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[Off-topic] BeerChameleon:
Mine even after updating the firneare gives out daily and have to unplug and plug it back in for the past 2 months, I have had it for 2 years tho..

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[Off-topic] swingline0:
That certainly stinks.

Have you considered flashing it with DD-WRT?
[Off-topic] BeerChameleon:
Is that a firmware for a different router?
[Off-topic] swingline0:
www.dd-wrt.com

It's a custom linux based firmware with a whole bunch of dditional functionality crammed in.

The only catch is that It only supports certain revisions.

I just flashed it for the first time to find a considerable boost in performance.
[Off-topic] BeerChameleon:
hmm will check it out when i get home and see if im able to use it :D
[Off-topic] swingline0:
It's really neat. I can't wait to hear of your results.
[Off-topic] BeerChameleon:
u think it will fix my connectivity issues??
[Off-topic] jaszek:
I have a WRT120N, and I can't even get into the router settings. I tried every single default password combination for routers, and none work. At least they gave me a password when I first set it up, so it's not THAT bad. And yes, I did try hard resetting it. Didn't help.
[Off-topic] swingline0:
I suppose it really depends on whether or not your issue is software or hardware related. If it's software then I think there's a strong chance the issue will no longer exist after the flash.

In regards to the 3 routers I mentioned in the initial post, DD-WRT got one of them back to a fully functional state. I just checked the router database and the other two are supported so I'm going to flash them both tonight and see what happens.

One note about the whole flashing process is that it is a bit of a pain in the ass. It's a fairly involved process that requires a certain attention to detail. If you attempt, be sure to follow the instructions carefully.

jaszek--

How did you perform the hard reset?

I've read of a rather hardcore method in which you hold the reset button down for 30s, pull the power while STILL holding the reset button, wait 30s, plug power back in (still holding the reset button) and continue to hold it for another 30s. The pertinent bit being that you hold the reset button for a continuous 90s total... After that the login credentials should be set to:

user: (blank)

pass: admin
[Off-topic] jaszek:
Didn't try that yet. Thanks.

I'll do it some time when I'm bored and no one is home, so I have time to put in the same WPA2 and no one *****es at me for the internet not connecting. lol
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zorachus:
So my Wife needed a new phone, and get out of T-Mobile, and on to a good family plan. Since I was with Sprint already the last year with my EVO 4G, I said get the Nexus-S this weekend, will be a great little phone compared to her old school MyTouch 3G.

So we went to the Sprint store my buddy is a Mngr at, and I got the bug and also picked up a Nexus-S 4G, and set us up on a killer family plan.

- What I like about the Nexus-S;

Lightweight and fits in pocket easily

Screen is beautiful

Battery life is longer than rooted EVO

Pure "vanilla" Google OS, clean with no bloatware

2.3.4 Video Chat for the Wife and kids

- What I don't like;

Miss the "Sense UI"

4" curved screen, makes it feel much smaller than the EVO's 4.3" flat tablet like display.

No Sprint Visual Voicemail

My EVO 4G was rooted with Myn's RS 5, and I LOVED it, but the phone felt a little too thick and bulky at times, and heavy in the pocket, especially with Summer now, the phone does not fit in a short sleeve pocket like the Nexus easily does. And even with netarchy kernel and all battery life still was crappy compared to rooted Nexus-S.

But I seem to really miss the "Sense UI" the most, just a bit of a shock getting used to vanilla Android. I liked the Sense e-mail app, for non gmail accounts. The dialer and contacts was nice. The keyboard was sweet with arrows keys. Stock Visual Voicemail was great.

