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[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] Nirdh:
This guide teaches you to reverse tether your Android phone via WiFi. That is, it allows you to use your Ethernet connection of PC on your Android phone. It is useful for those who do not have WiFi routers and data connection. So if you have unlimited data plan for your computer, why not share the connection with your phone?

Notice: Backup your phone if you need to, I must not be held responsible for any damage to your phone. The following procedure works perfectly on stock ROM. Moreover, I am not a developer of the files supplied, I just got the files from the internet.

Credits to the actual authors of these files (Yet unknown to me). I have only contributed by coming up with a proper procedure and configuration for this.

Requirements:

Rooted phone

WiFi enabled Laptop (e.g. Dell Inspiron 15 series)

Root Explorer OR any other application that allows you to access entire system and also copy paste system files.

View attachment 1057231

Procedure:

Phone:

Download Wpa_supplicant.zip and extract "wpa_supplicant" from it, save it on your SD card.

Open Root Explorer, and grant it superuser access when asked for.

Navigate to system -> bin and long press on wpa_supplicant; Select copy, and paste the file into any folder on your SD card.

Now navigate to the file you downloaded, copy it in same way, and paste it back to system -> bin. Note, you might need to mount the system as R/W instead of R/O by pressing a button on the top just before pasting the file.

Reboot.

Ubuntu (Must work for other Linux Distros too):

Open Network Connections

Goto Wireless tab, select add, and set the following:

SSID: <Any_name_you_like>

Mode: Ad hoc

Leave other things unchanged, and go to Ipv4 settings tab

Set method to Shared to other computers

Go to Wireless security tab and set Security to WEP 40/128 bit key and set key to a numeric password (or hexadecimal one).

Check the connect automatically box on top of the tabs and press Save.

Your Android phone must now detect this network, and you can establish the connection by using your security key.

Windows XP, Vista, 7

Download and Install Connectify from www . connectify.me/download-lite/

Start Connectify Hotspot by giving a name and password to your hotspot and selecting the Ethernet connection to share. Make sure the security type is WEP or Open.

Disable your firewall (Simply adding it to exceptions doesn't work for AVG at least)

Now your phone should be able to see the hotspot and establish the connection using the password set.

Known Issues:

Random disconnections (Very less frequency)

Disconnections due to screen lock / sleep on laptop

Enjoy, and hit thanks if it worked! :)
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] manoranjan2050:
nice tutorial for the wifi rev the ............ i m going try ........
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] Nirdh:
sure, give it a try :)
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] kurotsugi:
oops...no different with my post.
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] Nirdh:
Well, I tried to search for similar posts, found none, and so thought of writing one myself. I followed the links from your signature and read your post. Just edit it and write that it does work with secured connections :) At least it worked for me with the wpa_supplicant attached in this post. And in this post I elaborated a little more on configuration at desktop because in Windows (especially my Vista), there were several problems with Ad hoc mode sharing, and it only worked with Connectify for me. I guess I might have not configured it properly then, and just wanted to share something that worked for me. And then I tried doing Ad hoc mode on Ubuntu, which never worked until the passkey was set to 40/128 bit WEP security.
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] kurotsugi:
no probs...you have find the method to use secure connection. that's the differences between mine and yours. its a nice post with more detailed step. much more better than mine. people should refers to your post for better wifi adhoc setting. keep sharing yo :D
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] Nirdh:
Haha, nothing like that :) They could refer to any of our posts, because both of us had the same intentions (Sharing what worked for us)

Well, I want you to use your wpa_supplicant, and disable firewall and try to connect in a secure way, I am sure, it has to work. I guess the blog-post that I referred to (for downloading the file) must have been made using your post. Try it once and let me know :)

Also let me know if you have disconnections :( For me, I experience 2 to 3 disconnections when trying to connect to a WiFi router, and no disconnections while connecting to Ad Hoc N/w. So if we could collaborate and get some solution to it, it would be great!
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] kurotsugi:
I don't have any firewall and I have tried that. not working. btw, I made that post to fix wifi problem. the adhoc connection is just a bonus. I haven't check your wpa_suplicant, it could be different with mine. there's possibility that your wpa_suplicant support secure connection but mine simply doesn't support it.
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] Nirdh:
Possible. I had once come across a source file for wpa_supplicant, in some forum. I'll send you a link of the same if I get it once again, and then may be we could try to figure out how we could have both the things (Secure + Reliable ad hoc) :)

Edit: Link to the forum regarding source of wpa_supplicant, for anyone interested to solve disconnection and security issues.
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] leodasal2:
bookmarked :)
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] Avilove.Cullen:
In my phone it just keeps on showing "obtainig IP address" (security mode)

but in open security mode i am able to use internet on my device!!!

