Android Question B4A v3.80 Update - B4A Wireless Bridge doesn't work anymore!

[johndb]

I installed the new update and the wireless B4A Bridge no longer connects to my device. I have rebooted mobile devices and PC several times without success. I can connect using Bluetooth but I require the "rapid" debug feature which is unavailable using the Bluetooth connection.

I had no problems with the wireless Bridge before the update.

Has anyone else experienced this using the new update?

 

[Jmu5667]

Just installed 3.8, seems ok to me.

 

[johndb]

Just installed 3.8, seems ok to me.

Thanks John.

I did a little more experimenting and it appears that my firewall is handling this new update differently than past versions. If I turn off the firewall then the bridge works fine.

 

[Jmu5667]

cool

 

[Del]

cool

Yes I have exactly the same problem and had to do some scary stuff in Norton with the Firewall.

I think I now need to give the Firewall each IP address of each device I need to connect to in order to test my application.

I am not happy with this.

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[udg]

Hi Del,

cannot you modify your firewall rule as to grant access for all the local IP address dynamically managed by your router?
This way any valid IP is assigned to a testing device, the FW will not block it.
In my home network I let the router manage the x.y.z.100 - x.y.z.200 pool of addresses and that is the range I grant access permission for the B4A executable.

Umberto

 

[Del]

Hi Del,

cannot you modify your firewall rule as to grant access for all the local IP address dynamically managed by your router?
This way any valid IP is assigned to a testing device, the FW will not block it.
In my home network I let the router manage the x.y.z.100 - x.y.z.200 pool of addresses and that is the range I grant access permission for the B4A executable.

Umberto

Dear Umberto

Yes you are right.

I had not noticed the option to do this in Norton which is handling my firewall.

Thanks for the tip.

Del +++

 

[johndb]

Dear Umberto

Yes you are right.

I had not noticed the option to do this in Norton which is handling my firewall.

Thanks for the tip.

Del +++

The way of adjusting Norton to allow the Bridge communications is to allow "Basic4Android" full network access in Norton's Smart Firewall "Program Rules". That is what I did and all is OK now and I still have full protection.

John

 

[Del]

The way of adjusting Norton to allow the Bridge communications is to allow "Basic4Android" full network access in Norton's Smart Firewall "Program Rules". That is what I did and all is OK now and I still have full protection.

John

Dear John

Yes I did that and B4A connected to the Android device perfectly.

However I later found that the device was no longer visible in Windows Explorer.

The message in Device Manager was :-
"Windows cannot start this hardware device because its configuration information (in the registry) is incomplete or damaged. (Code 19)"

There is a load of stuff on Google about this message and how to fix it using Regedit, but I found that doing Uninstall in Device Manager and then reconnecting sorted it out.

Erel please comment.

Regards

Del +++

 

[Erel]

Erel please comment.

How is the device manager related to Basic4android?

 

[TommyE28]

I have updated V3.8 and the Bridge dont work. My firewall is deaktivated. I have try 2 different devices with android 4.1 and android 4.4.
Before the update all works fine.

Best Regards,
Tommy

 

[Erel]

Up until now all the problems with B4A-Bridge reported after v3.80 were not really related to the new version. V3.80 didn't change anything related to B4A-Bridge.

 

[TommyE28]

I have updated V3.8 and the Bridge dont work. My firewall is deaktivated. I have try 2 different devices with android 4.1 and android 4.4.
Before the update all works fine.

Best Regards,
Tommy

A reboot and reconfig my firewall solve my problem.