I am a bit confused. Saw the specs on some of the websites and some indicated that Galaxy nexus has WiFi direct whereas some indicated that it doesn't. Although I found WiFi direct settings in the settings menu, I am unsure how to use it. I mean, after connecting the galaxy Nexus to my laptop through WiFi direct, I can't find an option to share files through it. Please can someone help me out. Am I missing something?
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I think this only works phone to phone. Like another phone with WiFi direct.
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Hello, I am also very interested to find out how WiFi direct works. I have tried phone to phone connection as insuusvenerati suggested but it did not seem to work.
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I think this only works phone to phone. Like another phone with WiFi direct.
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I forgot to mention that when I tried WiFi direct on my galaxy S2 and Note, it gave me a option to send files through WiFi direct in gallery and it worked flawlessly but on galaxy nexus neither does it gives me an option to send file through WiFi direct nor it is able to receive file from the other end.
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So I have been struggling with this for a while but now have a solution. Our Galaxy Nexus has the capability to use it but you need an app to get it going for large files. URLs and small items will work, but pictures, videos and files need more.
WiFi Direct on the Galaxy Note and Galaxy S III uses NFC to establish the connection, but WiFi to send the material. On the Galaxy Nexus, it uses Bluetooth.
There is a WiFi direct app in the app store that you need to install to be able to send large files between the Galaxy Nexus and Galaxy Note or Galaxy S IIIs.
You really have to fiddle around with it to get it to work but once it does, you can send videos and stuff from your Galaxy Nexus to a Galaxy Note or a Galaxy S III. Also, as far as I know, you have to have the app on BOTH devices.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...1bGwsMSwyLDEsImRlLmo0dmVsaW4ud2lmaWRpcmVjdCJd
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Google screwed android beam, i was super excited to learn android beam had been updated to share pictures and even videos on jellybean, but guess what? android beam just activates bluetooth! and you send pictures and videos using bluetooth they take ages to transfer , how come the galaxy s iii use wifidirect ( with their marketing name "s-beam" ) ? so silly
Isnt there a way to force android beam to use wifi direct instead of bluetooth?
WiFi direct is in there along with Android beam
Samsungs S3 brings all three
WiFi direct
Android beam
S Beam
-Google
My friend has a galaxy s3 and i have the gnex and we shared pics no problem, especially speed..
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DerAmi said:
My friend has a galaxy s3 and i have the gnex and we shared pics no problem, especially speed..
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Is your friend's S3 running jelly bean?? I thought picture sharing was only available with Jelly Bean if you're using GNex's beam feature. I understand the S3 has S Beam but that won't work if you try to pair with a GNex, right?
Yep he is. You guys really should do research before creating forum topics.. Android beam uses NFC not Bluetooth. S-beam while yes using WiFi direct, the s3 also has the ability to share content through NFC.
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Where is the Wifi Direct setting in JB? I don't see it.
Nvm...found it in the Wifi settings.
I have to agree Android Beam is stupid slow. It took almost a full minute to transfer a 2mb image from one GNex to another.
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Chad_Petree said:
Google screwed android beam, i was super excited to learn android beam had been updated to share pictures and even videos on jellybean, but guess what? android beam just activates bluetooth! and you send pictures and videos using bluetooth they take ages to transfer , how come the galaxy s iii use wifidirect ( with their marketing name "s-beam" ) ? so silly
Isnt there a way to force android beam to use wifi direct instead of bluetooth?
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is your NFC even turned on? How about try going to settings>more>(check) NFC and you can see Andriod Bean via NFC
It is a chip stored in a battery do you expect it to take 2 seconds to transfer?
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Maybe not 2... but less than 10. 1 MB/s isn't unreasonable though so yeah, he probably does expect that.
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It is a chip stored in a battery do you expect it to take 2 seconds to transfer?
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That's just the antenna isn't it?
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DerAmi said:
Yep he is. You guys really should do research before creating forum topics.. Android beam uses NFC not Bluetooth. S-beam while yes using WiFi direct, the s3 also has the ability to share content through NFC.
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Maybe you should do some research as well.
In Jellybean:
Android Beam uses NFC as a matchmaker and transfer for basic things like URLs. For images, it is a matchmaker for BT.
NFC initiates connection and BT transfers.
NFC is too slow to transfer images. Are you really going to hold your devices together while you transfer a ~3+mb image for that long?
Max speed for NFC (standardized) 424Kbps. Slowest is 106. I have no idea which speed the Gnex uses, but its probably NOT the top end speed.
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It is a chip stored in a battery do you expect it to take 2 seconds to transfer?