Help
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] Nirdh:
Did you use the wpa_supplicant attached in this post, or did you obtain the file from any other source? Plus, have you disabled your antivirus firewall (if any)?

If your answer is yes to above questions, wait till it shows disconnected/remembered and then, turn off your wifi, turn it back on, and redo this about 2 to 3 times if problem exists. The problem you mentioned happens only during handshaking (initialization), and once you are connected, there is hardly any chance that you would get disconnected.

Do try the solution and get back to me. All the best :)
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] CarlDeanCatabay:
Make life easy, use connectify. If you would like to make life a lot easier, create a usb reverse tether mod :D
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] Avilove.Cullen:
i want reverse tether through wifi bro .. :D
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] Nirdh:
xD Yes yes indeed, connectify works like charm, but only on Windows 7 (as it allows virtual router mode in Win7) but to use it with XP and Vista, we need this wpa_supplicant work around. And reverse tether with USB exists already, plus there are a few issues that prevent us to download apps from market, and stuff like that due to tunneling issues...
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] Avilove.Cullen:
Solution for my problem :o ???
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] CharsiBabu:
How can you call it a 'reverse tether'?

Its more like ICS over WiFi.

Using Connectify,you create an access point (aka hotspot).

other options you can use :-

bzeek,virtual router

idk about linux :(
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] Nirdh:
Well, as I already said, Connectify creates access point only on Win7 (that too if there is hardware for it), on other OSes, it creates ad hoc network, which Android phones do not detect. And it is called reverse tether, because you are using your PC's ethernet connection on your WiFi (the ethernet connection is shared with your phone over WiFi). Virtual router also works well for Win7, not for other OSes, and this was the only work around that actually worked.
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] Nirdh:
Check your private message :) Hope it works
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] Samzter:
edited wpa_supplicants don't work anymore on latest SGY update (july 22 2012)

edited wpa_supplicants don't work anymore on latest SGY update (july 22 2012)!!! HELP
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] Samzter:
i updated my SGY via FOTA then after that it can't detect wifi via Connectify anymore. its build number is gingerbread.DLXA1.. i've also tried other wpa_supplicants posted here but still no luck. i guess i'll try to downgrade to gingerbread.DDLA1 via Odin, root then insert the old wpa_supplicant that worked before.. :rolleyes:
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] Michele02:
doesn't work on galaxy nexus... wifi doesn't even turn on (yes, I granted permissions) :eek:

any idea?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rik452:
Hey

I have installed Creed's ROM but now the only yhing I see is Samsung Galaxy Y Pro what can i do about it

Thanks:confused:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chepoz:
what do you actually want to say? you got a bootloop or what?

Sent from my Nokia 3310
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] santhoshssx:
What problem you have rik
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tadeas482:
Try to reflash.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rik452:
How to flash (I can only enter Download Mode and not the SD card apply shizzle)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chepoz:
use odin, n flash stock rom first.

Sent from my Nokia 3310
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anubis1126:
getting null null when typing on any rom i flash i downgraded again to kj1 and rooted still get null null upgraded to lc1 same thing tried ics same thing any ideas i have wiped dalvic etc thanks

edit flashed kingroid again thru cwm all ok but i upgrade to ics i get null null
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] matius44:
Some said reflashing the CSC file (or cache.img) again will help this issue, though you will lose your data (this will factory reset your phone)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aalupatti:
Select another keyboard.

@Galaxy Note™…
[Thinkpad Tablet General] boi_wunder978:
Hi I don't need my tablet since I'm getting a new laptop.

It is a 16GB Lenovo Tablet with keyboard folio and stylus. I also include a 8GB micro sd card.

$420 OBO.

Did i mention it is already rooted!!!!

