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So I've flashed almost every rom on xda, and I can never seem to get my mobile ap working, though my usb tethering works. Laptops recognize my phone, but can't seem to connect to the network. Are there some settings I need to configure? I just feel like I'm missing something simple.
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Never ever worked for me anyway. I just use the 'Wireless Tether' free app from the market. Works like a charm.
The first thing to try is to connect as an open connection - no security. See if any other device (even another phone) can connect and see any evidence of an internet connection.
I had troubles with the secure connections on the first ROM I tried, but later was able to connect with both Serendipity 5 and Paragon 6. Although it won't connect all the time. Sometimes, the security process will just hang up, and I'll have to cancel and try again. After going on and off a few times, I may even need a reboot. But that only happens on the secure version, not when it is set as open.
Hmm. One last thought. Is your laptop by any chance set to a dedicated IP address. I've seen that issue more than once with my laptops and phone. For various reasons, it is occasionally necessary to go with a static IP. Perhaps you left your laptop that way.
Short Story: Is there anyway to make the nexus start working without WiFi?
Long Story: Sherman, set the Way-Back Machine for about a month ago. So there I was the day of the Google I/O conference refreshing the google play store over and over again until the moment I could order my Nexus 7. Needless to say I ordered it the minute I could. Today I recieved my Nexus 7. It took a while to get here. I picked it up from the mailroom three hours ago. I let it charge and turned it on. First screen asks for my country. Second screen says searching for WiFi. And there I sit because , I don't have WiFi. Is there a workaround for this? Or do I have a $250 paperweight, until I get home later this year?
I can't be the only one with this problem.
Resources available to me:
1) I have a laptop that is connected to very slow internet (ethernet, not wireless). It has USB ports, but I don't think theres a way to share internet through USB. I can not attach a wifi router to this network.
2) I have WiFi where I sleep, but I need to open a browser and put in a username and password to log in. I don't think that will work because I can't get to the web browser part of this.
My last resort is to mail it back home to have family activate it and then mail it back to me. Kind of absurd. Anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks,
Josh
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ATTN TROLLS: before replying and looking stupid, make sure to read the whole thread. The problem has been resolved. I even explained how I resolved it for other people with potentially the same problem. I have also clearly explained why I bought the Nexus 7. A tablet is a tablet. Without WiFi it still lets me read books, play games, do Sudoku puzzles, and watch episodes that I bring back on a USB thumb drive. I used it to replace my Nook Color running CM7. I have enough WiFi back in my room to browse the web and check my email.
Thanks to everyone that offered constructive help.
To the trolls, I hope you get pushed down a slide of razors into a pool of acid.
Does the laptop ha e wifi, if so you can share the wired internet connection wirelessly via connnectify
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Go to Starbucks or McDonalds, Lol
You wouldn't happen to have a neighbor with an open network you could leach off of do you?
That seems like a serious oversight if this is the case.
If you have Windows 7: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/9739/turn-your-windows-7-laptop-into-a-wifi-hotspot-with-connectify/
gijosh28 said:
Anyone have any suggestions?
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Find and use some nearby wi-fi ?
hullbay said:
Go to Starbucks or McDonalds, Lol
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This, seems easy enough. Go get a coffee
Well, if you are rooted (should be able to root without setting up) then you can just kill the 'setup', process through adb on your pc. You could also try to flash a ROM without that set up process. Like CM
I thought this when I was setting up my tablet and wondered when would happen if someone didn't have wi fi available immediately.
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Well, if you are rooted (should be able to root without setting up) then you can just kill the 'setup', process through adb on your pc. You could also try to flash a ROM without that set up process. Like CM
I thought this when I was setting up my tablet and wondered when would happen if someone didn't have wi fi available immediately.
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Or this. But hey, go grab a coffee, then root.
I had wifi and it still couldn't detect it when i turned it on! I panicked and i sat there at the first screen bevause there was no option to manually enter wifi settings. My network has secure and ssid off, but couldn't even see neighbours (ssid on).
