Web-Based Authentication - Help Plz - G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I took my G1 to school today and tried to connect to the WiFi there. It is an open network, but it requires you to login using your school account via a website. Usually, when I connect with my laptop and open my browser, I get automatically redirected to the login page.
With my G1, the browser can't load a single page. It says connected to the network, but I have no actual internet access, and can't get to that login page.
Any idea how I can get around this?
Thanks

I have the same issue at my work. I have a captive portal that does not seem to redirect properly on the G1. Other phones seem to like it just fine. My work around is to add my mac to the auth bypass, but this only works because I am the actual admin for the wireless network.

try finding the address your laptop connects to and bookmarking it on the G1 and see if it lets you pull it up that way.

As I am pretty certain entering the redirect URL won't work (though I am trying it tonight) is there ANYTHING else anyone can think of changing or looking at? I had the same issue on my old Nokia N80, but only recently.

As predicted, the URL method did not work. Tried many variations and still no luck. Any further thought on this, or if the G1 will ever support Enterprise authentication?

captive portal
t3mp3st said:
As predicted, the URL method did not work. Tried many variations and still no luck. Any further thought on this, or if the G1 will ever support Enterprise authentication?
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I have the same issue in our Enterprise captive portal using different Android moldes ( Samsung Galaxy S 2 and mini ), can not get the login page, but works fine with an iPhone.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.

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Cannot get RDP working

OK, I have the program installed on the Kaiser, I have the port 3389 forwarded on my router. For the life of me, I can't figure out why I can't connect to the PC.
I even have the PCs alternate account and password and it's just not working. Someone please help.
you have to enable remote access on your host PC
I have also done that.
Try...
LogMeIn.com
Make sure your data connection on your phone is active before you try to connect.
The RDP client on this site does not seem to initiate the network on it's own.
I use bandswitch to close my idle connection and have to disable it when I try to rdp to home.
Do have something that you can telnet from? If so try telnetting to the PC you are trying to connect to via RDP.
telnet <ip> 3389
That will at least tell you if your PC is listening for rdp connections.
hmm, I tried telnetting myself using absolute telnet. Not exactly sure how to use it, but I entered in my IP address, and the port I have forwarded on my router and it kinda worked, but maybe not.
When I try to connect to 192.168.1.1, it won't connect.
when I try to connect to 192.168.1.101, it connects but does nothing.
I also tried initiating the data connection first, and it still didn't work...
Hmm, any other advice? I'd really like to get this working.
Try this, Jay...
JayIV said:
hmm, I tried telnetting myself using absolute telnet. Not exactly sure how to use it, but I entered in my IP address, and the port I have forwarded on my router and it kinda worked, but maybe not.
When I try to connect to 192.168.1.1, it won't connect.
when I try to connect to 192.168.1.101, it connects but does nothing.
I also tried initiating the data connection first, and it still didn't work...
Hmm, any other advice? I'd really like to get this working.
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Now, just forwarning I am not very technically enclined about this stuff at all. Not yet anyway. I worked with exactly what you're working with. Trying to get RDP working... I found this article and it is now working for me beautifully. One word of warning, disable your PC's Firewall. I have McAfee and it was stopping the incoming request. Bad thing is we are all wireless, our IP's are changing at the drop of a hat. So if you figure out how to beat that be sure to share. LOL. Here's the link. Good luck!
http://www.aximsite.com/boards/vbarticles.php?do=article&articleid=210
mmmkay, got it working, kind of...
I was using the wrong ip address, not even realizing it. I was using my router assigned IP address- not the right ip address obviously. For future reference, and also because I have not seen this documented ANYWHERE else, you must use your ISP ASSIGNED IP ADDRESS, and the port forwarded on your router to connect to your desktop.
So, I got connected to my computer and all, great great. Now I need some help tackling my next problem. Apparently, I am not allowed to connect to my alternate account because of some kind of permission problem. I am not in the group RDC or whatever on the remote machine and I must be added manually. OK, sounds easy.... not. How the eff do I do this?
Yes, I am running Windows Vista Home Premium. I am aware that it came "missing remote". However, I have added the hack, and as far as I understand, I should now be able to RDC to my computer using my mobile...
Who can help?
JayIV said:
mmmkay, got it working, kind of...
I was using the wrong ip address, not even realizing it. I was using my router assigned IP address- not the right ip address obviously. For future reference, and also because I have not seen this documented ANYWHERE else, you must use your ISP ASSIGNED IP ADDRESS, and the port forwarded on your router to connect to your desktop.
So, I got connected to my computer and all, great great. Now I need some help tackling my next problem. Apparently, I am not allowed to connect to my alternate account because of some kind of permission problem. I am not in the group RDC or whatever on the remote machine and I must be added manually. OK, sounds easy.... not. How the eff do I do this?
Yes, I am running Windows Vista Home Premium. I am aware that it came "missing remote". However, I have added the hack, and as far as I understand, I should now be able to RDC to my computer using my mobile...
Who can help?
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Having never used vista (yuk, yuk yuk) I don't know where the settings are, but being a fisher price os it should be fairly obvious.
Just add yourself to the remote desktop user group in the users and groups settings. If your account is an admin account you should have RDP access by default I believe
right click my computer, go to properties, click the remote tab. Click the "select remote users" button
I've already tried to things you two just mentioned. However, these options are not there. I think it has something to do with vista home premium...
I'm not sure about how or what you "hacked" to get RDP on your version of Vista, but there is a setting for RDP versions.
Under system properties -> remote tab
There are three options which essentially break down to this:
-Don't allow any RDP
-Allow all RDP (RDP 5 and RDP 6)
-Allow only RDP with NLA (RDP 6)
Vista and updated XP machines can have the RDP 6.0 program. Otherwise most systems are still RDP V5.
I found the allow all RDP (the second option) works well with from my kaiser to my Vista machine.

