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GPS tracker v0.94 alpha - (Updated 14/12/09)

GPS tracker v0.94 alpha (Freeware)
Requirements: WM5, WM6, .NET FRAMEWORK 2.0, GPS device
Overview:
GPS tracker is a part of a fleet management software system, which is used to track mobile phone activity (e.g. mobile phone can be used as a gps tracking device).
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Application will monitor the GPS activity and it will send the data to the http://voznipark.virtualniured.hr online server.
Logged data will be stored into the local sql compact database and it will be sent periodically to the online server.
If you want to see your data please navigate to http://voznipark.virtualniured.hr and use an IMEI as login and password. (IMEI for login will be changed soon to user definded username/password - see below.)
Main Features:
- converts your mobile to ultimate tracking solution
- real time tracking (web application is used for the mobile phone tracking)
- history of activity (user can browse through all tracking history)
- detailed reporting
- reverse geocoding (Google maps web service is used)
- application is working in unnatended mode (working even the phone is on standby)
- if you do not have data plan from your mobile operator, you can upload data to server when you come home on your wireless network (for Wi-Fi enabled mobiles)
- aplication is very intuitve so anybody can use it
Planned features:
- Replace IMEI for login and password with custom user defined username/password,
- bunch more features to use full potential of our web software, different reports and so on.
- will make some aditional usecases special to sports (especialy for running/jogging, motorsport races)
- in near future planned port toSymbian S60v5 platform and to iPhone
Privacy:
- this software is made as a supplement and show case for our Virtual Vozni Park (Virtual Fleet Management) comercial offered software in Croatia.
- As such we are using it only for marketing puropses as a show case to our potential clients what our software can do, so we do not have any interest in tracking any of mobile clients or whatch their warebouts.
- This software is in development and for now its full usage is free of charge and it will stay this way till further notce.
Use cases:
- Why buy expencive personal trackers as stanalone devices, with this software you can make your mobile ulitmate personal tracking solution!
- replacement for real GPS/GPRS devices for fleet management
Whit this software you can do as much in terms of tracking vehicles as you can do with onboard tracking devices. Onboard device has aditional parameters such are: driver identification, diferent signals like opened/closed doors, some hydraulics is on, revs, fuel level and so on.
Also you have same statistic as real deal.
- for finding fastest way around city to your work, supermarket, shopping mall or church.
Application is in early stage of development so if You find some bugs, please report it here.
Tested on HTC Touch HD, HTC TYTN II, Samsung Omnia SGH-i900
Join growing community of users and give us your suggestions!
Help us to make the best personal tracking aplication for the WM!
Every opinion will be considerated and answered.
Thank you all for Your support.
More Info:
Code:
http://voznipark.virtualniured.hr
Download Instructions:
MICROSOFT SQL SERVER COMPACT 3.5 FOR DEVICES
GPSTrackerInstall.CAB
< CAB files: GPSTracker.CAB - sqlce.CAB - No need for serial >

There was an exception during the data update which is solved now. Please download new version of GPS tracker.

Application description updated.

- GUI changed
- Screnshot updated
- Distance calculation added
- Support for reverse geocoding added
Please give me some feedback

nice to see that there is some Windows Mobile developers from our country...
downloading it now...

Nice to hear you
Please give me some feedback...

- fixed: missing program shortcut in "Programs" directory

Login
Hello,
Great tool! But how to login at http://voznipark.virtualniured.hr ?
I uses IMEI as USER and PASSWORD but I still can't log into the system..
Thanks !
Johan

Swoosh65 said:
Hello,
Great tool! But how to login at http://voznipark.virtualniured.hr ?
I uses IMEI as USER and PASSWORD but I still can't log into the system..
Thanks !
Johan
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Hi,
Can you give me more detail explanation of situation?
After your login attempt, did you stay on Login.aspx page or the main page displayed to you, but without the data?
If you are using IE to acees the "voznipark" service, please use IE8.
Thanks for your reply

