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You may also call this reversed USB tether.
This might come in handy if you're near a computer (Win XP/Win7) and there's no Wifi to connect to etc..
So after some research and trying I've found some information on how to do this.
Requirements:
* Android 2.2 (or an older version with a root tethering app)
* ADB from Android SDK, or a rooted Android 2.2 with terminal in root mode
STEP 1:
Install USB drivers from Android SDK.
STEP 2:
Connect USB cable and activate USB Tethering.
You should see a new network interface. (On XP you might need to install the RNDIS driver manually, see below)
If you're also missing RNDIS driver on Win7, look here.
Win XP manual driver install Android USB Ethernet/RNDIS: (You can skip this if you're on Win 7)
1. Download the following configuration file inside the *.zip attached to this post (tetherxp.inf) to your Windows XP computer.
2. Use the USB cable that came with your phone to connect your phone to your computer.
3. On the Android phone, press Home > Menu > Settings to open the Settings application.
4. Press Wireless & networks > Tethering & portable hotspot.
5. Check USB tethering.
6. When Windows XP’s New Hardware Wizard opens, select No, not at this time and click Next.
7. Select Install from a list or specific location and click Next.
8. Click Browse to browse to the directory where you installed the configuration file you downloaded in Step 1 and click Next. Windows XP uses the configuration file to configure itself to support USB tethering with the Android phone. (This might take a while)
9. When Windows XP finishes installing the software for Android USB Ethernet/RNDIS, click Finish.
STEP 3:
Bridge the 2 network interfaces.
STEP 4:
Setup usb0 interface of your phone. You have to options:
1. From your computer, execute:
./adb shell netcfg usb0 dhcp
2. Or in a root terminal on your phone, type:
su
netcfg usb0 dhcp
You should now be able to connect to Internet on your phone using your computer's Internet connection.
Try to do a ping www.google.com to be sure.
STEP 5:
To shut down the reverse-tethering, first unbridge interfaces on your computer:
sudo ifconfig eth0 down
sudo ifconfig usb0 down
sudo ifconfig br0 down
sudo brctl delbr br0
sudo ifconfig eth0 up
sudo dhclient eth0
Then on your phone, uncheck the USB Tethering option.
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It is working now. After setting up ICS type in console emulator on your phone:
ifconfig usb1 192.168.2.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
route add default gw 192.168.2.1 dev usb0
iptables -F
iptables -F -t nat
setprop net.dns1 8.8.8.8
setprop "net.gprs.http-proxy" ""
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Hope this helps some one who wants this to the right direction.
And maybe we're able to create an app to do this all automated.
Known issues but does not apply to all users:
1. Internet in browser application does not work.
2. Can't ping domain name.
For a little more info check out the sources, this includes the Linux version too.
Sources: Google android, Mycila
Nice info
Going to post a link on the hero forum where someone was wanting to do this. I wonder if this will work on a froyo hero too...
it would be cool if one of the devs could write a small app to switch this on n off great find tho shoemeistah
Thank you for the guide, It worked fine. There are several things not working though:
- can't download apps from market, they stuck on "downloading"
- my google account don't sync
- other apps don't update themselves. For example my twitter app won't show any new tweets until I open it and manually press "refresh"
I searched for this long time ago, even created a thread about it awhile back, didnt have luck like you did though
I gave up on it eventually, it would be nice to make an app out of it.
mind asking how did you confirm the net to be working on browser? by pinging google.com?
since i saw the last line you put "Internet in browser application does not work."
You can do that in the terminal
[U][B] Internet connection on your Android phone via your PC [/B][/U]
I think I found the best solution. Check it out connectify.me
I wanted to use my PC wired internet & I was astonished that this wasn't available in my HTC Desire & 1st Android device!. I looked over the net, I found many options but most asked for a rooted device! I didn't want to root my brand new Desire.
Connectify is an easy to use software router for Windows 7 computers. After downloading and installing the lightweight application, Connectify utilizes your computers' built in Wi-Fi card to wirelessly share any available Internet connection: a cable modem, a cellular card, or even another Wi-Fi network. Other Wi-Fi enabled devices including laptops, smart phones, music players, and gaming systems can see and join your Connectify hotspot just like any other Wi-Fi access point and are kept safe and secure by password-protected WPA2 Encryption.
