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Can I Use a Hero Without Activating It?

I have a quick question hopefully somebody can answer.
I want to pick up a used HTC Hero (I found a good deal on one) but don't want to activate it to my cellular account. The only thing I want to do is use it on a Wi-Fi network for software testing. Can the Hero be used without first activating it to my cellular account (I know some phones such as the Pre pretty much require the phone to be activated to an account the first time you start it up from a factory reset)?
Thanks in advance.

ChristopherBurg said:
I have a quick question hopefully somebody can answer.
I want to pick up a used HTC Hero (I found a good deal on one) but don't want to activate it to my cellular account. The only thing I want to do is use it on a Wi-Fi network for software testing. Can the Hero be used without first activating it to my cellular account (I know some phones such as the Pre pretty much require the phone to be activated to an account the first time you start it up from a factory reset)?
Thanks in advance.
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Yeah you can use it without activating it. Only thing is it's gonna ask you if you wanna activate it pretty much everytime you reboot it (just click cancel). There's a way around it but I honestly don't remember off hand.

if you figure out a way to use voice and data without activating please let me know ! id like to save $1200 a year.

Thanks Asadullah.
xjayman said:
if you figure out a way to use voice and data without activating please let me know ! id like to save $1200 a year.
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I'm not going to mess with that at all. I just want a fairly modern Wi-Fi only Android device for testing.

ChristopherBurg said:
Thanks Asadullah.
I'm not going to mess with that at all. I just want a fairly modern Wi-Fi only Android device for testing.
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Yes you cant definately do this I have ag1 one that I use to f around with and its not activated. If you run a custom rom you will not be asked to provision it and even if you are you can do it over wifi. You can use google voice and gmail to make calls with out ever having a phone connection, of course it will only work if you have a wifi connection.
Just google android setup with no service, alot of people have done this with there old g1's

[Q] 3g modem on nook

Hello, I wonder if its possible to put in a 3g modem and use mobile broadband on the nook ?
Please excuse me for bad my bad English

Hardware modification is a lot of work. In most cases it's not even possible.
You are better off tethering to your phone or a hotspot if wifi isn't available...
In my opinion.

k0ng0 said:
Hello, I wonder if its possible to put in a 3g modem and use mobile broadband on the nook ?
Please excuse me for bad my bad English
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Where do you propose to insert the USB 3G device? Maybe once Bluetooth is working there will be a device to add 3g via Bluetooth. But there is not, as far as I know, 3G hardware available on the NC board... yet.
migrax
ps: forgive me if I appear to be a smartass.

k0ng0 said:
Hello, I wonder if its possible to put in a 3g modem and use mobile broadband on the nook ?
Please excuse me for bad my bad English
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I'll make it simpler than the others...
Sorry, no.

Sadly the nook doesn't really have the capacity to add 3G hardware. Some tablets do have full sized USB ports that can physically connect to a USB 3G modem, but there is no built in driver support on those tablets either. Your only real option currently is wifi tether to a 3G phone.

Just in case any of these replies are missing information you need:
1. No, you can't add 3g to the Nook, in fact this is why i love it as a tablet - no extra data plan to pay for
2. BUT you can easily use the nook's wifi to connect to a portable hotspot
3. You could if you wanted buy a portable hotspot (e.g. Mifi, or overdrive), but these come with expensive data plans
4. You can use your regular cellphone. This requires rooting on an android device, and I do not know if this is possible on other platforms. Anyway, I reccommend "wireless tether" as the app to use simply because it can be set up to only communicate with MAC addresses that it approves (it's great being in an airport and seeing all the internet leaches being bounced off your phone's hotspot).
5. If you are super lucky, your phone will operate as an 'infrastructure network', and you can stop reading right now! ;-) However, more than likely, your phone will operate as an "adhoc" network, not an "infrastructure" network. This requires some tweaking of your nook on 2.1 ROMS (there's several threads on this), but is built into 2.2 (which is a major reason to move to Froyo).
6. The ad-hoc fix is a bit buggy, and whatever B&N changed in 1.1 makes this much worse. Again there's several threads describing this. In 1.01 the solution as to use an app to shut down and restart the wifi as the screen shut down or tuned off. BUT THIS DOES NOT FIX THE PROBLEM IN 1.1 AND IF ANYTHING MAKES IT MORE ANNOYING.
7. Basically there is some issue in 1.1 where when the nook wakes, the wifi is on but it may not reconnect to a network until you tell it to. This happens occasionally for the stock wifi, but happens continuously with the ad-hoc fix. The best workaround i have found is to have an app called "wifi buddy" in my dock - then when the machine wakes up if it can't see the network, i just launch wifi buddy and it connects immediately.
Hope that helps

That would be nice, what I do is tether my iPhone to my nook using MiWi. Its fast and reliable

Tether Nook Color to iPhone using PDAnet?
mateo124 said:
That would be nice, what I do is tether my iPhone to my nook using MiWi. Its fast and reliable
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I am using PDAnet on the iPhone. It's free and also offers the option to broadcast a WiFi hotspot. Other iPhones and my laptop see the hotspot but the Nook does not. Has anyone tried that yet?