* added support for direct communication with COM ports!
* added support for disabling the usage of mobile internet connection! - user can upload the data to the online database when he is near of some other types of internet connections (I hope you will understand this )

divkovi1 said:
Hi,
Can you give me more detail explanation of situation?
After your login attempt, did you stay on Login.aspx page or the main page displayed to you, but without the data?
If you are using IE to acees the "voznipark" service, please use IE8.
Thanks for your reply
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must use IE8? can we use firefox or IE6?

how can i put my username and pass
is it possible to view the page in english?
tnk u

hungera said:
must use IE8? can we use firefox or IE6?
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IE6 is not an option, because the google maps doesn't work with it. With all newset browers it should work ok.

zaxos3 said:
how can i put my username and pass
is it possible to view the page in english?
tnk u
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When you start Gps tracker, in left upper corner of mobule display you should se an IMEI code. Use that code as your username and password at http://voznipark.virtualniured.hr.
Page wiil be on english by the end of this week.

divkovi1 said:
When you start Gps tracker, in left upper corner of mobule display you should se an IMEI code. Use that code as your username and password at http://voznipark.virtualniured.hr.
Page wiil be on english by the end of this week.
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i done this... i am asking if it posible to replace this imei with a personal username...

It will be possible soon...

divkovi1 said:
It will be possible soon...
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thnk u very much

Just quickly tried it with my HD running energyrom 21884 and with the company Sedna and it works perfectly on both phones. Will try it tomorrow on another Sedna.
Will only load google maps in IE8 though, not in Firefox 3.5.5...
Fantastic piece of software, well done!

No update from Dev. Why?
You have not updated this app for a long time. Why? This is an awesome app. Why no update? I am using it on android.

Because WinMo is dead and this thread is only for it and not android.

WM Trojan Dialer, a case for sandboxed apps/managed code

As seen here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=650393 theres a game that people have downloaded that is infected with a trojan that calls out to expensive international numbers at midnight,
I can imagine the guys at Gizmodo/Engadget etc having a field day with WM Trojan racks up bills etc. and the bad press it brings to Windows Mobile
Is this a case for WP7 and its Silverlight/XNA written apps only and apps that can be withdrawn from a single market place instead of dodgy copies hitting numberous websites?

DMAND said:
Is this a case for WP7 and its Silverlight/XNA written apps only and apps that can be withdrawn from a single market place instead of dodgy copies hitting numberous websites?
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You realize of course that your [thread] title doesn't match the contents of the thread at all?
Your title purports to suggest sandboxing and managed code, which are both good ideas, and then in the thread itself you talk about restricting the APIs available on the platform to Silverlight/XNA and restricting distributing to the Marketplace, which is a terrible idea.
"Managed code" -- in case you weren't aware -- is terminology created by Microsoft for code that interacts exclusively with the CLR.
BUT IN CASE YOU DON'T KNOW, P/INVOKE IS PART OF THE CLR, SO "MANAGED CODE" CAN STILL ACCESS NATIVE APIS!
"Sandboxing" can refer to a broad range of concepts, all of which are relatively good ideas (although some are more expensive in terms of overhead than others).
I think the best thing that Microsoft could do to prevent attacks like this -- rather than locking down their whole OS like Apple-wannabes -- is to implement the multi-user paradigm of Windows NT6.x and/or Linux on their phone OS.
See the problem -- as far as I can tell -- is that Windows CE is a single-user operating system. Much like Windows 9.x. Which means that processes only run in one context: Administrator.
So any process that is running on your Windows CE device, has full access and control of the device/operating system. This is why you experience so many lock-ups/crashes on CE-based devices.
In a modern multi-user operating system, processes can run in one of two contexts: User or Administrator. The User context has no access to the system itself -- it is effectively sandboxed. It can still wreak havoc in many ways, but it cannot bring down the operating system because it doesn't have the privledges to access the APIs et cetera that it would need to do so. The Administrator context still exists, and the user chooses to elevate processes there when the need arises -- this is what UAC, runas, su, and sudo are for in Windows/Linux.
These are the devices that should be implemented on a phone OS, not draconian lock-in schemes that turn a phone OS into a phone appliance.