I tried it & it's working perfectly for me .. It's a free app.
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Phone: HTC Desire (SIM Free)
Type: Desire
Build: HTC Desire 2.2, 2.10 (kernel: htc 2.6.32.15)
Baseband: 5.09.05.30
Network: UMTS auto (EGY)
By me it didn't work. Using OpenDesire with Froyo 2.2
So I made it work, by edititng the .inf file.
Here the file for USB\VID_0BB4&PID_0C02.
For all which still have a problem(USB TETHERING ON DEVICE MUST BE ACTIVE, ALSO THE IDs DIFFERS BETWEEN CONNECTED WITH ADB OR NOT), go into the device manager -> open the device -> goto tab details -> choose device id
look at it, you see somewhere vid_XXXX and further pid_XXXX
open my file -> goto line 31 -> change vid_YYYY and pid_YYYY with what you see in your device dialog. the same you do on line 35. be careful with 0 or o.
Regards
Ralph
I am also using connectify, easy to install, set it up, connect with Desire, anything works fine.
Thanks GhostOfTheNet.
chrismast said:
I am also using connectify, easy to install, set it up, connect with Desire, anything works fine.
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I appreciate the recommendations for other solutions.
But as you can see this thread is for a internet solution at places where is no Wifi available.
So please keep it on topic, thanks!
browser & webviews
Any idea why browser won't work?
I'm interested in testing against internal sites (of course no WAP here.. cuz they be scared i guess).. both Browser and embedded webviews.
connectify great program.works fine
its a default feature in hd roms but that doesnt work in all programs
Connectify doesn't work correctly with my Galaxy 5. It keeps connected for a short time then disconnects and then, connects again, connect, disconnect...
Does anyone know how to fix it?
Thanks Man
plz make a video tutroial of this
its difficult to under stand
does it actualy work?? anyone tried this and actualy worked??? just a simple yes or no.
thanks
small proble plz solve it
hi
I have a small problem in it when my device is not in usb tethering mode
i can see it in my adb devices
as soon as is start usbtethering it say no device found
plz help me
thanks a lot !!!
realy nice guide! Thanks!
Hi there, I am using CM7 RC1v2 on my motorola defy. I am facing a problem which whenever i connect my phone to windows using phone portal the usb tether cnt be checked. But when i connect using "charge only" the things become available again but i still could not connect. Anybody face this problem and can help me to solve it? Thx very much!
Phone portal run on specific IP number and it uses different port and this explain why USB tether won't run.
I'm using it and here's my steps.
AFAIK, the pc required the USB tether driver for it to run properly. It should automatic install of the required driver. Once the driver is installed, you could perform a few steps here. I'm using Windows 7
1) Goto Control Panel - Network and Sharing Center - Change Adaptor settings.
2) Disable any active Local Area Connection if there are any of them running
3) Enable the one USB tether(it might already enabled by default but you could double check it).
4) It will auto verifying and connect once it done verified.
5) Start your internet browser and enjoy(you may need to do: Internet Option - Connections - Lan Settings - Unchecked proxy server .
farsight73 said:
Phone portal run on specific IP number and it uses different port and this explain why USB tether won't run.
I'm using it and here's my steps.
AFAIK, the pc required the USB tether driver for it to run properly. It should automatic install of the required driver. Once the driver is installed, you could perform a few steps here. I'm using Windows 7
1) Goto Control Panel - Network and Sharing Center - Change Adaptor settings.
2) Disable any active Local Area Connection if there are any of them running
3) Enable the one USB tether(it might already enabled by default but you could double check it).
4) It will auto verifying and connect once it done verified.
5) Start your internet browser and enjoy(you may need to do: Internet Option - Connections - Lan Settings - Unchecked proxy server .
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I have tried following ur steps but it still can't work. My pc was able to install all the driver except that when installing MTP USB driver, it failed.
