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Hey all, I may have missed this, but what is a good internet sharing app? I need something that turns my phone into a wifi hotspot... anything out there?
Thanks!
Are you rooted?
If yes, try Wireless Tether for Root.
If no, try aNetShare.
Thanks! I am rooted, but I think I need to flash to a new rom, cause it says my kernel can't handle tethering, no netfilter.
Crymson said:
Thanks! I am rooted, but I think I need to flash to a new rom, cause it says my kernel can't handle tethering, no netfilter.
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RA_Amon's latest ROM 1.6.2 gives you Donut, is one of the fastest, stablest ROMs and has Wifi Tether builtin. I use it all the time as a portable hotspot with my netbook.... Highly recommend!
I wanted to download anetshare because i am not rooted.
But in the discription of the app it says you do need to have root access.
Just wondering, rooting my device will result in no OTA updates anymore right?
anheuer said:
I wanted to download anetshare because i am not rooted.
But in the discription of the app it says you do need to have root access.
Just wondering, rooting my device will result in no OTA updates anymore right?
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Unfortunately the answer is "it depends". Just rooting the phone will not turn off OTAs. However, the next OTA could very easily unroot your phone. If you root it and then flash a new ROM it depends on the ROM.
Typically they will block OTAs since they would overwrite the ROM and depending on how they did that you could get a nonbootable phone.
You could certainly load a recovery ROM with Nandriod (most newer recovery ROMs have it), make a backup before rooting, and then if you ever wanted to go back, just reload the backed up image.
If you are concerned about new Android releases, most of the active developers have the latest version before the carriers push the update...
At least that was the case with Cupcake and Donut.
yeah i thougt so..
The only reason why i'm not sure if i want to do it, is because i am quite happy with how it works now and all the things that are on it.
And i dont want to pick a cooked rom and do everything for nothing (and risk bricking it).
The only thing what i like about cooked roms (as far as i have heard) is that its faster then the stock rom, and because its rooted, there are a few apps you can use (like screenshot and internet sharing )
i used to do rom updating with my windows mobile devices all the time because, well... thats what they are for if you ask me.
But with my android i'm just not sure if i get all i have and more with a cooked rom and not have something with bugs.
Load a recovery ROM with Nandroid first. Make a backup. Once you do that you can always get back to your unrooted, stock ROM.
Reasons I rooted were Wifi Tether (I have a 6 Gb data cap and wanted to use the phone for 3G access for my netbook) and to run Market Enabler since Rogers has not bothered to get paid apps up and running in Canada.
After playing with a bunch of ROMs my take is you can have fast or pretty. The heavily themed ROMs seem to run slower and in my experience had more issues with stability. I have settled on RA_Amon's ROM which is is faster than stock and very stable. Even with Advanced Launcher (to get submenus and more home screens) I have not issues with force closures or general instability.
I think some of the issues people have with stability are the apps and widgets they are trying to run. Some apps do not play nicely with Cupcake or Donut and weird things happen. It is easy to blame the ROM or the phone for these issues. I currently have 62 apps and have 4 widgets running. Only issue I have is that NDrive has some issues handshaking with the GPS initially.
so basically i can use an app from the market to turn my Android device into a wi-fi hotspot through 3G?
That sounds very good, as i have the ulimited data package.
I would be able to connect my netbook to it whilst on the go!
nolimit966 said:
so basically i can use an app from the market to turn my Android device into a wi-fi hotspot through 3G?
That sounds very good, as i have the ulimited data package.
I would be able to connect my netbook to it whilst on the go!
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That is exactly what "Wifi Tether" does. You need to have root and have flashed a ROM that supports it, as there is some extra ip stuff you need (netfilter). Many of the ROMs have Wifi Tether included ... RA_Amon's RA_1.6.2H does for sure.
The other point is that your carrier may specifically forbid tethering. Could result in a nasty bill if they do, you tether and they decide your high data usage is due to tethering. My plan allows it (not unlimited, but 6 Gb is a lot of data), but the carrier does not supply any tethering app so most end users can't tether.
Also note that most "unlimited" plans are not actually unlimited. The funny thing is that some of the unlimited plans have a provision that the carrier can decide that your data usage is excessive and cut you off, at a lower amount than my capped plan. Bell was doing this in Canada.
Hi all, I recently installed MobileIron on my Xperia Z to get work emails etc. I am running Android 4.2.2 When i had done testing, i decided to remove Mobileiron and deactivated it and uninatslled it, this was ll fine. As part on the setup of MobileIron, my phone had to be Encrypted and this went through fine also. The issue now is that if i go into Security and look under Owner Info>Encryption, it says Encrypt phone (Encrypted) and i have no option to decrypt. If i tap on "Encrypt phone (Encrypted)" nothing happens. anyone any ideas on this? Thank you!
