Does anyone know if Foxfi is compatible with FP4?
I successfully installed pdanet but now attempting to install foxfi to host a WIFI hotspot on the FP4.
Foxfi will not install from the apk in the Downloads folder and executing the install from the Files app
Thank you
I successfully run a Wi-Fi hotspot natively from
Settings > Network and internet > Hotspot and tethering.
Thank you
Yes, like stock Android, /e/ OS has a native wifi hotspot feature.
The motivation for using pdanet is that the hotspot it hosts does not use the hotspot data allocated on a network service plan. Instead, it uses the native data stream that is used by the apps on the handset itself.
The advantage of doing so is useful when the network plan subscribed to does not provide any/too little hotspot data.
I was able to reproduce the failure to install FoxFi after install of PdaNet+ ver 5.23.2 (but I notice I did install the + version not mentioned by you) however Package manager fails to install FoxFi with
This on Android 14.
Are you seeing this with the stock Android 14? interesting
I am attempting this with /e/ 2.8, as indicated in the subject.
I was able to successfully enable sideloading from the /e/ Files app by enabling “Install unknown apps” This initiated the installation however, I receive the failure indicated
“App not installed as app isn’t compatible with your phone.”
Does this mean that it is not compatible with the specific handset or just the OS that it is running? I am curious if FoxFi will run on any OS running on Fairphone OS.
I drop even drop back to LineageOS 21 (Android 14), LineageOS 20 (Android 13) or even the stock Official Android 13 if I must but I’d rather stick with /e/ OS if I can.
So far, I have tried /e/ U (2.8) (based Lineage 21, Android 14), /e/ 2.4 T (based LineageOS, Android 13) assuming my mapping between /e/, LOS and stock Android official builds are correct. These builds have produced the same results. In the case of the LOS releases, I sideloaded the pdaNet app and then unable to load FoxFi by any means.
All of these is for naught if the nak at installation is due to the handset itself.
The only ROM I haven’t tried yet is the stock Android 13 build.
To confirm- I’ve loaded pdanet+. Pardon my drop of the ‘+’
Very similar to you e-2.8-a14-xxx-community-ocean.
… is correct e/OS + Android OS version names and numbers? - #3 by aibd
I really don’t know the reason for the fail, but it does look quite an old app, maybe non maintained, idk, and this accounts for non appearance in regular app stores. I guess it would require more research.
Edit
Talks of Downgrade Android 7 to Android 6 to get FoxFi working better. Also mentioned FoxFi Key, paid for.
Wow. OK. So maybe this app won’t work beyond Android 6?
I do have one ten year old handset, one of several old handsets I pulled out of the closet and experimenting with over the past few weeks loading /e/ OS.
The oldest is a Nexus 6 shamu. That one’s origins is in that era of stock Android 6.
I had really hoped to use my FP4 and presume it won’t run Android 6 or any forked OS from that.
Having run pdanet+ with a purchased FoxFi on 3 different handsets running Android 6, Android 12 and Android 13 successfully, have now learned that the purchased license for FoxFi on Google Play is required to run FoxFi.
Can a paid license key for an app on Google Play be accessed from /e/ App Lounge?
It often depends on the exact mechanism to link your “evidence of purchase”.
If I try to install the key from App Lounge I am told it is not possible in Anonymous mode, link your Google account.
So you might experiment with the paying Google account logged into App Lounge. I guess it may work from this in the App Lounge description.
Or, as a Customer you could ask the developers whether they aim to support /e/OS and / or custom ROMs.
Wow. I just finished crawling down quite a rabbit hole with getting FoxFi license key to be recognized by pdaNet. It is working now.
After trying this on every /e/ OS build I could without success, eventually what I did was to get it working an an old Nexus 6 running stock Android 6.0.1. With the device rooted, I was able to copy the apk for pdanet and foxfi off the device. The idea was that these two installed apks were signed with the license.
Then, I was able to install the latest /e/ OS release for my Fairphone 4 (e-2.9) and then install these two signed apks. And it worked.
Full Version Unlocked on the Fairphone 4 e-2.9.
But after all this, I see a caveat.
The wifi hotspot mode of this app uses WPS to authenticate clients.
It isn’t working. The WPS handshake starts but doesn’t complete.
If I go back to the Nexus 6 running stock Android 6.0.1 and host the pdanet+ hotspot, it completes the WPS authentication with any client and delivers wifi.