I live on a boat, and wanted to use my phone as a gps source with opencpn ... turns out it wasn't too hard. Thought I'd share with the class.
You'll need com0com or some other virtual com modem. Either that, or send it directly out to a nmea 2.3 network over serial.
com0com 64bit download: available here
com0com 32bit download: available here
2 Scenarios are available, to use with software on your computer:
1. Download and install com0com for your computer architecture, the drivers are not signed by Microsoft so it will warn you of this, just say install anyway.
2. Sideload the xap to your phone
3. Run connector provided with the gpskit attachment.
4. Run the app on the phone, taking care to ensure the device is tethered to the computer being used and Zune is running.
5. Press enable.
6. If everything is running fine, you should see updates from the phone in the connector console window.
7. Running Google Earth:
- Start Google Earth
- Click Tools->GPS
- Select the realtime tab
- Set up options or just use the defaults
7. Setting up OpenCPN
- Start OpenCPN
- Click the wrench icon (toolbox)
- Select the GPS Tab
- type into the NMEA Data source the other com port (if you are using defaults: CNCB0)
8. Track away at your position
To use with an existing NMEA Network:
1. Sideload the xap to the phone
2. Start the gpskit client on the computer, and enter 9060 as the default service port and the com address of the NMEA connector that is connected to the computer.
3. Run the app on the phone ensuring that it is connected to the computer by usb and Zune is running.
And that's it, you can use your WP7 device as an external GPS device.
gpskit command line:
gpskit.exe [-p service port -c serial port] [-v] [-s]
-s must be supplied if -p and -c are provided
-v turns on verbosity and debug messages
Good hunting
Questions
withinboredom said:
I live on a boat, and wanted to use my phone as a gps source with opencpn ... turns out it wasn't too hard. Thought I'd share with the class.
You'll need com0com or some other virtual com modem. Either that, or send it directly out to a nmea 2.3 network over serial.
Simply upload it to your phone, make sure its tethered to the computer via usb, then run the app and push enable.
On your computer run NMEATest and the service port is 9060, and then a com port to write to the nmea data to. Fakegps is a service I wrote that basically uses the defaults of NMEATest and would work whenever the app was running on the phone. However, I cannot guarantee it will work and I wouldn't recommend using it. However, it contains the library that nmeatest requires and I'm not a big fan of copy/paste.
To use it with your application like google earth, opencpn simply download a virtual null modem like com0com and then point it to one of the default com ports it creates. After that, start up the app like normal and with the software running google earth will catch it under tools/gps/live menus
Have a very spledid day, I'm going sailing.
PS. I'm not sure how mono treats the serialport class ... so maybe it'll work on linux? Someone let me know.
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Hi withinboredom
Could you please recommend null modem software for an x64 machine? Also, the instructions are not that clear.
Thank you very much for putting this together.
Cheers
andrew-in-woking
Just edited the post, that should make it a bit easier.
Uploaded a new version with command line switches
Further instructions needed I think
withinboredom said:
I live on a boat, and wanted to use my phone as a gps source with opencpn ... turns out it wasn't too hard. Thought I'd share with the class.
You'll need com0com or some other virtual com modem. Either that, or send it directly out to a nmea 2.3 network over serial.
com0com 64bit download: available here
com0com 32bit download: available here
2 Scenarios are available, to use with software on your computer:
1. Download and install com0com for your computer architecture, the drivers are not signed by Microsoft so it will warn you of this, just say install anyway.
2. Sideload the xap to your phone
3. Run connector provided with the gpskit attachment.
4. Run the app on the phone, taking care to ensure the device is tethered to the computer being used and Zune is running.
5. Press enable.
6. If everything is running fine, you should see updates from the phone in the connector console window.
7. Running Google Earth:
- Start Google Earth
- Click Tools->GPS
- Select the realtime tab
- Set up options or just use the defaults
7. Setting up OpenCPN
- Start OpenCPN
- Click the wrench icon (toolbox)
- Select the GPS Tab
- type into the NMEA Data source the other com port (if you are using defaults: CNCB0)
8. Track away at your position
To use with an existing NMEA Network:
1. Sideload the xap to the phone
2. Start the gpskit client on the computer, and enter 9060 as the default service port and the com address of the NMEA connector that is connected to the computer.