The reason why you had to encrypt in the first place was because your corporate policy required it ... i.e., your IT department configured your MobileIron server to require encryption on your device, so once registered with MobileIron, you had to adopt the corporate policy.
I don't know of any Android devices that allow for decryption. That said, there's no good reason to decrypt. You are getting a security advantage with no real negatives. In theory there could be a micro-penalty in the battery consumption or i/o speed but in reality it's not going to be noticeable.
If you really can't stand the idea of encryption, you need to do a full factory reset. You'll lose all your data during that process so you'll want to backup first and restore once complete.
jsirota said:
The reason why you had to encrypt in the first place was because your corporate policy required it ... i.e., your IT department configured your MobileIron server to require encryption on your device, so once registered with MobileIron, you had to adopt the corporate policy.
I don't know of any Android devices that allow for decryption. That said, there's no good reason to decrypt. You are getting a security advantage with no real negatives. In theory there could be a micro-penalty in the battery consumption or i/o speed but in reality it's not going to be noticeable.
If you really can't stand the idea of encryption, you need to do a full factory reset. You'll lose all your data during that process so you'll want to backup first and restore once complete.
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Thank you for your response
The reason i was looking to do this is that i also have a Samsung Galaxy S4 and with an identical setup, there is the option to Decrypt so i was wondering if i missed something.
osheaj said:
Thank you for your response
The reason i was looking to do this is that i also have a Samsung Galaxy S4 and with an identical setup, there is the option to Decrypt so i was wondering if i missed something.
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agree. i used samsung galaxy note before with mobilelron. the same setting for my new xperia z but i cannot find the decrytion command
Just wondering if the encryption that comes on the 4.x builds works with the TouchPad. I've tried enabling it, and all I get is the green little droid character on screen, but no status indication of what's going on. The device goes to sleep and I can unlock it, but it doesn't look like encryption is doing anything.
Any ideas?
--McBean
McBean -- did you ever get it to work? I'm in the same situation.
-Joe
Encryption not working
McBeanTIO said:
Just wondering if the encryption that comes on the 4.x builds works with the TouchPad. I've tried enabling it, and all I get is the green little droid character on screen, but no status indication of what's going on. The device goes to sleep and I can unlock it, but it doesn't look like encryption is doing anything.
Any ideas?
--McBean
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I am having the same problem as my employer is using a secure client which enforces that my Google Tablet be encrypted so that I can continue to connect to their Exchange server...
I am running CM9 where Flash seems to work - I was wondering if going to CM10 or 11 might give better luck for encryption ? Not sure if any folks out there have tried these CM builds ?
thx
BigDaddy68
What Decryption does? I know that It boosts the performance, but what else it does?
digitLIX said:
What Decryption does? I know that It boosts the performance, but what else it does?
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Although you will see a lower overhead in read/write operations of the device, I don't think you'd notice it all that much and there are fixes if rooted, to increase that.
The other thing it does, is to not encrypt your data. The reason I decrypt is I do not like my data encrypted. I backup all my data regularly and although any operation moving data off the device should decrypt it, I never truly trust this. What I dont want to do is end up with a pile of backed up data that didn't unencrypt properly. For most people this won't be an issue but working in IT support, I have had many run ins with encryption so I prefer not to use it... Also I do not want to have to enter any passcode at boot, because I run automated procedures that involve rebooting the phone over night. Sure, I could set not to have a passcode, but that makes all data accessible via android or recovery, which makes encryption pointless.
It's just personal preference really. There's no genuine need for you to decrypt
rootSU said:
Although you will see a lower overhead in read/write operations of the device, I don't think you'd notice it all that much and there are fixes if rooted, to increase that.
The other thing it does, is to not encrypt your data. The reason I decrypt is I do not like my data encrypted. I backup all my data regularly and although any operation moving data off the device should decrypt it, I never truly trust this. What I dont want to do is end up with a pile of backed up data that didn't unencrypt properly. For most people this won't be an issue but working in IT support, I have had many run ins with encryption so I prefer not to use it... Also I do not want to have to enter any passcode at boot, because I run automated procedures that involve rebooting the phone over night. Sure, I could set not to have a passcode, but that makes all data accessible via android or recovery, which makes encryption pointless.
It's just personal preference really. There's no genuine need for you to decrypt
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Thanks, I also heard decryption boosts the boot time? My nexus 6's boot time takes like 30-60 seconds Is It normal?
digitLIX said:
Thanks, I also heard decryption boosts the boot time? My nexus 6's boot time takes like 30-60 seconds Is It normal?
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Yes it will boost boot because read / write operations occur during boot and the OS has to "decrypt" whilst doing so... It's not technically decrypting them, but thats the simplest way of explaining it.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=What+are+the+Differences+between+Decrypted+and+Encrypted?
rootSU said:
Yes it will boost boot because read / write operations occur during boot and the OS has to "decrypt" whilst doing so... It's not technically decrypting them, but thats the simplest way of explaining it.
