Quick and dirty fix for the SFOS 4.4 not working hotspot

On some carriers like the german Congstar Sailfish OS can't open a working hotspot. The clients can connect to it but no connection can be made to the internet. The problem is, that the network on SFOS to carrier is IPv6 only and but must be IPv4 - or both - to work with the hotspot. SFOS doesn't also make a translation so the connection don't work.

Details on the SailfishOS Forum

A quick and dirty - and not working for all types of connection - fix is to make a ssh/socks tunnel between a client and the Sailfish OS phone.

You can do this with this terminal command on Linux or macOS for example if you have the developer settings active on your phone:

Now you must configure your client to use this proxy. Note: You also need to make DNS lookups via the proxy.

1. In firefox you need to open settings and scroll down.

2. Open the connection settings and activate manual proxy settings.

3. Enter "localhost" on "Socks-Host" with port 1337

3. Activate the setting to use the proxy for dns lookups below

Have fun :)

Some more details for using a lokal ssh/socks proxy

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