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Success!! WiFi Tethering!!!

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OptimusSlime said:
Has anyone tried Barnacle? It seems pretty promising, but since i have an Opt M that came stock w/ 2.2.1 I don't think I am fully rooted. "Absolute system" (Program) uses SU mode and I changed my boot animation and PowerOn mp3, but I can't seem to get some things to work. I feel like my phone is the asian kid from Indiana Jones, being pulled between the minecars. ;-)
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I believe, I tired Barnacle. To no avail, of course.
 
I just DL'd "Wireless Tether" from Market,
and it works. Slower than crap, but it worked right away.
Now if i can just finger out how to use custom boot recovery...
 
MikesTooLz said:
Yeah your right its 10
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try this 7465625638 its a samsung sp unlock code i just stumbled across for a older g600 but hey you never know LOL

im starting to think my friend was right he told me he believes it has to be a different number on each phone something unique to each phone that they would use on the phone already for something else like Imei converted to something
 
i don't think they are that dumb to use the same code for every device, especially given that we cannot change it (yet?)
 
Any brave souls want to try locating a Settings.apk from a t-mobile phone and swap it out for the one on your phone. See if it then gives the wifi tether menu to reset the password?
 
MikesTooLz said:
Any brave souls want to try locating a Settings.apk from a t-mobile phone and swap it out for the one on your phone. See if it then gives the wifi tether menu to reset the password?
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Mike: I'd be a perfect candidate. Where on the phone can I find the file? Please, post the patch to it. Thanks.
 
Yeah looks to me like the settings.apk on our phone was edited to remove the hotspot feature but there are still remnances of it in there. Its got 3 hotspot HTML help pages repeated in every language. I'm thinking swapping out the settings.apk with one from a tmobile phone would bring back the hotspot menu. If so we could use it to reset the password and then put back the original file.


I dont suggest anyone try this unless they have CWM and know how to perform a restore if it doesnt work.
 
Hey everyone! Thanks! Looks like we finally have root. Yahoo! Still can't get any of the wifi tethering apps to work. wifitether for rot users fails to install. everything else doesn't work. worst of all, we know we have droid native hotspot feature, we can turn it on but we can't change the code. I think someone was going to let someone else crack that wpa2 code on one of our phones. any word on how that went?
 
MikesTooLz said:
Yeah looks to me like the settings.apk on our phone was edited to remove the hotspot feature but there are still remnances of it in there. Its got 3 hotspot HTML help pages repeated in every language. I'm thinking swapping out the settings.apk with one from a tmobile phone would bring back the hotspot menu. If so we could use it to reset the password and then put back the original file.


I dont suggest anyone try this unless they have CWM and know how to perform a restore if it doesnt work.
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Mike: which files do you want me to post?
 
OK. I managed to snatch Settings.apk from an FroYo 2.2.1 with full unrestricted hotspot capabilities (European version). Posting it here. Let me know if you think some of this is useful...
 

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nickrussel said:
OK. I managed to snatch Settings.apk from an FroYo 2.2.1 with full unrestricted hotspot capabilities (European version). Posting it here. Let me know if you think some of this is useful...
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yeah we just need someone brave enought to test it out and see if it works. Getting the built in hotspot feature would be our best option.



But i have good news, I have wireless tethering working with the app from the app store named Barnacle. Down side is that it doesnt seem to be getting full speeds, im ony getting about 1mb up/down. Not the best but its better than nothing for right now.


**Note**
After installing Barnacle go into settings and Enable Skip WPA_supplicant.
Changing other settings may make the app stop working. I tried changing a bunch of settings and enabling WEP but the app then stopped working until i uninstalled it and reinstalled it.
 
MikesTooLz said:
yeah we just need someone brave enought to test it out and see if it works. Getting the built in hotspot feature would be our best option.



But i have good news, I have wireless tethering working with the app from the app store named Barnacle. Down side is that it doesnt seem to be getting full speeds, im ony getting about 1mb up/down. Not the best but its better than nothing for right now.

