Ok I got the app. And set it up exactly how it said. It didn't work so for the ip address on my Mac I changed it to 13.37.13.38(instead of .37) and it worked fine. Then the next day for some reason it wouldn't work. I tried the exact same settings over and over again and nothing. Believe me the setting are exact. Is there something I can do or fix to get this working again
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Handy Light app problems.
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I actually can't even get the app onto my phone for some reason, its in my library just fine but refuses to sync in.
Does it say it needs a newer firmware? Just wondering, because I tried to sync it to my iPad (for the hell of it) and it said the iPad needed newer firmware. I know it doesn't have 4.0 yet, and that it does work on my iP4 running 4.01. Just a note, that I did purchase the app on my iPhone, so I haven't had any trouble syncing there.
It gives me some silly error code and takes me to Apple Support. I didn't get it on my phone though, I got it through my PC....
Follow these instructions.
Ok, this is as much as I can do. If this doesn't work, then I really don't know what to tell you.
On your iPhone under the settings for any networks you've created for this choose 'Forget this Network'. Next, undo any changes you've made on your Mac from your various attempts. Maybe even reboot your Mac for good measure. Basically, I want you to start fresh. Ok, now follow this.
Step 1: Right-click on the Wifi icon and choose 'Create Network'
Step 2: Choose a new name for your ad-hoc network. Use a name you haven't used before. Of course, if you're doing this out in the wild then I suggest you password protect your network. You probably don't want anybody leeching off your 3G.
Step 3: Now, from the Wifi icon right-click and choose 'Open Network Preferences'.
Step 4: Click on the box next to where it says 'Location' and selet 'Edit Locations...'.
Step 5: Click on the '+' and name your new location. I suggest naming it the same thing as the ad-hoc network you just created. That'll keep things tidy. Click 'Done'.
Step 6: After Step 5 you should see something like this. Make sure that 'AirPort' is highlighted on the left and then click 'Advanced' on the bottom right.
Step 7: Click the TCP/IP tab. It should look like this.
Step 8: Change 'Configure IPv4' to 'Manually'. Enter whatever you want for the IPv4 Address. To be safe, just do what I've done. The Subnet Mask should be as depicted.
Step 9: Go to the Proxies tab, check the box to the left of 'SOCKS Proxy' and then under 'SOCKS Proxy Server' enter an IP that's different than what you entered for the IPv4 Address in Step 8. To keep things simple I suggest simply increasing the last IP number by one. In the port field just to the right of where you enter the IP under where it says 'SOCKS Proxy Server' enter '1337'. Click 'OK'.
Step 10: You should now see something like this where the AirPort device has a green light and says 'Connected' and the Location and Network Name are the same. At this point you can click 'Apply' and close the settings window.
Step 11: On your iPhone you should now connect to the ad-hoc network you created. Enter the settings for that network by touching the little blue circle with a white right facing arrow in it.
Step 12: Touch where it says 'Static' and where it says 'IP Address' you should enter the SOCKS Proxy Server IP you created in Step 9 minus the port number (e.g. 1337). Also, enter '255.255.255.0' for the Subnet Mask. Press the home button to exit Settings.
Step 13: Open HandyLight and touch blue, yellow, red (in that order), and then touch the upper right corner of the iPhone screen just below your battery indicator icon. The screen should turn purple and you should now be able to surf the web with Safari on your Mac.
Got the ipa file, no install for me
I was given access to a copy of the ipa for Handy Light after it was pulled from the App Store. Put it in the proper folder, it showed up in iTunes and I selected it as an app to sync. Unfortunately I got an "unknown error" from iTunes when it tried to install on my iPhone.
Bummer! I do have MyWi but this looked like a fun experiment. Oh well!
I was given access to a copy of the ipa for Handy Light after it was pulled from the App Store. Put it in the proper folder, it showed up in iTunes and I selected it as an app to sync. Unfortunately I got an "unknown error" from iTunes when it tried to install on my iPhone.
Bummer! I do have MyWi but this looked like a fun experiment. Oh well!
Maybe the ipa you got was not cracked and the DRM security features were not removed.
Assuming you have a JB iphone with appsync you're trying to sync it to.
Oh, perhaps I missed something here. I thought that since it was an ipa file I could just add it to my apps library and then sync it. I hadn't even thought about having to "crack" it.
Better I don't do this for fear of bad karma...
You can not just add an ipa and sync. The only way to use an ipa to sync is if you’re jailbroken and stuff I won’t say. Probably best to stop talking about this actually.
Thanks got it working by following your instructions! Best .99 cent app ever. Thank God I bout wifi on my Virgin flight on Tuesday and jumped on this quick status.
EDIT: I can get it to work fine but when I want to get back on to my wifi network it will not work until I uncheck the SOCKS proxie box. I've played around with the settings but can't figure out how to make it easier to switch? Also the ad hoc network I've created seems to disappear when I'm not using it...
EDIT: I can get it to work fine but when I want to get back on to my wifi network it will not work until I uncheck the SOCKS proxie box. I've played around with the settings but can't figure out how to make it easier to switch? Also the ad hoc network I've created seems to disappear when I'm not using it...
When you get back on your home WiFi, or any regular WiFi for that matter, you need to go back into Network Settings, highlight your Mac's AirPort device on the left of the window, and then where it says 'Location' you need to change that so that it says 'Automatic'. Switching between tethering and using regular WiFi should just be a matter of changing the Location setting between Automatic and the new location you should have set up in Step 5 of my instructions. There really is no need to go into advanced and mess with the TCP/IP or Proxy settings after you follow those instructions once.
I'm glad I picked this up just in time..... if someone could come up with a way to tether this to an iPad, I basically would not need to jailbreak anymore.
It's exactly the same way as shown above, it should just work, give it a try.
Not quite.... You can not create a Network on the iPad and even when I create it on my Macbook (which would defeat the purpose anyway) it will not work.
You should be able to do this. Just connect the Mac, the iPad and the iPhone all to the same subnet after creating the network with the Mac. Of course this is an utter and epic pain. Imagine sitting in a class with your laptop, your iPhone and your iPad all out and running.
So we just throw the no cracked apps rules out the window because some of you failed to get this when it was for sale, not free, in the App Store.
someone should make an a jb app for the ipad that makes this work. I suppose it doesnt matter since the iphone 4 jb will be out soon and we'll have mywi but it would be a cool experiment. this guy should have snuck an ipad app in the store too haha.
Oh really? That's a bit rubbish, didn't realise the feature set was that different between iPhone and iPad. My mistake.
download the ipad file?
Does anyone have the ipa file for "Handy Light"? From what I read, it won't sync to ipad, but it will sync to the iphone?
Does anyone have the ipa file for "Handy Light"? From what I read, it won't sync to ipad, but it will sync to the iphone?