I have an HTC Evo running Android 2.2 (Froyo).\u00c2\u00a0 I absolutely love the thing.\u00c2\u00a0 The only downside is the short battery life.\u00c2\u00a0 One really cool feature it has is the WiFi HotSpot utility, which lets you turn the phone into a WiFi access point, sharing the 3G or 4G internet connection to the wifi.\u00c2\u00a0 It turns out that the Evo has a really good WiFi antenna in it, too.\u00c2\u00a0 It has better range as an access point than my Linksys WRT54G at home (even without the fancy antennas sticking out of the back).\u00c2\u00a0 This really comes in handy when I’m at my parents’ house up north in the boonies, where there is no broadband internet available, and the cell coverage is spotty at best.\u00c2\u00a0 I have to wander the house in search of a spot that manages to maintain a signal long enough to do anything useful with it.\u00c2\u00a0 Gone are the days of trying to hold your laptop in some weird spot for the data card to get enough signal.\u00c2\u00a0 Now once I find a spot where the phone can keep a signal, I can just leave the phone there, and go wherever I want with the laptop to sit in comfort and use it via the WiFi hotspot.<\/p>\n
Now, being that I’m out in the boonies, even the best spot in the house to leave the phone at still has a spotty connection that comes and goes.\u00c2\u00a0 Staying somewhere within visual range of the phone so I can watch the signal strength display (and going and waking the phone back up when it puts the screen to sleep) is a pain.\u00c2\u00a0 I’d love it if there was an app I could run which would serve up the current phone signal strength and data status over http on the phone’s internal wifi interface (even if it’s on some random port, since you can’t use port 80 without rooting the phone).\u00c2\u00a0 For the variety of stuff that’s in the marketplace, it would surprise me if such a thing didn’t already exist.\u00c2\u00a0 But it’s also hard enough to describe that any keywords I can think of to search with give me several dozen unrelated hits.\u00c2\u00a0 So, Lazyweb, anyone know of such a thing?<\/p>\n
Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I have an HTC Evo running Android 2.2 (Froyo).\u00c2\u00a0 I absolutely love the thing.\u00c2\u00a0 The only downside is the short battery life.\u00c2\u00a0 One really cool feature it has is the WiFi HotSpot utility, which lets you turn the phone into a WiFi access point, sharing the 3G or 4G internet connection to the wifi.\u00c2\u00a0 It … <\/p>\n