I have it listed on ebay, under USED. Same name - boi_wunder978
[Thinkpad Tablet General] toenail_flicker:
Price would be nice for those interested.
[HTC Sensation] Akatosh:
Hey all. I just flashed the miui ics rom for the sensation which can be found under the sensation development section but at first I was getting 4 bars signal but now I'm constantly getting 0 whereas with every other rom at my house I got full bars. Is there any solution :(?
[HTC Sensation] Akatosh:
Hmm switched to virtuous insquition and now the bars are full but it says not registered on network..... Phone has never been locked. Appears I may have to call up o2
[HTC Sensation] GROGG88:
Check and verify your apn settings...
[HTC Sensation] Akatosh:
Tried, just says rejected by network
[HTC Sensation] Akatosh:
XDA rules mate, speak English.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] gm`:
Hi all.

I bought ace for my wife and wifi keep disconnecting I got few apps wifi fixer changed encrypted methods on the router still nothing.

Any ideas please?

Forgot to mentioned mobile is from vodafone UK running on 2.3.6

Please help
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] diegonnc:
i have the same problem when updating from 2.3.4 to 2.3.6, all you need to do is to downgrade to 2.3.4 and you should be fine;)
[HTC EVO 3D] Fertyop:
I've been having this issue for a while now. 2D works just fine on the camera, but 3D makes the camera app freeze. When I take a picture, it goes to the review and then freezes, the picture isn't saved at all. I have to open task manager and close the app because it makes my phone stay in 3d mode.

I am using LeeDroid v5.4 GSM, with the recent release of Aroma it allowed me to change back to stock camera app but it still doesn't work. I even tried both versions of the Amaze Camera app.

Any help? thanks.
[HTC EVO 3D] thefsfempire:
I know the problem is a little different by I found this thread which might help you: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1625376

EDIT: At the link above, see post #4. There is a link to a patch for the camera which may/may not fix your issue.
[HTC Rezound] magicnanners:
What's the likely hood that there will be a method for getting S-OFF without doing the wire trick in the somewhat near future? I really want to S-OFF but sticking wires into the back of my phone seems a little sketchy. I know that it would be hard to screw it up but still. Is it worth just biting the bullet and doing the wire trick or should I tough it out until there's another method?
[HTC Rezound] dogredwing1:
Just do it, it takes like 10min
[HTC Rezound] superchilpil:
It's doesn't hurt anything to do it, I've done it to 3 phones now with no Ill effects besides a sd card that needed to be reformatted

Now it can be tricky and a pain in the ass to do if you don't do it right but if you do get into a snag you could pm charliestheman or me and we will help you through it
[HTC Rezound] an-dru:
I finally s-off'd yesterday and I'm kinda disappointed I didn't do it earlier!!

It sounds way more intimidating than it really is. And honestly I'm not sure if a lot of people just can't read or what but as long as you follow the directions you'll be A-O.K.
[HTC Rezound] magicnanners:
Alright I think I'll try it tomorrow, hopefully my parents leave because if they see me shoving a wire in the back of my phone they'll flip XD. And before anyone asks yes I live at home but that's only because I'm 16 and no I promise I'm not the stereotypical douche teenager. I am really ashamed of my generation, I go to school with some of the biggest idiots I've ever know. I know this isn't really XDA related but I always feel like I have to defend myself whenever I mention I'm in highschool. :o
[HTC Rezound] michaelbsheldon:
s-0ff

Seriously, you'll be fine. Follow JBear's instructions to the "T",

do it in a well-lit place with no distractions, and touch ONLY the metal

contacts indicated. Takes 10 minutes....
[HTC Rezound] Po1soNNN:
i know what you mean. im 15 and most people assume i know nothing about this stuff which is totally wrong.

