jockyw2001 said: Couldn't get it to work with my kospet hope. For example on my cellphone, in the BT connection props with the kospet, the "use internet" checkbox cannot be selected. After checking it will immediately toggle back to the unselected state.
EDIT:the reason it doesn’t work is that on the watch there is no tethering menu in the settings where Bluetooth hotspot tethering can be enabled.
I found a solution, the app “Bluetooth Tethering On Off” does the job just fine.
EDIT: speed is very disappointing, around 1mbps down and 1mbps up (seen from the tethering client, I tried with an iPhone SE and a Zenfone 2)
Jan 12, 2019 8:03:57 GMT 1tadd said: Thank you for confirming…but, what I want to know is the opposite: can you use your watch’s internet connection on your phone or any other devices through Bluetooth?
I have also been trying to accomplish this periodically for several weeks with almost no luck. The device by default does not seem to offer host mode as an option to any of my android devices, or my iPad. So I tried various Bluetooth PAN apps from the Play store that were meant to implement this on older versions of Android (6.x, for example) and the best I've accomplished so far is getting my iPad to connect to the watch with the watch as host, but the iPad didn't have internet access even though the LEM8 did. I'm beginning to suspect that this is a more fundamental issue with the bluetooth driver on the LEM8. Perhaps replacing the default drivers with Bluez would solve this, but I haven't had time to try that yet.
Finally someone who knows what I am talking about:
You have enabled "Bluetooth tethering" in "Tethering and portable hotspot" settings, correct?
You can't get to it from the wathch's Settings app (I think. On LEM5 and LEM6 you can't). I was able to get to the settings using Google gesture search or Quick shortcut maker. Otherwise you should be able to enable the option using apps like Tasker and E-Robot, but you probably need root permission for that.
Sorry if you had already tried these.
Jan 12, 2019 8:05:44 GMT 1pablo11 said: It should also work in reverse if you have compatible Android versions...
Just wondering - why would you do this?
A cheap, small, WATERPROOF mobile router.
Being able to do it one way doesn’t automatically mean you can do the other.
Just surprised no one’s even tried.
I have just receive my LEM8 and confirm that neither the charging cradle nor power pack are compatible with the LEM7. I got both a charging cradle and power pack with my LEM7.
The reason is that the SIM card compartment screw on the LEM8 stands proud of the watch back and the cradle has an indent at this spot to allow it to lie flat. The LEM7 cradle and power pack does not have this indent and cannot lie flat on the back of the LEM8 and the 4 connectors do not make contact.
Jan 13, 2019 16:06:05 GMT 1jlc said: I have also been trying to accomplish this periodically for several weeks with almost no luck. The device by default does not seem to offer host mode as an option to any of my android devices, or my iPad. So I tried various Bluetooth PAN apps from the Play store that were meant to implement this on older versions of Android (6.x, for example) and the best I’ve accomplished so far is getting my iPad to connect to the watch with the watch as host, but the iPad didn’t have internet access even though the LEM8 did. I’m beginning to suspect that this is a more fundamental issue with the bluetooth driver on the LEM8. Perhaps replacing the default drivers with Bluez would solve this, but I haven’t had time to try that yet.
Finally someone who knows what I am talking about:
You have enabled "Bluetooth tethering" in "Tethering and portable hotspot" settings, correct?
You can't get to it from the wathch's Settings app (I think. On LEM5 and LEM6 you can't). I was able to get to the settings using Google gesture search or Quick shortcut maker. Otherwise you should be able to enable the option using apps like Tasker and E-Robot, but you probably need root permission for that.
Sorry if you had already tried these.
I eventually got this working based on jocky’s suggestion of using “Bluetooth Tethering On Off” from the play store. (or from apkpure if you’d rather not have a google account on your watch.) It basically adds the on/off switch that turns PAN mode on that is surprisingly missing in the firmware the watch ships with. PAN mode is definitely there, just no UI to activate it.
As Jocky mentioned, the speed is unimpressive, but I was not expecting much. Even using my GS8 as a host only gives me a couple of megabits. The LEM8 is giving me slightly less than 1 megabit up and down, but it’s better than nothing at all, and it’s still better than my first dial-up access in 1993.
Contributors to this post are regularly referring to TWRP, root with Magisk and firmware being available for the LEM8. Except for the the firmware, I have not been able to find where to download them in this site or elsewhere on the Internet.
Can anyone direct me to where they can be downloaded? The same situation exists for TWRP for the new LEM7 with the MT6739 and can direct me to where it can be downloaded?
Just FYI - there is also a pretty good search function here in the forum.
The development section does not seem to actually reference a link to a TWRP image for the LEM8. I realize that you are trying to “teach a man to fish” by suggesting the search function, but the reality is that a search does not readily turn up a link to an actual usable LEM8 TWRP image. The development tree seems to have quite a bit of discussion about it, but no link to the actual image file.
This link to the search of this forum for LEM8 & TWRP follows. I could not find what enviro8 was looking for in my attempt to help out. If you can offer clarity I’m certain it would be appreciated.
i flashed the new version and rootet it. I hope the battery will last longer now. Will report in 3 or 3 days how it runs. Thank you so much for the update!
The kernel is from 10 of December, so yes.
First impression, the battery last longer. For sure. 1% over night in deep sleep is fantastic. will look 2 days more, unter normal use.
Could you please explain the procedure to Root the Lemfo LEM8 please?
First impression, the battery last longer. For sure. 1% over night in deep sleep is fantastic. will look 2 days more, unter normal use.
Could you please explain the procedure to Root the Lemfo LEM8 please?
Very high level explanation:
Upload a LEM8 boot.img file to your watch (/sdcard works best). You can download the firmware for the LEM8 from this site, which contains boot.img, or use SPTools to extract the boot.img from your LEM8.
Install Magisk on the watch.
Run Magisk root process, and use the option to patch a boot image file to update the boot.img file you just uploaded to the watch.
Transfer the updated boot.img file back to your PC
Use SPTools (flashtool) to flash the new boot.img file back to the LEM8
Reboot the watch and run Magisk one more time so it can finalize the environment.
There might be an easier way, but this is how I did it, and I’ve had zero problems since.
If you have rooted it you can install an app from the play store that will let you reboot to recovery(there are several of them, just search for reboot for example). If you haven’t rooted it, its not possible.
