Develop Bugs

Configure Wi-Fi Direct?

Anyone noticed the option for wi-fi direct ?
cant find any way to configure it

It's under more i believe.

yes but thats just a tick box to turn it on :S .. no way to configure it like the galaxy s 2

What is wifi direct?
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aindow said:
What is wifi direct?
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Wi-Fi Direct "is a certification mark for devices supporting a game-changing new technology enabling Wi-Fi devices to connect directly, making it simple and convenient to do things like print, share, synch and display. Products bearing the Wi-Fi Direct certification mark can connect to one another without joining a traditional home, office or hotspot network."
Sounds good to me!

yeh its great used it with GS2 to send music file in seconds .. its so fast
just want to know how to configure and use it with the nexus

Just an update.. after some digging it turns out that wifi direct in ics is just an api atm so app developers need to make use of this seemingly overlooked feature

lolittle said:
Just an update.. after some digging it turns out that wifi direct in ics is just an api atm so app developers need to make use of this seemingly overlooked feature
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Hmm, I wonder if Android beam uses it?

No pure NFC with NDEF messages ... next semester at university i will be doing android develpoment .. if nothing is out by then i will have a go at making an app but it doesnt look to hard i would expect someone to have done one soon
Wi-Fi Direct
Android now supports Wi-Fi Direct for peer-to-peer (P2P) connections between Android-powered devices and other device types without a hotspot or Internet connection. The Android framework provides a set of Wi-Fi P2P APIs that allow you to discover and connect to other devices when each device supports Wi-Fi Direct, then communicate over a speedy connection across distances much longer than a Bluetooth connection.
A new package, android.net.wifi.p2p, contains all the APIs for performing peer-to-peer connections with Wi-Fi. The primary class you need to work with is WifiP2pManager, which you can acquire by calling getSystemService(WIFI_P2P_SERVICE). The WifiP2pManager includes APIs that allow you to:
Initialize your application for P2P connections by calling initialize()
Discover nearby devices by calling discoverPeers()
Start a P2P connection by calling connect()
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WiFi direct work like this
Turn it on
Thats easy
Ok
Now go to your laptop open up wirless networks and do a scan
and hello there is a Phone now showing up click connect
now on your phone a message will pop up saying a computer is tring to connect and asking you to say ok or cancel
say ok
Now your laptop is connected
Now open up xplorer on your laptop click networks and you will have two showing and your phone will be one of them double click on the phone this open up the phone just like in mass storage mode
Now to go the other way eg phone to pc that is the tricky bit
as the stock brouser sucks on android
You need es file exploer and do a lan scan and the laptop will show as a name click it and a message will show on the laptop or it will just open up the shared folders section
It only works on windows 7
for all its the old Ad hoc idea made simple

Northern, that didn't work for me, but my PC doesn't has got WiFi direct, so that might be a problem.
Anyways, I tried to use WiFi direct with my bother's SGS2, and we weren't being able to get it working properly. I tried the Android WiFi direct demo app, which was able to connect using WiFi direct, but I wasn't being able to send photo's. The S2 had an extra menu for configuring WiFi direct(TouchWiz)
Anyone that has got WiFi direct working on his Galaxy Nexus?

Is there any apps based on wi-fi direct?

neolee said:
Is there any apps based on wi-fi direct?
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Not yet, working on it

same problem ...
Sent from my Samsung GNexus <3

It is very sad, that Google didn't finished it yet Is it so hard to make it work for us ? From my point of view we have been cheated

U HAVE TO USE 3TH PARTY APPS
FileExpert on the market does it
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Well file expert needs an access point in order to transfer files and the phone that you want to transfer file must have file expert too.. which is just wireless sharing not wifi direct though..

My Sony Bravia got WIFI Direct too. I tried to connect my GN with it. TV did find the phone. Connected too. But then just kept dropping off the connection.
Did anybody tried it out with a TV?

I noticed it on my sister's GS2, tried it out, her phone can see mine, but i can't seem to find the wifi direct settings for my gnex.

xXQuakeXx said:
Well file expert needs an access point in order to transfer files and the phone that you want to transfer file must have file expert too.. which is just wireless sharing not wifi direct though..
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yes.... no wifi direct on file expert...
maverickrulz said:
My Sony Bravia got WIFI Direct too. I tried to connect my GN with it. TV did find the phone. Connected too. But then just kept dropping off the connection.
Did anybody tried it out with a TV?
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Mach3.2 said:
I noticed it on my sister's GS2, tried it out, her phone can see mine, but i can't seem to find the wifi direct settings for my gnex.
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as you can see, google/android gave us the api, but not the interface to manage this...
but released a piece o code to compile a demo app 'wifi direct'.... i do not have other wifi direct enabled device... and i don't tryied this yet... but, here is the sample:
https://www.box.com/s/728c598a466c6822cc94
let me know if it work (p.s. not compiled by me... i only found it on the web )

