Technology Android

Preach

Well-Known Member
So the solution is to download the Opera mini browser from the Market, download Kies via that, then transfer it via USB, install Kies, and it has the necessary drivers to share internet via USB. The WiFi hotspot feature, I can't even be fucked trying to get that to work atm. Any ideas?
 

dilla

Trumpfan17 aka Coonie aka Dilla aka Tennis Dog
Have you talked to your provider about this? It could be the phone, or it could be that your coverage gets weird around your house.

Have you tried using it in a more public place, like the mall?
 

Preach

Well-Known Member
No, I will, I was pretty much just annoyed and raging. I'm sure there's a reasonable explanation. Through USB everything is fine, seems the problem only occurs while using WiFi hotspot. And I've only tried this one computer so it could be the wireless card, even despite it working with my router at home. Compatibility and what not.
 

Prize Gotti

Boots N Cats
Staff member
My Motorola Defy crashed my BT Infinity router every time I connected until I had the 2.2 update. Are you on 2.1 on that phone? Could just need a firmware update.
 

Preach

Well-Known Member
2.3.3, so almost the latest. Could be that 2.3.4 (iirc) fixes it though, I'm actually gonna update the phone now and have a check some time later.
 

dilla

Trumpfan17 aka Coonie aka Dilla aka Tennis Dog
What type of encryption are you using?

I got a new router and had the encryption set at WP2. As a result, my Xbox would get kicked offline every few minutes from games. My computers had no issue. Changed the encryption to WEP, and all was fixed.

See if that's an option for you. Some people are adamant about having the best encryption and all that coonshit. I live in a good neighborhood. No one coons people's wireless. You still have a password, but nothing sophisticated like the 20 digit encryption key for WP2.
 

THEV1LL4N

Well-Known Member
So the solution is to download the Opera mini browser from the Market, download Kies via that, then transfer it via USB, install Kies, and it has the necessary drivers to share internet via USB. The WiFi hotspot feature, I can't even be fucked trying to get that to work atm. Any ideas?
there's an app called 'Barnacle' if its still around. Does the job. Bear in mind that its not native to the system. Again, it does the job though.
 

ARon

Well-Known Member
I just got a message saying I've used 4.5gb of the 5gb I'm allotted of high speed internet access lol. I'm going to be stuck on edge speeds for like a week god damn it.
 

dilla

Trumpfan17 aka Coonie aka Dilla aka Tennis Dog
I just got a message saying I've used 4.5gb of the 5gb I'm allotted of high speed internet access lol. I'm going to be stuck on edge speeds for like a week god damn it.
I hope the government rules these faggot data caps as illegal. Traffic wasn't so bad a year ago when smartphones were still not as common as they are today, so there was no justifiable reason to cap data, other than to make money. But now they know more and more people are getting smartphones (basically everyone in college had a smartphone or has gotten one this summer) and locked themselves in two year contracts and then more, they up the prices. Fuck this faggot shit.

At least I got grandfathered into Verizon's truly unlimited data plan. But I'll probably lose that when I cancel my service next month and return a year or two later.
 

ARon

Well-Known Member
My computer died on me and I haven't had time to fix it so I've been using my phone for everything, dl'n music and such. i probably average about a gig a month maybe more
 

Preach

Well-Known Member
Lol damn. I have a business subscription that my employer covers. Silly thing, there are extra data packages you can attatch to the subscription to up the amount of data you can download for a set price. This basic business subscription has something like 200megs per month and then it's unlimited use per day for like 3-5 euro or something. But we can't do shit to our subscription. So I have a roof for how much I can use the phone throughout a year, it's about 2300 euros. So I'm kinda forced to pay more for data traffic than I should. I average about 3-5 gigs per month lol :s

What type of encryption are you using?

I got a new router and had the encryption set at WP2. As a result, my Xbox would get kicked offline every few minutes from games. My computers had no issue. Changed the encryption to WEP, and all was fixed.

See if that's an option for you. Some people are adamant about having the best encryption and all that coonshit. I live in a good neighborhood. No one coons people's wireless. You still have a password, but nothing sophisticated like the 20 digit encryption key for WP2.
I remember meeting a woman in Manchester once, who had relations up here in Northern Norway. She was from Northern Ireland originally, and so she told the story about her 8 year old son who would be scared to walk alone up here due to where he came from, and who never quite wrapped his head around the fact that there are no lurking dangers in Northern Norway. Even the wild lynx is a little bitch that runs. The worst thing you could encounter would have to be a Moose cow with calves. You're likelier to die from natural causes more than anything else. Point of my anecdote being, my WLAN is open :p
 

Pittsey

Knock, Knock...
Staff member
Lol damn. I have a business subscription that my employer covers. Silly thing, there are extra data packages you can attatch to the subscription to up the amount of data you can download for a set price. This basic business subscription has something like 200megs per month and then it's unlimited use per day for like 3-5 euro or something. But we can't do shit to our subscription. So I have a roof for how much I can use the phone throughout a year, it's about 2300 euros. So I'm kinda forced to pay more for data traffic than I should. I average about 3-5 gigs per month lol :s

I remember meeting a woman in Manchester once, who had relations up here in Northern Norway. She was from Northern Ireland originally, and so she told the story about her 8 year old son who would be scared to walk alone up here due to where he came from, and who never quite wrapped his head around the fact that there are no lurking dangers in Northern Norway. Even the wild lynx is a little bitch that runs. The worst thing you could encounter would have to be a Moose cow with calves. You're likelier to die from natural causes more than anything else. Point of my anecdote being, my WLAN is open :p
Country Bumpkin.
 

masta247

Well-Known Member
Staff member
Obviously it is open since the source code is available for everyone to see. However it's limited to one company developing it, instead of a group of random dudes working for free. Best of both worlds.
Everyone can use it and do whatever they want with it after it's released though. There's no being "less open" really. It's either available to the public or not. Android is. The development is performed by one company and the development is not "open" for just about anyone though, that's probably why some nerds got pissed and released that article in the first place :p
However the Tablet version is not open at all to give a legit example of why Android might be less open, because the source code is not publicly available. But since the article was sparked by "nerds who can't get in to develop a piece of Android" nobody cared to mention that.
 

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