Anyone else download quick settings and notice LED flashlight and wifi tethering work?
Edit: Apparently while SSID does broadcast wifi tethering doesn't provide internet access.
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JoshHart said:
Anyone else download quick settings and notice LED flashlight and wifi tethering work?
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Does it really??? Post a pic or vid
Pic 1 - LED Flashlight
Pic 2 - Quick Settings Enable Hotspot
Pic 3 - Click Hotspot to set Access Point
Pic 4 - Access Point seen by my laptop
Good find!
Not quite perfect yet, though. I was able to turn on the Hotspot and connect, but unfortunately I couldn't actually connect to the internet from my laptop once I was connected.
tried it, didn't work, nice fake though...
Not sure which part I'm "Faking". You have to go to settings and change flashlight to LED instead of screen, for access point if you're using windows 7 make sure its set as a home network not public and try changing the SSID name.
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Running Vista, I connect fine to the phone, but nothing is routed beyond the phone unfortunately. Look forward to seeing this work, though. Nice simple fix to an annoying limitation.
JoshHart said:
Not sure which part I'm "Faking". You have to go to settings and change flashlight to LED instead of screen, for access point if you're using windows 7 make sure its set as a home network not public and try changing the SSID name.
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Sorry, I take back what I said. I thought you were faking the pics for wifi by using another phone. on another note, linux does not see the wifi tether. but win 7 does. very odd...
I tried connecting my computer to the hotspot but the phone doesn't give out an IP address and there aren't settings on the phone to change it. Seems like tmobile change the stock build, eh?
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tekkaman_01 said:
Sorry, I take back what I said. I thought you were faking the pics for wifi by using another phone. on another note, linux does not see the wifi tether. but win 7 does. very odd...
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Are you actually able to get onto the internet on Windows 7? Or just connect to the hotspot? My only Windows 7 computer Doesn't have Wifi, so I have no easy way to test that.
I can't connect to the internet either tried a few things but you're right nothin comes through, ah well I was more excited about the flashlight anyways
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kludgineer said:
Are you actually able to get onto the internet on Windows 7? Or just connect to the hotspot? My only Windows 7 computer Doesn't have Wifi, so I have no easy way to test that.
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just connect to the hotspot, the phone does not give out an ip
as for the LED flashlight the Power Control plus widget lets you do that, I would have said something earlier but thought it was common knowledge.
JoshHart said:
Pic 1 - LED Flashlight
Pic 2 - Quick Settings Enable Hotspot
Pic 3 - Click Hotspot to set Access Point
Pic 4 - Access Point seen by my laptop
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Great find. You can actually download nexus one led flashlight from the market. It comes with a handy widget for turning the led on or off. That will take care of having to open quick settings to switch between screen flashlight or led flashlight.
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N1 Torch works
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when connected to the wifi on your phone do an ipconfig /all on computer, and post results for wireless network adapter
Perhaps you have to check APN type under mobile networks.
My nexus one shows "default,supl,MMS" (no quoation nor spaces)
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So internet sharing and DHCP are disabled as well.
I'll have to check out quick settings. I tried wifi tether for root with no luck. Saw some errors in the logcat for missing files, but think they are missing on my G1 too. I haven't dug too much into it yet.
-oldsk00lz
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oldsk00lz said:
I'll have to check out quick settings. I tried wifi tether for root with no luck.
-oldsk00lz
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Remember the wifi tether for root won't work until this device gets rooted. Try a hotspot app and see if the connected devices can surf the internet.
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Hi guys,
The other day my Ethernet cable plugging my desktop PC into the router broke, meaning I now have no internet access on my PC.
I was wondering if there was some way to plug my phone in via USB, and use my phones WiFi signal to access internet on the computer.
Any one know how this can be done?
Thanks.
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Yes, it's straight forward enough.
Connect your phone to your WiFi network
Hook up your USB
Then go to Settings > more > tethering & portable hotspot and tick USB tethering
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I tried that and it wouldn't let me enable it - could it be a problem with the ROM? Miui v5
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Hey guys, my PC decided today that it would fry the WiFi adapter. I don't have a Ethernet cable long enough to reach my PC. I was wondering if I could share the WiFi connection from my Nexus 4 to my PC via USB. And no, I don't want to use my data connection because it so slow. Is there a way to do this?
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This is quite obvious. Turn on Wi-Fi and enable USB-Tethering. I would turn off mobile data, just in case
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This is quite obvious. Turn on Wi-Fi and enable USB-Tethering. I would turn off mobile data, just in case
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But doing that turn WiFi off automatically and leaves data on
Edit: nvm turning off data did it
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I recently used https://forum.xda-developers.com/ve...-to-notes-root-install-xposed-unroot-t3411039 to root my S7 Edge
Now after root I cannot connect my S7 to my PC. When I plug it in Windows makes the connection noise but it is nowhere to be found, also on my phone there is no menu to tell the phone how to connect like it used to have. There was no mention of this on the guide either.
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I recently used https://forum.xda-developers.com/ve...-to-notes-root-install-xposed-unroot-t3411039 to root my S7 Edge
Now after root I cannot connect my S7 to my PC. When I plug it in Windows makes the connection noise but it is nowhere to be found, also on my phone there is no menu to tell the phone how to connect like it used to have. There was no mention of this on the guide either.
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Go to settings/Developer Options
Scroll down about half way and look for USB configuration.
Try setting it to MTP or PTP and see if that works.
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gadget! said:
Go to settings/Developer Options
Scroll down about half way and look for USB configuration.
Try setting it to MTP or PTP and see if that works.
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That fixed the problem, thanks a ton
No problem, glad to help.
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After a few attempts, without success, I figured it wiser to ask here than spend hours.....
Trying to sync files directly from my android phone to the tablet, without using data or Wi-Fi. Tried mi drop, refill sync, refill sync, and allcast with no connection made. Shareit worked for sending from fire hd tablet to phone but not from phone to tablet.
I see the tablet has hotspot but I can't find that setting nor does my phone see it when the apps enable it. Does it have it?
Second, I would like to mirror my phone to the tablet if possible. Is it possible? Apps?
Suggestions?
Thanks in advance!
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Charles7 said:
After a few attempts, without success, I figured it wiser to ask here than spend hours.....
Trying to sync files directly from my android phone to the tablet, without using data or Wi-Fi. Tried mi drop, refill sync, refill sync, and allcast with no connection made. Shareit worked for sending from fire hd tablet to phone but not from phone to tablet.
I see the tablet has hotspot but I can't find that setting nor does my phone see it when the apps enable it. Does it have it?
Second, I would like to mirror my phone to the tablet if possible. Is it possible? Apps?
Suggestions?
Thanks in advance!
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Without using data or WiFi, your best bet might be to manually copy files using a microsd card if the phone supports it.
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Without using data or WiFi, your best bet might be to manually copy files using a microsd card if the phone supports it.
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That's what I did. Then used "folder sync" to keep them synced to Google drive....though really would like to mirror the phone for streaming video over data so I'm not using the hotspot.
Thanks!
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Charles7 said:
That's what I did. Then used "folder sync" to keep them synced to Google drive....though really would like to mirror the phone for streaming video over data so I'm not using the hotspot.
Thanks!
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Without WiFi, I can't imagine how to do that. There's no hardwired input for video on these devices.
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Without WiFi, I can't imagine how to do that. There's no hardwired input for video on these devices.
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I know apps can turn a device into a Wi-Fi sink & sender but I don't think the fire tablets have the ability for Wi-Fi direct/hotspot, although a couple apps I installed turned on the hotspot I don't think there really is that hardware ability - certainly wasn't found by my phone.
My guess is, Amazon neutered that hardware ability because they're trying to force people into their cloud options, only....but I'm not certain.
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