Found the answer!
Ad-hoc fix for tethering
I found a great guide to use PDAnet (free version) for tethering the NC with my iPhone 3Gs. Hooray for this awesome forum!

If you could somehow get the SoC from the Droid X in there... it might be remotely possible. But the time and effort required would make this a purely "did it to say I did" type of hack.
Save your duckets and get a real tablet when the dual cores get affordable.

cal3thousand said:
Save your duckets and get a real tablet when the dual cores get affordable.
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I AM trying to get a real tablet... it's just that it's hard to find the perfect one

cal3thousand said:
Save your duckets and get a real tablet when the dual cores get affordable.
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Or, while waiting a year for that to happen, buy a NC that will do 90% of what that one will do now for half that price.
/shrug
It's your choice.

[Q] Can i buy a CDMA version and use it as wifi only?

Hello everyone,
I apologize in advance is this is a dumb question, i did my best searching but was unable to find an answer clear enough for me (being a noob to android tablets) to understand.
Currently i have the option to purchase a CDMA Galaxy tab 7" very cheap. I don't intent to activate it in any carrier and would only be using Wifi with the tablet.
Is this possible?
Any drawbacks of doing this compared to using a Wifi only tablet?
Can it be rooted like the Wifi only models and custom roms installed?
Thanks a lot.

Apoc2k said:
Hello everyone,
I apologize in advance is this is a dumb question, i did my best searching but was unable to find an answer clear enough for me (being a noob to android tablets) to understand.
Currently i have the option to purchase a CDMA Galaxy tab 7" very cheap. I don't intent to activate it in any carrier and would only be using Wifi with the tablet.
Is this possible?
Any drawbacks of doing this compared to using a Wifi only tablet?
Can it be rooted like the Wifi only models and custom roms installed?
Thanks a lot.
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There are a lot of us that picked up the Sprint Tab refurb, and use it solely on wifi.. all you have to do is put it in airplane mode, and turn the wifi back on..

Oh great, thanks a lot for the reply. I think ill go ahead and buy it tomorrow.
Would it be possible to flash with a Wifi only ROM and just forget about the CDMA capabilities of the tablet?

Apoc2k said:
Oh great, thanks a lot for the reply. I think ill go ahead and buy it tomorrow.
Would it be possible to flash with a Wifi only ROM and just forget about the CDMA capabilities of the tablet?
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Nope. Can't do that.

You can run your tab with airplane mode turned on and with wi-fi only running. This will achieve exactly what you want and maximize battery life as well.

You can also just hold the power button until the menu pops up and select deactivate data instead of airplane mode. There are apps that need to find location such as maps and weather programs. If you tether on wifi while outside or driving, and you want to use GPS program, you're going to need to be tethered and have GPS on and have data disabled but still hearing the tower. Having it on assists the GPS to lock and get coordinates and map data. You're not using data for internet, you're using data in conjunction with GPS to have things like Google maps and say MapQuest or GPS testing programs.
Try getting a GPS lock in airplane mode. I don't think it will work. At first I thought it wasn't working but when I turned off data but allowed data for location purposes, the GPS programs came to life.

Thanks everyone for the information.
One last question before i go ahead and buy the tablet, i'm seeing only a couple custom roms for the CDMA devices, would i miss anything compared to the other models?

Apoc2k said:
Thanks everyone for the information.
One last question before i go ahead and buy the tablet, i'm seeing only a couple custom roms for the CDMA devices, would i miss anything compared to the other models?
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Not really. Ive tried out the ones that are available for CDMA and I dont see the advantage.
Its personal preference though. It might be important to you (and its definitely important to others)
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[Q] Extending Wifi

First of all I'd like to apologize if this question has been answered.
I did do some searching around but didn't quite trust my finds since they we're on different phones/forums/etc.
My question is:
Is there any possible way to use my phone as a Wifi Extender or something similar?
I am trying to find a way to use my phone as a temporary "mimic router" for use on a different device.
My problem is the device I want to connect only accepts WEP, but I don't want to mess with my current router settings just for 1 or 2 devices.
Can my T-Mo Moto X be used as an extender.
T-Mo Moto X
Version 4.4 (Stock Rooted)