**Note**
After installing Barnacle go into settings and Enable Skip WPA_supplicant.
Changing other settings may make the app stop working. I tried changing a bunch of settings and enabling WEP but the app then stopped working until i uninstalled it and reinstalled it.
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Perhaps, the gentleman with FRU units? :) Although, technically, if we can use adb to swap those files in the phone back n forth while the phone is in the download/recovery mode, then we should have a backup plan...

re Barnacle: isn't it only ad-hoc and no infrastructure?.. I couldn't get it to work anyway...
 
OK...
I've been following this thread for quite a while now, and actually just join AF to post this sad news.
It looks like the wifi password is not anywhere in the open source file provided, so it is not the way it comes standard from Samsung, but something metropcs did.
A simple search for the word AndroidAP in every file in the source code came up with nothing.
I am going to search throughout the code for the settings source code, and maybe compare it with that of a fascinate, and let you know if i find something good.

And no, I don't have an Indulge (yet).
---Still waiting to see if a MIR is coming up soon before I decide to head out there and get it.
 
Well, to keep you folks up to date, I still don't have anything good yet, I have not been able to find anything interesting yet in the samsung source code.
I am Computer Science Student, so I am somewhat familiar with source code.
I have been going through all the document as of late and trying to see what I can get, but so far, I don't see anything.
The source code is not provided in the hierarchy i was expecting, so it's taking me longer to go through it...
Also, I've been trying to see what the test passwords hardcoded in the files are, and I don't have anything good as of yet.

So far, I have:
passphrase
secret passphrase
very secret passphrase
12345678
SECRETSAUCE
password
PASSWORD
06b4be19da289f475aa46a33cb793029d4ab3db7a23ee92382eb0106c72ac7bb
000102030405060708090a0b0c0d0e0f101112131415161718191a1b1c1d1e1f
06b4be19da289f475aa46a33cb793029
mypassword

none of which are very promessing.
I'll keep you all posted.
Maybe I should just get the phone...
I still haven't quite decided…
 
nickrussel said:
Mike: did you try just pushing it with adb?
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yeah i pushed it over to the phone but it wouldnt run on the phone.

it would ask if I want to replace the current settings. I hit yes and then it would just say application not installed.


This was pushing it over and not replacing it entirely. I figured if I pushed it over as settings2.apk and ran it I could do a factory reset if anything went wrong and go back to having the default settings app.
 
progress update so far:
install titaniumbackup
backup everything to SD Card
mount SD card and copy folder TitaniumBackup
Find and extract the contents of file com.android.providers.settings-20110306-201549.tar.gz (where numeric portion is timestamp)
go to dbdata\databases\com.android.providers.settings in the resulting folder tree and open file settings.db with this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sqlite-manager/ (this is firefox plugin; install it, restart firefox, go tools -> SQLite Manager). In SQLite Manager Go Database -> Connect DataBase -> Select to show all file types and browes to where you extracted settings.db. On the left side go to Tables -> Secure. Click "Secure" to highlight. Then on the right side go to Execute SQL tab and copypaste the following 4 strings into the "Enter SQL" field:

insert into secure (name, value) values ('wifi_ap_hide', 0);
insert into secure (name, value) values ('wifi_ap_security', 1);
insert into secure (name, value) values ('wifi_ap_ssid', 'Android Unlimited');
insert into secure (name, value) values ('wifi_ap_passwd', 'mypassword');

where Android Unlimited is the name of SSID and mypassword is your desired password. Change those two fields to your liking...

Click the Run SQL button
At this point you won't have any output. To check whether the above procedure was successful, copy-paste the following into "Enter SQL" field:

select * from secure where name like 'wifi_ap%';

Hit Run SQL

You should now have some output showing the above settings in tables in the field below

If you don't check the steps above. If you do, Go Database -> Close Database

Now use 7-Zip or any other of the many free tar.gz management tools available (winrar won't inject into tar.gz archive). BACKUP ORIGINAL tar.gz file first, then replace with the new version

Unmount SD card from PC, run titanium backup and restore everything.

Let me know, if this works... Also, if someone knows of another wireless utility to control Android native wifi stuff for phones like ours where it's been purposefully taken away, please post...
 
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