Not too sure what to do now ? Keep the Nexus-S and wait for CM 7.1 ROM that supports 2.3.4 and see how I like that ? I was a big fan of Cyanogen back on my Nexus-One, but then got turned onto Sense. Or go back to EVO and upgrade to EVO 3D next month and wait for Myn's ROM on that beast ?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tailsthecat3:
i went from an evo to the nexus s and am loving it. i really wanted that pure google and once i got it rooted, some useless apps removed it was even better.

for me, an overall better experience than the evo.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] treUse:
apreichner is in the process of porting sense to the NS, so there is a big chance we'll be seeing a fully functional sense port. Just have patience, the NS is a great phone :)
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zorachus:
I am getting much more comfortable with my Nexus-S 4G today, after a full work day of use. Loving the feel of it in the palm of my hand, rests so nicely, and the screen is gorgeous. The battery life on the Nexus is amazing so far, being unplugged for 6+ hours, and not even half drained yet, at 60% now, and that's with tons of phone calls and plenty of texting as well as web browsing. And still not even rooted yet, so no custom ROM's or kernels, can only imagine the battery life with a good netarchy :)

The EVO to me is borderline tablet big, not just the 4.3" screen, but was also very thick and heavy. Not a fun phone to carry around in light shorts in the Summer. But sometimes that was nice, making it feel like a mini laptop, with lots of space to work with, and the Sense e-mail and contacts were very well designed.

But the more I am with the Nexus-S, the more I like it. yeah I misses the Sense UI, but getting used to vanilla is nice too :) Just waiting for CM 7.1 to come out, and then this phone should really be amazing.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XxsydenxX:
Zorachus, I would suggest that you wait another 15 days or so before making a decision to switch back to the EVO if you so choose to.

I believe within that time frame you could either have a working sense port running on your nexus S, OR EVEN perhaps you could try miui when the netarchy kernel for the nexus 4G comes out.

To be honest Miui is just as full of a rom as Sense roms themselves. Lots of nice features and a lovely UI
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zorachus:
Thanks for all the advice appreciated :) I am getting more comfortable with this the Nexus. Everyday.

Main thing I miss with Sense is the default email app blows the stock Android one out of the water. And the dialer on sense was much better too. Its just those two things really.

Battery life is night and day better on this nexus compared to my evo and this phones sots in my hand better and hides in pocket easily.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] exstatica:
I just switched to the Nexus S 4G from the Evo. I picked it up last night. I was running CM 7 on the Evo so the switch wasn't that big of a deal. So far, I like the weight, the size (I agree with you on the size thing. I can handle this change) Battery life I'm not sure about but I got somewhere around 25 hours on the EVO, so we'll see how the this one handles.

I like the pure Google experience. I thought the EVO was going to be updated constantly from the manufacture but sadly its now left behind at least for now.

I'd rather have google push out my updates than rely on HTC.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thiagodark:
and what about a desire hd? should i get ns over my dhd? really don't know.. =o\\
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zorachus:
ok...another day with the Nexus-S, and it is growing on me finally :) Was having major EVO withdrawal, mainly missing a lot of the "Sense UI" stuff, but now with these new apps installed, am really starting to dig this sexy Nexy.

Here are several apps I needed to install to get rid of the lame stock ones.

- #1 was "

Better Keyboard 8

", a much improved keypad for texting, e-mails, etc...larger buttons, smarter layout of keys, and all black themed.

- #2 was "

Go SMS

", hands down the best text app, and with a cool black theme, blows away the boring stock Messaging, very customizable.

- #3 was "

YouMail

" Makes it just like the stock Sprint Visual Voicemail on my EVO.

- #4 was "

Opera Mini

" web browser, night and day faster than the stock internet, very smooth and no lagging.

- #5 was "

On Call End

" when done with a phone call, bring you back to home screen, instead of dialer.

- #6 was "

TouchPal Dialer

" shows the recent calls on top with keypad below, shows how long ago the call was made or missed, more like the "Sense UI" dialer.

- #7 was "

Beautiful Widgets

" a must have for the coolest clock/weather screen.

And several other apps, but these seven above were must haves, and make my Nexus-S much improved, and closer to the "Sense UI" stuff I missed from my EVO, and a lot of these apps have option for black theme which I really like on this phone.

