Julia Murnane asks:
I want to connect to the internet using my Toshiba laptop. I have a Droid X cell phone with internet access and it is a prepaid cell phone. I would have to pay for a tethered or hotspot and I do not want to pay. So how can I tether anyhow and use my phone’s internet on my computer?
Browser: Mozilla an unknown version
System: Linux
Tagged: android, connect to internet, droid x, mobile phone, tethering
System: Linux
Tagged: android, connect to internet, droid x, mobile phone, tethering
4 Answers -
Kyem Ghosh
June 4, 2012you can do it by bluetooth… By the way are you using linux? Then its easy. Click on the bluetooth icon and make a search, pair your droid with your linux and on the connectivity icon, choose mobile brodband, goto the settings, enter the access point and turn the mobile brodband on… If you get to see the signal icon on the top of your linux, you are connected..
If you use windows, go to control panel then devices and printers, add a device. Wait for your computer to detect your phone. Pair it using the confirmation pins. Once it gets paired, wait for the driver to get installed automatically… You are done.. Now again goto device and printers, right click on droid x, click access point. Enter the access point of your network and there you go…
ha14
June 5, 2012Tether Android to Ubuntu / Fedora Linux
http://www.humans-enabled.com/2009/12/how-to-tether-your-verizon-droid-as.html
Tether an Android Phone Using Proxoid
http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Productivity-Sauce/Tether-an-Android-Phone-Using-Proxoid
Kannon Y
June 5, 2012This is kinda complicated for two reasons – first, it requires that you “root” your phone before getting tethering/wifi hotspot and this voids your warranty. Second, some cellular carriers have been detecting users using tethering and then have tried to forcibly bill them for a tethering plan (which are generally very expensive).
In case you don’t know, “rooting” a phone means that you gain the highest level of access to the core functions of its Android operating system. In the past it used to require that you do all kinds of command line stuff, but the process itself has evolved and become simpler to do.
Now, as ha14 has shown (I had no idea proxy was even an option, thanks!), it can be done without even rooting the phone! On top of that, VPN is kind of difficult for carriers to detect. It may (although I wouldn’t bank on it) even help disguise the fact you’re using a tether. Again, I wouldn’t count on it.
It complicates matters that you’re using a prepaid plan. Would they bill you for it? Or perhaps reduce your account balance?
Anyway, first, you should check with your carrier to see if they permit tethering. Last I checked, the best plans were with Sprint and Virgin Mobile (since they permit tether).
Good luck!
Rhys Davies
June 14, 2012There should be an option under settings to enable portable wifi hotspot this will create a wifi network that you can connect your devices to