Donut 1.6 WPA2 W/Certificates ?

Hi ,
I have Donut 1.6 and Im trying to connect to my corporate network which uses WPA2 (AES) and requires Verisign vertificates, but the android is not detecting the settings properly and even when i manually configure it, its showing the certs as empty.
Bottom line, iPhone connects to the network in a flash. G1 never did. Any idea if its possible to do this with Donut or not yet ?
I dont know why Google is not trying to make corporate users happy ?
Any help or advice is appreciated !
See the last page in this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=535232
/you can also try wifi helper from the market. Are you using a stock donut rom?
B-man007 said:
See the last page in this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=535232
/you can also try wifi helper from the market. Are you using a stock donut rom?
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Any advice on how to do this from within the phone itself ? (Mine is rooted and running AOSP 1.6)
For some stupid reason Android drivers dont install properly for me. I have tried tons of articles and fixes nothing worked. So I cant adb.
Also any idea where I could find the verisign.pfx ? where is it usually located ?
Thanks alot for any help.
Your company should be providing the certificates. You can try running cyanogen mod which has enhanced credentials storage. Maybe it will work on there. Also, i gave the instructions to push that file on the phone in the other thread.
Hi, well those certificates are usually sent automatically once a device is connected to the network. I dont place those certificates manually.
Also when using an iPhone it usually asks for username and password. In the case of Android its only asking for password. Which wont get me anywhere. I think android is still not ready to connect to certain corporate networks..... :S
I tried the push instructions throught another computer but it didnt find the certificates.
Thanks anyways for your help mate.....appreciate it !
No problem. However, when its asking you for a password, is it for Credentials Storage?
You need to enter a strong password there as thats where all the settings for connecting to the network will be.
it asks for the credentials password first then the wireless pass. but never a username ! :s
hm... thats weird
did you try using the Wifi helper app on the market? the free version may be able to help you out
ok.....the good news is Wifi helper finally managed to connect me to the network
The bad news is my network uses a proxy server.......so setting the android to use the proxy turns out to be another problem
Any advice on this is VERY much appreciated !.
Thanks again

