Has anyone else tried this app?
Im on tnt lite 4.4 and when I connect my gtab freezes.
I had the app working for a couple minutes at most.
Ive tried different browsers, but nothing, next I might try a different rom
and see if that works.
I have to try and use this app because I dont have root on my mobile yet.
Edit: i changed my rom to G harmony v2.4.
It connects but force closes on me, better then freezing up my tablet though.
Works for about five minutes, sometimes it doesnt want to connect at first either.
Edit: using cyanogenmod 7.0.3 this app works.
Currently connected to my mobile.
No freezing or force closes.
Here is the market description
This is a tablet version of the extremely popular PdaNet software. It allows you to share the Internet access of an Android device with another Android device through Bluetooth. You should install this application on both the tablet and the phone. Then run client mode on a tablet and server mode on a phone. No rooting required. Connection speed should be very fast if your phone has good data service. PdaNet works by setting the web proxy server on your tablet and route web requests to a Bluetooth DUN service. That means only applications that use web connections will work. On Honeycomb devices PdaNet supports Browser, Gmail and Map. For Android 2.2/2.3 devices PdaNet only supports the Browser app. We understand this solution is not ideal but it is really the only way to tether an Android tablet due to OS restrictions. This application is completely free and we hope it will be useful to you.
Is your phone not capable of acting as a WiFi hotspot?
999ping said:
Is your phone not capable of acting as a WiFi hotspot?
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No its not unfortunately
Using an lg optimus v. With virgin mobile.
999ping said:
Is your phone not capable of acting as a WiFi hotspot?
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Tethered via WiFi is just one option but I think the whole point was to do it via Bluetooth.
I can't say for sure if BT has a better/stronger connection than WiFi, but it's something I've been yearning to find out.
EL TEJANO said:
Tethered via WiFi is just one option but I think the whole point was to do it via Bluetooth.
I can't say for sure if BT has a better/stronger connection than WiFi, but it's something I've been yearning to find out.
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I probably wouldn't use this if I could tether over wifi though.
This app is beta and on froyo and gingerbread you can only get internet on
Your browser app.
But it's free and I need to root my mobile.
I've been traveling and dont have a computer right now.
I saw it in the market on my Evo, but NOT on my Gtablet. How can I get it from my not rooted Evo to my rooted Viewsonic GTablet?
Can you backup your apps on your phone?
should be able to put it on your sdcard, then transfer it to your gtablet and install.
Just tried it, it pairs but does not connect via bluetooth. I'm rooted as well. From my understanding android had widespread issues connecting via bluetooth as a server/client to another android device.
Using an Apple or Windows based phone I have no issues.
EL TEJANO said:
Just tried it, it pairs but does not connect via bluetooth. I'm rooted as well. From my understanding android had widespread issues connecting via bluetooth as a server/client to another android device.
Using an Apple or Windows based phone I have no issues.
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I had the same problem, i would try it a couple of times to get it to connect.
I used this app on my gtablet and it worked just fine. running Bright Corners with the Clemnsys kernel.
justauser said:
I used this app on my gtablet and it worked just fine. running Bright Corners with the Clemnsys kernel.
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Hi I have tried to get this pda net tablet to run on my gtab forever, it just wont connect to my unrooted dx runnining gingerbread. The best i can get is paired but no connection. I am running clemsyn kernel and cyanogen 7.1.0 rco.
Can anyone tell me how to get it running or suggest another program that will allow me to us my phones data plan that i am already paying for??
thanks in advance for any help !!
I don't suppose anyone knows if PDANet for iphone supports bluetooth? WIFI takes away WAYYYYY too much battery life.
I am wanting to tether my hd8.9 to my phone. I have use zt-180 adhoc switcher on my 1st gen kindle and it worked great. i have tried the same program on the hd 8.9. it doesnt work. error pops up about a file is missing. any one have any ideas. i have searched the treads and came up empty. thanks for any help.
cheif_of_smoke said:
I am wanting to tether my hd8.9 to my phone. I have use zt-180 adhoc switcher on my 1st gen kindle and it worked great. i have tried the same program on the hd 8.9. it doesnt work. error pops up about a file is missing. any one have any ideas. i have searched the treads and came up empty. thanks for any help.
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I had my KFHD 7 working through a iphone. I was using an app called MyWi, but I also used TetherMe and PDANET. I believe PdaNet and TetherMe are both in the play store, maybe give them a try..
