi for each dorm or a different sub-net i know they could pick up another wireless router easily even if they were reading you ip that's easily spoofed even Mac address is via a proxy or vpn but anyways im pretty sure that's an manufacturer add-on ill look and let you now if i find anything the Acer might have it, if not im sure a dev could make it so somehow
This is straight quoting darkdragone make sure you thank him Here
not sure if it works with honeycomb, but on ICS I have used a usb ethernet adapter with the tablet, mind you that some applications dont work with it, but the browser and market place do. What you'll need to do first is have your tablet rooted, then download either android terminal emulator or Gscript lite (with gscript lite you can save the script for use again.) In the terminal you will want to run netcfg, this will show you all of your interfaces and will tell you if your usb to ethernet adapter is detected. If it is detected there will be an interface called usb and then a number aka usb0 or possibly even eth0. next you will want to take that interface and make sure it is up by running ifconfig usb0 up. next you'll need an ip address, if yours is assigned dynamically then run dhcpcd usb0 then setprop dns1 8.8.8.8 (or use whatever DNS server you wish). Now if you need a static address, such as 192.168.0.2 or something you would run ifconfig usb0 192.168.0.2. Also all of these commands will need root so make sure you type in su beforehand.

gears177 said:
Haha i dont understand how they could detect where each device is coming from unless they have a separate wifi for each dorm or a different sub-net i know they could pick up another wireless router easily even if they were reading you ip that's easily spoofed even Mac address is via a proxy or vpn but anyways im pretty sure that's an manufacturer add-on ill look and let you now if i find anything the Acer might have it, if not im sure a dev could make it so somehow
This is straight quoting darkdragone make sure you thank him Here
not sure if it works with honeycomb, but on ICS I have used a usb ethernet adapter with the tablet, mind you that some applications dont work with it, but the browser and market place do. What you'll need to do first is have your tablet rooted, then download either android terminal emulator or Gscript lite (with gscript lite you can save the script for use again.) In the terminal you will want to run netcfg, this will show you all of your interfaces and will tell you if your usb to ethernet adapter is detected. If it is detected there will be an interface called usb and then a number aka usb0 or possibly even eth0. next you will want to take that interface and make sure it is up by running ifconfig usb0 up. next you'll need an ip address, if yours is assigned dynamically then run dhcpcd usb0 then setprop dns1 8.8.8.8 (or use whatever DNS server you wish). Now if you need a static address, such as 192.168.0.2 or something you would run ifconfig usb0 192.168.0.2. Also all of these commands will need root so make sure you type in su beforehand.
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Glad I was able to help lol. I'm currently trying to find out if a USB wireless will work to but haven't found much info other than drivers need to be in the kernel for it to work

Yeah, if u figure out the usb wireless adapter problem, let me know too pls. :thumbup:
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