How to hack Chromecast so its not looking for internet?? - Google Chromecast

Hi to All, I know this has nothing to do with phones, but there might just be someone here who can solve this anyway
My problem is that I live in an area in th Philippines, where Globe telecom is the only solution for internet, and a very unstable one. Sometimes the speed is all the way down to 80Kbps and sometimes it goes to 0.
This makes using a Chromecast very dificult, it's possible to use when the speed is fine, but a sudden drop in speed sends chromecast in buffering mode. I tried to get Google to help, to no avail - they don't care.
I would like to have it not searching for internet, as 99.9% of the time i use it for internal casting(Offline)!
Anyone have a solution for this?
My Chromecast is 3rd gen. According to this page https://www.techthatworks.net/electronic/what-generation-chromecast-do-i-have and use Firmware(checked that in Home App) 1.49.230269
Hope to hear from you smart people soon as this is driving me nuts, I'm back to use USB stick and not all format are supported, so I have to convert and convert and so on, in order to watch the clips.
Thank you in advance
Jan
Moderator: could you move the thread to the chromecast forum? Thank you

Peppe89 said:
Is it legal?
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Hi Peppe, why would it be illegal, I paid for the device - its mine I just want it to stop looking for the internet all the time, and do what it was bought for -casting.

Not possible, it's a real design flaw of the chromecast. I have slow internet and use it for internal casting too, very frustrating. Maybe get a bluray player or a roku they are better.

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SublimeFoxTheater
seem that Admin can close this one then

Hi, why should it not be possible? port or ipforwarding, tunneling etc? dont know how this device is working... but as its networking.. there should be a kind of way

nox23523 said:
Hi, why should it not be possible? port or ipforwarding, tunneling etc? dont know how this device is working... but as its networking.. there should be a kind of way
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The 3rd gen Chromecast will not boot or function if it can't hit Google's servers at boot. If it looses general internet connection, it will go to a "I've lost my brains" type of screen and not let you do anything. For a Chromecast, the internet connection is sadly required even if you're just mirroring locally.

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Can this be done may sound stupid but oh whatever

Here is the background of my question, I let a co-worker borrow my wireless adaptor for my xbox. No wouldn't it be awesome if you could use your Fuze to connect to the internet via wifi signal for xbox? Or even you wirelss provider (would probably go over 5gig cap though). Hey man that would be a rock solid idea.
buffalosolja42 said:
Here is the background of my question, I let a co-worker borrow my wireless adaptor for my xbox. No wouldn't it be awesome if you could use your Fuze to connect to the internet via wifi signal for xbox? Or even you wirelss provider (would probably go over 5gig cap though). Hey man that would be a rock solid idea.
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already been done , works just fine .
Done works fine???
Can you lead us to this information because I'm curious as well?
Sweeny Russ said:
Can you lead us to this information because I'm curious as well?
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NRG Puts the "WiFi Internet Sharing" application on all of his Roms. But I am sure that you could find it if you searched for it.
@Buffalo Your sig leads me to believe you have NRGZ28's latest Rom. You should be able to go to all programs and find this on the list.
Iamjustian said:
NRG Puts the "WiFi Internet Sharing" application on all of his Roms. But I am sure that you could find it if you searched for it.
@Buffalo Your sig leads me to believe you have NRGZ28's latest Rom. You should be able to go to all programs and find this on the list.
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but how would you then get the signal to the xbox? i didn't think either the 360 or original had a wireless card in it. You would need some type of adapter to go to the xbox that would allow it to connect. If you do find a way, let us know, I don't have a wireless bridge for my xbox, this would be useful.
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but how would you then get the signal to the xbox? i didn't think either the 360 or original had a wireless card in it. You would need some type of adapter to go to the xbox that would allow it to connect. If you do find a way, let us know, I don't have a wireless bridge for my xbox, this would be useful.
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We are saying that you need to have the wireless adapter for the Xbox or the Xbox 360. I have done this with my Wii and it worked fine. I have no idea how much data i used. Is there a program that will log how much data you have used? Thanks
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We are saying that you need to have the wireless adapter for the Xbox or the Xbox 360. I have done this with my Wii and it worked fine. I have no idea how much data i used. Is there a program that will log how much data you have used? Thanks
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Look for Spb GPRS Monitor
I was wondering a way to bypass ms wifi adaptor
I have one already and I have another xbox, I know you can do it with a laptop and crossover cable but, I was just wandering and I am pretty sure that you will go over your internet cap if you played onlilne a good bit.
I send wifi from my phone to my laptop, and then cat5 to the xbox 360 to avoid having to buy the wireless adapter.
I never paid attention to usage though, my data is unlimited.
... but now i'm curious.
I'm curious too..
Anybody can post some usage stats.
OK.
2 hours Online
Data transfered: 351MB
Of which is uploaded data: 124MB
2 hours was about 12 / 13 games of halo 3
also, sat idiling in lobby for a while chatting to some friends in a party.
And - Pulled host in one game - lol
Intermittent Yellow bar Latency, meaning over 150ms to host, but green most of the time.
Not too bad, But if your on a data plan, then unlimited probably does not literally mean unlimited.
Most probably your isp / carrier will have a FUP (Fair usage policy) which will entitle you to a couple of GiB
Also - if your a 3g / hspda user, they can tell when you are tethering, and may not even count it to your bundle allowance.
I know T-Mobile in the uk here, used to not allow tethering, however, when web and walk came out, they changed their stand on that.