Are u going for WiFi tether or usb if WiFi use WiFi tether if phone is rooted certain settings for the setup if u need them and this is the way your trying to go let me know I'll help u set it up
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i plan on using wifi tether. i have a window moblie 6.5 phone. its unlocked and i use wifi router. and i tried the apps you mentioned. they didnt work. any other ideas?
Kindle Fire HD 16gb
I bought a KFHD on ebay, and the wifi option is greyed out in the menu (in the original AmazonOS).
I installed CM10.1 and have android 4.2.2 running....same thing, stuck in "turning on Wi-Fi" mode...
I checked the antenna cable, and scanned the board for any anomalies or damage - it looks very clean.
Battery is full.
Can the chip just go dead on these things, is there any electrical tests that i can try to confirm it?
thanks
Does the Bluetooth not want to turn on as well?
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Bluetooth is working, and everything else about the device seems to function as normal. I'm stumped.
That is weird, I think Bluetooth is on the same chip as WiFi on the kfhd's, try plugging the kindle into your PC with adb enabled and running "adb logcat" and watch the output for any errors when enabling the WiFi, if that still doesn't show anything useful try "adb shell dmesg", it might tell you if the kernel is having errors with the device. I thought this could be related to your boot0 block at first but if Bluetooth works then a I doubt thats the problem. You did wipe system, cache, and dalvik cache and do a factory reset when you flashed cm right?
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I had the same issue when on 7.4.3. Restore to Amazon's android version and make sure you are on 7.4.6, it worked for me. Is there a way to keep TWRP, however. That is the question.
Thanks guys, I'm still stuck.
@stunts503
I've done system wipe, cache and dalvik cache wipe and a factory reset - several times.
I'm not great with the sdk or adb, but i manually installed Catlog and when i try to turn on the Wifi, these are some of the errors I get:
"Unable to change interface settings: java.lang.IllegalStateException: command '61 interface setcfg wlan0 0.0.0.0 0 down' failed '400 61 Failed to set address (No such device)'"
"n180211: Could not configure driver interface"
"could not read interface wlan0 flags: no such device"
"wlan0: Failed to initialize driver interface"
these messages coming from "wpa_supplicant"
@x10knight
I reverted back to amazonOS, and installed 7.4.6 ... problem is still there. no change.
It's like the wifi chip isn't there, but if you're right if infact the bluetooth lives on the same chip, it must be working somehow... unless the bluetooth is a different chip, can't seem to answer that....
the bluetooth works, but also gives an error
"SOCK FLAG = 0"
"SOCK FLAG = 1"
"SOCK FLAG = 3"
not sure where to go from here, maybe i could peel back the RF shielding and take a look? solder splash?
thanks guys
Wow that is weird, I wonder if someone knows exactly why the WiFi isn't showing up, seems like that might be the problem, like the module didn't load up because the device wasn't detected. Interesting... Hopefully someone might know why its doing this. If you know what your doing you could peruse the /dev directory and see if u can even find the WiFi device, think that's the directory on android.
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swjedi101 said:
Kindle Fire HD 16gb
I bought a KFHD on ebay, and the wifi option is greyed out in the menu (in the original AmazonOS).
I installed CM10.1 and have android 4.2.2 running....same thing, stuck in "turning on Wi-Fi" mode...
I checked the antenna cable, and scanned the board for any anomalies or damage - it looks very clean.
Battery is full.
Can the chip just go dead on these things, is there any electrical tests that i can try to confirm it?
thanks
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Have you tried switching the security setting on your router? Also, have your power cycled your router yet? Often times this has been due to the router not playing nice with your KFHD.
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Don't know how to get to /dev right now, will have to look that up.
I don't think this is related to my router in anyway, the kindle just doesn't see the wifi chip at all.
thanks again
OK basically its not loading up the interface, when it can't find wlan0, that means the WiFi interface is missing so a driver hasn't been loaded for it, usually because its not being detected. /dev is a folder on the root of the storage device, you can peruse it with a program like es file explorer, the files you see in that folder aren't actually files, but devices, and you can even query them as if they were files with Linux commands, its a very interesting perspective on seeing your devices compared to windows. Anyways I don't know where to look in the dev directory for the WiFi device offhand, but if its in there then that's a good sign.
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Kindle Fire HD 16gb
I bought a KFHD on ebay, and the wifi option is greyed out in the menu (in the original AmazonOS).
I installed CM10.1 and have android 4.2.2 running....same thing, stuck in "turning on Wi-Fi" mode...
I checked the antenna cable, and scanned the board for any anomalies or damage - it looks very clean.
Battery is full.
