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[Q] WiFi Direct between Galaxy S3 and Nexus 7?

Hello all,
I have spent the last hour or two experimenting with various ways of wirelessly transferring files from my 64 GB S3 to the Nexus 7.
I have managed to get the Nexus 7 and Galaxy S3 to connect via Wi-Fi direct, but I have been unable to get a file to successfully transfer.
When I attempt to send a file from one device to the other using "share via" => "wifi-direct“ from various file managers, the upload shows up in the notification bar but eventually reports that it failed.
Have any of you found the secret combination to making this work properly?
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I tried it with my Gnex but couldn't get it to work. they are both on AOSP 4.1.1

Stresa said:
Hello all,
I have spent the last hour or two experimenting with various ways of wirelessly transferring files from my 64 GB S3 to the Nexus 7.
I have managed to get the Nexus 7 and Galaxy S3 to connect via Wi-Fi direct, but I have been unable to get a file to successfully transfer.
When I attempt to send a file from one device to the other using "share via" => "wifi-direct“ from various file managers, the upload shows up in the notification bar but eventually reports that it failed.
Have any of you found the secret combination to making this work properly?
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda app-developers app
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I used this method to stream videos from my phone to nexus 7 but i did not try to transfer files. I don'tknow if this is what you have in mind. If it is please reply to the thread of your results
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1778675
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Stresa said:
Hello all,
I have spent the last hour or two experimenting with various ways of wirelessly transferring files from my 64 GB S3 to the Nexus 7.
I have managed to get the Nexus 7 and Galaxy S3 to connect via Wi-Fi direct, but I have been unable to get a file to successfully transfer.
When I attempt to send a file from one device to the other using "share via" => "wifi-direct“ from various file managers, the upload shows up in the notification bar but eventually reports that it failed.
Have any of you found the secret combination to making this work properly?
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda app-developers app
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Btw how did you connect via wifi direct?

On the N7 ... "Settings" => "WiFi" => upper right menu (three dots) => "WiFi Direct"
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Questions go in the Q&A section

Have the same problem as OP. If I WiFi Direct connect my S3 to my Wife's S3 and run BubbleUPnP on one them the other can see it in the built in media player, equally if I run BubbleUPnP on both then I can stream and render in both directions. If I connect either to the Nexus 7 then nothing shows up in BubbleUPnP.
Strangely the S3 has a WiFi Direct symbol in the notification area when connected but the Nexus shows nothing you have to go into WiFi settings and enter the WiFi Direct screen to see you are connected, Is that normal on working Nexus 7 to something WiFi Direct connections?
Another point to note is that NFC file sending has not worked S3 to Nexus they see each other and the Touch to Beam screen appears but the Nexus sends nothing when I try Nexus to S3 and the S3 says its sent but nothing appears on the Nexus when sent in the opposite direction.
I have no other devices as a tie breaker to see which isn't doing as it should and even if I did how do I fix it or report it to the non WiFi direct vendor and hop they release an update.
Any one got any tips for streaming video S3 to Nexus with no WiFi router about?
Snowdan.

For those that fall fail of the idea this may work but they are doing it wrong some follow up.
It seems that the WiFi Direct function exists in Jelly Bean and has the API calls available but the standard operating system does not support doing anything with them. Samsung are the ones that have made the S3 support sending and receiving on WiFi Direct as part of their S Beam and I guess a knock on effect is that BubbleUPnP worked for me too and the Video/Gallery/Music players have a WiFi direct option.
A Gnex thread on the issue explaining a bit more is here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1368128&page=10
Good news is it may just be a matter of time until Google/CM/Custom ROM or 3rd party apps add the functionality we were hoping for.
Snowdan.