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NFC antenna is in the battery. Not the NFC hardware itself.
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Maybe not 2... but less than 10. 1 MB/s isn't unreasonable though so yeah, he probably does expect that.
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I've transferred several mb images in a few seconds from my Gnex to N7. However it is wonky. The matchmaking process has issues. It took me 4 tries to get it to work to my N7, and Gnex to Gnex, it hasn't worked at all.
And your point? A radio needs an antenna does it not? It's supposed to be used to share light files not megabits of files. It may not be much, but again were talking about something slower than Bluetooth.
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DerAmi said:
And your point? A radio needs an antenna does it not? It's supposed to be used to share light files not megabits of files. It may not be much, but again were talking about something slower than Bluetooth.
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Maybe you missed the features of Jellybean.
http://mashable.com/2012/06/29/jelly-bean-android-beam/
My point is, IT IS for transferring pictures but the transmission medium is not NFC like you said.
It uses Bluetooth.
Also, my point about the antenna being in the battery, not the NFC chip, is to correct your mostly wrong information in this thread. You can't be going and telling people to research while you post incorrect information yourself.
The SGSIII uses Android Beam with Wifi Direct and calls it S-Beam....so there has to be a way to do the same with the GNEX!
Btw when I tried transferring an image to a SGSIII, it popped up with an error about not supporting such a big file or something. But it transferred fine GNEX to GNEX.
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Elisha said:
The SGSIII uses Android Beam with Wifi Direct and calls it S-Beam....so there has to be a way to do the same with the GNEX!
Btw when I tried transferring an image to a SGSIII, it popped up with an error about not supporting such a big file or something. But it transferred fine GNEX to GNEX.
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Not without surgery. S-Beam uses wifi-direct as the matchmaker, Android Beam uses BT. It would likely take changes to the source code to fix it, and I don't believe Android Beam is completely open source.
Dear OP
You don' t say something sucks unless that item/services trully really sucks. In this case your GN since it's you that seems to have issues with it.
As far as Android Beam is concern everthing works fine. Perhaps it's time to get yours check?
Would like to take a sec to thank adrynalyne for clearing up misinformation all over these forums posted by people who have no clue what there talking about.
That is all.
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Would like to take a sec to thank adrynalyne for clearing up misinformation all over these forums posted by people who have no clue what there talking about.
That is all.
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Yes! thank you adrylyne, perhaps people should make their own research before they say my nexus is broken lol , or that android beam doesnt use bluetooth to transfer files
Hey guys im reposting this here, original thread can be found here
Since the Galaxy Nexus has the same wlan chipset as the Nexus S and Galaxy S2 we should be able to get this working as well, would love to see kernel dev's implement this functionality to all kernels!
shoote said:
Greetings,
We are a group of 3 researchers and in the last few weeks we have successfully added "monitor mode" support to the common broadcom wifi chipsets: BCM4329 and BCM4330. We have a working PoC on Galaxy S 2 and Nexus One.
We opened a new blog with all of the details at:
http://bcmon.blogspot.com
For the lazy ones the current status is:
bcm4329 - Fully working monitor mode on our Nexus One
bcm4330 - successful PoC - monitor mode on Galaxy S II
We havent tested it yet, but if you have a phone with one of those chipsets (and you most probably have one), it should also work on your phone too.
We would appreciate any comments on the forum or to our mail "contact dot bcmon at gmail dot com"
Its been a long day (with little sleep) so good night/morning and enjoy
Ruby, Yuval and Omri
UPDATE: if you had wireless-tools errors with airodump-ng try the new utils.zip version.
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Can't wait to start auditing wifi networks with my Gnex
What does this do?
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What does this do?
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Making our wifi chipset turn into monitor mode from AP (access point) mode, most of it for hacking, just like in linux by using a program called kismet.
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this would definately be nice. at least for dumping.
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Wow, can't wait to try it out.
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Interested for sure!
#Galaxy Nexus HSPA+
Any updates on this?
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Any News ??
I cant imagine even after capturing enough ivs that decrypting the key would be very fast. WEP could work but WPA shouldn't even be tried. Except most WPA passwords now are just 10 numeric characters which are default on most gateways today. I've noticed that most people in my area aren't configuring their routers on their own. Even not being wep, default WPA is just as vulnerable if you can get a handshake.
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Hey guys,
I just placed an order for the following item which is Miricast pre-certified: http://www.netgear.com/home/products/hometheater/media-players/PTV3000.aspx#
As per several articles online such as this one http://www.theverge.com/2012/9/19/3356512/miracast-certification-wifi-direct-video-streaming , the Galaxy 3 is already Miricast enabled (I assume the technology is similar to its allshare cast).
