Help
This is help for PRO specific features. For more general help like installing and such, go here.
- How do I connect with USB (Windows)?
- How do I connect with USB (Mac/Linux)?
- How do I connect with Bluetooth?
- Auto discovery is not working!
- How do I configure Wi-Fi autostart?
How do I connect with USB (Windows)?
Since version 1.2.0 you are not required to manually specify the path to ADB. Therefor, the USB tab in the settings is gone for Windows.
The only thing required is that you have ADB drivers for your phone installed on your PC, and USB debugging enabled on your phone.
If you google "[your phone model] + adb drivers" you will find tons of guides/forums with download links to the correct drivers.
Example:Â http://www.google.se/search?q=htc+hero+adb+driver+windows+7
How do I connect with USB (Mac/Linux)?
This is a bit tricky, but if you follow the instructions carefully it should work like a charm.
1. Important: Make sure that you've got ADB drivers for your phone installed. Google "[your phone] adb drivers" may help.
2. Go to Android SDK Download and download the .zip for your operation system.
3. Extract the archive to a folder of your choice, I choose "C:/". So my full path will be "C:/android-sdk-windows".
4. Open the file named "android" located in the folder "tools". In my case: "C:/android-sdk-windows/tools/android.bat"
5. Go to "Available packages" and install "Android SDK Tools".
6. Open Texdro, go to settings and press the USB tab.
7. Click on 'Set ABD Path..' and navigate to where you extracted the archive before, then enter the 'platform-tools' folder and choice the file 'adb.exe' (or just 'adb' of you're on Mac/Linux).
In my case, the full path to ADB would be: C:/android-sdk-windows/platform-tools/adb.exe
8. You should now see the text 'Success, you're good to go!' in the USB tab. If not, you selected the wrong file.
9. Enable USB Debugging on your phone.
10. On your phone, check 'USB' on the Texdro main screen, start Texdro, and connect the USB cable.
11. On you computer, right-click the Texdro icon, select 'Connection method' and choice USB.
That would be all!
How do I connect with Bluetooth?
1. Make sure you have the latest drivers installed for your Bluetooth device (on your computer).
2. Right-click the TexdroDesktop tray icon and select 'Connection method > Bluetooth'.
3. Check the 'Bluetooth' box on Texdro's main screen on your phone.
4. Enable Bluetooth on your phone and make it discoverable.
5. Enable the Texdro service, wait a while, then you should see some kind of pair request on both sides. Accept the pair request and you're good to go.
If you are using a 64-bits JVM and can't get it to work, try to use a 32-bit JVM and start Texdro with -d32 option.
If you don't manage to get it working on Linux, here's some requirements from BlueCove Doc:
- BlueCove library of the same mojor version
- Package bluez-libs 3.7 or later installed on your system
- We linked JNI library with libbluetooth.so (Not libbluetooth.so.3 or libbluetooth.so.2) to be able to use same build with Bluez Version 3 and Version 4
- You need package/rpm that creates a link libbluetooth.so to already installed libbluetooth.so.3 or libbluetooth.so.2
- libbluetooth-dev on Ubuntu
- bluez-libs-devel on Fedora
- bluez-devel on openSUSE
- To change Discoverable mode of the device you should be root
- On 64-bit Linux platform 64-bit java should be used
Auto discovery is not working!
- Try do restart your router by unplugging the power for about 30 secs.
- Restart Texdro on the phone and desktop.
How do I configure Wi-Fi autostart?
1. Go to Texdro settings on your phone.
2. Go to "Configure autostart" in the PRO section.
3. Check "Enable autostart service", then enter "Autostart networks".
4. Here, enter the network name you wish Texdro to listen for. This is the same name that you can see in Android's Wi-Fi settings.
..and you're done! Texdro should now start automatically when you are in range of the network(s) you entered.