+1 for being able to connect the S3 to the nexus 7 but not being able to transfer anything. Tried to send a picture in the gallery but it eventually failed.

if you want to connect from android device to android device for transmitting media, check this one:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.budius.WiFiShoot
this was developed by yours truly, and I developed it exactly because I noticed there was nothing out there for WiFi Direct
I tested it between Nexus 7, Galaxy Nexus, Asus TF300 and Galaxy SII (stock ICS) and all worked fine.
The most problematic of those were the Galaxy Nexus that not always want to connect, but between N7-GalaxySII was flawless.
At the moment the app just works for photo and video but I'll be expanding more, if you guys fancy helping spreading the word about it, I'm really looking forward to see the downloads explode on it.

Budius said:
if you want to connect from android device to android device for transmitting media, check this one:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.budius.WiFiShoot
this was developed by yours truly, and I developed it exactly because I noticed there was nothing out there for WiFi Direct
I tested it between Nexus 7, Galaxy Nexus, Asus TF300 and Galaxy SII (stock ICS) and all worked fine.
The most problematic of those were the Galaxy Nexus that not always want to connect, but between N7-GalaxySII was flawless.
At the moment the app just works for photo and video but I'll be expanding more, if you guys fancy helping spreading the word about it, I'm really looking forward to see the downloads explode on it.
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I thought we were talking about the galaxy s3 not s2. Does your app work with the s3? I am experiencing the same issue as those above.

Wedge85 said:
I thought we were talking about the galaxy s3 not s2. Does your app work with the s3? I am experiencing the same issue as those above.
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the app is using the standard Android WiFi Direct feature that should be available in most phones starting with ICS.
The filter on which devices should or not work will be done automatically by the Google play only enabling installation on devices with WiFi Direct feature.
Said that, absolutely yes, it should work just as smooth on the GS3 as it did on the GS2, N7, GN and Asus TF300 I had here for testing.
I've already had report on working nicely on the EVO LTE, too.
and if you try the S3, please, come back to the thread and let me know the results.

I have to thank you for this I was sad the feature was not built in as it is for S3 to S3.
I cam confirm Nexus 7 to S3 and S3 to Nexus 7 work for both pictures and video with a good transfer speed. Worth pointing out can only be done via share in the gallery app at the moment as pointed in app play store description. A well working beta I look forward to the pro version.
Snowdan.
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Budius said:
and if you try the S3, please, come back to the thread and let me know the results.
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It works great between the s3 and the sg7. If I'd have seen your app earlier, I'd never have bothered with the otg cable I bought.

FYI, I have sent files to and from my Nexus 7 and sgs2 using Bluetooth a number of times. Just browse to the file you want to send, long press and choose "Send" then the Bluetooth logo. I use Solid Explorer as my file manager. This is handy for small files, but larger files take forever. I will definitely check out the app above, too.
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Hi guys,
is anyone with interested in beta test the app?
I started a new thread in the development section asking for Logcats if you're experiencing force close.
Also it's a cut down version of the .apk there to test part of the system.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=30012554
any help will be great appreciated.
thanks.

My Nexus 7 and S3 don't play wel together.
What does work is using the S3 as a hotspot and then run Samba on the Galaxy S3 (Root required)
Samba takes a while to activate.. but after it does you can browse your phone using the Nexus 7 and copy stuff... no limitations on specific file extensions either.

If I want to send a picture to an S3 with wifishoot, does the s3 need to have it installed as well? Or will their sbeam functionality work for that? I would just like to be able to do a quick picture transfer to an s3 without telling the other party to download an app.

djexacto said:
If I want to send a picture to an S3 with wifishoot, does the s3 need to have it installed as well? Or will their sbeam functionality work for that? I would just like to be able to do a quick picture transfer to an s3 without telling the other party to download an app.
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You need the WiFi Shoot on both devices.
S-Beam uses Samsung proprietary protocol (plus it uses NFC for pairing) and it will only work with other Samsung / S-beam devices.

Sorry buidus, I've tried using your app between my galaxy galaxy s3 and nexus 7, tranformer prime and galaxy galaxy with only fail.
Fortunately there are other wifidirect apps out there now. The below works without fail. Tested on gs3, nexus 7, transformer prime, galaxy nexus
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.j4velin.wifidirect

and using nfc instad of wifi direct?are there differences?sorry for this stupid question,but i send yesterday 2 photos and a kernel from my gnex and n7 via nfc and paired devices with the back of the cover..all works without problems,and was fast!