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Last question, once I decrypt is it gonna be for hackers easy to hack into my data? or I shouldn't be worrying about decrypting
Most custom kernels already include patches to speed up I/O reads on encryption to the point where having your device encrypted or decrypted would not be that significant in terms of noticeability.
Last question, once I decrypt is it gonna be for hackers easy to hack into my data? or I shouldn't be worrying about decrypting
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I don't think that you have a clear understanding what encryption is or what it actually does, no offense. Encryption has nothing to do with "hackers" having a easier time hacking your data, it's about hackers obtaining your information and then being able to see all the file contents; whereas, if your device is encrypted even though the hackers obtained your data, they have to go through a decryption process in order to make the "stolen data" useful to them as the files will appear to be jibberish to them. The decryption process requires high level math computations in order to obtain private, public keys (depending on the encryption method being used) that can takes large amounts of computing time in order to obtain the values to decrypt the files.
No one is going to hack your data, Android and iOS made encryption enabled by default for mainly NSA purposes.
My suggestions to you OP is to just remain encrypted and use a custom kernel with encryption patches (Lean Kernel, Franco Kernel are one of the many that include these patches already) just to make your life easier.
digitLIX said:
Last question, once I decrypt is it gonna be for hackers easy to hack into my data? or I shouldn't be worrying about decrypting
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Encryption won't protect you against remote hackers. If Android is running, it is already seeing your data as you gave it your encryption password.
zephiK said:
Most custom kernels already include patches to speed up I/O reads on encryption to the point where having your device encrypted or decrypted would not be that significant in terms of noticeability.
I don't think that you have a clear understanding what encryption is or what it actually does, no offense. Encryption has nothing to do with "hackers" having a easier time hacking your data, it's about hackers obtaining your information and then being able to see all the file contents; whereas, if your device is encrypted even though the hackers obtained your data, they have to go through a decryption process in order to make the "stolen data" useful to them as the files will appear to be jibberish to them. The decryption process requires high level math computations in order to obtain private, public keys (depending on the encryption method being used) that can takes large amounts of computing time in order to obtain the values to decrypt the files.
No one is going to hack your data, Android and iOS made encryption enabled by default for mainly NSA purposes.
My suggestions to you OP is to just remain encrypted and use a custom kernel with encryption patches (Lean Kernel, Franco Kernel are one of the many that include these patches already) just to make your life easier.
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Not offended, I'm sorry for being stupid I totally have no clue about this kind of stuff.
This answered my question, Thank you for the help.
rootSU said:
Encryption won't protect you against remote hackers. If Android is running, it is already seeing your data as you gave it your encryption password.
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Thanks.
digitLIX said:
Not offended, I'm sorry for being stupid I totally have no clue about this kind of stuff.
This answered my question, Thank you for the help.
Thanks.
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You're not being stupid. Don't be rude to yourself.
Encryption was something that was considered very secretive back in the days. You can read about that in the history of encryption.
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Faux Kernel also has patches to speed things up. Thanks for asking this stuff. its good to have all the info in one spot.
Just to add, encrypted data only really protects the data if someone has physical access to the device who doesn't have the password. If they cannot unlock the phone, you'd expect they could boot into recovery or whatever and get your data that way, but like @zephiK said if it is encrypted - that data is useless.
However to clear, it doesn't protect you against remote theft of the data. When you enter your password into the device, you're giving the OS permission to do what it nerds with the data. If you unlock the phone and start copying data elsewhere, as it leaves the device, it becomes decrypted. If some remote "hacker" had got you to install an application on your phone and your phone allows data to be copied off the device, the encryption is useless because as its moving off the device, its being decrypted.
But yeah, no one will be trying to get the data anyway.
Been on KK until now, need quick update to current state of affairs.
Anyhow, is my phone fully encrypted? How do I check if it is? If it is can I make it decrypted?
The reason I'm asking, with MM Google made full encryption mandatory on most phones but IMO full phone encryption is useless, that's what secure folder and Knox is for and the fact that Crapple encrypts all its iphones is no reason, (so how long it took hackers to break into CA terrorist iphone, that supposed to be unbreakable even by Crapple engineers?).
N7 absolutely has the power to support full encryption, but Samsung being the biggest phone maker thankfully don't follow all Google's bad ideas (physical home button and SD card support come to mind as examples).
So what's the story here or is it a taboo, or maybe nobody cares?
What's the encryption story in Android 7?
It appears that it's encrypted out of the box. The SD card can be encrypted in settings.
I don't think their method of decrypting it will work on Snapdragon variants.
Thank you for quick answer.
That really sucks.
I guess it depends on how badly you want to decrypt it. I'd like to decrypt mine as well and had I known about the encryption at the start I would have done this right off.
http://androiding.how/disable-dm-verity-forced-encryption-galaxy-note-7/