But I tethered insecure net from phone to get past first screen. Should be able to borrow a friend's internet this way, it doesn't download much.
I have no idea how you plan to use the n7 w/o wifi, at least during setup, it is in terms of service...
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Not sure if this still works, but you used to be able to bypass activation by touching all four corners of the device. Top left, top right, bottom right, and bottom left.
I tried the four corners thing. It didn't work. Unfortunately there are no McDonalds or Starbucks near me. I only have these two networks to work with. I bough it to replace my Nook (CM7), which I use to watch episodes of TV shows. I bring the mSD card to work, and put episodes on it, then bring it back to the room and watch them till I fall asleep. With the Nexus I was intent on copying my episodes over through the ethernet cable by day, and taking it back to the room to watch them at night. I guess I'll have to keep watching my shows on my Nook. Sucks. New toy is useless.
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Does the laptop ha e wifi, if so you can share the wired internet connection wirelessly via connnectify
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This would work. Unfortunately I can't connect anything wireless to this network. I might try to sneak this solution. This is the second to last resort. Thanks for the advice/idea!
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Well, if you are rooted (should be able to root without setting up) then you can just kill the 'setup', process through adb on your pc. You could also try to flash a ROM without that set up process. Like CM
I thought this when I was setting up my tablet and wondered when would happen if someone didn't have wi fi available immediately.
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I haven't seen any instructions on how to root the device prior to initializing it. Is it possible?
Thanks,
Josh
gijosh28 said:
I tried the four corners thing. It didn't work. Unfortunately there are no McDonalds or Starbucks near me. I only have these two networks to work with. I bough it to replace my Nook (CM7), which I use to watch episodes of TV shows. I bring the mSD card to work, and put episodes on it, then bring it back to the room and watch them till I fall asleep. With the Nexus I was intent on copying my episodes over through the ethernet cable by day, and taking it back to the room to watch them at night. I guess I'll have to keep watching my shows on my Nook. Sucks. New toy is useless.
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I take it u can't skip the sign in like on phones, if u have no way of getting on a wifi network, you can possibly try to kill the setup process via adb...its not really a google oversight, its 2012 WiFi networks are rather easy to find.
I guess I'm just lucky enough to be where they aren't easy to find.
I just tether from my phone
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I have no cell phone coverage here. Although I might be able to use my cell phone to connect to the wireless back at the room, use the cell phone web browser to log on, then tether it to my Nexus. That might work. I'll try that tonight.
gijosh28 said:
Short Story: Is there anyway to make the nexus start working without WiFi?
Long Story: Sherman, set the Way-Back Machine for about a month ago. So there I was the day of the Google I/O conference refreshing the google play store over and over again until the moment I could order my Nexus 7. Needless to say I ordered it the minute I could. Today I recieved my Nexus 7. It took a while to get here. I picked it up from the mailroom three hours ago. I let it charge and turned it on. First screen asks for my country. Second screen says searching for WiFi. And there I sit because , I don't have WiFi. Is there a workaround for this? Or do I have a $250 paperweight, until I get home later this year?
I can't be the only one with this problem.
Resources available to me:
1) I have a laptop that is connected to very slow internet (ethernet, not wireless). It has USB ports, but I don't think theres a way to share internet through USB. I can not attach a wifi router to this network.
2) I have WiFi where I sleep, but I need to open a browser and put in a username and password to log in. I don't think that will work because I can't get to the web browser part of this.
My last resort is to mail it back home to have family activate it and then mail it back to me. Kind of absurd. Anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks,
Josh
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use a WIFI dongle to attach to your laptop. make it a hotspot using "connectify" software and connect your nexus to it. your laptop must have internet access.
setup aside, how did you plan on managing files etc on the n7 long term without wifi?
Seems there are other products more suited to your needs if you aren't going to use any online or network features.
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Many times I open google play and it says no connection retry, I just keep hitting retry and it usually works. On youtube however the same issue arises and I press retry and it does nothing, it says there's still no connection. I believe this is a wifi issue as I switched on my 4g and the video loaded just fine. Also sometimes on my PC I get some error that google doesn't have a valid certificate so I don't know if that's part of the problem as well. How can I fix it? Are there some router settings I should change?
