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USB tether w/o Root. PDAnet for Android Available now!

Hey everyone, PDAnet is now available for android!
http://junefabrics.com/android/index.php
PdaNet does NOT require root access or hacking your phone's firmware in order to work. It is just a regular Android application that works on all Android phones as-is. Currently this initial version supports USB tethering on the T-Mobile G1 phone. Tethering is secure and will also charge your phone at the same time. Your phone can either connect to 3G data or WiFi.
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It works perfectly, and root access is not required.
Enjoy!

Good find! Works best with Opera browser (other browsers such as IE and Firefox, won't display pictures for some reason...) Has some connectivity issues when using longer than 5 minutes (yes, I have enable usb bugging enabled and stay alive while connected via usb) All and all, a good program for your laptop without draining your G1 or when the REAL internet goes out. Good find! Thanks! Also, incredibly simple to use!!!

EXE installer? WTF?! How does it work? Does the program require something on the computer-end too?
I'm Linux user, so I can't use it?

Yes, it seems to be only compatible with windows. Since you're in linux, you may try running it through WINE to see what happens.

andonnguyen said:
Yes, it seems to be only compatible with windows. Since you're in linux, you may try running it through WINE to see what happens.
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Did you experience the pictures not loading problem also while using IE or firefox?

this doesn't really seem to work yet
I was able to install it without much trouble and the initial connection looked promising (well, some pages came up anyway).
It was basically impossible to connect to Speedtest.net however and Speakeasy only rated my connection at 287/283 kbps at best (the G1 was on WiFi). I tested it again with the G1 on 3G and got a 409/330 kbps (doesn't that seem weird that it would rate better on 3G?) but then it seemed to stop connecting somehow and I had to restart the program and reestablish the connection on the PC. After a few more minutes it happened again. I would call this basically not useful at the moment, but I hope they can work the bugs out and get some decent speed out of it.
For reference, using Tether WiFi to connect to the G1 over 3G Speakeasy rated the connection at 699/316 kbps. And in my experience it's stable/consistent.
As a disclaimer, this was on my work laptop which has some pretty hefty encryption software installed. While this may be the problem, I didn't have any trouble connecting initially (multiple times).
Additional:
Their "reviews" section is just "customer testimonials", as my honest yet critical assessment of the app's inability to perform as intended was NOT posted and they didn't even bother to drop me an email to try to sort out the problem. I hope they can improve on the app, but they're quickly losing my respect and interest.

I just got this. I dl it to my sd card, connect phone to pc w usb, ran exe through windows. Installed program automatically onto phone. Windows asks to install driver for g1 and it does the work from there.
It seems to work ok, the first few tries on my desktop it would disconnect after a few minutes, restarted phone and its been better but still only seems to stay connected for about 20 min, which should be ample time to do alittle websurfing without getting mad about disconnects.

well they might not have replied because they are aware of the problem, and they clearly state that this is beta software. if you look at the known issues the first one is about the connection dropping and having to reconnect.
once they work out the bugs this software will be pretty useful because of how easy it is to use.

if only i could plug the g1 into the 360 would save me $100...or if i could share the connection with my windows media desktop(i use it as a media server for my xbox and its not even close to a internet connection).
i tried to connect it but it does the network doesnt have sufficient MTU settings. xbox live requires a minimum MTU setting of 1364.
darn.
ill be watching for updates though, should be useful once fully operational.

i've been using mine for a while now...no problems once i turn off the wifi switch on my laptop...recently when i plug it in tho, it says PDAnet is expiring soon...is this supposed to be a paid app?

This app is gay... It was pretty good at first... but once the guy updated to r1.5... its been acting gay... it would come up with random blockings... it blocked www.google.com... wtf?... and wikipedia... yahoo answers... so I just got root and installed WiFi Tether for Root users... works way better and doesnt have blocks...

USB tether 4.2.6
This is supposed to be plug and play. A lot of people have said it's great. I have not been so fortunate. Anyway, could someone give me directions on how to use this. 1. plug in phone via USB. 2. settings/wireless settings/ internet tether (on). 3. Go to PC and click on G1Tether click connect. For me this does not work. Help.

This application is a fine hold-over for people who are too stupid to get root, but it is a VERY VERY poor imitation of tethering.
1) A real tethering solution will NOT require proprietary crap to be installed on the CLIENT.
2) Wired or Wireless tether for root users *IS* a *TRUE* plug-it-in-and-it-works solution. Run the program on the phone, plug in the wire, and you're done. No weird nonsense to be installed on the computer.

