I have installed GOS, should i be keeping my Vpn on all the time to hide my location from my provider or only when Im accessing internet etc ? Thinking about it my provider can see my location when my phone pings the closest network tower (if not kept in faraday bag).
Be good to hear from experienced people
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My Desire has a huge problem with determining my location in my home. I only use wireless networks to determine the location (I wouldn't have a GPS signal inside anyway). Sometimes my location is being incorrectly determined as Hamburg, Germany - and this was only a minor annoyance until it started changing the time zone to that of Germany. So, I would go to bed in the evening after setting my alarm, and I would wake up in Hamburg's timezone (or even in both timezones - the alarm going off twice). I enabled obtaining the time from the network (this could mean GSM or NTP or both).
The problem must be my wi-fi because:
- I used Google Maps with cellular location on wi-fi-less phone before, without problems
- The Desire's IP address is in the 192.168.*.* family, I doubt they would use that for geo-location
- The external IP address of my wireless router has always been located correctly (e.g. Google.com redirects me to the local website)
- The only explanation is that the SSID of my WiFi is registered in Hamburg and Andoid ignores all the previous reliable clues for location and sets the location based only on a completely unreliable SSID database.
I've been reading forums, and people say there is no way to submit or correct entries in this database. Does anybody know of a workaround or a solution to this?
I don't think it uses the SSID,but some one else asked about it and was refered to this
http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/index.shtml
I think it's more likly to be by ip,anyway here's a link for that too
http://www.maxmind.com/app/city_accuracy
Thank you for the reply. You are right, it's not the SSID, as changing it has no effect. Also, my IP has always been correctly located, including in maxmind's database.
I now think the cause could be the MAC of the router... I can't change that (unless I get a new router) and I can't find any reference about a public database that Google is using. I need to find a solution to this and fast, because it's a deal-breaker and I would have to return the phone.
This is not an issue with your phone. It is a problem with Google maps and Google's location service. Google use the MAC address of the surrounding access points. I had an issue where my location was determined to be 200 miles away when using wifi in a rural area with only one access point in range. I was being placed at my previous address as that is where Google had catalogued the access point (possibly when doing the Street View survey). The only way that I'm aware of to improve this is to submit a bug report to Google on:
https: //services.google.com/fb/forms/wifibugs/
I'm surprised that Google don't collect data directly from Google maps when your phone can see GPS and WiFi signals in order to automatically update their system.
Sorry about the space in the above URL. The rules here didn't allow me to post a URL so I had to post it that way.
Through Google location and online IP trackers, I get placed as 60-300 miles away from my home since a year now- seems pretty random. Doesn't bother me really.
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60-300 miles away wouldn't bother me either. For my location, it gets it wrong by over 1000 miles, while online trackers always get it right. And even that wouldn't be a problem if the phone wouldn't switch the timezone and mess my alarms and calendar.
I mean, what the hell? Cellphone towers and IP addresses are not precise, wifi can position you more accurately, but when these's a 1000 miles distance between the location returned with these methods, which one do you trust? I believe cellphone towers and IP addresses are always more reliable, because they are assigned in a controlled manner.
Is it possible to block a connection to a specific cell tower?
For the past few months I've had trouble with my 3G data connection when I'm connected to a specific cell tower in the area where I work. I've called T-Mobile countless times and they keep assuring me the issue has been identified and they are "hard at work to resolve the problem". Well I'm tired of waiting as its been a problem for months now.
I've search the market for an app that would allow me to disable connections to specific towers but none seem to exist. Would it even be possible to develop an app that could do this?
I've been able to narrow the issue down to a specific Cell Tower ID using some of the tower data apps available. If I switch my G2 over to only use 2G data networks I don't have any issues, but then my connection is unreasonable slow obviously. There are two 3G towers my phone connects to while I'm at work, and the other one works fine, so if I could lock my phone to stay connected to THAT tower it would be great.
Lock onto cell tower
You ever figure out how to do this? Looking into this myself for the E4gT forum with no luck.
As some of you may or may not know...ISPs are about to put 6 strikes rules into effect:
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130222/14191722072/six-strikes-officially-begins-monday.shtml
In light of this I've gotten a payware VPN account from these fine folks: https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/pages/client-support/#android_ipsec_l2tp
Catch being they don't have an Android app. No prob, I'll just use the Android-built-in VPN client. Setup easily BAM!