Can the chip just go dead on these things, is there any electrical tests that i can try to confirm it?
thanks
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2236511
If you cannot get it working, You might do full restore. I don't know if flashing the original Amazon OS to the second bootloader will suffice. Might need to go full stock and after wifi is working, reroot and so on.
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I have already done a full restore a few times - with no change . thanks for reply.
Go into either an adb shell on your PC, or into a mobile terminal app on your kindle(you will have to side load it), once you have a form of shell up type "netcfg" if it reports wlan0 in the list of interfaces report back with that if not try browsing your file system and see if this folder exists, I believe its the WiFi device folder, but its kinda hard to know for sure because I'm more used to conventional Linux than android so the device paths are a bit different. Anyways check for this path: /sys/class/net/wlan0
If that exists then that either means the physical device is there, or I misunderstood and those are the device files showing up from the driver loading up on mine. Gunna peruse the /sys folder a bit more and see if I find anything noteworthy, I'll report back if I find anything else.
Edit: After some more perusing I think if you type lsmod into the shell, if you see a module in the list called "bcmdhd", then that I think is the Linux driver module for the device, if that's not loaded up we know another part of the problem.
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types in netcfg, i do not get any wlan0 mention, only a list of (lo, ifb0, ifb1, tun10,sit0,ip6tn10) all of them then say DOWN, except for lo, which says UP and has an address.
the command "ismod" doesn't seem to work..... after googling i tried 'insmod' incase thats what you mean, which only reports
"usage: insmod <module.o>"
thanks again, this has been informative.
also, i navigated to /sys/class/net/ and wlan0 does not exist...
I'm thinking this is a hardware issue, i may peel back the RF shielding and take a look at it...
That wasn't an I it was a lowercase L. But yea it seems like a hardware problem I'm thinking, don't known how that happens... Still try running lsmod again and see if you see what i mentioned. If you can't fix the hardware, maybe when/if hashcode ever gets otg working you could use a WiFi dongle. xD
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sorry, i'm a dingus. always wanted to learn linux, maybe a good time to start.
put in lsmod, and got:
bcmhd 319072 0 - Live 0x00000000
atmel_mxt_ts 18503 0 - Live 0x00000000
pvrsrvkm_sgx540_120 308606 60 - Live 0x00000000
Well that's weird to say the least, I think the WiFi driver is loaded, unless that is the Bluetooth driver. I wish there was a lscpi command for android, but even if there was, it would be pointless because I am pretty sure mobile devices don't have a PCI bus. I mean obviously there is no PCI slot, but some times integrated things are on a PCI bus.
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i see what you're saying. I'm going to swap out with another board i've got (bad ESN).
thanks for your help, i'm stumped.
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i see what you're saying. I'm going to swap out with another board i've got (bad ESN).
thanks for your help, i'm stumped.
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I have same issue on a FK2. Reading through threads led me to think it could be software related. I'll pull dmesg to see where driver is loaded in bootup. I do show a MAC in the idme, but not on the kindle screen.
UPDATE: Walked through trying to setup wifi manualy, no device found. Did find another thread mentioning same issues after Kitkat update. User wiped System and wifi worked afterwards. I'll give it a try tonight to find out if its a software issue.
Hi, i have a simple question, iv flashed / rooted, put FireFlash on my new gen fire tablet, but the " tethering via usb" is missing on the menu,
Even after instaling aps from android store, all of them basicly open up the menu where " tethering via usb " should be, but this option is missing, i only have the possibility to turn my device to an hotspot, but i would like to connect my laptop to my device and use internet wifi from the fire tablet
if u have any solution
rezre said:
Hi, i have a simple question, iv flashed / rooted, put FireFlash on my new gen fire tablet, but the " tethering via usb" is missing on the menu,
Even after instaling aps from android store, all of them basicly open up the menu where " tethering via usb " should be, but this option is missing, i only have the possibility to turn my device to an hotspot, but i would like to connect my laptop to my device and use internet wifi from the fire tablet
if u have any solution
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You made no mention of ROM. Regardless, I don't believe that capability is baked into the stock (Amazon) kernel.
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You made no mention of ROM. Regardless, I don't believe that capability is baked into the stock (Amazon) kernel.
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Thanks alot, that what i thought
its kinda stupd since u can use it as an hot spot but not use it via usb
smh amazon
rezre said:
Thanks alot, that what i thought
its kinda stupd since u can use it as an hot spot but not use it via usb
smh amazon
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Build/priced as an inexpensive, captive shopping portal - not a generic, full featured Android gizmo. Amazing what *can* be done given the restrictions Amazon could have imposed.