Is there a way to do a reverse teather?

I am scheduled to Deploy to Iraq later this fall and will be taking my trusty N1.
In Iraq you pay an incredible amount of money for the internet it is something like $75 for 96k. One on the down falls is you link up via cat5. I had my HTC Touch Pro last time and I was able to update data etc surf the internet using active sync via miniusb while it was plugged in to my laptop. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

Not sure if this will work on the N1 (do any custom ROMs support ad-hoc WiFi?), but worth a shot: http://modmymobile.com/forums/491-jailbreak-root-access/544146-connect-g1-ad-hoc-network-solved.html (skip to "Step 3" for instructions on changing the tiwlan.ini file).
P.S. Needs root for obvious reasons.

If you run Windows 7 check out www.connectify.me It will turn your current connection into a wifi access point on through your computer's wireless device

ManticoreX said:
If you run Windows 7 check out www.connectify.me It will turn your current connection into a wifi access point on through your computer's wireless device
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Thanks for that link, I'll have to try it out!
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Unfortunately Connectify's Access Point mode is only supported on a limited number of WiFi cards, as seen here. My fairly new (1 year old) Lenovo X61 Tablet can only do Ad-Hoc, which still requires modding the wpa-supplicant on the N1. At that point Connectify becomes useless, since you can enable ICS in Windows on your own.

sweet and thanks. i am using this in-flight on gogo so i have access to two devices and only pay for one.

Sorry you are having issues, but yea not all cards are supported. Luckily, both my desktop and laptop have been compatible. My laptop initially had issues because I was not on the newest drivers for the wireless card. If your card isn't directly listed on the unsupported list, it might be worth it to try and upgrade drivers and test one more time.

Unfortunately I am running Xp on my laptop.

http://www.brighthub.com/computing/windows-platform/articles/7785.aspx
https://review.source.android.com/#change,13291
Hope that helps.

Devastatin said:
http://www.brighthub.com/computing/windows-platform/articles/7785.aspx
https://review.source.android.com/#change,13291
Hope that helps.
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The first link is a guide for setting up an ad-hoc connection on Windows XP, the second is a link to a change to the Android source code that's been abandoned 2 months ago.
The good news is that according to the comments on the 2nd link Google is working on implementing Ad-Hoc support. The bad news is that it's not in FroYo, so we might have to wait for Gingerbread to see it. Of course, there's nothing preventing CyanogenMod team from implementing this change into CM6, so they would be the best people to ask about it.

In the network settings on my mac you can 'broadcast' your connection. The tutorial I read showing me how to do that said windows has a similar feature.

You can use travel router and setup internet sharing...
Source: you have to right-click the connection source->properties->advanced and setup the internet sharing.
Destination: If you have a spare ethernet jack, GOOD! Use it.
I know some Ralink-based wifi cards support virtual AP mode (the best bet are Hawking and Asus and I have both).

Bluetooth PAN tethering to an android phone - works! (CM7)

I don't have enough posts yet to put this on the developers side, but after digging through a lot of posts, I've pieced together how to tether my CM7 Nook to another android device, and figured a few folks would want to try it as well.
The particulars: On the Nook, I am running the nightly build 31 of CM7.
Whichever phone you want to use has to be rooted, and have the 'wireless tether' app installed. It also has to be able to use bluetooth PAN (as opposed to DUN). I think most android phones do, but my friends blackberry only supports DUN.
First, on the phone: Turn on Bluetooth, and then go to settings>About Phone>Status and write down the bluetooth address, which is six hex numbers separated by colons.
Next, still on the phone, launch wireless tether, and go to the settings page. Check the 'Use Bluetooth' checkbox. Make sure the 'discoverable' checkbox is ticked as well, then go back to the main screen, and press the 'press to start tethering'.
On the Nook, start bluetooth, go to bluetooth settings and scan for devices (if needed); you should see the phone appear on the 'bluetooth devices' list. Pair up with it by clicking on it. Both the Nook and the phone will pop up a PIN dialog, accept that, and you should be seeing 'Paired but not connected' status.
Next, still on the Nook, open a terminal window, and type the following commands (substitute the bluetooth address of the phone you wrote down, INCLUDING THE COLONS in place of the xx's below).
EDIT: before pand, you need root access; use the su command
pand --connect xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
netcfg bnep0 up
netcfg bnep0 dhcp
setprop net.dns1 8.8.8.8
you should now have net access via the tether!
The pand is the configuration demon for the PAN protocol, and that first line ties the bluetooth phone to a network interface named bnep0
The netcfg command activates that interface, and gets an address dhcp'd to it.
and the setprop command sets the DNS (in this case to google's DNS server).
I know many have said they only have limited bluetooth range, but either they have fixed that, or I'm one of the lucky ones, I could still get data on my Nook with the phone almost 30 feet away!