Anyway the wire trick is pretty easy it just takes a few tries and its definitely worth it if you like to switch between GB and ICS nandroids like me
[HTC Rezound] Snuzzo:
Before you start. I suggest doing a nandroid, transferring it to your PC, and make sure fastboot/adb works properly.
[HTC Rezound] mc_365:
it's nothing you don't even have to unscrew anything.
[HTC Rezound] rusty4k:
I am 67 yesterday i soffed and loaded the ics leak in about 20 min
[HTC Rezound] putney1477:
This is probably a dumb question. I'm itching to s off too, but a little scared. How do I make sure fastboot and adb works?
[HTC Rezound] tekhna:
Just try adb devices and see if it spits out a serial number.
[HTC Rezound] magicnanners:
Yeah my problem is I don't know much about this stuff :o this is my first smartphone and I'm learning as I go, luckily I have a friend at school who's a total android guru who I go to before I bug you guy's XD. But I just want to thank all of you for your help :-) I most likely will try to S-OFF tomorrow since it's getting late and I need my phone to work tonight and tomorrow morning. Again thanks you guys :-)
[HTC Rezound] sknight13602:
Seriously man just make sure you hit the right connectors and you will be fine it ain't hard and worse case scenario it bricks and you get a new one. It's easy man trust me.
[HTC Rezound] fuzzynco:
recovery from failed s-off attempt

prior to attempting, I did a full nandroid backup with amonra recovery.

switched cards and ran the setup, it looked like all was working

but wire trick didn't for me. going to try again, with stiffer wire.

after battery pull, I rebooted to hboot fastboot and restored

the amon ra recovery with fastboot. I can reboot to amon ra now.

I tried normal boot and that failed to run. I thought the controlbear was

putting part software was part of itself in recovery, should it have written

on the real OS partitions?

hboot says unlocked, s-on, hboot-2.10.000

restore of the amon ra leaves me with juopunutbear in green in center of

screen on normal boot.

how do I recover?

the card contains boot.img, cache.img, data.img, recovery.img, system.img

do I need to fastboot flash parts of it? I'm unsure what it did?
[HTC Rezound] Snuzzo:
After re-flashing Amon RA, use con's Nandroid helper or pull boot.img and "fastboot flash boot boot.mg" in hboot, in conjunction with a restore without the helper zip.

EDIT:

Once you gain s-off with the utility you won't need to do the above steps, as you will then be able to restore your boot.img without the assistance of either.
[HTC Rezound] fuzzynco:
[Solved] Thanks... where can find the utility?

nandroid helper

So I need to boot to hboot / fastboot

then fastboot flash boot boot.img,

then restore the rest with amon ra?

Or were they already restored and just boot.img

needs manual loading?

next time I'll know to fastboot flash the boot.img

I guess that's due to s-on recovery can't restore

itself and boot?

==> resolved. Everything is back up from the backup.
[HTC Rezound] Snuzzo:
Already there. You can't restore a boot.img in recovery "natively" with s-on.
[HTC Rezound] control_logic:
I was wondering about doing a backup, maybe somebody can point me in the right direction. I am on the ICS leak from a month or so ago. Everything works, so I don't even know why I'm thinking about this, but anyway, I'd like to do s-off because I love flashing different roms. My problem is I have a few apps that I use a lot, but they generate their own ID so to speak. They don't use a login and if I lose the data I already have, all my contacts on the apps are toast. I assume that the data for those apps must reside in the phone somewhere, but, I have no idea where, and I really would be hating life if I lost it.

/rant

App makers, please let us use email/password to effing identify ourselves instead of some randomly generated crap!

/end rant
[HTC Rezound] fuzzynco:
So I guess the utility

makes the boot.img into an PH98IMG.zip for hboot to process?

Something like the ROM kernel modules are done?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] abheshekk:
Hi,

I didnt like the german stock ICS which I have installed on my gnote as It lags so I want to go to CM9 can anyone pleaase tell me how and what will not work on CM9.

Thanx
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] moyajaya:
CM9 is stable enough as a daily driver. The only bugs so far are the microphone when using the phone speaker and USB on the go and MHL. Other than that it's the best ROM for the galaxy note.

As to how to install it, I'd suggest you flash a pre rooted stock ROM using PC Odin and reboot into recovery and flash the CM9 followed by gapps. Perform a wipe of the system as well as the cache and Dalvic and you should be good to go.

Do the procedure above at your own risk. It should be safe but you never know what could go wrong...
[General Questions and Answers] DrDubzz:
I just upgraded to a One X on AT&T from a captivate. Now I have said captivate... and no particular purpose for it. I plan to flash every ROM available for it just for fun, but I don't know if there are any good applications that would give me a reason to keep it, or if I should try to sell it.

Anyone know what a phone like that would go for at this point (2 years after release)?
[General Questions and Answers] Zorigo:
Captivate? Brother to the Galaxy S i9000?