Guest Access - no one can connect but my google account

I was wondering if anyone else has been able to get more than one google account actually connected to their nexus q. We are trying one in our office and only my phone and tablet with my google account can connect it it. When we try with someone elses phones the nexus q app always says no devices found. Now if I do a factory reset it does show on the phone but once one person has connected and taken ownership none of the other phones can find the device or connect to it.
Any ideas? Searched everywhere and can't find anything on it.

Will try tomorrow and let you know.
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Worked for me.. not my Google account and it works. Good luck to you getting yours figured out !
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Smokuevo said:
Worked for me.. not my Google account and it works. Good luck to you getting yours figured out !
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I still can't get any guests to connect. Can you explain how you did this? What I have tried is I have a nexus s4g as the primary device and setup the q with it. I then took my hp touch pad with CM9 and was able to find the q with out any issues at all. Both have my same google account on it. Then we tried to connect some other android devices we have at the office but none of them could find the nexus q for some reason. They were all on the same network and all had at least ics running as their os. The devices tested were a Verizon galaxy nexus. An AT&T Samsung galaxy s2 and a tmobile galaxy s2 and finally an htc touch pro. None of those would ever find the device. We even tried adding my account to one of the other devices but that did not help. The only difference from my deviceses to the other test devices is mine are rooted but I doubt that would make a difference. Any ideas.

3 devices I tried are rooted one isn't. Two have the same Google account the other two are both different. Worked on all 4. Maybe try rebooting nexus q and re-set it up.. sometimes I have to repower my q as it doesn't start up by it self once in sleep mode... but that's because I don't use it too much.. I want to root it but want to see what Google will add to it first
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Okay so after numerous times trying to get this working I just broke down and bought a new router. Simply plugged my current jack at the office into that and instead of using our offices wireless, connected the q to the new router and boom, now every one can connect.
So for sure there are some networking issues with the Q that needs to be worked out but hope this can help. I have sent Google the routers we were using in the office (cisco) so they can add that to their list of routers with issues. Definitely confirmed that the routers were fully open so who knows what was causing the issue.
Thanks again,
Joe

Nfc uses?

I ordered a nexus, but I wanna know, what I can use nfc for?
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This is exactly what I was wondering but was afraid to ask in order not to look like a noob
I mean, I know the basics of the technology, but any good use? I mean, I don't care about NFC tags that I have to glue to my desk, because I already have a better way to turn on wifi automatically or do different stuff (i.e. Setting Profiles uses GPS or GSM location to do these things).
I mean - I have Nexus 7 and Note 2, which both have NFC. I saw some demonstrations concerning file trenasfer between phones and what not... But when I put my Note 2 onto N7, I only hear a beep and that's it... what has to be done i.e. to use NFC to transfer something between these 2 devices? Does this work in combo with Wifi direct?
D.

In am not sure if the note 2 uses the normal beam app built into android or not but I know if I put my nexus s or nexus 4 back to back next to my nexus 7 (nexus s to nexus 4) with say the gallery app opened up it will allow me to beam the image selected to the other device...you can also use it for webpages, contacts and other such shareable items.
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Check out this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp5il7yhM4Y&feature=youtube_gdata_player

lol number 1 use of nfc
when your looking at ....anything, and wanna show a friend put your devices back to back till you hear the beep, then touch the screen on the device you wanna send from,
i can send pics, youtube video urls, webpage urls, mp3's,videos, etc from nfc connection:good:

krobinso2295 said:
Check out this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp5il7yhM4Y&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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You beat me to it

I like that dude's YouTube channel, so thanks for introducing me to it... Ah, Hackintosh, there's a scene I haven't been to involved with since the early leaks of the developer preview of 10.4.3 way back when... (I'm pretty certain I was amongst the first to get it booted on anything other than the developer platform, lol) NFC though, I've not really had much use for it. Got a few devices which support it, my partner's S2 as well, although trying to get the I9100P's party piece working in an I9100 CM10.1 ROM has been hit and miss. I should grab some tags to use for profile switching and app launching on my Nexuses (Nexii?), it seems like the only thing I'm likely to use it for in the short term, at least.

Nfc is a gimmick. I tried to send a pic to my cousin once using nfc. It wouldn't even send it... It said file was too large... Wtf its like a 25kb pic file... Seriously?
Gimmicks gonna gimmick
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Try this thread, or this thread. The Galaxy Nexus forum has a few similar threads that might give you some ideas, too.

Check out this vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN1GFa1DO3k
I like his channel.

[Q] 4.3 and Fitbit Flex

Is anyone able to confirm or deny that the Fibit Flex or other Bluetooth smart device is working with the 4.3 update? I couldn't get my fitbit to work with the 4.3 leak and was hoping official would help. Thanks!

pickaxeus said:
Is anyone able to confirm or deny that the Fibit Flex or other Bluetooth smart device is working with the 4.3 update? I couldn't get my fitbit to work with the 4.3 leak and was hoping official would help. Thanks!
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It's been said the the Fitbit app has been hardcoded to work only with certain devices. I think some users have even tried to edit the build.prop to spoof another phone and it didn't work. I think you'll have to wait for Fitbit to update their app. Maybe you should contact them and push for Nexus 4 support. I'm sure a lot of Flex owners are doing the same!

daewond3r said:
It's been said the the Fitbit app has been hardcoded to work only with certain devices. I think some users have even tried to edit the build.prop to spoof another phone and it didn't work. I think you'll have to wait for Fitbit to update their app. Maybe you should contact them and push for Nexus 4 support. I'm sure a lot of Flex owners are doing the same!
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I feared as much. I will definitely push for an update then! I just hope they don't have some sort of annoying deal with Samsung.

pickaxeus said:
I feared as much. I will definitely push for an update then! I just hope they don't have some sort of annoying deal with Samsung.
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As of yet, fitbit doesn't work with 4.3 on my HTC One.

hebetude said:
As of yet, fitbit doesn't work with 4.3 on my HTC One.
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Same for the Galaxy S4 on 4.3

Sorry about posting to an old thread.
Has anyone had any luck with getting it working now? Apparently the app has been updated and it does work, it's just 'unsupported' (meaning they won't offer support if you have problems).

mat.hen said:
Sorry about posting to an old thread.
Has anyone had any luck with getting it working now? Apparently the app has been updated and it does work, it's just 'unsupported' (meaning they won't offer support if you have problems).
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I know it's not terribly helpful for the Nexus 4 (and this is the Nexus 4 forum, but I digress) but it's working quite well on the Galaxy S4 GE now. Prior to the app update, there was no way to communicate between the phone and the flex. Now, it's working just as well as the iPhone app.
Good luck!

johnduggins said:
I know it's not terribly helpful for the Nexus 4 (and this is the Nexus 4 forum, but I digress) but it's working quite well on the Galaxy S4 GE now. Prior to the app update, there was no way to communicate between the phone and the flex. Now, it's working just as well as the iPhone app.
Good luck!
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So fibit and nexus, worked?

I don't think so. And when I was on my S3, it would only work on stock ROMs.
http://www.fitbit.com/devices
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Kama45 said:
I don't think so. And when I was on my S3, it would only work on stock ROMs.
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just modify the /system/build.prop file so that:
change the
ro.product.model=GT-I9505G
ro.product.manufacturer=samsung
and save those settings, reboot, and now Fitbit will try to sync now. I used the Build Prop Editor from JRummy. play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jrummy.apps.build.prop.editor

cklaus1 said:
just modify the /system/build.prop file so that:
change the
ro.product.model=GT-I9505G
ro.product.manufacturer=samsung
and save those settings, reboot, and now Fitbit will try to sync now. I used the Build Prop Editor from JRummy. play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jrummy.apps.build.prop.editor
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Thank you sir!!! syncs great

cklaus1 said:
just modify the /system/build.prop file so that:
change the
ro.product.model=GT-I9505G
ro.product.manufacturer=samsung
and save those settings, reboot, and now Fitbit will try to sync now. I used the Build Prop Editor from JRummy. play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jrummy.apps.build.prop.editor
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both the instructions and the editor worked great for me.
I've set it to manual sync only though since fitbit did say background sync broke after 2 days on the N4, will be interesting to see how it goes from here.

This build.prop method works but it breaks Auto focus on the camera....... Damn,..... Why is this taking so long to support the N4?

Ruprect said:
This build.prop method works but it breaks Auto focus on the camera....... Damn,..... Why is this taking so long to support the N4?
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ah! I was wondering what happened with that. I dont use the camera much

Running 10.2 on my big red S3, changed the value to 9505,
And it still will not pair. It shows up as available, but that's it
Any ideas?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2436800
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Ulver said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2436800
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Well, deleted old apk, installed new, double checked that Build prop value says GT-I9505G, but I still get the "cannot communicat with" error message.

XDA Fitbit App
One xda dev (see link) updated the latest version of the Fitbit app (1.8.1 as of the time of this writing) to skip the device check and sync anyways. Worked great on my T-Mobile Galaxy S3 running LiquidSmooth (CM 10.2) and is reported as working on devices:
- Google Nexus 4
- Google Nexus 7
- Galaxy Nexus (some firmwares require additional BTLE drivers)
- LG G2
- HTC One
- Samsung Note 3
- Samsung Galaxy S3, S4 (custom ROMs)
I can finally set the silent alarm without having to go to my PC! Haven't seen any issues so far, but it appears that you'll want to disable background syncing (I'm guessing it drains your battery more than usual if you leave that enabled?)

Help!
I got a LG G2 D-802 International (From Denmark), with CM 10.2 latest nightly, and i am unable to get this to work.
1. If i go to Bluetooth i can see my Flex device, but it cant connect.
2. When i open the Fitbit app i get the sync option, and it seems like its trying, however it never establishes a connect.
3. I have reset my Fitbit Flex several times.
Can anyone help me, or hint towards a solution?

sending text with my number

Hi, I have a nexus 7 and I would like to send text from it using my at&t number but I don't have my android phone currently I have a blackberry z10. I've seen apps that work but only with android phones so is there anything I can use with my nexus and bb z10?

I really just want to know if there's a way not haha blackberry please its not like I wanted to use it but I broke my one x

I really don't think so. Sorry mate.
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petri180 said:
Hi, I have a nexus 7 and I would like to send text from it using my at&t number but I don't have my android phone currently I have a blackberry z10. I've seen apps that work but only with android phones so is there anything I can use with my nexus and bb z10?
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You can port your att number over to Google then use Google voice to send text with your n7

I tried and Google voice said my number is unavailable for port so I can't do that

Not sure of what app you're talking. About but I thought there z10 can port apks over to use em.

petri180 said:
Hi, I have a nexus 7 and I would like to send text from it using my at&t number but I don't have my android phone currently I have a blackberry z10. I've seen apps that work but only with android phones so is there anything I can use with my nexus and bb z10?
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Not sure if this will work or not, but check to see if Mighty Text - the app, is on Blackberry, if it is, install it, set it up. Then, download the Android one to the N7 and have fun. That's what I did and it works like a dream. I have two Nexus' though, so not sure if Blackberry has that app available or not but it's worth a try.

can6rxw said:
Not sure if this will work or not, but check to see if Mighty Text - the app, is on Blackberry, if it is, install it, set it up. Then, download the Android one to the N7 and have fun. That's what I did and it works like a dream. I have two Nexus' though, so not sure if Blackberry has that app available or not but it's worth a try.
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Yeah I checked I haven't seen it so I need someone to make it a .bar file so I can sideload it