Accessing UIC-WiFi (University of Illinois-Chicago) from Nook Color

So I have been looking for a way to get on my university's wireless network. I've searched the internet and saw a few people on various forums who were at the same school (University of Illinois at Chicago) looking to do the same thing, but with no luck. There was a lot of information out there but none that really worked, so I spent a few hours today messing with the nook and was able to do it. Here is what I did.
Through Root explorer I accessed... /data/misc/wifi/ wpa_supplicant.conf and holding my finger over the file, I chose "open in text editor"
I added the following information.
network={
ssid="UIC-WiFi"
key_mgmt=WPA-EAP IEEE8021x
eap=TTLS
identity= "INSERT YOUR USER NAME"
password="INSERT YOUR PASSWORD"
phase2= "auth=PAP"
priority=14
}
I did not need a Thwate certificate or anything like that. Worked like a charm and now I can access the university's wifi from the nook. I know this is kind of a very specific post , my apologies, but I don't know if it might help someone else down the road as a starting point to get onto their network if the general tricks and tips don't work.
What was the isssue first? You couldn't see the login page? I know school and coffee shop allow you to connect to their wifi but you have to go to a login page first and accept the cert before accessing the network. Just curious because my wife today told me that she had issue accessing the school wifi on the unroot nook. The login page didn't come up. I am going to try it out with mine (currently running cm7 nightly build).
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA App
Perhaps you should take up this issue with your school's IT Department. Just mention that you are trying to connect an android device to their secure wireless.
Ah, I just read that you figured out. Well, still pass your method to the IT Department so that they can share it with other students and perhaps create some documentation.
branjosef75 said:
So I have been looking for a way to get on my university's wireless network. I've searched the internet and saw a few people on various forums who were at the same school (University of Illinois at Chicago) looking to do the same thing, but with no luck. There was a lot of information out there but none that really worked, so I spent a few hours today messing with the nook and was able to do it. Here is what I did.
Through Root explorer I accessed... /data/misc/wifi/ wpa_supplicant.conf and holding my finger over the file, I chose "open in text editor"
I added the following information.
network={
ssid="UIC-WiFi"
key_mgmt=WPA-EAP IEEE8021x
eap=TTLS
identity= "INSERT YOUR USER NAME"
password="INSERT YOUR PASSWORD"
phase2= "auth=PAP"
priority=14
}
I did not need a Thwate certificate or anything like that. Worked like a charm and now I can access the university's wifi from the nook. I know this is kind of a very specific post , my apologies, but I don't know if it might help someone else down the road as a starting point to get onto their network if the general tricks and tips don't work.
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if your school has a guests network you can connect into that and just login to their webportal using your id login
my school does this but im not sure if all schools do this
branjosef75 said:
So I have been looking for a way to get on my university's wireless network. I've searched the internet and saw a few people on various forums who were at the same school (University of Illinois at Chicago) looking to do the same thing, but with no luck. There was a lot of information out there but none that really worked, so I spent a few hours today messing with the nook and was able to do it. Here is what I did.
Through Root explorer I accessed... /data/misc/wifi/ wpa_supplicant.conf and holding my finger over the file, I chose "open in text editor"
I added the following information.
network={
ssid="UIC-WiFi"
key_mgmt=WPA-EAP IEEE8021x
eap=TTLS
identity= "INSERT YOUR USER NAME"
password="INSERT YOUR PASSWORD"
phase2= "auth=PAP"
priority=14
}
I did not need a Thwate certificate or anything like that. Worked like a charm and now I can access the university's wifi from the nook. I know this is kind of a very specific post , my apologies, but I don't know if it might help someone else down the road as a starting point to get onto their network if the general tricks and tips don't work.