[Q] Youtube flaky despite good connection...

So youtube always plays videos fine, but after a video and I go back to the list and pick another video I get this screen (see screenshot) where it says to check my network connection and I have to click retry 1-3 times before it loads the video.
This happens ALL the time. Like 30%-60% of the time I go to click a video. My droid turbo has no problem at all though on the same Wifi network at home sitting on the same couch, about 15-20 feet from a brand new wifi router.
Any ideas what I can do to fix this?
Interestingly my nexus 5 was doing this too... even after a factory reset. (also had lots of trouble with loosing sync with chromcast when casting and/or taking like 30 seconds to load the youtube interface when I turn the phone screen back on when chromecasing something to rewind some or something) I thought it was just cause my nexus 5 was old. But now that I have a brand new nexus 6 doing the same thing (and a droid turbo that doesnt) it feels like it is a nexus issue... which is crazy right? My pure google nexus phones are the ones that have trouble with youtube and chromecasting?!?
I'm curious... could there be some setting where it is not maintaining the wifi connection all the time to save battery or something? So it has to reconnect. If that were the case I would prefer to not save battery and always stay connected to the network.
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I'm curious... could there be some setting where it is not maintaining the wifi connection all the time to save battery or something? So it has to reconnect. If that were the case I would prefer to not save battery and always stay connected to the network.
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Check in settings>WiFi>advanced
Be sure scanning always available is ticked to on and same for WiFi on while sleeping.
Evolution_Freak said:
Check in settings>WiFi>advanced
Be sure scanning always available is ticked to on and same for WiFi on while sleeping.
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Thanks! So it turns out those were already set. So I guess that is not my problem. Any other ideas why I have nearly constant problems?
bdb4269 said:
Thanks! So it turns out those were already set. So I guess that is not my problem. Any other ideas why I have nearly constant problems?
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I'm not sure. I have an issue that's similar that I've been trying to figure out myself. For me, it's with Netflix and Hulu. I start a movie or show, lock my phone and it disconnects from my chromecast. This, I've narrowed down to only happening while I have Chromecast and my nexus set up on my 5g WiFi. If I reconfigure for 2.4g, it stays connected. ???
Oh wow... if changing to 2.4g might solve I would happily do that. 2.4g can still get at least 10 megabits right? B and G are 2.4ghz right? I will try limiting my wifi router to those right now.
bdb4269 said:
Oh wow... if changing to 2.4g might solve I would happily do that. 2.4g can still get at least 10 megabits right? B and G are 2.4ghz right? I will try limiting my wifi router to those right now.
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Give it a shot, short term results, for me, have been positive. Easy enough to switch back too.
Glyphix said:
about 15-20 feet from a brand new wifi router.
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Interestingly my nexus 5 was doing this too... even after a factory reset. (also had lots of trouble with loosing sync with chromcast when casting and/or taking like 30 seconds to load the youtube interface when I turn the phone screen back on when chromecasing something to rewind some or something)
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The "age" of the wifi ap has no bearing on the QUALITY of the wifi ap software. The vast majority of wifi ap's are CRAP. Sometimes bad hardware. ALL "off the shelf" wifi ap's have bad software.
I thought it was just cause my nexus 5 was old.
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Its a phone, not a raw chicken. Age has nothing to do with it.
But now that I have a brand new nexus 6 doing the same thing (and a droid turbo that doesnt) it feels like it is a nexus issue... which is crazy right? My pure google nexus phones are the ones that have trouble with youtube and chromecasting?!?
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This sounds a LOT like a wifi problem. If you don't mind spending a few bucks, I *can* suggest something for you to try that will probably make the problem go away;
BUY A NEW ROUTER.
But not just any router, you specifically need to pick up a TP-Link with a Qualcomm chipset, that is supported by OpenWRT. TP-Link, yes, is a "cheap" chinese router maker. This is OK though, since they actually use good hardware, which is what matters, and they are actually HELPFUL when it comes to using their hardware for open source software, like OpenWRT.
You can pick up a WDR3600 ($60), WDR4300 ($70), ArcherC5 or ArcherC7 ($130) (making sure it is HW ver.2).
Installing OpenWRT on it is pretty much trivial; you download the openwrt factory image for it, then you plug your network card into the new router (at this point no wan connection), go to its web config interface, find the "firmware update" screen, select the openwrt image, and tell it to do its thing. It will reboot with openwrt when finished. Then you just go through the openwrt web config interface and set everything up the way you need it.
This will either fix it, or you have a bad broadband connection. Most likely fix it.
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BUY A NEW ROUTER.
This will either fix it, or you have a bad broadband connection. Most likely fix it.
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Thanks! Just to be clear... my droid turbo works just fine with my wifi. This is what lead me to believe this issue is with the nexus and not my wifi router. With that in mind do you still think my best bet is a new router?
Glyphix said:
Thanks! Just to be clear... my droid turbo works just fine with my wifi. This is what lead me to believe this issue is with the nexus and not my wifi router. With that in mind do you still think my best bet is a new router?
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No, don't spend money until you're sure the router is the issue. Try some of the fixes here:
http://mobile.pcadvisor.co.uk/how-t...llipop-solve-wi-fi-problems-on-nexus-devices/
Start simple and work towards singling out the problem. I know that having the right channels on your WiFi network is a huge problem.
Glyphix said:
Thanks! Just to be clear... my droid turbo works just fine with my wifi. This is what lead me to believe this issue is with the nexus and not my wifi router. With that in mind do you still think my best bet is a new router?
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I received a new app/update from play store today that has resolved my 5g connectivity issues that I was having with Netflix and Hulu.
Hopefully this will solve everyone's issues as well.
doitright said:
You can pick up a WDR3600 ($60), WDR4300 ($70), ArcherC5 or ArcherC7 ($130) (making sure it is HW ver.2).
Installing OpenWRT on it is pretty much trivial; you download the openwrt factory image for it, then you plug your network card into the new router (at this point no wan connection), go to its web config interface, find the "firmware update" screen, select the openwrt image, and tell it to do its thing. It will reboot with openwrt when finished. Then you just go through the openwrt web config interface and set everything up the way you need it.
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I went ahead and got a c7v2 just to make sure I have good wifi. What openwrt image should I use. I looked at the hardware table (http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/start#tp-link) and saw I want ar71xx... but do I want factory or sysupgrade?
openwrt-ar71xx-generic-archer-c7-v2-squashfs-factory.bin
openwrt-ar71xx-generic-archer-c7-v2-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin
And do I need any packages?
Thanks!

