Almost teathering app

[refused9150]

Here is some info I dug up on sharing your internet connection(not tethering). Its actually now as hard as it looks. Things to remember are:

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This is very experimental, it doesn't always work. Use at your own risk.

• Install the app on your android phone, by clicking here (from your phone browser of course)

• You might have to change your settings to permit apps that don't come from the Google Market by going to your home screen and choosing MENU > Settings > Applications > Unknown Sources.

• Turn USB debugging on on your phone.

• On your G1 go to the home screen, press MENU > Settings > Applications > Development, then enable USB debugging.

• Follow the instructions here to install the Android driver - you'll need to do this on Windows & Linux but apparently not on the Mac.

• Download and install the Android SDK for your computer platform. Alternatively if you are on Windows and don't want a 100 meg download, just get the ADB utility from here

• Plug your phone into your computer

• Choose Proxy App from your phone's menu

• Press the "Start Proxy" button on your phone

• Move to the directory that has the adb utility, using inside the Sdk Tools folder and run

Windows: adb forward tcp:8080 localabstract:Proxy
Linux/Mac: ./adb forward tcp:8080 localabstract:Proxy

• Now you should have a proxy server running on port 8080 of your own computer that will relay the information over the Android Debug Bridge to the Proxy App which will relay it on to the internet.

• Set your firefox proxy : Options > Advanced > Network > Manual Proxy Configuration

HTTP Proxy: localhost
Port: 8080

Leave the others blank

• Enjoy the slow slow EDGE network, or let me know if you have glorious fast 3g coverage!

• Remember to disable your proxy settings in firefox if you want to stop using your phone.

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[JessicaSkie]

i dont understand, but this seems interesting. what exactly does this do, or is it supposed to do? fill a newbie in.

[thelazzyone]

Looks interesting..

[Reeg]

Originally Posted by JessicaSkie

i dont understand, but this seems interesting. what exactly does this do, or is it supposed to do? fill a newbie in.

i was wondering the same thing. what is tethering?

[Gorro]

i dont understand, but this seems interesting. what exactly does this do, or is it supposed to do? fill a newbie in.

Well it enables your computer to have internet from your phone. Its awesome too!!!

[Reeg]

ah. word.

[Sangfroid]

It totally worked for me, kinda wish I had 3g though, edge is better than dial-up but still kinda slow.

[Grant Barrett]

Totally worked for me, too. It'll be a great backup when I'm somewhere (like my parent's house) without an Internet connection. Should still be faster than dial-up.

[MobileMan]

I cant wait to try this. I miss not having the ability of tethering. Why didnt they have this on the G1?

[ayo991]

I have unknown sources checked and it says installation unsuccessful. Anyone have any ideas?