So what is the problem?
It seems that Android 4.2.2's always-stay-connected option for VPN's is broken. I try to select it, it tells me my VPN must have DNS info (which it does have entered). Does not click. So what can I do?
If y'all have a fav VPN client with always-connect that supports IPSEC/L2TP PSK I'm all ears.
A bump. Other annoyed people figured out how to make my VPN service work using OpenVPN with always-connect. I used the instructions located here:
https://www.privateinternetaccess.c...onfiguration-on-android-instead-of-pptp-ipsec
I don't do anything crazy on my ISP at home so I could care less about the strike rule stuff. I do use FeatVPN though on my phone when I'm out and about to tunnel back to my house for data usage. I only use it when I'm on a public wifi as I do not want anyone sniffing my traffic when I'm broadcasting it to the world. When I'm on 3G or 4G I don't use it though as it is already secure.
digiblur said:
I don't do anything crazy on my ISP at home so I could care less about the strike rule stuff. I do use FeatVPN though on my phone when I'm out and about to tunnel back to my house for data usage. I only use it when I'm on a public wifi as I do not want anyone sniffing my traffic when I'm broadcasting it to the world. When I'm on 3G or 4G I don't use it though as it is already secure.
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Well, strictly speaking 3g and 4g are only secured over the wireless end... After the data hits a tower, anyone receiving said data knows exactly who and where you are.
I believe.
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Well, strictly speaking 3g and 4g are only secured over the wireless end... After the data hits a tower, anyone receiving said data knows exactly who and where you are.
I believe.
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Actually a vpn style connection is used from the site over the backhaul providers network back to Sprint. But if you have access to the network and the means to do that then scooping my data is the least of my worries as you have access to much more including my entire account information with sprint and everyone else in the area.
I am talking about script kiddies sniffing traffic on public wifi, which is easy and takes only a 5 minute training via YouTube. The other scenario takes a bit more than a video on YouTube.
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I recently moved and got new internet service and ever since I've been having issues with the Wi-Fi on my phone. I have 300 mpbs internet service and so I expect my phone to scream through updates in seconds... But ever since the move apps like play store and google drive are slow as hell. So after trying everything I could find online I figure I'll ask for help.
I've narrowed the problem to IPv6 issues. At my old place I had Ipv6 working so I never had any issues. But now when I go to test my Ipv6 It's not working. I'm renting a modem/router from my isp. I know buying my equipment would probably be the easiest fix but that's not an option right now.
There is an option in the router configuration to disable dhcpv6 but that's not solving the issue. The test says I have an Ipv6 address but the dns does not resolve. I found an app on playstore called Ipv6 tool that disables it and my phones works after doing that but I'd love to figure out how to just get my Ipv6 to work. I'm going to exchange the router today to see if it's just the equipment. If anyone knows how to remedy my issue I'm all ears. If anyone is having issues like mine Ipv6 tool is a great temporary fix.
EDIT- SOLVED---- It was a network issue. In my router configuration I had to disable dhcpv6 and then after that renew WAN lease.
I noticed WiFi issues the other day and then noticed my sky box had updated and had lots of ipv6 settings. So I assumed it was to do with that.
I think it can be disabled but haven't looked into yet. But my device sometimes flies through some tasks but then grinds to a halt on others.
Glad I'm not the only one
The Ipv6 tool pro works pretty good after you do some configuring. But I'm leaning towards its a network configuration issue not necessarily an issue with our phones..
You can just disable Ipv6 by entering “echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/wlan0/disable_ipv6" according to these guys. But I saw the app before I learned of the command.
I'm back to updating 30+ apps in less than 10 minutes. I was getting mad because it was taking about two hours to do this. And being a flashaholic that seriously cuts into my flashing..lol
EDIT- SOLVED---- It was a network issue. In my router configuration I had to disable dhcpv6 and then after that renew WAN lease.
Hi all,
I'm trying to setup a network remote for a program we use (openlp), and I've come across an issue I'd love your help with.
I'm not sure if it's a generic android problem, or LOS specific, but I figured I'd start here.
Quite simply, if the local area network has no internet access, android will not send network traffic over it even if it's local traffic!
The only solution I have found is to disable mobile data, which will force the device to send the traffic over the lan.
Has anyone come across this and can suggest anything else I could try?
Running lineage os 14.1 on a xiaomi mi5