How can i mirror my screen to my tv? Without a Network

Hey all, I was just wondering if anyone knows a way to mirror my screen to my tv. Its a Samsung smart tv with wifi. Right now im running Cataclysm M rom and I've tried a few different ways with no luck. I've seen a few videos that show kitkat had an option under display to mirro screen but its not there in M. I know i can use Chrome cast but i dont have a network at home right now. Any ideas?
Did it work on LP, that is did you actually use it with out being on a network together?
Would seem the devices need to be networked in someway...
Have you tried using your phones hotspot and connecting your TV to it? I would imagine this would answer the "same network" issue... Even though it may not be ideal or elegant.
I never tried it on LP, i got the tv after i moved to M, I see there are ways to do it with a Miricast dongle and wifi direct, but their a bit pricey, i was just hoping someone knew another way to do it.
And ya, i can tether to it and watch youtube and stuff, but it'd be nice to be able to just mirror the screen and not use tethering.
Screen mirroring Motorola one
Hello,
I have a root Motorola one Android 10, but I can't share my screen to my Samsung smart TV, i search a lot but I didn't have success, first I edited the build.prop lines,
persist.debug.wfd.enable=1 (before it was persist.debug.wfd.enable=0)
persist.hwc.enable_vds=0 (before it was persist.hwc.enable_vds=1)
I added this in the end
wlan.wfd.hdcp=disable
I added another line but I don't remember all because I erased it, i only remember the beginning
Persist.sys....
But it can't work, in my TV only show something like
"Screen mirroring: motorola is connecting" but then the signal is lost
Nothing that I tried work, only one thing is good and is that in my cellphone in the option of share screen after change this line: persist.debug.wfd.enable=1 (before it was persist.debug.wfd.enable=0) I could activate wireless screen and it let me TRY to connect with my TV but without success.
In other post show the last configuration with an extra thing, I should edit a file (wfdconfig.xml) and it supposed to stay in this direction system/etc/ wfdconfig.xml. But I search in all files and I didn't find.
Maybe someone can help me.
Thanks.
@Felipe24
As far as I know, Chromecast is the only way to cast from Android. Your television probably doesn't have Chromecast built-in, so you'll need to add a Chromecast receiver.

