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[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k3nmill3r:
I am using Bangsters 1.3a and after running the script he provided a link to I have no problem with WiFi tethering... honestly have not used the USB tether
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lacusxharo:
I have FroyoStone Sense v3.1 and Wifi tethering works for me.

keep in mind that after you connect ur computer to ur wifi hotspot, it can take a minute or two for windows to obtain internet access through ur device.

for me, it usually takes about a minute.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] john17:
I try NexusHD2-FRG83_V1.1_(Froyo 2.2.1) and its works but the internet dont work so well its on and off..
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lucian777:
If there is no internet on your pc after connection try add the dns 8.8.8.8 manually on TCP/IP.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] imphoking:
+1 works perfectly
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lucian777:
Glad :)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] apeatan:
Works with me. :)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] memin1857:
FOR WIFI TETHERING:

Renew the ip address your pc AFTER its connected to hd2 and complains about no internet connection (no traffic) You can do this by entering the command

ipconfig /renew

to start menu or cmd screen. (Don't repair wireless connection, wait till it gives up)

FOR USB TETHERING:

Normally windows vista/7 shouldn't need driver, but sometimes it does. (Mostly because of droid explorer) So when you make usb tethering, if your phone is just listed as Android Phone in your device manager. Download and install tetherxp.inf for Android Phone in device manager. Click update driver in device manager for android phone and browse to folder that contains tetherxp.inf file. (This works for vista/7 too)

Download: http://www.android.com/drivers/tetherxp.inf

I can confirm that wifi AND usb tethering works with all builds I have tried that does not give error while enabling it. But I almost always need to renew my ip. (and it automatically updates dns settings too) I think DHCP is late for many builds and ip request times out in pc.

I remember, one time I needed to disable WPA, enable then disable tethering and reenable WPA and it worked. IP renewal always works. Give feedback for your experience please. (Whether these instructions worked or not)

I made it work with nexus, desire, desire hd, desire z and evo builds. I was usually using hastarin kernels.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] surfer4288:
Thanks for your help but I kerosene getting a response that's says "No operation can be performed on local area connection while it has itsunami media disconnected."
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kmthomas2009:
Is it possible to get the droid 2/x lockscreen on the captivate?? i like the lockscreen and would be kool to have on the captivate.
[Droid X General] ttereve:
is it just me or does the camera on the droid X seem kinda... cheap? yeah its 8mp with 720p video, but the pictures just lack a lot of detail (and are often a tinsy bit blurry)

It just seems that my old N1 was waaaayyyyyyy ahead in the camera department, and it was a bit older than the DX. I'm just wondering if anybody else feels that the camera is lacking for a high end device like this...
[Droid X General] kash521:
Prior to the droid X, I had a samsung vibrant and a nexus one. The nexus one camera was definitely better, and the vibrant was miiiiiiles ahead. The DX cameras doesn't focus very well...
[Droid X General] amathophobia:
In my experience I have taken amazing photos and some that looked like complete crap. Oddly enough using vignette I seem to get consistantly better photos than I would using the stock camera app. It might be worth checking out.
[Droid X General] toddman:
Any camera that has the optics the size of a mustard seed isn't going to be that great unless the lighting is perfect and there is no motion. I can't wait to see cell phones with 20 Megapixels of pure grainy crap. Unless the lens gets bigger, don't expect much.
[Droid X General] caal920:
Yep....it's all about the lens. If you want better pictures, download Vignette...it'll let you make the pictures look good even if they aren't great to start out with.
[Droid X General] xmetl:
lol you think this is crap? try comparing this phone to the Droid incredible's HORRIBLE excuse for a camera, thne u tell me if you still think its crap
[Droid X General] Corey@rabbit:
I always though htc's cameras were better. Maybe a bit saturated, but no where near as grainy. To each their own right :p

Basically dont take pics inside with the DX, and even if they do look grainy, they will look 10x better when reviewing on a comp.
[Droid X General] Roland Deschain:
It's not all about the lens...it's all about the sensor, and the sensor on the DX is garbage. The only way to help overcome a crappy sensor is to have very good lighting conditions, and even that is only a modest bump.
[Droid X General] MrDanger:
The pictures sucks... when you look at them ON THE PHONE.