3. Run the app on the phone ensuring that it is connected to the computer by usb and Zune is running.
And that's it, you can use your WP7 device as an external GPS device.
gpskit command line:
gpskit.exe [-p service port -c serial port] [-v] [-s]
-s must be supplied if -p and -c are provided
-v turns on verbosity and debug messages
Good hunting
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Hi withinboredom
I'm still can not seem to get this to work. Here is what I did:
Disabled UAC and put Windows 7 into Test Mode to allow unsigned drivers
Installed 64-bit version of com0com
Renamed the two virtual ports to COM17 and COM18 using the com0com graphical setup utility
Sideloaded the App onto my phone, started it and enabled the service
Started GPSKit.exe
In the command line window I set the service port to 9060 and set the Serial Port to COM17
I did not get any information showing up from the phone
Opened Google Earth and set GPS to realtime tracking
When I clicked "Start" it scanned through the ports and stopped at "reading COM17" but did not seem to provide any GPS information.
I followed the same procedure again but this time set the Serial Port to COM18 in the GPSKit.exe command line window which lead to the same result.
Can you please tell me what I have done wrong?
Thanks
andrew-in-woking
Make sure Zune is running and recognizing the phone before starting the service on the computer. Also make sure that pressing enable is the LAST thing you do before starting google earth (if you push it too early, you can press it again to start the connection over again - good for force refreshing the position if the phone decides to stop getting it.)
Yes, working now
withinboredom said:
Make sure Zune is running and recognizing the phone before starting the service on the computer. Also make sure that pressing enable is the LAST thing you do before starting google earth (if you push it too early, you can press it again to start the connection over again - good for force refreshing the position if the phone decides to stop getting it.)
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Hi withinboredom
Thank you very much. It is now working.
Very good job.
andrew-in-woking
@withinboredom
thank you good job.
Interesting, thanks.
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No position with opencpn or maxsea
Hi
this is the perfect solution for me, but i cant get a location with opencpn or maxsea. with google earth it is working. any ideas?
I can see that opencpn recieves data from gps, but cant show position.
I found someone with the same problem at opencpn forums. This problem is fixed in the latest beta of Opencpn.
It may have something to do with this:
"I suspect the NMEA sentences do not have CR/LF line endings. They may have only CR, or only LF.
For instance, GPRMC will be "Unrecognized" if the line endings are not correct, although it looks right to the eye."
Any chance you could check this? if this is fixed i can also use this with maxsea.
Hello, i am new here, and i will begin with this post
What do you need:
Android phone (obviously)
Windows 7 PC (XP are not tested, testers welcome)
X-Plore File Manager
Home WiFi Network
Steps:
1. Download X-Plore file manager at Play Market. (i cannot post links now)
2. Go to Control Panel > Network and Sharing center > Advanced sharing settings > click all to on. (if you are unsure / have an unsecured network just do this everytime you want to transfer!)
3. Connect your phone to your wifi network
4. Open X-Plore
5. Set up the LAN (if hidden click show > show LAN)
6. Add server. (Scan is not working on me.)
7. fill in the blanks. path and domain do not need to be filled. Username is your windows username and password if you use (blank if not used).
8. fill the IP with 192.168.1.2 (you can try with 192.168.1.3 / 1.4 etc.. 1.2 usually works if you connect the PC first.)
9. click test. (if connection failure go back to step 8!)
10. now you can open your Users directory! (if you want to open the C:/ D:/.. open the settings in X-Plore and switch Show Hidden Files to on)
now you can upload and download files from or to your PC!
if there is any questions you can ask here. I will reply as soon as i can.
i do all the steps correct, i find my server, but when i try to enter in the server i get wrong username password, i enter my windows user id and i dont have any password to my account.
good advice, but i find the SGY screen too small for browsing my PC.