Exact same problem here. For me it happens on wifi and normal data. .
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2290611
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b3ndech0 said:
Exact same problem here. For me it happens on wifi and normal data. .
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2290611
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I have the same issue and cant find a solution or at least the reason for it
I had the same problem and I think upon reading something in here, I deactivated the Autosync feature and couldn't replicate the problem. However, that was the source of another problem detected afterwards, as it would not push notifications to weather/mail/Blinkfeed. I would've thought having AutoSync on syncs everything under accounts by the default settings and having it off, you could manually set the sync for accounts separately and they would still work, but I haven't been able to set things up so as to avoid both issues. It's probably fixable by these means, though.
approaxamitely one a day for the last week since i cant back to clolrado after buying my CC in California and sice i have its been nothing but problems all seemingly network realted
the first issue was the chromecast was asking for a different IP then it was getting that was fixed by just assigning it that IP
since doing that about once a day i need to unplug and re plug in my uncles router to get any device to see the Chromecast but the CC sits at thw Ready to Cast screen like nothing is wrong.
is that device related?
or network?
no one?
More info about your problwm
i gave quite a bit
Reset the router.
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I do that daily
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Not just unplug it, hold the rest button down for 30 seconds unplug it. Still holding the button down plug it back in holding the reset button down for 30 seconds.
And / Or go into the routers menu and do a full system reset.
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I noticed that if I open an app while not on my home network and then background it, then if I launch the app when I return to the network, it usually will not have the cast icon. This is fixed by killing the app from the backgrounded app list (soft button that looks like two rectangles on jellybean, not sure what it is really called) and then relaunch.
One time this did not fix it. My router was the issue though and preventing my devices from seeing the chromecast. I reset the router using the routers reset button. After the reset, everything worked great.
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Hi Folks,
I got in on the gold rush and got a chromecast from my local bestbuy. The thing works beautifully and flawlessly for streaming you tube and chrome tabs, bute when it cones to casting netflix....thats when all hell breaks loose....
No matter what device laptops (win7 and 8), phone (android), tablet (android)....while casting netflix the chromecast is stuck on the initial red loading screen and best of all takes my network down....till i unplug the chromecast!
So now, not only am i stuck with a chromecast that does not cast netflix but resetting my router over and over again everytime I try casting netflix.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thank you.
Just FYI: I am using a D-Link DI-524 as the router, 2.4 GHz bandwidth.
Have tried signing out of netflix on every device, then factory resetting the cc, signing back into netflix.
Factory resetting my router, resetting my network, also the modem...... Nothing works!!!!!
Thanks in advance for all those who help.
I'm having the same problem. Only I can actually play a video, for about ten minutes, and then it takes my network down. What it seems to do is, the Chromecast makes it's own network and all my devices try to connect to that instead. I've noticed that toggling airplane mode will make it reconnect to my network, but the problem persists.
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mrminor13 said:
I'm having the same problem. Only I can actually play a video, for about ten minutes, and then it takes my network down. What it seems to do is, the Chromecast makes it's own network and all my devices try to connect to that instead. I've noticed that toggling airplane mode will make it reconnect to my network, but the problem persists.
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Find the "chromecast" network in your network settings for you other devices and click forget network. Then you won't need autolysin mode. Trying to connect to the network Chromecast creates won't help anything. The android Chromecast app will automagically connect to the Chromecast network as needed.
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I've been using the chromecast for about 2 weeks now and this happened today for the first time. (the only diff was that i set a router with DDWRT and VPN set in order to see US netflix content since i'm not in the US)
All you have to do is reboot the chromecast and the issue goes away
(use the android chromecast app to reboot, disconnecting and reconnecting it did not work for me)
Hope this helps you guys:good:
The only issue with rebooting the Chromecast is I'm disconnected from it! So when I attempt to go in to the Chromecast app it says there are no chromecast on the network.