Very cool. Do you notice packet slow down in data speeds the farther you are from the device.
My experience with BT audio is I could not listen to my audio file if I was more than 6" away from my device once I was 12" the signal would drop off/on.

Works well. Now to automate it.

Just did it. Works perfectly! Thanks for the tip. Wonder why the range is so much better tethering than with other accessories. Maybe because the nook is receiving instead of transmitting?
Sent from my NookColor using Tapatalk

Anyone know if this would work with an iphone?
From 1.1 Nook Color with 1.1 ghz overclock

Aw, I had pulled out my Blackberry and was looking up the Mac address before I read that it wouldn't work with Bluetooth DUN. Really cool find though!

This works fine for browsing and a few apps but most of the native apps (email, Gmail, Market, Mapps, etc) do not see a data connection.

Yes, it should work with an iphone; I think I saw some other threads talking about it, I just don't know the steps on the iphone to configure the tethering.

DUN and the blackberry; we need the DUN daemon!
Yeah, a firend of mine has a blackberry and a Nook, and was disappointed that there isn't DUN support (yet).
However, the official open source documentation mentions that there is not only the PAN daemon (pand), but also a DUN daemon, dund. It just isn't included in the cyanogen builds.
I still don't have enough posts to post to the developers side; if anyone could put a request in for dund we might be in business!
As for the range, it seems to be very dependent on what you're tethering to. The tether to the phone last night was a long distance, (the data rate did slow down a bit with distance, to answer the question above, but not badly). But, trying to link to a headset (with mixed success, still working on it), the range wasn't as good. And trying another phone, the range was pretty bad, only a couple of feet.

carrc said:
I still don't have enough posts to post to the developers side; if anyone could put a request in for dund we might be in business!
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If you have less then 10 posts you can not start a new thread in the Dev section, but you can add a reply to an existing thread.

painter_ said:
If you have less then 10 posts you can not start a new thread in the Dev section, but you can add a reply to an existing thread.
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I don't think this is correct. I tried to reply to the "CM7 with Honycomb features" thread, but was denied because I have less that 10 posts.
So I trolled a couple of General threads to get my count past 10.
=X=

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I don't think this is correct. I tried to reply to the "CM7 with Honycomb features" thread, but was denied because I have less that 10 posts.
So I trolled a couple of General threads to get my count past 10.
=X=
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I have seen people with less then 10 post in the CM development threads.
Who knows??

carrc said:
Yeah, a firend of mine has a blackberry and a Nook, and was disappointed that there isn't DUN support (yet).
However, the official open source documentation mentions that there is not only the PAN daemon (pand), but also a DUN daemon, dund. It just isn't included in the cyanogen builds.
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This is very cool! Since I have a BB Curve, I'll have to wait until there is DUN support too, like I do with my iTouch and the BB.

Hi,
I was hoping I could use Bluetooth tethering with my non-rooted Android phone.
There is an application called 'PDANet' in the market with Bluetooth tethering, but
it only does DUN tethering. (free partly functional version, paid full function).
Easytether (market) promises Bluetooth DUN tethering in the future sometime.
In the process of trying to get Bluetooth tethering to work, I
found 'GScript Lite' in the market, very easy way to enter and run shell
scripts like the one on the original post from within Android UI. Looks like
it hasn't been updated to run on tablet, but seemed functional.
Hope this helps someone.
Peter

Has anyone had luck in getting the gmail and email app to work on a bluetooth PAN connection? I can use the web browser and some other apps like USA today but not the email apps.