Well, actually making phone calls should never prompt for elevated permissions as far as I am concerned.
In the case mentioned above a game has an add on functionality which doesn't play nice, so even prompting on installation (which WinMo 6.5 does), doesn't help matters.
The CLR incorporates a pretty sophisticated permission management but it's terrible to deal with it, even if as a programmer you know what things are about - pushing it onto the end user of a phone in my opinion would be a pretty bad idea.
Cases like this one are exactlly why the way Microsoft intends to deal with software, is a great idea for a default behavior - although I would like to be able to sideload applications.
But honestly, if people could sideload at all, they would activate it in masses, if even for one dumb farting app, outside the marketplace that everyone thought was cool. I'm not talking about devs or Power Users but about people using Google to find: how to get app xyz working.
Pretty soon a situation would arise like the one we could see some weeks ago, when a virus infested lots of jailbroken iPhones in Australia. The problem was that simply after jail break, most didn't change the administrator password of the phone, allowing telnet connections from the phone network.
I don't like the situation that arises with WP7 and I really hope we will get access to APIs for doing actual phone calls, accessing the PIM data, etc. but yes: sandboxing with reduced permission sets without elevation is the way to go when MS tries to change the way WinMo is perceived by many: unstable and easily compromised.

off topic/
Please copy / paste / timetravel / this conversation back to 1975, to a non-suspecting group of consumers, along with the PDA and tell them this is how we go about calling eachother in 2010. Sandboxed AntiTrojan/Virus Administrative Rights Calling Application Programming Interface and some more of that.
For sure they will protest and kling-on to the old round dialer disk phones.
/end of topic
It''s about control. As many other said and Microsoft implicated, they need more control over the brand/expierence.
In the early months of 2002 you could take your Compaq Ipaq 3870 and hook it up to a Bluetooth GPS, a Bluetooth Phone with GPRS, and have navigation- and web based realtime GPS Tracking software running at the same time.
That is 7 years back. Making that work took 5 minutes (manually configuring COMport splitter).
I sincelery hope that developers will get access to the system at a level that makes the above possible.

lucid said:
off topic/
Please copy / paste / timetravel / this conversation back to 1975, to a non-suspecting group of consumers, along with the PDA and tell them this is how we go about calling eachother in 2010. Sandboxed AntiTrojan/Virus Administrative Rights Calling Application Programming Interface and some more of that.
For sure they will protest and kling-on to the old round dialer disk phones.
/end of topic
It''s about control. As many other said and Microsoft implicated, they need more control over the brand/expierence.
In the early months of 2002 you could take your Compaq Ipaq 3870 and hook it up to a Bluetooth GPS, a Bluetooth Phone with GPRS, and have navigation- and web based realtime GPS Tracking software running at the same time.
That is 7 years back. Making that work took 5 minutes (manually configuring COMport splitter).
I sincelery hope that developers will get access to the system at a level that makes the above possible.
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LOLLOLOLzzzzzz

Registry Hack

Ok, I am not sure if this was discussed before but I found this registry hack for the Zune which enables you to use it as a external drive and I got it to work with the kin as well. This requires the Zune software.
NOTE: If Controlset002 does not work, try ControlSet001 or CurrentControlSet
* Make sure your Kin is not plugged in and your Zune software isn’t running
* Open up Regedit by going to the start menu and selecting “run”. Type regedt32 and hit “OK”
* Browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\ControlSet002\Enum\USB\
* Search for “PortableDeviceNameSpace”. This should be contained in the Vid_####&Pid_####\########_-_########_-_########_-_########\Device Parameters within the above …\USB\ The ##’s listed here will be numbers and letters specific to your Kin.
* Change the following values:
o EnableLegacySupport to 1
o PortableDeviceNameSpaceExcludeFromShell to 0
o ShowInShell to 1
* Plug in your Kin, and make sure the Zune Software starts up.
* Hopefully at this point you can open up “My Computer” and browse your device, though it does NOT show up as a drive letter.
I am not sure if this helps at all but hopefully it is something to work with.