[Q] Hotspot and Port Forwarding

Hi all,
I've got a Galaxy Nexus with the mobile hotspot feature (Verizon) and I'm having trouble getting VPN software on my laptop to work properly. This is because I haven't forwarded the ports from the phone/hotspot to the laptop - I can't seem to figure out how to do that.
Anyone here know of a way to forward ports using the mobile hotspot feature?
Tried using the PortForwarder app in the market, but it doesn't seem to be working... Not rooted...

quantumalpha said:
Hi all,
I've got a Galaxy Nexus with the mobile hotspot feature (Verizon) and I'm having trouble getting VPN software on my laptop to work properly. This is because I haven't forwarded the ports from the phone/hotspot to the laptop - I can't seem to figure out how to do that.
Anyone here know of a way to forward ports using the mobile hotspot feature?
Tried using the PortForwarder app in the market, but it doesn't seem to be working... Not rooted...
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Are you hosting the vpn server on your laptop? If not, then you don't need to port forward. I don't know about Verizon, but my provider blocks vpn and charges an extra 5 a month for access.
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The VPN app I'm trying to use is Hamachi.
I've got it running on 3 machines - laptop, work PC, and home PC.
home <-> work is fine
anything involving the laptop while connected to the hotspot shows a "relayed tunnel", which means the other machines can't connect directly to the laptop'a service

[Help] No tethering & portable hotspot option in setting after updating to 6.0

I use many file sharing apps like Sender & Share it. While it uses hotspot tethering for Sharing file, after recent update to 6.0 there is no option for tethering & portable hotspot in setting. Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you

i have the same problem. there is no setting for hotspot option.

Yeah. thanks Google ! Maybe on Android 7.0 you can remove wifi and gps aswell and on 8.0, remove Play Store
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WiFi hotspot or tethering works on devices which have other ways of connecting to internet aside from WiFi connection so the internet can be shared from that other source (like cellular data access) through WiFi. So technically the availability of the WiFi hitspot or tethering option on the previous vesrsions of Android was meaningless and Google made the right decision to remove it from devices which are incapable of using it in Marshmallow. By the way, I beleive applications you mentioned in your post use being-on-the-same-network and WiFi Direct technologies to share files between devices not WiFi Hotspots or tethering.

Ok but how about usb tethering? That had to be removed also ?
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idCyber said:
Ok but how about usb tethering? That had to be removed also ?
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I think Google believes that nowadays every PC or Laptop has WiFi adapter by default so they can use their own WiFi adapter to connect to the internet.

well my laptop's wifi doesnt working and i was using my n7's usb tethering to connect internet and now after the patch it is gone. i just dont understand why. I was even able to share my files with hotspot to everyone around me and i was able to use airdoid or wifi transfer without any internet connection. I will go back to lollipop 5.1.1..

Wifi Hotspot Problem

Anybody having problems in using wifi hotspot in OnePlus 3 after the lastest update.(3.2.8) . In my phone , it doesn't work with apps like SHAREit or superbeam .
And if I create a hotspot then nobody could connect to that wifi.

Taran3105 said:
Anybody having problems in using wifi hotspot in OnePlus 3 after the lastest update.(3.2.8) . In my phone , it doesn't work with apps like SHAREit or superbeam .
And if I create a hotspot then nobody could connect to that wifi.
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Could you give some detail? Is is okay to connect to your hotspot and use it without the apps like SHAREit or superbeam?
The problem I met is that, other devices could connect but no internet on their device, which is found out caused by failure of correct IP addresses allocation.

laggardkernel said:
Could you give some detail? Is is okay to connect to your hotspot and use it without the apps like SHAREit or superbeam?
The problem I met is that, other devices could connect but no internet on their device, which is found out caused by failure of correct IP addresses allocation.
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No. Others can't connect unless it is a open connection.

help us developers
when connecting to hotspot of my device it says no internet connection , dns lookup failed , misconfigured ip, but i always turned on data connection but the same problems occurs ,
many my device also not ab;le to create hotspot ..
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bencozzy said:
On 3.2.8 I'm having the reboot issue if I turn hotspot on with LTE after a while I will lose internet and when I turn off hotspot phone freezes them reboots. If I use hotspot with 3g no problems.
I think fast dormancy is the issue.
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Have you found a fix for your problem? I ran into the same problem with Freedom OS and it happens only if I start downloading something.

[APP][Android 4.1+][BETA] Tetrd — USB Universal Tethering App

Hi, I’ve just finished the beta version of my app. Basically, it allows you to share your computer's internet connection to your device and vice versa via USB.
If you're a mobile gamer, reverse tethering your device to your computer might solve some wifi lag issues. As for tethering, you can share your wifi and mobile data connection to your computer. I haven't tested if it bypasses carrier tethering restrictions, but I have added an option to change your user agent from the app.
If you're interested, DM me your play store email address, and I'll send you the link to the app within 24 hours. Thanks!
Note: It doesn't require root, and it doesn't require USB debugging (except on Windows). You will also need to install a desktop companion app for it to work. I'll send the download links via email.

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Email and PM sent!