Public wi-fi hotspots requiring browser sign in are not supported?
https://consumer.huawei.com/en/emui/faq/
Network
The Wi-Fi network must have an Internet connection. Public hotspots (hotspots that require you to log in using a web browser) are not supported.
No. This FAQ refers to WiFi+, where the phone will search out open WiFi networks to increase download speeds when mobile connectivity is poor. What this means here is that the phone won't automatically present you with the option to sign into these public WiFi access points. However, if you've signed into them in the past on the phone, they're likely to work afterward if they use MAC address filtering.
There are no problems signing into a public network on EMUI (the occasional bug means the notification doesn't do anything when you tap on it, but just open Chrome and sign in there).
Related
I found several utilities to connect WIFI to a choosed hotspot, WIFI scanner like, but none having IP settings switching feature, at the same time (like Mobile Net Swith for XP).
Does someone know such a product? a utility? a script/batch?
Or, you keep your WIFI settings to DHCP provided IP & DNS ?
Thus allowing kinda easyness when roaming thru unknown public hotspots.
I'm interesting by any suggest too :wink:
I use a program called Hitchhiker - by Kasuei. It's free to use, nice graphics + you can make a donation if you like it.
Janeway
I've set up a private network wireless with a webserver for a project I'm working on. I do not (and cannot) have internet connectivity on this network. Whenever I bring up the web browser on the TP (3.04) it spams me with "Error: No Internet Connection" messages and I can't access the webserver. I do not believe I had this problem with spamming on 3.02.
Does anyone know how to disable this or at least know the mechanism that the TP uses to determine if it has Internet connectivity? Maybe I can spoof it.
I have a verizon hotspot for the road so I have connection while traveling. It always worked great, however now on Android 5.1, half the time when the phone connects to the hotspot, it asks me to "Sign into network". I click the sign into network, and there is nothing to sign into and it connects.
The problem is, I am trying to make it all automatic. When I lose data from my carrier, Wi-Fi is turned on and connects to the hotspot. That's when the "Sign into network" pops up. If I don't click the the sign into network notification within a couple minutes, Android flags that network as having no internet, and won't automatically reconnect until I forget the network and connect to it again.
Does anyone know why android keeps asking to sign in to the network when there isn't anything to sign into? When I click sign into network, it brings up the sign in activity, shows a loading bar, then the sign activity goes away and I'm connected.
Perhaps there is a way to automatically 'click' the "Sign into Network" notification when it pops up?
I solved it. I'm not sure why Android keeps wanting me to login (perhaps the verizon hotspot is logging every connection, and Android sees that as a captive portal). Every time I got the "Sign into Wi-Fi network", it was when I still had some sort of mobile data connection. Now, because Android switches to mobile data if you need to sign in to a wifi, it never tries to get internet on the wifi until the user actually taps the notification to sign in.
Now, if there is NO mobile data connection (both wifi and mobile signals have an exclamation mark), Android will keep trying to gain access to the WiFi without user interaction. Because of the initial confusion, Android thinks I need to login to the hotspot, but if it would check again, it would see that there is access.
So the solution is to detect if there is a notification for "Sign into Wi-Fi network", and if there is, disable mobile network data until the Wi-Fi network is connected. I did this in a bit of a different way for my application, but the concept is the same.
This is the solution for all of those apps that automate WiFi logins with real captive portals that broke with Android 5. The only downside is they would now require root in order to disable mobile data.
Hi everyone, I have a question that i can't quite seem to find an answer to any where i look.
I am a recent android convert, i had ios on my iphone and ipads for many years. I use a wireless hard drive that has its own wifi signal, which i connect my devices to. The problem with doing this is that the device thinks then that it should get all of its internet from that wifi connection, which of course, being a hard drive, it does not have.
To get around this what i have done is go in my IOS configuration and remove the "default gateway" or "router" or whatever you want to call it (depending on your networking background), and then iOS knows to go ahead and not use wifi and continue to send any non local traffic over LTE.
My Samsung Note 5 doesn't seem to want to do this. First thing, when i try to remove the router/gateway from the ip address configuration in wifi, the "save" button is grayed, meaning i cannot save a blank gateway. I located an app on the app store called "wifi settings" which was suggested to use to set the router to nothing, but still this did not work, really what it did was save a 1 in the router/gateway field and caused nothing to work, not even local traffic.
The Note 5 has a "smart network switch" option which is apparently to detect a poor wifi signal and switch to LTE, if i enable this, the phone does realize that the wifi connection to the wifi hdd doesn't have an internet connection, but terminates the wifi connection, thus killing my connection to my hard drive.
My question, does anyone know how to configure the wifi on android to access local resources via wifi while still using the 3g/4g connection for internet traffic?
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks much.
Looking for a way to automatically connect to a VPN whenever a I connect to specific WIFI networks. If it matters I currently have OpenVPN based options & TorGuard but I'm completely open to others. Ideally this VPN session would close whenever I disconnect.
Yes, I could leave the VPN up all the time but I'm just looking to secure my first hop (work & public networks) and not worried about cellular data snooping and my own personal WIFI.