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Thanks for your post. I do have a similar problem (i.e., not having the log in screen after connecting to the "open" WiFi on campus) and will try your method later today. Will be back with the results
madtopcoder said:
What was the isssue first? You couldn't see the login page? I know school and coffee shop allow you to connect to their wifi but you have to go to a login page first and accept the cert before accessing the network. Just curious because my wife today told me that she had issue accessing the school wifi on the unroot nook. The login page didn't come up. I am going to try it out with mine (currently running cm7 nightly build).
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My issue was that I couldn't simply log on to the campus wifi network with the nook color (rooted) and the IT department said I needed to wait until Barnes and Noble issued an update to the software so I could change the required settings needed for their network. I tried the guest wi-fi network but that didn't work either, so I thought I would just try to figure it out myself. Which I did and I thought I would pass it along. I'm going to let the IT department know what I did in case anyone else comes to them looking to put their nook on the network. One caveat though is the nook color has to be rooted. I don't think you access the necessary file unless it's rooted. : )
branjosef75 said:
My issue was that I couldn't simply log on to the campus wifi network with the nook color (rooted) and the IT department said I needed to wait until Barnes and Noble issued an update to the software so I could change the required settings needed for their network. I tried the guest wi-fi network but that didn't work either, so I thought I would just try to figure it out myself. Which I did and I thought I would pass it along. I'm going to let the IT department know what I did in case anyone else comes to them looking to put their nook on the network. One caveat though is the nook color has to be rooted. I don't think you access the necessary file unless it's rooted. : )
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Yeah, I'm at UIC as well and had similar problems connecting to UIC-Wifi on my Nexus One while it was still running 2.1... the ACCC (Campus IT) gave me the run-around on all this stuff for a while... let me tell you...
It has something to do with versions earlier than Android 2.2 only partially supporting 802.1x Authentication or something like that... I ended up doing something similar to what you just described to the wpa_supplicant configuration file in order to get it to work... after I described this to the Campus IT department, they "informed" me that they would be unable to support this method because it required the phone to be "jailbroken" (LOL! ) anyway... long story short... works okay now...
Just ordered myself a nook color yesterday.... good to know this is possible!
I'm excited to get started screwing around with it...
redstar3894 said:
Yeah, I'm at UIC as well and had similar problems connecting to UIC-Wifi on my Nexus One while it was still running 2.1... the ACCC (Campus IT) gave me the run-around on all this stuff for a while... let me tell you...
It has something to do with versions earlier than Android 2.2 only partially supporting 802.1x Authentication or something like that... I ended up doing something similar to what you just described to the wpa_supplicant configuration file in order to get it to work... after I described this to the Campus IT department, they "informed" me that they would be unable to support this method because it required the phone to be "jailbroken" (LOL! ) anyway... long story short... works okay now...
Just ordered myself a nook color yesterday.... good to know this is possible!
I'm excited to get started screwing around with it...
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i had the same exact situation you did but with my evo.
but you dont need to do this anymore. you can connect just fine thru the wifi settings.
http://www.uic.edu/depts/accc/android/index.html
edit: i take that back. doesnt work in 2.1. works in 2.2 just fine though
