[Acer Iconia A500] PBates123:
UBee Stick PXU1964 4G - noobe trying to get it working

Hey There hoping for a little direction.

I tried PPPWidget on my Acer A500 rooted with JellyTime+ Ver. 4.1.2. I have a 4G dongle from Freedompop it's a Ubee Stick PXU1964.

Plugging in the stick It seams to lock and get 2 bars of signal. The Widget recognizes its plugged in but then says "no drivers". The Widget directory shows no files in any of folders - cfg,lib or log I don't know if that is normal or not.

Using the Terminal emulator I was able to get to the stick and in the browser display the setup screen. But I still can't get to the net.

Anyone get any further??

Any help would be appreciated sure would like to get this working.:good:

Here is what I have done so far:

on tablet launch terminal prgm

type: su "rtn"

type: netcfg (check eth0 or eth1or usb0 or usb1 is up; if down do next step)

type: ifconfig eth0 up

type: dhcpcd eth0

type: setprop dns1 66.233.127.12 (or use whatever DNS server you wish)

type: ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.2 (just picked this ip)

Launch browser go to stick setup adr (192,168.14.1) - displays Ubee Stick setup screen

try google.com says not connected

Update: March 7,2013

YAHOOOO Success~~

I have successfully been able to repeatedly connect to the FreedomPop 4G network with my A500 and JellyTime (JellyBean Spinoff Custom ROM). And also I have optimized the process to just 4 steps and it does not require any connections to a PC or other device.

This requires the tablet be Rooted.

Plug in your FreedomPop Ubee Stick PXU1964 USB 4G Dongle - should work with any dongle though

Launch your Terminal emulator.

Check to see if the Dongle green light stays on indicating it has acquired a signal and that

you have some bars of signal.

At the prompt

type: su ( To invoke super user access)

type: Ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.12 ( Can be any IP address you choose (You can type: netcfg to confirm the Dongle is seen by the Tablet)

type: dhcpcd eth0 ( Wait for lease to complete and next prompt.)

type: setprop net.dns1 8.8.8.8 (use any dns server - I used Google's free dns server or 8.8.4.4 also Google)

Thats all there is to it.

You can check things are setup correctly by:

typing: netcfg

It will reply with all connected devices and eth0 will show the IP address and port - mine was 192.168.1.12/24 and reading

further it shows the MAC address of the Dongle.

Launch your favorite browser and input 192.168.14.1 (for the FreedomPop PXU1964) for the URL or what ever URL is required by your device.

The FreedomPop setup screen should appear. Click on Network about center screen and it should show how many bytes transferred.

Click on the Advanced Link and insure it's set to NAT Mode.

Open another browser window and select your favorite Web Site URL and it should come up!

Happy 4g browsing!!!!! Seems to work pretty good even with one or two bars although the download is fastest when all the bars are lite and

the signal to noise ratio is at its best......

Next project is to script this process and automate it - unfortunately I don't know how to do that so I have some studying to do before I can ----

That is unless someone takes pity on me and points me in the right direction.... Any takers to help an old man? (;>

Thanx in advance.....

Last Update April 15th, 2013

Within a couple of days of my last post I found out how to automate the process above. It is actually very simple. It would have been nice if someone would have thrown a dog bone as it would have only taken a couple of minutes. Guess nobody ever looks at these old posts?? Anyway If your trying to connect try this it might work.

Download SManager and SMWidgets from the Google Play Store - the free version(s) works fine or you can use any Text Editor although SManager ads is really nice for making scripts. SMWidgets is needed to make the widget and generate the Icon to launch your application from the Home Screen.

Launch SManager access the tool bar and select "New Script" Enter a filename, I choose FreedomPop.sh - Notice the ( .SH) that tells android it is a script - similar to .bat in DOS.

Enter the filename and press ok. SManager responds with "Open With..." and provides options for editing. Choose SM Editor or a text editor.

After the line: #!/system/bin.sh

type: Ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.12 ( Can be any IP address you choose) Optional -You can type: netcfg to confirm the Dongle is seen by the Tablet

type: dhcpcd eth0 ( Wait for lease to complete and next prompt.)

type: setprop net.dns1 8.8.8.8 (use any dns server - I used Google's free dns server or 8.8.4.4 also Google)

Select save or back out to the file screen, it will ask if you wish to save your work. Say yes. Find your script in the listing and press and hold until the menu comes up. Select (Open as...) and Open As... Script/Executable.

On the 3rd Line select the "SU" icon.

On the default (4th Line)make sure to select "Is script".

At this point you can change the Alias which should contain the script name you choose.

Save your work.

Hit run to test out your script.

Lastly grab the SMWidgets icon from the widgets icons screen and move it to an available space on your home screen. It will launch and select

"Add one script widget" Select your script and it will create a quick launch Icon that will launch your script.

Good Luck!