But still the one MISSING app I can not find anywhere is a good default e-mail client for the non @gmail accounts. The default Sense UI e-mail on the EVO was ****ing spot on perfect, wish there was something in the Market to match that ?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrGregy:
K-9 mail? :)
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JWhipple:
Try Touchdown mail client if you like the sense mail client. I use it for my work's exchange server and am loving it!
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PDY05:
was thinking about trading/selling one of my T-Mobile vibrant for a nexus s. am I too late?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
it's better late than never... ;)
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] p00kienrayray:
well if you have multiple vibrants, why not?
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] morak:
I just got OpenVPN working and thought I would share:

Rooted

Installed tun.ko

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1063656

Note: Skip this step if you are running Prime or any other ROM with the tun.ko module pre-installed.

Installed BusyBox using BusyBox Installer (Market). Installed to /system/xbin

Installed OpenVPN using OpenVPN Installer (Market) to /system/xbin

Installed OpenVPN Settings (Market)

Replaced OpenVPN binary with the one from:

http://code.google.com/p/android-openvpn-settings/issues/detail?id=26

UnBZ2'ed the file (I used 7-Zip on Windows for this)

adb remount

adb push openvpn-static-2.1.1 /system/xbin/openvpn

adb shell

chmod 555 /system/xbin/openvpn

Created /system/xbin/bb directory (requested in research I did, not sure if required)

mkdir /system/xbin/bb

Symlinked Busybox ifconfig and route /system/xbin/bb

ln -s /system/xbin/ifconfig /system/xbin/bb/ifconfig

ln -s /system/xbin/route /system/xbin/bb/route

Set up my usual OVPN config (configs must have absolute paths to certs!)

OpenVPN settings > Advanced > Load tun kernel module ON

OpenVPN settings > Advanced > TUN module settings

Load module using > insmod

Path to tun module > /system/lib/modules/tun.ko

I think this is everything I did, there was a bit of trial and error so I may have forgotten something.

Checked and the thing still boots afterward :D
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] x1crazy:
Thanks a lot , will report back when i try it.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] justinship:
I get

insmod: init_module '/system/lib/modules/tun.ko' failed (Exec format error)
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] morak:
Assuming you have installed BusyBox, check the md5sum of your tun.ko:

# cd /system/lib/modules

# md5sum tun.ko

Response should be (or at least this is what I get):

7e09817dc4661b732f1a77fff76a10e6 tun.ko

If you don't get that response, I suggest you re-download the tun module, decompress it again and re-push it to your Transformer.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] justinship:
Busybox is installed. Tried both installers and both versions.

Md5sum is right.

Any other ideas?
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] morak:
Are you running stock? If you are running a different kernel the module probably won't work.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] redmongoose:
Thanks worked a treat :)
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] x1crazy:
thanks works perfect
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] amitks:
I am getting my Transformer within a week. Can't wait to get this going on the device... Thanks a ton!
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] duckdown:
It's running and connected but my IP is still showing up as my regular ISP 3G IP when I open a browser and go to www.ipchicken.com

Any idea why the traffic doesn't appear to be routing through it?

It shows as 100% connected and the key icon is white in the taskbar...
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] duclicsic:
The default behaviour of OpenVPN is not to install a default route pointing out of the tun interface, unless the system you're connected to has IP forwarding and NAT enabled this wouldn't work anyway.

I can't post links, so google "openvpn config" and go to the first link. Look for the section titled: "Routing all client traffic (including web-traffic) through the VPN."
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] duckdown:
Hey man, thanks for the reply.

The directions said to add this line to the config file

push "redirect-gateway def1"

But I've done that and it still doesn't seem to be doing anything.. IP is still showing up as my regular 3G network

Am I doing something wrong or omitting a step that you can notice?

Thanks again for the help
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] duckdown:
Oh, hm, on second look it wants me to add that line to the SERVER's config file.

I have no access to the servers config file -- I pay $4 a month for my VPN and do not run the OpenVPN server myself.

Is there anything I can do from the client side?

It works perfectly fine in Windows, routing all traffic through the VPN as it should..
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] duclicsic:
You might actually be able to just use the "redirect-gateway local def1" line in your own config, as I understand it the "push" directives in the server conf are just sending config to the clients which could just as easily be done client side. I might be wrong, but it's worth a go. Otherwise you can set up routes in the client config too, but you may have to remove your existing default route via some scripting or something.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] Kevincod:
This is correct, I have this and the exact same conf works fine on my desktop.

However on my tablet no data gets routed. Also my tray is getting spammed with "Connected".
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] jonitfcfan:
+1

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[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] Kevincod:
I forgot the part with the modified openvpn, I replaced the binary and the routing works great now, however I still get spammed with "Connected" in the tray.

Seems to be a common issue: http://code.google.com/p/android-openvpn-settings/issues/detail?id=74#c0
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] duckdown:
I can't get the traffic to go through the VPN for the life of me.. This thing is mental
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] PowellEB:
Check out thread 1118465, in The general section. Found that /system/bin/ip was not setting up route/gateway correctly, and openvpn was not using the busybox ip

fix: mv /system/bin/ip /system/bin/ip.bay

This then forces use of busybox ip. Worked for me.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] jefbal99:
We had to do the same thing to get Cisco VPN working. the system IP was not routing properly, so renaming it forced using the busybox IP
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] rufik:
I have an issue with tun0 device - openvpn says there is no such device.

netcfg shows no tun device.

I'm using rooted 3.1, stock kernel. Any idea how to create this tun device?
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] jonitfcfan:
If you wanted to create your own you would need the kernel source code and a compiler of sorts (I think). I haven't done this myself so I've no idea how exactly it would work, that's why I just use PRIME! v1.5 - it's got a TUN module built-in :D.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] rufik:
I don't want to create tun device on my own, I need to make openvpn working ;)

In my .ovpn config file I can find these lines:

client
dev tun
dev-node tun0

In windows it's name ("tun0") of the TAP-Win32 adapter. OpenVPN is using this device. I can see the same in my Transformer - but "tun0" has not been found. I supose there are 2 possiblities:

1. there is no tun device at all (but I can see creating in dmesg)

2. tun device has different name (but netcfg shows nothing like "tun")

3. my .ovpn config file is incorrect somehow

Any idea?
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] jonitfcfan:
Firstly are you using the OpenVPN Settings app from the Market? If so that isn't currently compatible with Honeycomb, but there is a modified version that's been posted - give that a try first and see what happens (remember to uninstall the existing one first).

If after installing this it still doesn't work on its own check in the 'Advanced' menu in the OpenVPN Settings app, you need to have the 'Load tun kernel module' option ticked if you haven't done so already. Then under 'TUN module settings' make sure that 'insmod' is the selected method for loading the module, and the path to the tun module is as follows:

/system/lib/modules/tun.ko

Hope this helps.

Also what kind of server exactly are you connecting to, out of interest? Is it a VPN Internet sharing service, a server at home/work, or something else?
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] rufik:
I use modified OpenVPN Settings, I use "Load tun kernel module" with success (lsmod says it's loaded). I'm not newbie :)

The problem is with tun device. Maybe .ovpn config file should be something like that:

dev /dev/tun

?
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] jonitfcfan:
No, I believe 'dev tun' is the correct format. Try changing 'tun' to 'tap' and see what happens. Might be nothing, might be everything ;).
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] rufik:
Hmm, maybe you're right, I'll try something like that:

dev tap
dev-node /dev/tun

...and let you know :)
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] jonitfcfan:
Try checking your config file, it appears the error comes about because there is no default gateway defined. I can't tell you what exactly it should be because I don't know what you're connecting to, it'll be up to you to find this bit out if you're not sure.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] rufik:
I try to connect to my work network (openvpn server on linux).

This looks like my vpn adapter:

/system/xbin/bb/ifconfig tap0 192.168.16.62 netmask 192.168.16.61 mtu 1500 broadcast 255.255.255.254

Shoudn't be netmask and broadcast swapped??

In windows it looks that way:

Thu Jul 7 18:35:51 2011 us=290977 PUSH: Received control message: 'PUSH_REPLY,route 192.168.0.0 255.255.252.0,route 192.168.20.0 255.255.255.0,route 172.30.0.0 255.255.0.0,route 172.16.0.0 255.255.0.0,route 10.0.0.0 255.0.0.0,route 192.168.101.0 255.255.255.0,route 172.29.0.0 255.255.0.0,dhcp-option DNS 192.168.0.9,dhcp-option WINS 192.168.0.9,route 192.168.16.1,topology net30,ping 10,ping-restart 120,ifconfig 192.168.16.62 192.168.16.61'

Thu Jul 07 20:53:32 2011 us=813000 Notified TAP-Win32 driver to set a DHCP IP/netmask of 192.168.16.62/255.255.255.252 on interface {3B87FEEC-0D41-4A56-BC89-6E813C70014A} [DHCP-serv: 192.168.16.61, lease-time: 31536000]
...
...
Thu Jul 07 20:53:34 2011 us=217000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\route.exe ADD 192.168.101.0 MASK 255.255.255.0 192.168.16.61
OK!
Thu Jul 07 20:53:34 2011 us=248000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\route.exe ADD 172.29.0.0 MASK 255.255.0.0 192.168.16.61
OK!
Thu Jul 07 20:53:34 2011 us=279000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\route.exe ADD 192.168.16.1 MASK 255.255.255.255 192.168.16.61
OK!
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] rufik:
Voila! It looks like "dev tun" is required and no "dev-node" at all in config file. Works like a charm :)
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] Pink_Panther2121:
Having issues with the tun.ko module. I can lsmod the tun.ko and it works but when i reboot the device it's not installed/live anymore. Anyway to get the tun.ko to install once the device boots?
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] jonitfcfan:
If you're using OpenVPN Settings you can change the advanced settings to load the module before starting the openvpn process, which works well for me.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] teb76:
Hi guy, I'm in a very strange situation with openvpn. If I use tethering I'm able to connect to my vpn from my laptop and all works fine, but if I use openvpn config downloaded by the market, the connection is estabilished but I cannot see any machine within the vpn. No answer to ping except for 10.8.0.1 (the vpn server) that give immediatly a time to live exceeded. Any tips for undestanding where is the problem?

From what I can understand, the problema is that no TAP interface is created, even if the connection is made without errors

Thanks
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] BulMaster:
In case anyone is wondering this still works for rooted stock roms on 3.2. Now if only i can get rid of that connected notification spam!
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] jeanjay:
hi guys, i dont get it, in case i installed openvpn to my transformer which i just bought yesterday, how will it get signal if it doesnt have 3g? im using openvpn with my dhd, but dont know how if it is installed in transformer,, thanks for info,,:)
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] frosty5689:
Uh, I think you got the idea of what a VPN is for wrong...
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] randrew2:
installed. connected, but no traffic goes through the tunnel. device's still using ISP's IP :(
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] case0:
Does anyone else use this app and experience a problem where after a while half of the wallpaper goes black? It seems to be something to do with the orientation because it's as if it thinks it's in portrait so it cuts part of the wallpaper off. Switching the tablet's orientation to portrait and back temporarily fixes it.

Not sure if it's an app bug, honeycomb or just my tablet.. haven't seen anyone else mention it :S
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] johnny0911:
No it is not your tablet, I had the same problem with my xoom. Are you using another program like HD wallpapers to set wallpapers? If so, this is your problem. What you have to do is download the wallpaper you want then use ww to set it. Hope this helps.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] case0:
Ah ok thanks! Was using ww to set it to no scroll and then was using gallery to set the wallpaper. Have done it with ww now so should be all good.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] bedoig:
I'll have to give that a try. I had stopped using the program because of this issue, but scrolling is SO much smoother with wallpaper scrolling disabled. Thanks!
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] case0:
Hmm.. thought it had solved the problem but it still happened. Have sent an email to the developer so hopefully will get a response :)
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] npompei:
Cannot say thanks enough for the WW app!!!! I was about to go postal trying to change all of my sizes for wallpapers! Nothing worked and it all looked crappy. WW to the rescue! Thanks a ton!
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] npompei:
And now I have the dreaded "black bar!!!" Jeezus these android devices are kilin me here! Why is this so damn difficult...
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] case0:
Forgot to post response from dev the other day, seems to be a problem with android not the app:
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] npompei:
Good response. Mine does go back and forth so i will look intothe fix but just rotating? Love the app so lets hope,it gets fixed