Doesn't let you use it as external HDD. It only allows you to see some files on your kin, but doesn't allow you to read/write to them.

Syncing
You should have access to the files while Zune is transfering files. If you are syncing, it unlocks the drive and allows you to access the files.
After doing this, it technically should be possible to reverse engineer the Zune software and recreate the "unlocking" feature in another piece of software.

kintwom said:
You should have access to the files while Zune is transfering files. If you are syncing, it unlocks the drive and allows you to access the files.
After doing this, it technically should be possible to reverse engineer the Zune software and recreate the "unlocking" feature in another piece of software.
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I tried this. While synching it removes the "Storage" drive from KIN. So I cannot access the drive. And after the sync it is still not present. I have to reconnect my KIN to my computer to see that drive again.
Here's KIN with access to that drive (Before sync):
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Here's KIN without access to that drive (After sync):
Conclusion... either this doesn't work for me, or i haven't received enough information to execute this.

Nope. The zune software has some kind of protection and operates in a bit weird way (cause DRM protection).
On the other hand, reverse engineering the unlocking procedure *could* be done easier on the mac software, if you can sniff the usb from a windows host, executing a virtualized osx machine.
My current CPU hardware has no virtualization support, so i cannot do that even having legal windows and mac disks. (no vmware support for intal Mac OS's without that)

The cheapest crappiest phone is the most secure. Makes one wonder doesn't it.

Just the DRM used (Janus) on the windows Zune is secure. The Osx software doesnt relay / support DRM, so it's almost doable if you got virtualization support (not my case).
The device software itself it's not so secure (although presents some pain in the ass troubles).

johnkussack said:
Just the DRM used (Janus) on the windows Zune is secure. The Osx software doesnt relay / support DRM, so it's almost doable if you got virtualization support (not my case).
The device software itself it's not so secure (although presents some pain in the ass troubles).
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Installing OSX in virtual box now..

Well, apart from that (if you manage to get it to work), you would need:
- Sync software from markspace (link posted on this forums)
- Usb sniffer. Usblyzer will suffit, commercial software with 30d trial.
As virtual OS will take the device itself, you must set the usb sniffer to capture the USB bus and not the device. You can see what bus is plugging it on the windows host and the capture software opened as it should show "Kin" there, so check its parent bus instead the kin device.
You should start capturing before opening the sync software and let it enable the "Connected" window at the kin, close the sync software and when kin is back on normal state, stop the capture. Then you can save the captured log and so on.
Several times will provide better results, so you can check what changes (if anything does).
Of course, you must have the legal right on your country and yak yak yak...
Note (importantly) this two things:
- This (if ever done) will only unlock MPM (or MPMz) protocol, so just storage access to read/write multimedia files.
- I have bricked my phone so i cannot test, write or anything in this mode, hence i dont give a ##### about the logs captured, unless i am able to recover the normal kin boot. In that last case, i got a c++ program to send the captured logs again to the kin without mac/win software ....

Those you that know about hacking phones that have bricked their phones if there is something safe those of us that still have working phones can attempt please let us know so we can help.

drm trouble
if you guys are having problems with the drm headers i think there is software out there that removes them.

you can do the same thing by running stander mtp drivers on the device

[SOLVED] Safe access to public wifi's?

Hi, soon i'm going to a vacation and would like to know what to use to access public wifi networks securely to avoid my personal data interception and generally be secure while browsing?
Thanks

VPN.
Google superfreevpn, but you will have the check what is the password before you use their VPN, because they change the password every now and then.
Pressed from my Maguro

Issues I see with superfreevpn:
-Uses PPTP (PPTP a history of insecurities)
-Restricts bandwidth
-Restricts use (no P2P, no torrents)
-8 hour time limit per session
-No idea who these guys are (no guarantee they aren't stealing your info themselves)
As an alternative, you could set up your own OpenVPN server at home. Most home routers can do this easily when using firmware such as OpenWRT, DD-WRT or Tomato, or you can set it up on a computer behind your router. Then you have a secure connection back to your own ISP, so you will have at least the same level of security/privacy you have at home. This is what I do, using OpenVPN for Android on my phone which uses the new VPN APIs introduced in ICS.
Hope this helps.

