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Wifi-direct

Hey guys
I treid today to use the wifi direct function but i cant configure like the sgs2,.
Tryin to send a movie from a sgs2 to my GN but it didn't work anyone an idea or some help
Thnx in advance
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Same here. This morning I tried to setup Wifi-Direct on GN but was a no go. My SGS2 has Wifi direct configuration where you can name your device and setup password etc plus scan for other devices. GN however doesn't have anything like this and you can only turn it ON or OFF. SGS2 scanned for 2 mins and wasn't able to see GN.
Do I need any applications or is there something that myself and OP is missing?

I tried this this morning with a coworker who has a GN too but couldn't figure it out. I also tried the beam thing which says you can just magically hold them back to back and it works? Are there apps that need to be installed to get these things working?
Anyone have any links to literature on beam and wifi direct?

Bump.
This thing does seem odd enough to be worthy of some bumping.
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what is wifi direct?

citrix80 said:
what is wifi direct?
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It's a new technology that should allow compatible devices to connect to each other over wifi to transfer files without an access point. Pretty much an ad hoc type network.
I would assume we should be able to use it to connect to other GN but it MAY just be OS support and we need an actual application to make it work?

Bump. This is incredibly annoying.

Zenoran said:
I tried this this morning with a coworker who has a GN too but couldn't figure it out. I also tried the beam thing which says you can just magically hold them back to back and it works? Are there apps that need to be installed to get these things working?
Anyone have any links to literature on beam and wifi direct?
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Beam works fine. Try opening a homepage, and it will ask to transmit when touching another Nexus
Sendt fra min Galaxy Nexus

Seems like maybe they have only baked the API into the OS, but we need devs to create apps that make it useful, based on the Platform Highlights for 4.0 and the Demo app they released. Bummer. Some patient waiting to do, I guess.

I've searched the market for a "wifi-direct" app but there doesn't seem to be one.
Anyone else found anything?

Apparently not a very popular option among people out there.

bump. ytd nite trying to transfer all the songs and ringtones from my GalNote to GalNex using wifi direct, then dunno how to proceed cz totally cant find any settings or configuration in GalNex. enabled both wifi direct, den GalNote can detact my GalNex but failed to connect :X

Bump. My brother has sgs2 and I looked dumb trying to try wifi direct....nothing happens. No options besides on/off
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Me too, I tried setup my gn wifi direct, but it w/o any setting, then i use my bro s2 to search my gn mobile, s2 search the name called android xxx, i think this is my mobile, bcs when i off my gn wifi direct, s2 cant search any mobile, when i tried connect my gn mobile, but finally after i wait over 2 mins it still not success.

I think we can conclude if you need to check with forums on the internet and still haven't started transmitting anything two weeks later, it's not a very "direct" sort of technology.
So people at the office have Wifi-direct and I have Android beam. And neither works with each other.
This is Android-awesomeness right now.

Anyone found out how it works? sorry for the bump but good be very useable...

I haven't tried this but it is at least a suggestion. Try opening the gallery, opening a picture and then hitting the share button. Maybe there is an option in there for wi-fi direct?
EDIT: Nevermind. Looks like I mis-understood what this feature was.
Check out this to see if it helps?
http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/WiFiDirectDemo/index.html
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/net/wifi/p2p/package-summary.html
"remember that the feature is supported only on Android 4.0 (API level 14) and higher versions of the platform. " So looks like you have to connect to another device running ICS

wifi is there but not functional yet
guys in galaxy nexus the capability to use WIFI direct is there but not programmed and left to be added as an add on or so .. developers need to make a program or even a rom to enable this feature but most likely google will adapt the samsung software for wifi direct just like SGSII ..
hope someone just develop it soon

Yep it's purely an api for developers to use in order to connect to the same app(or another one with an official api) running on another device.
Google may very well add this into the gallery and so on, but for now it's a developer option. The implementation on the sgs2 on the other hand does not allow for developers to add in AFAIK and it's purely for use in the samsung apps.