carrc said:
I don't have enough posts yet to put this on the developers side, but after digging through a lot of posts, I've pieced together how to tether my CM7 Nook to another android device, and figured a few folks would want to try it as well.
The particulars: On the Nook, I am running the nightly build 31 of CM7.
Whichever phone you want to use has to be rooted, and have the 'wireless tether' app installed. It also has to be able to use bluetooth PAN (as opposed to DUN). I think most android phones do, but my friends blackberry only supports DUN.
First, on the phone: Turn on Bluetooth, and then go to settings>About Phone>Status and write down the bluetooth address, which is six hex numbers separated by colons.
Next, still on the phone, launch wireless tether, and go to the settings page. Check the 'Use Bluetooth' checkbox. Make sure the 'discoverable' checkbox is ticked as well, then go back to the main screen, and press the 'press to start tethering'.
On the Nook, start bluetooth, go to bluetooth settings and scan for devices (if needed); you should see the phone appear on the 'bluetooth devices' list. Pair up with it by clicking on it. Both the Nook and the phone will pop up a PIN dialog, accept that, and you should be seeing 'Paired but not connected' status.
Next, still on the Nook, open a terminal window, and type the following commands (substitute the bluetooth address of the phone you wrote down, INCLUDING THE COLONS in place of the xx's below).
EDIT: before pand, you need root access; use the su command
pand --connect xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
netcfg bnep0 up
netcfg bnep0 dhcp
setprop net.dns1 8.8.8.8
you should now have net access via the tether!
The pand is the configuration demon for the PAN protocol, and that first line ties the bluetooth phone to a network interface named bnep0
The netcfg command activates that interface, and gets an address dhcp'd to it.
and the setprop command sets the DNS (in this case to google's DNS server).
I know many have said they only have limited bluetooth range, but either they have fixed that, or I'm one of the lucky ones, I could still get data on my Nook with the phone almost 30 feet away!
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Thank you for posting this. I just had my NC rooted, running cm7; android 2.3.3 and am looking to get a compatible phone (I have a BB bold). I have asked in a different thread about which phone to get...but I wanted to ask you where I can find the "terminal window" you talk about? I believe I will need to do this myself (after paying $178 for the rooting).

midsouth said:
Thank you for posting this. I just had my NC rooted, running cm7; android 2.3.3 and am looking to get a compatible phone (I have a BB bold). I have asked in a different thread about which phone to get...but I wanted to ask you where I can find the "terminal window" you talk about? I believe I will need to do this myself (after paying $178 for the rooting).
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Wait, hold on a second... you paid what for someone to root your phone? You paid anything at all, you paid too much, you can do this super easy man. Please tell me that was a typo for $1.78 because you bought the person doing your rooting a cup of coffee. Please!

There is an app/widget for BT PAN tethering now: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1032834

[Q] Stock A855, SuperOneClick'd and Droid Overclock

perhaps somebody here could be tolerant enough to assist or direct me to concise clear info to such a likely passe situation.
Phone again, stock from VZW and fully updated.
Barnacle installed from market.
I have a few questions;
1)Superoneclick seemed to only install "superuser" on my phone. Does this mean the busy box and abd things, of which I have no idea what to do with, is only accessible via my win7 64 bit pc while the phone is connected to it via usb?
2)How do I optimize this phone with stock rom and remove "bloatware" as well as eliminate intrusive programs? Are there any threads which ID these as well as their functions?
3) Jrummy Droid Overclock installed, several versions in fact, and the best I could do was make the phone extremely laborious and finally reverted back to stock settings before uninstalling. I did have to click the "experimental" box to make it able to scale the stock rom.
Any thread or info as to some failproof settings to make this stock thing work much better/faster?
4) Can this phone, usb tether the data connection without any paid apps or limitations regarding secure sites and such?
Interestingly enough, I'm finding the search functions on this forum to be impossible on my handheld and just about the same from my pc. From the handheld, it wanted me to assemble pix which my touchscreen or keyboard didn't seem to allow.
From the pc, 'no matches found' or something to that affect.
Also, when I was having problems recalling my login info, had almost given up deciding instead to reregister, I got a denial message based on having a verizon wireless IP. Weird.
I'm rereading the beginners info and it would be nice to be able to simply make my stock rom'd droid better.
Feel free to tell me if I'm pissing in the wind and need to just do different roms and or kernals. However, I'd like to just keep it simple for now.

You are able to download Busybox straight from the Android Market: https://market.android.com/details?id=stericson.busybox&feature=search_result
You can tether your phone to create a wireless hotspot, but I'm not 100% sure about USB tether.