Does anyone have any more info on a fix for this? My gf's NC is running CM7 Nightly14, and she can't connect to USC's wireless network- apparently the login screen won't come up, so she can't sign in.
She was able to while she was running the stock software, so i'm wondering what has changed.
xeren said:
Does anyone have any more info on a fix for this? My gf's NC is running CM7 Nightly14, and she can't connect to USC's wireless network- apparently the login screen won't come up, so she can't sign in.
She was able to while she was running the stock software, so i'm wondering what has changed.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=988802
Check out my thread.
I couldn't connect to my school's network (SDSU) so I pushed those files in [Problem 1] and it worked after that!
Try it!
Thanks a lot. It is great. Very easy and helpful. Thanks again. You should post it on ACCC.
This should work with other wireless connections, if you know the SSID.
As for down here in champaign, try this (I'm not getting my nook color until sometime over spring break, so this is a guess):
network={
ssid="IllinoisNet"
key_mgmt=WPA2-EAP IEEE8021x
eap=PEAP
identity= "INSERT YOUR USER NAME (UID)"
password="INSERT YOUR ACTIVE DIRECTORY PASSWORD"
phase2= "auth=WPA2"
priority=14
}
That's the best to my knowledge. CITES doesn't like to disclose much about anything online, so I pulled most of this from the windows xp setup configuration.
Good work!!!
Sent from James' OCed Nook Color
Interesting. My university uses a WPA(2?), PEAP system that requires a THAWTE certificate, but the nook color -- both on stock rooted, and CM7 connected fine with username and password. Your network looks similar to ours, but its a good tip you've posted, adding it manually may help in the case of other similar networks as well.
Quick update: I updated my gf's NC from CM7 Nightly 19 to 31, and now it's connecting to her university's wireless- not sure what the devs changed, but it's working great now!
If you still haven't been able to get it working with the above hacks, try updating to the latest CM7, it may work for your school as well.
Thank you.
I tried this on my rooted nook color (stock 1.2) It didn't work.
branjosef75 said:
So I have been looking for a way to get on my university's wireless network. I've searched the internet and saw a few people on various forums who were at the same school (University of Illinois at Chicago) looking to do the same thing, but with no luck. There was a lot of information out there but none that really worked, so I spent a few hours today messing with the nook and was able to do it. Here is what I did.
Through Root explorer I accessed... /data/misc/wifi/ wpa_supplicant.conf and holding my finger over the file, I chose "open in text editor"
I added the following information.
network={
ssid="UIC-WiFi"
key_mgmt=WPA-EAP IEEE8021x
eap=TTLS
identity= "INSERT YOUR USER NAME"
password="INSERT YOUR PASSWORD"
phase2= "auth=PAP"
priority=14
}
I did not need a Thwate certificate or anything like that. Worked like a charm and now I can access the university's wifi from the nook. I know this is kind of a very specific post , my apologies, but I don't know if it might help someone else down the road as a starting point to get onto their network if the general tricks and tips don't work.
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I just tried it on nook color(stock 1.3 rooted). It did work. I first tried to log in our wifi before changing that file. Then I opened the file, and it becomes
network={
ssid="UIC-WiFi"
key_mgmt=WPA-EAP IEEE8021x
eap=PAP
identity= "INSERT YOUR USER NAME"
password="INSERT YOUR PASSWORD"
}
I changed it like him and also added another line(scan_ssid=1):
network={
ssid="UIC-WiFi"
scan_ssid=1
key_mgmt=WPA-EAP IEEE8021x
eap=TTLS
identity= "INSERT YOUR USER NAME"
password="INSERT YOUR PASSWORD"
phase2= "auth=PAP"
priority=14
}
I noticed that I was able to connect once (the first time), and then could not reconnect afterwards. My Kubuntu netbook and iPad did not have this problem. After opening /data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf as recommended, I immediately saw the problem: the password isn't being saved for my WPA2-Enterprise network. All the other networks had a password field, if applicable. Go figure...
Thanks for the hint! It appears that this may be a more general problem than you thought (I did not test this yet, but will do so tomorrow.)