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Virtualization is enabled in BIOS (Dell XPS 13 9350). Not sure where to go from here. Have been searching the web for the past hour.
Any ideas?
Same issue here.
ASUS X99-Deluxe 3.1
Does the host OS windows have internet connection?
you could use adb shell (under the remixemu/platform-tools) and try to ping the gateway and dns to see what happens.
zuegg said:
Same issue here.
ASUS X99-Deluxe 3.1
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Also came here for a solution to this. My Host PC has internet access. Thought the Player would use the same automatically but it has no internet access.
Let there be networking in Remix OS player!
Same situation here.
Mine can access the internet connection from the PC but the Remix WiFi settings are non-functional. If its set to WiFi Off, I still can access the PC connection, if its set to WiFi On, I cant see any wifi networks. In either setting I cant see any of the nodes on the local network. Maybe thats how its supposed to be for now...
I've alerted our developers about this and they'll be putting this high in their list of issues to fix. I'll update here when there's relevant news. Thanks!
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Virtualization is enabled in BIOS (Dell XPS 13 9350). Not sure where to go from here. Have been searching the web for the past hour.
Any ideas?
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RemixOS_Jason said:
I've alerted our developers about this and they'll be putting this high in their list of issues to fix. I'll update here when there's relevant news. Thanks!
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Thanks!
And yes, the host has internet access.
Any News?
I have Lenovo Z470 i3
same issue
So there is still no solution? searched couple of hours until at least to find this thread, that I'm not alone with that.
Edit: Dell Latitude E6430 with i7.
Notebook has Ethernet access to internet via proxy or WiFi connection. Remix OS Player only has WiFi, turned off, can be turned on, but nothing happens.
Same as others above have internet on host and can use through host but is slow and won't turn on on player.
Same here since the beginning on Lenovo G580. I gave my laptop name cause some dit, but looks like more it's no connection for google play and not a problem with the hardware the player is used on. Most of my downloads were possible from web browser/else solution, but I can only remember few download/install/update with google play, except while on the lock-screen, I can see download and updates happening after launching the player.
Hope theses details may help.
Internet is key feature to your soft.
Same here, 1.0.104 build 2016092703 can't have any internet access. The only network option is WiFi, but it had nothing appeared no matter it was turned on or off.
Is there any FAQ about networking? In case if I missed.
Now working since last update.
Esdeve said:
Now working since last update.
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WiFi does not work even with the new update (Version 1.0.105).
Laptop - Dell Latitude
Windows 7
ok just wifi icon is a fake. internet connection is working, thanks for the update!
xxxxxx
still no internet solution visible in build 2016092802
nope,wifi still not working even after update last version
do yall have virus protectors? My Norton tried to block Remix from accessing the internet.
Esdeve said:
Now working since last update.
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Sorry. But my connexion is now working for any task from within the player, so I'm at least noticing people to re-download/install. I don't know from where the issue comes, nor if there are more than one with the same result, I'm not a dev.
Plus if it's related, I probably don't own the same computer as you do.
Anyway. Internet is working ^^' (there is an update to Remix Wi-Fi app too. This may be the reason ?)
And like AmoraRei says, remember to modify your antivirus/firewall/windows things rules or to create specific ones for RemixOS. People sometimes fail to catch the notifications about connection prevention, or are just in auto mode so sometimes there are programs that may lack full connection possibilities.
@npaulseth @zuegg @ArnoldGarry256 @kckman @fftfft @silverlake @dasfranky @johnnymunn @Esdeve @nekosp @technicx -
Actually, @codecop had the right idea to help us troubleshoot your (and everyone's) Wi-Fi issues. Can you guys follow his post (page 1 of this thread, 2nd post down) and share your info here in this thread? We'll troubleshoot through this info. Thanks!