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You are able to download Busybox straight from the Android Market: https://market.android.com/details?id=stericson.busybox&feature=search_result
You can tether your phone to create a wireless hotspot, but I'm not 100% sure about USB tether.
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Yes and thanks, I snagged barnacle for that. It works fine although I'm either too green to make it secure, or the WEP stuff is broken.
That is why I'd like the option to have a more secure hardwire tether.
I know I can do pda.net and some other apps, it seems to me that it should be able to do that perhaps just with some tweaks.
So when I extracted superoneclick on my pc, I see busybox and such in that file. I just did the one click and nothing else, not even on my phone.
It is interesting how fast such basic topics become inundated with miles of confusing info to bewilder a virtual computer twit.

It looks like what you want to do is basically create a wireless hotspot with your phone? Because I use Wireless Tether for Root Users and I am able to encrypt it and set up a secure connection.
Here's what I pulled from the Barnacle website:
How do I use WEP?
Barnacle support 40 and 104-bit WEP. In Settings find Wireless Security and enable WEP, then type in the key. For 40-bit WEP, type in 5 ASCII characters or 10 hex digits. For 104-bit WEP, type in 13 ASCII characters or 26 hex digits. Passphrase is not supported.
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skadude66 said:
It looks like what you want to do is basically create a wireless hotspot with your phone? Because I use Wireless Tether for Root Users and I am able to encrypt it and set up a secure connection.
Here's what I pulled from the Barnacle website:
How do I use WEP?
Barnacle support 40 and 104-bit WEP. In Settings find Wireless Security and enable WEP, then type in the key. For 40-bit WEP, type in 5 ASCII characters or 10 hex digits. For 104-bit WEP, type in 13 ASCII characters or 26 hex digits. Passphrase is not supported.
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Phone Settings? "no "Wireless Security" to be found nor did I readily find anything to do with WEP under the Wireless sections.
Barnacle? Again, no "Wireless Security" section found. There is a "Wireless Encryption" settings section. I did enable it with the app stopped and set a five digit alpha code. Restarted Barnacle and my pc completely disregarded it, connected to it with no input required and the signal still shows as unsecured and public.
I'm pleased that it tethers, I would like to make it secure and I would also like to easily usb it to any laptop or pc sans having to load software on them unless said pc/device was older and didn't automatically recognize this phone, as this new win 7 pc did, where upon loading some drivers would be seem reasonable.
I'm not pc/droid knowledgeable enough to know if this is dreaming but, it seems reasonable that it's usb output could be toggled and be seen as a modem connection.

I'm sure it can, but people use Wireless tethering more than a physical USB tethering.
I've never actually used this, but I've heard of people using it when they need to tether via USB: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mstream.easytether_beta&feature=search_result

Yes and thanks, I truly appreciate your efforts to help and your tolerance for my ignorance.
I am aware of those various usb tethering programs and I suppose my question is why must software be loaded on a device capable of seeing other usb plugged connections and run them 'plug and play'?
I'll see if somebody with barnacle can assist me with the WEP issue. I've tried it several ways and have had no success. Possibly related, my droid no longer will send MMS. It still receives them, just no longer sends. I wish I could say if that occurred after rooting or after attempting overclocking, but, it happened after one or both.

Wait, does the Easy Tether not require software to be installled on usb tethered device? I was sure it did and after reading the page, it doesn't mention it.
It's still bizarre that I can wirelessly tether now that soc rooted it, but I still have to buy an app to usb tether it, and I was pretty sure, install stuff on device to be tethered.

No problem, anytime!
Honestly, I don't know much about Easy Tether, I've heard about it, but have not delved much deeper into it.
What ROM are you using (if any)? I know that I had some issues with CM7 and a little bit less with Cronos right now, where I send a text message and it hangs with "Sending..." for hours at a time.
How much did you overclock your phone by? What vsel?
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phone is stock other than being rooted
I used JRummy's Droid Overclock as it is supposed to overclock a stock rom'd A855 droid.
I tried several several many settings, mostly what was recommended, but none of them seemed to make it better, and if they did, I couldn't seem to make them stick upon rebooting.
Kept all attempts at or below 800MHz.
I'm sure it's my lack of understanding and likely there are some simple settings that will speed it up with just a few clicks as well as save thru a fast and speedy reboot.