They look 10x better when printed or on the computer... as Bad4U stated earlier.
[Droid X General] JoeyBert:
The Incredibles camera isn't bad at all. What are you basing that on?
[Droid X General] rehpyc:
Isn't the poor compression methods a part of the issue leading to crappy quality pics?
[Droid X General] sp1kez:
****ty blurry pics is all I get with the x, vignette doesnt do much better...
[Droid X General] gunkle:
I put my camera on steady shot and get awesome pics almost every time. Have 179 pics on my card of my daughter (1st kid) all taken with my droid x. Everyone that sees them can't believe the are from a phone.
[Droid X General] refuse2bstopped:
LMAO!!! I hear you on that one.
[Droid X General] Dust Maker:
I'm actually pretty impressed with the camera, took some great photos this weekend. I just don't use it as my primary camera.
[Droid X General] astraelraen:
I have a fascinate and X in my family.

IMO the fascinate camera takes pictures that are miles ahead of the X.

The X takes horrible indoor pictures, they are blurry and always out of focus. The Fascinate actually takes really good indoor pictures for a cell phone. I would say it takes as good or better indoors pics than some point and shoot cameras.

Outdoors I think there is less of a difference in picture quality between the two, but the colors on the fascinate seem like they are better. Maybe that is just because they are viewed on the Fascinate's screen, which has better colors IMO. I have not compared the two on the computer.
[Droid X General] ttereve:
I just want to point out however that I recently discovered that the macro shots with this thing are quite good.

You can really tell, as these were all taken with my DX and the macro shots look actually decent, here
[Droid X General] benlane:
Most times good pictures

I've had a number of phones with cameras to include Droid, Dinc, SF and an endless array of WM. The Droid X setup with steady shot and then waiting for the green bars produces some of the best pics I've had. The Sammy SF was okay but seemed over saturated with color.

The real plus for me is the dedicated hardware button. When I travel I often ask other picture takers to take a picture of my group with me in it. Trying to explain touching the screen vs pushing the button is a little strange for most.

Just my 2 cents.

Also, I use Photoshop Express. It does a nice job for editing AND allows batch upload to Facebook. Important when you maintain a travel log.
[Droid X General] goose71:
freezing up!

ever since i got froyo my camera/camcorder has been crapping out on my on several occassions. there are times i take pictures and nothing shows up, or the camera will just close altogether. the only way to fix it is by doing a hard reset/battery pull. any ideas/fixes?

Droid x rooted, 2.2, version 2.3.15.mb810, no themes.
[Droid X General] tmar23:
Vignette has helped with indoor pictures, or pictures in poor lighting. Not sure how or why, though? I really think it improves indoor/dark pictures quite a bit, imo. Overall, after using vignette, I think the camera is good enough for most of my use. I think pics in good lighting look very good on my x, with or without vignette.
[G2 and Desire Z General] sherifone:
Interestingly enough if you install Launcher Pro or similar you can pop right on over to the Froyo AP settings.

Its very straight-forward, all you need to do is long press your homescreen, create a shortcut/activity that goes directly to the Wifi AP settings, what you are looking for is:

com.android.settings.wifi.WifiApSettings

Its as exactly as you would find on the Nexus One, its just hidden from the standard menus to keep the noobs out I suppose. Hopefully they leave this in, since the cat is out of the bag! :)

Edit:

HamNCheese has figured out that the temp root is necessary to kick things off. Its not really complex, here is his instructions:
[G2 and Desire Z General] sino8r:
Ha! Nice find...
[G2 and Desire Z General] InGeNeTiCs:
You beat me to it! I was just noticing that switchpro has an option to enable hotspot access. I still couldn't get to it, but the ssid popped up on my laptop.

This feature would make waiting for root soooo much easier. lol

Stupid dhcp...
[G2 and Desire Z General] electronicrice:
Holy crap dude there it is! That's awesome. Thanks a lot for finding that out. Hopefully it does stay in.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Master Loon:
Were you actually able to connect. My devices keep waiting to obtain an ip address
[G2 and Desire Z General] cmstlist:
Rather than install an entirely new launcher, you could probably access this by installing AnyCut and creating a shortcut from there. Good luck to all you folks in G2 land!
[G2 and Desire Z General] sino8r:
yeah, its not working. good find still though.
[G2 and Desire Z General] phpdiddy:
I can get to it, but it's not working for me. Gets enabled, shows up on my laptop, but I never get an IP to use.
[G2 and Desire Z General] philosophics:
I can't get anything to connect with it though so that's kind of a bust. Nice work on the hunt though!

