Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Adhoc networking support on Android Froyo

In my summer holiday, i bought a Samsung Galaxy Tab Wifi only device. It was a really happy night because i had a chance to test my new android based applications. I also needed a PDF reader because i like to read books and articles when i travel from home to work. Finally, it was a nice toy for a 30+ computer geek.

The toy was nice, fast, customizable. Browsing the web is reasonable. I think, i had not got a problem with the device itself. My problem was about the Android software.

My wife has an IPhone 4 and first, i used to connect my Galaxy Tab with IPhone 4 with the functionality of iOS's infrastructure network. But there was a problem with my Nokia E72. I downloaded the JoikuSpot Lite version from OVI Store and it turned my Nokia E72 into an ad hoc access point. My wife's IPhone 4 successfuly  connected to my Nokia E72 but Galaxy Tab didn't see it in WiFi scanner.

There are lots of different solutions based on replacing the wpa_supplication dynamic library, modifying the configuration files etc.. Those files are stored in the system folders, so you have to make your device rooted or you have to connect your device with 'adb' thing which is stored in the Android SDK (under folder platform_tools).

I do not want to struggle with those things. I want my device to connect to my E72 easly.  I heard that, there is no reason my Samsung Galaxy Tab not to support adhoc networking, it is the failure of Android!.

Finally, i am disappointed...

I am not alone with this, too many people want Android to support adhoc.
This is the willings: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=82

Author: jbytecode
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5 comments:

  1. agesAugust 23, 2011 at 2:35 AM

    however android is a linux based product. This story is a totally against thing according to philosophy of linux. I condemn to google company for this restriction as a personally.

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  2. jbytecodeAugust 23, 2011 at 3:40 AM

    somebody said "While not natively supported, the hardware on every android device released to date do support it. It is just disabled in software, and you would need to enable it in order to use these features. " in site http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5100928/how-to-connect-android-wifi-to-adhoc-wifi

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  3. shinkaranOctober 18, 2011 at 12:33 AM

    only easy solution for this is described here.
    http://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CEIQFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.44actions.com%2F%3Fp%3D273&rct=j&q=ad%20hoc%20networks%20and%20android%20issues&ei=PCmdTonbGoujiQfQvYCvCQ&usg=AFQjCNERqhsxkYnyn3T3FTSpvM5ZEimXDQ&sig2=k3-qtRj4llw97uxpAcerqA&cad=rja

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  4. jbytecodeOctober 18, 2011 at 3:13 AM

    Thanks for your post. However, it is for windows and logically, we should not need any external software for this.

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  5. jbytecodeDecember 3, 2011 at 5:40 AM

    this subject is re-handled in an other short article in page http://stdioe.blogspot.com/2011/12/cursed-ad-hoc-networking-problem-on.html?m=1

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Thanks

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