Rooted Chromecast with Web Panel = Problems with security

I was playing with it only for one few hours...
and I am concerned with current level of security of rooted Chromecast.
If you
reboot wireless router(wireless access point)
OR
wireless router is down/malfunction
OR
communication between Chromecast and wireless router is jammed
OR
someone used Aircrack-ng suite to disconnect Chromecast from wireless router
your Chromecast just created open wireless network for configuration purposes...
and Team-Eureka http panel is accessible at most likely default IP address 192.168.255.253,
also provides you with an IP adress via internal dhcp.
look a bit at config:
http://192.168.255.249/?page=status
and than
http://192.168.255.249/?page=settings
be sure that telnet, ssh, adb are running.
Just connect with telnet or SSH, privledged user is root, there is no password
cat /data/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf
Code:
ctrl_interface=/data/wifi
update_config=1
country=US
network={
ssid="my wifi essid"
scan_ssid=1
psk=my password on a silver plate in WPA PSK HEX(64 characters)
proto=RSN
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
}
You just owned someone's Chromecast and can abuse his wireless network.
Still got time tinker with Chromecast? Maybe plant some android type of backdoor... NSA style...
How to fix this?
1. be sure that internal web server is not vurnelable.
2. https
3. Http panel accessible only after providing password that is by default for instance sha-1 hash of serial number.
(user may take a picture of his own chromecast and use tool/service to generate hash), it should be changed at first login
4. adb, telnet, ssh disabled by default
5. root password
Basic stuff...

First off, if you are worried about our panels security it is open source, so feel free to audit it for any vulnerabilities.
Also, we are working on a new revision of the panel which not only includes password support, but also the ability to set a SSH password. The reason none is set ATM is because by default the root acc on the chromecast has none, so we have a modified dropbear binary that will allow any password to work.
As for HTTPS over the web panel, that will be available, but it will not be "enforced". (at least that is the current plan). We may add a panel option that enforces https though, for users who are concerned about security on their local wireless network.
Now telnets another story, because its generated with busybox its hard to have a password enforced, but you can just disable it. same goes with ADB.
We know right now our services are not the most locked-down, but trust me most of it has already been fixed on our end and these changes will be out with the next OTA

ddggttff3 said:
First off, if you are worried about our panels security it is open source, so feel free to audit it for any vulnerabilities.
Also, we are working on a new revision of the panel which not only includes password support, but also the ability to set a SSH password. The reason none is set ATM is because by default the root acc on the chromecast has none, so we have a modified dropbear binary that will allow any password to work.
As for HTTPS over the web panel, that will be available, but it will not be "enforced". (at least that is the current plan). We may add a panel option that enforces https though, for users who are concerned about security on their local wireless network.
Now telnets another story, because its generated with busybox its hard to have a password enforced, but you can just disable it. same goes with ADB.
We know right now our services are not the most locked-down, but trust me most of it has already been fixed on our end and these changes will be out with the next OTA
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Thank you for fast and exhaustive answer.
Any "ETA" of build with features you mentioned ?
Is there any roadmap for Eureka-ROM?
Any chance for something dedicated to LAN streaming?
(Chrome full screen is buggy, Plex is $ app, Fling is written in JAVA and no longer in developement.)
If there will be any beta or rc I am willing to participate.(not so many things to test there)

mathorv said:
Thank you for fast and exhaustive answer.
Any "ETA" of build with features you mentioned ?
Is there any roadmap for Eureka-ROM?
Any chance for something dedicated to LAN streaming?
(Chrome full screen is buggy, Plex is $ app, Fling is written in JAVA and no longer in developement.)
If there will be any beta or rc I am willing to participate.(not so many things to test there)
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We don't really do ETA's but we try to have updates out right after google OTA's, or when there is a severe bug. As for a roadmap, we currently don't have one public due to it constantly changing.
LAN streaming still works with Fling (as we have fling added back to our roms through our whitelist service), but that is all I know of. If other users want to create apps that can utilize fling, that would be awesome.
And last for testing, currently I have more then enough testers for when beta updates roll out. keep your eyes open in the future as I may do open signups again at a later date.

Well the scenarios you set would apply to non rooted CCasts as well...
If they hacked your wireless with Aircrack to set a disconnect, then you were exposed long before they reconfigured the CCast and they can do a lot more damage with that access without you ever noticing than they could through the CCast.
Your would notice the CCast changing but you wouldn't notice someone hacked your Wireless without looking at the Router Logs or noticing a degraded Network performance.
If these things are a concern for you then I suggest you turn on MAC Filtering on our Router, Set Allows for the CCast and all the devices you own and deny all others.
But the concerns you have exist regardless of a rooted CCast. Leaving a CCast unconnected might expose the CCast to be taken over since it will be an open AP anyone can connect to....And they can Airtcrack you router even with a stock CCast.
But if you see that just look out the window because they would probably have to be sitting on your Porch or parked in your Driveway to do it!
I don't know many Hackers who are THAT Brazen! LOL