Internet Sharing Question

I've ran into a small issue with internet sharing on my HD7. Everything works fine, however, I'll get a message t-mobile to enable my phone as a mobile hotspot, $15 a month. Before this I've never had an issue with internet sharing, probably used it for 5/6 months (ever since mango has been out.) The internet isn't blocked, it just keeps redirecting. Lately I've had to teamviewer my home computer to get around this, which is extremely inconvenient.
Anyone know a fix to this? Or is a new policy with t-mobile to pay for the service?
Vaibe said:
I've ran into a small issue with internet sharing on my HD7. Everything works fine, however, I'll get a message t-mobile to enable my phone as a mobile hotspot, $15 a month. Before this I've never had an issue with internet sharing, probably used it for 5/6 months (ever since mango has been out.) The internet isn't blocked, it just keeps redirecting. Lately I've had to teamviewer my home computer to get around this, which is extremely inconvenient.
Anyone know a fix to this? Or is a new policy with t-mobile to pay for the service?
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Actually, with all cell providers, tethering/hotspot has always cost as an add-on to the plan... with that said, I am T-Mobile with my HD7, and with the deepshining rom, I have never been charged (knock on wood). if you have the stock ROM, maybe it flags the data as tethered so they can track it...
Found something interesting today. While using my internet sharing, I only get the t-mobile redirect while using chrome. However, in firefox, I can browse freely. A bit interesting.
Vaibe said:
Found something interesting today. While using my internet sharing, I only get the t-mobile redirect while using chrome. However, in firefox, I can browse freely. A bit interesting.
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Its because they are "blocking" tethering based on browser UAstring, and nothing else. For this reason, you can extremely simply spoof your UAstring as early Firefox or Safari versions (or just use FF or Safari) and not get redirects. There are addons and extentions for FF and Chrome to easily spoof the browser UAstring to anything you want.
Try this UA spoofer for chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/djflhoibgkdhkhhcedjiklpkjnoahfmg
I've been using the "Firefox 4" UAstring. I've tried some Safari strings also but some pages don't load properly (mainly GMail and Google+).
Its a horrible policy that many people have been fighting with for a long time now. Not only does it not work stopping any moderately sophisticated user on their desktop (because spoofing is SO easy), but it inadvertently "blocks" anyone trying to request desktop sites on their phones. Many browsers (especially Chrome Beta for Android 4.0) by default browse in desktop mode (or let you easily request desktop sites), and get redirected inadvertently.
You can call and complain all you want and the CS reps will either play dumb, or are actually unaware of the process of how they're sending out these messages. I've yet to make any headway on them.

[Q] Connected to WiFi network, but no internet connection [WebOS]

Last night, I found my TouchPad sitting under a pile of papers in my office after a few months of wondering where it was and charged it on the dock. Before this long gap of not using it, it had been working perfectly fine - internet browsing, apps, etc... and the internet definitely worked.
After turning it on, it will connect to my WiFi network without a problem, but when I go to open up a web browser page, it says: "Error: No Internet connection." I also can't get it to load stories in the USA Today app and it won't check email in the email app.
I tried enabling/disabling Airplane Mode and then reset the WiFi settings (gave it a new IP address under the WiFi Preferences menu, like this HP forum post says to do), but it still doesn't want to let me go to websites or anything.
Any ideas on how to fix this?
karmapuhlease said:
Last night, I found my TouchPad sitting under a pile of papers in my office after a few months of wondering where it was and charged it on the dock. Before this long gap of not using it, it had been working perfectly fine - internet browsing, apps, etc... and the internet definitely worked.
After turning it on, it will connect to my WiFi network without a problem, but when I go to open up a web browser page, it says: "Error: No Internet connection." I also can't get it to load stories in the USA Today app and it won't check email in the email app.
I tried enabling/disabling Airplane Mode and then reset the WiFi settings (gave it a new IP address under the WiFi Preferences menu, like this HP forum post says to do), but it still doesn't want to let me go to websites or anything.
Any ideas on how to fix this?
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As you say that you haven't used it for a while I'm wondering if you updated the root certificate.
If you didn't here are instructions on how to :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2329264
Hope that this helps.
sstar said:
As you say that you haven't used it for a while I'm wondering if you updated the root certificate.
If you didn't here are instructions on how to :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2329264
Hope that this helps.
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It won't even let me go into the App Catalog to download the update, actually. When I try to, it says: "You must connect to a network to use this application." After I click "Retry," there is a brief moment where it flashes a screen asking me what country I'm in before it goes right back to the screen telling me to connect to a network.
I don't think this is an issue with my router, since all of my family's phones (a Galaxy Nexus, a Galaxy S3, and two iPhones), two laptops, and a Kindle are all using the network with no problems at all. It seems to me like it must be an internal problem with the way my Touchpad is interacting with the network.
Thanks for the suggestion though! That could be another issue I'll have to fix too (since I don't remember downloading an update to fix that problem, which I hadn't heard about before, though I think I've probably used my Touchpad at some point since July 2013).

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