Hmmm, this seem to be a better option.:good:

Another alternative is to use Orbot from Google Play store, which implements Tor on Android.

Thanks guys, especially @phazerorg.
Umm while i understand the process of VPN you're talking about, what about data which is first sent to/through public WiFi AP?
WIll look into OpenVPN.
Do you have an article or link for me to get more in depth?
Thanks once again.

purpler said:
Thanks guys, especially @phazerorg.
Umm while i understand the process of VPN you're talking about, what about data which is first sent to/through public WiFi AP?
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If you mean before the VPN tunnel is established, it's true that some connections could be made. I think the best you could do here is to either turn off syncing and don't browse before the VPN is up, or make sure any syncing/browsing uses SSL. A little Google searching seems to indicate that the gmail app uses SSL, so no worries for that. For other apps, you'd want to investigate. Or shut off all syncing so pretty much no connections are made before you connect to your VPN. Once the VPN is up, you can have all traffic travel through it and it just looks like UDP packets of random data to the public wifi.
WIll look into OpenVPN.
Do you have an article or link for me to get more in depth?
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Nothing specific, but searching Google for "OpenVPN tutorial" turned up quite a number of useful-looking results, including some from the official OpenVPN site. I know there's a GUI app for Windows, and router firmware makes it easy. OpenVPN is popular and open source, so there's loads of resources and a community around it so you shouldn't have any trouble.

You can allways use opera mini as everythding goes through their servers. I would not trust free vpns as its like using a free access point. Who's to say they arnt looking at your data
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purpler said:
Thanks guys, especially @phazerorg.
Umm while i understand the process of VPN you're talking about, what about data which is first sent to/through public WiFi AP?
WIll look into OpenVPN.
Do you have an article or link for me to get more in depth?
Thanks once again.
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Once a VPN circuit is established, all data is encrypted between your device and the server. No one in the WiFi hotspot could read your data, even if they intercepted it. Neither could the WiFi hotspot operators.
The same is true of Tor, with the added benefit that the Tor node operators can't read your data, either, with the exception of the exit node. But the exit node operator can't tell who sent the data, because the packet headers have been stripped and replaced (several times).

phazerorg said:
As an alternative, you could set up your own OpenVPN server at home.
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I had issues with OpenVPN. I ended up setting up a linux server with IPSec instead. I just use the built-in VPN connectivity (L2TP/IPSec PSK, to be precise) to connect to my home server.
strumcat said:
Another alternative is to use Orbot from Google Play store, which implements Tor on Android.
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While TOR might be (arguably) great for "anonymizing", it does nothing for encryption. You can sniff packets from someone using TOR as simply as someone using a direct connection.
Edit: Actually, I need to look into TOR a bit more. Does anyone know for certain if it's endpoint-to-endpoint encrypted? The Orbot Play Store page says nothing about encryption, but rather only mentions the proxy chain effect, which would make my original statement correct.
DarkBanHammer said:
You can allways use opera mini as everythding goes through their servers. I would not trust free vpns as its like using a free access point. Who's to say they arnt looking at your data
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Again, this doesn't encrypt data, which means anyone in the vicinity can fairly easily sniff packets from you and plainly see your data flowing. Even worse would be people who have their own mobile access point, de-auth you from the public wifi, and then spoof the public wifi. It's actually fairly easy to do.

Tor is encrypted from your device to the exit node.
https://www.torproject.org/about/overview.html.en
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hmm, TOR seems to be working fine in terms of ease of use and configuration. If everything is indeed encrypted than it's ideal solution for me.
Anyone else has an opinion?
Thanks guys!