Sent from my HTC Vision
[G2 and Desire Z General] InGeNeTiCs:
To all of you trying to make it work, it doesn't. Something is disabled in the IP tables or something to that effect. The hotspot menu was removed from the settings.apk from the g2 shipped rom as another way to try and disable hotspot access. Looks like we're getting close!
[G2 and Desire Z General] HamNCheese:
I'm unable to get it up and running either. I see the SSID, but no valid connection.

Hopefully there's a simple workaround :)
[G2 and Desire Z General] HamNCheese:
Actually, everything is present - modules, iptables, etc. People are using the other wifi tether package successfully.
[G2 and Desire Z General] mingkee:
I think I found a solution.

We need to have an application to direct 3G data through post-added firewall and DHCP server, and direct to "hidden" hotspot.

When the application starts, it'll enable hotspot, and it'll get data from the network like other internet-based application, and direct to firewall/DHCP, and finally goes to the hotspot.

It's much like easytether or PDAnet, but the destination is hotspot instead of USB.

In addition, this application should have more options than native mobile hotspot like SSID hiding, site filtering, MAC address filtering.
[G2 and Desire Z General] acis:
Which wifi tether package is currently working?
[G2 and Desire Z General] RaffieKol:
YOUR CAN TETHER YOUR PHONE TO YOUR PC WITH "EASY TETHER"

Edit: IT WORKS You can Tether your phone using it

Has Anyone Tried "Easy Tether"
[G2 and Desire Z General] HamNCheese:
Here's a workaround to get things working (for now)

Step 1: get root

Step 2: Add the wifi settings shortcut as posted in this thread and configure your AP

Step 3: Create dnsmasq.conf:

no-resolv
no-poll
server=208.67.222.222
server=208.67.220.220
dhcp-authoritative

Step 4: adb push dnsmasq.conf to /data/local/tmp

Step 5: create wifi.sh:

echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

./busybox ifconfig wl0.1 192.168.1.1

dnsmasq --strict-order --bind-interfaces --pid-file=/data/local/tmp/dnsmasq.pid --conf-file=/data/local/tmp/dnsmasq.conf --listen-address 192.168.1.1 --dhcp-range 192.168.1.2,192.168.1.254 --dhcp-lease-max=253

iptables -t nat --append POSTROUTING --out-interface rmnet0 -j MASQUERADE

iptables --append FORWARD --in-interface wl0.1 -j ACCEPT

Step 6: adb push wifi.sh to /data/local/tmp

Step 7: su, change to /data/local/tmp and run wifi.sh

Step 8: (important) Connect to your AP only after dnsmasq is started, otherwise you will get weird DNS failures.

Credit to teferi for his original USB tether script.

:)
[G2 and Desire Z General] Arcadia310:
Can't wait for this feature to be ready.
[G2 and Desire Z General] mingkee:
Can easytether do it over wifi????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
[G2 and Desire Z General] Anomaly:
Gotta wait till next month to get this phone. :( But.

Why can't you give yourself a static IP in the same subnet as the phone and use the phone as your DNS server? Or is it not routing either?
[G2 and Desire Z General] sherifone:
Haven't tried that, but there might be an issue with trying to steal an IP from the T-Mobile dhcp pool.
[G2 and Desire Z General] HamNCheese:
Because iptables will not masquerade that traffic until you tell it to. You can't just send traffic from one host to another (as a gateway), and expect that to be forwarded elsewhere. See the script above, that's exactly what needs to happen linux-wise.
[G2 and Desire Z General] bentglasstube:
I tried using AnyCut and doing the "Make Your Own" option to make this shortcut, but I cannot figure out exactly what it wants from me. Has anyone else used that method to create the shortcut?
[G2 and Desire Z General] mikeybot:
Followed everything and when calling to wifi.sh got this:

:directory nonesistent: cannon create /proc/sys/net/piv4/pi_forward

:not found

/data/local/tmp/wifi.sh: ./busybox :not found

:not found

dnsmasq: bad command line options: try --help

:not found

'ptables v1.3.7: invalid target name 'MASQUERADE

Try 'iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more information.

