How To Set Vpn On Android For Free Internet
Arnaud Richardson
I have wasted a whole day trying out different solutions floating around in SO and other place mentioned to enable wifi on the android emulator but to no avail.Can anybody help me figure out how do I enable internet on my android emulator?
Edit: This is the fix for a situation when the emulator's wifi has changed the DNS to some non-working DNS. While this works most of the time, there might also be other reasons which may not fix from this solution.
The older answers to this problem no longer work after 2020 (Using Android Studio 4.1.2 or newer). The problem is the DNS settings on the Emulator. It no longer works to just change the DNS Servers on your local PC. You have to change the DNS settings within the Emulator. The following steps are for an emulator running Android 11. Other versions will be similar:
@TheBaj : I figured the problem with this and fixed it. The problem is when you are connected through the router, the androidwifi in your emulator uses the settings and the sets the DNS to something other than 8.8.8.8 which is the google DNS(I presume this is kinda mandatory setting for the androidwifi to gain internet access). But if i change the DNS in my network settings, the google-services plugin which fetches your dependencies especially the one's getting downloaded from jcenter() will not be downloaded and hence your sync will fail which eventually fails your build.
So the trick is that you have your google DNS(8.8.8.8) configured in your network settings after your default router settings - this part takes care of downloading the dependencies from jcenter() and the sync and build succeeds.
On Mac OSX (Catalina for me), the problem is caused by the fact that the emulator automatically picks up the nameserver by looking at /etc/resolv.conf and picking the first one, in my case an IPv6 address. Source: -networking#dns
Maybe this would help someone. I tried all the solutions above. Changing DNS, cold booting, etc. After several hours of trial and error, I went to the official docs, which said that the emulator picks up the DNS config. of host machine at emulator's boot time.I had VMWare installed on my machine, which installs a few network adapters. So, I just changed the DNS config. of all the adapters (including VMWare adapters), and cold booted my emulator. OMG, the problem which didn't seem to go away for hours, just got right!
I hope I save someone a lot of pain, I tried everything everyone said on here, changed the DNS of every network adapter, reinstalled everything, the SDK, the emulator, even android studio, nothing worked, if you find yourself in the same position check if you VMware installed, if you do, don't bother with the DNS just go into Control Panel->Network and Sharing Center->Change Adapter Settings, and disable any and all VMware Network Adapters, then Cold Boot, fixes the issue instantly, you can even enable them later, and it still works
Just close your emulator and select the "Cold Boot Now" option on the drop menu adjacent to the play button. If not look for any of the more comprehensive options listed here, but I suggest always starting with the simplest solution.
For new searcher users:Sometimes VPN is your solutionChanging of network setting is not possible always because of networking issues.If you are in ip addresses that google does not responding for these regions,your solution is using of vpn.Use a proper vpn (a vpn that trough it you could update your android studio).When your vpn is on start your avd device (ofcourse api level of your emulator is important for example I have not any problem with api 22 but for api 28 is need using of vpn !).This was my experience about android emulator internet.
Whenever I try to view a file someone has sent me, the Dropbox app in my phone (Android, Samsung Galaxy S9+) says "couldn't connect to DropBox, please check your internet connection". I have internet connection (I've tried it with full LTE bars and with full wi-fi), but it still gives me the message and won't allow me to view the files. I've gone to the "Apps" area of my settings and have made sure the DeopBox app has all permissions. Any ideas about what could be causing this?
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OK, got ya. I had to log on via a computer; before I was on my phone and it didn't give me this option. This is what I see when I open a video file sent to my e-mail via another dropbox account and a link to view.
(2) I use other OS like windows XP with NAT connection settings to: AMD PCNet FAST III (Am79C973) setting that work nice like internet and everything. so plz give me a other option for android-x86-4.2-20121225 to connect internet ??
In the virtual Android it will not show up but you will be able to browse and access the app store.You will need to change the settings inside of the Android OS to allow big files to be downloaded regardless of the network it want you to use by default, otherwise, for example, large games will not install.
The mobile phone connected to the router periodically loses internet every few min for about 30s. But the phone is still connected to the WiFi (WiFi symbol with ! sign). I can also ping the local IP address of the phone while it can't connect to the internet. This is not a WiFi signal strength issue.
It seems the problem was with the phone. There was an android update about the same time when I installed the TP Link router, which somehow turned on the setting to search for Hotspot 2.0 networks on the phone. When I switched off this setting and rebooted the phone, after that it works fine...
As a Flutter Developer, I use Android Studio with Android Emulators and iOS Simulators running on my work MacBook. I've been developing with this particular environment since July 2021. In that time, I've had a nearly daily issues with my MacBook randomly losing the internet connection once I open an Android Emulator then deploy my Flutter app. You might get half a day without problems, other days it goes wrong the first time you do anything at the start of the day.
When this problem occurs, the macOS Network Settings panel will show both the WiFi and Ethernet/LAN connection as 'Connected' to the internet. However, no web browsers (Safari, Chrome, Edge) can load or refresh any webpage - they'll just report there is no internet connect. Similarly, any other application that requires the internet will fail to connect.
Early on I realised the issue was related to Norton 360. When this is happening, if you look at the the macOS Activity Monitor it shows "com.symantec.mes.systemextension" near (or at) the top of the CPU usage list, and the MacBook fans are usually making a lot of noise at that time (on full blast). General responsiveness of the OS is pretty poor at this point, aside from having no internet connection.
As a workaround, I found that going into the Firewall settings and disabling all options could prevent (or at least reduce) the likelihood of this issue happening. I also found it important to turn all that off before even starting Android Studio itself, else you could get an issue where after then opening an Android Emulator, the IDE would not connect to it and complain about some 'daemon' related error (the socket/port it talks to the emulator over is blocked).
So, once I figured all that out, I'd basically start my working day by turning off all Norton Firewall options and Scan options. A bit pointless having Norton 360 installed at all by this point really...
However, with all of that disabled, I would still get the same issue occur at some point in the day. This would totally nuke my productivity. Sometimes Force Quitting all Android emulators could fix it. Other times I would have to clean my entire Android Studio project manually (delete all temp/cache folders such as: /build, /.gradle, /.symlinks, /Pods, run 'flutter clean' etc). If that didn't work I'd have to restart the MacBook.
Using Activity Monitor, applying a Force Quit to "com.symantec.mes.systemextension" would temporarily restore the internet connection to the MacBook and emulators/simulators running the Flutter app. However, after a short period of time (less than a minutes sometimes) it would all break again.
I happened to have a look at the Norton Community for Mac pages today. Though I'm not using it myself, people upgrading to Ventura are clearly having severe issues and quite a few posts mention "com.symantec.mes.systemextension" and/or loss of internet connection generally.
I think that put the nail in the coffin for me. I'm so fed up with Norton 360 causing various Mac issues. I can't even be bothered to mention all the other random stuff or Kernel Panic issues Norton has caused since I moved to Mac based development back in 2019.
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