What about man in between issue?

purpler said:
What about man in between issue?
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If the path is encrypted endpoint-to-endpoint, such as it would be in a VPN (or apparently with TOR... thanks for the info, strumcat, as I assume that applies to Orbot also), then a man-in-the-middle gets nothing. If someone gets between you and the wifi node, they would only see the encrypted gibberish.

that being said, TOR (Orbot) it is.
Thanks all!

Cilraaz said:
If the path is encrypted endpoint-to-endpoint, such as it would be in a VPN (or apparently with TOR... thanks for the info, strumcat, as I assume that applies to Orbot also), then a man-in-the-middle gets nothing. If someone gets between you and the wifi node, they would only see the encrypted gibberish.
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Yes, Tor is the name of the network itself. Tor Browser Bundle (for Windows) and Orbot (for Android) are provided by the Tor Project and the Guardian Project for accessing Tor. They both utilize Tor encryption and other features, You can always check to make sure that Tor is working by browsing to http://check.torproject.org site.
If you're using Jellybean and want to use the transparent proxying feature in Orbot, be sure to first enable "Use Default IPTables" in Orbot settings so it will work ok. Then enable "Transparent Proxying", and choose the apps you want to use Tor under "Select Apps". That's the easiest way to use it. When you want to use the apps normally again, just turn off Tor.
You can learn more about Tor and Orbot at https://www.torproject.org/

yes i did, works great.
Orbot is very elegant solution.
Thanks

strumcat said:
Yes, Tor is the name of the network itself. Tor Browser Bundle (for Windows) and Orbot (for Android) are provided by the Tor Project and the Guardian Project for accessing Tor. They both utilize Tor encryption and other features, You can always check to make sure that Tor is working by browsing to http://check.torproject.org site.
If you're using Jellybean and want to use the transparent proxying feature in Orbot, be sure to first enable "Use Default IPTables" in Orbot settings so it will work ok. Then enable "Transparent Proxying", and choose the apps you want to use Tor under "Select Apps". That's the easiest way to use it. When you want to use the apps normally again, just turn off Tor.
You can learn more about Tor and Orbot at https://www.torproject.org/
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Great info here, thank you.

Ravpower RP-WD01 WiFi-Disk Connectivity Review

Ravpower RP-WD01 WiFi-Disk Connectivity Review
There are many reviews about this device:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2169383
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2173608
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2150164
All of them really praise it for its core functionality. However, the threads didnt answer some of my questions. Here I will reiterate the main points of the other reviews, as well as provide answers to more advanced senarios.
First of all, I wanted to see if the Ravpower's wifi passthrough mode added much latency to internet usage. I connected it to my home wifi network, and ran some tests, some directly on the home wifi network, and some on the ravpower's hotspot network.
Home wifi :
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http://www.speedtest.net/result/2726188377.png
As you can see, as far as latency is concerned, there is not much difference between browsing on your home network and accessing the internet through the ravpower hotspot. I can't test really high speed internet access, since our lines arent too good, and this is the highest speed I can get with relative stability.
You can access the connected media directly through the wifi hotspot, either using a mobile app, or even using a standard linux distro with Samba support. After applying the admin username and whatever password you set, I was able to get full read/write access to my media, and I was able to play 1080p30 video off of it perfectly.
Pleasingly, you can also access it through your home's wifi network. It will assign itself an IP address (which you can find out through its control panel), and then you can access the shared resources present on the drive, straight from your desktop if need be.
This makes it perfect for a carputer type of setup, where you can have the Ravpower attach onto the WIFI hotspot provided by your mobile/internet modem, and then you can share the media with your phone or tablet. Using a CIFS app, should be able to map the drive into android and allow your favourite apps to manage your music/movie collection almost like it was natively in the system, although I haven’t figured that bit out yet. I’ll get back to you guys when I make progress in that regard.
Overall I'm VERY pleased with this, and once I figure out CIFS and how to mount it to my internal directories, I’ll be ecstatic.

