For some reason, the HTC One mobile hotspot is not providing DNS information to any connected device.
I get internet ONLY if I use ROM Toolbox Lite to manually set the DNS on the other Android device I'm connected too. Connecting a Windows PC to the mobile hotspot has the same issue, where a DNS server cannot be found. Manually changing the DNS server allows me to connect.
It's super annoying, and I don't really have a fix other than software on the connected device to modify the DNS to Google's 8.8.8.8.
Is this an APN issue, ROM issue or device issue?
Network: Rogers LTE
ROM: Viper 2.6.0
Radio: Stock
Kernel: Elemental 3.11
I think its fair that I bump this. I haven't found a solution yet.
Hi guys,
I only noticed it recently, when I have VPN session running on my mobile, I lose the access to my home network and can't see Chromecast. It only started when I upgraded my HTC One to KitKat, it was not an issue before. Is there a setting or something obvious that I am missing here? I am running OpenVPN app, but also tried the commercial one HMA with the same problem.
Hope someone can help.
jasenko said:
Hi guys,
I only noticed it recently, when I have VPN session running on my mobile, I lose the access to my home network and can't see Chromecast. It only started when I upgraded my HTC One to KitKat, it was not an issue before. Is there a setting or something obvious that I am missing here? I am running OpenVPN app, but also tried the commercial one HMA with the same problem.
Hope someone can help.
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Usually VPN clients have the option to not route certain traffic through the VPN. Configuring to not route Chromecast through the VPN should leave Chromecast visible unless there's also some multicast discovery being filtered out by the VPN as well.
I had to go through a very advanced setup on my firewall to get the cc to cast on my same network but use the VPN at the same time..
Hint: ISP redundancy.
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The way I did it was have two routers - one with a Roku and the other a Chromecast. The Router with the Chromecast has a US DNS and the other stays as a Canadian address. Works well. Though I do occasionally forget how it is set up. But between them I can work around most Geo Issues.
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bhiga said:
Usually VPN clients have the option to not route certain traffic through the VPN. Configuring to not route Chromecast through the VPN should leave Chromecast visible unless there's also some multicast discovery being filtered out by the VPN as well.
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So please any advice how to configure VPN client on android device and/or router (I have dlink dir-635)?
I have to connect on device with my company VPN and possibilty casting to my TV would be vey very usefull.
jasenko said:
Hi guys,
I only noticed it recently, when I have VPN session running on my mobile, I lose the access to my home network and can't see Chromecast. It only started when I upgraded my HTC One to KitKat, it was not an issue before. Is there a setting or something obvious that I am missing here? I am running OpenVPN app, but also tried the commercial one HMA with the same problem.
Hope someone can help.
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try using VPNROOT.
I've got an unlocked AT&T Nexus 6 running on Verizon. My plan includes tethering. The phone is running stock, so I can get OTAs.
I can enable tethering, and it starts after the provisioning check. I can connect my computer via wifi successfully, however DNS doesn't work, so nothing loads. If I manually change the dns settings on my computer to 8.8.8.8 or some other public DNS everything works fine.
I've googled a bit, and found some bug reports here and there for other lollipop devices having the same issue, but I've been unable to find a resolution other than manual DNS settings on every device.
Is anyone aware of a fix for this? I'd expect google to jump on this before too long.
Nevermind, it seems to be working fine now. I'm not sure what caused the problem for me.
I have been doing research on this and it turns out that the Nexus 6 had issues with corporate wifi on 5.0. Corporate wifi is just wifi that requires a username and password to access if you do not know and this is the kind of wifi my college uses. Well hoping this problem would be fixed with 5.1 update I got the update and am still having the same issue it verifies the network but only says saved never connects however many tries it does its just a huge loop and this is getting very annoying. I dont know if there is something I should try to resolve this problem or will just have to stick it out until google addresses it. If anyone knows more about this issue please inform me because I have reached a wall with my research on this issue.
Yeah, ever since I updated to 5.1 I haven't been able to connect either, and I try through the Xpress Connect app like and it never works. I had been able to connect normally when I was on 5.0.1 before.
ItsRhody said:
I have been doing research on this and it turns out that the Nexus 6 had issues with corporate wifi on 5.0. Corporate wifi is just wifi that requires a username and password to access if you do not know and this is the kind of wifi my college uses. Well hoping this problem would be fixed with 5.1 update I got the update and am still having the same issue it verifies the network but only says saved never connects however many tries it does its just a huge loop and this is getting very annoying. I dont know if there is something I should try to resolve this problem or will just have to stick it out until google addresses it. If anyone knows more about this issue please inform me because I have reached a wall with my research on this issue.
