shashwat Posted December 27, 2011 Report Posted December 27, 2011 What You’ll Need In order to tether your phone to your laptop as a data modem, without having to root your device, you’ll need the following things on hand: Your Android phone Your laptop, netbook, or desktop computer you wish to tether A USB sync cable for your Android phone A copy of PdaNet for your Android Phone A copy of PdaNet for your computer Installing PdaNet on Your Android Device First, search the Android Market for PdaNet (if you’re curious why there are duplicate copies of the search results in our Market search, that’s a mystery best left to the Google engineers). On the off chance that there are future applications with a similar name, make sure to install the one from June Fabrics Technology Inc. Go ahead and run the application once it has finished installing. Tap “Enable USB Tether” to turn it on. You can also do a wireless tether using Bluetooth but we’re skipping that for now. Bluetooth can be so finicky we don’t want you to get mired down in trying to figure out why your Bluetooth connection is acting up. When you enable it for the first time it will prompt you, as seen in the last panel, to download the desktop software. This is handy for those times you’re stuck without any internet but the internet on your phone and need to download and transfer the application to your computer. In our case we clicked No, since the computer we’re configuring already has internet access and we can download the desktop app that way. Installing PdaNet on Your Desktop Installing the desktop software is pretty uneventful and requires no configuration. There are, however, a few things to watch out for. If you have the Android Deveopment toolkit on your computer (as you may have if you followed along with our guide to remote controlling and viewing your Android phone) you’ll run into two potential errors. If the abd.exe is running you’ll have to kill the process with Task Manager. You’ll also get a notification that there are Android drivers already installed on the computer. When in doubt overwrite the drivers with the new ones from PdaNet to ensure you can connect to the internet properly. After the installation you’ll see the PdaNet icon in the corner Quote
Die2mrw007 Posted December 27, 2011 Report Posted December 27, 2011 Nice post +1 BTW, please fix the screenshots !!! Quote
shashwat Posted December 28, 2011 Author Report Posted December 28, 2011 Nice post +1 BTW, please fix the screenshots !!!ok,will do Quote
Die2mrw007 Posted January 2, 2012 Report Posted January 2, 2012 BTW, update the screenshots and if possible do provide the apps required in this post itself !!! Quote
shashwat Posted January 2, 2012 Author Report Posted January 2, 2012 BTW, update the screenshots and if possible do provide the apps required in this post itself !!!yup, 4 sure will do it tmrw Quote
Edios Posted May 10, 2012 Report Posted May 10, 2012 I tried this before. For my uncle's galaxy S2, but it didn't work. We used original tether, but it was giving the downloading speed only about 100 with 3G. Whereas my X6 gave me about 350 to 410 kbps. Also his phone is not rooted. Quote
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