I want to fix this myself -- I'm a Linux-savvy Comp Sci grad student -- but I'm having trouble figuring out this phone. Wireless connects fine at home (WPA) but won't connect at school (open network.) In the process of trying to figure this out for myself, I've discovered I'm pretty clueless about this phone.
Phone is unlocked and rooted, I'm in "adb shell" as root, and I can't find any log files. In the gui I can find my university wireless and try to connect. It starts connecting, then says disconnected, and I get no indication of what the problem was.
Where are the log files? Or are there any, even in a ramdisk? I couldn't find anything resembling a syslogd to start if I really want the device to start filling up valuable memory with log file spam, briefly so I can identify the problem. Or is there a way to attempt to connect to wifi via command line, in a way that will spit out error messages instead of failing silently?
I know you guys are super helpful and you can probably guide me through a solution, but I really want to figure this out for myself. Unless it's a known problem with a quick-to-explain solution.
Thanks in advance for all your help.
Edit: ooh ooh I forgot to ask . . . before I start digging into making a mountable 1 or 2 GB loopback-mountable e2fs filesystem on my SD card and putting proper Linux tools on there (full-sized system tools, none of this busybox crap -- plus system libraries and GCC) . . . has anyone already started working on that? (Yes I'm going to be one of these insane folks who wants to compile software on his cell phone. Specifically, SWI-Prolog would be handy and practical for me right now.)
Have a new NC running quite well using dalingrin's kernel and latest CM7 nightly. Have everything working on it smoothly but can't seem to get CIFSManager working -- would love to use this to stream videos (using Mobo) with this.
I set everything up as indicated on this site as well as on iamafanof.wordpress.com/2010/12/27/streaming-epub-books-media-to-nook-color-with-cifsmanager. I keep getting the error "Mounting the share has failed with an error.mount: Mount not found". Does anyone have any idea how to fix this? CifManager was able to create the mount folder on the SD card that I am using so I assume it has the correct permissions and was able to find it in the first place. Also, since I use dalingrin's kernel, I assume the cifs.ko is built into CM7, which combines the .ko into tiwlan_drv.ko by dalingrin. I also assume I don't have to check any of the settings boxes as tiwlan_drv.ko is loaded on boot.
Anybody with any ideas or help? Would be much appreciated! THanks.
Hi everyone
I just got myself a transformer and really love it
i am running it with the latest revolver rom
Today I tried to map a network drive and everything was fine until I have a few video and music files with chinese file names. I am using cifs manager and es explorer. All the chinese characters show up as question marks "?" and it seems the system cannot understand the name (I cannot play the files nor renaming them on my tablet)
I tried googling a bit but failed to find a solution. Can anyone shed some light on this issue?
Thanks very much in advance
p,s, found this link and tried adding "iocchaset=utf8" into the option line in cifsmanager but sadly it does not work
I believe you'll need a kernel a with utf-8 support and load it via the settings in CIFSmanager.
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I believe you'll need a kernel a with utf-8 support and load it via the settings in CIFSmanager.
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thanks for your reply
may I ask how I can check which kernel supports utf-8?
and what do u mean by load it via the settings in CIFSmanager?
Sorry if my question sounds noob
i am really new to this world lol
Hi all,
Have any of you been able to get a Cifs share mounted under android 4.3 on the N10.
I've tried various kernels and managers like Cifs manager but with no joy, they complain of invalid argument.
It seems like there has been success on the N7 according to this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2107224&page=7 but I can't see anything for the N10.
If it does work for you could you let me know what ROM / Kernel combo you use?
Not only 4.3. I haven't managed to make it work on 4.2.2 either
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2430056
^^^^^^^ What zod said. Working fine for me
I tried several combinations to mount CIFS shares with mountmanager:
Trinity + Carbon Rom, Sentinel, CM10.2 = works without problems
Flaming Monkey + Carbon Rom, Sentinel, CM10.2 = works - but without UTF-8 (for special characters like öäü...)
KTManta + Carbon Rom, Sentinel, CM10.2 = doesnt work.
Any Kernel + Purity Rom, AOKP, PA = doesn't work.
Could someone please confirm if CIFS is finally dead on Android? I haven't seen a single user manage to make it work. I even asked kernel developers to patch their kernel with this only solution provided here and even though they were happy in the beginning they never wanted to talk about it later which makes me think it was a hell or them.
I'd really like to know if I should just uninstall all CIFS related staff and just forget about it.
