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[Q] Tethering to Iphone 4 with mywi

ok, so thanks to all the brilliance here i'm fully rooted and loving life EXCEPT i still can't tether to my iphone with mywi. it is set to default simply broadcasting its little wifi heart out. as far as i know mywi creates a hotstop not an adhoc connection, anyone else have this issue?

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I saw that the question had many views but no responses, so i'll go ahead and share what i've found. First, as stated some where else in another thread the tablet doesn't accept adhoc connections. Sadly, i looked everywhere online and apparently there aren't any jailbroken iphone apps that support infrastructure mode wifi.
I did however find a site that claims to open android tablets to adhoc connections, does anyone know if this is possible?
Thanks,
Mark

msantiago1256 said:
ok, so thanks to all the brilliance here i'm fully rooted and loving life EXCEPT i still can't tether to my iphone with mywi. it is set to default simply broadcasting its little wifi heart out. as far as i know mywi creates a hotstop not an adhoc connection, anyone else have this issue?
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A friend who just bought a NC last night is also having the same issue. according to the research he did there are no wifi tethering applications that broadcast in infrastructure mode, they are all adhoc, including mywi.
There appear to be methods involving editing some files and statically entering your SSID info and whatnot. I'll look into it further tonight after work and get back with you.

It's an Android shortcoming. There's a fix... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=754961 but unsure if it'll work with our NC since we don't have a ROM dump yet. If this doesn't work worst case scenario we lose WiFi. And the dump is needed to restore the replaced file mentioned in the posted thread, otherwise a hard reset of the NC would be necessary.

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).
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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.)

[Q] PLEASE HELP Wifi does not connect, says not in range after password.

Like the title says my Wifi will not connect to my router at home, but works everywhere else..
I have a Linksys wireless-n router. I put in the password and it automatically says that it is remembered but not in range. Any ideas on how this could have happened? Any possible solutions?

I don't know about the wifi stuff too much, but I have seen reference to people changing from channel 11 (std factory setting) to channel 4 for example. Dunno if that helps. Good luck.
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How does one do this? I've looked but couldn't find any directions.
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Bjangles said:
How does one do this? I've looked but couldn't find any directions.
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you start with your router's IP address. if you don't know it, go to your command prompt and type "ipconfig" to figure out your router's IP address. Type the IP address into your internet browser to change the channel.

OK I'll try it later on tonight.

Go to google and type "linksys wireless n router change wireless channel" and select the first option you get (should take you to howtogeek.com)
Scroll down past the download it ask you to do and get to where it states Changing your wireless channel. Its pretty easy to do once you walk through that.
Does it only happen on the touchpad, or is it all devices?

It only happens with android (CM7 and CM9), web os is fine.

There has been issues with the wifi. I am running the bricked CM9 install myself and the wifi works just fine. Have you wiped the cache and all during install?
Seems that someone has posted a thread in the touchpad area concerning this same issue, thread will probably be moved once a mod gets a hold of it, but here is a link to it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1494458

ssid
Make sure you are broadcasting your ssid as android devices cannot see hidden networks, so you end up with "not in range" when you try to connect

I got it to work kinda. I have to leave and go out of range, them come back for it to work.
Does WPA2 broadcast the ssid?

There is an app in the Market labeled something like 'WiFi Fix' that 'helps' this issues as well. If I had my TP in front of me I'd get you the exact name, or if the Market would track free apps between devices like Amazon does, but I digress...
I use the word 'help' loosely above because the 'fix' wipes out all your wireless settings. It deletes all the profiles, etc. So after re-entering the keys you'll get right back on the wifi, but this is somewhat painful after every single time it goes to sleep...
Anyway, consider it an option, semi-viable at least.

If you can see your wireless in the list of available networks it is broadcasting the SSID.

I guess I'll just go for a stroll whenever my touchpad needs a restart. thanks for the help.

Bjangles said:
I guess I'll just go for a stroll whenever my touchpad needs a restart. thanks for the help.
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I'd be going for lots of walks. Mine lasts for less than 5 minutes -- assuming it connects.
For the TouchPad, it seems the only thing that truly works is a wide open connection without authentication or encryption. People have had varying amounts of success, but I cannot get it to connect to my work's WPA2 Enterprise or anything above WPA at my house...
There's a couple of threads going on in the Development forum where they've basically said that Wifi for the TouchPad sucks and is in a major need of (re)working in order to get it right. The current ar6000 driver isn't cutting it and the ath6kl driver + wpa_supplicant are not Android complaint.
Someone has a kang (CherryKANG) with a supposed wifi driver fix, but if you look at what he supposedly built into his ROM vs. what is getting loaded, you can see it's not really there. (The link everyone points to is the new ath6kl driver, but if you look after flashing it's still running ar6000.)
I build a ROM with the ath6kl driver in place and it looked to work better for about 30 seconds. But you can tell it doesn't like to cooperate with Android too well at the moment. Makes me wish I was a hardware expert so I can rewrite the thing and make it work.
I'm pretty sure it's not a hardware issue since I can boot into WebOS and be find on ANY of the networks I normally connect to...

Storage Solution

So I was thinking about getting one of those wifi flash drives to use with my N7 when it comes. Then I got to thinking, uh why not use my Android phone that DOES have a micro sd card slot in it as a wireless NAS. So I looked, and I found this. https://play.google.com/store/apps/...wsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5jb2Rlc2VjdG9yLmRyb2lkbmFzIl0.
Droid NAS by Code Sector.
Now you can't access it from Windows but you can from a Mac and from another android device. They say you can use ES Explorer to get to it.
I haven't tried it yet, but I've heard it works for other things.
Can anyone with I/O device try the app out on your phone and see if you can access it from your N7?

Wouldn't you have to be connected to the same wireless network? This would be really useful it did point to point. I don't know if it does.
If you have to be connected to an access point, you may as well use the cloud options.
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If it used blue tooth it could be an option.
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Darn, didn't think of that. However, a couple thoughts come to mind. Run hot spot on your phone and you have a wifi network there. Might work, not sure yet. Also, looks like it supports wifi, and ethernet. So maybe a BT PAN connection might work too. Don't know.
I would like to think someone could make it work.

Hmmm interesting. And with that thought, perhaps something like this might also work (uses Bluetooth):
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.medieval.blueftp

[Q] How to change my MAC Address

I have a Galaxy Note running Android version 4.0.3, and I'd like to change its MAC Address at will for tethering, but no matter what method I try, it never works. Does anyone know of a sure way to do it on this phone?

If I'm not mistaken, Mac address is build into the hardware.
*Convince me if I'm wrong.
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You can't change a mac address, it's the hardware signature, as said above. And why would you want to anyway?
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I want to do it so I can connect my 3DS with Streetpass relays, but that requires me to make the phone's address match the relays'. People can do it with other models, so I assumed the same would be possible on the Note, even if the method differs.

There are quite a number of mac address changing apps on play, Not sure if they work with tethering.
Just try a couple of them.
They do require root though.
If not, look up how to do it on linux and use the terminal.
Good luck.

Well, I managed to change the MAC using the terminal, but only on really weird conditions. I had to turn the tethering on, and then send the terminal command after it activated wlan0, but before it finished setting-up the tethering (or else, I'd get a weird signal with both the original MAC address and the target one, that can't connect with anything). So I guess the question now is: is there any way to turn on the tethering using only the terminal?
EDIT: Well, I managed to open the tethering app through the terminal, but is there a way to manipulate it exclusively by using command lines, without the graphical interface ever popping-up?