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Hm, my cable company offers local WiFi and I've been able to connect to their userid/password-required routers, then use their network. Did this just a couple days ago when signal in a particular store was really hampered.
Maybe it depends on the particular router and/or configuration they use?
- ooofest
We had to update firmware on our corporate router for the problem to go away.
See my post here for more details: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=59682044&postcount=12
LEAP authentication.
Try installing the hydra kernel.
I use it along with meanpop and have no problems connecting to LEAP
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Hm, my cable company offers local WiFi and I've been able to connect to their userid/password-required routers, then use their network. Did this just a couple days ago when signal in a particular store was really hampered.
Maybe it depends on the particular router and/or configuration they use?
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By username and password I meant one that the company or school gives you individually its not the kind of regular router login because at home I connect no issues but its the school wifi they even checked my account to make sure I wasnt blocked out of it and I was not. My fault for not being specific in the original post.
In my case N6 was able to connect to one password protected SSID without an issue, the subnet associated with this SSID is dedicated to provide internet access only.
The SSID N6 was having problem to authenticate with, was another SSID, whose subnet is bridged to provide access to both internet, and to corporate network.
According to Dell support, the Sonicwall router was failing to authenticate a connection coming through a bridged interface. I guess, N6 and/or Android 5.1 implements something new vis-a-vis authentication, that an older SonicWall firmware was not designed to deal with.
Immediately after SonicWall firmware update the problem was resolved.
Just wanted to chime in on this one... We have a corporate Wi-Fi as you describe (each user has a separate logon to the network) and I've not had any problems with Lollipop, 5.0 or 5.1. Not very helpful for you, but at least now you know it can work...
Nokia 7plus India version. Not rooted. Have been encountering issues with certain apps over WiFi as the app doesn't load data on wifi just keeps attempting to load content. Twitter, Amazon, Instagram, yahoomail, all have issues. All of these apps work perfect on mobile data. But apps like whatsapp, kaspersk,flipkart, you tube, all browsers work well with WiFi as well as mobile data. So nothing wrong with WiFi as such. MAY month update from Nokia had this corrected, but June update brought the issue back. Currently on August security patch, continue to have the same problem . Anyone else facing same issue? Any fixes? Saw some comments in net from users encountering same problem
Unfortunately i'm tired of this problem as well
I am also facing the said issue in twitter and plx app when connected to wi-fi
Looks like it's common issue across Nokia devices. Shocking.
'Search WiFi issues with Nokia' on Google. So many people facing the issue and Nokia hasn't fixed it yet.
I am having the same issue on Android Pie beta. I tried the following to resolve the issue but it still persists!
1. Hard Reset my phone through recovery.
2. Hard and Soft Reset my Wifi Router.
3. Updated Wifi router firmware.
4. Reinstalled all the apps which were not working on Wifi.
5. Cleared Cache and Storage of these apps.
6. Changed Wifi router settings to IPV4 instead of IPV6.
7. Reverted back to Oreo 8.1 (updated upto July Security Patch)
8. Checked if these apps work on other phones on the same Wifi settings and found that it works perfectly!
None of these helped. In the end I have to shift to mobile data to check out these apps and its annoying!
Any other suggestions other than the ones i have tried above?
Learn going back to April security patch solves it. By the way how did u go back to June security patch?
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Learn going back to April security patch solves it. By the way how did u go back to June security patch?
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I did when I reverted back to Oreo 8.1. After that I got 2 OTAs consecutively before I could even setup the phone upto June Security Patch. And then updated to July the next day. But the issue persists after the various updates.
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Nokia 7plus India version. Not rooted. Have been encountering issues with certain apps over WiFi as the app doesn't load data on wifi just keeps attempting to load content. Twitter, Amazon, Instagram, yahoomail, all have issues. All of these apps work perfect on mobile data. But apps like whatsapp, kaspersk,flipkart, you tube, all browsers work well with WiFi as well as mobile data. So nothing wrong with WiFi as such. MAY month update from Nokia had this corrected, but June update brought the issue back. Currently on August security patch, continue to have the same problem . Anyone else facing same issue? Any fixes? Saw some comments in net from users encountering same problem
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After a lot of research into trying to understand the issues that I was seeing, I finally figured out that this was a IPv6 related issue. As it happens, in my case, it turned out that my router was causing the issue and not the phone itself. Please note that you may be seeing either the same issue or you may have completely different issue, but I hope the description below will give you some clues and directions that you may want to investigate.
The primary issue was that my router was returning a bad IPv6 address whenever a device connected over WiFi. I figured this out by running network diagnostics using the Netalyzr app from the Play store. When connected thru WiFi, this app reported a bad IPv6 address, but when connected thru a 4G LTE connection, it didn't report that as a problem. As a secondary check, I also used the IPv6 status widget to verify the network status when connect thru either of the connections. Again, this clearly showed that my phone was only on IPv4 when connected via WiFi, but was on IPv6 when connected vi 4G LTE.
Net, Net (no pun intended), some apps on the phone refused to work via the IPv4 address and required a working IPv6 address to work. Others were probably more tolerant and would fall back to work via IPv4 when they found a bad IPv6 address on the phone. Not sure if the apps should be made tolerant or the phone networking should be tolerant enough to do the IPv4 fallback for all apps. This is something that Nokia could investigate as a possible issue in the firmware.
Anyway, subsequently I checked many IPv6 related settings on my VDSL router (DLINK-224), but couldn't resolve the issue myself. I ended up calling my ISP (Airtel) and asking them about their support for IPv6. Initially, they claimed to support it, but later confirmed that for now, they don't support IPv6 for broadband connections. However, they sent over a technician who was extremely helpful and for no obvious reason, replaced my DLINK router with Huawei HG630. Again, for reasons not clear to me, this router started giving valid IPv6 addresses whenever a device connected over WiFi. My guess is that internally, its doing some IPv6 to IPv4 translation or tunneling, but at least the IPv6 address it was giving out were valid and working. Of course, as soon as my phone got a working IPv6 address, all those misbehaving apps started working and I have no issues any more. Interestingly, after the router change, ipv6-test.com tests now shows DNS6+IPV4 as reachable, even though it clearly shows IPv6 connectivity as 'NOT SUPPORTED'. In any case, as long as all my apps work well over both WiFi and 4G, I am a happy camper !
If you folks are still seeing these issues, please try the apps and sites I have linked above and see if you have the same issues. If so, you may be able to find a resolution thru your CSP or may be able to resolve the IPv6 address issue another way. All the best !
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After a lot of research into trying to understand the issues that I was seeing, I finally figured out that this was a IPv6 related issue. As it happens, in my case, it turned out that my router was causing the issue and not the phone itself. Please note that you may be seeing either the same issue or you may have completely different issue, but I hope the description below will give you some clues and directions that you may want to investigate.
The primary issue was that my router was returning a bad IPv6 address whenever a device connected over WiFi. I figured this out by running network diagnostics using the Netalyzr app from the Play store. When connected thru WiFi, this app reported a bad IPv6 address, but when connected thru a 4G LTE connection, it didn't report that as a problem. As a secondary check, I also used the IPv6 status widget to verify the network status when connect thru either of the connections. Again, this clearly showed that my phone was only on IPv4 when connected via WiFi, but was on IPv6 when connected vi 4G LTE.
Net, Net (no pun intended), some apps on the phone refused to work via the IPv4 address and required a working IPv6 address to work. Others were probably more tolerant and would fall back to work via IPv4 when they found a bad IPv6 address on the phone. Not sure if the apps should be made tolerant or the phone networking should be tolerant enough to do the IPv4 fallback for all apps. This is something that Nokia could investigate as a possible issue in the firmware.
Anyway, subsequently I checked many IPv6 related settings on my VDSL router (DLINK-224), but couldn't resolve the issue myself. I ended up calling my ISP (Airtel) and asking them about their support for IPv6. Initially, they claimed to support it, but later confirmed that for now, they don't support IPv6 for broadband connections. However, they sent over a technician who was extremely helpful and for no obvious reason, replaced my DLINK router with Huawei HG630. Again, for reasons not clear to me, this router started giving valid IPv6 addresses whenever a device connected over WiFi. My guess is that internally, its doing some IPv6 to IPv4 translation or tunneling, but at least the IPv6 address it was giving out were valid and working. Of course, as soon as my phone got a working IPv6 address, all those misbehaving apps started working and I have no issues any more. Interestingly, after the router change, ipv6-test.com tests now shows DNS6+IPV4 as reachable, even though it clearly shows IPv6 connectivity as 'NOT SUPPORTED'. In any case, as long as all my apps work well over both WiFi and 4G, I am a happy camper !
If you folks are still seeing these issues, please try the apps and sites I have linked above and see if you have the same issues. If so, you may be able to find a resolution thru your CSP or may be able to resolve the IPv6 address issue another way. All the best !
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Thank you for the detailed analysis and your work around! I tried to change the required settings on my Dlink DSL 2750u router. I even tried to disable IPV6. But somehow it gets turned on automatically. I think its a problem with the router as you mentioned perfectly. I have contacted my ISP (BSNL) for some support, but I doubt they could help. Now only Instagram wont work. Even I reverted back to stable 8.1 with August Security Patch but still it wont work.