After a day of banging on the Virgin LG Optimus F3, it became quite clear that Android stopped using wireless extensions, some time in 2013. Compiled iwconfig, iwlist using the Android NDK & wireless tools.
Fortunately, the tethering apps like foxfi & core technology actually got a partial access point working but could not give an IP address over DHCP. Finally rooted it, got fully functional ifconfig, iptables, & access to the /etc directory. Manually set the IP addresses, /etc/resolv.conf, routing table, firewall & it worked.
The apartment has only 3G. The phone gets hot & the battery doesn't last long.
Download: 2.16 megabit
Upload 0.74 megabit.
For someone who lived in a time of EDGE, GSM, T-1, 56k flex, & 1200 baud it's pretty good for portable internet access. The 2.5 gig data cap goes really fast when accessed from a laptop. As bad as the data cap is & the fact that the data cap wouldn't even download a movie, the responsiveness is worth something.
It takes a lot of typing to bring up. The journey begins by rooting it. It still uses motochopper which is everywhere & nowhere. Most goog results are just advertizements.
motochopper is just a .bat file which uses adb to upload the ages old pwn exploit. You can do all the rooting on the Linux command line. Android devices are becoming less rootable, but this phone was lucky. The pwn program could also root a 4.1.1 Asus transformer, but no later versions.
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