LuciferzRage said:
First of all I'd like to apologize if this question has been answered.
I did do some searching around but didn't quite trust my finds since they we're on different phones/forums/etc.
My question is:
Is there any possible way to use my phone as a Wifi Extender or something similar?
I am trying to find a way to use my phone as a temporary "mimic router" for use on a different device.
My problem is the device I want to connect only accepts WEP, but I don't want to mess with my current router settings just for 1 or 2 devices.
Can my T-Mo Moto X be used as an extender.
T-Mo Moto X
Version 4.4 (Stock Rooted)
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Why not just use wireless tether? I think that should be sufficient. also I'm sure you know but making your phone tether or an access point kills the battery. You should just bite the bullet.. upgrade those wifi settings!! lol

drago10029 said:
Why not just use wireless tether? I think that should be sufficient. also I'm sure you know but making your phone tether or an access point kills the battery. You should just bite the bullet.. upgrade those wifi settings!! lol
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I only have this phone for calls, barely got any Data service on it, maybe 500mb. I got a SGH-T989 also looking into making that as a temp "router"

LuciferzRage said:
I only have this phone for calls, barely got any Data service on it, maybe 500mb. I got a SGH-T989 also looking into making that as a temp "router"
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I see. hmmmm.... well a quick google search just showed me some potential solutions for you. maybe give those a read and maybe you'll have your answer
p.s. some android phone can USB tether a wireless network they're connected too when a SIM card is removed or if you place a non working SIM card in.
Hope you get those devices connected! :laugh:

drago10029 said:
I see. hmmmm.... well a quick google search just showed me some potential solutions for you. maybe give those a read and maybe you'll have your answer
p.s. some android phone can USB tether a wireless network they're connected too when a SIM card is removed or if you place a non working SIM card in.
Hope you get those devices connected! :laugh:
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Hmmm, that sounds interesting, gonna give it a shot. :laugh:

Text and SMS display via bluetooth

Looking for opinions and suggestions for enabling texts and SMS messages to display on the MTCB unit while driving. What, if anything are you guys using?
I searched around already, and found one thread where someone was using tasker and other functions to get messages displayed on the unit from their phone, but that solution didn't appear to be very reliable.
Is there an app that everyone is using? Or am I just late to the party? lol
I realize quite a few of you are using 3G connections with your MTCB, so this conversation is more geared towards those utilizing their Bluetooth only phone connection.

thewesman said:
I realize quite a few of you are using 3G connections with your MTCB, so this conversation is more geared towards those utilizing their Bluetooth only phone connection.
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Even using a 3G/4G dongle cannot solve the SMS reception problem because these SMS are normally sent to the phone number, not to the 3G/4G SIM number. At most the dongle can be used to send SMS.
ATM no easy solution to this problem (and for social networks use too).

Have you looked at Tablet Talk? I'm not sure it would work over BT since the BT in these devices is locked down, but I believe there is also the option of using Wifi.

The other thread was mine and I was looking for the same thing
As mentioned above, I don't think it's actually possible with these units since it seems the Bluetooth is locked down. Can't remember the specific details but I'm sure it's to do with the Bluetooth service that handles the messages.
I could be wrong though but I know its not possible with tasker anyway and I don't think tablet talk works with Bluetooth cause I looked into that too. At the moment the way I do it is through data which as you say isn't quite as reliable
If you find anything though let me know

dc5daft said:
The other thread was mine and I was looking for the same thing
As mentioned above, I don't think it's actually possible with these units since it seems the Bluetooth is locked down. Can't remember the specific details but I'm sure it's to do with the Bluetooth service that handles the messages.
I could be wrong though but I know its not possible with tasker anyway and I don't think tablet talk works with Bluetooth cause I looked into that too. At the moment the way I do it is through data which as you say isn't quite as reliable
If you find anything though let me know
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That's why I started this thread, to see if anyone had made any breakthroughs since your initial post. I went ahead and wasted the money on Tablet Talk, and I can confirm that the Bluetooth connection is the issue (Error Code:1) with our units. This seems like such a basic feature that Android would be capable of... my wife's Jeep does it automatically in Uconnect.
One thing I was considering trying with TabletTalk is to go into the factory settings, with the 126 password, and toggle around the Bluetooth type the unit is currently using. I know saving anything in this menu will effectively reset my unit, unless I save settings in Xposed, so I need a block of time to try it that I don't have right now. If it would even make a difference.

thewesman said:
That's why I started this thread, to see if anyone had made any breakthroughs since your initial post. I went ahead and wasted the money on Tablet Talk, and I can confirm that the Bluetooth connection is the issue (Error Code:1) with our units. This seems like such a basic feature that Android would be capable of... my wife's Jeep does it automatically in Uconnect.
One thing I was considering trying with TabletTalk is to go into the factory settings, with the 126 password, and toggle around the Bluetooth type the unit is currently using. I know saving anything in this menu will effectively reset my unit, unless I save settings in Xposed, so I need a block of time to try it that I don't have right now. If it would even make a difference.
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That's a good idea actually! If I get some free time I'll have a go