I compiled and installed that WifiDirectDemo app and it doesn't really work. The GN and SGS2 see each other but the connection does nothing.

[Q] Where is Android Beam?

I cannot find it on my GNex. Also, do I need to enable NFC for it to work, and how do I do that.?
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marriedman624 said:
I cannot find it on my GNex. Also, do I need to enable NFC for it to work, and how do I do that.?
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Under "Data Usage" click "More".
You'll see NFC and AB; and yes NFC has to be on for Android Beam to work.

Do I have to open the android beam app? I I tried to send a contact to my wife's phone but couldn't get it to work.
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marriedman624 said:
Do I have to open the android beam app? I I tried to send a contact to my wife's phone but couldn't get it to work.
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Just enable NFC and put two phones together, that will work. No app needed.

tititake said:
Just enable NFC and put two phones together, that will work. No app needed.
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To clarify, navigate to the contact you want to transfer. Then put the two phones back to back. Then tap the screen on the source phone and it will transfer

Yeah, Android Beam requires that you have your web page/contact/Youtube video up in the foreground before you send it over. When you hear the chime after the two devices come together, touch and hold down on middle of your screen until the info gets sent. Often times a quick tap isn't quite enough, especially for web pages.

Just For Kicks, I'm Going To Have To Mention BOTH Phones Must Have NFC

Wonder if u can send pics like that
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Pictures don't work. I assume the files are too big to do it that quickly.

Saw this app called Tapestry while browsing xda

So I'm new here and looking round the forums since I picked up my brand new shiny N7, and saw someone post about this app called Tapestry that is available only on Jelly Bean and works well on N7. I tried the app w/ my wife, who has a GNex running JB, and I have the N7. It is supposed to be a "mobile photo show-and-tell", and It was awesome seeing the phone control what is essentially a picture slideshow on the bigger screen of the N7, and we were scrolling through her pictures. It is almost like a mobile power point slideshow. There is a nifty feature we discovered, where if you do a swipe gesture on the viewing device, the image downloads directly to the device...which is weird because my N7 was not connected to WiFi at the time. Anyone know how it could've gotten the file without being connected to a WiFi AP? The guy who started the company was interviewed at Google IO and he mentioned something about WiFi Director. Anyone know what that does?

Maybe it transfers over nfc?
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WiFi Direct. It allows a direct connection using the same tech as regular WiFi between two devices.

But on the demo in the video, he was showing 1 device broadcasting to 3 other devices. I guess it is point to multi-point?

Photo transfer between A-Beam and S-Beam

So basically I bought myself a new Galaxy Nexus and my friend has a Galaxy S lll. I was just fooling around and tried to transfer photos between the two phones using NFC. Turns out it doesn't work, just gives a message saying something like 'tagcollected'.
I turned of S-Beam on her phone and then tried the transfer but still no luck. Then I tried to exchange a Contact and that worked just fine.
I'm thinking that A-Beam and S-Beam don't play too well with larger files. I know that the S3 uses wifi-direct and the GNex uses Bluetooth but there has to be some workaround to make this work.
The S3 is on ICS(stock unrooted) and the GNex is on 4.1.1(rooted and stock).
Is there a way to make this work?

No.

Hopefully the SIII doesn't drop the native functionality in JellyBean.
My mom has the SIII and no, there isn't a workaround.
Potentially she could get on a JellyBean rom.

Any way to send files via WiFi Direct on cm10 like on Touchwiz??

I honestly think this is a great feature on the stock ROM. I could send app apk's to a buddy of mine and everything. Even HD movies.
So I'm only left to wonder, is this a feature of S Beam? Even though I didn't touch the phones, we just paired via WiFi Direct.
However he does have a S3 as well.
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There are a few apps in the play store that do essentially the same thing. Bump being one I've used since my iPhone days.
But I have to admit, sbeam and the integration in the TW interface is much more user friendly. Would be nice to see something of the sort in CM10 but I wouldn't count on it
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Bluetooth or try something called xlink in playstore. But with xlink you need to be on same wifi but its really fast.