Asphyx said:
Well the scenarios you set would apply to non rooted CCasts as well...
If they hacked your wireless with Aircrack to set a disconnect, then you were exposed long before they reconfigured the CCast and they can do a lot more damage with that access without you ever noticing than they could through the CCast.
Your would notice the CCast changing but you wouldn't notice someone hacked your Wireless without looking at the Router Logs or noticing a degraded Network performance.
If these things are a concern for you then I suggest you turn on MAC Filtering on our Router, Set Allows for the CCast and all the devices you own and deny all others.
But the concerns you have exist regardless of a rooted CCast. Leaving a CCast unconnected might expose the CCast to be taken over since it will be an open AP anyone can connect to....And they can Airtcrack you router even with a stock CCast.
But if you see that just look out the window because they would probably have to be sitting on your Porch or parked in your Driveway to do it!
I don't know many Hackers who are THAT Brazen! LOL
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Reconfiguring stock Chromecast is one thing and that's not so much a problem. Attacker don't get password, just info about name of connected network. In that scenario attacker gets essid and handshakes or reconfigure Chromecast wireless settings(essid/password).
Problem is that with rooted attacker has access to adb/telnet/ssh. In that scenario attacker has easy access to essid/password in plain text and may do this unnoticed.
About ranges:
What if someone lives in center of a city? Skyscrapers area?
About suburban area, I am not convinced that people in US live in houses with brick/concrete block walls, this is not EU.
Have you ever used Aircrack-ng suite and some gnu/linux wireless pentesting distro?
You can attach high gain directional antenna to 2000mW wireless card(Alfa brand for instance) and use software tweaks.
Ranges are much higher than you would anticipate.
About Chromecast setting security - yes it is ridiculous.
It asks if you see XYZ9 on a screen. (always click yes - right?)
It should at least ask for some automatically generated password that is visible on the screen...
So for now we may create additional wireless network/VLAN with max one client and connection restrictions...

mathorv said:
Have you ever used Aircrack-ng suite and some gnu/linux wireless pentesting distro?
You can attach high gain directional antenna to 2000mW wireless card(Alfa brand for instance) and use software tweaks.
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Yes many times and the loopholes you suggest in your scenario are not limited to the Rooted version at all...
Sure there are extra tools in the rooted version that do not exist in the non-rooted....
But the scenario suggested gives you about 30 seconds to get what you want before the router is back up, CCast re-connects and shuts down your session!
And they still have the problem of how to shut down your router or know when it will happen to start working the hack.
Sure someone could probably get what they want in that timeframe..
But someone that good really is not going to be interested in hacking YOU!
Not Unless your some Cartel leader or Bank Executive.
People who have no business rooting anything if they want security....LOL

Asphyx said:
Yes many times and the loopholes you suggest in your scenario are not limited to the Rooted version at all...
Sure there are extra tools in the rooted version that do not exist in the non-rooted....
But the scenario suggested gives you about 30 seconds to get what you want before the router is back up, CCast re-connects and shuts down your session!
And they still have the problem of how to shut down your router or know when it will happen to start working the hack.
Sure someone could probably get what they want in that timeframe..
But someone that good really is not going to be interested in hacking YOU!
Not Unless your some Cartel leader or Bank Executive.
People who have no business rooting anything if they want security....LOL
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@but someone that good really is not going to be interested in hacking YOU!
World is full of sick people, besides, over the years it has become easy, primary school kid can do it, every hacking soft has a GUI now
@ features - it would be nice to override wifi from panel - sometimes chromecast indicates connecting status. at the same time is connected to secure wifi and has open configuration wifi.
@ alpha builds, I would be glad to flash anything newer that does not totally brake chromecast and is safer for now

Is web panel risky?
Sorry it's even worse:
1. connect to device if its in open network AP state
2. http://192.168.255.249/?page=debug
3. cat /data/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf
4. SEND
Gone in less than 30 seconds.

mathorv said:
Sorry it's even worse:
1. connect to device if its in open network AP state
2. http://192.168.255.249/?page=debug
3. cat /data/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf
4. SEND
Gone in less than 30 seconds.
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Good thing devices only are in AP mode for setup. Besides, once the new web panel is released, this will be a non issue.