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This would be helpful to cut power consumed by wifi broadcasting as well as reduce your RF aura. I wonder why it isn't baked into AOSP yet.
by tetherer 10y ago
This would be helpful to cut power consumed by wifi broadcasting as well as reduce your RF aura. I wonder why it isn't baked into AOSP yet.
- vvviperrr 10y agoTotally. Some of china manufacturers add this feature in theirs firmware.
- aceperry 10y agoGreat idea and project, hope it continues to improve and becomes bigger.
- vvviperrr 10y agoThanks, very appreciate. This is my first open source project.
- voltagex_ 10y agoNice work! A tip: You can use GitHub Releases for the compiled APK instead of having it in source control. https://help.github.com/articles/creating-releases/ https://help.github.com/articles/creating-releases/
- vvviperrr 10y agoNice remark, thanks!
- dang 10y agoThat's great! We've added "Show HN" to the title above. That's the convention when sharing your work on HN.
- gcb0 10y agoit isnt backported because all of android features are self-serving to google. it is a linux computer where you have absolutely no control over network. You must root to get a basic firewall, only because people used the firewall previously to block ads. heck you can't even disable referrer headers on the browser (hint, that's how google get their share on ad clicks).
- ianlevesque 10y agoThere's no need to assume malice here. Disabling referrers is an extremely niche desire. Also how often does your laptop have an Internet connection that you can't just join as well from the android device? I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but omitting it from base Android is hardly malicious.
- zokier 10y agoWhile the referral complaint is pretty silly, this networking thing is bit indicative about the "appliance"/"toy" nature of Android devices. Either there is an app for something or you can't do it. In comparison for example webOS and Maemo did the analogous thing by using mainline usbnet driver from kernel and configuring routing with standard route command etc. This is possible because they did not flinch from exposing the full power of the underlying system for those who want it. > Also how often does your laptop have an Internet connection that you can't just join as well from the android device? Corporate networks would be a common example. Or wired-only networks (yes, such things do exist still).
- scottlamb 10y ago> While the referral complaint is pretty silly, this networking thing is bit indicative about the "appliance"/"toy" nature of Android devices. Either there is an app for something or you can't do it. You can write an app to do something the designers of the system didn't anticipate. That's a mark of a versatile system. > In comparison for example webOS and Maemo did the analogous thing by using mainline usbnet driver from kernel and configuring routing with standard route command etc. This is possible because they did not flinch from exposing the full power of the underlying system for those who want it. I believe that, with root, you can install/load/configure kernel modules (mainline or otherwise) on Android as well. Here's a stackoverflow article talking about creating loadable kernel modules: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6282669/how-do-you-create-a-loadable-kernel-module-for-android http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6282669/how-do-you-create...