:not found

Something I'm missing?
[G2 and Desire Z General] bentglasstube:
Regarding launching the wifi ap settings, if you don't want to bother with making a shortcut, you can run the following (from terminal emulator or adb):

am start -a android.settings.SETTINGS -n com.android.settings/.wifi.WifiApSettings
[G2 and Desire Z General] cumminbr:
Has anyone gotten it working yet?
[G2 and Desire Z General] alansj:
This means that every time you want to start up the AP you have to get root and re-do step 7, right?
[G2 and Desire Z General] TheArtiszan:
Yeh also when I try and run the wifi.sh command I get the following output:

# /data/local/tmp/wifi.sh: cannot create /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_f: directory nonexistent

: not found

/data/local/tmp/wifi.sh: ./busybox: not found

: not found

dnsmasq: bad command line options: try --help

: not found

'ptables v1.3.7: Invalid target name `MASQUERADE

Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more information.

: not found

#

does anyone know why this is happening or has anyone had this work for them

with the conf and sh just copy those into a plain txt file without that extension right?

If anyone has files that work can be attached?
[G2 and Desire Z General] Anderdroid:
Having the same problem... Where's the solution?
[G2 and Desire Z General] TheArtiszan:
I feel like a goof asking again but has anyone got this working. I even deleted the files and readded it.

I did install wifi tether for root users. Do you think that may have caused a problem with it. But was uninstalled and still not working

Basically I reboot the phone.

run scripts to get root

start wifi tether on device in settings menus

config the name and wpa security

try and run the script and that is when I get the error.
[G2 and Desire Z General] arich:
you could just install PDAnet, we all like free but it's a sweet alternative until we get full root
[G2 and Desire Z General] Anderdroid:
PDANet doesn't do WiFi does it? And I want true infrastructure... Not ad hoc.
[G2 and Desire Z General] schwiz:
Yeah PdaNet isn't helping me tether my ipad :-P
[G2 and Desire Z General] rpmccormick:
I use "Wifi Tether for Root Users", but as pointed out, it is Ad-Hoc, not Inf., and therefore it does not work with Android Tablets (not sure about iPad)

"Wired Tether for Root Users" says the kernel is not compatible or something, so for now I have installed PDA-NET for USB tethering.
[G2 and Desire Z General] ochlo:
If you run the "wifi.sh" script you will be behind NAT and can use a static IP. iptables won't forward any traffic w/o specific rules set up to do so.
[G2 and Desire Z General] TheArtiszan:
I tried wifi tether for root users it starts and gets connected but limited as well no ip addressing.
[G2 and Desire Z General] bogdan87:
I'm getting the same error as everyone =( sighh...

Wifi is broadcasting but no connection.
[G2 and Desire Z General] TheArtiszan:
Has anyone got this script to work. Not going thru for me. If anyone has can you point out a way to fix or upload you dnsmasq.conf and wifi.sh files.
[G2 and Desire Z General] shizenyasuya:
has anybody tried...

i dont have this phone, but getting this feature to work is one of the main things i will want if i do get this or the new mytouch soon.

sorry for the digression. what i wanted to say is, has anybody tried getting the ip tables from the galaxy s phones that have already been prooven to work with this app. i know that one of the things necessary to get it to work in the vibrant and captivate required altering a csv file. basically it was just a list of android features and the value for mobile ap was set to 0, but once it was set to 1, it showed up in the menu like it does in stock android before t-mo / att sets it to 0 now if they additionally removed ip tables, it seems to me that if they were just taken from a non-neutered device, and placed in the correct folder, that everything should work
[G2 and Desire Z General] Akulamenuri:
How do you create dnsmasq.conf :(
[G2 and Desire Z General] bogdan87:
....

right click on desktop or the folder you are in... New - > File.... name it.. dnsmasq.conf copy the setting and paste... do the same for wifi.sh
[G2 and Desire Z General] mediathreat:
anyone got this to work yet? not working for me.

can you get wifi tethering with temp root?
[G2 and Desire Z General] dezt818:
Yes you can:cool:

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[G2 and Desire Z General] bogdan87:
.... and how do you do that?
[G2 and Desire Z General] notxel21:
After you temp root install this Android wifi-tether: http://android-wifi-tether.googlecode.com/files/wireless_tether_2_0_5-pre10.apk
[G2 and Desire Z General] oldsk00lz:
Ok, this works great! Thanks guys.