Perhaps 150 quid, that's how much i paid for my SGS a few months a go when i bought it second hand, and it was cheap to get it for 150.

But if you're interested in testing roms from captivate devs, you'd earn some serious kudos for it. Doesn't hurt to have allies, especially devs
[General Questions and Answers] DrDubzz:
Testing ROMs wouldn't be a bad idea. Although, I cant test call quality anymore.
[General Questions and Answers] Decifra:
Personally I would donate it to some charity, the phone is near its eol and developers will be moving off to new phones but to make sure ask around in the phone's forum to see if any dev will like to have it, its always good when they can test on another device...
[General Questions and Answers] bjoswald:
Donate to charity, donate to family, donate to developers, keep it as a back-up, or just tinker with it to learn about how phones work.
[General Questions and Answers] devwithzachary:
Install Linux on it? :D
[General Questions and Answers] Hanzo.Hasashi:
Noooow that's a good idea!!:D

Send from beneath my cloak of magic
[General Questions and Answers] AidenSurvival:
Price point? $50 if in moderate condition. Higher if quality is near-mint condition.
[General Questions and Answers] Binary Droids:
Kids? Try turning it into a kid-friendly wifi-only device. (Not as easy as it sounds)

I'm getting ready to turn an old Samsung Admire into an XBMC remote...

Or, as mentioned above, test ROMs.

Sent from my Epic 4G Touch
[General Questions and Answers] Luvnuts:
I am in the same position and thinking of making my Desire HD a WiFi only device for my young lad to play games on during car journeys etc.
[General Questions and Answers] z33dev33l:
Does it blend?
[General Questions and Answers] ppp90139:
change platform,Install Linux on it.
[General Questions and Answers] redo80:
testing firm or donate
[Windows Phone 7 General] john9:
Whenever Apple releases an update for iOS, all iPhone owners can download and install the updated OS for free. Updates for Android phones work in different ways. As an owner of any Android phone you are at the mercy of hardware manufacturer (Samsung, HTC etc) to get Android update. Most Android hardware companies release a few update and most companies don't release updates at all. So, once you buy an Android 2.3 device, even though Google releases next version of Android, most likely you will have be be happy with that as there will be no update from your phone manufacturer probably. My question: Do Windows phone (starting Windows Phone version 7) owners get free OS updates like iPhone owners ?
[Windows Phone 7 General] Majorlamda:
It's more like iPhone way. Currently, your Windows Phone can have the last update released by Microsoft, but depends on your carrier. If your device was bought in a classic shop (no carrier firmware), you will have all the updates. On the contrary, the carrier could stop an update but has the obligation to do the next one.
[Windows Phone 7 General] KathiKibbles:
Updates are free, in that you do not have to pay for them.

However, "official updates" are indeed carrier dependent. Meaning that if your carrier opts not to make an update available to your particular phone on your particular carrier, you cannot get the "official update"

However, as soon as an "official update" such as Mango, or even now Tango, becomes available, there are ways for you to install the update yourself, even without having to have any sort of "rooting" or "unlock."

I was worried about not being able to get the official update when it came out, after installing early on my own, and had no problems (just loaded an old backup version).

Hope this answers your question!
[Windows Phone 7 General] Duffau:
Hopefully this will change in the future (carrier dependent updates, not free updates). As WP is growing, they may have more leverage and bypass the carrier like apple. Not likely though, IMO
[Windows Phone 7 General] alice901212:
there are ways for you to install the update yourself, even without having to have any sort of "rooting" or "unlock."
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] voidbyte:
I was trying to follow the steps to root my Galaxy SL GT i9003 "Gingerbread 2.3.6 JPKPE".

I cant seem to get the option in the USB settings that says "Ask on connection", I only have "Samsung Kies" and "Mass Storage" and "Music Player".

Rooting using Super one click isn't working, I guess it's because of the USB settings.

What should I do?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saywhatt:
Try Odin.. it's easier :D
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] superkavvy:
Now.. If u got your phone rooted then its fine but if not I would advice you to backup your data and reflash ROM, prefrebly DDKP3..

And root through Odin with Bagaria CF root as pda...Alldone!!

Be sure to first flash XXKPE and then DDKP3!!:rolleyes: