Hi all,
I want to prevent certain apps from accessing my work Wi-Fi, mostly so my employer can't see what I'm doing. Specifically, I don't want to be connected to my employer's Wi-Fi while on Facebook, Evernote, etc.
For some other apps, I still want to use Wi-Fi to save data.
I just installed Tasker and have already a Task set up to shut off Wi-Fi for these apps. My question is: is this really secure? Does anyone think this will prevent my employer from seeing what's on my Facebook, or is there a flaw I'm not thinking of?
Ex: maybe Tasker has a delay which will allow my employer to see Facebook load anyway.
Alternatively, if anyone knows a more efficient way of doing this (in Tasker or anywhere else in Android) that'd be great.
Thanks
Question your boss is a hacker?
Because if he isn't he can't see anything in theory because he doesn't know how.
But you can use vpn connection as Hotspot Shield
so your traffic inside that network and all over the internet is encrypted.
You can also use "Firewall" for that.Firewall apps that they stop apps that you choose from getting access to internet.
if you aren't rooted try this one NoRoot Data Firewall . it use VPN
connection. So this vpn connection is local and when the blocked app tries to connect the internet it just get the localhost ip as gateway . the other apps continue to work normally.
if you are rooted try this one AFWall+ (Android Firewall +)
depends on your needs of course.
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I have recently purchased an LG Vortex (from what I read is Verizon Wireless's Optimus One) that comes with the Android 2.2 operating system installed. I have looked into rooting my phone with z4root and have successfully temporarily rooted my phone. I would rather keep my phone unrooted, but if it is absolutely necessary I will root it permanently with z4root.
My question is this: How can I connect to my company wifi and use apps that require wifi?
I can successfully connect to my corporate wifi through the 802.1x EAP protocol. The problem comes when trying to access any of the apps that require internet (I am forcing Verizon's data plan not to be used--using wifi only due to 150MB limit on my data to save $$ per month). None of my apps seem to work--internet browser, Market, Gmail, Google Calendar, etc...
On my company pc I know that within internet explorer the box is checked that says "Use automatic configuration script" and gives an "Address" that is in the format of "..../proxy.pac" It looks like my work uses a proxy for things to connect to the internet. I have no such place to put this information in my LG Vortex. I downloaded an app that seemed promising called "Proxy Settings" which will allow me to enter in the following Hostname and Port. When I tried to enter the "..../proxy.pac" as the hostname it gave me an error stating "The hostname you typed is not valid."
Is there an app or something that will allow me to use my apps when connecting to my corporate wifi? Is it a proxy setting thing or a VPN thing? I am not sure. I am open to any and every idea so that I can use my phone's online features while connected to my company's wifi.
FYI - I have friends that have iPod touches and they are able to connect to the internet with some apps internet browsing and downloading apps, but they have a similar issue of not being able to use all of their apps as well. I believe they were able to put the "..../proxy.pac" address in their devices somewhere.
Thanks!
I am a new member on this forum but I decided to reply because I have a question and a possible solution for you:
-solution:try to download the *.pac file.You will see that it is probably a script that defines your actual proxy's ip.So you could try and figure out which is your actual proxy's ip.Then use this ip for the proxy-app. (However I am afraid that only browser will connect properly,not every app)
-and now the question:how did you manage to connect to the network?I have trouble connecting because the wifi settings menu doesn't seem to help.
I try to connect to a 802.1x EAP network and I have installed the required certificates but I don't know what to fill to username,password fiels.
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lampros
I want to ensure nothing on my phone as access to wifi if my vpn is not connected. Anybody know how I could achieve this?
Any ideas greatly appreciated.
You might want to give Tasker a try. Llama (it's free / haven't used it though), or another Task automation tool might work too. It depends on how the app works, but you may have to do one or two things manually. For instance
Example Pseudo-code:
Code:
IF VPN app OPENED (
TURN OFF WIFI
SET VARIABLE vpnfrontend=1)
IF VPN app LOSES FOCUS (closed) (
ASK "Is VPN Enabled?"
IF YES (
ENABLE WIFI
SET VARIABLE vpnfrontend=0 )
IF NO (
SET VARIABLE vpnfrontend=0 ) )
That's the best I can think of off the top of my head.
Hope this helps!
Thanks for the reply closeone.
I purchased Tasker a couple of days ago. Hopefully I'll be able to do this - afraid there are going to be some manual steps though. I bought WifiJumper to auto connect to hotspots (known or unknown) so my wifi phone (Samsung Galaxy Player YP-G70) would be more like a cell phone. I thought if I could get OpenVPN working on my phone it automatically tries to reconnect but it is sometimes a slow process - thereby leaving my wifi connection open for a minute or so.
The ultimate goal here is: Android is a lot like CarrierIQ in that it tracks every IP you log in from. So I want to use a vpn so the IP I login from is the same one no matter where I'm at. I'm not a hacker, pedo, or even using P2P - I just want my privacy. Kind of a principal type of thing.
Your code is similar to what I was thinking of but.... I'm thinking I won't be able to check to see if VPN is enabled and then turn on wifi because the vpn requires wifi access to connect.
I'm still new to Android but so far the only tool I see to block wifi access is Airplane Mode and I think it blocks all apps (including the vpn). Maybe pdroid or Droidwall have some options for what I want to do????
Got to thinking if Droidwall had profiles I could build a profile that had wifi blocked for everything except Vpn. Then use Tasker to check to see if vpn was up. If not then set Droidwall to that profile. Problem is I don't think there is a way to run Tasker rule constantly. So there would be data leakage.
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Hi
I am trying to connect to my office wifi via proxy server.
Scenario 1: I am using Samsung Bada (wave 1), connected to the internet successfully and also any applications that require an internet connection including Samsung's app store.
While, connecting via open networks like home wifi and other friends' wifi also worked without any issue.
Scenario 2: Now I also have an android based Galaxy pocket: even after entering all the required proxy setting as mentioned above, I can access websites via browser but cannot access samsung's app store, google's play store, skype, sipdroid etc.,
I know it is nothing to do with the network administration as I am still accessing via my samsung wave but not via android. Please help me in identifying what I am missing. Is there anything like a network profile I need to assign for these applications?
thanks
S
Figured out the solution
Sometimes it is pathetic to notice that I didn't receive a single suggestion after I posted my question above. This is not how it used to be when we had smartphones that were just running windows long time ago.
There were lot of suggestions that comes up within a few minutes of posting, now after the invent of android and so many devices we have so many members but knowledge sharing has decreased considerably as each person is busy with solving their own issues.
Well, let me come back to the point - All that I needed to do was to run an app like 'proxydroid' or 'auto proxy lite' from one of our members from xda-developers to solve this issue. In order, to run these apps the device needed to be rooted. I rooted and installed this app and from that instance I am able to make all my apps including skype, google app market and what not all can access internet from my corporate wifi.
However, I noticed that only one application never succeeded this trick - that app is a Voip/SIP application called 'Pronto dialer' which throws a message 'unknown error occurred'. It works fine in an open wifi like at home etc., I am suspecting the proxy setting in the office network clashes with the proxy setting in the dialer...dont know what it is. Anyway I am glad and relieved that I was able to solve 90% of the issue.
Hope the above will be useful for someone with similar limitation from corporate wifi.
Hi there,
I am building a home router on some decent pc hardware. I do this only to have a router with enough power to support decent encrypted vpn connections.
What I need to know is the following.
Is there a way to let an android device connect to WiFi -only- if the vpn is working?
This is tricky I guess. There has to be a WiFi connection otherwise the device cannot contact a vpn server.
But the point is that I don't want my users (wife and to lovely boys aging three and five) to connect to the Internet (via wifi) without any decent encryption.
I don't want to use a vpn service. I do this at home with the power router I build.
If I must pay for an app that does this than please suggest that. I love to pay for a good app that does what I want.
Any thoughts or suggestions?
Many thanks,
Sebastiaan.
You could use Tasker to kill their mobile data at home (depending on the phone, ROM, root, etc,) and then if the *only* Wi-Fi hotspots configured on the phones are the VPN-enabled ones, then you should be fine.
At my house, I use an Asus router with VPN Fusion. I set up my Surfshark once in the core, and my entire mesh has VPN. I just go to a page to tag each device, or set default to whatever VPN I want. Some of them go to another site I use in a different state, and some use Surfshark. If my mobile data was off, I'd be totally disconnected from the evils of the internet.
Also recommend using something like Blokada, and ensure you have always-on VPN set to either that, or another service. You can definitely set it so Android pulls that up on boot. That being said, in the case of rebooting the phone away from home, I'd imagine there's some period of time that the stuff on your device could hit the regular internet. That's where something like Blokada comes in handy. I use it to block as many google servers as I can, while still having some of those apps still work to some degree.
Depending how crazy you want to get with this, you could set a static DNS on the phone that only works when the VPN tunnel is established. There are many ways to skin this cat.
sebastiaankop said:
Hi there,
I am building a home router on some decent pc hardware. I do this only to have a router with enough power to support decent encrypted vpn connections.
What I need to know is the following.
Is there a way to let an android device connect to WiFi -only- if the vpn is working?
This is tricky I guess. There has to be a WiFi connection otherwise the device cannot contact a vpn server.
But the point is that I don't want my users (wife and to lovely boys aging three and five) to connect to the Internet (via wifi) without any decent encryption.
I don't want to use a vpn service. I do this at home with the power router I build.
If I must pay for an app that does this than please suggest that. I love to pay for a good app that does what I want.
Any thoughts or suggestions?
Many thanks,
Sebastiaan.
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I am running a rooted LGA V400 tablet with Android 4.4.2 Kernel version 3.4.0+, software version v40010e and build number KOT49l.A1403851534. The tablet does not have provisions for a data connection via a SIM card- wifi only.
I am using the connections tab in eolwral OS monitor to keep track of what connections the various applications and the OS are making with the outside i.e.. via wi-fi. I also am running AFWall + to shut down phone home garbage. I had Droidwall installed before this. Neither Droidwall nor AFWall + shut down non whitelisted connections......
As normal course of operation the ONLY applications I whitelist are
Firefox
GMail
Google+
GPS Status
Internet (the built in browser)
Kaspersky Internet Security
Maps
Navigator
Skype
Speedtest
Sun, Moon & Planets
UCBrowserHD.
As I am writing this the tablet has an uptime of 1 hr 42 minutes. The only existing connection to the internet according to OSMonitor is Youtube through 127.0.0.1:42818. Youtube is NOT whitelisted. Also please note that I am composing this post on my laptop.
If I restart the tablet things change radically. I have 19 connections either syn_sent, time_wait,Listening or Established. Most are from System although there are things like Google Account Manager (not whitelisted) Qualcom, Youtube (again) and things like Google Input Services. On the first boot of the day its is worse with more of the system connections to various IP's in various states, Kernel connections (not whitelisted) App updates(not whitelisted), Google backup Transport and its group (not whitelisted), Google Partner Setup ( not whitelisted), Hidden Person Menu (not whitelisted), Software Update (not whitelisted), and a group of others appear which are not whitelisted.
My questions are-
. If either Droidwall or AFWall+ are true IPTables firewalls how and why is all of this crap able to get on wifi?
When transport for a certain service is not available i.e. blocked by a firewall does Android do something different with the connection request to enable it i.e. the plethora of system connections? It appears to me that AFWall+ isn't working as advertised because of f these leakers-
Most of the connections appear at boot up- is what is happening that these connections are established before AFWall+ gets up and running and it does not have the ability to close them? Note that on boot up after the GUI is running I get a SuperSU notification that AFWall + has been granted root permission so I am curious about the order of things starting i.e. a lot of the connection sockets being established before the firewall is running.
Finally- the V400 is somewhat of a stepchild. Is there another version of Android I can load on this platform that will work?
Thanks to all for the expertise here. I searched the forum before posting this as well as the internet, I am experienced with Unix and Linux and have done IPTables in non Android OS'es. I find what I am seeing here disturbing. Any help or suggestions would be deeply appreciated.
Expat.