Hi there. I bought a Ravpower after being disappointed with the iUSBport not being compatible with my Transcend portable HDD and I have not been let down this time!
To get it working with ES or AndSMB you need to set the login details correctly as guest access did not work for me. I could login and see IPC$ but couldn't access the storage device(s) and got the "Invalid operation" error when I tried to access IPC$. I changed the settings in ES/AndSMB to the following:
Server: 10.10.10.254
Username: admin
Password: whateveryouhaveset
Change the Server and Password to suit. I had to restart the device a few times for changes to apply as the first time I tried ES it did not work. "MobileFun" just doesn't quite cut it so having proper samba support with this device is a real plus! Hope that helps!

thebeest said:
Hi there. I bought a Ravpower after being disappointed with the iUSBport not being compatible with my Transcend portable HDD and I have not been let down this time!
To get it working with ES or AndSMB you need to set the login details correctly as guest access did not work for me. I could login and see IPC$ but couldn't access the storage device(s) and got the "Invalid operation" error when I tried to access IPC$. I changed the settings in ES/AndSMB to the following:
Server: 10.10.10.254
Username: admin
Password: whateveryouhaveset
Change the Server and Password to suit. I had to restart the device a few times for changes to apply as the first time I tried ES it did not work. "MobileFun" just doesn't quite cut it so having proper samba support with this device is a real plus! Hope that helps!
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I could get it working in solid explorer, but have you fiured out a way to get CIFS working ?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ws.plattner.cifsmanager&hl=en
With CIFS, the external HDD is mounted internally, which allows it to be accessible by other apps, like poweramp and mxplayer and things ...

suffer1989 said:
I could get it working in solid explorer, but have you fiured out a way to get CIFS working ?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ws.plattner.cifsmanager&hl=en
With CIFS, the external HDD is mounted internally, which allows it to be accessible by other apps, like poweramp and mxplayer and things ...
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Sorry for my delay in replying, I am travelling in Australia right now and using the Rav quite a lot and have not had any problems with it so far. Unfortunately I have not been able to mount it through CIFS and have found that video performance suffers using SAMBA through ES File Explorer but there is a workaround.. If you browse to 10.10.10.254/data (replace with the IP you set) in your web browser you can watch and seek through movies with no delay compared to delays of up to 30 seconds I had seeking using the ES SAMBA method.

thebeest said:
Sorry for my delay in replying, I am travelling in Australia right now and using the Rav quite a lot and have not had any problems with it so far. Unfortunately I have not been able to mount it through CIFS and have found that video performance suffers using SAMBA through ES File Explorer but there is a workaround.. If you browse to 10.10.10.254/data (replace with the IP you set) in your web browser you can watch and seek through movies with no delay compared to delays of up to 30 seconds I had seeking using the ES SAMBA method.
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To compound that, apparently its really difficult to mount network shares in Jellybean + because of userprofiles or something :-/

suffer1989 said:
To compound that, apparently its really difficult to mount network shares in Jellybean + because of userprofiles or something :-/
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Hello I tried to connet rp-wd01 to my wireless, but it doesn't work. I don't understand why!
Please help me.
Thanks

suffer1989 said:
To compound that, apparently its really difficult to mount network shares in Jellybean + because of userprofiles or something :-/
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Any luck or updates on mounting it? This is the exact thing I'm trying to do, but I haven't found anything yet.
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Any luck or updates on mounting it? This is the exact thing I'm trying to do, but I haven't found anything yet.
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I've been experimenting. If you have a kernel that supports nfs or cifs, and you have superuser access on your phone , Busybox, as well as a terminal emulator, you can create a folder in your sdcard and then mount the remote share to the folder in your sdcard, the same was linux users do.
Something like this:
https://gist.github.com/aldur/4a3f90a111b71662f056

suffer1989 said:
I've been experimenting. If you have a kernel that supports nfs or cifs, and you have superuser access on your phone , Busybox, as well as a terminal emulator, you can create a folder in your sdcard and then mount the remote share to the folder in your sdcard, the same was linux users do.
Something like this:
https://gist.github.com/aldur/4a3f90a111b71662f056
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Thanks for the update, that's more or less what I had been seeing after googling around a bit more. Just need to find cifs source and build a copy for the Amazon Fire Phone. [emoji2]
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