Problems with B4A Bridge. Is the previous version available?

[ptp170]

[SOLVED] Problems with B4A Bridge. Is the previous version available?

Hello all!

Firstly, hello to the amazing community on here! I hope to be picking your brains on many a topic in the future, but to start with I have a more simplistic problem to solve!

Previously I was running B4A v1.92 and the version of B4A Bridge prior to V2.01 and Bridge worked perfectly.
I installed B4A V2.00 and got a notification on my phone that there was a B4A Bridge update which I installed.

I've now quickly noticed that Bridge on my phone just sits there 'Waiting for wireless connections' regardless of what I do.

I've tried the following without sucess:
-Rebooting phone and PC,
-Disabling Antivirus software on my PC,
-Disabling the Firewall on my PC,
-Reverting the B4A v1.92

The only thing left is to try the previous version of Bridge to see if that resolves the issue!

Info: Phone is a HTC One X running ICS (IP is reported correctly in Bridge) and the PC runs Windows 7 64bit Ultimate with AVAST AV and Windows Firewall.

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Chris

 

[Kevin]

I'm not sure if there is a link or if someone might have the older APK, but you could possibly try B4A Bridge Plus, which was based off an older version of B4A Bridge.

 

[Erel]

Can you connect to your phone in USB debug mode? I would like to see the unfiltered logs. Maybe there is an error message there.

 

[ptp170]

I can get it to work in USB Debug mode, although I found this to be really hit and miss which is why I changed to the Bridge method as it used to be 100% reliable!

 

[ptp170]

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[Erel]

From the logs I see that you ran the LinkedList example. Is this correct?

 

[ptp170]

Correct... I just picked an example to play with

 

[Erel]

You should post the logs when you are trying to connect with B4A-Bridge (preferably post the logs in an attached file).

 

[ptp170]

I started logging, loaded Bridge, clicked on Start - Wireless, waited for a while then clicked on the Stop button (unnecessary I know).

 

[Erel]

Have you tried to connect from the desktop B4A-Bridge during this time?

Please only upload such long logs as text files.

 

[ptp170]

Tidyed up the thread for everyones sanity

Started Bridge, selected Tools > B4A Bridge > Connect - Wireless

IP Address is correctly entered

 

[ptp170]

I've tried Bridge Plus as suggested by Kevin. The file manager fails to connect to the phone using the latest Bridge version. If I use the (older?) Bridge Plus version the IP reported is ::1%1 which, from reading another thread, suggests that the phone isn't connected to a wifi network (which is is). Ignoring the 'weird' IP address and clicking on the 'Start' button still brings up the 'Waiting for connections' message with no connection recognised..

I don't know if any of this helps?!


Chris

 

[ptp170]

Solved.

I ran Wireshark to try and establish what was happening. I noticed that the PC was unable to retrieve the MAC address of the phone as Wireshark was continously asking 'Who has 192.168.0.80 Tell 192.168.0.100'

After scrambling around and rebooting my Netgear Router everything worked perfectly!

Thanks for the help along the way

Hope this helps someone else in the future!

Chris

 

[Erel]

I should have asked you to ping the device IP. It is a good tool to find network problems.