I was getting errors running the wifi.sh until I actually ran:

I'll need to remember how to set it up with Anycut now. :)

Thanks HamNCheese, bentglasstube, tefari, sherifone...

-oldsk00lz
[G2 and Desire Z General] ochlo:
wpa_supplicant Hosed

Update: Encryption works w/ android-wifi-tether pre-11 and VISIONary! I haven't tested to see if VISIONary fixed the issue or if the new version of a-w-t fixed the issue...

This works for me without encryption only. Same with android-wifi-tether. I am going to grep to find out where the config is stored from the hidden WiFi AP menu but I am wondering if it is a driver issue... In the source for android-wifi-tether they comment on the hardware detection:

"we really need a better method to detect such stuff."

I also noticed that for the method mentioned in this thread you have to kill dnsmasq if you toggle the AP setting off and want to use it at a later time. I added it to my wifi.sh:

killall dnsmasq
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
busybox ifconfig wl0.1 192.168.1.1
dnsmasq --strict-order --bind-interfaces --pid-file=/data/local/tmp/dnsmasq.pid --conf-file=/data/local/tmp/dnsmasq.conf --listen-address 192.168.1.1 --dhcp-range 192.168.1.2,192.168.1.11 --dhcp-lease-max=10
iptables -t nat --append POSTROUTING --out-interface rmnet0 -j MASQUERADE
iptables --append FORWARD --in-interface wl0.1 -j ACCEPT
[G2 and Desire Z General] InkBlot14:
Like mikebot and others, I was getting this error message when running wifi.sh. After poking at it today, i figured out my problem and got it to work!

I'd created the wifi.sh using TextPad, it's an app like Notepad++, and I like it because it's a bit more robust than plain ol' Notepad. After I used adb push to get it to the phone, anytime I ran it I'd get those errors. Then I looked at the file on the phone. It looked just liked I entered it, with a /M at the end of each line!

It's something to do with how Windows/DOS treats text files, versus how UNIX based systems treat text files. Now, in textpad, my solution was to go to File > SaveAs, and change the save type to "Text file - UNIX". I believe Notepad++ can also do this, but the stock Notepad in windows does not.

So, if your wifi.sh isn't working, look at on your phone in Terminal Emulator (I used 'vi wifi.sh' to do so), and see if there's extra characters at the end of each line. If so, there's your problem.
[G2 and Desire Z General] mikeybot:
Thanks, I'll have to try that out. I acutally copied it over to SciTE to try to avoid that problem, even deleting and hitting enter again at the end of the line.
[G2 and Desire Z General] ochlo:
If anyone is really struggling with this I would suggest installing VISIONary (avail. in the market as of 10/18/10) and installing android-wifi-tether (pre-11 worked for me WITH encryption.) Makes this very very simple.

Tether: code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/
[G2 and Desire Z General] androidtoy09:
About the tethering without encryption, I noticed it failed when I use encryption option.

Without encryption, it works just fine. Given rooted of course.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Stryf3:
New OTA enables wifi hotspot capability!!
[G2 and Desire Z General] taylorcc:
In anycut select activity then scroll to the "Settings" list. AP settings is #6
[G2 and Desire Z General] Shady Gambino:
Riiiiiiight... source?
[G2 and Desire Z General] mingkee:
http://www.tmonews.com/2010/10/t-mobile-g2-ota-rolling-out-brings-wifi-calling/

I'd wait till somebody reports.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Lingj:
Can anyone explain to me step 7. Not sure how to run or change su.
[G2 and Desire Z General] The Great NY:
There is already proof in the general section about the OTA. And its real apparently
[G2 and Desire Z General] jonathan3579:
But ya know, I'd like someone to take a video and prove it. Maybe I'm just being a skeptic but pictures just aren't justifying the claim for me.
[G2 and Desire Z General] HamNCheese:
They aren't going to give you tethering for free in any OTA... Not after reducing the data cap and reminding everyone that it's prohibited just couple of days ago...
[G2 and Desire Z General] selectodude:
They're going from throttling at 10GB to throttling at 5GB and they've always allowed tethering on all their blackberries so I don't know why they would nix it in an android device.

Could be worse, we could be paying an extra 15 dollars to access 2GB using the computer instead of the phone.
[G2 and Desire Z General] KCRic:
Umm, that's wifi calling NOT wifi hotspot. No connection at all. One allows you to make calls over wifi and the other lets you share your internet connection with other devices.