My WiFi is still dropping since I got my Google Home - anyone else?

Hey,
So I am having serious wifi issues since I installed my Google Home. I use a chromecast too, but I think it's safe to say that it's the Home device that f-ed up wifi network.
I did read all the articles back i January/February that I was not alone with the issue, and as far as I understand - Google rolled out a fix about a month ago.
However, I am still having issues. My wifi drops for no reason (on all devices at the same time, phones included) for a few seconds and then comes back up. I've tried rebooting the router, and updating firmware on the router but no help. Today I pulled the plug to the Google Home until this has been fully resolved.
I love my Home and would like to have it connected. Did the correction that Google rolled out solve it for everyone else here or does anyone still have issues - or is it just me?
How can I see what firmware/software I am running on the Home? I have obviously tried to ask it, but it responds "this is not supported yet".
Any ideas?
Vol
I had the same problem on my main router, so I tried connecting it to my secondary router, and it worked, but since that one was supposed to be for the other part of the house, I got a cheapest used router I could (doesn't even support n standard) and created a separate network with different SSID, now I use it only to connect google home devices, chromecasts and other smart home wifi devices, and it works (it still uses my main router's DHCP server, and network, it is just AP with a different SSID), oh and I use channel 6 on that router btw.
Volatyle said:
Hey,
So I am having serious wifi issues since I installed my Google Home. I use a chromecast too, but I think it's safe to say that it's the Home device that f-ed up wifi network.
I did read all the articles back i January/February that I was not alone with the issue, and as far as I understand - Google rolled out a fix about a month ago.
However, I am still having issues. My wifi drops for no reason (on all devices at the same time, phones included) for a few seconds and then comes back up. I've tried rebooting the router, and updating firmware on the router but no help. Today I pulled the plug to the Google Home until this has been fully resolved.
I love my Home and would like to have it connected. Did the correction that Google rolled out solve it for everyone else here or does anyone still have issues - or is it just me?
How can I see what firmware/software I am running on the Home? I have obviously tried to ask it, but it responds "this is not supported yet".
Any ideas?
Vol
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Ok, i feel my networking knowledge can come handy here! Lol. Home,three chromcasts, firetv, firestick x2; Nghthawk x8000->asusrtac68u->lan2wanWNR1000(for old 2nd gen sony bluray dlna and one roomstreaming)+wirelessLinksysEA6350->asusrtac88u. Yes, intriguing network! 6bdrm 3300sqft house. Biggest ever afforded! So, needless to say i pay TWC for 100Mbps, capping at 230mbps on the rtac68u ethernet bridge to wired desktop! All running my own modified compiled tomatousb. Linksysea6350 is ddwrt, kongbuild and a PIA so thats w/e stock kong wanted. Well safe to say ive been at making all this work!! What i need from you is topology and setup, running broadcoms or others? I find broadcom way easier to mess with. Second, you running custom or boxed units? And third is the google products subnetted (more of a b***h if you ask me!) And connected 2.4 or 5? N or AC? And how are you allocating resources? IE using QOS or similar? If you can't answer those im need (if unboxed and freed) "logcats", iptables, etc.. more than safe to say, the home not the culprit in sense to it "drowning" out the wifi band, but could for drown resources, IE low grade hardware, hardware beginning stages of failure and one extra workhorse did it, RAM, eMMC, getting the gist? Im gonna say w/slight certainty you might be rebooting not wifi actually cutting out. You also could if custom firmware corrupted something that the home doesnt like. But wont know w/out the numbers to look at. All i got from you is, either a LAN2LAN or bridge as i read your main hib is the DHCP, and is the SSID you "created" a subnet? And your "30" dollar router also could not be up to task.
And sorry if the reply is anything not right, first post ever here! Years of only reading lol. And something wrong with my cheap phone cracked screen phone replacement everytime keyboard is opened! Doubt its this website. my pixel xl tried to drive on the interstate outside of my car...so sad.. just know im gonna punch this phone or throw from the anger ive gained trying to type and the sign-in to post.. thank you.
Similar solution worked for me
I use a dedicated connection for all things GH related. This stopped the wifi dropout.

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