I had an "interesting" experience yesterday and I couldn't have gotten through it without all the stuff I've learned in this forum (Thanks!).
My comcast cable broke (literally - I can see the end dangling loose at the top of the pole out back). So I had no internet at home. I remembered all the references to FoxFi, so on my phone's 3G connection I looked it up. I can't install it from the market because sprint is run by buttheads, but I could download the .apk from the developer web site and install it that way.
After doing that, I find I need "PdaNet Tablet" on my Nexus 7, but it has no Wi-Fi. What do I do? Eventually, I discovered that I could install it on my phone, so I did that, ran Titanium Backup to get the .apk stashed on the phone's sdcard, un-installed it, and stuck the sdcard from the phone on my Nexus 7 via OTG, installed the apk file from there, and Bob's my Uncle!
Once I had the software installed, getting the FoxFi connection going over bluetooth was a breeze, and I could finally run a chat session to comcast to get an appointment for them to come out and fix the cable (which, unfortunately, they still want me there for even though I can see the dangling cable outside). I did try just phoning them, but got disconnected twice when they tried to transfer me - chat support works much better. While I was using new features, I also used the power+voldown screenshot technique to record the chat session screen with the date, time, and ticket number.
The bluetooth tether does seem to drain the battery pretty fast (especially in the phone), but I can't believe how well it worked.
Lesson: I'd recommend folks setup tethering while they have Wi-Fi and can easily download the apps they need (even if they don't think they'll need it
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My comcast cable broke (literally - I can see the end dangling loose at the top of the pole out back). So I had no internet at home. I remembered all the references to FoxFi, so on my phone's 3G connection I looked it up. I can't install it from the market because sprint is run by buttheads, but I could download the .apk from the developer web site and install it that way.
After doing that, I find I need "PdaNet Tablet" on my Nexus 7, but it has no Wi-Fi. What do I do? Eventually, I discovered that I could install it on my phone, so I did that, ran Titanium Backup to get the .apk stashed on the phone's sdcard, un-installed it, and stuck the sdcard from the phone on my Nexus 7 via OTG, installed the apk file from there, and Bob's my Uncle!
Once I had the software installed, getting the FoxFi connection going over bluetooth was a breeze, and I could finally run a chat session to comcast to get an appointment for them to come out and fix the cable (which, unfortunately, they still want me there for even though I can see the dangling cable outside). I did try just phoning them, but got disconnected twice when they tried to transfer me - chat support works much better. While I was using new features, I also used the power+voldown screenshot technique to record the chat session screen with the date, time, and ticket number.
The bluetooth tether does seem to drain the battery pretty fast (especially in the phone), but I can't believe how well it worked.
Lesson: I'd recommend folks setup tethering while they have Wi-Fi and can easily download the apps they need (even if they don't think they'll need it
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