This should work stock if you are on CM9/CM10. Google added Android Beam in ICS. It uses NFC to pair and transmit files, contacts and whatever.
The video here shows how to make sure it is turned on and how it works.

Sir_Brizz said:
This should work stock if you are on CM9/CM10. Google added Android Beam in ICS. It uses NFC to pair and transmit files, contacts and whatever.
The video here shows how to make sure it is turned on and how it works.
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Yea, but the one he is talking about is the S3's ability to pair with another S3 through WiFi, not NFC, to share files.

elementaldragon said:
Yea, but he is talking about is the S3's ability to pair with another S3 through WiFi, not NFC, to share files.
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I see... Jelly Bean uses NFC to set up a bluetooth connection which is faster but not as fast as Wifi...

Google added support for wifi direct in ics. Sadly it is just sdk. It took samsung to make an app. Even more sad is that in play store nobody took up the mantle and develop a third party app using that sdk.
Tried sending files with nfc with galaxy Nexus and my sgs3 and even that does not work properly, well it does send bookmarks, contacts and opens apps or opens play store to download that app, but it does not send actual files.
The only way is manually sending via bluetooth, but that's way too slow.
Also note that even with Samsung, the current file size limit for wifi direct is about 1 gigabyte.
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Idan73 said:
Google added support for wifi direct in ics. Sadly it is just sdk. It took samsung to make an app. Even more sad is that in play store nobody took up the mantle and develop a third party app using that sdk.
Tried sending files with nfc with galaxy Nexus and my sgs3 and even that does not work properly, well it does send bookmarks, contacts and opens apps or opens play store to download that app, but it does not send actual files.
The only way is manually sending via bluetooth, but that's way too slow.
Also note that even with Samsung, the current file size limit for wifi direct is about 1 gigabyte.
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I know that sucks. I tried WiFi shoot in the play store, but its nowhere as good. But the weird thing is, I've actually sent a 2gb HD movie via WiFi direct before... its a great feature IMO.
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pguillory said:
I know that sucks. I tried WiFi shoot in the play store, but its nowhere as good. But the weird thing is, I've actually sent a 2gb HD movie via WiFi direct before... its a great feature IMO.
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Not sure about the movies but it repeatedly gets stuck sending my titanium backup (zipped to 1.5gb), the other phone never starts receiving, while it sends and receives smaller than 1gb zip files no problem.
This is between i747m and i9300 models.
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Idan73 said:
Not sure about the movies but it repeatedly gets stuck sending my titanium backup (zipped to 1.5gb), the other phone never starts receiving, while it sends and receives smaller than 1gb zip files no problem.
This is between i747m and i9300 models.
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Hmm. Yeah I do notice a delay with that large file
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ima bump this hoping someone has a fix =D

Send files over WIFI
What I do is:
on Phone 1 make a wireless hotspot (tethering)
connect phone 2 to this hot spot.
use ES File explorer (free) to create a ftp server on phone 1 (in the settings)
Use ES File explorer on phone 2 to log into phone 1 by putting in the settings on your notification bar on phone 1 (the one that says FTP server is running)
then you can see all your files in phone 1, just copy what you want over or even stream a movie from your phone to your tablet...
then benefit to doing it this way is you can stream from another phone and you can also access files from a PC using filezilla(free)

Idan73 said:
Google added support for wifi direct in ics. Sadly it is just sdk. It took samsung to make an app. Even more sad is that in play store nobody took up the mantle and develop a third party app using that sdk.
Tried sending files with nfc with galaxy Nexus and my sgs3 and even that does not work properly, well it does send bookmarks, contacts and opens apps or opens play store to download that app, but it does not send actual files.
The only way is manually sending via bluetooth, but that's way too slow.
Also note that even with Samsung, the current file size limit for wifi direct is about 1 gigabyte.
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there is, its called fast file transfer, available on google play!