I prefer using Samba Filesharing (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.funkyfresh.samba) and access my SD Card from my windows PC
wifi file transfr pro
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Just use airdroid )
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Just use airdroid )
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Yep. Airdroid is the best of all Ive tried!
for me this is the best,full Access and exchange data whenever I want and when tethering.:good:give it a try,its awesome.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1752928
LoL I'm always using bluetooth D:
Airdroid is better.
With airdroid you don't need to install nothing in your computer. And it's better because you can install apps, read your messages, call to somebody and it's all in your web browser.
but with the method from my post u have full acces of all files on the device,you can install apps,full acces of system files,send sms,costomize your phone,you can make all what you want and many more and thats all in tethering mode.with airdroid it doesnt go.for me tha best.and its all in your webbrowser too.
Tested and fully working on vista
thanks
Confirmed working on Win 8.1
however my setting is different
in X-plore windows, the fields need to be filled are Server; Username; Password
[Server]
you can find the IP by opening up cmd and type "ipconfig"
look at IPv4 Address, that's what you have to type in server field
[Username]
this field, type your windows ID (the ID you use with windows store)
[Password]
the password of your windows ID
Hope it helps for Win 8.1 user
revomalik said:
Confirmed working on Win 8.1
however my setting is different
in X-plore windows, the fields need to be filled are Server; Username; Password
[Server]
you can find the IP by opening up cmd and type "ipconfig"
look at IPv4 Address, that's what you have to type in server field
[Username]
this field, type your windows ID (the ID you use with windows store)
[Password]
the password of your windows ID
Hope it helps for Win 8.1 user
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Thank you for the ipconfig info; I couldn't get it to work because I didn't know what the server address was. X-plore should include this information in their wiki page.
I constantly get 0xC00000BB error from X-Plore eventhough i properly configured my Windows 7 to be logged in.
Is there anyone having problems related to X-Plore's LAN feature that is not working properly?
kimiraikkonen85 said:
I constantly get 0xC00000BB error from X-Plore eventhough i properly configured my Windows 7 to be logged in.
Is there anyone having problems related to X-Plore's LAN feature that is not working properly?
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I was using X-plore on my Xiaomi mi Box 4s without any issues but after reset my router X-plore doesn't find my pc on Lan network....
I didn't find a solution yet....
Not to be confused with V16 cuz its not the official version
bug fixes:
1. facebook app videos working
2. games such as vector, cut the rope, wheres my water etc working
3. camera is much faster
4. I think the over flashlight issue is solved (earlier while capturing pics the flash used to be more sometimes on a shiny surface)
rom link
http://support.moulnisky.com/index.php?dir=Micromax/00_A%20Serie/A210/SW%20Versions/V3_28.08.14/
Instructions:
Install it by SPflashtools
1.load the scatter file
2. do not press the download button instead press the firmware update button
(if you press the download it wont work and give an error "PMT CHANGE FOR THE ROM IT MUST BE DOWNLOAD")
3. connect your canvas 4 to be flashed
after the phone starts up the wifi NVram error will occur though wifi will work. so to solve this follow these steps to flash the mac id of wifi:
download the tool
https://www.4shared.com/rar/kHy8lnKhba/imei_sn_writer_v153.html
1. unzip and open the tool
2. In your canvas 4 goto settings>about phone>status>WiFi MAC address
note down the address in the notepad
3.In the tool
i. select platform: smart phone
ii. under that select the USB option
iii. click on DB and browse for the Database folder of the V3 rom
APDB_MT6589_S01_MAIN2.1_W10
BPLGUInfoCustomAppSrcP_MT6589_S00_MOLY_WR8_W1248_MD_WG_MP_V6_P18
open both these files
iv. tick on the wifi and input the wifi mac id u just noted.
v. switch off your phone
vii. click on START button and connect usb cable
done
video for flashing imei via IMEI and SN writer (same procedure to flash the wifi mac id)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HprM5ZwY7HI
Password For The Rar
ashutoshtaikar said:
after the phone starts up the wifi NVram error will occur though wifi will work. so to solve this follow these steps to flash the mac id of wifi:
download the tool
https://www.4shared.com/rar/kHy8lnKhba/imei_sn_writer_v153.html
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The Rar Is Password Protected and Heres The Password : [email protected]
:good: