I have Simple Mobile with the unlimited 4G LTE plan and I'm running LineageOS 14.1. The WiFi hotspot isn't working but data on the device is. Can anyone help me fix this?
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First of all congratulations to all users for this excellent forum.
Here's the situation:
In my country one specific carrier provider has a data plan with only 3,5 euros/month which offer unlimited browsing to internet (port 80 i assume) and unlimited downloads with the restriction that the file youre downloading does not exceed 1 MB.
The point in this story is that you cant work with applications that works in other port than the ports that they have open (eg voip).
They also have a proxy server to set up on your mobile device which is at 192.168.200.10 at port 9401.
The obvious question is if theres a possibility to establish a vpn connection between my mobile and a home server in order to "pass" all the traffic through their 9401 port so to conclude to use this service as truly unlimited (i mean "port free")?!?
Can anybody suggest the necessary software (vpn etc) to set up in both machines to give it a try? What kind of configuration is required in the vpn software you will suggest?Is there a point that i am missing?
My mobile device is an htc touch diamond.
Thank you!!
I have a 6800 with Verizon and I attend Penn State at the main campus. We have group authenticated VPN security for our on campus wireless. I downloaded BlueFire mobile VPN because it has group authentication capabilities. I connect to the Penn State wireless and then connect with the VPN client, however I notice that my phone calls the 777 number to access the VPN server for some reason, even though I have wireless. I messed around with connection settings, but got no results. My issue with this is that I don't have any data plan because I don't want to pay for it and the data call eats up my minutes.
Does anyone know how to properly set up the connection settings so that I don't pour money into Verizon's pockets?
Also, I don't think this is possible but I might as well ask... is there any way to use the VPN software included with WM to connect to group authenticated VPN servers?
Any clues?
Have you tried turning off data connection?
When setting up connections in my HD, the modem options available for selection are: bt, <carrier's> GPRS, <carrier's> data and hayes compatiable. Is it possible to add a wifi in the selection.
What I want is to restrict internet connection to wifi only. Is there a way to do that? If stock rom can't, any cooked rom can?
I don't see any technical difficulty for the manufacturer to provide such function. But what I know is only iPhone provide such setting. Is this a under-table consent between phone maker and carrier to "encourage" client to use chargeable data services?
senderj said:
When setting up connections in my HD, the modem options available for selection are: bt, <carrier's> GPRS, <carrier's> data and hayes compatiable. Is it possible to add a wifi in the selection.
What I want is to restrict internet connection to wifi only. Is there a way to do that? If stock rom can't, any cooked rom can?
I don't see any technical difficulty for the manufacturer to provide such function. But what I know is only iPhone provide such setting. Is this a under-table consent between phone maker and carrier to "encourage" client to use chargeable data services?
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If you use 'no data' you can permanently toggle off Internet, wap etc so only available option left is wifi. If at some stage you want to use wap, GPRS etc, just toggle it back on.
Hi all,
When connected to a WiFi network (isolated intranet, no internet access), Android seems to assume it's useless, and directs all data through the 3G/4G network.
For example:
- 3G/4G mobile data enabled.
- WiFi enabled, connected to intranet and is allocated a 192.168.4.xxx address.
- Android detects WiFi connection has no internet access, so i get the WiFi logo with the X through it, and a notification saying so.
- I open the web browser on the phone, try to connect to http://192.168.4.1, which times out as Android is trying to connect to that site via the mobile network.
- So I disable mobile data.
- Now when I open the web browser on the phone, try to connect to http://192.168.4.1, the site loads as it should.
It appears Android is trying to be too smart for its own good, and just completely disregards the WiFi connection if internet access isn't present.
Does anyone know how to fix this so it follows normal packet routing rules?
Thanks.
MWPau said:
Hi all,
When connected to a WiFi network (isolated intranet, no internet access), Android seems to assume it's useless, and directs all data through the 3G/4G network.
For example:
- 3G/4G mobile data enabled.
- WiFi enabled, connected to intranet and is allocated a 192.168.4.xxx address.
- Android detects WiFi connection has no internet access, so i get the WiFi logo with the X through it, and a notification saying so.
- I open the web browser on the phone, try to connect to http://192.168.4.1, which times out as Android is trying to connect to that site via the mobile network.
- So I disable mobile data.
- Now when I open the web browser on the phone, try to connect to http://192.168.4.1, the site loads as it should.
It appears Android is trying to be too smart for its own good, and just completely disregards the WiFi connection if internet access isn't present.
Does anyone know how to fix this so it follows normal packet routing rules?
Thanks.
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Hello
When you have activated the mobile data and you are on a intranet Android it´s smart and connect you to internet. I know that it a very boring thing but is an system specification. I´m a IT admin an on my enterprise occurs the same. The only possible solution is to shut down mobile data if it not neccesary and connect to the intranet both things are not possible.
Best Regards
Hi,
I'm building an app for controlling an interactive digital sculpture installation. The idea is that users connect to the sculpture with WiFi so the app can send sensor data that's used to generate the appearance of the installation. This WiFi network has no Internet access.
My problem is that Android would not use the WiFi network at all. The user either has to disable cellular data or confirm that the device should stay connected to the network regardless of the absence of Internet connectivity. Then it works, but I want to avoid these extra steps as they are confusing the users and can be sources for all kinds of problems.
I expected this to be handled according to standard IP routing and longest prefix match, but apparently Android doesn't work that way. I tried explicitly setting the source IP address of the outgoing packets, but that made no difference.
Any ideas how it would be possible to talk to the sculpture over the WiFi without those extra steps?
Thanks!