My question therefore is how will I be able to enable/use that feature once I get my new Wireless Display Adapter? I assume it's an app to use, but as far as I'm aware there is not one yet on the market. Is this something we have to wait for Samsung to release as an update?
Thank you in advance for any help.
I belive you would use wifi direct to connect to the unit
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I belive you would use wifi direct to connect to the unit
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Makes sense, I'll try it out as soon as I can and report back. Thanks!
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Tried it out but it did connection failed, although it did identify the adapter and try to connect. I thought it was a WiFi direct problem with my Rom on my phone but I just tested it with my co worker and we can send stuff to each other no problem.
Any ideas?
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Okay just got off the phone with Samsung and they're saying only the International Galaxy 3 is miracast certified? Can anyone else confirm? I really only got the PTV3000 for this feature =/
Any ideas?
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Hi all,
I am planning to buy a Galaxy note 2 64gb when ever its released In Australia.
I also currently have a Nexus 7.
My qustion is, will I be able to use the nfc transfer feature (where you can tap the devices together to transfer photos etc) with my n7 and n2, like you can with the note 2 and galaxy s3, or nexus 7 and galaxy nexus.
Thanks in advance
Cheers
Corey
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Anyone? Lol
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If I have to guess I would say. For what I remember it was the purpose of android beam. Now I may be wrong as until now I only tried and made it work with Samsung devices. I included a screenshot of the NFC option of my NOTE2. I hope it will help
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I've got a Note 2 and N7, but I cant seem to get NFC to transfer files.
It seems to be a problem between Samsung S-beam and whatever the N7 uses.
If I try and send a photo from the Note 2, the N7 opens up the Play store and says "item not found"
If I try and share a web page, the browser will open on the other device, but it wont go to the page.
fishingfon said:
Hi all,
I am planning to buy a Galaxy note 2 64gb when ever its released In Australia.
I also currently have a Nexus 7.
My qustion is, will I be able to use the nfc transfer feature (where you can tap the devices together to transfer photos etc) with my n7 and n2, like you can with the note 2 and galaxy s3, or nexus 7 and galaxy nexus.
Thanks in advance
Cheers
Corey
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I have both note 2 and nexus 7 and android beam works fine and speed is also not that bad.
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I'm having similar issues as well. I have a Galaxy Nexus and my friend recently bought a Note 2, we tried sending each other pictures but either the Beam would fail or like the person a few posts above mine, it would open up in the Play Store with 'item not found' message.
ushneb said:
I'm having similar issues as well. I have a Galaxy Nexus and my friend recently bought a Note 2, we tried sending each other pictures but either the Beam would fail or like the person a few posts above mine, it would open up in the Play Store with 'item not found' message.
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Same here if I disable sbeam doesn't connect
Not fobbing you off but when ingot my s3 I got no help..your better asking the guys that have the tablet there is loads of threads in there now quite a few apps that will make use of the WiFi direct and NFC also..
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Actually I have galaxy s3 and nexuse device and I tried to use the NFC between the device. It doesn't support each other. But I don't know about the nexuse 7
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Note 2 and Nexus 7 transfer successful
I have a Galaxy Note 2 and a Nexus 7. I was able to successfully send images from my phone to my tablet. Since they both have NFC this is possible. The trick here is to turn OFF the S Beam on the phone so that only the NFC is active on the phone (and NFC active on the tablet, of course).
Settings>>More Settings>>NFC (ON) - S Beam (OFF)
As part of the perks for buying the Note, Samsung also give me "12 months of Boingo wireless hotspot".
I did not register but went to Boingo website. I noticed that most of the "trusted" and "certified" hotspot are typical Starbucks, McDonald's, etc. hotspot. Other than airports' hotspot (which I don't use much), what are the benefit for using Boingo?
I have no idea. I actually uninstalled it becauseof the pop up notifications every time I logged into my home Internet.
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You can disable the pop-up in the app. I haven't had a chance to try it at an airport yet to see if it gives me free access.
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I bought my Note 8 too early since this was not included at the time. Does anybody know how early buyers can get this perk too?
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does anyone know if we can use this on other devices, or just our galaxy note 8?
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I bought my Note 8 too early since this was not included at the time. Does anybody know how early buyers can get this perk too?
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Try to register at Samsung Perks website. Can't remember the site name, but just Google it.
eyecon82 said:
does anyone know if we can use this on other devices, or just our galaxy note 8?
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I think it's tied to your account instead of device specific, similar to Dropbox 50gb promo.