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Problem Solved
Seems that the old router was a problem. I switched out my old D-Link DI-524 with a new Motorola SB-302 and the problem seems to have disappeared!
Still very weird that no issues with youtube or tab casting only netflix wouldnt work!!
But I am a happy camper now :laugh:
rock1206 said:
Seems that the old router was a problem. I switched out my old D-Link DI-524 with a new Motorola SB-302 and the problem seems to have disappeared!
Still very weird that no issues with youtube or tab casting only netflix wouldnt work!!
But I am a happy camper now :laugh:
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I am having the same problem you described with Netflix. I've done some searching online for a fix and tried everything I've found but with no success. My router and modem are both very old (modem 2004, router 2006), so I have ordered some new ones from Amazon, in the hopes that it will fix the issue, since it worked for you. It is strange that Youtube and tab casting work great, just not netflix. I will try to remember to come back to this thread when I have the next equipment and the problem is (hopefully) fixed, so that others may find this solution, too. Enjoy your casting and thanks for posting your solution.
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I am having the same problem you described with Netflix. I've done some searching online for a fix and tried everything I've found but with no success. My router and modem are both very old (modem 2004, router 2006), so I have ordered some new ones from Amazon, in the hopes that it will fix the issue, since it worked for you. It is strange that Youtube and tab casting work great, just not netflix. I will try to remember to come back to this thread when I have the next equipment and the problem is (hopefully) fixed, so that others may find this solution, too. Enjoy your casting and thanks for posting your solution.
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I get the red loading screen on my rooted Nook Color, and it takes forever to start responding on my rooted Gingerbread phone. Win7 computers and WinXP laptop don't have a problem with Netflix. However, there are apparently some shows that won't cast from Chrome tabs. My sister ran into one last night, it sent us to the incompatible technology page. I was able to finally cast it from the phone though.
Did they change the Chromecast network thing? I haven't seen it showing up lately.
schizox said:
I've been using the chromecast for about 2 weeks now and this happened today for the first time. (the only diff was that i set a router with DDWRT and VPN set in order to see US netflix content since i'm not in the US)
All you have to do is reboot the chromecast and the issue goes away
(use the android chromecast app to reboot, disconnecting and reconnecting it did not work for me)
Hope this helps you guys:good:
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Off topic
Would you have a link as to how to setup DDWRT and VPN set in order to see US netflix content. TIA
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joeb690 said:
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Would you have a link as to how to setup DDWRT and VPN set in order to see US netflix content. TIA
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I use strongvpn they have the instructions on the site, it's fairly a simple setup
the netflix in canada thread has the steps for it also, here are the links for both PPTP and OpenVPN setups
http://strongvpn.com/setup_dd-wrt_pptp.shtml
http://www.strongvpn.com/setup_dd-wrt_openvpn.shtml
A friend got it working with unblock-us, for some reason it I was not able to get it to work this way, it would always hang loading the stream at about 45%
hope it helps.
Sorry for necro but did anyone found a solution for this problem yet? I coudnt find anything consecutive in any other threads.. I got netflix geo restrictions passed by mediahint chrome addon, everything is working fine for couple of months now. Today i bought chromecast to enjoy it on my fat ass new big screen and everything (tabs and youtube) is working apart from netflix, which is basically the reason why i bought it. Same problem as all, stuck on red loading screen while netflix on laptop hangs for a while and goes back to the home page.
AZBrauMeister said:
I am having the same problem you described with Netflix. I've done some searching online for a fix and tried everything I've found but with no success. My router and modem are both very old (modem 2004, router 2006), so I have ordered some new ones from Amazon, in the hopes that it will fix the issue, since it worked for you. It is strange that Youtube and tab casting work great, just not netflix. I will try to remember to come back to this thread when I have the next equipment and the problem is (hopefully) fixed, so that others may find this solution, too. Enjoy your casting and thanks for posting your solution.
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Did equipment change help? My router is also pretty old so your update would be very helpful here