Use HTC Magic as modem

[GoodPanos]

Wow this is a little hidden treasure. Great post! Thank you Shawn.c. and hotweiss. I was thinking of rooting my phone but I think I'll wait now.

[Pioden]

Any update on this situation? I have a HTC Magic and would like to be able to use it as a 3G modem occasionally - but I'd really prefer not to root the phone !!

[GoodPanos]

Yes, read the thread. It explains it all

However, is there way to do this with bluetooth?

[mack-fu]

Hi,

You can achieve tethering without rooting your phone. All the information is here in this topic but to summarise:

1) Download the Azilink zip and apk from here

2) Download the Android SDK from here

3) Download Open VPN using:

 sudo apt-get install openvpn

4) Install azilink onto your Magic following the instructions here

5) Follow the instructions in post #16 in this topic to configure azilink on the ubuntu side

6) Run the Azilink application on the magic

7) Run /usr/bin/azilink_vpn on the ubuntu side

8) Connected!

I got this working over the weekend with Ubuntu 9.10 and HTC Magic on a Vodafone UK contract.

Mark

[meatball]

Excellent!

Working on Ubuntu 9.10 with an unrooted HTC Eris Verzon US.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this thread.

[orzechowskid]

Verizon Droid Eris, adb binary from the Android 2.1 SDK, and Azilink 2.0.2 (downloaded 2.0.2 .zip file, but the About screen on the phone says 2.0.1) here.

I can run the azilink_vpn script created upthread, but can only browse to one or maybe two websites before things stop working. The terminal running azilink_vpn doesn't show any unusual output, and the app on the phone says "connected to host", but the byte counters are not changing. Playing with the advanced settings doesn't seem to do anything. Anyone else see this or have any idea what's going on?

thanks