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Sorry I think it's wrong threat
andreasy said:
Could someone please confirm if CIFS is finally dead on Android? I haven't seen a single user manage to make it work. I even asked kernel developers to patch their kernel with this only solution provided here and even though they were happy in the beginning they never wanted to talk about it later which makes me think it was a hell or them.
I'd really like to know if I should just uninstall all CIFS related staff and just forget about it.
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Sorry I think it's wrong threat
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Google sure seems to be trying really hard to kill CIFS (and any network filesystems for that matter) on Android. As it stands now (in 4.3) there is no possible way to get CIFS working properly on the stock ROMs with a stock kernel. This is because the geniuses at Google removed loadable module support from the stock kernel and because of the way they implemented the multi-user stuff (using filesystem namespaces). The thing that kills me is that there is absolutely no reason for Google to make this so difficult. They could have simply compiled support for network filesystems into the kernel if they wanted to remove modules for "security". It would also be trivial for them to add a mount point which propagates to the user namespaces. They did this crap on purpose. And that is exactly the reason why my next tablet will not be an Android one. You shouldn't have to hack your tablet to get basic functionality that should just work out of the box. I'm done being scroogled.
Anyhow, I did manage to get CIFS working on my Nexus 7 which is running 4.3. See my post here for details. Now, I don't think my kernel will work on your Nexus 10. But, if you flash someone else's custom kernel (or compile your own) for the Nexus 10 which does have CIFS support/modules you should be able to use my update.zip which does not contain the kernel. I don't have a Nexus 10 to test on, so I can't promise anything but I don't see why it wouldn't work.
With new 4.3.1 Rom Versions I have troubles with CIFS Mount.
I can mount my NAS without problems with Terminal command, and I can see all mounted Files and Folders in Terminal.
But any App (like ES Fileexplorer, Solidexplorer, Power-Amp....) can't see any files. The Folder always keeps empty.
I have tried several mount points: /sdcard/cifs, storage/emulated/legacy/cifs, /data/media/cifs. Always the mount is visible in Terminal but not in all apps.
I have tried many mount options like: noperm, rw, file_mode, dir_mod, gid.....
cien12 said:
With new 4.3.1 Rom Versions I have troubles with CIFS Mount.
I can mount my NAS without problems with Terminal command, and I can see all mounted Files and Folders in Terminal.
But any App (like ES Fileexplorer, Solidexplorer, Power-Amp....) can't see any files. The Folder always keeps empty.
I have tried several mount points: /sdcard/cifs, storage/emulated/legacy/cifs, /data/media/cifs. Always the mount is visible in Terminal but not in all apps.
I have tried many mount options like: noperm, rw, file_mode, dir_mod, gid.....
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Hi there, could you post the command line you use to mount your NAS drive ? I keep getting "Invalid argument", this is what I've tried
Code:
mount -t cifs //192.168.1.3/music /mnt/music
pkfox said:
Hi there, could you post the command line you use to mount your NAS drive ? I keep getting "Invalid argument", this is what I've tried
Code:
mount -t cifs //192.168.1.3/music /mnt/music
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You have to get su access first with "su"
mount -r -o noperm,rw,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,uid=1000,gid=1000,unc=\\\\192.168.0.10\\music,username=***,password=*** -t cifs none /sdcard/cifs
Thanks that worked, do you know of a way to mount automatically at boot time on Android ? I notice there is no /etc/fstab
Thanks again.
Hi all, if your goal is simply to play music and video from your NAS to your android device, you can use Kodi (xbmc) that can access cifs path directly!
I'm attempting to edit /system/etc/permissions/handheld_core_hardware.xml and upon trying to save I get an error "read-only filesystem"...
I'm rooted, s-off, with twrp.... running bad boys rom...
I've attempted to mount /system as rw using twrp...still get the error...
I've attempted using terminal/busybox to mount as rw...
I'm at a loss at this point...but I also feel like I'm fairly novice at this so maybe there's something I'm missing...
(for the record I'm trying to trick Google Daydream into running....I was able to on my S7 before switching to the bolt....if I can get this figured out and everything works I'll make up a guide to get daydream working on the bolt)
I finally got it working and GOT DAYDREAM HOME WORKING 100%...Used an old S4 as the controller and a modified samsung gear VR as the headset!
Guide coming soon!
rw mount on HTC Bolt.
I was wondering how you mounted your Bolt RW. I have also tried all of the different things you have listed trying to mount this puppy, but I have rolled 7's on all of it. Which leads me here and your post. Please tell me you figured it out and hook me up with the process. Thanks.